Netapp & tiering – Just when they thought things were looking up…
Netapp has been on the hot seat ever since Tom Georgens, their CEO commented that tiering would soon be obsolete . Since then, a number of people have called him out on it, including yours truly (in a steering wheel cam), StorageBod , The Storage Architect , StorageZilla , a storage blogging wannabe , and last but not least, the Storage Anarchis t . To be fair, Georgens DID get support from the contrarian Drunken Data. At the end of his post, the Storage Anarchist asks: Are they just defending their chosen path of Flash-as-cache instead of –as-a-tier? Or is it deeper than that? Is there something inherent in WAFL that makes it different to implement multiple different tiers within a single array
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Netapp & tiering – Just when they thought things were looking up…