Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

Databases

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

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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)

#225 – Accelerating Modern Databases with Speedb

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In this episode, Chris and Martin discuss storage engine efficiency and performance with Speedb CEO, Adi Gelvan. Storage engines form the core of all databases, providing the translation between the structured form of data the application sees, and the way in which data is written onto physical media like disks or SSDs. The performance and resiliency of a database is directly … [Read more...] about #225 – Accelerating Modern Databases with Speedb

#200 – Virtualisation, Containers, Serverless and Data

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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

#182 – FaunaDB – Client Serverless Computing

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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...] about #182 – FaunaDB – Client Serverless Computing

#172 – Tintri SQL Integrated Storage

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This week, Chris and Martin talk to Shawn Meyers, Field CTO at Tintri about SQL Integrated Storage. The Tintri VMstore platform originally provided the ability to apply policy-based management to virtual machines on shared storage. This capability has now been extended to databases, in particular Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Integrated Storage (or SIS) works by exposing an SMB … [Read more...] about #172 – Tintri SQL Integrated Storage

#147 – Introduction to Key Value Stores and Redis

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This week, Chris and Martin look at Key-Value stores and in particular, Redis, with Kyle Davis, Head of Developer Advocacy at Redis Labs. Key Value stores are at first glance a lightweight way to store structured data. As it turns out, the implementation of Redis includes significantly more features and functionality as well as multiple complex data types. Redis runs … [Read more...] about #147 – Introduction to Key Value Stores and Redis

#140 – Introduction to Document-Orientated Databases

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This week, Chris and Martin speak to David Koppe, Director of Information Strategy at MongoDB. The discussion covers document-orientated databases, or simply document databases, and their appeal to the enterprise. Document databases differ from traditional relational databases in that the data is stored within each "document" as a series of key-value pairs. In this instance … [Read more...] about #140 – Introduction to Document-Orientated Databases