In this podcast, recorded live at HPE Discover, Martin and Chris talk to Marc Farley and Matt Leib (two invited bloggers) about the state of HPE’s storage portfolio. As you will hear, this podcast was recorded live and has tannoy announcements and a brief greeting from Brad Parks who didn’t realise we were recording!
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Timeline
- 00:00:00 – Introduction.
- 00:01:00 – Marc gives us his opinion on HPE Storage.
- 00:01:15 – 3PAR improvements – integration and solution packaging.
- 00:02:00 – Is 3PAR and other platforms in their twilight years?
- 00:02:25 – Another acquisition could be on the cards.
- 00:02:30 – Or perhaps server-based storage will be HPE’s next new thing?
- 00:03:30 – How about purchasing Simplivity?
- 00:03:40 – Comparing StoreVirtual to VMware Virtual SAN.
- 00:05:00 – The storage market is poised to change with NVMe and 3D-Xpoint.
- 00:06:00 – How big is the market for DSSD? How many customers do they have?
- 00:06:30 – Is StoreVirtual a “hidden gem”?
- 00:08:00 – Are HP(E) promoting StoreVirtual enough?
- 00:09:00 – Marc sees more development occurring in server-storage products.
- 00:09:45 – Who could/would HPE acquire?
- 00:10:30 – HPE divestitures – what holding does HPE – or customers – retain?
- 00:11:30 – FlashNow program, buy 3PAR by the month
- 00:12:15 – We are live! General session announcement!
- 00:12:30 – How will the cloud-style assets be revenue recognised and written off?
- 00:13:15 – Holes in HPE’s storage portfolio – no good file storage product
- 00:13:30 – Is it Panasas, Panzura or Polyserve
- 00:14:45 – Brad tries to join the podcast.
- 00:15:00 – EMC happy to acquire and not do anything with products?
- 00:16:15 – 3PAR integration – wasn’t technology, only sales integration process.
- 00:17:00 – Messy HP(E) management, lawsuits and other problems – Meg’s doing a good job.
- 00:18:00 – Weren’t the Dell/EMC merge and HP split just different forms of the same thing?
- 00:18:45 – HPE acquire 3PAR?
- 00:19:00 – Wrap up!
Products/vendors in this podcast
3PAR, Lefthand Networks, StoreOnce, StorVirtual, VMware, Virtual SAN, 3D-Xpoint, DSSD, Mangstor, Hedvig, Portworx, StorageOS, NetApp, Ibrix, Panamas, Panzura, Polyserve, EVA, Spinnaker, SolidFire, Dell-EMC, Qumulo, Pure Storage
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