Why custom storage architectures can leave you with a large doorstop?

With the ever-increasing need to push the boundaries of performance with storage and feed the insatiable appetite for performance and capacity requirements of storage, many companies are trying to innovate with custom hardware architectures. In this talk we will look at the pro's and con's of such architectures and contrast that to off the shelf hardware solutions that are available combined with software defined features that mean these type of solutions can provide many varied capabilities and a more flexible future.