Inside The Data Cortex. Paris is burning but it takes us to less than five

minutes to begin arguing about Disney movies.

an all flash event and asks Stephen to speak. He opens by telling them Flash

doesn’t matter anymore.

changes do not kill companies who know how to deal with media changes. Mark

thinks the most dangerous competitors are the large companies doing business in

different ways.

laments to the EMC product family slide when it comes to Management & Orchestration.

Stephen believes that every year in the latter half of this decade is the EMC

year of M&O. Customers say that if EMC didn’t have ViPR it would have to go

and create something like ViPR. Enterprise Copy Data Management, the protection

orchestration layer.

an increasing interest in standards since SMI-S is now looking weather beaten.

worked for Stephen when he added so many options to the NDMP dump command that

he had to move to capital letters.

changes, but stubbing files always sucks.

80s TV shows. Where are the members of The Cosby Show now?

has fallen. Listener recommendation Wool starts well but finishes poorly. Mark

is reading about why Ireland should leave the Euro. The Big Short, highly

recommended for long haul flight viewing.

Star Trek, Hugh Jackman is now Old Man

Wolverine, 16 Super Hero movies a year and the worst movie Mark paid to see in 2016.