#221 - End of the Year Show 2021 - Part One

This week, the team take a review of 2021, looking at the events in storage and a lot more. In fact, this episode goes way off-piste in the conversation, so be prepared for public cloud, China, service models and storage unicorns. This is part 1 of a two-part “double header”, the next episode of which will be published in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, enjoy this wide-ranging discussion!

• 00:00:00 – Intros
• 00:01:00 – Cheese and Wine business meetings!
• 00:01:30 – Chris posted 750 posts on Blocks & Files
• 00:05:00 – Storage hardware has had a quiet year
• 00:08:00 – 2021 was the continued march of cloud – with outages
• 00:09:30 – The Edge and cloud – what’s possible? Virtual 5G?
• 00:14:00 – Did Hitachi steal the blueprints for IBM’s mainframe?
• 00:15:30 – How much manufacturing will come home?
• 00:17:00 – Will Intel make chips for AMD?
• 00:20:30 – $6.5b into storage companies, $5b into analytics
• 00:22:00 – Airbytes has appeared “out of nowhere”
• 00:25:30 – Are we in an “analytics bubble”?
• 00:27:15 – Is there a problem with Open Source?
• 00:31:00 – We need the “Java Repair Shop”
• 00:31:45 – On-premises “as a service” – will it work?
• 00:37:00 – Will “as-a-service” put a cloak on the details of technology?
• 00:38:45 – Hardware is still important in the public cloud
• 00:44:00 – Will the cloud market diversify more in 2022?
• 00:48:00 – Cloud vendors have huge engineering teams
• 00:49:00 – Wrap Up

• #186 – End of the Year Show 2020 – Part One
• #187 – End of the Year Show 2020 – Part Two
• #136 – The End of the Year Show 2019

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