Hi Calvin

A few misconceptions that I will futilely try and clear up.

First, Invista is out there, and we're pretty pleased with both the number of customers, and what it's doing for people.  

Maybe not as glitzy and hypermarketed as other vendors' storage virtualization offerings, but -- all in all -- we've been pretty happy on the way it's played out.  It's done everything we expected it to do.

Of course, I don't know how HP feels it can comment on this topic, since your previous efforts regarding storage virtualization have disappeared into the obscure mist, and you're rumored to be doing a deal with LSI to get into this game extremely late.  Uhhh, just like iSCSI, right?

As far as ILM, we're doing pretty well as far as delivering on the promise, not only for production storage but backup, archival, replication, etc.  It's a very big part of our business.

ILM concepts and deliverables are woven into everything EMC does these days.  It's not a marketing campaign, it's how we do business as an information-centric vendor.

I find it hard for you to be so critical on a topic that's been such a great success with our customers and the marketplace in general.  Maybe you should get out more?

I could write dozens and dozens of blog posts regarding what EMC has done with ILM, and how customers have benefited -- from storage tiering, to archiving, to compliance, to dedupe, to exploiting metadata via Documentum, and special-purpose products like Centera, to consulting engagements and measurement tools and financial models  --well,  it's a fantastic story.  In my book, that was a top-grade initiative from EMC -- one that I'm proud of.  

If you think that EMC's forthcoming "Maui" competes with ExDS9100, I think you're a bit confused.  I can't set you straight now, but once it's publicly announced, these posts of yours are going to look a bit silly.

Regarding enterprise flash, all I can say is that we're now almost a year ahead of HP in delivering products, vs. promises.   Nice web site explaining how hard it all is, though.  That really benefits customers, doesn't it?

HP customers have been denied access to this important technology and what it brings.  Time to market does matter with game-changers, and flash is one of those.

Even though you're trying to talk about flash on laptops, desktops, servers, etc. -- let's not forget, this is a storage discussion.  And I'm willing to bet that one of the very LAST places we see flash in the HP portfolio is in storage arrays.

Why?  You're a server vendor.  That's what's important.  Please, prove me wrong!

I don't know if you get the Goldman Sachs enterprise IT spending surveys, but if you can grab the most recent copy, you'll notice that HP made the list for "greatest decline in storage spending intentions", as did IBM and Sun.

Indeed, the author points to the ascendency of storage specialists in the current economic climate.

I rest my case -- and I didn't even have to poke you on FCoE, or spin-down, or secure remote support, or any of a half-dozen storage topics where HP is a no-show.

Cheers!

Hi, Calvin

Today's the day I can actually answer this post.

First, Atmos (formerly Maui) has been out for a while.  As Chris Mellor at The Register writes:

" ... In fact EMC has outsmarted us all. The eruption, the product, started in June and it's been shipping to early adopters for five months already. Only now has the announcement been made."

You can see more at my blog (chucksblog.emc.com), or lots of other places around the 'net.

Cheers!

Hmm...you perhaps need to update your "follow-up."

Which will it be?

1) You don't need it

2) It won't work

3) We're working on something even better - just wait.