Ramana Jonnala

CEO, Nstream · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jonnala is the CEO of Nstream, a real-time data application platform that analyzes streaming data in motion. He previously co-founded and led Andreessen Horowitz-backed storage company Coho Data, following senior product leadership roles at XenSource and Citrix.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names 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.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Jonnala: VMware ESX hypervisor relies heavily on open-source software

“And guess what, JR, to your point, right, which is the next Cisco VMware sorry, VMware, that's open source too. I mean, literally, if you looked at how much of ESX is based on open source, It's just that, you know, they probably don't come out and claim it rig…”

Ramana Jonnala Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:59 a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Jonnala: Flash memory fails more frequently than traditional spinning hard disks

“Flash actually fails. More than a disk. Disk has been around for 50 years. Flash actually fails quite a lot.”

Ramana Jonnala Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:38 a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center

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Assertion Contradicted

Jonnala: Flash memory fails more frequently than traditional spinning hard disks

“Flash actually fails. More than a disk. Disk has been around for 50 years. Flash actually fails quite a lot.”

Ramana Jonnala Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:38 a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Jonnala: OpenStack will become the next VMworld for cloud innovation

“OpenStack Summit this year had 4000 attendees, 5000, more than doubling from the past year. It's going to become the next VMworld, to tell you the truth, because that is going to be the platform for, you know, cloud innovation or an application innovation and …”

Ramana Jonnala Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:06 a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center

Assertion Supported

Jonnala: VMware ESX hypervisor relies heavily on open-source software

Ramana Jonnala Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:59 a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center

Insight

Jonnala: Hardware customization value is shifting to software orchestration

“This is where the value is not as much in hardware customizations anymore. It's about commodity components and letting the software be, you know, letting the software be capable of orchestrating ease of management and ease of scale.”

Ramana Jonnala Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:27 a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center

Insight

Jonnala: Loosely coupled architecture is better because software handles component failures

“Loosely coupled is just better, because you can then, you don't get sort of obsessed with a single component failure.”

Ramana Jonnala Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:07 a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center

Insight

Jonnala: Enterprise infrastructure startups get most traction in greenfield projects

“Enterprise sales is still the same as it was 10 years ago. So, you bring the new technologies, and you bring everything, but it's still, you go You know, the best chance you have is new apps, new developments, and greenfield environments.”

Ramana Jonnala Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:44 a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Mobile Invades the Data Center	Jan 2, 2019	8m

Ramana Jonnala

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