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NetApp is a huge inspiration for Infinidat - a profitable, well run tech company. EDF scales to an exabyte per data center, 200 million IOPS, and 25 TB/sec of bandwidth. Its a different scale of customer we're building for

For more on the differentiation check out the elastic data fabric whitepaper at https://www.infinidat.com/resource

Infinidat has more EMC Fellows at Infinidat then Dell/EMC has today.

Thanks James. I heard the first part of it and figured but wanted to confirm. That definitely says something.

Hey this is Brian. My comment was that more of the original EMC Fellows work now at Infinidat (5) than remain at Dell (0)

As Brian said - data migrations are the bain of businesses. I've personally met with many copanies who have entire teams dedicated 100% to data migration!

Data migrations are a hangover from traditional storage arrays. Switching workloads to another array needs downtime. Wikibon research shows migration cost is ~$50,000/array & elapsed time > 3 months for the same vendor, more for moving to a new vendor.

At scale this becomes even a bigger issue. Many ultra-large organizations that I've worked with bemoan that they are constantly doing migrations just to keep up!

agree with David. Thats why we built the EDF control plane - to move data migrations into the dustbin of IT history

until now customers had to insert a VPLEX or SVC in order to abstract hardware migrations away. We implemented this as a distributed peer-to-peer service on the array port drivers

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Stand by... Brian is addressing some things now and can address in a couple of minutes.

we're announcing a beta feature called "Epic Compatibility Mode" for such apps. It creates a software-defined solid state array within InfiniBox

Software vendors with large install bases often dictate that their software only run on the fastest arrays to put themselves in the best possible performance light. Oracle for example recommends hosting their databases on RAID1 protected storage.

Mission critical, a large number of virtualized applications, spread over many private & public clouds. A hybrid world!

Interested in what people have to say. When we talk to customers, it's all over the map - much of it virtualized, but not all. Many workloads and many use cases.

Customers tell us all the time that data unavailability is a thing of the past - they simply can't afford downtime... ever. About 20 years ago, people started saying that "the competition is only a click away", but the reality is that today's businesses are GLOBAL

Key are the hybrid cloud planes: the data plane, the data control plane, and the overall control plane. These are essential for hybrid cloud.

These days most organizations can't really accept a target SLA much less than 100%, as their IT infrastructure often is integral to the business itself, rather than an adjunct to it.

the new whitepaper for the Infinidat Elastic Data Fabric is available now at https://www.infinidat.com/resource

I love this question! There are so many businesses taking advantage of data analytics - including some that aren't what you'd normally consider to be enterprise businesses. Such as Farmers in South Africa using instrumentation to determine hydration and nutrition!

Automating operations in general is an imperative The tsunami of alerts is becoming too much for human operators, with risks to the business. IMO automated operations based on analytics is key.

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I loved how Thrive said they no longer have to worry about Storage Performance. It's something we hear constantly at Infinidat, but not just about Performance - also about availability and manageability!