This week, Chris and Martin discuss the merits of building virtual SANs in the public cloud. Vendors including Silk and Pure Storage now offer virtual storage "appliances" built from virtual instances and cloud storage. Why are these solutions necessary, when the public cloud providers have plenty of high-performance block and file storage offerings? The discussion looks at … [Read more...]
#207 – AWS Gets a SAN Upgrade
This week the team is back after a short break and ready to talk all things cloud - or at least about Elastic Block Store. AWS recently announced io2 and io2 Block Express, the first new EBS block storage offerings for eight years. With such a long gap since io1 was first released, what has AWS been up to and what's new? In this discussion, Martin and Chris question whether … [Read more...]
#204 – Liqid Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure
This week, Chris and Martin talk to Sumit Puri, CEO of Liqid Inc. Liqid has developed a composable infrastructure platform they call CDI or Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure. CDI enables IT organisations to take the building blocks of compute - storage, networking, CPUs, memory and GPUs then combine them dynamically in ways that address the processing needs of the … [Read more...]
#200 – Virtualisation, Containers, Serverless and Data
This week, Martin and Chris are joined by Jim Walker, VP of Product Marketing at Cockroach Labs. In a slight departure from a purely storage-based recording, this discussion follows the evolution of application packaging and deployment, from virtualisation to containers and serverless. The logical conclusion of any computing environment is to execute code and gradually, we … [Read more...]
#196 – Creating a Multi-Cloud Data Strategy
This week, Chris and Martin discuss the issues of building a multi-cloud data storage strategy. The range of options for private, public and hosted data services is huge, with each offering a different set of services and implemented in subtly unique ways. How can an enterprise take advantage of these services, while maintaining data protection, cost control and service … [Read more...]
#182 – FaunaDB – Client Serverless Computing
This week, Chris and Martin chat to Evan Weaver, CTO and co-founder at Fauna. The company has developed a database as a service, available simply through a globally available API. Fauna calls the platform "client serverless". How can a database be made globally available and still guarantee performance, resiliency and most important, data consistency? Of course, you will … [Read more...]
#179 – The Myth of Cheap Cloud Storage
Everyone thinks cloud storage is cheaper than on-premises, but is that really true? When cloud storage like AWS S3 was first introduced, vendors dropped their $/GB prices on a frequent basis. However, AWS hasn't reduced the base price of S3 in five years, instead preferring to offer cheaper tiers of storage. In this week's episode, Chris and Martin debate the reasons for the … [Read more...]
#156 – Introduction to Hammerspace (sponsored)
In this episode, returning guest Douglas Fallstrom from Hammerspace takes Chris and Martin through the details of the Hammerspace global file system platform. The solution is software-defined, running either on virtual machines or in the public cloud. Customers can choose to leave data on existing hardware platforms and simply abstract the data into the Hammerspace platform, … [Read more...]
#155 – Introduction to Clumio with Chadd Kenney
In this edition of the podcast, Chris chats to Chadd Kenney, VP and Chief Technologist at Clumio. Clumio is a SaaS data protection company that has recently expanded to support Office 365 environments. This discussion covers background on Clumio, how data protection for cloud should work and some specifics of the Clumio implementation. Looking deeper at the way in which … [Read more...]
#151 – Introduction to StorageOS V2.0 (Sponsored)
In this episode, Martin and Chris are joined in conversation by Alex Chircop, CEO at StorageOS. The company has announced StorageOS V2.0, a significant evolution in their storage platform, built for containers using containers. As this episode explains, the version 2.0 release of StorageOS enhances scalability and resiliency, with a strong focus on features needed for … [Read more...]