This product had been researched and POCed. Baselined and tested against the competition in categories we thought mattered and for the most part did. However we missed some of the core business components that make a good technical solution a great one.
When we considered that the tech we were buying is from an up and coming company we knew that it would be bought out. It was written in the sky with fireworks and lightning. The consideration that it might be scrapped was in the back of our minds and we thought, Nahh this stuff is too good to be shutdown!
We were wrong. They were bought out by VMware at a point when it was still primarily owned by Dell, who has their own storage systems. And the DVX gear didn't really fit into their line up. Not to mention the hardware component of the solution was very proprietary, and VMware is a software company.
The DVX story, at least for my team and I, has been a perilous one. A great idea brought to life by great engineers, coders, and support team, that was seen by the bigger fish as a good investment for all the wrong reasons. At least from my perspective.
My team and I felt this tech was the next evolution of hyper-converged. We knew that this was an extensible and positive move toward a software defined storage system that could scale in which ever direction we needed it to.
Our support contract is ending soon and we may not have the option to renew. And we may not have the budget to go another direction. We are finding ourselves between a rock and hard place.
It has been an incredible ride and I really can't wait to see what's next. I wish the timing were a bit more in line with my budget, but what are you going to do?!?
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