Software was eating the world but now it’s all about the information
Marc Andreessen wrote his software is eating the world article a few years ago and today it is likely that no one will take a contrary position. Indeed, that viewpoint has evolved further so that software is now programming the world. Improved chip economics are leading to unprecedented proliferation in devices capable of capturing ever more and diverse data. We are living in an increasingly IoT and distributed world which promises to get even more so. Here at Veritas we believe it’s all about the information - another viewpoint we feel few would take issue with – and have coined the term Information-defined Storage to represent the next step beyond the now familiar, software-defined storage.
