Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

Archives for August 2019

#115 – The Transition to NVMe-oF Storage Solutions with Praveen Asthana

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This week, Chris catches up with Praveen Asthana from Exten Technologies in an episode recorded at Flash Memory Summit 2019. With NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics set to become the dominant technologies for public cloud and the enterprise, exactly how will the transition from current solutions occur? Praveen discusses the continuing need for centralised storage that can fully … [Read more...] about #115 – The Transition to NVMe-oF Storage Solutions with Praveen Asthana

#114 – CIO Storage & Data Challenges with Clay Ryder

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This week, Chris catches up with Clay Ryder from the DCS (Data Centre Systems) group at Western Digital. The discussion focuses on the challenges for today's CIO, with an emphasis on storage and data. The division of responsibility between CTO and CIO isn't always obvious. As we learn in this discussion, there's a lot of overlap and a lot of interaction between the two. … [Read more...] about #114 – CIO Storage & Data Challenges with Clay Ryder

#113 – The Expanding Storage Hierarchy with Erik Kaulberg

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This week's episode is the first in a series from Flash Memory Summit 2019. Chris catches up with Erik Kaulberg from INFINIDAT to discuss how the expanding hierarchy of solid-state storage media will drive new products and solutions in the future. The topics of conversation cover how media has diversified, with new solutions like MRAM and 3D-XPoint. At the same time, we … [Read more...] about #113 – The Expanding Storage Hierarchy with Erik Kaulberg

#112 – Introduction to NetApp Data Availability Services (NDAS)

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NetApp has developed a new backup service called NDAS or NetApp Data Availability Services. NDAS is based in the public cloud and provides the ability to run analytics against secondary data in AWS S3, without having re-hydrate through a backup platform. Chris met with Charlotte Brooks (Technical Marketing Engineer) and Joel Kaufman (Director of Technical Marketing) to … [Read more...] about #112 – Introduction to NetApp Data Availability Services (NDAS)

#111 – The Cohesity Marketplace with Rawlinson Rivera

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This week Chris is in Silicon Valley and catches up with Rawlinson Rivera, Field CTO at Cohesity. The company recently released a new feature called Marketplace that enables customers to run data-focused applications directly on the Cohesity platform. The idea of running applications on data protection hardware has some benefits and potential disadvantages. Naturally, the … [Read more...] about #111 – The Cohesity Marketplace with Rawlinson Rivera