Talking the Future of Tech
We review 2025 predictions today and dig into why I think this year is going to be both boring and terrifying for a lot of enterprise IT leaders. That, of course, spans Amazon, Reinvent storage, VMware, AI, and Agentic AI – we run the gamut on what is coming and why this is actually going to be a very challenging year.
Transcript: otter.ai/u/H6UvLC-r2zmBO9A5jf…?utm_source=copy_url
Reference: zenoh.io by ZettaScale
How can we structure incentives to build strong, resilient infrastructure? Today we talk about power infrastructure.
There are a lot of commercial incentives for internet providers and for consumers to have good internet, but there aren’t the same incentives for consumers to have reliable power systems. We’re seeing a rash of failures and faults in the grid.
In this conversation, we talk about storage systems and resilience of the grid, not by putting more wires in the ground but by actually creating incentives for people to have independent supplies, and independent sources of generation that can support them.
Image: www.pexels.com/photo/orange-batt…-surface-7012272/
Transcript: otter.ai/u/DENsKVB5VibrKpDCLAjoFj4Jrqs
Rob’s Hot Take:
In the August 11th Cloud 2030 episode, Rob Hirschfeld discusses power infrastructure resilience and incentives, highlighting the challenges and innovations in making the power grid more distributed and autonomous. He raises the question of who will bear the cost of improving resilience in individual power experiences and suggests that employers might play a crucial role in providing incentives, either at a city level or by helping employees achieve reliable and resilient power at home. The episode explores the interconnectedness of individual systems and discusses the incentives and innovations shaping the future. Check out the full conversation at the2030.cloud for an in-depth exploration of these topics.
Joining the podcast is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zadara, Nelson Nahum. (www.zadara.com)
About Zadara
Zadara is agile, secure enterprise cloud storage, built to meet the demands of hybrid IT. We help organizations eliminate the cost and complexity traditionally associated with enterprise data storage, by providing industry-leading enterprise data storage solutions as a fully-managed service, with 100%-uptime SLA and consumption-based pricing. Zadara uses a combination of industry-standard hardware and patented Zadara software to deliver the power of enterprise-class data storage and management — with the convenience of the cloud. Any data type. Any protocol. Any location. Zadara is available via public clouds (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, and more), managed service providers, data centers, colocation partners, and on premises in customers’ data centers.d.
Joining us this week is Niraj Tolia, Co-Founder and CEO, Kasten. He talks about his company’s focus on the cloud-native ecosystem and how Kasten is tackling Day 2 data management challenges to help enterprises confidently run stateful applications on Kubernetes. In particular, they have developed a unique application-centric approach to help operations teams with their backup/recovery, disaster recovery, and cross-cluster and cross-cloud mobility requirements.
Before starting Kasten, Niraj was the Senior Director of Software Engineering at EMC/Maginatics and was responsible for the CloudBoost family of data protection products. Prior to EMC’s acquisition of Maginatics, he was a founding member of the Maginatics team and played multiple roles within the company including VP of Engineering, Chief Architect, and Staff Engineer. Niraj received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, where, as a part of the Parallel Data Lab, he worked on distributed storage systems. He also received his BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.