Q use a phrase that I say a lot in the podcast. Um, but I think it's actually really true of our times, which is when we say there's a lot more data, that's a difference of degree, not just kind. Why do we need a different type of solution? Why can't we just keep doing the same things that we were doing before, but just do it bigger and better?
A So I think this is like many other things in the world. Like when you make a cell phone at the beginning, Cell phone just make a phone call, and now the cell phone is a different type of cell phone. Similar thing is also happening in the storage industry as well. At the very beginning, you're storing the block devices, the bits and bits, just bits, raw data. Beyond the block devices, we had file system, a different type of file system. Now we have blob storage, object storage, and in the meantime, we have so much innovation in the open source area as well. And you have public cloud storage from Several huge vendors in the world like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, uh, et cetera. You have different type of storage solution provided by traditional vendors like EMC, like HPE, IBM. They're providing these new innovations.
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