[volunteers] Current list of Speakers - June through October 2011

[Mehma Sarja]

On 5/5/11 10:21 PM, Jesse Monroy wrote:
> I don't see a significant difference between the two technologies. As
> such, I would be happy
>
Huge differences. Got presentations from IBM and HDS a couple of years 
back. IBM, and at that time Sun were reselling LSI boxes with their own, 
differing, management software and firmware. HDS, for example, controls 
the firmware on each drive itself. How they cache indexes of what data 
is on what drive - is different from an AOE array and different among 
competing FC products.  Netapp or EMC, forget which, uses Windows as 
it's management software OS - prone to viruses, others don't.

I see what you are saying about the technologies being the same. In a 
sense that's true at the drive level and at the optical switch level and 
at the HBA level. But that's like saying America and Brazil are 
essentially the same country - same continent, both are countries with 
western cultures and languages. I think our meaning of technology is 
different. I think of technology as a "technique" and involves the whole 
system which provides a function - h/w. s/w and f/w. I am guessing your 
meaning is more narrow.

Yudhvir