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Coho Data Pricing for Datastream 1000 Micro Array

Full article at https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/06/storage_upstart_coho_data_decloaks_from_stealth_slurps_25m/

Ex-stealthy startup Coho Data, developer of a “flash-tuned scale-out storage architecture designed for the private cloud that delivers unparalleled performance at public cloud capacity pricing,” has collared $25m in B-round funding.
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The DataStream 1000 array is a 2U dual-controller, using OEM’d commodity-based server hardware, which can be added to, scale-out fashion, with its distributed system software. The idea is to deliver public cloud pay-as-you-grow economics in a private cloud built from an on-premise set of boxes.
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An 11U Coho system consists of a switch plus five MicroArrays providing 190TB of capacity and 900,000 IOPS, with a list price of $530,000. It’s not cheap. Coho asserts that you’d need to spend $1.5m at list price to get a traditional 190TB, monolithic array. It would need 50U of rackspace and deliver only 250,000 IOPS.

Tegile approach to metadata lowers price of dedupe and compression

From eWeek

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Tegile’s home-developed Metadata Accelerated Storage System (MASS) separates metadata from the primary data path, thus optimizing deduplication, compression, RAID and snapshot pointers and reducing tegile pricing, say Vice President of Marketing Rob Commins. It is versatile, handling block or file storage and NFS or iSCSI connectivity.

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Tegile Zebi HA2400 is a hybrid NAND flash/SATA drive array designed to manage large-scale projects, such as corporate virtual desktop implementations. Featuring a multiprotocol architecture with deduplication and compression that delivers up to 125,000 IOPS, the HA2400 has enabled enterprises to double the number of applications under management, Commins said.

Tegile Zebi HA2800 is a multiprotocol, all-flash array that can be placed in front of a large pool of hard disk drives to deliver high performance. It can be augmented with an expansion chassis to expand capacity up from to 146 raw TB of capacity.

At raw capacity, before deduplication and compression, the Tegile Zebi HA2800 has been documented to reach 200,000 IOPS and sells for $2 price per GB, Commins said.

Tegile pricing keeps costs in line

From SearchStorage

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The Tegile Zebi arrays support Fibre Channel, iSCSI and network-attached storage (NAS) protocols. An array can be optimized for backup operations with high network throughput and in-line dedupe and compression, or for virtualization with high IOPS. For caching, Zebi arrays use a combination of DRAM and SSDs.

Our judges gave the HA2800 high marks for innovation and value, with its base price of approximately $235,000. One judge called the system “One of the more complete hybrid unified storage products — full storage array functionality and excellent performance at a reasonable price.”

Simplifying SAN Costs – Nimble Storage vs. The Complex Guys

There’s money in SAN complexity…and it’s YOURS!
Have you ever tried to decipher a SAN pricing proposal from one of the “big” guys? There are more part numbers than I would expect when building the space shuttle. It is not enough to have the basic hardware broken down into dozens of pieces but then you have to select a dizzying array of software licensing options for both the array and any hosts using array features.

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Here’s a sample SKU list from a major NAS/SAN vendor for a simple storage array:

FAS6200HA-IB-BASE-1 GF-RAS56200HA,IB,1B CF,OS,R5 2
X70015A-ESH2-R5-C DS14MK2 SHLF, ACPS,14x144GB,15K,HDD 5
X6524-R6-C CBL, 2M, Optical, Pair, LC/C,-C,R6 2
X6530-R6-C CBL,0.5M,PATCH,FC SFPTO SFP-C,R6 6
X1941A-R6-C CBL,5M,CLUSTER4X,CU-C,R6 2
X871A-R6-C 20A Storace Equipment Cabinet,-C,R6 1
X875A-R6-C 20A PWR CORD (4),CABINET, NEMA-S,R6 1
X800-42U-R6-C Cabinet Component Power Cable, R6 14
X5517-R6-C Storage cabinet, Rail Set,42U,-C,R6 1
X6529-R6-C SFP, Optical, Pair, LC/LC, -6, R6 4
X8773-R6-C Multiple Product Tie-Down Bracket,- 2
DOC-3XXX-C Documents, 3XXX,-C 1
Software (Base Unit)
SW-T4C-CIFS-C CIFS CIFS Software, T4C-C 2
SW-T4C-ISCSI-C iSCSI iSCSI Software, T4C-C 2
SW-T4C-NFS-C NFS NFS Software, T4C-C 2
SW-T4C-SRESTORE-C SnapRestore Software,T4C,-C 2
SW-T4C-SME-C SnapManager Software, Exchange, T4C 2
SW-T4C-SMSVS-C SnapMirro-SnapVault Software Bndl, 2
Software (Host Side)
SW-SDR-WIN SnapDrive, Windows 10
SW-SSP-SDR-WINDOW SW Subs SnapDrive for Windows 3.0 10
SW-SMBR-1000PK Single Mbox Recovery, 1000pk 1
SW-SSPVN-SMBR-1000PKendor SW Sub SMBR, 1000pk 1
SW-SDR-SOL-TIER1 SnapDrive, Solaris, Tier 1 10
1-2CPU
SW-SSP-SDR-SOL-TIER1SW Subs, SDR Solaris Support, Tier 10
SW-SDU-CPU SW, SnapDrive UNIX, CPU 5
SW-SMO-CPU SW, SnapManager Oracle, CPU 5
SW-SSP-SMO-CPU SW, SUB, SnapManager Oracle 5
Services and Support
CS-S-INST Initial Installation-DS14 1
CS-A SupportEdge Standard-FAS270 Mths: 3 2

Wow!

All we wanted was a high-performing storage array. Instead, we got a dissertation on what the sales person thinks we need. Notice that this proposal contains base hardware, base software, host software, installation services and support. Although this would be considered a “simple” configuration, it is still complex and a potential customer would be hesitant to make any changes or delete any proposed features.

What’s worse is if the customer proceeds with this proposal thinking they have “covered all their bases” for the future. However, since many projects increase in complexity over time, new features may be needed but this a la carte model requires the customer to re-budget and purchase additional options in the future…more money.

Nimble Storage’s approach eliminates complexity

Compare this nightmare configuration with how Nimble Storage sells their arrays. Nimble Storage has a single part number for everything including every option. Here is an Nimble Storage configuration for a fault-tolerant (no single point of failure) 6TB system with SAS drives.

SKU	Description	Qty
CS260 24TB	CS260 24TB Usable (24-48TB with compression) Hardware: (4) 320GB SSD, (12) 3TB SATA, Dual Ctlrs, (6) 1GbE Active Ports Software: Includes array and all software features: Dynamic caching, Write-Optimized Data Layout, Universal Compression, Thin Provisioning, Instant Snapshot and Recovery, Efficient Replication, Zero-Copy Clones.	1

I like to call this the single most important business feature of Nimble Storage; all inclusive pricing. Everything you will need, now and in the future, is included at no additional charge. When you install the unit and fire up the GUI you will notice that there are no features “greyed out”. This is fantastic for projects that evolve because when you need a feature, say Offsite Replication, its available. Simply configure it!

Want to save money? Consider eliminating complexity.

Nimble Converged Primary and Backup storage made simple

Nimble Storage’s recipe for converging primary and backup storage is simple and has two parts.

1. Capacity optimization: Storing backups for 30–90 days needs lots of capacity. In a system not designed to store backups, they can easily use 10–20x the space used in primary storage. Nimble handles this problem as follows:

Store all data on high-capacity disk drives. These disks have over 3x the capacity and 1/6x the cost per GB of high-performance disks. They also have only 1/3x the performance of high-performance disks, but we deal with that separately. (The high-capacity disks have often been called SATA disks, but that is quickly becoming a misnomer as high-capacity SAS drives enter the market.)
Use data reduction techniques such as compression and block sharing. These techniques can reduce the space used by backups by 10–20x. Block sharing can take many forms, e.g., snapshots and dedupe, and it is important to pick judiciously based on the context. I will write further about this in the next article.

2. Performance optimization: Especially random IO performance. Common business applications such as Exchange and SQL Server generate lots of random IO. Hard disks are generally bad at random IO. High-capacity disks are particularly bad. We use two techniques that more than make up for this slowness:

Accelerate random reads using flash as a large cache. Most storage vendors have a story around using flash. However, flash has some peculiar characteristics, and how a system uses flash is more important than whether it uses flash. In particular, flash is not a performance cure-all; e.g., it might not be cost effective in accelerating random writes.
Accelerate random writes by sequentializing them on disk. This technology has been known for some time as log-structured file systems, but it has become more interesting recently because of new enabling technologies.

Exablox pricing for “reimagined” storage all-in-one

Exablox’s cloud managed, scale-out, object-based storage appliance solves businesses’ common storage pain points: complicated installation, cumbersome storage management, lack of data security and forklift upgrades. Without the shackles of a legacy storage architecture, Exablox’s clean sheet approach combines the CIFS/SMB accessible OneBlox appliance with OneSystem, an elegant multi-tenant cloud-based management service.

Scale-out Architecture

Instead of attempting to retrofit the solution into a legacy scale-up architecture, OneBlox employs a scale-out architecture and introduces the concept of a ring, a number of OneBlox appliances or nodes presenting a single global file system. A ring may consist of one or multiple OneBlox, scaling from a few TBs to nearly 200TBs. The OneBlox architecture enables organizations to start with a single node and add additional OneBlox that join the ring automatically and non-disruptively–supporting the growth of your business.

Bring your own drives

No RAID, no LUNs, no volumes. OneBlox delivers the flexibility for organizations to mix-and-match drive types (SATA, SAS, SSD) and capacity within the same OneBlox and within a ring. Use exactly the capacity your organization needs from the beginning and then add any drive at any time and OneBlox automatically pools the storage within the same global file system. No disruption to applications or users. No configuration settings to complete. No mouse clicks. No command line entries. No storage PhD required. Combined with OneBlox’s powerful inline deduplication, storage waste is minimized and organizations are able to maximize primary storage utilization.

Exablox OneBlox Pricing and Availability

OneBlox is currently available to select businesses with pricing beginning at under $10,000 for a 32TB solution and under $40,000 for a replicated four-node 64TB disaster recovery solution. OneBlox will be generally available in the 1H 2013 and sold exclusively through authorized Exablox partners.

Compellent Pricing for Tiered Flash Storage

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…The new tiered flash technology, first unveiled in June at the Dell Enterprise Forum, combines high-speed SLC flash memory with slower but cheaper MLC flash memory, said Bob Fine, director of product marketing for Dell storage.

Dell then applies its Data Progression auto-tiering software to automatically tier data between the SLC and MLC flash memory and to hard drives, Fine said.

“When data comes at it, it is steered to SLC for the best performance in writes,” he said. “The data is then moved to MLC flash, as the read performance of MLC is on par with SLC. It’s unique. No one else has it.”

He gave the example of an all-flash Compellent array with six SLC SSDs and six MLC SSDs providing 12-TB capacity at a cost of about $180,000. To get 12 TB of high-performance disk storage, a company would have to purchase 82 146-GB 15,000-rpm hard drives for a total cost of $229,000.

Original article at CRN

EMC VNX Pricing, Cost and Price List

Nothing but EMC VNX pricing on this page

VNX51156010FN	EMC VNX 5100 – Hard drive array – 3.6 TB – 15 bays ( SAS-2 ) – 6 x HD 600 GB – 8Gb Fibre Channel – Serial Attached SCSI 2 (external) – rack-mountable – 3U – field	6159.3
VNX51D153T72F	EMC VNX 5100 – Hard drive array – 18 TB – 15 bays ( SAS-2 ) – 6 x HD 3 TB – 8Gb Fibre Channel – Serial Attached SCSI 2 (external) – rack-mountable – 3U – field	9045.12
VNX51256010FN	EMC VNX 5100 Pricing – Hard drive array – 3.6 TB – 25 bays ( SAS-2 ) – 6 x HD 600 GB – 8Gb Fibre Channel – Serial Attached SCSI 2 (external) – rack-mountable – 3U – field	6465.93
VNX51D256010F	EMC VNX 5100 – Hard drive array – 3.6 TB – 25 bays ( SAS-2 ) – 6 x HD 600 GB – 8Gb Fibre Channel – Serial Attached SCSI 2 (external) – rack-mountable – 3U – field	6465.93
VNX51D253010	EMC VNX 5100 Cost- Hard drive array – 1.8 TB – 25 bays ( SAS-2 ) – 6 x HD 300 GB – 8Gb Fibre Channel – Serial Attached SCSI 2 (external) – rack-mountable – 3U	6050.64
VNX51D256010N	EMC VNX 5100 – Hard drive array – 3.6 TB – 25 bays ( SAS-2 ) – 6 x HD 600 GB – 8Gb Fibre Channel – Serial Attached SCSI 2 (external) – rack-mountable – 3U	6465.93
VNX51156015FN	EMC VNX 5100 Price List – Hard drive array – 3.6 TB – 15 bays ( SAS-2 ) – 6 x HD 600 GB – 8Gb Fibre Channel – Serial Attached SCSI 2 (external) – rack-mountable – 3U – field	6973.3
	EMC VNX 5300 Pricing – NAS – 4.8 TB – rack-mountable – Serial Attached SCSI 2 – HD 600 GB x 8 – RAID 0 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 10 – 8Gb Fibre Channel – iSCSI – 3U – field	19496.32
VNX53N156010	EMC VNX 5300 Cost – NAS – 4.8 TB – rack-mountable – Serial Attached SCSI 2 – HD 600 GB x 8 – RAID 0 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 10 – 8Gb Fibre Channel – iSCSI – 3U	15294.66
VNX53D156015M	EMC VNX 5300 – NAS – 4.8 TB – rack-mountable – Serial Attached SCSI 2 – HD 600 GB x 8 – RAID 0 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 10 – 8Gb Fibre Channel – iSCSI – 3U	19496.32
VNX53N156015	EMC VNX 5300 Price List – NAS – 4.8 TB – rack-mountable – Serial Attached SCSI 2 – HD 600 GB x 8 – RAID 0 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 10 – 8Gb Fibre Channel – iSCSI – 3U	19496.32
VNX5500DP15F	EMC VNX 5500 Pricing – NAS – 0 GB – rack-mountable – Serial Attached SCSI 2 – RAID 0 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 10 – 8Gb Fibre Channel – iSCSI – 3U – field	11576.62
VNX5500FL100	EMC VNX 5500 Cost – NAS – 3.3 TB – rack-mountable – Serial Attached SCSI 2 – HD 100 GB x 21 + 300 GB x 4 – RAID 0 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 10 – 8Gb Fibre Channel – iSCSI – 3U	118669.4
VNX5500DP15D	EMC VNX 5500 Price List – NAS – 0 GB – rack-mountable – Serial Attached SCSI 2 – RAID 0 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 10 – 8Gb Fibre Channel – iSCSI – 3U	12154.83

Avere FXT 3800 pricing provides great value

Pittsburgh-based storage startup Avere Systems today unveiled a new appliance that employs RAM, solid-state drives (SSDs) and Serial Attached SCSI hard drives to sling files across the data center faster. Dubbed the Avere FXT 3800, the filer offers automated tiering across system memory, SSDs and traditional hard disks. Data placement is determined by current levels of activity.

The system dynamically places hot files in speedier forms of data storage like RAM and SSDs while aging files get transferred in the background to slower components, notably the system’s hard drive. The result, says Avere, is a system that performs 40 faster on SPECsfs2008 NFS benchmark tests than its predecessor, the FXT 3500.

Billed as a more cost-effective alternative to all-flash systems by the NAS optimization vendor, the Avere’s FXT 3800 Edge filer combines 7.8 TB of SAS hard drive capacity (10K RPM) with 800 GB of SSD storage, 144 GB of DRAM and 2 GB of Non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) — the type that keeps its data even after it is powered down.

Network connectivity is provided by two 10 GbE ports and six 1 GbE ports. In a clustered implementation, the FXT can scale up to 50 nodes.

“The performance gains and cost benefits associated with our latest FXT Edge filer demonstrate the massive advantages of a hybrid approach that can precisely match the storage media to the data being accessed,” said Ron Bianchini, President and CEO of Avere Systems. “And when deployed as part of our edge-core architecture, it also delivers the flexibility businesses need to locate storage where it makes most sense for the business.

Avere’s approach to NAS systems should appeal to enterprise IT managers that are mulling their storage options, claims Neuralytix analyst Benjamin Woo.

“With the new FXT 3800, Avere continues to be on the cutting edge of file system storage innovation and gives companies a new way to think about the way they purchase data storage. Customers can now receive the greatest amount of flexibility and choice by leveraging all four media tiers of storage, while defining the performance and efficiency requirements based on the activity of the data,” said Woo in a press remarks.

For Avere Systems CEO Ron Bianchini, SSDs, RAM and even traditional disk-based storage all have a place in today’s performance-obsessed enterprise storage market.

“The performance gains and cost benefits associated with our latest FXT Edge filer demonstrate the massive advantages of a hybrid approach that can precisely match the storage media to the data being accessed. And when deployed as part of our edge-core architecture, it also delivers the flexibility businesses need to locate storage where it makes most sense for the business,” said Bianchini in a statement.

Avere FXT 3800 plans to start selling the FXT 3800 within 30 days. Prices start at $112,500.

Nutanix Pricing, NX-1000, NX-6000 cost

Nutanix, a leading provider of hyper-efficient, massively scalable and elegantly simple datacenter infrastructure solutions, today announced two new platforms that meet the cost, performance and scale requirements to run nearly any enterprise application. Nutanix’s expanded portfolio of Virtual Computing Platforms enables IT teams to tailor and seamlessly grow their compute and storage environment to fit their individual requirements, whether for an enterprise branch office with limited on-site IT resources or core datacenters tasked with supporting an increasingly diverse and demanding set of workloads.

The NX-1000 series puts converged infrastructure within reach of small to mid-sized corporations, enterprise branch offices or retail stores at an attractive price point while also significantly streamlining IT management. The NX-6000 series allows enterprises to scale their Nutanix cluster by adding storage capacity as needed for applications with large data sets such as big data projects, high-end databases or demanding virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

Converged Infrastructure for the Mid-Market – the NX-1000 Series

Small to mid-sized corporations, enterprise branch offices and retail stores typically lack the specialized IT resources needed to manage traditional infrastructure built with separate servers, storage arrays and networking. Unlike other converged infrastructure solutions, which offer little more than legacy products packaged into a single chassis or cabinet, the Nutanix NX-1000 Series, like other Nutanix platforms, features a flatter datacenter architecture that eliminates the need for centralized SAN/NAS storage, thereby dramatically reducing IT complexity and simplifying management.

This new platform includes all of the functionality offered in every Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform, including software-based storage controller technology and advanced information lifecycle management (ILM) capabilities, such as flash-enabled data tiering and performance-optimized data compression. The NX-1000 also requires up to 80 percent less space and power than alternative approaches, providing a single platform to power branch office services, including local applications, virtual desktop deployments, file and print services, DHCP and DNS services, WAN optimization controllers and security-focused virtual appliances.

Features and benefits include:

Easy-to-deploy converged infrastructure in a single 2U appliance to run virtual workloads common in mid-sized corporations, enterprise branch offices and retail stores
Flexibility to use existing network infrastructure (1 Gbps or 10 Gbps Ethernet) to reduce deployment costs and accelerate deployment
Pre-installed replication and back-up software automatically protects VM-specific data
Affordable pricing beginning at just $22,500 per node (server and storage included)

For a limited time, Nutanix is offering a pricing promotion on the NX-1000 series platform. Contact your local Nutanix sales representative or authorized partner for more details.

The First Elastic Storage Offering in Converged Infrastructure – the NX-6000 Series

Although many converged infrastructure solutions enable a simpler, building block-based approach to the enterprise datacenter, they often lack the ability to ideally match infrastructure capabilities with the demands of specific enterprise applications or services.

The Nutanix NX-6000 Virtual Computing Platform is the first converged datacenter platform to independently scale storage resources in a single converged infrastructure. Existing buyers of converged infrastructure have typically been forced to deploy products that only offer fixed, vendor-selected ratios of storage capacity and compute performance. Because most enterprises need to run multiple applications within the same environment, each with their own unique resource demands, IT is now in need of infrastructure that can be uniquely tailored to each environment. The Nutanix NX-6000 platform makes it simple and affordable for enterprises to design and scale their datacenters one appliance at a time with the ability to add just the right amount of storage and compute resources for any workload.

Features and benefits include:

Allows IT to choose, provision and expand storage capacity based on need, avoiding costly purchases of underutilized or unneeded resources
Allows new platforms to be seamlessly added to existing Nutanix clusters, enabling customers to mix and match platforms within a single environment for running multiple business applications simultaneously
Delivers 3X more raw storage capacity than earlier Nutanix platforms to support the most data intensive applications, such as SQL databases, Hadoop-driven data analytics or large-scale VDI rollouts. Doubles the amount of server-attached flash capacity for accommodating very large working sets, accelerating I/O intensive applications
Includes in-line and post-process data compression to deliver 35 TB to 70 TB of usable storage in a space-efficient 2U platform
Pricing beginning at $60,000 per node