[Info-vax] VSI online marketing meeting

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-02-27, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>
> VSI business doubled between 2016 and 2017.
>
> VSI support contracts purchased now include rights to upgrade, which
> includes rights to x86_64 releases. As far as I know, platform switches
> have previously always involved buying new licenses, albeit sometimes
> with a trade-in discount.
>
> They have agreements or statements of support for products from seven
> big storage vendors. One is Kove, which I'd never heard of, who sells
> virtual storage based on DRAM, not flash. NetApp is still a work in
> progress, which means we're still running unsupported at my day job.
>
> There is a steadily growing list of layered products and open source
> ports being added to the portfolio. I believe it was OMNI/OSAP, GKS, and
> syslogd that were mentioned as being newly available.
>
> It sounded like VSI TCP/IP 10.5 has been delayed by a quarter or two but
> is still coming this year.
>

Thank you for the update Craig; there's a number of positive items in there.

I wouldn't worry too much about the TCP/IP stack at the moment; they
are integrating a new stack so some delays are to be expected.

I would gently remind VSI management that along with this new work, they
need to continue improving their response to incidents. They can't give
the impression (rightly or wrongly) that they are trying to bury any
discovered security issues.

Incidents will happen and people should accept that. It's how VSI
management respond to those incidents which will determine how they
are judged.

Simon.

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