This event is now open for questions. We look forward to a fun and interactive discussion around FLASH.NEXT.

Thanks and regards,

Mark

Ok guys, although I was in the virtual announcement yesterday I had to leave the screen frequently, so in the end all I noticed were commercial words like "1 million IOps", "linear scalable" and stuff, but I need to dig into pdfs to make up my mind and come up with questions.

Can you provide me with some MUST HAVE notes, ppt or white papers so I can actually ask some questions? I won't bother you with questions about pricing, although some sort of a direction or hint about cost per GB is interesting.

thank you, I'll dig in

I have a question about the "inline data reduction" in the XtremeIO: is this 100% true dedupe? Or a sort of dedupe (best effort) that works well if workload is low and less dedupe when the workload is high? I almost can't imagine that the inline dedupe really can keep up with very extreme workloads, or can it?

RRR - inline deduplication in XtremIO is "truly" inline and always ON. What this means is that this feature (along with other features like thin provisioning) are always ON and you do not have an option to turn it OFF. In fact, the more deduplication the array does, the more performance benefit you see from an application point of view.

This happens because deduplication has been baked in the software design of the array and is not a "add-on" feature that would potentially impact the array's performance.

Cool

This is so cool! Thanks for the references, I'll make sure I'll pass the youtube vid around in our sales team

Looking through the slides, I am impressed with what EMC announced for the XtremIO Array. Definitely more value-add than "just another generic flash array."  On the XtremSW Cache and XtremSF hardware, I'd like to point out that EMC VMAX can monitor XtremSW Cache when it's accelerating LUNs on the VMAX. Looking forward to seeing more integration between VMAX and the XtremSW and XtremSF products.

Elad, Does XtremSW Cache management software have specific advantages when operating with XtremSF hardware vs. other server-side flash cache cards?  That is, other than the XtremSF hardware being very fast?

it's in my scheduler, but the time is a bit inconvenient for me. So I might be following it on twitter, or not, it all depends whether I'm home on time.