Webinar: Dec 8th 2016 - Hyperconvergence versus Cloud Computing
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On now, come watch us!
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Doing introductions now. @dpaquette just said he was technical! News to me
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Talking Inverted Pyramids now and why they are bad.
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@dpaquette is talking about what new customers look like today. Most customers for hyperconvergence today are existing virtualizers who are moving to a new solution or architecture rather than first timers just getting into virtualization.
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Awesome guys, have fun on the webinar!
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Talking horizontally scaling (elastic) workloads.
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Talking leasing.
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@scottalanmiller said in Webinar: Dec 8th 2016 - Hyperconvergence versus Cloud Computing:
Talking leasing.
Wish I could be in on this... For something like a Hyperconverged setup, would this make sense to just have the gear on a perpetual lease so that every 3 years, the equipment gets upgraded, etc ?
The business can add that as a "fixed cost" to help budgeting, etc...
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@dafyre said in Webinar: Dec 8th 2016 - Hyperconvergence versus Cloud Computing:
@scottalanmiller said in Webinar: Dec 8th 2016 - Hyperconvergence versus Cloud Computing:
Talking leasing.
Wish I could be in on this... For something like a Hyperconverged setup, would this make sense to just have the gear on a perpetual lease so that every 3 years, the equipment gets upgraded, etc ?
The business can add that as a "fixed cost" to help budgeting, etc...
Yes, that can make a lot of sense. Scale specifically does "lease to own" so you'd own the old gear at the end of the first cycle. But that could work really well. You could also do a staggered lease so that you upgrade 33% per year, for example, so you have newer and older servers mixed in. Doing what you describe would guarantee new gear regularly with absolutely predictable pricing.
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Talking RAID and RAIN for SSD.
