Support?
If I owned or was about to buy a DX, I would be really worried about support in the future. Dell rebranded the Caringo software on their DX line and locked in their DX6004s and DX6012s with hardware licenses as the only storage nodes that would boot up on the platform. What happens 2 to 3 years from now when DX branded storage nodes are no longer available? At minimum, you are going to need a license to boot the non-DX branded storage node. At worst, you are going to have to upgrade the software to support the new hardware. Whose software is that going to be Dell's or Caringo's? Who is going to handle the support Dell or Caringo if you have to upgrade to Caringo's software?
I had to laugh at the Dell technology innovator comment. Name one thing that Dell has created that wasn't rebranded, bought out, or the software created by someone else? Nothing wrong with taking other people's products and improving them but that doesn't make you an innovator.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
