Martin Casado

So it's a moving target.

I am hopeful that this is merely a brief flirtation with closed data by most of these vendors, and they will realize this is not a good idea, that they are at war with their own customers, and it's not even going to work anyway.

And we will go back to the trend towards ever more openness.

Yes, I think it will be the same.

That's my prediction.

It will be the same path as mentors will discover that they cannot provide inside their own platform a solution to every data problem that their customers have because they are simply so diverse.

And instead, they simply create a mechanism for the customers to replicate it to their data platform of choice and do with it what they will.

And even if they charge fees for that, it's not the end of the world.

On opendatainfrastructure.com, you really get yellow.

We're charging fees.

It's only red when you try to actually block it.

At the end of the day, if you want to have a little toll, that's not the end of the world.

The problem is when you start actually blocking it.

And saying, oh, if you want to do anything with data, you have to come use my tools inside my walled garden, which never works because all the rest of your data is not in that walled garden.

And it's not going to be.

And you can never create enough tools to support all the different things customers want to do with data.

I think data gravity is completely fake.

I am the only person who thinks this.

People use the term a lot, but I don't think they understand the implications.

Data gravity is the idea that business data is so large that it's very expensive to move around because of egress charges of cloud vendors.