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#55 – Storage for Hyperscalers

29 June 2018 by Chris Evans 9 Comments

#55 – Storage for Hyperscalers

This week we talk to Mark Carlson, co-chair of the SNIA Technical Council, about the storage needs of hyperscalers.  Mark defines hyperscalers as those companies opening multiple data centres a year, most notably Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google and Facebook in the US and Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent in China.  These vendors are deploying petabytes of storage a year, with specific … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: HDD, hyperscalers, Mark Carlson, SNIA, SSD

#54 – Are we at All-flash and HDD Array Price Parity?

22 June 2018 by Chris Evans 4 Comments

#54 – Are we at All-flash and HDD Array Price Parity?

This week, Chris and Martin discuss the subject of price parity between all-flash and hybrid or HDD-based storage arrays.  From Martin's perspective, he is starting to see vendor pricing getting close to parity and it making more sense to buy all-flash than a spinning media device.  However, what are the issues?  TCO is one - it's not all about array pricing.  Also, flash … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: All-flash, flash, MLC, NAND, shared storage, SLC

#53 – Persistent Storage and Kubernetes with Evan Powell

15 June 2018 by Chris Evans 3 Comments

#53 – Persistent Storage and Kubernetes with Evan Powell

This week Chris and Martin talk to Evan Powell, CEO of OpenEBS and formerly the founding CEO of Nexenta.  The conversation covers the use of persistent storage with container orchestration tool, Kubernetes.  Despite what the industry might think, persistent storage that can be mapped to a container (or in this case pod) is still an important problem to solve. Evan sets the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: CNCF, CSI, Kubernetes, OpenEBS, Persistent Storage

#52 – An Introduction to WekaIO Matrix with Liran Zvibel (Sponsored)

5 June 2018 by Chris Evans 5 Comments

#52 – An Introduction to WekaIO Matrix with Liran Zvibel (Sponsored)

This week's guest episode was recorded live in Silicon Valley at the offices of WekaIO.  The company has developed a scale-out parallel file system called Matrix that was specifically designed to exploit NVMe storage and new fast networking.  Chris is onsite to talk with CEO and co-founder, Liran Zivbel.  Martin is dialled in remotely from the bowels of the Storage Unpacked … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Sponsored Tagged With: ChrisE, MartinG, Parallel File System, Scale-out, WekaIO

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