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Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

#234 – Introducing Pure Storage FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex with CTO Rob Lee (Sponsored)

8 June 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris talks to Rob Lee, CTO at Pure Storage about today's announcement covering FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex. FlashBlade//S is a new hardware platform that evolves the solution into a disaggregated architecture. The design enables compute and storage resources to be scaled independently, while incorporating existing DFMs (DirectFlash Modules) that are … [Read more...] about #234 – Introducing Pure Storage FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex with CTO Rob Lee (Sponsored)

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Object Storage, Pure Accelerate techfest22, Pure Storage, Sponsored, Storage Hardware

#233 – Introduction to the VAST Data Ceres Hardware Platform with Jeff Denworth (Sponsored)

3 June 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris is in conversation with VAST Data CMO, Jeff Denworth. The topic covers the recent announcement of Ceres, a new hardware platform combining ruler form-factor flash and BlueField DPUs. The new solution, which will eventually replace the current "Mavericks" D-boxes is a 1U system with flash, storage-class memory and network connectivity through DPU … [Read more...] about #233 – Introduction to the VAST Data Ceres Hardware Platform with Jeff Denworth (Sponsored)

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Storage Hardware, VAST Data

#232 – Building Power-Efficient Storage Systems with Justin Emerson from Pure Storage (Sponsored)

19 May 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris talks to Justin Emerson from Pure Storage about modern design considerations for power-efficient storage. The cost of powering data centres has increased massively over the last 12 months, driven by the global economy and recovery from COVID-19. At a component level, servers are increasing their power usage, with faster processors and memory, plus the … [Read more...] about #232 – Building Power-Efficient Storage Systems with Justin Emerson from Pure Storage (Sponsored)

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Pure Storage, Sponsored

#231 – Introducing Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II (Sponsored)

3 May 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris talks to Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat about the announcement of SSA II, the second generation all-flash InfiniBox platform. The first generation SSA (solid state array) was developed to address a customer requirement that all long-tail latency I/Os must be delivered at all-flash levels of performance. The InfiniBox architecture is capable of delivering … [Read more...] about #231 – Introducing Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II (Sponsored)

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Infinidat, Sponsored, Storage Hardware

#230 – Seagate NVMe Hard Drives

26 April 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris and Martin discuss NVMe hard drives with Tim Walker and Mohamad El-Batal from Seagate Research. The concept behind the NVMe HDD is simple - provide a native NVMe interface to traditional enterprise nearline hard drives. Does this approach make sense and what can be gained, other than standardising on an interface? With SMR, multi-actuator and other … [Read more...] about #230 – Seagate NVMe Hard Drives

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, NVMe

#229 – Exploring the PCIe 6.0 Specification with Al Yanes

7 March 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris and Martin explore the recently announced PCIe 6.0 specification with Al Yanes, President and chair of the PCI Sig. PCIe (PCI Express) has been a backbone of server and mobile technologies for almost two decades, providing high-speed interconnect for add-in cards and other peripherals. As one example of the benefit of PCIe, the introduction of NVMe … [Read more...] about #229 – Exploring the PCIe 6.0 Specification with Al Yanes

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Standards

#228 – Exploiting Data in the Third Wave of IT Agility with Murli Thirumale (Sponsored)

25 February 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris is in conversation with Portworx co-founder and VP, GM of the Cloud Native Business Unit at Pure Storage, Murli Thirumale. Rather than covering specific technologies, this discussion looks at data as the third wave of IT agility. Wave One was the efficient use of infrastructure. Wave Two provided application mobility and agility. In Wave Three, data … [Read more...] about #228 – Exploiting Data in the Third Wave of IT Agility with Murli Thirumale (Sponsored)

Filed Under: Cloud, Data Management, Databases, Guest Speakers, Pure Storage, Sponsored

#227 – Infinidat InfiniGuard Enhancements with Eric Herzog (Sponsored)

14 February 2022 by Chris Evans

Infinidat recently announced some significant enhancements to the InfiniGuard platform. InfiniGuard is a backup target appliance solution that includes deduplicating technology to optimise the storage and retrieval of backup data. In this podcast, Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat, talks about the new features and how they form part of a cyber resiliency strategy for modern data … [Read more...] about #227 – Infinidat InfiniGuard Enhancements with Eric Herzog (Sponsored)

Filed Under: Data Protection, Guest Speakers, Infinidat, Sponsored

#226 – VAST Data Universal Storage for Data Protection (Sponsored)

9 February 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris and Martin discuss data protection on a "vast" scale, with VAST Data VP of Data Protection, George Axberg. VAST has just announced a partnership with Commvault that will integrate Universal Storage with Commvault's data management solutions. Further data protection vendor partnerships are expected in due course. While the idea of using an all-flash … [Read more...] about #226 – VAST Data Universal Storage for Data Protection (Sponsored)

Filed Under: All-Flash, Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers, Sponsored, VAST Data

#225 – Accelerating Modern Databases with Speedb

4 February 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris and Martin discuss storage engine efficiency and performance with Speedb CEO, Adi Gelvan. Storage engines form the core of all databases, providing the translation between the structured form of data the application sees, and the way in which data is written onto physical media like disks or SSDs. The performance and resiliency of a database is directly … [Read more...] about #225 – Accelerating Modern Databases with Speedb

Filed Under: Databases, Guest Speakers

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