This week's episode is the first in a series from Flash Memory Summit 2019. Chris catches up with Erik Kaulberg from INFINIDAT to discuss how the expanding hierarchy of solid-state storage media will drive new products and solutions in the future. The topics of conversation cover how media has diversified, with new solutions like MRAM and 3D-XPoint. At the same time, we … [Read more...]
#112 – Introduction to NetApp Data Availability Services (NDAS)
NetApp has developed a new backup service called NDAS or NetApp Data Availability Services. NDAS is based in the public cloud and provides the ability to run analytics against secondary data in AWS S3, without having re-hydrate through a backup platform. Chris met with Charlotte Brooks (Technical Marketing Engineer) and Joel Kaufman (Director of Technical Marketing) to … [Read more...]
#111 – The Cohesity Marketplace with Rawlinson Rivera
This week Chris is in Silicon Valley and catches up with Rawlinson Rivera, Field CTO at Cohesity. The company recently released a new feature called Marketplace that enables customers to run data-focused applications directly on the Cohesity platform. The idea of running applications on data protection hardware has some benefits and potential disadvantages. Naturally, the … [Read more...]
#110 – Storage Vendor Consolidations & Acquisitions
We've started to see the consolidation of storage vendors as some startups and long-term players in the market get acquired. Is the reason for this buying spree one of positive growth, or a defensive position to maintain survival? Chris and Martin discuss the issues and the vendors doing the buying. Who's been buying? Violin Systems acquired part of X-IO (specifically the … [Read more...]
#109 – An Overview of ObjectEngine with Brian Schwarz
In this episode, Chris talks to Brian Schwarz, VP of Product Management for FlashBlade and ObjectEngine at Pure Storage. ObjectEngine is a scale-out de-duplication engine that efficiently writes data to either FlashBlade or public cloud object stores. The solution developed from the acquisition of StorReduce in 2018. ObjectEngine was conceived when Pure Storage observed … [Read more...]
#108 – Druva Cloud-Native Data Protection with Curtis Preston (Sponsored)
In this week's episode, Chris talks to W. Curtis Preston. Curtis is a long-time and well-known industry expert in the backup area and now Chief Technologist at Druva. Data protection in a multi-cloud world introduces new challenges compared to traditional on-premises backup. As a result, Druva has developed a cloud-native platform that protects on-premises, cloud, endpoint … [Read more...]
#107 – Should IBM Quit the Storage Hardware Business?
IDC recently released their latest quarterly storage sales figures. The data shows, yet again, that IBM sales continue to decline. In this week's podcast, Chris and Martin discuss the state of IBM's storage business. Is it time for IBM to quit? IBM has an embarrassment of riches in storage software and hardware (or a nice portfolio as Martin puts it). Many of these … [Read more...]
#106 – Introduction to VAST Data (Part II) with Howard Marks (Sponsored)
In this second episode on VAST Data, Chris and Martin continue the discussion with Howard Marks. You can find the previous episode at #105 - Introduction to VAST Data (Part I). This time, the conversation continues where the discussion left off, with Howard finishing the explanation of wide striping. To explain exactly how data is accessed on the platform, Howard … [Read more...]
#105 – Introduction to VAST Data (Part I) with Howard Marks (Sponsored)
This week, Chris and Martin talk to Howard Marks, Chief Storyteller at VAST Data. You may know Howard as an independent analyst and author for a range of online publications. Howard recently joined VAST to help explain and promote understanding of their data platform architecture. The VAST Data platform uses three main technologies that have only recently emerged onto the … [Read more...]
#104 – Creating a Data Management Strategy with Paul Stringfellow
This week, Chris talks to Paul Stringfellow, Technical Director at Gardner Systems, about the process of creating a data management strategy. As we adopt additional, sometimes disparate services from SaaS and IaaS vendors, increasingly businesses are seeing their data being dispersed across multiple platforms. With such a valuable asset at their fingertips, how do businesses … [Read more...]