3.022: powerful, trusted and smart...meet dumb and dumber

So I posted back in January a two-part review of the key differentiating features and capabilities that make VMAX Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP) so much better than anything any competitor has put forth to date (or since, for that matter).

If you missed the posts, 3.018 is part 1 and 3.019 is part 2.

Oddly, I received nary a peep from either competitors or their customers about this post, which I found somewhat odd at the time (there was the one commenter who chastised me for being such a VMAX fanboi – sigh!).

Since those posts, I have had the opportunity to become better educated about the implementations of automated tiering from some competitors, including IBM (Easy Tier), Hitachi (Dynamic Tiering), and HP 3PAR (Adaptive Automation Optimization). Vendor documentation and best practices guides mostly, but I also gleaned some information from competitors' and independent blogs along with personal conversations with several with first-hand knowledge.

In my assessment, competitor silence in response to FAST VP simply underscores the assertion I made in those posts that VMAX FAST VP is in a class alone in comparison to those other products.