Comment Re:Hell, BUY it from EMC! (Score 1) 557
Why does everyone here seem to have such a hard-on for EMC?!
My dealings with them have been absolutely horrible, plus this person's problem (25TB - 1PB) in a shared/clustered file system isn't a problem that EMC has a solution for....
Centera you say, BULLSHIT. You're not going to be able to scale the Centera very well since it does NFS and NFS pretty much blows if you need really good performance/bandwidth. Ok, you don't have to use NFS you can write your application to the Centera API, but that doesn't work well with legacy applicatons where you cannot change them...
So as far as I know, EMC isn't going to be able to solve this person's LARGE shared/clustered/global/distributed file system problem...
My dealings with them have been absolutely horrible, plus this person's problem (25TB - 1PB) in a shared/clustered file system isn't a problem that EMC has a solution for....
Centera you say, BULLSHIT. You're not going to be able to scale the Centera very well since it does NFS and NFS pretty much blows if you need really good performance/bandwidth. Ok, you don't have to use NFS you can write your application to the Centera API, but that doesn't work well with legacy applicatons where you cannot change them...
So as far as I know, EMC isn't going to be able to solve this person's LARGE shared/clustered/global/distributed file system problem...
