Veteran launches storage torpedo among competing startups

Stick to what you know

Why, oh why do people insist on commenting on what other people's tech does or doesn't do. In most cases - like here when Lee shows his ignorance of how Compellent works - all it does is detracts from the veracity of the comments they make about their own products.

Where's the comparison with Nexenta?

To the folks at the Register 'storage desk': could you please include Nexenta when you interview vendors and ask for their differentiators? The last several storage related posts have all left me waiting on that comparison.

This vendor in particular sounds nearly identical to Nexenta... they cache reads/writes using SSDs in 2.5 inch, 3.5 inch and PCIe form factors and can use either SAS or SAS as the backend for spinning media. They have multi-protocol access, ZFS has no limits on capacity (but there are practical limits as we all know), they support compression, dynamic record block size, replication and do have dedup (unlike this vendor). The only thing i'm unsure of with Nexenta is the FC support.

With all that in mind I haven't seen a differentiator that this new vendor brings to the market. Are they competing only on price/capacity ratio?

I'm not a Nexenta employee or shill... just a guy wondering where's the beef? Perhaps you can do a similar writeup on them? Similarly what about the Oracle/Sun storage appliance that has been running ZFS in enterprises for many years?

In this case, it sounds like the left hand knows what the right hand is doing...

Now, if Port and Starboard converge, they'll probably spawn an "Amidships" sort of entity...

One would think that Mr. Johns would do some homework..

Recently acquired by HP, 3Par handles mixed workloads quite well, and is one of the major features of 3Par that have it listed as the fastest storage on the planet according to the Storage Performance Counsel..