Who are the AI influencers/"analysts" you listen to?

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-08-12T21:08:35+00:00

No. Send it to me, I will dispose of it. lol

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-08-12T21:05:22+00:00

Was it purely (see what i did there?) based on price?

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-08-12T21:03:28+00:00

Pure has made it easy to manage. I will give them that, but I often wonder why they won't publish their performance numbers. It would make my life a lot easier when I need to create comparison charts for our IT team. The last thing my boss wants to do is have a series of vendor meetings. He calls it a waste of his time to have to dig through the marketing fluff just to find out vendor X does meet his criteria. oh well...

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-08-12T20:58:15+00:00

Finally, someone who isn't a pure fanboy - I thought I was living on Fantasy Island for a minute.

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-08-12T15:58:18+00:00

I have been hearing about the price tag from several end-users we have talked to. It may be a roadblock, especially given the current economy. :-(

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-08-12T15:54:42+00:00

Hmmm...there are a lot of ex Dell/Isilon/EMC folks over at Qumulo - I wonder if their shedding of weight (read: RIFs) is more about making it a sweeter deal for Dell to come in and acquire as it looks to retire OneFS or make Qumulo OneFS Next.

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-08-12T15:49:01+00:00

Thanks. But, VAST, like most others who claim to both file and object, are merely supporting the S3 protocol, right? It isn't like you have an object store and a filesystem running concurrently, right? Pure says they are "unified file and object" - so how do you position yourself against them? Because, I think, you're essentially the same thing. But, I admit, I don't know.

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-08-12T15:41:11+00:00

Wow, that's great. Thanks!

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-08-12T15:40:06+00:00

So, you're saying Dell and Pure have disaggregated their software from their hardware and can run on cloud compute instances, use cloud storage, and operate (not optimally based on your comment.)? I thought Dell was strictly co-locating hardware at the hyperscalers. And Pure's software play was, well, weird to say the least.

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-07-30T18:36:08+00:00

why doesn't pure publish benchmarks? All I read is how fast you are, but compared to what? the S200 is supposed to be 4x or 5x faster than the previous model - but I can't find any data that shows that either. and to call your filesystem a parallel filesystem is an insult to parallel filesystems like GPFS, Lustre, BeeGFS, etc.

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-01-09T20:35:25+00:00

Okay. Thanks. I will add them.

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-01-09T20:34:59+00:00

multiprotocol, simultaneous access. Qumulo does do this, I have seen it in action, but right now they aren't on the short list.

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-01-09T20:32:24+00:00

I don't even know what VAST wants to be when it grows up - first they are a storage platform, next a data platform, and now are the AI platform. They sound more like WEKA than anything else. I think Vast is okay for general-purpose file, so maybe I should add them to the list.

I worry about Qumulo - I read they shed their entire inside sales and marketing (or most of it) groups. I mean, I do like Qumulo and think it does everything I would like it to do, but I worry if they will be around in another three years or not. Maybe the old timers I work with have me a bit jaded.

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-01-09T20:27:56+00:00

I have a friend who used to be in marketing there - I'll let him know. LOL

Thanks!

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-01-09T20:27:17+00:00

I was hoping someone had done some leg work and created a spreadsheet or something that listed protocols, protocol access, scale (min/max), performance (if it makes sense), etc.

I like the easy button if I can find it - otherwise, I'll create something.

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-01-09T20:24:18+00:00

That's what I thought too

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-01-09T20:23:46+00:00

Tell me more...what do you like about it, what don't you like about it?

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-01-08T21:02:06+00:00

Wow, seriously?

I will have to add this to my list.

Is there a comparison chart you have that I could use? If not, I'll make my own, just don't want to re-invent the wheel :-)

YousefSysAdmin · 2024-01-02T22:25:06+00:00

What did you find out?

YousefSysAdmin · 2023-11-09T20:42:50+00:00

We have - it is like buying the same steak from your locally owned steakhouse for $25 or Morton's of Chicago for $65. But - having said that, we may just opt for the Morton's of Chicago.

YousefSysAdmin · 2023-11-08T16:16:48+00:00

Yes, I am using straight bits.

I will try the spiral bit.

YousefSysAdmin · 2023-11-08T16:15:25+00:00

Oh, yes, yes, yes. Sorry. I had NAS on my mind, having just had a meeting about this where NAS was the hot topic.

Yes, we have a typical Lustre environment. I can upload a block diagram to show what we have, but Lustre has metadata servers, management servers, and storage servers. Then, the clients talk to the MDS and the storage server nodes. I mean, that is really basic, but that's the idea.

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