The AI Platformization Of Storage - The Data Intelligence Platform
Storage Gaga, Monday, March 3rd, 2025
The IT industry uses the word 'platform' all the time. Often, I find myself shifting between the many jargons circling 'platform', loosely. I am pretty sure many others are doing so as well.
I finally found the word 'platformization' giving right vibes in a meaningful way in February last year, when Palo Alto Networks pivoted to platformization. Their stock tumbled that day. Despite the ambiguous definition 'platformization' when Palo Alto Networks (PANW) mentioned it, I understood their strategy.
Defence-in-Depth in cybersecurity wasn't exactly working for many organizations. Cybersecurity point solutions peppered the landscape. There were so many leaks and gaps. Platformization, from the PANW's point-of-view, is the reverse C&C (command & control), if you know the cybersecurity speak. PANW wants to take charge all the way for all things cybersecurity, and it made sense to me from a data perspective.