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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

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 ...

very straight forward - consider Unity as a next generation VNX family. I expect this to fly off the shelves. All flash from $18K, 3PB capacity... 2U form factor... unified etc

something we need to do more of... but we're all product weenies at heart :-)

I predict that spinning disk will take the role of tape over time. Consider the continuous data explosion. Tiering will continue to exist as volumes increase significantly. RAM, flash, disk, cloud...

I'd say spinning rust will be like tape: always dying but never quite dead. It will have its uses. But production will be 99% flash.

agreed. For transactional systems it is going all-flash very quickly. Things like object stores... will take a bit longer... when performance is not a factor disks are still 10x cheaper than SSD

YES!!! We need to ship eCDM first though. Expect all EMC storage platforms to be supported - all EMC Data Protection platforms... then we'll move onto 3rd party support

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.

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

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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.