Posts tagged with "pricing"

Mark Davis, CEO

Throwing Hardware at VM Performance Problems

Tags: Dell, commodity hardware, EMC, excessive storage spending, false assumptions, pricing, Virsto One

Wasted money on unneeded hardware!An IT architect we'd spoken to mistakenly spent a bunch of money on new storage hardware to solve a VM I/O performance issue. The architect discovered, after spending US$50K, that he could have gotten even better performance if he'd not spent fifty thousand dollars on incremental hardware, but had instead invested a fraction of that on Virsto One software.

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Mark Davis, CEO

You get less of what you tax

Tags: people, pricing

Jerome Wendt makes a good point about storage software pricing on his blog.

He argues that storage software vendors that charge by capacity are shooting themselves in the foot, for three subtly different reasons.

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