Stuart Miniman

"Hi Randy, Glad to see that you've come along on the CI discussion, especially now that the market consumed over $6B of it in 2014. We are still in the very early days of HCI (less than 10% of the CI revenue in 2014); at Wikibon we put forth a vision of Server SAN which we believe gives some guidance as to where HCI can go and has strong potential to eat away at the traditional storage array market. If we look at Vblock, it started with a single model and now is a broad family, HCI will also mature and expand over time. HCI solutions to date have primarily focused on small-mid enterprise deployments, although some players are now doing larger deals and some options like EMC ScaleIO are geared towards Service Providers. The "fat middle" of the IT market has been underserved and lots of offerings (hybrid storage and HCI) are thriving there. Thanks for continuing the dialogue." - Stuart Miniman

"What ever happened to the optical backplane? I remember how excited you were about it back at Interop 2011 http://etherealmind.com/hp-opt... On a tangent, it seems that the Interop people have scheduled you (SDN WAN) at me (Hyperconvergence and the Death of the Storage Array) in the same time slot - horror :(" - Stuart Miniman

"Stephen - Seattle is Cloud City (Microsoft, AWS, CenturyLink, even Google has a big presence). Of course Boston has a huge biotech presence and every time I go to Cambridge, the tech presence has grown (of course it always had the MIT pipeline and lots of Silicon Valley companies including Google and VMware have offices). As for football, I've got the same bias as you - Go Pats!!!" - Stuart Miniman