This statement is part of recently circulated claim by EMC executives.
And then the claim goes further:
The new VMAX 950F raises the bar yet again for high-end all-flash storage
After working for more than 18 years in the software industry and 15 of those at EMC I think that both of those statements are incorrect / misleading. VMAX 950 is largely irrelevant product still sold on exorbitant prices and is purchased by very few customers with special needs. This percent of 94% simply reflects the fact that 94% of the Fortune 50 companies have bought a storage array in the last 15 years or so and are still unwilling to discard it. The other statement is plain incorrect - VMAX 950 does not raise the bar in anything - it is simply reiteration of an obsolete architecture which was relevant 15 years ago but not anymore. Now the storage arrays coming from companies such as Infinidat and Pure Storage raises the bar in storage arrays (all flash or not) but even this fact is largely irrelevant to a market with rapidly changing landscape. The fact is that none of the smaller companies and the startups are even contemplating a purchase of any data storage array at all. Those storage companies such as EMC , Pure and Infinidat (which Moshe will sell as soon as he can get good price for it) are at the whim of very small number of large banks which are the main buyers of those arrays.