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#186 – End of the Year Show 2020 – Part One

11 December 2020 by Chris Evans

This week, Martin and the two Chris’s look back at 2020 for the highlights and lowlights of the storage industry. What’s been hyped and what’s been a success? Will we be travelling in 2021 and what impact has the lockdown had on 2020 sales? This episode is the first of a two parter over the next couple of weeks before we close down for the Christmas period.

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Timeline

  • 00:00:00 – Intros
  • 00:00:56 – Chris has not been to China
  • 00:01:55 – Chris M is on a health kick!
  • 00:02:48 – Gartner analysts haven’t moved
  • 00:04:05 – Chris M sees all-flash arrays as a disappointment
  • 00:05:20 – Sales has had a tough year
  • 00:07:00 – What about conferences?
  • 00:08:11 – Chris would consider ExCeL – if it wasn’t closed
  • 00:10:15 – Is it the end for influencers and big conferences?
  • 00:12:00 – Just call me Mr Chips!
  • 00:13:00 – The cloud is great – apart from AWS us-east-1!
  • 00:14:30 – What happened with fund raising in 2020?
  • 00:17:30 – How was Zerto funded this year?
  • 00:21:30 – How did the Kasten/Veeam acquisition work?
  • 00:24:50 – Veeam must be an IPO target at some point
  • 00:27:00 – NASUNI could be an IPO target too
  • 00:28:00 – Jensen likes leather jackets and no socks
  • 00:29:00 – Datrium lives on in VMware 00:29:35 – CloudJumper or CloudSweater?
  • 00:31:50 – Whatever happened to Stellus?
  • 00:33:00 – Remember Whiptail?
  • 00:34:00 – What tech has been over-hyped in 2020?
  • 00:41:00 – NVMe Ethernet drives are coming
  • 00:42:40 – Wrap Up

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