Jai Menon’s Blog

The Top 4 Public Cloud Myths

The public cloud has been a disruptive force in our industry. More and more workloads are moving to the public cloud because of its many benefits. Current conventional wisdom is that the public cloud will ultimately be the place most workloads will run, and there is no need to…

Four Storage Predictions

The rise of cloud, the emergence of integrated systems, and new interconnect technologies are all impacting storage. Here are some thoughts on their influence on the future evolution of storage.

Memory 2.0 — The Persistent Memory Era

As DRAM approaches scaling limits, there is significant industry investment in alternatives. An approach called persistent memory (PM) is emerging that is likely to influence enterprises in important ways. This article describes PM, how applications will benefit…

The future of Storage or “The SAN is back”

Jai Menon

Recently, there has been a trend away from Storage Area Network or SAN storage and towards direct-attached storage or DAS. Many are predicting the death of SANs. Here, I take a contrarian view. This blog argues that we…

The Future of Cloud is Clear, and its not all AWS

A few years ago, conventional wisdom seemed to be that, eventually, all workloads would migrate to the public cloud; more specifically that they would all move to the AWS public cloud.