Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Portworx CEO Murli Mohan Thirumale (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Timing-wise, how fast can that revenue mix change? How fast does the consequent profitability impact going to reflect based on how many Pure Storage customers you can immediately sell the Portworx stuff to?  Murli Thirumale: Pure Storage has about 8,000 customers. A good majority of those is what I would call classic enterprise

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Sramana Mitra: What does the ecosystem look like in terms of competitors? Does Portworx have competitors? Murli Thirumale: Yes, we do. I’ll give you an example of the competitive environment by giving you a few use cases so that we can talk about why our competitors are not able to do what we do. An

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