#222 – End of the Year Show 2021 – Part Two

In this second episode reviewing storage news of 2021, Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat joins the team to bring his opinion to the discussion.

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In this episode, Chris, Martin and Chris are joined by Infinidat CMO, Eric Herzog. The aim of this continuing discussion is to review the storage news and events from 2021. As usual though, the agenda gets trashed and the conversation goes down a series of rabbit holes. However, the team do manage to discuss the changing world of storage management, SmartNICs, the expansion of Amazon FSx, storage-as-a-service and a range of predictions.

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Timeline

00:00:00 – Intros00:00:40 – We’ve increased our numbers by an Eric!00:03:00 – We said goodbye to some storage companies in 202100:05:15 – Unstructured growth is driving success in file companies00:06:30 – Hybrid cloud and data mobility is a 2020s issue00:10:15 – Successful companies? Weka, VAST, Infinidat00:12:30 – Eric sees a multi-cloud world with data placed tactically00:15:15 – How much AI do we need in storage management?00:17:18 – Storage Management has changed dramatically in 10 years00:19:45 – Chris gives his opinion on Nebulon’s SmartNIC00:22:30 – Would Infinidat support SmartNICs?00:28:00 – Amazon extended the FSx solution offerings in 202100:30:00 – FSx for ONTAP – will this drive other vendors to follow suit?00:32:40 – Chris sees a need for all storage vendors to offer cloud implementations00:36:00 – What is Greenlake – we’re not really sure….00:40:00 – Does “as a service” create hardware agnostic customers?00:42:45 – Let’s start with the predictions – is analytics a bubble?00:48:50 – Eric sees application value as a big issue in the next 12 months00:50:20 – Chris sees CXL and PCIe as big drivers of change00:51:00 – Martin sees storage performance as a bit risk00:53:30 – Four wise men? Creating some anti-predictions00:54:15 – Wrap Up

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#221 – End of the Year Show 2021 – Part One#190 – NVIDIA BlueField SmartNICs & DPUs#180 – SmartNICs – Pliops Storage Processor#177 – SmartNICs and Project Monterey#217 – Introduction to CXL wit Jim Pappas

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