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John Furrier
Q: Native Hybrid Cloud—what is it and why do organizations need it?
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Jeremy Burton
Developer Cloud - DevOps processes atop a sw-defined on commodity infra.
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Peter Eicher
@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.
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John Furrier
@jburton would you say #devops is mainstream now verses few year ago and if so how is it being operationalized
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Jeremy Burton
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.
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Peter Eicher
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.
John Furrier
Q: DSSD is the latest flash darling. How’s it doing and is Rack Scale Flash a recognized category at this time?
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Jeremy Burton
good - we have paying customers!!! Still early days - only GA's 2/29
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John Furrier
@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
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Jeremy Burton
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
Tony Foster
I keep hearing this as I walk around #EMCWORLD. Will there be an EMC World 2017?
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Jeremy Burton
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 :-)
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Peter Eicher
@jburton Dell + EMC. You're gonna need a bigger boat! [insert Jaws GIF]
John Furrier
Q: There’s a lot of buzz about Virtustream. Why is this so sexy and is it proprietary for EMC products? @virtustream @bgracely
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Jeremy Burton
Cloud is sexy right now... and VS is Cloud. Running SAP with public cloud economics AND a guaranteed service level is unique.
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Jeremy Burton
re: "proprietary" ... isn't AWS, Google and Azure ?
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Jeremy Burton
but u can connect any array or backup product to VS if that's what u mean...
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John Furrier
Jeremy is Virtustream too narrow? if not why?
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Jeremy Burton
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.
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John Furrier
How is the SAP relationship going?
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John Furrier
Sounds like Virtustream is for traditional IT workloads
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Jeremy Burton
yes - AND they will run Pivotal Cloud Foundry for cloud native apps - a community that we know very well.
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Jeremy Burton
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)
Tony Foster
VCE has traditionally been VMware Cisco and EMC. Will VCE products still continue to be available with Cisco products?
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Jeremy Burton
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.
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Sathya Sankaran
Will the high end Vblocks ship with eCDM?
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Jeremy Burton
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
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John Furrier
@jburton so does this validate the orginal concept that purpose built was good move
John Furrier
Q: You’ve talked before about preferring overlap in the portfolio to gaps in the portfolio. What does Unity complement and compete with in EMC’s portfolio?
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Sathya Sankaran
Seems like high end unity gets close to VMAX. May be the reason why higher end VNX dont have an equivalent Unity model.
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Jeremy Burton
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 ...
Sathya Sankaran
What does the upgrade path for VNX to Unity? What's your expectation for Unity adoption?
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Jeremy Burton
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
Christoph Streubert
I loved in yesterday's keynote the business examples and values of technology in addition of speeds and feeds. Will we see more of that in the future? I find use cases incredible useful in communicating value.
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Jeremy Burton
something we need to do more of... but we're all product weenies at heart :-)
John Furrier
Q: Is the Year of All Flash a real thing? Is EMC phasing out non-flash products?
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Christoph Streubert
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...
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Peter Eicher
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.
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Jeremy Burton
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
Sathya Sankaran
Do you have plans on supporting Unity Platform with eCDM? If yes, when?
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Jeremy Burton
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