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One swallow doesn’t make a summer nor one frost a winter. Does the dramatic drop in EMC’s VMAX revenues represent a long-term change or just a product transition blip? While other parts of EMC Information Infrastructure – the non-VMware and non-Pivotal storage core of EMC’s federation – grew strongly in its first 2014 quarter …

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  1. Dave Hilling

    Is this right?

    "Over 70 per cent of VMAX and VNX2 systems shipped with some flash capacity EMC sold more than 17 terabytes of flash in Q1 alone"

    I bought 17TB of flash in Q1 (from a different vendor) thats really all they sold that almost has to be a mistake.

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    1. InsaneGeek
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      Re: Is this right?

      Yeah it's PB not TB number, which is guess technically still falls under the "more than 17 terabytes"

      http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2014/20140423-earnings.htm

      EMC continued its industry leadership in enterprise flash storage, selling more than 17 petabytes of flash capacity in the first quarter of 2014 alone, an increase of more than 70% year over year.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: Is this right?

        Yeah, they are including any SSDs they shipped with the systems they have always been selling. Not surprising they would be the "industry leader" as they sell substantially more disk than IBM, NTAP, and the other major players. I wonder if they actually sold more all-Flash systems, extremeIO, than IBM sold of FlashSystem as well as Pure Storage, etc.

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  2. Censor

    DS8870 2nd generation

    The article forgets that IBM's DS8870 end of 2013 got a major processor update with the change to POWER7+.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Declining market

    The former high end storage arrays, DS8, VMAX and VSP, are all in decline. They used to be a mainstay for Unix/Linux mid-range workloads. All of those workloads are now going to XIV, VNX, etc. DS8 and VMAX are really only required for mainframe now, because you just need the FICON support. People can get high end storage performance, scale and reliability through clustering, instead of large dual controllers and tons of proprietary software.

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  4. mtuber
    FAIL

    2, 3,4% are seasonal dips. 22% is a massacre and while one quarter doesn't show a trend the drop is so significant that it tells us something.

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