They dropped the ball all around.
Even with 6 months lead time, they were startlingly unprepared in all but their works-as-designed press release.
Even with 6 months lead time, they were startlingly unprepared in all but their works-as-designed press release.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11820078
Their handling of recent events has really cemented this view in my mind.
While it's fair to criticize them, sometimes it comes across as "those hardware bozos don't know what they're doing" and hardware design, at the speeds and features Intel does is hard (just look at the number of competitors)
You have to remember that IBM's PR is stuff like "Watson is sitting here curing cancer right now while his best friend Deep Blue beats people at chess!!11!" Intel doesn't do any of that.
CEPH comes close, but cannot completely replace it.
When you connect a thousand nodes to a single storage pool with high throughput and low latency requirements, not everything can cut it.