This week, Martin and the two Chris’s look back at 2020 for the highlights and lowlights of the storage industry. What’s been hyped and what’s been a success? Will we be travelling in 2021 and what impact has the lockdown had on 2020 sales? This episode is the first of a two parter over the next couple of weeks before we close down for the Christmas period.

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Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intros * 00:00:56 – Chris has not been to China * 00:01:55 – Chris M is on a health kick! * 00:02:48 – Gartner analysts haven’t moved * 00:04:05 – Chris M sees all-flash arrays as a disappointment * 00:05:20 – Sales has had a tough year * 00:07:00 – What about conferences? * 00:08:11 – Chris would consider ExCeL – if it wasn’t closed * 00:10:15 – Is it the end for influencers and big conferences? * 00:12:00 – Just call me Mr Chips! * 00:13:00 – The cloud is great – apart from AWS us-east-1! * 00:14:30 – What happened with fund raising in 2020? * 00:17:30 – How was Zerto funded this year? * 00:21:30 – How did the Kasten/Veeam acquisition work? * 00:24:50 – Veeam must be an IPO target at some point * 00:27:00 – NASUNI could be an IPO target too * 00:28:00 – Jensen likes leather jackets and no socks * 00:29:00 – Datrium lives on in VMware 00:29:35 – CloudJumper or CloudSweater? * 00:31:50 – Whatever happened to Stellus? * 00:33:00 – Remember Whiptail? * 00:34:00 – What tech has been over-hyped in 2020? * 00:41:00 – NVMe Ethernet drives are coming * 00:42:40 – Wrap Up

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