Aron: CPU and disk speeds outpaced networking growth 100-to-1
Mohit Aran · Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199 · Mar 9, 2016 · at 10:03
Cohesity founder Mohit Aron explains the architectural shift that motivated the creation of hyper-converged infrastructure.
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“The network speeds in the last 15 years have only grown by a factor of 10. Whereas the disk speeds and the CPU speeds have grown phenomenally. Maybe a hundred acts, or sometimes even a thousand acts.”
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