- Chuck’s Blog: Vendor Differentiation Through Thought Leadership – (Yeah, that title made me gag, too.) Excerpt: “Sun came out loud and strong recently with characteristic unbridled enthusiasm. But, in classic Sun fashion, they missed the point entirely. It’s not just the flash drives (they’re just components, right?) it’s what you can do with them for customers. Seems that their target use case is ZFS running on a storage-oriented server. Not the most compelling use case, IMHO.” Maybe it’s just cynical old me, but I read that as “Sun has some pretty good technology with their server hardware and ZFS, Lustre and SAM-QFS; they might be able to put something together that could really hurt our margins, not just NetApp’s. Flash drives might help them do it. Uh-oh. Maybe we better hurry up and ship Maui.” The Sun/Intel PDF that Chuck links to is actually pretty interesting, although it would have been good to see some more numbers.