David Scott, HP and Carl Eshenbach, VMware - HP Discover 2011 - theCUBE - #HPDiscover
HP's David Scott and VMware's Carl Eshenbach discuss storage and virtualization inside theCube with SiliconANGLE's John Furrier at HP Discover 2011. A vision of polymorphic simplicity drives HP storage development, David Scott, Senior VP and General Manager of HP Storage said in a December 4, 2012 interview in the Cube from HP Discover 2012 in Frankfurt, Germany. That vision specifically is of "an architecture that can adapt and provide common data services across block, file, and object, HHD environments, hybrid HHD and state to all-flash environments in the future." All the storage vendors are analyzing their storage technologies to see if they can be optimized for the all-flash storage future, he told Wikibon CEO David Vellante and SiliconAngle CEO John Furrier. "We have done exactly the same analysis. It comes down to the day-one decisions that were made in the initial development of the architecture. At 3Par (now owned by HP and the basis of HP's new generation storage systems) our day-one architectural decision was to have a 16-KB page size." That, he says, "puts us in a really promising position to service customer needs now and in the future. It gives you the architectural enablement to move to an all-flash environment."