Trust and hyperconvergence
Thought provoking post Trevor, good stuff. I've watched the various VMware/Nutanix battles running on Twitter while thinking that as a customer I don't care - all competition is good (as an earlier comment stated).
Your article hits on a very good point though - as hyperconverged offerings gain increasing traction in datacentres (and let's not forget that they still only account for approx 5% of datacenter sales from the last figures I saw) their very nature means the less vendors the better. If you end up running VMware/VSAN, some Pernix/Proximal, some Nutanix/Simplivity/Scale, and maybe even some old school vBlocks/Flexpods, you've defeated the purpose of simplified operations - you'll simply have created new 'hyperconverged silos' to replace the original compute/storage/network silos. So which vendor you trust is a key concern.
Maybe that's how it'll be - what's old is new again, there's nothing new under the sun...
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