{"id":653,"date":"2009-06-29T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2009-06-29T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T18:48:00","slug":"isilon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/29\/isilon\/","title":{"rendered":"Isilon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of weeks I was visiting customers internationally and I was surprised at how many customers are trying out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isilon.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.isilon.com<\/span><\/a>  . The reason they are trying Isilon is price, or at least that is what I was told. According to the customer comments I heard, NetApp seems to be pricing itself out of these high performance storage markets. Whether this is motivated by customer budget decisions or a NetApp international pricing policy I can&#8217;t tell.  But for whatever reason, Isilon has now got a foot in the door of the data centers I was visiting.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised not to see EMC and IBM  making more headway  into NetApp&#8217;s  international customer base, since Isilon is.  In times of economic turmoil I would expect customers to go to the safety of a major brand, but if price is the major motivator of these decisions, Isilon  may be buying customer loyalty. The installations are too recent to have meaningful  long term reliability results.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t run into Isilon very often in the US and Canada, so it might be that Isilon is targeting NetApp&#8217;s international customers. Or it could just be coincidence, and there is no correlation at all.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes technology markets work in mysterious ways, and the storage market is currently reinforcing its reputation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-7827821314805026041?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of weeks I was visiting customers internationally and I was surprised at how many customers are trying out www.isilon.com . The reason they are trying Isilon is price, or at least that is what I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/29\/isilon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}