I'm having one of those moments where I can't tell if the guy is really smart and "above my pay grade" or if he's stuffing his sentences with industry terminolo

I'm having one of those moments where I can't tell if the guy is really smart and "above my pay grade" or if he's stuffing his sentences with industry terminology in order to make everyone think he's a SME. The crux of the argument seems to be that SSDs and something called TRM will eliminate the need for column-oriented databases. Even then he softens the argument by special-casing "existing petabyte OLAP systems". To me this argument abstracts to "${advanced_technology} will eliminate need for ${good_design}", which is almost never a winning bet when taken in absolute. After the "except for really big systems" softening it abstracts to "${advanced_technology} will eliminate the need for ${good_design} except for ${unusual_workload}", which is basically the personal computer revolution in one sentence.