Did they break the law, or are they following the law?

Remember, the IRS accepts donations. How much have you donated?

Your servers may not be able to drive a flash array to 100,000 (or 1,000,000) IOPs, but the array itself can use a good bit of this; most of these all-flash arrays have inline global block deduplication and compression. In a scenario where you have a multi-TB database and Prod/QA/Dev/Test environments, you need a copy of the DB for each environment. With an all-flash array, you need 1 copy of the DB and then leverage snapshots w/no apparent performance hit (all those extra IOPs at work).

Real example: Where I work, we have an environment similar to that described above. On a traditional array, I needed to use ~150 15k FC spindles to meet the space (~50TB) and performance requirements. We're just now replacing that w/an all-flash array which takes all of 6U rack space and has 15TB usable space; we're seeing ~6:1 dedupe/compression across the environments...

Yeah, pretty much different types of "media" and "news outlets" exist to create markets where there are none. This is done in order to keep the gears of industry turning, selling you crap that you don't need.

Buying things will not make you happy.

Yet no comment on Microsoft or Autodesk and their contributions which cost them essentially $0?

I'd like to hear what Bennett Haselton has to say on this matter. His take on matters is always insightful. And he's also a frequent contributor here at Slashdot.

Came to post the exact same thing...

Hi. I see by your reply that, even though you're not really new here (judging by your UID), you're not really sure how things work.

Slashdot earns money through advertising. More page views = more ads shown = more ad clicks = more money earned.

In order to drive the page views, Slashdot "editors" troll their readership in order to stimulate discussion through upsetting people, driving them to respond to stories they otherwise would pass up. They do this in several ways, including, but not limited to:

Intentional misspellings and poor grammar in the summaries.
Intentional inflammatory use of terminology (like this summary, which got you to reply (and I replied to the meta-troll))
Injection of political or religious themes or topics (a classic; never gets old, works every time)
And so on...

Now, with this information in hand, you can read the summaries and pick out the trolling technique used in about, oh, 90% of the stories/summaries posted.

Woohoo! Anybody need me to light their torch? Pitchforks are over there, to your right...

These guys have got better things to do than squeeze a few extra months out of an array that's on a 3 or 4 year lease or support contract.

If you're doing your sizing projections correctly (very tricky, I'll give you that), space is not an issue, but time is. If you lease, then you need a replacement installed before the lease is up; the leasing company wants their hardware back. There is no stretching it out. If you purchase, you are bound by the length of your support contract, as nobody sane is going to run an enterprise array without a current support contract.

You mean an array of SSDs.

Just as you wouldn't call a PC on a local network a "LAN", you don't refer to an array on a storage network as a SAN. The SAN is the network.

Sorry, but this really bugs me...

-m0

There's an NSA joke in there somewhere...

I didn't know Hans was at the MTV awards; what did he do there?

Because it is 18" on a side and weighs nearly 2 pounds.

Just opt out from the credit system; it only exists to keep people on the hook, enriching others on the backs of the poor and ignorant.

Get rid, and stay rid of all debt. Destroy the credit cards; you don't need them and they will only screw you over. Use cash or debit, even checks, for all transactions. Start a habit of saving. After a year or two, you can buy a car using YOUR MONEY and be done with it. Live within your means; stop buying useless crap.

Opt out; they need you, but you DO NOT NEED THEM.