Current workloads at data centers are changing at a blistering pace and fast becoming data-centric. Modern cloud-native applications are written as microservices distributed across network connected servers and many of these applications need to process large amounts of data quickly—data that cannot fit in a single server and therefore needs to be “sharded” or spread across many servers. In this environment, the next generation data center infrastructure must be disaggregated, secure, durable and efficient with sophisticated data reduction techniques, while still providing high performance. This presentation will review broad industry trends and cloud data center requirements before outlining how an emerging class of storage system will differ from existing storage. This presentation will also introduce the industry’s first true scale out storage system suitable for next-generation data centers.