This week Chris is in the Bay area and was able to catch up for a chat with Hedvig CEO Avinash Lakshman. Hedvig is a start-up developing a scale-out software-defined storage platform, which makes Avinash the perfect guest to explain just where SDS has reached. Avinash also has serious SDS credentials, having co-developed Amazon Dynamo and developed Cassandra for Facebook. The conversation starts with a review of where SDS has reached compared to just five years ago. Chris and Avinash discuss whether the enterprise has really bought into SDS as a concept and whether public cloud …
