Brian catches up with Broadcom’s Rick Kutcipal for this session. Rick is a Product Planner in the Data Center Solutions Group (DCSG) at Broadcom and focuses on storage technology, interfaces, and innovations in that sector. Primarily, Rick is interested in the HDD space and the innovations occurring around that technology.

Brian catches up with Broadcom’s Rick Kutcipal for this session. Rick is a Product Planner in the Data Center Solutions Group (DCSG) at Broadcom and focuses on storage technology, interfaces, and innovations in that sector. Primarily, Rick is interested in the HDD space and the innovations occurring around that technology.

Rick has been with Broadcom since 2014 and spent 14 years with LSI. He is highly regarded in the industry and interested in innovations in all storage sectors.

This podcast covers everything from HDD to SSD to CXL with relevant sidebars. This is an excellent topic if you are interested in where the industry is heading and how Broadcom expects it to shape.

It’s worth viewing the entire podcast, but if you are short of time or have a specific interest, look at the timestamps below.

00:00 Introduction

• General overview of Broadcom
• Rick is in the Data Center Solutions Group
  • Products in the DCSG
• Future focus for Rick’s group
  • Visibility into HDD space
  • Flash is important, but HDD is relevant
  • Still a need for rotational media in hyperscale systems

05:00  OCP Show discussion

• Interfaces
  • SAS & SATA
  • NVMe HDDs
  • Multi-actuator
  • Power to the drive is important

12:00  Dual-actuator in the enterprise

• Form Factors
  • Other forms and form factors
  • Easy with SSDs
  • Challenging for round form factors
  • More platters

15:00  Hyperscalers

• SMR drives
• Sounds good but comes at a cost
• Better if the user owns the OS and Applications
• Advancements are necessary to continue to evolve capacities
• Small innovative steps
• Hammer

20:00  QLC Flash Drives

• The software can change the game
  • Dedupe
• Cost for warm storage
• Complications associated with QLC
• Find a technology, pick it!
• View on accelerators and drive management

25:00  Love to see innovation in the space

• Thinking about the end game
• Some pieces of the technology will make it into mainstream
• New thought leadership in these areas
• What does Broadcom have to do to remain relevant
  • RAID architecture
  • Using different architecture
• Actively innovating in the space
• Data protection

30:00  DPUs

• Broadcom is watching the technology closely
• Based on the business model
• CXL business impact
  • Hot topic
  • Emerging technology
• Networking and fabric
  • Ethernet NICs
  • Faster speeds

33:00  Wrap-up

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