Storageless Data with Hammerspace

David Flynn, Founder and CEO of Hammerspace, presents the “storageless data” concept at Storage Field Day 21. He discusses data gravity, serverless compute, and how these relate to the storageless data concept. Data today exists in corporate datacenters, public clouds, and edge sites, and modern data cannot be bound to specific hardware, protocols, or locations. A storageless approach must be a global data storage manager that is multi-vendor, multi-protocol, and provides a metadata service, direct data routing, and objective-based data orchestration, and provides data universally, across different data centers and protocols.