Data volumes have always increased over time as we store more information with the hope that one day some of it will be useful. Even 30 years ago on the mainframe, Information Lifecycle Management or ILM was a thing with tools like DFHSM used to move content around between disk and tape. This week Martin, Chris Evans and Chris Mellor talk about the new range of data … [Read more...]
#74 – All About Serial Attached SCSI with Rick Kutcipal
Most people probably don't think about the protocol that connects their storage device to a PC or server. However, NVMe has changed that and become one of the storage buzzwords of 2018. But what about existing devices not using NVMe? SAS or Serial Attached SCSI has been a mainstay of storage connectivity for 20 years. With 12Gb/s throughput, SAS provides back-end … [Read more...]
#73 – HYCU – Data Protection for Hyper-converged Infrastructure (Sponsored)
This week, Chris and Martin talk to Subbiah Sundaram, VP of Products at HYCU, Inc. HYCU is both the name of the company and the data protection product sold by HYCU Inc. The market already has many data protection solutions, so the unique differentiator for HYCU is focusing on the HCI market, specifically offering backup for Nutanix (both ESXi and AHV). Of course, HCI … [Read more...]
#72 – Hitachi Vantara Looking Forward with Shawn Rosemarin
This is the fourth and final podcast of four recorded at Hitachi NEXT 2018 in San Diego. Previous episodes are listed below. This conversation between Chris and Shawn Rosemarin, SVP and CTO of Global Field and Industry at Hitachi Vantara discusses how customer's approach to managing their data has changed and how Hitachi will continue to evolve the Vantara brand during the … [Read more...]
#71 – IP EXPO 2018 – Scale Computing, StorMagic, Nasuni and Nephos
This is the second of two podcasts recorded live at IP EXPO 2018 in London. You can find the first here. In this episode, Chris and Martin speak to Scale Computing, StorMagic, Nasuni and Nephos Technologies. The guests are: Aad Dekkers, Marketing Director, EMEA at Scale Computing John Glendenning, SVP Sales and Business Development at StorMagic Andy Hardy, Vice … [Read more...]
#70 – Pentaho Data Aggregation with Arik Pelkey
In this third podcast recorded live at Hitachi NEXT 2018, Chris talks to Arik Pelkey, Senior Director, Analytics Portfolio Product Marketing at Hitachi Vantara. Arik is responsible for the Pentaho platform, an acquisition made originally by Hitachi Data Systems in 2015. Pentaho is a data integration, visualisation and analytics platform used by data engineers to create data … [Read more...]
#69 – IP EXPO 2018 – Cloudian, E8 Storage, StorCentric and Zerto
This is one of two podcasts, recorded live at IP EXPO 2018 in London. The format is slightly different from what we've done in the past, in that we have four short 10-minute interviews with storage vendors. Each talks about their company, products and industry problem being solved. The four guests are: Steve Blow, Technology Evangelist with Zerto Neil Stobart, VP … [Read more...]
#68 – Intelligent Object Storage with Scott Baker
This is the second in a series of podcasts recorded at Hitachi NEXT 2018. In this episode, Chris talks to Scott Baker, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Content and Data Intelligence at Hitachi Vantara. The topic of conversation is how intelligent processing can be applied to content stored in Hitachi's object storage platform, HCP. HCI, Hitachi Content Intelligence … [Read more...]
#67 – Hitachi Vantara One Year On with John Magee
This week, Chris is in San Diego attending Hitachi NEXT 2018, the annual user conference for Hitachi Vantara customers. Hitachi Vantara was formed in 2017 from the merger of Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group and Pentaho. Last year we spoke to Greg Knieriemen about the new company and the reasons behind the decision to move on from the HDS brand. One year on from … [Read more...]
#66 – Amazon RDS – Coming to a vSphere Cluster Near You
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware recently announced that RDS, the Relational Database Service was in tech preview as an on-premises deployment on vSphere. Running a service outside of Amazon's data centre represents a big change for the company. The only non-core offering to date has been Snowball, the edge data appliance. In this week's recording, Martin and Chris … [Read more...]