StorageMath
Cutting through storage vendor marketing with mathematical truth
WEKA's 'Augmented Memory Grid': Real Pedigree, Wrong Architecture
WEKA is one of the few storage vendors that earns its performance claims through independently audited benchmarks. That makes it more frustrating, not less, that their ICMS response wraps existing software in a new brand name and skips every technical question that actually matters for G3.5 KV cache storage.
MinIO AIStor Tables and Iceberg V3: Genuine Engineering, Premature Ecosystem
MinIO claims AIStor Tables is the first data store with native Apache Iceberg V3 support, embedding the catalog directly into object storage. The technical architecture is sound and the V3 features are real. But with Trino, Athena, and Snowflake still lacking V3 support, being first to an unfinished spec raises questions about who can actually use this today.
MinIO AIStor vs OSS: 13,061 Commits of Divergence and the End of Open Source MinIO
MinIO publishes a detailed comparison showing 13,061 commits of divergence between AIStor and the now-frozen open source edition. The commit statistics are verifiable. The critical fixes are real. But the framing obscures a significant strategic shift: MinIO has effectively ended its open source project while claiming continuity.
MinIO's Multi-Protocol Attack: Valid Architecture Argument, Zero Evidence
MinIO claims multi-protocol storage is fundamentally broken for AI workloads, that translation layers kill GPU utilization, and that only 'object-native' design scales. The architectural argument has merit. The evidence does not exist. We analyze what MinIO gets right, what they conveniently omit, and why this blog post is marketing dressed as engineering.
Pure Storage's Recovery Speed Claims: Real Numbers, Missing Context
Pure Storage publishes actual database recovery benchmarks — 60 TB/hr for Oracle RMAN, 113 TB/hr aggregate for SQL Server — and argues that recovery speed, not backup speed, defines data protection. The numbers are plausible. The thesis is correct. But the methodology gaps and missing comparisons leave important questions unanswered.
VAST Amplify's '6x Capacity' Claim: Exploiting a Real Crisis with Fake Math
VAST Data launches 'VAST Amplify' promising 6x effective capacity from existing SSDs during the worst flash shortage in decades. The SSD crisis is real. VAST's math is not. We dismantle the 6x claim, expose the median they're hiding, and explain why Flash Reclaim is a lock-in play disguised as altruism.
NetApp AFX's 'Parallel File System Performance' Claims: The Benchmark They Won't Submit
NetApp claims AFX delivers 'all the performance benefits of parallel file systems' while refusing to submit to IO500—the industry standard benchmark for parallel file system performance. Here's why that matters.
VAST Data's '29x Data Reduction' Claims: The Storage Industry's Most Brazen Lies
VAST Data's co-founder claims customers see 8x to 29x capacity advantages versus HDFS. We expose the fraudulent math, the deliberate straw man, and why VAST has become the storage industry's most prolific source of misleading claims.
Pure Storage's FlashBlade//EXA '10 TB/sec' Claim: When Vague Numbers Replace Real Benchmarks
Pure Storage claims FlashBlade//EXA delivers 'more than 10 TB/sec' read performance. We analyze why this vague claim tells us almost nothing about real-world performance.
VAST Data's 99.9991% Uptime and 10x Kafka Claims: The New Standard for Unverifiable Marketing
VAST Data claims 99.9991% measured uptime (4.7 minutes downtime per year) and 10x performance advantage over Kafka. We analyze what these numbers actually mean and why they're nearly impossible to verify.