E Pluribus Unum: The Promise, Limits, and Opportunities of Scale-out Storage

While the world's stored data is growing exponentially—doubling roughly every two years—hardware grows exponentially cheaper. Long term up-front storage acquisition practices create prodigious idle capacity purchased at premium prices. Scale-out storage promises to address this problem by turning static, monolithic systems into growing, distributed, systems. Scale-out must clear many hurdles to become a seamless replacement for all monolithic storage, and peta-scale scale-out storage systems create new data manageability challenges. 

Peter Godman brings 20 years of industry systems experience to Qumulo. As VP of Engineering and CEO of Corensic, Peter brought the world's first thin-hypervisor based product to market. As Director of Software Engineering at Isilon, he led development of several major releases of Isilon's award-winning OneFS distributed filesystem and was inventor of 18 patented technologies. Peter studied math and computer science at MIT.