Dell EMC stumbles into composable systems late waving MX7000 box

I have to admit that The Cloud (TM) has been good for one thing

It seems clear that all this cloudy stuff has pushed server management into the stratosphere.

That has to be a good thing.

It has also created entirely new failure situations, which vendors are learning to cope with. A bad thing, but overall probably good in the long run - it'll just cost millions of companies tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in lost sales or lost data, but hey, you can't make an omlette without breaking a few eggs, right ?

Scalent?

Dell acquired Scalent almost 10 years ago. It claimed to do this....

The reality was, no one was actually buying what they were selling.

Except Michael.

It's basically a catch up play for EMC to compete against UCS. Lot of good in the platform, but as a network company Cisco shines in the unified fabric dept. The MX FC and Ethernet connectivity is separate all the way down to the sleds (blades). In a multi-chassis configuration, every chassis must have FC connectivity as opposed to only the FI pair with UCS. Given the drive density is really good on these sleds I expect vxRail to be layed down on it which would be interesting.