I hope it's worth noting here that a increasing variety of formerly vertically integrated storage systems management layers and more capabilities have become av

I hope it's worth noting here that a increasing variety of formerly vertically integrated storage systems management layers and more capabilities have become available in VM form with per GB licensing models. IF you touch health care or finance outside of the trading rooms, Hitachi Data Systems (Ventara but I am not seeing the Hitachi name disappear it's too important I think I'm mindshare I know) the most surprisingly good and common installation. HDS wasn't scared to use OSS and build open platforms. Big edit sorry I wandered away from concluding with my own little dream to decouple the block implementation from the fs how DAOS does only with a full selection from the commercial file systems available, paying for usable capacity and not raw installed drive specifications. Paying for peritoneal at enterprise mark-up sucks. Meanwhile not too many people seem to be aware that you can run very small budget and scale file systems that were only available in multiples of house prices only a couple of years ago. The latest all flash NetApp filer is 20k and I don't imagine many people who have the knowledge to debate about the issues can't economically justify that even in a home lab. Executive care options can cost less only it's not many acquisitions that can cost you more just owning but with orders of magnitude difference between the costs.