Disrupting the Storage Industry? - How Small Startups Can Change the Traditional, Stuffy Storage Landscape

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Adrian Cockcroft

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Two trends are disrupting the storage industry. One is the expected march of technology, as commoditization turns high end features into basic needs, and turns exclusive custom hardware into open source software. The other is organizational, using DevOps to increase the speed of development silos are broken down, automation replaces manual operations, and the storage admin is replaced by an API call. Solid State Disk has moved from attached storage, to the IO bus, and is now about to appear directly on the memory bus. Highly available replication of that storage has moved out of the storage domain, using open source NoSQL data stores and distributed filesystems to create clouds based on Redundant Arrays of Independent Nodes (RAIN).