Simplivity - anyone use them?

Guys,

I am an SA for SimpliVity in the Chicago area and I'm sorry to see the unhappiness around the presentation. I was unable to attend, but I would be happy to answer some of these items.

Dell was actually the first platform, we added Cisco and Lenovo.

The nodes run from the mid 20k to 150k,
We have a higher density per node than most. One node is the minimum, 2 provides full HA for both the compute and storage.

We actually started with an SMB focus and began moving up channel. Again, very unfortunate that the messaging felt off.

Feel free to email me and I'm happy to jump on a webex to deep dive the tech and clear up anything else.

Cheers,

Rick

@virtualrick
As one of the people that was at the SpiceCorp meet up, the presentation and presenters were decent. They taught us well and answered questions well. Except for the point on price.

But for me, that is a walk away issue. For people that know my posting over the years, I have harped on this point quite a bit.

If you make me sign up for spam and marketing email/calls just to get a basic, rough MSRP, then you will not get me as a customer. Ever.

I complained to @scale for this exact same thing when they sponsored a SpiceCorp meetup in St Louis a year or so ago. The rep making the presentation immediately gave me a rough number though. Now they still don't have it on the website, but at least they were open about the rough MSRP.

Nic

Thanks for jumping in @virtualrick - appreciate the pricing details and other info! Like I said, the presentation I saw in Chicago impressed me, so happy to get more info.

scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:

But for me, that is a walk away issue. For people that know my posting over the years, I have harped on this point quite a bit.

Many of us have, it's been a common, recurring discussion point around vendors. As SMB IT, getting price points is more important than almost anything else. As we have more options than we can reasonably consider, we need to know which are reasonably possible and how they apply and what the target audience is up front.

scale

@JaredBusch said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:

I complained to @scale for this exact same thing when they sponsored a SpiceCorp meetup in St Louis a year or so ago. The rep making the presentation immediately gave me a rough number though. Now they still don't have it on the website, but at least they were open about the rough MSRP.

We have this pricing on the website, is this what you would be looking for or is something more detailed what you had in mind?

https://www.scalecomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hc3-sales-brochure.pdf

JaredBusch

@scale said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:

@JaredBusch said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:

I complained to @scale for this exact same thing when they sponsored a SpiceCorp meetup in St Louis a year or so ago. The rep making the presentation immediately gave me a rough number though. Now they still don't have it on the website, but at least they were open about the rough MSRP.

We have this pricing on the website, is this what you would be looking for or is something more detailed what you had in mind?

https://www.scalecomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hc3-sales-brochure.pdf

Yes that, but it is not here where you get when you click the big ass green pricing button.
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scale

@JaredBusch fair enough, I found it through Google but would have a better idea of what to search for to bring it up. I'll make someone aware that this should be under the green button as well.

virtualrick

@JaredBusch Thanks for the feedback!

bknudtson

Hey all! Original presenter from the SpiceCorp meeting here. Sorry to see all the confusion and distaste for some of the points we missed. Glad to hear the technology at least impressed. I always try to find something to improve from each presentation, and you highlighted a great one for me.

So @virtualrick has done a great job of informing and filling in the gaps, so I'm not sure there's a whole lot for me to add at this point. I mainly wanted to pop my head in, apologize for missed info, and make the same offer to conduct any WebEx presentation, demo, or discussion anyone would like to have.

The only point I would add to those already pointed out is to @scottalanmiller's point on hardware platforms. On our site, any references you see to "OmniCube" is our Dell-based platform. So they're there, just not called out as Dell. We can also go to market with Dell like we do Cisco and Lenovo. That part is definitely missing from our website.

scottalanmiller

@bknudtson Welcome!

scottalanmiller

@bknudtson said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:

The only point I would add to those already pointed out is to @scottalanmiller's point on hardware platforms. On our site, any references you see to "OmniCube" is our Dell-based platform. So they're there, just not called out as Dell. We can also go to market with Dell like we do Cisco and Lenovo. That part is definitely missing from our website.

Ah ha, I was wondering if maybe that's what @virtualrick was alluding to. That makes sense, but would definitely look more complete if at least the go to market list included them as well.

bknudtson

@scottalanmiller

@scottalanmiller said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:

@bknudtson said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:

The only point I would add to those already pointed out is to @scottalanmiller's point on hardware platforms. On our site, any references you see to "OmniCube" is our Dell-based platform. So they're there, just not called out as Dell. We can also go to market with Dell like we do Cisco and Lenovo. That part is definitely missing from our website.

Ah ha, I was wondering if maybe that's what @virtualrick was alluding to. That makes sense, but would definitely look more complete if at least the go to market list included them as well.

That discussion is definitely ongoing. I will definitely add this input into the discussion. Thanks!

nadnerB

Thanks for stopping by and answering the questions @virtualrick and @bknudtson

dafyre

@virtualrick said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:

The nodes run from the mid 20k to 150k,

Is there a spec or price sheet listed anywhere?

You've given us a price range (which is good to know, for sure!)... But what are we getting at those buy-in levels?

As others have mentioned -- welcome to ML and thanks for ~~taking our abuse~~ answering our questions!