Competitors for Exablox
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
I've always wondered what market Exablock is marketing toward. It just seems like a product that you won't see the benefits/advantages over traditional storage until you are in the 10's of TBs with 10-30% yearly growth where re-provisioning a storage server would take a silly amount of time.
It's pretty much anyone who needs medium scale or larger, dedicated SMB storage. If you need scaling, it gets even better, but just large SMB needs is enough. It's amazing as a large scale backup target, as an example. Or a great way to provide large scale file storage for user storage, for example. If you are looking to handle lots of "mapped drives" and personal files, this is an ideal platform once you get to the scale where it makes sense.
We are introducing NFS now as well. So those that need SMB (3.0)/NFS file services and video storage (we have a number of non-profits using for digital asset management)
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@scottalanmiller said:
@SeanExablox said:
Hi MattSpeller, I'm Sean (Sr. Director, Product Management @Exablox).
Hey Sean! Great to see you here. Great to see vendors actively watching the threads.
I'll second that, I almost choked on my coffee when you replied! I have meetings this afternoon but I"ll be watching this space and reading up on your product. Thank you very much for dropping in!
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@SeanExablox said:
PS. The $10k is list price. With our YE special it will be significantly less than that.
Good to know!
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@SeanExablox said:
Hi MattSpeller, I'm Sean (Sr. Director, Product Management @Exablox).
Hey Sean! Great to see you here. Great to see vendors actively watching the threads.
I'll second that, I almost choked on my coffee when you replied! I have meetings this afternoon but I"ll be watching this space and reading up on your product. Thank you very much for dropping in!
Cool. I don't know forum etiquette, so apologies if posting industry analyst videos is taboo. We just worked with Enterprise Strategy Group and Terri McClure explains a bit more about object storage and what we're doing.
my email is [email protected]. I look forward to speaking with you at your convenience.
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@SeanExablox said:
We are introducing NFS now as well. So those that need SMB (3.0)/NFS file services and video storage (we have a number of non-profits using for digital asset management)
That will make a huge difference. Having NFS really changes the use cases.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@SeanExablox said:
We are introducing NFS now as well. So those that need SMB (3.0)/NFS file services and video storage (we have a number of non-profits using for digital asset management)
That will make a huge difference. Having NFS really changes the use cases.
You would be able to use this as a VMWare/Xen backend at that point? Although not sure about the speed of the unit for virtual workloads.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@SeanExablox said:
We are introducing NFS now as well. So those that need SMB (3.0)/NFS file services and video storage (we have a number of non-profits using for digital asset management)
That will make a huge difference. Having NFS really changes the use cases.
You would be able to use this as a VMWare/Xen backend at that point? Although not sure about the speed of the unit for virtual workloads.
For lower end workloads yes. We've optimized OneBlox more for file serving/digital asset/backup target and not around higher virtual IOPS requirements. Additionally, as we're just introducing NFS we don't have VAAI integration completed--just want to set expectations.
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@MattSpeller said:
I'll second that, I almost choked on my coffee when you replied! I have meetings this afternoon but I"ll be watching this space and reading up on your product. Thank you very much for dropping in!
That's how you know you have a good vendor!
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@SeanExablox said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@SeanExablox said:
We are introducing NFS now as well. So those that need SMB (3.0)/NFS file services and video storage (we have a number of non-profits using for digital asset management)
That will make a huge difference. Having NFS really changes the use cases.
You would be able to use this as a VMWare/Xen backend at that point? Although not sure about the speed of the unit for virtual workloads.
For lower end workloads yes. We've optimized OneBlox more for file serving/digital asset/backup target and not around higher virtual IOPS requirements. Additionally, as we're just introducing NFS we don't have VAAI integration completed--just want to set expectations.
Good to know, thanks for that information.
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@coliver said:
You would be able to use this as a VMWare/Xen backend at that point? Although not sure about the speed of the unit for virtual workloads.
With NFS yes, in theory, VMware and Xen would be able to use Exablox as primary storage. People do this today with other scale out storage, like Gluster. My guess is that once they have NFS it will work just fine. Might not be the absolute fastest solution, but for general workloads probably very adequate. Will be interesting to test.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
You would be able to use this as a VMWare/Xen backend at that point? Although not sure about the speed of the unit for virtual workloads.
With NFS yes, in theory, VMware and Xen would be able to use Exablox as primary storage. People do this today with other scale out storage, like Gluster. My guess is that once they have NFS it will work just fine. Might not be the absolute fastest solution, but for general workloads probably very adequate. Will be interesting to test.
That would be interesting indeed!
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Looks like we are going ahead with a trial of the Exablox, once we have it and I've beaten on it I will post more thoughts.
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@MattSpeller Awesome, looking forward to seeing some real world feedback on it.
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@MattSpeller Good to hear.
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Very cool, those look like really neat units.
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@Reid-Cooper I agree, they are sweet.
My primary concern is from a cost perspective I don't think they make any sense for our environment.
Another concern is I really*** really*** like new toys and I might loose some perspective with all the freaking cool things you can do with them.
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@MattSpeller I get you...since you started the thread I am still trying to get my head around the cost.
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@technobabble It seems that (rough numbers) it's $10k for one, or around $7k (each) if you're getting 3 or more. Now, remember, that does NOT include drives. You have to purchase all the drives and populate them (ok, slapping them in is trivial...)
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@MattSpeller seems pricey to me but my clients are much smaller and have less data storage needs, so this product would not be a fit anyway.
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@technobabble lol that's almost word for word my summary of exablox to my boss. We may just be too small to see the cost/benefit, though my hope is that it saves us a lot of man hours in IT. (ironically woman hours, I am the only guy in the department of 3)
