This week, Chris and Martin chat to Gary Breder (Director of Cloud and Services Product Marketing) and Diane Clay (Sr Manager of Cloud and Services Product Marketing) from Hitachi Vantara about storage as a service. While we've had different consumption models in the past, does StaaS offer anything different? Perhaps the key takeaway from this conversation is the use of … [Read more...]
#139 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part II)
This is the second of our predictions shows for 2020 that anticipates what we can expect in enterprise storage for the year ahead. This episode covers solutions and vendors. We open with a discussion on cloud-native storage, which saw a lot of traction in 2019. Will the future be one of these companies or as Chris says, should we just rely on VMware to underpin our container … [Read more...]
#135 – Introducing Datrium DRaaS Connect with Simon Long
This episode was recorded live at the Datrium offices in Silicon Valley. Chris chats to fellow Brit Simon Long about the announcement of DRaaS Connect and Instant RTO. Both are new features/products in the data mobility and DR space and complement Datrium's existing storage and virtualisation offerings. Enterprises traditionally implement DR failover for virtual … [Read more...]
#132 – Accelerating Ransomware Recovery with Eran Brown (Sponsored)
This week Chris and Martin talk to Eran Brown, EMEA CTO at Infinidat about the challenges of ransomware and expediting fast recovery. Ransomware is a big challenge for IT organisations as hackers attempt to extort money from a range of businesses that include everything from large enterprises to healthcare organisations. However, is the traditional route of "restore from … [Read more...]
#129 – Choices for Persistent Container Storage with Niraj Tolia
This week Chris records a live podcast episode with Niraj Tolia, co-founder and CEO at Kasten Inc. As a follow-up to online discussions that dive into how container storage should be presented to Kubernetes (and other container) environments, this episode reviews some of Chris' thoughts and Niraj's opinions on the market as to how persistent storage should evolve. The … [Read more...]
#128 – Reflections on Commvault GO with Glenn Dekhayser
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...]
#112 – Introduction to NetApp Data Availability Services (NDAS)
NetApp has developed a new backup service called NDAS or NetApp Data Availability Services. NDAS is based in the public cloud and provides the ability to run analytics against secondary data in AWS S3, without having re-hydrate through a backup platform. Chris met with Charlotte Brooks (Technical Marketing Engineer) and Joel Kaufman (Director of Technical Marketing) to … [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...]