Novak: Hardware commoditization always wins, requiring smart software to manage failure
Yoram Novak · a16z Podcast | The Consumerization of IT · Jan 2, 2019 · at 2:53
Yoram Novak is the CEO of Maxta. He is discussing historical hardware shifts in enterprise storage toward commodity components.
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“Any time commodities, commoditization happened in the hardware from a cost point of view, from a Advanced technology point of view, it's always winning, and what you need to make it all work together is smart software that put all the pieces together and make relatively unreliable hardware work in a better way than it would work without this sophisticated software.”
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