4 ms·
Here's my feedback as a person being marketed to: After trying for a while to scroll through your landing page despite the extremely annoying custom scroll thi
by mbrock 11y ago
Here's my feedback as a person being marketed to:
After trying for a while to scroll through your landing page despite the extremely annoying custom scroll thing, I have no idea what your thing actually does.
I know you have offices in France and the U.S., that you sell something involving the storage of objects, and that there is a "storage revolution" going on.
When I click "learn more", I get instructions for installing VirtualBox and Vagrant...
Even if I click further and read your PDF, the introductory paragraph tells me that you are using "the groundbreaking concept of 'Conscience'" which I have no idea what it is.
After reading a bit more, I still don't understand what your thing actually does.
It sounds kind of cool from all the cool words and stuff, but I'm never going to install it or recommend it because I can't get a concrete and tangible idea of what it is.
My suggestion: on the first page, you should have a terse description of the steps a user or company would go through and what they would gain from it. Something like... and I'm just making this up:
1. You're storing lots of objects but your hard drives are overflowing and breaking all the time.
2. You install our product, which is a server that runs on Linux computers.
3. You configure it to use a variety of storage engines, for example plugging in your S3 credentials and some other things.
4. Now you can use a REST API to store content-addressed objects, and the product takes care of datacenter distribution, backups, and stuff.
5. Benefits cascade upon you like you could never imagine, for reasons X, Y, and Z.
- philippnagel 11y agoSame impression. Is this comparable to e.g. http://ceph.com http://ceph.com ?
- fweespeech 11y agoThat seems to be what they are going for but without a better site I'm not really that interested. If you looking through their PDF they talk about scaling from 3 VMs to a larger cluster. Products like these need extremely good documentation to be worth it.
- lobster_johnson 11y agoLooks like it follows Amazon S3's design closely, rather than that of a classic distributed file system: * Immutable named objects * Addressable by chunk (each object has a maximum size) * Optional per-object versioning * HTTP API In particular, while you could write a FUSE driver for it, it's designed for apps to use via an HTTP API, just like S3. It even implements the S3 API.
- derefr 11y agoSo, like Riak CS then?
- lobster_johnson 11y agoYes, though CS is called Riak S2 now.
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoYeah, fully agreed. I saw a lot of buzzwords, a lot of revolution, not a lot of substance on what I was looking at.
- TheAceOfHearts 11y agoI noticed the annoying scroller and just closed the tab. It's just really annoying. From the title, I don't know what they mean when they say "grid". When I think grid, I'm usually thinking about layouts.
- rcurry 11y agoI wonder if they just bungled the translation from French to English? The marketing blurbs under "Easy", "Scalable", and "Powerful" are pretty hard to read, almost like they were output from one of those online translation systems.