This episode was recorded live (as you can tell from the background noise) at Commvault GO, held in October 2019. Chris talks to Glenn Dekhayser, Field CTO at Red8 about his reflections on the announcements from the event. The biggest news from the show was arguably the release of Metallic, a SaaS data protection offering for midrange customers. You can learn more about … [Read more...]
#124 – Initial Thoughts on Commvault Metallic with Chris Mellor
This episode was recorded "live" at Commvault GO in Aurora, Colorado, close to Denver airport. Chris Evans and Chris Mellor discuss the announcement of Metallic, a new SaaS data protection solution from Commvault targeted at mid-market customers. Metallic has been advertised as a Commvault "venture", establishing a separate brand and website for the platform. Initially, … [Read more...]
#122 – Managing Storage & Edge Computing Infrastructure with Phil White
This week, Chris and Martin discuss the management of edge computing and storage infrastructure with Phil White, CTO at Scale Computing. Edge Computing isn't new and there are plenty of examples of platforms and systems that have been running compute at the edge for many years. Just think of technologies like ATMs that can run with a degree of autonomy. What's different … [Read more...]
#114 – CIO Storage & Data Challenges with Clay Ryder
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...]
#111 – The Cohesity Marketplace with Rawlinson Rivera
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...]
#108 – Druva Cloud-Native Data Protection with Curtis Preston (Sponsored)
In this week's episode, Chris talks to W. Curtis Preston. Curtis is a long-time and well-known industry expert in the backup area and now Chief Technologist at Druva. Data protection in a multi-cloud world introduces new challenges compared to traditional on-premises backup. As a result, Druva has developed a cloud-native platform that protects on-premises, cloud, endpoint … [Read more...]
#104 – Creating a Data Management Strategy with Paul Stringfellow
This week, Chris talks to Paul Stringfellow, Technical Director at Gardner Systems, about the process of creating a data management strategy. As we adopt additional, sometimes disparate services from SaaS and IaaS vendors, increasingly businesses are seeing their data being dispersed across multiple platforms. With such a valuable asset at their fingertips, how do businesses … [Read more...]
#103 – Data Management and DataOps with Hitachi Vantara (Sponsored)
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...]
#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...]