This time,

Inside The Data Cortex. Paris is burning but it takes us to less than fiveminutes to begin arguing about Disney movies.

EMC holds

an all flash event and asks Stephen to speak. He opens by telling them Flashdoesn’t matter anymore.

Media

changes do not kill companies who know how to deal with media changes. Markthinks the most dangerous competitors are the large companies doing business indifferent ways.

Mark

laments to the EMC product family slide when it comes to Management & Orchestration.Stephen believes that every year in the latter half of this decade is the EMCyear of M&O. Customers say that if EMC didn’t have ViPR it would have to goand create something like ViPR. Enterprise Copy Data Management, the protectionorchestration layer.

Stephen has

an increasing interest in standards since SMI-S is now looking weather beaten.

Case sensitivity

worked for Stephen when he added so many options to the NDMP dump command thathe had to move to capital letters.

Archiving

changes, but stubbing files always sucks.

Terrible

80s TV shows. Where are the members of The Cosby Show now?

Moby Dick

has fallen. Listener recommendation Wool starts well but finishes poorly. Markis reading about why Ireland should leave the Euro. The Big Short, highlyrecommended for long haul flight viewing.

Star Trek, Hugh Jackman is now Old ManWolverine, 16 Super Hero movies a year and the worst movie Mark paid to see in 2016.