Posts by smashp

Domo arigato, Mr ROBO: HPE hyperconverged box lunges at mid-size biz

That rebranded lefthand store virtual VSA is like Herpes...it just wont go away

The VMware, Nutanix mud wrestle is hilarious, but which one is crying with fear on the inside?

VTAX? Really? What year is it

Maybe this will be the year Nutanix can upset VMware and draw more then 22000 peeps to their North American conference.......

VMware and Nutanix in vSphere support spat

Never said its stupid, but when the only tool in the toolbelt is a hammer everything looks like a nail. Customers also need to be aware of i they are being sold to a quota or a solution.

None, Zip, Zero...Just a Architect in the field that works with customers on a daily basis that is constantly fighting the over promised sales approaches of many Vendors in the Wild today. Selling the "Easy" button approach and a one size fits all model to modern datacenters is a major disservice to the many intelligent folks out there solving IT business problems.

Nutanix has a very polished message that does appeal to the C-level types, but when they are in front of a smart infrastructure department that is competent and talented their value prop falls apart.

Convergence has a place in the datacenter and many established vendors out there such as VCE, HP and Hitachi that al have different levels of maturity for application driven solutions. The Hyper-converged model attempts to oversimplify these problems and can put customers at major risk if the use cases dont line up. That doesn't even take into account the price premium the Hyperconverged vendors charge. With their price premium, they still dont want to play by established rules vmware has had for partners and OEMs. Those tightly controlled programs in the OEM and Hardware validation space are the reasons VMware is able to control that marketplace. But nutanix wants to play by their own rules and feels since they have so many VCDX" on staff, that enables them to spit in VMware face. I find it comical and arrogant that a few of these VCDX are pushing customer to move to NOS 4.1 which hasn't even been validated on the vSphere hcl. They refuse to submit and validate their features and integration (a NON HCL SRA Adapter for SRM for example) that many other established vendors do and have. I really feel this is because of their sales need to gain market share at all costs to remain relevant. If you worked with the products, you know that their has been some substantial bugs that go long unresolved, This is the real challenge they need to overcome and instead of spitting in VMwares face on these support quandaries, maybe they should focus on a little more polish. But this is often seen among many of the fast growing startups.... Can they scale as an organization.

The bottom line is Nutanix is nothing more then a Supermicro white box re-seller that layers their own Storage solution on top of a Hypervisor. Without the Hypervisor they have nothing to stand on their own. They are at their core a storage vendor. Since VMware dominates that marketplace in many Enterprises, they are completely dependent upon the platform (Yes im aware they can Hyper-v or KVM it also). Their arrogance is causing them to forget how much they need this platform to be successful and they are even beginning to float the idea of building their own.. This would be a failed effort that has happened again and again.

I think people are missing the point, How can Nutanix sell a Hyper converged solution with "one throat to choke" when the customer has to have multiple separate support contracts. Thats the point VMware was making.

And for the last time, Nobody but the blogosphere cares how many VCDXs Nutanix has on staff, the majority of them are nothing more then Marketing mouthpieces.

Nutanix takes a hyper-converged swipe at VMware's top cert

LOLOL

All of the VCDXs that Nutanix employees are nothing more then Paid whores turning tricks. They are truly the used car salesmen of the market right now. Their products are getting buggier and buggier with every release and they are over promising more and more.

I know this industry is built on selling futures, but when you need to hire 8 VCDXs that pure job is to polish that turd and to sit in front of their command stations all day at home flooding all of social media with their Nutanix FUD, you probely have a crap product.