This week Chris and Martin are joined by Erik Kaulberg, Vice President at Infinidat. Erik has appeared on the podcast before and this time is here to talk about how we build storage systems of the future. You can tell from the introductions that we recorded this episode towards the end of 2019 – we haven’t been transported into the future!

With many choices in new media, system builders have a wide choice of persistent storage from which to build new architectures. There’s NAND flash, traditional hard drives and a range of technologies such as SCM and MRAM.

In an ideal world, we’d simply build systems from the best performing media, but cost and resiliency factor into the equation. Building future systems will continue to be a balancing act of choosing the right media for the right data type and matching the two efficiently.

Will there be one platform to rule them all? Probably not, but we may see differences in core and edge designs.

You can follow Erik on Linkedin and find more about Infinidat at https://infinidat.com/

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Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intros* 00:02:54 – What are the future challenges?* 00:05:05 – Is any data truly unstructured?* 00:06:07 – What new media types are we seeing?* 00:08:40 – Application rewrites may be stalling new technology* 00:09:50 – All media sits on a graph combing cost, performance, endurance & capacity* 00:12:50 – Is it practical to put all data onto the fastest media?* 00:15:30 – Will we see more “media defined” storage systems?* 00:17:47 – Is more data moving to all-flash systems over time?* 00:20:26 – Hyper-scalers worked out their storage architectures many years ago* 00:23:31 – How will encryption be built into future storage designs?* 00:27:40 – Should we build one “platform to rule them all”?* 00:31:53 – We’re not going to see an end to new platforms & solutions* 00:33:23 – Will all future storage systems be based on disk or flash?* 00:35:12 – Wrap Up

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Related Podcasts & Blogs

* #113 – The Expanding Storage Hierarchy with Erik Kaulberg* #130 – Making Money in the Storage Business* #138 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part I)* Building a Golden Data Repository

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