VIDEO: Delivering deterministic performance is not an easy thing to do. Every application connected to a shared storage environment impacts every other application. This causes customers to design for worst case, or peak load, which means for most of the time the system is overprovisioned. Vendors haven't solved the problem because it needs to be built into the system from day one, you can't just bolt it on.
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VIDEO: The biggest issue that we have as an industry is that as technology vendors is that we love to start with the technology or product and not the customer problem.
Shared storage is a great example. Shared storage was...
VIDEO: Colorado can be much colder than California, which can make starting companies harder because garages in Colorado get really cold. Since Kelly couldn't code in the garage in the winter he decided to go to the basement. NexGen is the third company founded there. Over the years, it's changed with new dry wall and paint but the old...