Posts by Terry P

Regardless of your feelings the level of maturity in some posts is disappointing and reminds me why I read the comments less and less.

I still think the storage market is tough and crowded and you really do need something very different to survive. Even then you have about 2 years before a large competitor brings out a similar technology.

I think this is a good thing. Having worked with the BoE in the past for a very long time they are actually excellent IT wise. They analyse the risk of everything, test many technologies and lead with regards to compliance even in areas they don't need to - just to set a standard and be seen to do the right thing. They investigate if they *need* bleeding edge tech or if they are good as is.

Many of the IT team are long timers or lifers who have turned away significant packages from banks despite having the experience and skill set to meet and exceed the positions offered.

VENDOR A IS SO GOOD, LOOK!

GO TO HELL VENDOR B ROCKS, THEY DID XYZ ANS DIDN'T TURN OFF THE ROCKWELL RETRO ENCABULATOR

Meanwhile,

- Pick a company you like

- Pick an account team you like

- Do your due diligence and do right by your company, they pay your salary

- Be nice to people and ignore benchmarks.

It's a shame for the employees. The ones I met were all nice, good at their jobs and the product was not bad.

It doesn't always work out and it shows how a company can start off well but lose momentum.

I don't think it's that big a deal

1.) I believe in order to bid for US Government Contracts a list price guide must be published. I'm not from the US so maybe someone can confirm?

2.) It's probably every possible combination as a result of the above and other vendors have the same most likely

3.) Some poor intern probably spent a year pulling all this together. Not all heroes wear a cape.

4.) It doesn't really give you anything, discount off list can vary based on many things.

"Could Pure go in full-scale pursuit of Nutanix? It's not that inconceivable is it, Pure being such an ambitious company?"

The interesting part is the use of the chassis as shelves. They mention 28 modules which you can see at the front....but they don't say whats at the back. Assuming they still have the servers at the back then yes; they can add servers in two unit increments...or just add capacity as needed and servers later you want.

Scale out compute and storage independent of each other, NVMe/F connected.

Does anyone know who manufactures their current capacity shelves?

Another point is that Nutanix will absolutely, eventually, out pace Pure. Their addressable market is MUCH larger!

Australia is an expensive place to do business - from floor space to employees. You don't pull out of countries as lucrative as Australia, you need local employees on the ground. The population is small but they spend - they're a key business area for any IT player.

Not a bad product, lovely people but definitely a retreat due to $$$ IHMO.

No idea how many people were employed there, perhaps a guess at 4? It's tough to be a private startup at the moment. The market is too bad to IPO and the Venture Capitalist funds have all but stopped giving out. Nutanix had to take a $75m loan from Goldmans only last month.

It's unlikely to be a way to dodge taxes. You can't avoid Aussie import taxes by moving office.

So much

So much negativity towards a company with a good product; in fact any press release on el reg about any 'younger' companies is met with a hoard of 'Anonymous Cowards' unleashing a mix of lies and general vomit.

Time for another 'unshowing' of the AC's!

Yeah it's a hard time due to the current market, VC's being less generous and higer competition....but i've never seen such a high concentration of people wishing other companies to implode and fail.

I think DD is well up there with the top EMC buys.

Does what it says on the tin and complete cash cow (deservedly).

Begs the question - why hasn't anyone else got anything comparable that has the same 'mojo'? Is it out there but just lacking the limelight? or just a case of complete market domination?

Interesting piece.

Thanks

I think

I think these are the old models?

so

I don't know what the point of this article is either so maybe we can make the comment section more useful than the article

My question - who cleans up guide dog mess?? I mean how would the blind person know?!?

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It's not usually front companies these are obtained through - quite often these units are obtained by plain old buy-backs.

I've seen these happen within weeks of a purchase - another vendor comes along and swaps out the competitor units (even brand new) as part of a much larger deal and to prevent any foot print from remaining.

These then go to brokerage but if it's a unit they have not seen it will go into some deep, dark lab for testing.

Really?

" It's not fully point-by-point, because there is frankly so much crap in there we ran out of space"

Hey dude! Speak to EMC, they will hook you up with some storage.

Seriously though....ran out of space?? What are you blogging on an 1830's telegram?

I'm not surprised, I know people who would rather have AIDS than an EVA array. Why are they selling ANY if Compellent is so good? Are they pricing it too high?