Mike Matchett is an independent technology analyst who evaluates enterprise IT, data storage architectures, hybrid cloud, and AI/big data systems. He previously served as a senior analyst covering storage and virtualization at the Taneja Group before establishing Small World Big Data.
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PredictionHeld up
Storage-class memory will ship within a couple quarters
“Well, I think we mentioned the storage class memory that's coming out Intel, Some other folks making a very fast, close to the chip memory that's actually storage. So it'll be faster again than flash, maybe a little bit slower than today's DRAM, but it's going…”
Mike MatchettJan 2, 2019▶ 20:20a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance
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Storage vendors forecast a global hardware shortage within 3 to 5 years
“They're forecasting that there just simply isn't going to be enough storage for all the data we're collecting in a midterm horizon, like three to five years that we're creating so much data that There won't be enough chips. There won't be enough hard drives. T…”
Mike MatchettJan 2, 2019▶ 7:30a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance
Insight
Storage is the most complex infrastructure element due to data gravity
“Storage is really the most complex part of that equation. It takes a lot of effort to protect data, to manage data. Data has gravity. It has momentum. It has Weight in history. So storage is really the critical piece to get right.”
Mike MatchettJan 2, 2019▶ 2:00a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance
PredictionNot checkable as stated
IT departments will lead corporate machine learning adoption
“So IT departments are really going to be looked at as the point of the sword in bringing these advances to the company and not just being seen as reactive operators of infrastructure on the back end. And that's a big shift.”
Mike MatchettJan 2, 2019▶ 18:26a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance
PredictionNot checkable as stated
Companies will face 'data poverty' within two years
“I think there's going to be some companies kind of surprised in a year or two to find that they're not going to have access to the data that they're going to really want to have that's relevant to what they need to do to make the predictions to optimize their …”
Mike MatchettJan 2, 2019▶ 21:08a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance
PredictionHeld up
Storage-class memory will ship within a couple quarters
“Well, I think we mentioned the storage class memory that's coming out Intel, Some other folks making a very fast, close to the chip memory that's actually storage. So it'll be faster again than flash, maybe a little bit slower than today's DRAM, but it's going…”
Mike MatchettJan 2, 2019▶ 20:20a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance
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