Dell EMC World tease: What does 'composable' mean to you, readers?

Analysis A symphony of manageable and composable stuff is coming to Dell World next week; that's if #EMC Converged Systems president Chad Sakac's hints are to be believed. Writing in his Virtual Geek blog guise, Sakac says: "At Dell #EMC World in a week – we will unleash the next volley in our ongoing journey to total #HCI market leadership – stay tuned!" We will Chad. The next volley includes this: As the product and engineering teams work on the next-generation Management and Orchestration stack (code-named “ #Symphony ”) that we will use across blocks/racks/appliances – the idea of a common programmable and open “CI/HCI API” for Dell EMC could be a game-changer – particularly if we can pull this off across CI, HCI, and even into the component elements of the portfolios of servers, networks, storage – and do it in a cool way. So we have Symphony software coming to manage and orchestrate elements in Converged Infrastructure (CI - like Vblocks), hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI - like #VSAN / #VxRail stuff) and composable infrastructure - portfolios of servers, networks, storage. Hold on there. Dell EMC has no composable infrastructure. Are we talking composable like HPE Synergy? And using #NSX, VSAN and #vSphere for networking, storage and servers? The EMC man adds: "We do not believe that this is about creating a proprietary API that is 'bound' to proprietary hardware (storage, network, or servers in rack mount, modular, blade or composable system form – hint, hint, hint) – but rather doing something that is open. I don’t want people to get too excited, we have a ways to go, but if you find yourself in a CF Dojo in Cambridge or the Bay Area – you might find people working on something cool." There's that "composable" word again... and "a proprietary API that is 'bound' to proprietary hardware" sounds like a dig at HPE's Synergy to me. So ... we may be hearing about a Symphony manager to dynamically carve out and monitor sets of virtual server, storage and networking resources from a pool of Dell, and others' hardware products. In other words, kind of a software-defined #Vblocks or VxRails which you provision and de-provision on the fly. ®
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