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A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

#183 – Magnetic Tape AMA (Ask Matt Anything)

20 November 2020 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#183 – Magnetic Tape AMA (Ask Matt Anything)

This week Chris and Martin take the opportunity to grill (not broil) Matt Starr from Spectralogic to learn everything about magnetic tape. This episode came out of a discussion with Chris Mellor (episode #176) in which we asked the question why tape media doesn't wear out. The answer is obviously within the podcast so you'll need to listen to find out! In this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Storage Hardware Tagged With: Matt Starr

#165 – Homogeneous Data Protection with HYCU (Sponsored)

6 July 2020 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#165 – Homogeneous Data Protection with HYCU (Sponsored)

As we move to a hybrid and multi-cloud world, IT organisations need standardisation in operational processes. This is particularly true for data protection, where consistent policies and compliance are essential. This week, Chris chats to Subbiah Sundaram from HYCU about data protection in public clouds and the ability to bring a consistent reporting model with HYCU … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers, HYCU Inc Tagged With: AWS, Azure

#155 – Introduction to Clumio with Chadd Kenney

29 April 2020 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#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...]

Filed Under: Cloud, Data Protection, Guest Speakers Tagged With: Chadd Kenney, data protection, SaaS

#144 – Introduction to Storage as a Service

21 February 2020 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#144 – Introduction to Storage as a Service

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...]

Filed Under: Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers Tagged With: Backup As a Service, Storage as a Service

#139 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part II)

17 January 2020 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#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...]

Filed Under: Containers, Data Management, Data Protection, Garbage Collection Tagged With: Cohesity, HPE, MinIO, Rubrik, VMware, Whiptail

#135 – Introducing Datrium DRaaS Connect with Simon Long

20 December 2019 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#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...]

Filed Under: Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers Tagged With: data protection, Datrium, Disaster Recovery, DRaaS

#132 – Accelerating Ransomware Recovery with Eran Brown (Sponsored)

4 December 2019 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#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...]

Filed Under: Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers, Sponsored Tagged With: Eran Brown, INFINIDAT, InfiniGuard, ransomware

#129 – Choices for Persistent Container Storage with Niraj Tolia

20 November 2019 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#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...]

Filed Under: Containers, Data Management, Data Protection, Software-Defined Storage Tagged With: containers, Kubernetes, Niraj Tolia, Storage

#128 – Reflections on Commvault GO with Glenn Dekhayser

13 November 2019 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#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...]

Filed Under: Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers Tagged With: Commvault GO 2019, Glenn Dekhayser

#124 – Initial Thoughts on Commvault Metallic with Chris Mellor

23 October 2019 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#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...]

Filed Under: Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers Tagged With: Commvault, Commvault GO 2019, Metallic, SaaS

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