SimpliVity customers spurned by HPE welcomed into loving arms of Nutanix Nutanix wants SimpliVity customers upset by HPE's purchase to move across to them instead. Chief marketing officer Howard Ting said HPE, having bought SimpliVity, was discontinuing SimpliVity sales on non-HPE hardware, leaving SimpliVity customers possibly needing to switch hardware. "It looks like a dead end for Cisco and …
Howard Ting, never missing an opportunity to be a @ss hat...
Let's not forget Howard's misogynistic videos when trying to take shots at the old VCE and then apologizing "to those offended" without actually acknowledging they were offensive.
http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/300073043/converged-infrastructure-startup-nutanix-pulls-vce-bashing-videos-amid-claims-of-sexism.htm
So yeah, SimpliVity customers, feel free to jump on board that train.
Thanks for digging up corpses. Anything more useful to add?
What's wrong with offering a trade in program? I know a former SVT customer or two I might get interested into starting up their failed projects again this way.
Better to have them jump on the Nutanix train then to stay on the HPE Failboat...
It's customary, when luring customers from a competitor, to offer them more than they already paid for as there is a cost of them having to migrate from the inferior platform to which they already paid money. So, your comment is weak, at best.
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So you would pull out a perfectly functional solution running on Cisco, Dell or Lenovo all while HPE announces that they will continue to support them for the timeline of the standard Simplivity EOS agreement - which is 48 months. Oh and they have not made that EOS announcement yet so call it 50 months.
I note that the statement is for 2:1 on LICENSES - which Nutanix give away at 75% discount most of the time. So the real value is not very much....
Never trust someone trying to give away their product
If I am a Simplivity customer on anything but HP, I don't care what Simplivity/HP marketing says, I'm concerned. The industry track record of support for someone else's crapola now owned by another company's crapola is not good. And it's not like Lenovo or Cisco or Dell are going to embrace HP-owned software (that drags a lot of hardware with it). The whole thing is a shit show! I expect a lot of Simplivity customers to be calling up Nutanix, or Dell/Technologies, or Cisco to swap out their goods.
When the next HCIA revenue rankings come out; I expect Simplivity to fall from 2nd to 5th - behind Nutanix, VxRail/Rack, HyperFlex, and VSAN. Getting out sooner than later is a good thing....
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