[OpenIndiana-discuss] A ZFS related question: How successful is ZFS, really???

[Andrew Gabriel]

Nexenta alone is probably around an Exabyte of licensed installations, 
and that's a mix of displaced traditional storage vendors, and new 
growth in old and new companies. There are many ZFS-based storage 
vendors in addition to Nexenta. The traditional 'big 8' storage vendors 
charged $9B for 9EB storage in 2012, which averages $1000/TB, and they 
have really struggled to reduce costs - instead they've lost market 
share to many of the new storage providers who produce products costing 
only a small fraction of that.

Can you think of any other filesystem which is being adopted by OS and 
appliance distributions at anything like the rate of ZFS?

Since you mention Sun/Oracle, I don't see them pushing ZFS very much 
anymore, although I am aware their engineers still work on it.


Hans J Albertsson wrote:
> Thanks for your views, the serial storage (tape mostly?) problem is news to
> me but otherwise I concur.
>
> I was mostly asking about success and market presence, i e is ZFS being
> widely used in any non-Sun/Oracle part of the workplace?
>
> Hans J. Albertsson
>