So EMC’s not going to become a server vendor even though, as Chris Mellor points out, they showcased some very nice purpose-built server hardware at EMC World. And even though Jeremy Burton admitted they were, kinda, making and selling servers. Why?
He observed: “Server vendors put DAS (direct-attached storage) in servers. Storage vendors put compute in storage. Over time these hybrid configurations will get more workloads.”
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EMC denies big server biz plans … but IS building servers
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