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Coming to the top of the hour here. Going to try and summarise the thoughts on this thread.
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Jeff Frick
> Summaries are good. The raw data survives too.
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Chris M Evans
Flash is maturing - needs mature features including data protection, data optimisation
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Dave Vellante
great ?'s Chris - well done keeping the conversation going - rapid fire
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Chris M Evans
Prices are dropping, pushing the move to an all-flash data centre in the not too distant future.
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Chris M Evans
There's a 2 tier set of requirements - performance and capacity
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Chris M Evans
There's still work around apps/hypervisor optimisation needed.
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John Furrier
. @chrismevans great chat today packed with data and great insight thanks Chris
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Chris M Evans
The discussion should be on customer requirements, not on pureness of "architecture".
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Chris M Evans
Features like QoS will be doubly important for cloud deployments
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Jeff Frick
> Workloads > Horses for Courses
http://horse-breeds....
http://horse-breeds....
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Storage Godfather (HPEStorageGuy)
Definitely - if you can't show how an architecture solves problems, don't bring your PowerPoints to the customer.