[robertlagrant]

> I know corporations hate standards and love to make their own little one-offs, but it's really holding back technological progress.

Corporations create standards all the time, either directly or through standards bodies, that they also fund. You can already push logs with syslog, or transform them with Beats then push them; you can already attach storage from elsewhere, etc etc. It's just often a bad idea to for performance and data movement cost reasons.

I don't see the major technological progress this holds back, and if you think technological progress is a measure of how much corporations hate standards, then by that logic, based on the last 50 years of utterly insane progress, they must love standards.