01. Dave Lincoln, Lenovo Data Center Group, Visits #theCUBE!. (00:20)
02. Stuart McRae, Lenovo Data Center Group, Visits #theCUBE!. (00:36)
03. Tell Us About Your Role At Lenovo And Where They Fit In Data Center. (00:53)
04. Why Is Lenovo Here At OpenStack. (03:15)
05. How Does Lenovo Look At Storage. (04:14)
06. What Is Driving Customers To Come To You For Storage. (05:11)
07. What Pieces Does Lenovo Look At In The Fragmented Storage Space. (07:55)
08. How Do Users Talk About OpenStack. (09:03)
09. What Do You See Outside Of The US. (10:36)
10. Who's In The Room When You're Talking About Software To Find Storage. (12:32)
11. How Will Things Be Changing At Lenovo. (14:10)
12. Share Some Things That People Might Not Know About Lenovo. (15:21)
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Overcoming the ‘Stockholm syndrome’ of storage | #OpenStack
by Betsy Amy-Vogt | Apr 26, 2016
The Lenovo Group, Ltd. believes the current business model for storage solutions is broken, with vendors playing a game with customers where if they don’t re-up they get hammered on maintenance costs. This leads to customers feeling like they’re held hostage to their current storage provider and makes the market ripe for disruption.
In fact, according to Dave Lincoln, GM of the Storage Business Unit at the Lenovo Group, he had a prospective customer literally tell him that they had a “small version of Stockholm syndrome.”
First-time theCUBE interviewee Lincoln, and his colleague Stuart McRae, director of product planning for Storage and Networking at Lenovo, sit down at OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas, with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team.
The ‘bad boy’ of software-defined storage
The world’s largest personal computer vendor by unit sales in 2015, Lenovo is entering the software-defined storage market.
“It’s ripe to be disrupted, not just from product but business model,” said Lincoln. Lenovo is out to prove they are not a one-trick pony but can be an end-to-end solution provider. “Existing incumbents are offering more than what the market actually requires,” said Lincoln. And Lenovo is looking to bring value back to the market.
“Any customer that cares about TCO [total cost of ownership], choice, customer service simplicity – we’re targeting them,” Lincoln added.
McRae pointed out that as a newcomer, Lenovo has no legacy to protect, allowing it the freedom to be very disruptive. He promised that two years from now, people will know Lenovo as “the bad boy of the data center for storage” because it came in and “did stuff counter to what everyone else was doing.”
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Dave Lincoln & Stuart McRae, Lenovo Data Center Group - #OpenStack Summit 2016 - #theCUBE
01. Dave Lincoln, Lenovo Data Center Group, Visits #theCUBE!. (00:20)
02. Stuart McRae, Lenovo Data Center Group, Visits #theCUBE!. (00:36)
03. Tell Us About Your Role At Lenovo And Where They Fit In Data Center. (00:53)
04. Why Is Lenovo Here At OpenStack. (03:15)
05. How Does Lenovo Look At Storage. (04:14)
06. What Is Driving Customers To Come To You For Storage. (05:11)
07. What Pieces Does Lenovo Look At In The Fragmented Storage Space. (07:55)
08. How Do Users Talk About OpenStack. (09:03)
09. What Do You See Outside Of The US. (10:36)
10. Who's In The Room When You're Talking About Software To Find Storage. (12:32)
11. How Will Things Be Changing At Lenovo. (14:10)
12. Share Some Things That People Might Not Know About Lenovo. (15:21)
Track List created with http://www.vinjavideo.com.
--- ---
Overcoming the ‘Stockholm syndrome’ of storage | #OpenStack
by Betsy Amy-Vogt | Apr 26, 2016
The Lenovo Group, Ltd. believes the current business model for storage solutions is broken, with vendors playing a game with customers where if they don’t re-up they get hammered on maintenance costs. This leads to customers feeling like they’re held hostage to their current storage provider and makes the market ripe for disruption.
In fact, according to Dave Lincoln, GM of the Storage Business Unit at the Lenovo Group, he had a prospective customer literally tell him that they had a “small version of Stockholm syndrome.”
First-time theCUBE interviewee Lincoln, and his colleague Stuart McRae, director of product planning for Storage and Networking at Lenovo, sit down at OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas, with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team.
The ‘bad boy’ of software-defined storage
The world’s largest personal computer vendor by unit sales in 2015, Lenovo is entering the software-defined storage market.
“It’s ripe to be disrupted, not just from product but business model,” said Lincoln. Lenovo is out to prove they are not a one-trick pony but can be an end-to-end solution provider. “Existing incumbents are offering more than what the market actually requires,” said Lincoln. And Lenovo is looking to bring value back to the market.
“Any customer that cares about TCO [total cost of ownership], choice, customer service simplicity – we’re targeting them,” Lincoln added.
McRae pointed out that as a newcomer, Lenovo has no legacy to protect, allowing it the freedom to be very disruptive. He promised that two years from now, people will know Lenovo as “the bad boy of the data center for storage” because it came in and “did stuff counter to what everyone else was doing.”
