Sometimes people ask me, why is it that storage seems to be behind the "software-defined" curve compared to other parts of the technology stack. This is a great example of the reason: Storage is really damn hard. No bad day in IT quite like a bad storage day is the truth. We are all getting better at it (scale out/share nothing architectures for example) but collectively there's a long way to go. Kudos to Dinesh and the entire VSAN team. No one likes to see issues happen, but I bet there are a lot of customers impressed with the response.

Yep, broke link. Even when I change it to http://vcloud.vmware.com/go/vcloudbeta it doesn't work.

Chad, I couldn't be more excited for you. Having watched the evolution from the outside as a customer, partner and step-child (possibly red-headed), it's amazing to see how EMC's presence in the market has changed. I can't wait to see how the concept and excitement of a vSpecialist-like organization works at scale, and I know they couldn't have picked a better person to make it work. Congratulations on the move, and please let me know if there's anything I can help with from my side of the house!

This is great stuff, Chuck. Thanks for the perspective.