https://www.crowdcha... How are the roles of storage and data management impacting each other and co-evolving?

Eric Herzog
Storage and data management are merging together and even in the "old" paradigm storage was the critical foundation for data management. All data does reside on storage

Steve McDowell
Data has 'come alive'. Storage today is less about bytes on media, and much more about keeping application engines fed, whether analytics, HPC, or BI. The ability to understand & balance data-centric workloads is becoming the new job for the storage administrator.
Jeffrey Eckard
Multi-cloud requires the ability to consume physical, virtual and software-based systems and data services that enable enterprises to use tools to manage data where they want to operate their workloads...

David Floyer
Software defined storage & HCI in general is bringing a systems view of storage and storage management, and higher levels of automation.