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Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

All-Flash

#237 – Flash Memory Summit 2022 in Review with Chris Mellor

16 August 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris chats to friend of the show Chris Mellor from Blocks and Files. Both Chris's attended Flash Memory Summit this year, held annually in San Jose and in person for the first time since 2019. Two big technology developments stand out from this year's event. Firstly CXL, which is current flavour of the month with all vendors. The second is the diversity of … [Read more...] about #237 – Flash Memory Summit 2022 in Review with Chris Mellor

Filed Under: All-Flash, Flash Memory Summit 2022, Guest Speakers

#235 – FlashCore Futures with IBM CMO Scott Baker

4 August 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris is joined by IBM Storage CMO Scott Baker. The discussion takes place at Flash Memory Summit 2022 (FMS), being held in person in Santa Clara, USA. FlashCore Modules are IBM's custom flash drives, developed from IP acquired with the acquisition of Texas Memory Systems. Scott is presenting at FMS, discussing how FlashCore could be used for anomaly … [Read more...] about #235 – FlashCore Futures with IBM CMO Scott Baker

Filed Under: All-Flash, Flash Memory Summit 2022, Guest Speakers, IBM, NVMe, Storage Hardware

#234 – Introducing Pure Storage FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex with CTO Rob Lee (Sponsored)

8 June 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris talks to Rob Lee, CTO at Pure Storage about today's announcement covering FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex. FlashBlade//S is a new hardware platform that evolves the solution into a disaggregated architecture. The design enables compute and storage resources to be scaled independently, while incorporating existing DFMs (DirectFlash Modules) that are … [Read more...] about #234 – Introducing Pure Storage FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex with CTO Rob Lee (Sponsored)

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Object Storage, Pure Accelerate techfest22, Pure Storage, Sponsored, Storage Hardware

#233 – Introduction to the VAST Data Ceres Hardware Platform with Jeff Denworth (Sponsored)

3 June 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris is in conversation with VAST Data CMO, Jeff Denworth. The topic covers the recent announcement of Ceres, a new hardware platform combining ruler form-factor flash and BlueField DPUs. The new solution, which will eventually replace the current "Mavericks" D-boxes is a 1U system with flash, storage-class memory and network connectivity through DPU … [Read more...] about #233 – Introduction to the VAST Data Ceres Hardware Platform with Jeff Denworth (Sponsored)

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Storage Hardware, VAST Data

#232 – Building Power-Efficient Storage Systems with Justin Emerson from Pure Storage (Sponsored)

19 May 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris talks to Justin Emerson from Pure Storage about modern design considerations for power-efficient storage. The cost of powering data centres has increased massively over the last 12 months, driven by the global economy and recovery from COVID-19. At a component level, servers are increasing their power usage, with faster processors and memory, plus the … [Read more...] about #232 – Building Power-Efficient Storage Systems with Justin Emerson from Pure Storage (Sponsored)

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Pure Storage, Sponsored

#231 – Introducing Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II (Sponsored)

3 May 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris talks to Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat about the announcement of SSA II, the second generation all-flash InfiniBox platform. The first generation SSA (solid state array) was developed to address a customer requirement that all long-tail latency I/Os must be delivered at all-flash levels of performance. The InfiniBox architecture is capable of delivering … [Read more...] about #231 – Introducing Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II (Sponsored)

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Infinidat, Sponsored, Storage Hardware

#226 – VAST Data Universal Storage for Data Protection (Sponsored)

9 February 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris and Martin discuss data protection on a "vast" scale, with VAST Data VP of Data Protection, George Axberg. VAST has just announced a partnership with Commvault that will integrate Universal Storage with Commvault's data management solutions. Further data protection vendor partnerships are expected in due course. While the idea of using an all-flash … [Read more...] about #226 – VAST Data Universal Storage for Data Protection (Sponsored)

Filed Under: All-Flash, Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers, Sponsored, VAST Data

#216 – The Data Explosion with VAST Data CEO Renen Hallak

5 November 2021 by Chris Evans

This week, Chris chats to VAST Data CEO, Renen Hallak about the explosion in data and the challenges of analysing and managing huge quantities of unstructured content. VAST Data has built a scale-out unstructured object store that customers are now using to store petabytes of complex data. But what does complex mean, and how is that data being used? Renen explains how many … [Read more...] about #216 – The Data Explosion with VAST Data CEO Renen Hallak

Filed Under: All-Flash, Data Management, Guest Speakers, Storage Hardware, VAST Data

#188 – Is Intel Optane Ready for Primetime?

15 January 2021 by Chris Evans

#188 – Is Intel Optane Ready for Primetime?

This week, Chris and Martin dig deeper into the adoption of Intel Optane technology in both the consumer and enterprise markets. Optane is a new persistent memory technology that offers greater performance and lower latency compared to NAND flash, but currently is more expensive and offers smaller capacity devices. As Optane becomes more prevalent in both markets, how is it … [Read more...] about #188 – Is Intel Optane Ready for Primetime?

Filed Under: All-Flash, Garbage Collection, Intel, NVMe, Persistent Memory

#185 – Pure-as-a-Service 2.0 (Sponsored)

4 December 2020 by Chris Evans

#185 – Pure-as-a-Service 2.0 (Sponsored)

This week Chris and Martin talk to Rob Walters, GM for Pure-as-a-Service at Pure Storage. The company has recently announced upgrades and expansion of the "as-a-service" model, formerly known as Evergreen storage. The name change and the widening of the portfolio represents an opportunity for customers to see transparent pricing and a greater depth of service offerings. … [Read more...] about #185 – Pure-as-a-Service 2.0 (Sponsored)

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Pure Storage, Sponsored, Storage Hardware Tagged With: Rob Walters

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