XIV: storage reinvented wizardry
It seems incredible to me that one of the most searched terms on Google heading to my blog are related to “XIV” and in particular regarding to “XIV IOPS”. In the recent past I wrote a couple of articles about XIV (here and here) pointing out that XIV architecture sounds a little bit flaky to me but, being a reseller of competitive storage, I’m a little bit biased so...
ContinuaA brief comparison between Compellent and XIV
In these days I’m working on a deal where we are proposing Compellent Storage Center in competition against IBM XIV. The customer is a fast growing company, Italian leader in its market and the IT department is facing with big strategic projects, one of them is the new SAN infrastructure. The customer is very disappointed about the old generation SAN (two IBM DS4x00) in place and he has...
ContinuaA not so successful case and the power of marketing
These days I am competing with IBM XIV in a business negotiation. I’m gathering as much information as possible to give the customer a document he could find immediately useful and then I’ll publish it on this blog. During my research I came across this “success case” (just one out of the 11 published): the customer says he bought a XIV (79 TB usable) to feed a 7TB ...
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