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VMware results virtually untouched by recession

Anonymous Coward

Hurting EMC? 

How does VMware hurt EMC? A big enabler for VMware sales is vMotion for which you need some kind of shared storage therefore VMware is a way to encourage customers to deploy new "consolidated" storage solutions!

Hardly hurts EMC does it?

Anonymous Coward

@Hurting EMC 

Whether it hurts EMC or not is dependant on whether people are buying large storage arrays, or re-using their current ones/building their own with OpenSauce operating systems.

I know I'm planning on setting up a couple of NASs running OpenFiler as it's free, and serves up reliable iSCSI and NFS shares on standard hardware - negating the need to pay stupendous amounts for what is, basically, glorified rack servers.

Anonymous Coward

re: @Hurting EMC 

For me, a lot of the drivers for VMware solutions stem from consolidations and I have to say that a lot of this is arm in arm with consolidating storage.

Most customers I talk to internal storage with loads unused and inaccessible to other machines. The VMware solution lets me sell them a consolidate storage array with all the niceties of vMotion, DRS and HA.

Definitely doesn't hurt EMC per se, in my opinion (unless I'm selling a competitor like HP or IBM). Then it's not VMware hurting EMC, but their high prices.