Storage is dead - 3 years ago a VMAX was 11 bays wide - now it only takes 1/2 a bay for same storage capacity - wait a few more years and it will be in a shoe box or on a memory board in the server
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The VMAX has so many issues it's pitiful - it's hard to get anything fix
Of course is dead. The days of the big hardware are over. Long live NVMe
I agree, time to move on to something new
When we had HDDs there was a reason for networked storage systems: you needed a lot of 15K HDDs to get needed performance. Especially as servers got more and more powerful. Now with NVMe FLASH and 3D Xpoint there is no longer the huge gap between DRAM and storage. So NVMe HCI and NVMe fabrics are the new architecture. Expect networked classic storage arrays to continue to decline in relevance. Also expect DELL to shift investment and jobs away from these older technologies. If you plant to stay at DELL, get involved with HCI and NVMe fabrics. If not, the good news is that unemployment is at a record low of 4.3% (https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000). Good luck.
Maybe not quite dead yet, but certainly on life support! This is why the decision Dell made to buy EMC makes no sense, the days of discrete components making up the data center are going the way of the dinosaur, converged and hyper converged are the way of the future and that future belongs to the Nutanix's of the world and not Dell Technologies.
And no, VXrail, VXrack, etc don't qualify as a company saving platform, they are after all just another conglomeration of discrete hardware bits that require third party software to have ANY value to a customer, and most of that from a single source, VMWare. Dell went down that road already and found it to be a dead end, anyone recall EVO rail and what happened to that? The fact that it cost 3 to 4 X what an IT department could build the same config for didn't help the cause, thankfully it went away before it became too big of an embarrassment, not that very many ever saw light of day anyhow.
Be interesting to see what path Dell pursues as the market for storage arrays continues to decline. As long as the debt of the EMC boat anchor is weighing them down they can forget about making a Nutanix like acquisition to put them back at the front line of current technology.
Looks like someone was finally introduced to Moore's law...
Nil nisi bonum don't speak I'll of the dead and dying
All I can say is Amen.. vive les nuages
Storage will take up no space, it's something sitting in the cloud.
This could eliminate HBAs, Switches, Storage arrays, Cabling if they would put the storage on mirrored memory boards in the server. How much storage is given to any one server - not that much. They could even use a server slot to install a director that does backups, disaster recovery, etc. Look at the power, cooling, computer room, people cost savings that would occur.
This is called Nano Technology advancement
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