NetApp AFX's 'Parallel File System Performance' Claims: The Benchmark They Won't Submit

NetApp&rsquo;s marketing for AFX makes a bold claim: the disaggregated ONTAP architecture delivers &ldquo;all the performance benefits of parallel file systems&rdquo; while being &ldquo;simple, secure, and fully integrated&rdquo; [1]. Jeff Baxter, NetApp&rsquo;s VP of Product Marketing, called it &ldquo;a revitalization of NAS&rdquo; that provides &ldquo;all those benefits of a parallel file…