Manually moving data across storage environments takes weeks and degrades value
Haoyuan 'H.Y.' Li · a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance · Jan 2, 2019 · at 14:23
Haoyuan 'H.Y.' Li, co-creator of Alluxio and computer science researcher, describes the efficiency loss caused by enterprise data silos when running multi-system data analytics.
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“Today, if people want to really see the global data, they move the data manually from one storage to another storage to put them together to analyze it. Even though the data could be in memory in a final storage, But because of this manual process or this process of moving data around is, first of all, it's very hard to manage. Secondly, the whole process is very time consuming. It could be easily like weeks or even longer. So that makes things much harder and data has, have less value.”
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