Well, I only glanced at their current offering, missed the VMware part. My request was mostly wishful thinking.
I.e. instead of VMware it'd be more useful for us to hook in with a FUSE-layer or a patched variant of a filesystem such as GlusterFS.
You're of course correct about the pricing. Their current prices cover some middle-ground but would need to be discounted to make it feasible for larger deployments. However, at the low-end (your 20T figure) the price seems already justifiable when you factor in staff and infrastructure costs (rack+power alone make up for half of the difference).
I.e. instead of VMware it'd be more useful for us to hook in with a FUSE-layer or a patched variant of a filesystem such as GlusterFS.
You're of course correct about the pricing. Their current prices cover some middle-ground but would need to be discounted to make it feasible for larger deployments. However, at the low-end (your 20T figure) the price seems already justifiable when you factor in staff and infrastructure costs (rack+power alone make up for half of the difference).