Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?
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Which is a death knell for a storage vendor. No real business can risk investing in a storage product that is 100% dependent on the vendor for support if the vendor is expected to go under during the support window.
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@NerdyDad said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@scottalanmiller said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
So the real question... how good is the product?
Actually the bigger question, the only real one now, is are they a viable company? Rumour is they are on their way to going under. Like Nutanix, unprofitable with no revenue model to kick in.
That explains the presence of the investors.
There to see if there is any future, you think?
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@scottalanmiller said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@NerdyDad said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@scottalanmiller said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
So the real question... how good is the product?
Actually the bigger question, the only real one now, is are they a viable company? Rumour is they are on their way to going under. Like Nutanix, unprofitable with no revenue model to kick in.
That explains the presence of the investors.
There to see if there is any future, you think?
Either to make sure that there investment is still viable or to look for more investments.
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Jeff Oshiba from Toshiba is here talking about the history of flash.
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I wonder who makes the flash disks for Pure. Hmmm. Maybe Toshiba?
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Talking about a 1TB drive by 2020
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@NerdyDad said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
Talking about a 1TB drive by 2020
1TB? We have 1TB SSDs now.
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@coliver think they're a little behind the times.
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AI can now interpret photographic data for us. Scary?
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@NerdyDad said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
Talking about a 1TB drive by 2020
Wow, do they even know what the storage market looks like today?
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@NerdyDad said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
AI can now interpret photographic data for us. Scary?
Old news. That's been going on for a long time.
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Talking about taking that data and using Google cloud to help compute
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I forgot my tin foil hat.
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@NerdyDad said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
I forgot my tin foil hat.
What? You can never forget one of those! How else do you keep the marketing drivel away?
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Have a video but can't upload it. Will try again later.
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Not much to mention today from the keynote. Jeff Ma, the MIT student that inspired the movie 21 was here to talk about logic and decision making.
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@travisdh1 said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@NerdyDad said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
I forgot my tin foil hat.
What? You can never forget one of those! How else do you keep the marketing drivel away?
I use a fish bat.
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Talking about HCI and saying that the more nodes you add, the cost benefit decreases.
Namely Nutanix, which he named directly.
