Don't feel sad if your enterprise storage vendor abandons you, says Infinidat​​

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As some enterprise storage vendors begin shifting their focus to AI infrastructure, we talk to Bill Basinas, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Infinidat about what companies can do if they find that their vendor is about to abandon them.

“There are less than a handful of ‘true’ enterprise storage products in the market – and I mean true enterprise architectures.  But even with that, they are not all the same.  As a concern to customers, the biggest known player in that market area has made it clear that enterprise storage is no longer a priority for them.  They are clearly and openly talking about being an AI company focused on their server technology.  Their legacy enterprise platforms are just along for the ride and highlighted in very recent announcements, leaving that platform completely in the dust to focus on platforms that can support their focus to be an AI infrastructure supplier.  Good for them, see ya!  Good for us, because at Infinidat we still focus and optimize our solutions to support what they are leaving behind.  We also understand the AI space.  We know that the data sets we support play an important part in the AI architecture with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) being one of the most critical parts of a company’s AI capabilities, providing the pathway to the truth of generative AI.”

“There are many who say they have enterprise storage products, but they don’t.  Just because an enterprise company buys some of your stuff doesn’t mean you are “enterprise class,” and we clean up and consolidate a lot of them!  Let’s get this straight right now!  If your product utilizes any method of a dual-controller architecture, and I don’t care what kind, you try to augment it with clusters, meshes, etc… please take your toys and go home.  You are playing in the wrong sandbox.”

“With our award-winning InfiniBox® solutions, powered by InfuzeOS™, we have enabled customers to consolidate and leave behind the inevitable storage silo sprawl, management complexity, and supportability of dual-controller solutions.  We provide a true triple-redundant architecture across our solutions.  Every controller works in parallel, and all have unencumbered access to every storage device on the backend.  We have Neural Cache that works seamlessly with our InfiniRAID® and data access optimization technologies to make data placement and access smart and consistently achieving cache hit rates well over 90% from DRAM.  We continually hear from our large enterprise customers about the positive outcomes our solutions bring, lowering their costs, delivering better real-world application and workload performance, and providing a more cyber secure data centre.  This includes acquisition costs and associated OpEx cost, in management of the infrastructure, power, cooling and critical floorspace.  Also, they see consistent gains, not just in performance, but in the overall stability of their diverse workloads.”

“The reality is that many opportunities that we now see in the data centre space are a direct replacement of those “other” enterprise storage architectures – and one of them still has many, many 1,000’s of arrays in place globally and has clearly given their customers nowhere to go.  We have a great solution for you, come to Infinidat!  Why?  Our architecture is the ultimate evolution of the enterprise storage visionary who was largely responsible for what are now legacy systems sitting in data centre around the world, being ignored.  As an example, one of our Fortune 500 customers replaced all of a competitive enterprise product and consolidated initially at over 4:1 to our solutions with stated savings of $62,000,000 in the first 2 years!”

 
“Infinidat has continued to move the enterprise storage platform forward.  Our InfiniBox™ SSA G4 and InfiniBox Hybrid G4 families have leapfrogged all the legacy “REAL” enterprise storage systems.  Our solution utilizes state-of-the-art commodity infrastructures leveraging some of the most powerful processors, memory and backplanes available today, all powered by a single OS – InfuzeOS – providing comprehensive data services.  New models with full enterprise capabilities start as low as 86TB usable and scale up to over 17PB of effective storage, the same architecture, powered by the same software with complete interoperability that even seamlessly scales to your hybrid multi-cloud deployments with InfuzeOS Cloud Edition.”

“Infinidat enterprise storage solutions deliver the industry’s best SLA-based guarantees for performance, availability, and cyber resilience!  We prove this day in and day out, every day!  Furthermore, we are a leader in the storage industry when it comes to cyber secure storage capabilities.  Our Next-Gen data protection and recovery, powered by our InfiniSafe® technology, is cyber-focused and built around a recovery-first strategy.  That is how it’s supposed to work, so you have guaranteed recovery times in minutes, not days or weeks.  We lead the industry in providing immutability guarantees and recovery guarantees of a minute or less, regardless of dataset size, on our InfiniBox family platforms.”

“If you feel abandoned by enterprise storage companies laying off tens of thousands of employees, including their storage specialists, and they have clearly shifted their focus from enterprise storage to AI infrastructure, then Infinidat is the company you need to visit.  A major bank in the midwest US did and replaced all of their existing enterprise storage with Infinidat!  You will be embraced by the best enterprise storage company in the market.  You will experience our world-renowned “White Glove Support and Service” from the time you call, and onward.  Our customers are proof of that, with Gartner recognizing us seven times as a “Customers’ Choice” award winner, representing the voices of our customers speaking on behalf of Infinidat and far ahead of those other legacy enterprise companies.”

“Interested in an enterprise storage company that is 100% invested in making your business successful and providing the right guarantees to ensure your success, that is Infinidat, “The Standard in Enterprise Storage.”