Gabriel Chapman

So there was a huge ability to walk in and go, oh, everything you need is in the box.

The analogy I traditionally make is the all-in-one printer, right?

If I go back to 2006 or so, you know, or a point in time when

I've had a flatbed scanner.

I had a printer.

I had a copy machine.

He had a fax machine.

He had all these different peeps and pieces.

Isn't it easier to consolidate those down into a single device that does all of those things relatively okay and give it to, you know, anybody in your house to manage and leverage?

Yes.

And that was the value that, you know, hyperconverged brought.

It was a simplification.

of the process of provisioning a bunch of disparate pieces together, but in a consumable package that almost anybody could leverage.

The major push in the beginning of HCI as it comes to market is the simplification effort.

I think we're starting to see a shift away from, yes, everybody can do the simple part to now looking at more of, well, hey, now we want to start to put more complex, sophisticated workloads on these platforms.

Now we need to make sure that the underlying infrastructure or architecture of that solution can meet those needs.

And I think that's one of the things that we've kind of gone after.

Yes, we can do the simple day one, day zero provisioning.

But the real meat in the solution is everything that happens after the fact and how well the system can scale to meet the requirements of the customer.

i think anytime you know that the concept of the green in the data center is key in the forefront of a lot of people's minds obviously the fact that i can consolidate storage and compute into a smaller form factor uh and then you know because we've gotten to specific densities now with solid state drives because we do data efficiency you know like you know dedupe compression thin provisioning those types of technologies we're able to significantly drop the footprint of the data center