Glenn Sizemore

I think we can take a look at what's happening today with NVMe and compare that against our initial response with Flash

And you can see the lesson that was learned.

Because we had the same situation.

When SSDs first hit the market and NAND first hit the market, it was too expensive to use as a primary storage media.

But, man, did it have a benefit as a read acceleration tier, right?

And there is an absolute fact that we stayed on the read acceleration tier philosophy just a little bit too long, and we should have flipped to primary data storage sooner.

But...

that core belief in aligning cost with technology and capability has always been validated.

There will be these little sparks where someone can market their way ahead temporarily.

But if the technology and the economics aren't sound, long-term, they don't hold that lead.

Long-term, it comes back to you.

I think, I guess my personal experience with that, more around SQL Server than anything else, admittedly, is just that

Yes, absolutely.

When we're capable to sit down and have that whole stack conversation that encompasses the complete data lifecycle and be able to have that more adult, higher-level conversation about an architecture, you're right.

It's black and white.

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