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Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

Data Management

#228 – Exploiting Data in the Third Wave of IT Agility with Murli Thirumale (Sponsored)

25 February 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris is in conversation with Portworx co-founder and VP, GM of the Cloud Native Business Unit at Pure Storage, Murli Thirumale. Rather than covering specific technologies, this discussion looks at data as the third wave of IT agility. Wave One was the efficient use of infrastructure. Wave Two provided application mobility and agility. In Wave Three, data … [Read more...] about #228 – Exploiting Data in the Third Wave of IT Agility with Murli Thirumale (Sponsored)

Filed Under: Cloud, Data Management, Databases, Guest Speakers, Pure Storage, Sponsored

#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

#220 – AWS & Cloud File System Diversity

24 December 2021 by Chris Evans

This week, Chris and Martin review the announcements coming out of AWS Reinvent, specifically those covering file systems. AWS announced FSx for OpenZFS and recently added FSx for NetApp ONTAP to the existing offerings. With FSx for Windows Server and FSx for Lustre (plus EFS), AWS now has five different file system solutions. Why has AWS decided to partner or use existing … [Read more...] about #220 – AWS & Cloud File System Diversity

Filed Under: AWS, AWS Reinvent, Cloud, Data Management, File Systems

#219 – Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack

3 December 2021 by Chris Evans

This week Chris chats to Tony Mendoza, Senior Director of IT at Spectra Logic. The conversation covers the ransomware attack experienced by Spectra in May 2020 and the subsequent response to deal with the problem. On 7th May 2020, the company detected a ransomware exploit was encrypting files across application servers. In their place was a plain text file, demanding money … [Read more...] about #219 – Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack

Filed Under: Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers

#218 – Real World Customer Data Protection Experiences with Don Foster (Sponsored)

19 November 2021 by Chris Evans

This week, Chris is in conversation with Don Foster, Global Head of Sales Engineering for Commvault. The discussion covers the experiences of customers as IT continues to evolve into public, hybrid and multi-clouds. Don runs the global Sales Engineering teams, tasked with helping customers protect their data in a world that now includes on-premises deployments, the public … [Read more...] about #218 – Real World Customer Data Protection Experiences with Don Foster (Sponsored)

Filed Under: Cloud, Commvault, Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers, Sponsored

#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

#213 – Kubernetes-Native Data Protection

8 October 2021 by Chris Evans

#213 – Kubernetes-Native Data Protection

With KubeCon North America 2021 looming, Chris and Martin spend this week looking at data protection for Kubernetes-native environments. Vendors have started to introduce backup solutions, some working within the container environment itself, some outside as part of existing products. Exactly what should be backed up and how should these products work? Are we right to … [Read more...] about #213 – Kubernetes-Native Data Protection

Filed Under: Data Management, Data Protection, Garbage Collection

#212 – File Not Found

1 October 2021 by Chris Evans

#212 – File Not Found

In this week's podcast, Chris and Martin get together to discuss the curious case of missing files. In this instance, the files weren't actually missing, but according to an article in The Verge, students running a software simulation didn't know how to determine their location. In a world where the current generation have grown up on iPhones and iPads (or similar devices) … [Read more...] about #212 – File Not Found

Filed Under: Data Management, Garbage Collection

#205 – 25 Years of Commvault & the Power of And (Sponsored)

11 June 2021 by Chris Evans

#205 – 25 Years of Commvault & the Power of And (Sponsored)

In this week's episode, Chris and Martin have a great conversation with David Ngo, CTO for Metallic at Commvault, and Ranga Rajagopalan, VP Product Management for Commvault and Metallic. Commvault is celebrating 25 years in data protection, while Metallic, a SaaS data protection solution from Commvault has been available for nearly two years. In this discussion, David and … [Read more...] about #205 – 25 Years of Commvault & the Power of And (Sponsored)

Filed Under: Commvault, Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers, Sponsored Tagged With: Commvault

#200 – Virtualisation, Containers, Serverless and Data

14 May 2021 by Chris Evans

#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...] about #200 – Virtualisation, Containers, Serverless and Data

Filed Under: Cloud, Data Management, Databases, Guest Speakers, Serverless

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