Glad I sold those units last week. At least I have Compellent which has better pricing an performance then that piece of junk. Collect my commission before they can me next week.
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Rubbish ... Unity stays for next refresh ,,, 5 years from now at least
It is hilarious to read posts from butt hurt NDC, EDC, EQL and Compellant folks.
Making up sh-- about VMAX, Unity, etc. To make themselves feel better.
LOL
@6izid so true
Product from the previous century? Sure so is a pc, car a plane, name it. The Symm is a staple in data storage and has only improved over the years. The Symm/Vmax is not going anywhere. It will not be shelved. XIO not sure about the shelf life for that thing, but it will be years if it goes EOSL. If Dell just wanted EMC for VMware he over paid by over 30 billion and probably would have called the company Dell VMware instead of Dell EMC ya think???. Doesnt make any sense. To many greedy rich people and investors involved with the 67 billion buy out. The Symm/Vmax still makes a lot of money thats why I still have a job and your probably already laid off talking about something you know nothing about...
cyclone next
VMAX, Unity, XtremIO, DD, DPS, ....
These are either half-baked products or products from the previous century.
Poor Dell, all they wanted was VMware but had to buy the kitchen sink to get it (VMAX, Unity, XtremIO, DD, DPS, ....). Now they’re shelving all of it...
Didn’t EMC buy VMware for peanuts many years ago? That’s when Tucci had the Midas touch.
In the increasingly important world of scale-out hyper-converged FLASH nodes with scale-out SW like ScaleIO and Ceph, it is a surprise that shared scale-up storage arrays are declining in popularity? Sure, one has shared storage services, but the old shared storage array is an old paradigm past its prime.
If a man is born ignorant, to parents that are ignorant, in a society that is ignorant, lives a life of ignorance, and eventually dies in ignorance... IGNORANCE IS THE NORM.Indoctrination can be called education and today's work culture. Do you feel enriched or feel dumb .Most Dell employees feel dumb as they worship the stupidity of stabbing each other in the back
Welcome to NDC and those who work on cyclone, wrong people in wrong site
putting the wrong people as project lead and promoting the wrong people is the death of us
Unity might not be "discontinued" but definitely "de-emphasized" with Compellent being the lead product for mid-range sales; compared to Compellent, the quality, feature set, and performance of Unity doesn't stand up.
Word on the street is that Cyclone is struggling mightily, early December code-complete is nowhere in sight, and many believe it'll be hard to deliver anything in 2018. For starters, hardware months from being generally available for engineers and testing, and once delivered bound to be unexpected consequences.
Likely just a matter of time before Jeff Clark calls a stop to the madness: at the very least for a root-cause analysis and major restructuring; at worse a complete halt and mike-drop. The burn rate is unsustainable. Unfortunately, very bad for company to not have new product, but also bad to make so little progress to-date.
Unity isn't going anywhere. They are keeping both the Compellent and Unity lines.
I just heard Pure is giving up on the array business and will be selling plastic fruit from now.
Pure as in Pure Mango or Pure Orange ?
I just heard Pure is giving up on the array business and will be selling plastic fruit from now.
Cyclone is also planned to get canned pretty soon.
Been hearing conflicting information on Unity's future for months...is it confirmed to be discontinued?
You shouldn't have told anyone about this? LOLOLOL, now that is really funny.
Actually they don't have to announce the End of Sale (EOS) of any product in an email. Only when it is no longer supported (EOSL - End of Support Life). When Clarrion and Celerra were replace with VNX it wasn't until you could no longer get part/upgrades and then when it was no longer capable of support. Centera is the same way. You should not have told anyone about this. While some of the major customers have been told this wasn't something that was supposed to be public until the end of the year.
They usually send out an email when a product is discontinued and how long it will be supported for.. I heard nothing about this.
Who knows how many more products they can come up with for you to peddle :D Good luck!