Welcome back to the latest episode of Engineers Unplugged, featuring the inimitable dynamic duo of storage,Vaughn Stewart(@vStewed) andChad Sakac(@sakacc). They discuss three key trends in storage today: flash, distributed DAS, and software control plane. Storage is the new black, let's learn why:

And of course, it wouldn't be complete without a unicorn, a flash unicorn.

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