Paula Long: Nobody will build traditional storage box companies anymore
Paula Long · a16z Podcast | Dumb Storage Gets Smart · Jan 2, 2019 · at 14:59
Paula Long, CEO and founder of DataGravity, discusses the future shift from legacy hardware storage to intelligent software platforms with a16z partner Peter Levine.
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“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 go up any highway and find a container you can rent for a hundred bucks a month and put junk in you don't want.”
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