Hi everyone, welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal. Today's episode is all about storage. With the cost of

system memory decreasing, memory from both storage and compute will be the exact same thing. So as we

enter a new era of distributed computing, and what Peter has also argued in a popular deck is the

end of the cloud, how does storage evolve? How is this affected by trends in computing such as machine and deep learning? Joining us to have this conversation today, our age of the cloud. How does storage evolve? How is this affected by trends in computing,

such as machine and deep learning? Joining us to have this conversation today are H.Y, CEO and co-founder

of Alexio, formerly Takion, which came out of the UC Berkeley Amplab, the birthplace of other

industry-defining technology such as Spark and Mezos, general partner Peter Levine, who

has funded memory-centric infrastructure companies at every level of the Berkeley data analytics deck, the badass deck, and Mike Matchett, senior analyst at Tenasia Group, which covers everything related to big data, compute, and storage.

Okay, so that's the intros.

To kick things off, I just have to ask, why should we care about storage?

I feel like it's a dark underbelly of computing that no one really cares about. Look, I mean, while storage may be the underbelly, without storage,

computers wouldn't work. And so it's one of the most important, you know, compute networking

and storage are the three fundamental elements of what makes the entire internet work and makes cloud computing work.

And without storage, you wouldn't have databases. And without databases, you wouldn't have big data.

You wouldn't have analytics. You wouldn't have anything. Because information needs to be stored and it

needs to be retrieved. So storage is hugely, hugely important. And, you know, the interesting thing is I think we're in a very transformative period of time here where storage is undergoing a bit of a renaissance.

And I think it's going to transform how computing and applications work in the not too distant future.

When I got started in storage, I thought, hey, this is really the state, the tried and true

stuff. Compute was where it was at. You know, there was all these advantages and advances

happening in client server and then cloud and new chips coming along every year. But the more

I got into storage, the more I figured out that

storage is really the most complex part of that equation. It takes a lot of effort to protect data,

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