Jeff Steiner

Some of them want 6 million IOPS.

You can't do that in a hyper-converged environment.

environments without bankrupting yourself.

But the principles still apply.

The principles of hyperconverged are still there.

So if someone's been talking about those and now they are looking for a database solution, that is a sign that it's time to start talking about SolidFire.

They've already signaled that they're looking at the results more than the inputs.

And scaling your storage cluster with SolidFire and scaling your virtualization cluster with ESX, whatever you want, that

It's not you're scaling two different stacks.

It's not as simple as scaling one, but it costs a lot less and it scales better.

I will be very interested to see what, what we do.

And I, this is sort of a side effect of the blog and the tweets.

Sometimes I deliberately avoid learning about certain things because I don't want it to restrict my ability to speculate either online or in front of customers.

So obviously, if it's relevant to my job, I will go learn about it.

But I don't know what's coming.

But the fact that it's based on solid fire, that in some way, that makes me hopeful that this is going to be something that can start to address those issues.

those database use cases, and if not hyper-converged, at least the spirit of hyper-converged.

I look forward to learning about what that product really is.

Well, I don't really... Why can't you... Why could somebody make...

Who says that hyperconverge absolutely has to be building blocks of the exact same size?