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Scale to Win with Infinidat
Infinidat customers are at the forefront of digital transformation. Join us as we discuss our vision and newest product enhancements that enable customers to achieve data-driven competitive advantage at multi-petabyte scale.
Peter Burris
Where are you joining from?
Josiane Edy
Joining from Quantum in Colorado!
D. Schlussel
Waltham, MA is in the house!
Erik Kaulberg
Silicon Valley checking in
CorbetXNoire
Minneapolis, MN
Martín Doporto
Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Raymond J. Yun
NetApp has clustered storage with no data migrations for years. They've also announced their vision of a single data fabrics years ago. What makes Infinidat different, besides the hardware architecture?
Brian Carmody
NetApp is a huge inspiration for Infinidat - a profitable, well run tech company. EDF scales to an exabyte per data center, 200 million IOPS, and 25 TB/sec of bandwidth. Its a different scale of customer we're building for
Brian Carmody
For more on the differentiation check out the elastic data fabric whitepaper at https://www.infinidat.com/resource
https://www.infinidat.com/resource
Infinidat Enterprise Data Storage Resources
Infinidat Enterprise Data Storage Resources
Infinidat's technology foundation delivers data storage solutions with high availability, exceptional performance, and the lowest possible TCO at multi-petabyte scale. Review our resources to learn more.
Josh Shaffer
What was the comment on EMC fellows at Infinidat from the CTO?
James Meyers
Infinidat has more EMC Fellows at Infinidat then Dell/EMC has today.
Josh Shaffer
Thanks James. I heard the first part of it and figured but wanted to confirm. That definitely says something.
Brian Carmody
Hey this is Brian. My comment was that more of the original EMC Fellows work now at Infinidat (5) than remain at Dell (0)
Peter Burris
As your enterprise pursues digital transformation, how have data migration challenges limited your business and technology options? https://www.crowdchat.net/s/35tip
https://www.crowdchat.net/s/35tip

Doc D'Errico
As Brian said - data migrations are the bain of businesses. I've personally met with many copanies who have entire teams dedicated 100% to data migration!
David Floyer
Data migrations are a hangover from traditional storage arrays. Switching workloads to another array needs downtime. Wikibon research shows migration cost is ~$50,000/array & elapsed time > 3 months for the same vendor, more for moving to a new vendor.
Ken Steinhardt
At scale this becomes even a bigger issue. Many ultra-large organizations that I've worked with bemoan that they are constantly doing migrations just to keep up!
Brian Carmody
agree with David. Thats why we built the EDF control plane - to move data migrations into the dustbin of IT history
Brian Carmody
until now customers had to insert a VPLEX or SVC in order to abstract hardware migrations away. We implemented this as a distributed peer-to-peer service on the array port drivers

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CorbetXNoire
Please address the issue that there are some major software vendors (a critical one of our sw vendors whose name I can't mention is one) who require all-flash arrays regardless of your claims & benchmarks. How is Infinidat engaging with these vendors?

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Doc D'Errico
Stand by... Brian is addressing some things now and can address in a couple of minutes.
Brian Carmody
we're announcing a beta feature called "Epic Compatibility Mode" for such apps. It creates a software-defined solid state array within InfiniBox
Stanley Zaffos
Software vendors with large install bases often dictate that their software only run on the fastest arrays to put themselves in the best possible performance light. Oracle for example recommends hosting their databases on RAID1 protected storage.
Peter Burris
What workloads are driving your data management decisions? How would you characterize them? https://www.crowdchat.net/s/25tif
https://www.crowdchat.net/s/25tif

David Floyer
Mission critical, a large number of virtualized applications, spread over many private & public clouds. A hybrid world!
Doc D'Errico
Interested in what people have to say. When we talk to customers, it's all over the map - much of it virtualized, but not all. Many workloads and many use cases.
Peter Burris
How are your business leaders talking about data and application availability requirements during your digital transformation? https://www.crowdchat.net/s/15tiz
https://www.crowdchat.net/s/15tiz

Doc D'Errico
Customers tell us all the time that data unavailability is a thing of the past - they simply can't afford downtime... ever. About 20 years ago, people started saying that "the competition is only a click away", but the reality is that today's businesses are GLOBAL
David Floyer
Key are the hybrid cloud planes: the data plane, the data control plane, and the overall control plane. These are essential for hybrid cloud.
Ken Steinhardt
These days most organizations can't really accept a target SLA much less than 100%, as their IT infrastructure often is integral to the business itself, rather than an adjunct to it.
Peter Burris
How is your organization’s storage strategy evolving to take greater advantage of advanced data analytics? https://www.crowdchat.net/s/05tit
https://www.crowdchat.net/s/05tit

D. Schlussel
the new whitepaper for the Infinidat Elastic Data Fabric is available now at https://www.infinidat.com/resource
https://www.infinidat.com/resource
Infinidat Enterprise Data Storage Resources
Infinidat Enterprise Data Storage Resources
Infinidat's technology foundation delivers data storage solutions with high availability, exceptional performance, and the lowest possible TCO at multi-petabyte scale. Review our resources to learn more.
Doc D'Errico
I love this question! There are so many businesses taking advantage of data analytics - including some that aren't what you'd normally consider to be enterprise businesses. Such as Farmers in South Africa using instrumentation to determine hydration and nutrition!
David Floyer
Automating operations in general is an imperative The tsunami of alerts is becoming too much for human operators, with risks to the business. IMO automated operations based on analytics is key.
Peter Burris
How would your technology team -- and business -- behave differently if you could “eliminate all storage-performance help desk issues” like Thrive? https://www.crowdchat.net/s/65tjb
https://www.crowdchat.net/s/65tjb

Doc D'Errico
I loved how Thrive said they no longer have to worry about Storage Performance. It's something we hear constantly at Infinidat, but not just about Performance - also about availability and manageability!
Stanley Zaffos
Software vendors with large install bases often dictate that their software only run on the fastest arrays to put themselves in the best possible performance light. Oracle for example recommends hosting their databases on RAID1 protected storage