Paula Long

CEO & Founder, DataGravity intelligent data storage systems for modern datacenters. She is known for integrating analytics and security directly into enterprise-grade storage. · 1 appearance on the record.

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Paula Long co-founded the enterprise storage firm EqualLogic, serving as Vice President of Storage after its $1.4 billion acquisition by Dell. In 2012, she co-founded and served as CEO of DataGravity, developing storage systems that integrated security and analytics directly into enterprise data management.

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0 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 predictions · 1 assertion · 2 opinions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Paula argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up

Paula Long: SMBs will predominantly adopt hybrid architectures spanning metro and public clouds

“In fact, I think metro clouds for the small and medium businesses are gonna be, those are, tend to be local cloud I mean, a service provider's providing On and off-prem services for their customers. I think that's the way most sites will go. Where some will be…”

Paula Long Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:02 a16z Podcast | Dumb Storage Gets Smart

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

293 words/min while actually speaking · 15.3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Paula Long: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,098 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

What they said7 Episodes1

Everything Paula Long said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Paula Long: Nobody will build traditional storage box companies anymore

“Nobody's going to be building a traditional storage box company anymore. Storage box companies are going to become very much a commodity. It's going to be an open source stack, and it's not going to provide the It's gonna provide a container, much like you can…”

Paula Long Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:59 a16z Podcast | Dumb Storage Gets Smart

Opinion

Paula Long: Block-level storage tiering is the dumbest approach to data management

“You can't get dumber than block. You can't get dumber than tiering based on a block. You really want to tier based on the content and the value of the content.”

Paula Long Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:40 a16z Podcast | Dumb Storage Gets Smart

Insight

Paula Long: Enterprise storage lags tech innovation by 10 to 20 years

“Storage is an incredibly conservative technology area, so what you see is, you know, other places where they're innovating, you know, 10 or 20 years before, storage will catch up, but it's not usually the leader.”

Paula Long Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:46 a16z Podcast | Dumb Storage Gets Smart

Opinion

Paula Long: Cloud computing was not required to enable smart storage

“Actually I don't think the cloud really has anything to do with making it possible.”

Paula Long Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:58 a16z Podcast | Dumb Storage Gets Smart

Assertion Partly supported

Paula Long: Privacy fines target 50-person startups as aggressively as Fortune 1000s

“Small companies have the same, and mid-sized companies have the same issues with data privacy as larger companies. It's just not as well publicized, and the fines are the same. The fines are the same. The state and the federal government don't care whether you…”

Paula Long Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:39 a16z Podcast | Dumb Storage Gets Smart

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Paula Long: Web-scale storage pioneers like Coho Data will succeed

“You're going to see other companies, like if you look at like a co-host data, who are doing things at web scale and removing some of the network problems as you get to web scale. Kinds of storage and big end storage. You're going to see guys like that do reall…”

Paula Long Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:37 a16z Podcast | Dumb Storage Gets Smart