Hotlinks, 7/1/2008
Andy July 1st, 2008
- The Hitz report - Robin Harris at StorageMojo on the Sun-NetApp lawsuit:
NetApp’s biggest misperception is that WAFL is somehow central to the success they are enjoying today. That was true about 10 years ago. Guys, your average F500 CIO today could care less about WAFL.
NetApp is growing because they offer a compelling value proposition of quality products, relevant services and worldwide support. WAFL certainly supports that, but as NetApp execs note much of their recent success is due to the integration software that NetApp now offers.
WAFL is a small piece of the picture. Sun could copy it line for line and still not have a quarter of what NetApp offers.
NetApp faces challenges. Storage commoditization threatens all vendors traditional 60% gross margins. The GX integration is problematic and the bottom line benefit uncertain. EMC’s move into cloud file services is a clever flanking strategy.
An interesting opinion summed up nicely, I think.
- Saving and Restoring ZFS Snapshots to and from Amazon S3 - A ZFS to S3 workaround for the lack of persistent storage on EC2.