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Re:The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D... by scurvy on Friday April 21, 2017 @12:53AM (#14163171)
What's a "high-NVMe chassis" and what large cloud provider uses Dell gear these days? They long ago killed the C-series line as everyone switched to Quanta (FB et al) or Supermicro (smaller players). The only people buying Dell are enterprises, and they don't buy in C-series volume nor are they price conscious.
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Re:The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D... by bbulkow on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:36PM (#14196668)
The truely humongous buyers, like Amazon / Google / FB, certainly don't buy dell anymore, also don't buy software from people like Aerospike.

Medium-size companies ( say, box, or AppLovin, or PayPal ) buy software, have some cost consciousness, and buy Dell.

I expect Dell will come out with some chassis closer to what Supermicro has been offering to the market, I also see some defection just like you do. However, that's all speculation.

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