So EMC’s not going to become a server vendor even though, as Chris Mellor points out, they showcased some very nice purpose-built server hardware at EMC World. And even though Jeremy Burton admitted they were, kinda, making and selling servers. Why?
He observed: “Server vendors put DAS (direct-attached storage) in servers. Storage vendors put compute in storage. Over time these hybrid configurations will get more workloads.”
So basically what Jeremy is saying that the compute in storage is purpose built and to offload functions that would otherwise require an external server (physical or virtual), for management/monitoring as well as application integrated tools.Â