[Spooky23]

Having a contrarian position isn't a crime.

Most enterprise arrays these days are really software dressed up behind the hardware. As a customer, you get to pay for the hardware multiple times. This is really obvious in the backup space if you compare a software-only solution like CommVault to Avatar/DataDomain.

If you make the conscious decison to invest in engineering talent and have a lot of need for midrange storage, you can yield a positive return on that investment. If you're growing fast and go EMC, you'll invest significant capital in administering those solutions and negotiating anyway.

But if you don't have the resources to staff it, or the systems for provisioning/service management to replace the consoles you get from a vendor product, you don't belong in the business.