Re: Are NetApp Offering This?
To be clear @Dikrek, I have nothing against Nimble, in fact I like a lot of what you do and how you disrupt the legacy vendors. (Very much like ourselves) I also have a good friend working there who I respect a lot.
My issue is more with your marketing team who are either ignorant or arrogant, I'm not sure which... To claim to be the "First" vendor to offer Enterprise-grade Multicloud Storage is simply not true. (And yes, I know they will have their spin on this claim...) As outlined above, slight delivery differences aside you aren't even the first vendor that begins with "N" to deliver this… (And to delve a little deeper into the history books here, do a search on eNPS, this may make you smile.) You can check out our website for an out-take of Enterprise customers who have been using our service for years.
Regarding my statement around validating the message, whilst that may not have been your intention I think you will find that it will. The same happened with our On-Premise as a Service offering, the analysts really liked what we were doing but we stood alone in the market for a number of years. With HP, Dell, Nimble (I think you may find that your marketing guys claimed a "First" here as well...) and a few others entering this space in 2016/17 it finally got the validation that it deserved.
Ultimately, I think you entering this space is a great thing for the End User and at the end of the day, that's what matters. Competition is healthy and I would highly recommend that any business looking to deploy this MultiCloud model checks out both options.
Thanks for the banter! :-)
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