EMC CEO promises 'minimal disruption to existing product lines'

Its amazing the difference a few weeks makes. when the news broke it was FUD central, almost gleeful proclamations of doom and gloom and how this was the last walk of the dinosaurs in a cloud world. Pure especially were really vocal about it - almost as if their data centric storage only play was somehow immune to cloud. Fast forward a few weeks and the feedback from ESG survey finds the majority of IT buyers and decision makers positive about the deal and Nimble and Pure are suffering all sorts of issues on the New York stock exchange.

I expect more fud from the rest of the infrastructure players because I think they are actually starting to get a little bit nervous. I have to say that as an end user nothing grinds my gears like FUD spreading - concentrate on your own products and not what everyone else is doing. If it can't sell itself on its merits dont expected me to get excited.