With so much push on AI how will the software solutions like idrac Vrail PPDM survive? Are they advancing and moving forward? Customers happy?
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@b3 wait AI is going to do everything including fix idrac. That means no need for developers mgmt can continue to run the show and deliver releases with no valuable changes.
@by I drop knowledge and facts. For those who think SRP is a good spot you need to get your head checked. Actually just keep doing whatever it is that you don't do all day so we can clean up out here. And as for VXrail it's not a thing anymore remember that. Good to see the Dell stock heading back to reality. Keep sending those NGSA folks into the field. Thank you Dell leadership for making it easy. Ppdm fans name one customer that anyone has heard of running that garbage. You can barely count 1000 customers and most of those are the failed poc mtree on the dd that your marketing is just counting. How Corny you fools are 650:exabytes on total long term retention protection in the cloud so let's count up all that logical data so it sounds like a lot.
@b8 Absolutely 100% accurate and perfectly worded comment. Dell is a clown show when it comes to Data Protection software. Our customers kicked us out long ago and told us to never mention it again. All we can sell now is metal.
@b6 Dell’s data protection software is a walking corpse propped up entirely by a hardware monopoly. Literally just look at the IDC numbers. Veeam is dominating the standalone software space as the #1 provider globally with nearly 14% market share and over 550,000 customers. What does Dell have? A 47% share of the Purpose-Built Backup Appliance (PBBA) hardware market down from 66 percent in the hey day.
They are just metal benders!
The only reason anyone still touches their software is because Dell hostage-bundles it with their Data Domain. While Veeam, Rubrik, and Cohesity actually built modern cloud-native platforms and print billions in SaaS revenue, Dell completely missed the boat. "PowerProtect" is just desperate marketing to hide the fact that they lost the software war a decade ago. If they couldn’t force-feed this legacy trash to their existing storage customers, their standalone software market share would literally drop to zero. Just a hardware relic clinging to life. Sad!
@b3 Whoever is leading Idrac, Cyber Recovery, PPDM needs to be cleaned out!
They've driven these products into the ground with little to no accountability. They blame their subordinates for their own poor management.
Idrac was horrific without AI... With AI it's even worse. Somehow.
Whoever is leading idrac needs to clean house.
One would hope so, they are already working on moving Powerflex away from RKE2 due to some big customers complaining. Its been nothing but a nightmare, they went from a presenatation GUI that just worked to over 180+ pods in kubernetes, essentially developed themselves into a corner 😂... Now they are going back to a single monoloith platform, and its been developed with the help of AI..
Any Google search, whether on this platform or another, will tell you PPDM and Cyber Recovery are dead. They're barely in maintenance mode. By that I mean maintenance mode assumes you used to have a working product. Neither PPDM or CR worked well for enterprise customers.
I wouldn't put it past someone coming on from the competition asking questions like this.
This can't be a Dell employee.
Don't feed the trolls.
Bit worrying a Dell employee doesn’t think iDRAC and AI can coexist, or missed the announcement that VxRail is done.