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Forget selfies. 'Server SAN' is storage world's 2014 TWERKNADO

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After review, HP StoreVirtual VSA and Maxta have been added to the Wikibon report. A standard VMware VSA would fall outside of our criteria as mentioned above.

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you're not all invited to the party

Chris - thank you for sharing our research and continuing the conversation.

First of all, we would say that while VSAs (and derivatives of them) have a place in the market, they do not fit into our Server SAN definition. They don't meet the very-scalable architecture requirement, nor the performance (able to utilize flash) characteristics that we set forth for this space.

There are plenty of scalable storage platforms (EqualLogic, Isilon and others) that also don't fit into this category since this category includes compute as well as storage.

VSAs and other scalable architectures still have plenty of utility in the marketplace, they just don't fit in our new category. We appreciate all feedback and apologize if my choice of color didn't thrill.

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