Evidence receipt / prediction
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: prediction
5 Aug 2017 Acquired Opsware (with Michel Feaster)
“I mean virtualization is now, I mean, I don’t know that there’s any data center probably in the world that doesn’t at least have some degree of virtualization now.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- Claim type
- prediction
- Recorded
- 5 Aug 2017
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Opsware (with Michel Feaster)
Transcript context
…Yeah, I mean that's all the obvious math. I guess that was implied in my head. I think probably if that didn’t make sense, HP wouldn’t have already been in this space, so maybe that's why I didn’t reference it. This was the future of the data center, right? I mean virtualization is now, I mean, I don’t know that there’s any data center probably in the world that doesn’t at least have some degree of virtualization now. Oh, yeah. And oh by the way, now it’s become containerization. So if you have won this battle, in theory you have a very strategic control point. So to me that goes to the now you’re in the second question which is, okay, if it’s either go buy the winner or shut your business down, you’ve asked the next question which is, is this strategic land? Do we have to own this land? Is it a strategic control point to owning the future disruption of the enterprise or is it strategic to my buyer the point where if I don’t have this, I undermine other businesses?…
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