How are the prospects? Storage companies have been on and off, with very few successes like Nutanix. Datrium has good DNA, but, so was Pernix Data which folded up pretty much. Any opinions?
Yeah, there are lot of companies like vexata, E8, pavilion data, mongstor. They are the same. Same as tegile, tintri, pernix. It is going to be garage sale at one point. I used to work at vexata. All same shit. Don't go to any of these places. Go to software only places. The chances of success are more.
Following.
Also curious... how does Rubrik compare to these ?
Cohesity is the better route. Rubrik has EMC culture written all over it
Product IS great. There are many, many excellent engineers still here.
Brilliant people started this company. I heard from Sales that it is not easy to sell a ‘too good to be true’ products, but it is real deal. Customer’s feedbacks are real. New CEO has the right vision and action plan to take this company to success, but it requires great efforts at all levels and functions. If you are up to real startups, great risk great return, this is THE place!!!
CEO is a big Trump supporter.
Hard to get storage right. Gotta focus on a real pain point. Cloud is eating away storage growth. Go forth only if you are 100% convinced. Ask to talk to a top tier customers and interview them to find out why they chose datrium over others and how differentiated they really are