John Furrier49
Q9: Any predictions on scale out? Enterprises are looking for: what will happen? where it's going? what will be the future capability? Where does all this lead to? what should companies do to prepare?
Andrew Miller
I think it will become table stakes. If a solution isn't scale out, it won't make the short list.
Andrew Miller
even if the buyers don't know exactly what scale out is, they'll know it provides certain characteristics they care about
jeff dinisco
@andriven agree, the question is will true scale out be table stakes or some modicum of it
Patrick Rogers
Scale-out will be a fundamental requirement for secondary storage in 5 years (Backup, Test/Dev, Analytics)
Stephen Pao
At the edge, everything is converging as endpoints get more powerful (look at the power of an iPhone). In the datacenter, everything has to scale out.
Patrick Rogers
Most enterprise data will be stored, protected and accessed via scale-out systems in 5 years (trend already underway)
jeff dinisco
will be required for anything of significant size, have to have the ability to lose a node or nodes without impact
Andrew Miller
Scale out in the form of hyperconverged infrastructure is already upending the industry. Classic large storage margins and long services engagements are a huge opportunity for new companies to productize the traditional complexity + long standups
I am John White
scale out is going to turn the traditional backup industry on its head. That will be the easy entry into the enterprise.
John Furrier
I think that scale out will be the driver for "multi-cloud" where the world will spin back to the datacenter in a new form factor cloud ops will be the new IT operating model
John Furrier
Software apps will leverage a horizontal stack (a new capability) that will automate lots of non-differentiated stuff and move the value activities up the stack
Andrew Miller
@johna_white Couldn't agree more (obviously). In the "solution searching for a problem", scale out can impact faster in areas where customers don't like their current products. Backup is classically one of those areas - no one likes what they're using.
I am John White
If you think about scale out on the macro level in sites instead of hardware objects we will see a new demand on the network that will require further innovation past just 5G.
Chris Harney
I think scale out has confused the industry. if you can scale out backup infinitely is it backup or is it archive
Chris Dwan
@johna_white Indeed, IoT will drive "scale out like" solutions, though I'm sure we'll know them by another name.
Andrew Miller
@csharney I'd posit that the difference between backup and archive is RTO. Some day if RTO is free there's no diiference between backup and archive. Not the case today though...
Chris Dwan
@csharney Backup vs. archive is a conversation that needs well defined terms in order to be useful.
Stephen Pao
@csharney Difference between backup and archive is merely the retention policy and whether you choose to delete the data off primary storage. 😀
Andrew Miller
@fdmts In some ways, I think of IoT just as "the source of the growing data tidal wave". I almost don't care what the data is...there will just be so much of it that we can't cope without some major infrastructure paradigm shifts (bingo!).
Chris Dwan
@andriven I think of archive as being associated with immutable, primary data and backup being a versioned thing.
Stephen Pao
@csharney Scaling out secondary storage has been the response to growing silos of primary storage that have often been constrained for performance, management, or technology lifecycle reasons.
Andrew Miller
@dinisco I'm truly unsure if "scale out" will become enough of a brand name for most customers to look for it. The capabilities it creates definitely will be required + table stakes though if only because they align with all the public cloud promises + hyp