Xiotech Unveils Disruptive Storage Technology

Lxy writes "After Xiotech purchased Seagate's Advanced Storage Architecture division, rumors circulated around what they were planning to do with their next-generation SAN. Today at Storage Network World, Xiotech answered the question. The result is quite impressive, a SAN that can practically heal itself, as well as prevent common failures. There's already hype in the media, with much more to come. The official announcement is on Xiotech's site."

Disruptive?

[99BottlesOfBeerInMyF]

The result is quite impressive, a SAN that can practically heal itself, as well as prevent common failures.

Maybe I'm missing something. I read their announcement and one of the articles on this new product. As near as I can tell they're selling SAN systems where instead of plugging in individual drives, you plug in a box with two drives in it. They paired this with some nice software for working around failed sectors and rewriting correctable drive problems. I guess I'm just not all that impressed. Is this really "disruptive" technology? It looks like evolutionary improvements and some nice automation to take some of the grunt work out of managing SAN.

I'm, admittedly, not an expert on network storage. So what do people think? Is this really the best thing since sliced bread or just another slashvertisement someone hyped to sound like news for nerds and rehashing a lot of marketing weasel words?

Move along, nothing to see here

[Spazmania]

They've integrated the controller and drive into devices that consume 3U of space in a rackmount computer cabinet. So now you can't upgrade a drive, you can only replace a module. Brilliant.

The only thing this is likely to disrupt is Xiotech's cashflow.

Hypocritical Reluctance

[Anonymous Coward]

On the Xiotech site:

"#1 Lowest cost per disk IOPS
#1 Lowest cost per MB/sec"

Looking around, I don't see any quoted prices on the page.

It's funny how it's always a project in itself to find the price tag for products. When companies run on "the bottom line" why are they so reluctant to tell us what the consumer's "bottom line" is straight forward and upfront?

It should become law; that to advertise a product, you must post clearly what the price tag (range) is either at the top or bottom. Especially if you are telling people its "cost-effective" without providing the cost. Am I saving $1 or $10,000?

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"a SAN that can practically heal itself"

[SwashbucklingCowboy]

Well, no. It's an array that can practically heal itself (at least in theory). BIG difference...