Re: But does it really Scale?
The S in SMB? Really? That may be the least informed and most arrogant talking point I have heard in an age. I know they are in everything from NATO to Oxford University to multiple US based and European multi-nationals and large government entities. Yeah, they start at 7k, not 25, but they scale up into the 100's of TB range. This they do without the river of red ink the other HCI vendors are spilling (to the tune of over half a million dollars per day they are open). At the end of the day, business fundamentals matter, and they have built a company that (as they put it in the article) is on the cusp of profitability on a total take in VC cash that is less than some of those other HCI companies have set on fire in just the last 6 months. Evidently, the fire over which the Unicorn is barbequeued.....
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