why aren't all 7 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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…”
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…”