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Well, dollar per gigabyte is an interesting statistic. Everybody gets way too focused
on it. The reality is that capacity is not the problem.
The performance limitations on arrays is really the issue. The controllers and the spinning
hard drives end up limiting and putting an artificial cap on the overall capacity you
can utilize. So what happens is you start putting your applications and then more and
more customers on that system and they start complaining about their performance. At that
point, you go look and realize you’re not even half utilizing that array.
SolidFire is solving all of these issues. First, by having enough IO performance to
actually utilize the full capacity of that array. Then we turn that problem inside out
with in-line thin provisioning, compression, and deduplication that happens in real time
and has no performance degradation.
Thin provisioning is in very small 4K blocks, requires no reservations, and can reclaim
space. Our compression, not only saves us capacity, but improves our performance by
putting less load on the drives and network of the system. Then on top of it, our deduplication,
is also at that 4K block size and system-wide to squeeze as much efficiency out of it as
possible.
The end result is SolidFire is delivering the highest performance and highest efficiency
storage solution for the cloud. Come talk with us.