There have been a couple of articles recently on the HDS blogs about HDP; Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning is HDS’ thin provisioning offering and like all of the thin-provisioning, it also offers wide-striping. I am not going to get into whether HDS’ offering is chubby, skinny or just slightly overweight but what I am going to ask is…
if wide-striping is so foundational and so important to the storage industry and especially to improving my TCO as a end–user, why do I have to pay extra for it?
HDS and EMC are both extremely guilty in this regard, both Virtual Provisioning and Dynamic Provisioning cost me extra as an end-user to license. But this is the technology upon which all future block-based storage arrays will be built. If you guys want to improve the TCO and show that you are serious about reducing the complexity to manage your arrays, you will license for free. You will encourage the end-user to break free from the shackles of complexity and you will improve the image of Tier-1 storage in the enterprise.
I understand that you feel that you have to maintain the legacy architectures and designs that you have inflicted upon us in the past but it is time that you stopped enabling our mashochistic tendencies and it is time that you encouraged us to move away from the pain of the past. You can do this by removing the licensing costs for wide-striping; keeping the cost for thin-provisioning is just about acceptable but charging for this key simplifying technology is not!
And if one of you does it first; it’s okay to copy! Really it is!! I can feel that we’re going to be friends.
Martin,
i totally agree with you! as you can see in one of my latest posts (in italian, as you know ): http://blogs.cinetica.it/cinetica/2009/07/07/la…
All the “traditional” storage vendors need to re-architect their arrays Instead of “patching” with new features.
ciao,
Enrico
Martin,
i totally agree with you! as you can see in one of my latest posts (in italian, as you know ): http://blogs.cinetica.it/cinetica/2009/07/07/la…
All the “traditional” storage vendors need to re-architect their arrays Instead of “patching” with new features.
ciao,
Enrico