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...]
#65 – Challenges in Managing Unstructured Data with Shirish Phatak
In this week's podcast we focus on the issues of managing unstructured data in a distributed world. Chris and Martin are joined by Shirish Phatak, CEO at Talon Storage. It's interesting that "unstructured" proves to have a moveable definition, depending on what you want to include. While we traditionally think of files and objects as unstructured, these so-called binary … [Read more...]
#64 – Success & Failure in Storage Startup Land
This week's conversation follows up on Chris' recent visit to Flash Memory Summit in the US. Chris and Martin discuss the storage startup landscape and the range of companies appearing at the event. What makes a company successful? Is IPO or acquisition the right route? The discussion starts with a simple, yet tricky question - why does storage continue to be such a … [Read more...]
#63 – Datrium CloudShift
In this episode, Chris and Martin catch up with the Datrium team to discuss CloudShift, Datrium's new SaaS DR offering. CloudShift provides the capability to use backups that have been written to Cloud DVX and fire up a VMware Cloud on AWS instance, recovering the backups into the vSphere cluster. CloudShift can also be used to do DR between primary and secondary DVX … [Read more...]
#62 – The Future of Data Infrastructure with Scott Hamilton
This is the third of a series of three podcasts recorded at Flash Memory Summit 2018. In this conversation, Chris talks to Scott Hamilton, Senior Director of Product Management, DCS group at Western Digital Corporation. WDC are working on a new architecture that will deliver a composable data infrastructure for the enterprise. This podcast discussed why composable is needed … [Read more...]
#61 – Introduction to NVM Express with Amber Huffman
This is the second of a series of podcasts recorded at Flash Memory Summit 2018 in Santa Clara. In this episode, Chris talks to Amber Huffman, Intel Fellow and President and founder of NVM Express Inc. NVM Express is the standards body that governs the development of the NVMe base standard, NVMe-MI (Management Interface) and NVMe over Fabrics. Amber explains how standards' … [Read more...]
#60 – New Data Economy with Derek Dicker
This week Chris is attending the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara. This is the first of three podcast recordings from the event and is a conversation with Derek Dicker CVP and GM of the Storage Business Unit at Micron. Derek participated in a keynote session at the event and talked about the challenges of managing new data types. This includes processing data coming from … [Read more...]
#59 – Ethernet vs Fibre Channel
This week's podcast looks at storage networking and in particular the choice of using Ethernet vs Fibre Channel as the network protocol. Traditionally, enterprise storage platforms have been Fibre Channel connected, with only a small amount of iSCSI usage. However, the world isn't just block storage and in fact, as guest Marty Lans (General Manager, Storage Connectivity … [Read more...]
#58 – Storage Vendor Hero Numbers
This week, Chris Mellor is back and the team take a dive into the subject of storage vendor hero numbers. What are hero numbers? We've all seen them, they're the huge performance figures quoted by all-flash storage vendors aimed at putting their products forward in the best light possible. Are hero numbers believable or should we be looking at certified vendor benchmark … [Read more...]
#57 – Storage on the Edge with Scott Shadley
What is computational storage and how do we manage storage on the edge of the network? This week's conversation is a discussion on how storage and data is managed within IoT devices and partially covers the new segment of computational storage. Martin and Chris talk to Scott Shadley, VP of Marketing for NGD Systems. Edge storage means more than simply managing the data on … [Read more...]