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#197 – Prioritising Disaster Recovery Planning

26 March 2021 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#197 – Prioritising Disaster Recovery Planning

The ongoing saga at OVH highlights the need to have solid disaster recovery plans that reflect the risk and impact of systems failure on the business. In this episode, Chris and Martin dig into the issues at OVH and how they represent a wake-up call for businesses in general. High profile failures have been apparent over many years, so does DR get the investment and respect … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Garbage Collection

#196 – Creating a Multi-Cloud Data Strategy

19 March 2021 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#196 – Creating a Multi-Cloud Data Strategy

This week, Chris and Martin discuss the issues of building a multi-cloud data storage strategy. The range of options for private, public and hosted data services is huge, with each offering a different set of services and implemented in subtly unique ways. How can an enterprise take advantage of these services, while maintaining data protection, cost control and service … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cloud, Data Management, Garbage Collection

#188 – Is Intel Optane Ready for Primetime?

15 January 2021 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#188 – Is Intel Optane Ready for Primetime?

This week, Chris and Martin dig deeper into the adoption of Intel Optane technology in both the consumer and enterprise markets. Optane is a new persistent memory technology that offers greater performance and lower latency compared to NAND flash, but currently is more expensive and offers smaller capacity devices. As Optane becomes more prevalent in both markets, how is it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All-Flash, Garbage Collection, Intel, NVMe, Persistent Memory

#187 – End of the Year Show 2020 – Part Two

30 December 2020 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#187 – End of the Year Show 2020 – Part Two

This week, Martin and the two Chris's conclude their end of year discussions. This episode covers "Turkeys" of 2020, Missing in Action companies and those technologies that should be put into Storage Room 101. These are the products we never want to see darken our doors again. Finally, the team finish on a discussion of what to expect in 2021. And for your delight, here … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection

#186 – End of the Year Show 2020 – Part One

11 December 2020 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#186 – End of the Year Show 2020 – Part One

This week, Martin and the two Chris's look back at 2020 for the highlights and lowlights of the storage industry. What's been hyped and what's been a success? Will we be travelling in 2021 and what impact has the lockdown had on 2020 sales? This episode is the first of a two parter over the next couple of weeks before we close down for the Christmas period. Elapsed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection, Guest Speakers

#181 – Is There a Future for Storage Infrastructure Companies?

6 November 2020 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#181 – Is There a Future for Storage Infrastructure Companies?

This week Chris and Martin debate the future of on-premises storage infrastructure companies in light of announcements and events from IBM, Dell and NetApp. IBM is splitting in two, while Dell and NetApp have recently held virtual versions of their annual conferences. Is the on-premises infrastructure business shrinking and becoming too low-margin to be worthwhile? Martin … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection, Storage Hardware Tagged With: Dell, Druva, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Red Hat, Violin Systems

#177 – SmartNICs and Project Monterey

9 October 2020 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#177 – SmartNICs and Project Monterey

This week Chris and Martin look at SmartNIC technology and the announcement of Project Monterey. SmartNICs are offload devices that provide networking, storage and security functions with additional benefits such as centralised management. VMware has announced Project Monterey, a preview solution that takes SmartNICs and offloads storage and networking tasks from the ESXi … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection, Storage Hardware, VMware

#176 – Opinionated Storage Opinions with Chris Mellor

2 October 2020 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#176 – Opinionated Storage Opinions with Chris Mellor

This week, Martin and Chris catch up with Chris Mellor in his "pandemic infused isolation". Without a particular theme, this episode looks at the unchanging landscape of tape and media, Dell EMC building another new storage platform and Nutanix still not making a profit. In the future zone, we speculate on AMD and Micron getting together to build an Optane challenger, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: Chris Mellor

#170 – The End of Pure Play Storage Companies

21 August 2020 by Chris Evans 2 Comments

#170 – The End of Pure Play Storage Companies

This week, Chris and Martin debate whether we have seen the end of new "pure play" storage companies that go the distance to full independence. Where there used to be many businesses like EMC, Pure Storage and NetApp, the number of public storage-only companies is dwindling. Is this market too challenging to get into or is there simply no money to be made? If we look back … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection, Midrange, Object Storage, Software-Defined Storage, Storage Hardware

#168 – Storage Unicorns

24 July 2020 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#168 – Storage Unicorns

This week Chris and Martin review the idea of storage unicorns, companies that have a valuation of one billion dollars or more. What exactly is the basis or justification for a billion dollar price tag? Is this something invented by the VC industry or is there a real degree of science behind the assumptions? The list in question comes from a Blocks & Files article … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: Acronis, Actifio, Backblaze, Barracuda Networks, Cloudian, Cohesity, Datrium, DDN, Druva, INFINIDAT, Kaseya, Nasuni, Qumulo, Rubrik, Scality, VAST Data, Veeam Software, Wasabi, Weka

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