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Cloud is sexy right now... and VS is Cloud. Running SAP with public cloud economics AND a guaranteed service level is unique.

re: "proprietary" ... isn't AWS, Google and Azure ?

but u can connect any array or backup product to VS if that's what u mean...

Jeremy is Virtustream too narrow? if not why?

remember they are still small. We have to focus or we won't be successful. Competing with AWS is not a spray and pray proposition - we need to focus on what we're good / differentiated at.

How is the SAP relationship going?

Sounds like Virtustream is for traditional IT workloads

yes - AND they will run Pivotal Cloud Foundry for cloud native apps - a community that we know very well.

there's nothing to stop anyone using VSC as a S3-compatible object store... but that's not our focus. We're focus on a back-end to EMC primary storage and backup (for now)

you dont want to know. It started working at 5.30am

@jburton is unity just vnx?

no - new code base. Green field design.

part of Unity has been in the VNXe - the transactional filesystem

i predict Unity will blow people's minds as we get through the year. Nimble, Pure etc are in for a rough ride.

Worth the effort. The crowd loved it

@jburton how disruptive is the price point? or is there other disruption in the Unity product

@jburton not only unity. But vxrail is an amazing package. Also great for EMC channel

Unity + VxRail + Dell Channel = $$$$

we're trying to have a pragmatic way for IT folks to begin their journey to the cloud. It starts with modernizing their infra

@jburton software or systems? or both

both

How do you define modernization? Automation? Self-service? Those are some of the themes I see.

i think there's a systems part of it - flash, scale-out etc. but the more important part is automation and self-service. That's the gift that keeps on giving

When in-house IT is modernized, do you foresee a slowdown in migration to Cloud?

yes. Public Cloud is so attractive not because its cheaper (it isn't) but because its WAY better than most IT departments. Over time that gap will narrow and folks will look at cost a bit more.

Developer Cloud - DevOps processes atop a sw-defined on commodity infra.

@jburton Challenge is getting cloud compute to act on system-of-record data, much of which isn't leaving the data center any time soon.

@jburton would you say #devops is mainstream now verses few year ago and if so how is it being operationalized

stil not mainstream IMHO. Every company in every industry will need to become a s/w company... when that happens you'll see DevOps everywhere.

Mainstream if not entirely widespread. To borrow an IBM-ism, it's the API-economy. You need an API on top of infrastructure so DevOps can hook in.

i'm not the expert here but two things come to mind a) shareholders need to vote! b) regulators of certain countries need to approve. I'm sure there are things i don't know about as well!

Focus for me is still keeping the EMC innovation engine cranking ... but now also planning the new marketing org

What does Dell marketing have that you like and what does EMC have that you like - how do you blend them?

Dell does branding in part because of their focus on consumer and volume businesses. They also do a great job with lead tracking & lead flow... operationally excellent.

i look at EMC World as the technical community.. not the name or venue. Expect that the technical community will meet next year with the Dell tech community... for a bigger and better show :-)

@jburton Dell + EMC. You're gonna need a bigger boat! [insert Jaws GIF]

Yes. VBlock will be VMW, Cisco, EMC forever. We also have VxRail and VxRack in the family - they also potentially will use Cisco products, but expect variants as well eg Dell Servers.

Will the high end Vblocks ship with eCDM?

we're moving more and more to an appliance model with our arrays (all s/w included). May make sense but no decision yet. Real value is CDM analytics

@jburton so does this validate the orginal concept that purpose built was good move

we have to run a brand campaign to explain to folks what Dell Technologies is. The goal would be to transfer equity in things like EMC and VMware (in particular) to Dell Technologies. We have a great chance to redefine Dell in the minds of decis

. @jburton 7 yrs ago when you started at emc you simplified the messaging Cloud meets Big Data; is there any themes you like now with Dell Technologies and Dell EMC enterprise positionings

I love "The intersection of Infrastructure and human progress"

we don't know what folks will do with our building blocks... but if we build them right then it will enable others to change the world

good - we have paying customers!!! Still early days - only GA's 2/29

@jburton I noticed that flash is being positioned both on core technology group and emerging? is that just the way things are or did something change

we view XtremIO as core tech ... and they are killing it. Now the rest of core is onboard. If anything 'emerging' has been less flash because object stores / scale-out NAS are more capacity optimized

Seems like high end unity gets close to VMAX. May be the reason why higher end VNX dont have an equivalent Unity model.

not really. VMAX is a multi-controller architecture. Unity is dual controller. VMAX and XtremIO are more than capable of taking care of the high-end. Unity's sweet is lower down ...