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Dell EMC's Goulden And Burton Discuss Software- Vs. Hardware-Defined Storage, Overlapping Storage Lines, And The Future Of Cisco In VxBlock
Joseph F. Kovar
The example you gave about offering 25 configurations of servers for a software-defined application, is that something you could apply to several Dell EMC storage solutions, or is it unique to certain solutions?
Goulden: That would be applied to any environment where we've got only software-only. In the case of Elastic Cloud Storage, ECS, we had a number of different configurations. We built dense racks, not-so-dense racks, performance-oriented racks. Every time we’ve got a software-defined product, we want to have a number of hardware counterparts for it that are pre-integrated [and] tested. [We] let customers choose to either buy that appliance and software separately, or buy the appliance and the software together. ... I think in the case of ScaleIO, what we found so far is people do want to buy them separately.
Burton: A lot of the times what it comes down to is, 'If this breaks, well, you’ve got my back.' Honestly, a lot of these arguments start religious and architectural but finish with practicality and serviceability.
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