In this week's podcast, the guys talk about some of the myths in the storage industry. The focus is mainly on traditional storage arrays and some of the features that end users might not need. The conversation takes a marketing turn, with questions on how five 9's availability is marketed and the use of dedupe/compression as a tool to reduce costs. What do you think? Are … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2018
#38 – Talking Dedicated Backup Appliances with Don Foster from Commvault
In this week's podcast, the team talk to Don Foster, Senior Director for WW Solutions Marketing at Commvault. Initially this podcast was intended to be recorded at Commvault Go last November (2017) in Washington DC, but schedules didn't align so we did it remotely. The audio quality is not as good as we'd like, so apologies for that. However, there are some good discussions … [Read more...]
#37 – State of the Storage Union with Chris Mellor
This week Chris and Gavin catch up with Chris Mellor, Storage Editor for The Register. With so much happening in storage, it's difficult to know where to start, so the guys focus on the rumour of Dell EMC reversing into VMware. Could this really happen and why is Dell EMC even thinking about this? The conversation flows on to IBM and their super-mega-hyper-uber announcement … [Read more...]
#36 – The Persistence of Memory with Rob Peglar
In this week's episode, the team talk to Rob Peglar, Senior VP and CTO at SymbolicIO. The conversation covers persistent memory and in particular the NVDIMM format of devices that provide persistent storage in a standard server DIMM slot. Rob explains how the standards are set through JEDEC, with a description of the three types - NVDIMM-N, F and P. The discussion … [Read more...]