Zero compromise guarantee for VAST Data

VAST Data, emerging leader in All Flash NAS, continues to shake the industry this time with what they called Zero Compromise Guarantee to promote their high availability, durability and longevity of their infrastructure. I wrote a post when they unveiled their product a few months ago.

Thanks to real new approach in data reduction, placement and protection, the company is firmly confident that QLC/Flash will last 10 years. They even promote a support and maintenance contract at 10% meaning that reaching 10 years you just pay double your solution at that. In the industry we can see 20 even 23% maintenance contract meaning that in less than 5 years people pay double the initial public price.

This is clearly a second key argument beyond performance of VAST Data's Universal Storage platform. IT also means that the company is ready to innovate not only on the technology side but also on the business side with a new relationship with their end-users and prospects.

In the announcement, the company insisted on a few key elements inviting implicitly prospects and even users to ask competitors their behaviors in these areas:

• No data loss as data are always written to durable storage,
• No downtime as controllers are redundant and can serve and access same data,
• Advanced data reduction that contributes to the longevity of flash drives,
• All features in the product i.e no pricey options,
• and of course erasure coding at large scale to protect data over long run and guarantee the persistence of data.

The product introduces definitely some new level of availability and durability needed at scale for numbers of new use cases in current digital economy.