This week Chris speaks to Jonathan Martin (CMO) and John Magee (VP, Portfolio Marketing) at Hitachi Vantara. This episode was recorded live onsite at the new Hitachi Vantara offices in Santa Clara. As data becomes ever more valuable to organisations, the process of building data pipelines will continue to be a time and resource intensive task. In order to keep up with … [Read more...]
#102 – May Midrange Madness with Chris Mellor
This week Martin, Chris Evans and Chris Mellor discuss Dell EMC's plans for merging the three current midrange storage platforms marketed by the company. This is a follow-up to the article Chris recently posted on https://blockandfiles.com that discusses Project Trident. There are a lot of moving parts to consider when merging storage platforms. Customers have spent time … [Read more...]
#101 – Datrium Automatrix with Brian Biles and Tim Page (Sponsored)
In this podcast episode, Chris talks to Brian Biles (Chief Product Officer and co-founder) and Tim Page (CEO) from Datrium about the announcement of Automatrix. The Datrium Automatrix platform implements five important components needed to deliver a consistent approach to application mobility. These are primary storage, backup, disaster recovery, encryption and data … [Read more...]
#100 – Optimising Unstructured Data with Krishna Subramanian
This week, Martin and Chris talk to Krishna Subramanian, President and COO at Komprise. We mentioned the Komprise technology back on episode #75 (It's ILM All Over Again) as part of a discussion on managing the movement of files to and from archive storage. Krishna joins this discussion to fill in some background on the challenges of managing unstructured data, including how … [Read more...]
#99 – Dell Technologies World 2019 in Review
This week, Chris and Martin discuss the announcements from Dell Technologies World 2019, held in April/May 2019 at the Sands Convention Centre in Las Vegas. Chris attended as a guest of Dell Technologies, who covered flights and accommodation. Dell Technologies made a range of announcements, including improved capabilities on the Unity XT and Isilon storage platforms. A … [Read more...]
#98 – Shared Storage for Scale-out Databases with Walt Hinton from Pavilion Data
In this third recording from Dell Technologies World 2019, Chris talks with Walt Hinton, Head of Corporate and Product Marketing at Pavilion Data Systems. The topic of conversation is the alignment of shared storage with scale-out NoSQL databases that typically place storage components on separate local disks. As rack-scale computing becomes more widely adopted, local … [Read more...]
#97 – Building Storage Using NVMe/TCP with Kam Eshghi from Lightbits Labs
This episode was recorded live at Dell Technologies World 2019. Chris talks to Kam Eshghi, VP of Strategy & Business Development at Lightbits Labs. Lightbits has pioneered the development of NVMe/TCP, which allows standard Ethernet NICs to be used for NVMe-over-Fabrics storage traffic. The ability to implement NVMe-oF without custom NICs (like RDMA) offers the … [Read more...]
#96 – Discussing SmartNICs and Storage with Rob Davis from Mellanox
In this podcast, recorded live at Dell Technologies World 2019, Chris talks to Rob Davis, VP of Storage Technology at Mellanox, about the development of SmartNIC technology and storage. SmartNICs offload tasks such as encryption, compression and protocol traffic from core CPUs. This allows system vendors to create more efficient and cheaper products. It can also provide a … [Read more...]
#95 – Quantifying Storage Vendor Guarantees with Chris Mellor and Eran Brown
This week, Chris E is joined by Chris Mellor and returning guest Eran Brown. The team discuss the usefulness of storage vendor guarantees like de-dupe ratios and uptime. Do vendors use these metrics as a marketing tactic to attract new customers or is there any value in them? The idea of a sales/marketing guarantee sounds appealing. Storage vendors have been using them … [Read more...]
#94 – Backblaze HDD Reliability Stats with Andy Klein
In this episode, Martin and Chris talk to Andy Klein from Backblaze. Since 2014, Backblaze has been collecting and publishing hard drive reliability information for their storage pods. The pods are custom-built and used to hold backup data from customers and to support the B2 cloud storage offering. Rather than buy an expensive storage platform or use the public cloud, … [Read more...]