The main reason we emphasized storage is because we built it with scaling that in mind, that's all. We've also built it with live tail in mind too. It's an okay differentiator since we believe we can handle the volume with our infrastructure. We also followed up with UI/UX which at the end of the day should make us a platform you can goto, get what you need and go back to work.
Give us a try, even if you don't think you'll use the GBs. We have alerting, field parsing and live tail. Analytics is the only piece we don't have today, but we're working towards it.