the storage anarchist

1.037: xiv does hitachi math with roman numerals

UPDATED 21 Jan, 2009 - changes noted and highlighted in green.

I almost didn’t believe it.

And I still wouldn’t, if it wasn’t corroborated from several sources.

I’ve been told that there are actually people trying to sell XIV to unsuspecting prospects using good old Hitachi Math.

That’s right. Hitachi Math. That “modernistic form of algebra that arrives at irreproducible results that also have the unique property of having absolutely no bearing on reality” that I’ve talked about here on numerous occasions. That same whacky logic that Hitachi has been using for years to mislead us all about how many meel-yun IOPS a USP can do by counting reads serviced exclusively from the buffers on the front-end Fibre Channel ports – a totally meaningless statistic.

Apparently, there are at least some who sell XIV arrays that are willing to stoop to these same lows in their quest to unseat the competition and gain footprint.

I guess given the growing market comprehension of the inarguable space and power inefficiencies of XIV’s “revolutionary” approach, coupled with the forced admissions that simultaneous dual drive failures in two separate XIV drive bays are indeed fatal and the growing realization that just because Moshe was there for the dawn of the Symmetrix era doesn’t make him all-powerful (nor the parent of today’s DMX)…well, I guess this all has proven just too much to overcome with IBM’s vaunted “trusted partner” approach to sales.

Nope, you won’t get no vendor bashing from those guys, just plain unadulterated crap-ola. When the facts get in the way, all you can do is lead with what you do best, I guess.

But I never would have guessed that anyone would attempt Hitachi Math using roman numerals.

Apparently it has been done.

 

1.036: emc information calendar for 2009

It’s that time of year again when everyone needs an updated calendar. And so, for your enjoyment and pleasure, I present the 2009 EMC Information Calendar widget, chronicling important milestones in the history of Information Storage.

 

If you don't see a calendar page above, click here

EMC has actually been distributing the paper-based version of this calendar for the last 3 or 4 years. The original form factor was designed for use on those archaic wooden and metal desks that once were the entire extent of personalized information storage. Now those of us whose desktops sprawl across one or more video displays and for whom “personal information storage” is measured in Terabytes instead of pages can have one of these fancy calendars too.

And without killing any trees (well, not directly, anyways)!

Pay close attention to this calendar, though. 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of EMC as a corporation, and rumor has it that there are some special messages embedded within this year’s Information Calendar. But since you can’t scroll forward in the electronic version, you’ll just have to wait to find out what they are! (Feel free to scroll backwards to see what you’ve missed already).

Happy New Year!
 

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