Yes, I'm a former MARS engineer.
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And, on top of that, Pure considered Flashray (as cancelled) a threat to its FlashArray. But it was also a threat to AFF ..... so yeah .....
Mars did work, and it shipped the week before it was canceled. There were a lot of political antibodies and maneuvering, and ultimately a very unfortunate (and costly) outcome for both Mars and NetApp as a whole.
I've still got a Mars T-Shirt!
Shame it didn't complete as a project.
CVO is a joke. Ask the customers.
ONTAP AFF+CLOUD > SF HCI
I mean ... you're not entirely wrong. Still ..... Shadenfreude.
The irony is that they acquired SolidFire because you geniuses couldn’t make Mars work...