Digital Realty CTO on why storage is the datacenter challenge no one's talking about

When the great and the good of the datacenter world got together in Cannes last week for Datacloud Global Congress, storage was barely mentioned, with shortages of GPUs, power and land the key talking points. In fact, storage was literally not on the agenda. The CEO of one datacenter operator told us: "It's still GPUs, and …

[Doctor Syntax]

"But what we're starting to see is with a lot of these models data is everything."

Starting to see? Data always was everything. it's why the job was called data processing before it became all posh and called itself IT.

[ecofeco]

Tech douche bros invented everything! Just ask them!

From the wheel to even trains! And who hasn't benefited from the wonders of the blue-tooth toothbrush and the always connected washing machine!

[ecofeco]

Storage a problem?

Maybe don't steal everyone's personal information and have some damn obsession with knowing which hand everyone wipes their arse with?

Or stealing in general? https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

So yeah, choke on that problem.

[Androgynous Cow Herd]

Re: Storage a problem?

I'm not too sure why you are conflating the dumpster fire of AI with the outhouse fire of Blockchain/NFT. https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com is all about the latter.

DRT is generally a pretty smart company - In any war, the only sure winner is the arms dealer, and DRT provides services to all sides of these buzzwordy things for a price.

"Storage is a solved problem" is an interesting take, and the misuse of "Token" in his statement is a little suspect, but generally I don't see much here that is even controversial. Business want low latency storage, the curation of redundant copies of data can be a challenging problem. Also, Pontifex Maximus is Catholic and ursine mammals defecate in woodland areas.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Storage a problem?

>"Storage is a solved problem" is an interesting take

storage = function($)