Data Definer43
What challenges do businesses today face in data storage? Which of these challenges are the most intimidating for customers?
John Furrier
one thing we are seeing is the notion of hybrid storage where speed is balanced by cost
Ling Wang
Economic uncertainty and budget challenges; Pressures to enable business growth initiatives; Rapid pace of technology evolution and data growth.
Adam J. Bergh
There are a LOT of storage choices out there today: SSD, SAS, SATA etc... sizing storage types for your workloads today is very challenging.
John Furrier
@ajbergh great point by Adam bc workload focus is a key driver in identifying the opportunities hence overcoming the challenges
Kailas Jawadekar
One thing we have seen is customers asking for storage that supports traditional scale-up architectures to support traditional apps as well scale-out architectures to support cloud-native apps.
Jesse Anderson
Sizing and speed. Finding a balance between traditional spindles and flash drives. Keeping business needs in mind while trying to give them a benefit.
Kailas Jawadekar
Yup. flexibility to support a broad array of workloads.
Adam J. Bergh
I have clients asking for all-flash arrays who don't need it, and clients who need it don't think they can afford all-SSD.
Nick Howell
The challenges aren't really new or groundbreaking, other than the desire to move to hybrid/public cloud platforms. So many new startups both innovate as well as muddy the waters, which usually confuses customers more than helps.
vaughn stewart
"asking for all flash but don't need it" is an antiquated perspective.
John Furrier
@datacenterdude I don't see all flash arrays in short term being the answer bc iops, throughput, and cost are the key balancing variables in sizing storage solutions.. no one bullet can nail this right now
Michael Cade
Buzz words are massive still within IT and always will, Flash, Cloud etc its an end user fashion parade.
vaughn stewart
All flash platforms are available today for the price of disk. Why would one want to wrestle with disk?
John Furrier
@vStewed one thing that is awesome is the cost reduction in the "media" itself which in med/long term takes that objection off the table
vaughn stewart
to clarify - all flash at the price of disk for tier-1 applications and virtual infrastructures. Tier-2 is a not-so-distant future.
vaughn stewart
This goes back to @netappgeek's question. Whats your data challenge? part of it is performance, another operational scaling. All flash solves both.
John Furrier
@vStewed scaling is key and hitting the workload objectives is critical.. great point
Adam J. Bergh
@vStewed We get Pure's value prop is. However, flexibility means having a single cluster where I can put 1PB on SATA of archive data, have an SSD tier for that SQL DB, and have another tier 2 with SAS with a cache layer.
Annalisa Camarillo
@vStewed no votes from me.
Adam J. Bergh
@vStewed Pure just has a hammer so everything has to be a nail. NetApp has the full tool belt as you well know.
Annalisa Camarillo
@ajbergh I agree. Here's another analogy: Pure is just shrimp in a NetApp blue ocean.
jamierterrell
I think cost and complicity of managing the SAN environment.