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Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

Archives for March 2019

#93 – Myspace Loses 12 Years' of Music

29 March 2019 by Chris Evans

#93 – Myspace Loses 12 Years’ of Music

This week, Chris and Martin discuss the issues at Myspace, which recently disclosed that 12 years' worth of user content had been lost during a (failed) server migration.  The once-mighty Myspace was the largest social networking site from 2005 to 2009 (according to Wikipedia) and had estimated revenues of $109 million in 2011.  So, how could a company with such as large v … [Read more...] about #93 – Myspace Loses 12 Years' of Music

Filed Under: Data Management, Garbage Collection Tagged With: cloud, cloud storage, Data Management, Dropbox, Myspace, Storage

#92 – Introduction to Elastifile with Jerome McFarland (Sponsored)

22 March 2019 by Chris Evans

#92 – Introduction to Elastifile with Jerome McFarland (Sponsored)

This week, Chris talks to Jerome McFarland, VP of Marketing with Elastifile, Inc.  Elastifile has developed a scale-out distributed file system called ECFS - the Elastifile Cloud File System. ECFS runs either on-premises, in the public cloud as a marketplace offering or, most recently as a full native storage service in GCP.  In addition to the base file system, Elastifile p … [Read more...] about #92 – Introduction to Elastifile with Jerome McFarland (Sponsored)

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Sponsored Tagged With: ClearTier, CloudConnect, ECFS, file system, GCP, public cloud, Scale-out

#91 – Storage Field Day 18 in Review

15 March 2019 by Chris Evans

#91 – Storage Field Day 18 in Review

This week, Martin leads the conversation as Chris discusses the vendors presenting at the recent Storage Field Day 18 event.  SFD18 is part of the Tech Field Day series delivered by Stephen Foskett and GestaltIT.  We last spoke with Stephen in April 2018 - an episode on why storage isn't boring. Although there's no official theme for SFD events, the companies presenting were n … [Read more...] about #91 – Storage Field Day 18 in Review

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: Cohesity, Datera, IBM, NetApp, Storpool, VAST Data, WekaIO, Western Digital

#90 – Dell EMC's Enterprise NVMe Strategy with Vince Westin (Sponsored)

8 March 2019 by Chris Evans

#90 – Dell EMC’s Enterprise NVMe Strategy with Vince Westin (Sponsored)

This week, Chris talks to Vince Westin, Technical Evangelist within the PowerMax Group at Dell EMC.  PowerMax is the latest in a storage product line with lineage back to the original Symmetrix systems of the early 1990s.  PowerMax is an all-NVMe storage array, reflecting an industry move towards faster, low latency media.  Vince takes us through the rationale for moving to NV … [Read more...] about #90 – Dell EMC's Enterprise NVMe Strategy with Vince Westin (Sponsored)

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Sponsored Tagged With: Dell EMC, FC-NVMe, NVMe, NVMe-oF, PowerMax, Storage, Vince Westin

#89 – Choices in NVMe Architectures

1 March 2019 by Chris Evans

#89 – Choices in NVMe Architectures

This episode was recorded while Chris was in Silicon Valley for Storage Field Day 18.  Although not part of the event, Chris took time to catch up with Pavilion Data. in particular Jeff Sosa, VP Product Management and Walt Hinton, Head of Corporate and Product Marketing.  Both Jeff and Walt have a long history in the storage industry, including companies like Virident, Western D … [Read more...] about #89 – Choices in NVMe Architectures

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: NVMe, Pavilion Data, Silicon Valley

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