Eventually the only companies that will be buying storage arrays are those that own cloud data centers and then it will mostly be for archive and nearline storage of cold but still possibly relevant data that their customers would rather not have on tape cartridges. By that time the majority of businesses will be entirely converged infrastructure based largely in cloud and hybrid cloud, having a storage array on site will be about as relevant as having a card reader is today. NVMe or like technology in distributed hypervisor nodes will be as close to having a storage array as anyone will get, and that day is approaching far more rapidly than the Gouldens of the world would have you believe.
Big mistake buying EMC, Nutanix would have been a far more visionary acquisition and a heck of a lot less expensive as well. Someone down in Round Rock should realize that now that sales of VX rail/rack/etc have increased far more quickly than sales of any storage array. At the end of the day it's still only server based hardware that needs a hypervisor to be of any use so don't expect Vx to makeup the gap in revenues, eventually it will start to falter as well. It will be interesting to see if HP can stop tripping over it's own feet and actually do something with Simplivity other than let it quietly fade into the portfolio jumble that all their other acquisitions have fallen into.