Why is massive scalability such a big deal? Today’s appliances already scale enough to meet the needs of the majority of customers.

We agree. Appliances can scale to dozens of servers, addressing the needs for many smaller customers. Many of these customers will adopt VCE Appliance offerings, such as VxRail. While appliances also meet the technical and performance requirements of enterprise departmental or ROBO use cases, VCE customers do not want to create pervasive silos of infrastructure that are prescriptively targeted for specific applications. They want the ability to flexibly scale deployments to meet the evolving requirements of centralized, modern data centers.