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Assertion Supported
Levine: No Open-Source Company Has Been Fully Displaced by Cloud Providers
“Can you name a single example of a company that's been fully displaced by a cloud provider? And the answer is no. And so I think that our concerns around large cloud vendors coming in and just co-opting an open source project and putting you out of business, t…”
Peter Levine Oct 21, 2019 ▶ 8:52 How to Build an Open Source Business
Prediction Partly held up
Levine: Machine learning applications will execute at edge endpoints, not the cloud
“So the only way that we can look into an image or look into the massive amounts of data is with machine learning, and that machine learning, the algorithms and the applications employing machine learning will run at the end point. It's not going to be machine …”
Peter Levine Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 10:25 The End of Cloud Computing
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Levine: Total connected computing devices will expand into the trillions
“I can imagine a world where there will be trillions of devices out there. So if you think about the challenges of management, security, data, all of the issues of distributed computing, that's now going to, it's the opportunity and the challenge of what we're …”
Peter Levine Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 9:30 The End of Cloud Computing
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Sensor and machine data volume will expand by orders of magnitude
“It will be literally orders of magnitude and in the exact mathematical sense, orders of magnitude, more data that needs to be stored in process.”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:56 a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance
Assertion Supported
Levine: Cumulus Networks matches Cisco and Juniper performance on commodity hardware
“What they are doing is taking commodity hardware, putting a layer of Open source and closed source software on top of commodity servers and turning that into a new switch that is as fast as is, you know, as capable as some of the most proprietary systems that …”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:07 a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
Assertion Supported
Autonomous vehicles generate 10 gigabytes of data per mile driven
“Self-driving car collects 10 gigabytes of data a mile, right?”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:44 a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance
Prediction Held up
Levine: New programming languages will emerge specifically for data analytics
“I also believe that there will be new programming languages developed specifically around the notion of data processing and data analytics that are very specific to these types of use cases.”
Peter Levine Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 21:04 The End of Cloud Computing
Assertion Supported
Levine: Non-autonomous luxury cars already contain about 100 CPUs
“A luxury automobile, not a self-driving car right now, has about a hundred CPUs in it today.”
Peter Levine Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 4:53 The End of Cloud Computing
Assertion Supported
Levine: Self-driving cars generate 10GB of data per mile
“A self-driving car generates about 10 gigabytes of data per mile.”
Peter Levine Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 14:43 The End of Cloud Computing
Assertion Supported
Levine: Lytro cameras generate 300GB of data per second
“A Lytro camera, which is a data center in a camera, generates 300 gigabytes of data a second.”
Peter Levine Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 14:49 The End of Cloud Computing
Assertion Supported
Levine: iPhone 7 chip contains 3.3 billion transistors
“The current iPhone seven Has 3.3 billion, with a B, transistors. The original Pentium processor, right, in one of those big sheet metal cabinets in 1993, had 3.1 million with an M transistors.”
Peter Levine Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 22:05 The End of Cloud Computing
Assertion Supported
Levine: Bulk of Open-Source Venture Investment Occurred From 2009 to 2019
“The last 10 years, there really has been a renaissance in open source. This graph shows the bulk of investments have occurred over the past 10 years.”
Peter Levine Oct 21, 2019 ▶ 0:19 How to Build an Open Source Business
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