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"Don’t forget BlueArc as well. We’re near the top of the chart on Scale, and are firmly entrenched in the HPC space. However, I think that our management rides the line between HPC and cloud in your model above." - BlueArc

Thanks for the tip, Greg. - BlueArc

Let us know if you find anybody in our industry impacted. - BlueArc

Worth following up here to see if any names in our industry are impacted. - BlueArc

Storage analysts have fun because storage itself is so dang cool. :) - BlueArc

it's a difficult transition to *change* process rather than just move what what was done before onto the new tools - Stuart Miniman

And BTW, awesome that you used FriendFeed to Twitter. (nod) - BlueArc

"In today’s world, there’s definitely a push-pull in terms of finding what data is trusted. If vendors’ publications are not trusted, are analysts’ publications trusted more or trusted less? And if a vendor doesn’t have the breadth of customer base to have them author a comment or a paper, where should they turn to help evangelize their message? As “vendor scum”, which Robin Harris of StorageMojo lovingly called me at SNW earlier this month, we do work closely with firms like ESG and IDC, and we also work with people like Greg Schulz, Tony Asaro and Marc Staimer, all of whom do a great job in their own way. But just because they’re paid relationships doesn’t make them talking megaphones for us. I can’t put words in Greg’s mouth, or Marc’s or Steve’s, as fun as that would be. Paid relationships are as much about buying time to pick their brains, bounce off ideas for strategy and gain their insight into the industry as much as they are about hoping they can be a message relay. ESG,..." - BlueArc

"in the new flat world, transparency is not just a nice to have; it is inevitably an absolute need to have. In my business or anywhere someone is willing to expose themselves (so to speak), technology makes it easy to have anonymous shots taken at you. So far, our policy is to publish any criticism, accolade, or even psychotic rant sent to us – even though 99% of them are from hidden authors." - BlueArc from Bookmarklet

"I posted this note on StorageMonkey's blog, and for the benefit of both audiences, I wanted to make sure it was here as well. --- In today's world, there's definitely a push-pull in terms of finding what data is trusted. If vendors' publications are not trusted, are analysts' publications trusted more or trusted less? And if a vendor doesn't have the breadth of customer base to have them author a comment or a paper, where should they turn to help evangelize their message? As "vendor scum", which Robin Harris of StorageMojo lovingly called me at SNW earlier this month, we do work closely with firms like ESG and IDC, and we also work with people like Greg Schulz, Tony Asaro and Marc Staimer, all of whom do a great job in their own way. But just because they're paid relationships doesn't make them talking megaphones for us. I can't put words in Greg's mouth, or Marc's or Steve's, as fun as that would be. Paid relationships are as much about buying time to pick their brains, bounce off..." - BlueArc

It takes someone to play the role of early adopter. Hope you will join us more often. - BlueArc

I think I drove a few people to FF (and FF beta) with the EMC Symmetrix V-Max launch this morning where the value of aggregation was easily seen. Thanks! - Stuart Miniman

You are of course welcome - BlueArc

Importing one's data != use. :) - BlueArc

You are of course welcome, Stuart. The storage community on Twitter may be small, but every single one of our companies makes more revenue than they do... - BlueArc

Thanks for checking us out, John. Good to see Tripper is watching as well. - BlueArc

I'm more of a software person (sort of) than a hardware person, but obviously it's important to look at the hardware that's support all of the software. - John E. Bredehoft

"Robin, welcome to Twitter. We have been looking forward to your joining. If you ever have questions about it, please do let me know." - BlueArc

"John: Thanks to your article, found another great tool for Firefox. Mashlogic is terrific. Thank-you for writing about it…even though it was regarding a bug. Thanks, John" - BlueArc

Most storage systems are inefficient as when capacity increases, performance decreases. Can they stay at peak through 90%? - BlueArc

"Martin, we do not have a limit to the number of files in a namespace. We do have a limit of 16 million files per directory. The default limit is 4 million per directory, but it can be changed with the administrative Command Line Interface (CLI)." - BlueArc

"Good points all around. For BlueArc, we support a specific amount of storage in a namespace, depending on the product purchased. (i.e. 1 PB for the 2100, 2 PB for the 3100 and 4 PB for the 3200) That's useable capacity, not raw capacity, and it is not bound on the # of spindles, so you can get 4 PB whether you are using 450 GB drives or 1 TB drives. Further, our software pricing is per node in practically all cases, meaning that as we have one of the highest capacity per node ratios out there, the software costs are comparatively low. So to answer your question - "How much disk can I put in your array?" 4 petabytes useable, period, any type you like, and yes, we can address all of it." - BlueArc

On March 4th, 2008, we introduced Titan 3000, billing it as twice as fast as our existing Titan 2000 family, in terms of IOPs and throughput. We also expanded our global namespace, and added support for partners including Brocade's StorageX platform and Hitachi's Data Discovery Suite (HDDS). - BlueArc

Happy birthday to the Titan 3000 family from all of BlueArc. - BlueArc

"Please do it. We would be delighted to participate. However, as you can expect, it is typical that first, the market leader embraces the benchmark, and then, if passed, will deny that the benchmark has relevance - or even go so far as to deny that performance itself is relevant (or putting it way down on the list). BlueArc has a good record of both participating in industry-approved benchmarks, and participating in customer bake-offs if needed. We have also participated in reviews from eWeek and InfoWorld, to let the editors bang on Titan. We aren't going to make the best rap video on YouTube, but we are pretty pleased with the product and stand by what it can do." - BlueArc

"Partner organization's top accomplishments over the past year 1) Experienced over 180% growth in channel revenue 2) Increased percentage of contribution from channel from 15% to over 25% of company's revenues 3) Has doubled number of channel partners" - BlueArc from Bookmarklet

Buyers ought to accept a close relationship with a vendor, complete with flexible solution pricing. But when it comes to groundless marketing claims, enough is enough. Give me the cost or give me a break! - Stephen Foskett

And we want to know more than just price. Price/performance... power costs... TCO... if you go just on sticker, you could get a lemon. - BlueArc

1. The company's first product was initially intended to be a gateway NAS head only, not sold with storage. - BlueArc

Very very nice example of social media campaign...!! - duprat julien

You're a top ten in our book, Dave. - BlueArc

awesome. ;) - Dave Graham

The factor which performance plays often depends on the market, or the project. Today's discerning buyers need answers in terms of real-world business cases, capacity utilization, performance, price per terabyte, ease of integration and time spent managing the solution, for starters. - BlueArc

BlueArc has long been known for performance, of course, but it is extremely rare that just one element of the solution can be named as the only factor. - BlueArc

Couldn't agree more. The funny thing is that the company which shall remain nameless does have a serious performance problem. Either way though, people keep buying them :) - mattpovey

"As an analyst, we have to be somewhat level headed and try to help customers make more educated technology investments. We hear so much fodder from vendors that we need to separate reality from PowerPoint. And, one of the ways I like to do that is ask every vendor whether or not they 'eat their own dog food'." - BlueArc from Bookmarklet

"Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 31st, Ma.gnolia experienced every web service's worst nightmare: data corruption and loss. For Ma.gnolia, this means that the service is offline and members' bookmarks are unavailable, both through the website itself and the API." - BlueArc from Bookmarklet

Every storage adminstrator's worst nightmare... data corruption and loss. Can't stress enough how important it is to have an excellent tiered storage backup and DR solution. - BlueArc

Two BlueArc customers come to mind in terms of excelling in disaster recovery and remote backup. Terian Solutions (http://www.terian.com) in the US and Backup Technology (http://www.backup-technology.com/) in the UK. Of course, we have integrated replication and data migration features for enterprise and vertical customers. - BlueArc

"BlueArc Corp. Titan 3200 Network Storage System With the Titan 3200, BlueArc pumped up performance to 200,000 IOPS and 20 GBps throughput, and scalability to support a file system of 256 TB and data capacity of up to 4 PB in one namespace." - BlueArc from Bookmarklet

Included in the disk and disk subsystems category: 3Par, Atrato, BlueArc, EMC, HDS, IBM, Intel, Isilon, NetApp, Pivot3, Seagate and Xiotech. - BlueArc

This is a huge win. Congratulations to the entire BlueArc team! - BlueArc