Derek Leslie

There's going to be some fear there.

So fear of not knowing, will this work in my environment?

And then the other thing is, especially in VDI, is that's just too many volumes.

So 10,000 VDI seats times, let's say, an average of four volumes per VDI instance.

no one wants that many volumes to manage if you're a VDI administrator.

I'd much rather go back to Horizon and have, hey, here's my few dozen data stores and I know how to manage it, I know where it is.

So for a couple of reasons, I don't know how you guys feel about those, but I'm just not seeing it.

And there's still a strong push from VMware to make it happen.

Yeah, and I think we'll see that mindset come to light more and more with HCI.

Because typically the feedback that we're hearing is, oh, a storage guy knows that there's going to be this many volumes.

he's not going to be in control of it.

So as you see the next generation data center coming, I think that'll be there.

But largely, people are just a little scared to change, I think.

I would love to see us be more successful with vVols in the market because, again, we should want that.

We have storage technologies that can take advantage of that like no one else in the market can.

Dude, I suffer from FOMO for sure, fear of missing out.

Absolutely.

And conventional wisdom tells me go to VVols.

But again, like I said, conventional wisdom is often wrong where you just don't see the benefits.

And I think that's something that we've been trying to work on with our partnership with VMware is really compelling our customers to understand the value and force them to have a reason to pivot, right?