Rumour correction
It's not XtremIO being EOL'd, it's the cofounder being EOL'd.
Fixed that.
XtremIO soap opera latest: Cofounder Ehud Rokach steps aside
Ehud Rokach, XtremIO's general manager and previously CEO before EMC bought it, is going to take a break from the biz he cofounded. His replacement is Dan Inbar, once CEO at N-trig, which Microsoft acquired, and a SanDisk exec. EMC announced Inbar’s appointment as CEO of XtremIO this week in Israel, where XtremIO is …
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Friday 29th July 2016 12:52 GMT Big_JM
Well major release coming in 2017 huh? I guess those rumors are squashed...
...except...when was the last time a business/tech leader left BEFORE a major release? How smart is it to bring someone new in with only a few months BEFORE a major release that 'everyone is proud of'?
Are we talking product refresh or just another code upgrade? If it's just a code upgrade then the rumors are likely still valid. If it's a product refresh then this move, at this time, makes zero sense.
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Friday 29th July 2016 17:15 GMT vonSpreacker
XtremIO is #1 and here to stay
EMC Flash SE here:
This stuff is noise. Ehud is an entrepreneur, like many of the founders of companies that are acquired by EMC and others. Put a list of acquisitions on paper and look to see how many of the founders are no longer with the company. Do the products still exist? YOU BET! Do the entrepreneurs move on an found other new startups YOU BET!
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Friday 29th July 2016 17:30 GMT vonSpreacker
XtremIO is #1 and here to stay
This stuff is noise. Ehud is an entrepreneur, like many of the founders of companies that are acquired by EMC and others. Put a list of acquisitions on paper and look to see how many of the founders are no longer with the company. Do the products still exist? YOU BET! Do the entrepreneurs move on an found other new startups YOU BET!
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Saturday 30th July 2016 10:14 GMT Anonymous Coward
Next Year is a Long Way Out
Promising a new system of hardware along with a new SW upgrade is easy. Actually making the product perform as expected is a lot harder. The features promised for this year have already slipped. Now we are going to get an entirely "new" X-Brick along with the promised features and lots of new ones "early" next year? Seriously ? How about delivering what was promised before trying to design a whole new system? 8K LUN limit - Array Based Replication - 16GB FC ???
Biting the hand that feeds IT
