You hit the nail on the head for my experience. In a domain I am much more at home at, data storage reminds me of the same. Most storage vendors want to be go

You hit the nail on the head for my experience. In a domain I am much more at home at, data storage reminds me of the same. Most storage vendors want to be gobbled up by EMC, IBM, Hitachi, Oracle StorageTek.. it takes a lot of guts to go it like PureStorage. But even something as critical as SAN and Network storage is magnitudes less conservative than circuit design software.