with legacy products that have become less relevant in an age of consolidating compute and storage power in
public clouds running
commodity hardware, so they have to figure out how to move into this new world while lugging all that baggage.
And, insult to injury, many of the major
public cloud players run
commodity hardware made to their specifications by no - name hardware makers — not IBM, EMC, HP, or Cisco — making the transition even more difficult for the old guard.