Jeff Steiner

The point is that you've got one big blob of almost like a virtual data center unto itself.

And why can't you just have the ability to add storage nodes, I suppose, and compute nodes independently?

into something and still call it hyper-converged.

Why isn't that hyper-converged?

Who set these rules?

Well, we've seen a lot of these things before where, okay, take OpenStack.

There is a point where...

I don't know how much this is straight outside of the core enterprise application environment, but there was a point where it looked like OpenStack was it.

OpenStack was the future.

And I saw the RFPs coming in where one of the line items would be like, storage system must be compatible with OpenStack or similar.

And you know somebody, someone in the IT department just had heard about OpenStack, heard it was good, and then they put that on there.

And they never really wanted it at all.

They just wanted the outcome of having this great framework to virtualize everything and automate everything.

And then came hyperconverged, where all of a sudden everyone wants hyperconverged.

Why do you want hyperconverged?

I don't know, but I want it.

Yeah, no question about that.

Or how about my personal number one gripe?

Anyone that has read the emails, some of the larger distribution lists know this.

NVME.