EMC XtremeIO is giving Pure a strong run for its money.
EMC's biggest problem in storage isn't on the All-Flash side (XTremeIO is working as intended), it's that there's fewer reasons to buy the high end, high margin (VMAX) storage these days, and EMC needs to come up with a big margin patch... which it thinks it might have with DSSD [1] [2].
EMC's biggest problem in storage isn't on the All-Flash side (XTremeIO is working as intended), it's that there's fewer reasons to buy the high end, high margin (VMAX) storage these days, and EMC needs to come up with a big margin patch... which it thinks it might have with DSSD [1] [2].
[1] https://storagemojo.com/2014/11/11/pure-vs-emc-whos-winning/ [2] https://storagemojo.com/2015/02/18/dssd-hiring-is-exploding/