Hyperconverged kit is SO HOT right now. $140m sound about right, Nutanix? The hyperconverged system iron is so hot that there will never be a better time to strike. Nutanix's backers have done just that, handing the company another $140m of E-round funding just seven months after its VC backers gave it $101m. Virty storage giant VMware's validation of the hypercvonverged server/storage/networking …
> Nutanix should have exited when they could - ...
This sounds like what a desparate VMware shill would say. But this putdown is so hollow, I suspect it's actually a Nutanix shill disguising as a Vmware shill dissing Nutanix in a lame manner.
I can bet that el reg, who can see who this AC is, are having a chuckle now... ;)
You really have to wonder about issuing absolutes in a market that has been getting turned on its head for a while, is in the middle of a refresh cycle, and nobody is truly dominant YET. At the current rate, it looks like dominance may not be achieved by a single player, but possibly several players in their own niches. So far its been interesting to watch.
Another big unknown is where internally-built private clouds (which will eat this clever converged kit) will be in ten years time compared to the externally run commodity clouds (which on current form like to go for commodity, throwaway hardware).
Wouldn't like to bet either way at the moment.
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