Varun Chhabra24
Q1) What are the drivers pushing customers towards SDS?
Sam Grocott
Typical what we here from our customers around "Why SDS" are threefold: 1) lower cost via commodity HW 2) Scaleability into the 100s/1000s of TB and high performance 3) the flexibility of different consumption models (SW only, appliances, CI, etc)
David Noy
The agility is a pretty big advantage, being able to dynanically grow and shrink the environment and tailor it for specific needs
Ashish Palekar
Simplicity and agility is a big driver too
John Furrier
complexity reduction in #agile #hybridcloud requires software
John Furrier
this will impact in a huge way total cost of ownership TCO
Jyothi Swaroop
Open ecosystems that support new platforms such as OpenStack, Docker, etc.
Sam Grocott
@furrier We typically see upwards of 60% reduction in TCO with SDS
Manuvir Das
Customers would like to rack and stack thousands of homogenous servers, on which the footprint allocated to particular aspects of infrastructure could be increased or reduced easily. This cannot be done with traditional appliance systems.
Anupam Pattnaik
SDS provides flexibility. Customers can now pick and choose different vendors depending on their needs.