62 is not the answer

Pubblicato da il 11 novembre 2010 in Computing, Storage, Virtualization | View Comments

Do you remember Douglas Adams and his, most famous, novel? (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) Well, the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42! (and not 62).

Apart the joke, the only thing we can see after an year of blogs, join ventures and advertising is the numbers: 62.

62 is the number of the vblocks (CISCO+EMC+VMWARE preconfigured and integrated stacks) customers world wide!
To me, 62, is a very (very) little number, what do you think?

My concerns aren’t about the stack itself and his quality but on the customers perception: are we sure that customers want integrated stacks? Probably customers like end-to-end certified solutions and CISCO+VMWARE+EMC is one of these but they refuse to have a single vendor to avoid the lock-in!
I’m sure that there are many more customers than those 62 who buy certified and integrated VMware+EMC+CISCO stacks but not vBlocks.

*This figure of course is not coming from an official press release but from a Tweet coming from @vStewed that I saw today on my Twitter stream.

  • Jonathan Donaldson

    62 was Vaughn’s reference to a (mistaken) number of authorized partners, not the number of Vblocks sold. Vaughn, as a competitor from NetApp would not know how many Vblocks have been sold.

  • Jonathan Donaldson

    62 was Vaughn’s reference to a (mistaken) number of authorized partners, not the number of Vblocks sold. Vaughn, as a competitor from NetApp would not know how many Vblocks have been sold.

  • Enrico Signoretti

    Jonathan,
    thank you very much for your comment.
    I see from your email that you are working for Acadia. You are the best person to show how many vblocks were sold in this first year.
    I look forward for your kindly answer.
    Enrico

  • Enrico Signoretti

    Jonathan,thank you very much for your comment.I see from your email that you are working for Acadia. You are the best person to show how many vblocks were sold in this first year.I look forward for your kindly answer.EnricoPS. here is an article from the register that confirms the tweet: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/11/cisco_q1_f2011_numbers/

  • Jonathan Donaldson

    please read again, they mention 62 deployed customers, not 62 units sold. Number is much higher. Due diligence is your friend.

  • Jonathan Donaldson

    please read again, they mention 62 deployed customers, not 62 units sold. Number is much higher. Due diligence is your friend.

  • Enrico Signoretti

    Jonathan,
    62 customer but, I repeat, how many vblocks in these 62 customers?
    thanks.

  • Enrico Signoretti

    Jonathan,
    62 customer but, I repeat, how many vblocks in these 62 customers?
    thanks.

  • loris

    Hi to all,
    for example: how many Vblock in EMEA?
    I’m very curious to know this result?

  • loris

    Hi to all,
    for example: how many Vblock in EMEA?
    I’m very curious to know this result?

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