On this week's podcast, recorded live at NetApp Insight 2018, Chris talks to Greg Knieriemen and Rob McDonald about the introduction of Memory Accelerated Data, commonly called MAX Data. The MAX Data solution is a software product that implements a local file system on a server using local persistent memory such as Intel Optane. Of course, this is what DAS (Direct Attached … [Read more...]
#80 – Discussing NetApp’s AI Strategy with Santosh Rao
In this podcast recorded at NetApp Insight 2018, Chris talks to Santosh Rao, Senior Technical Director at NetApp. Santosh leads NetApp's AI and Data Engineering efforts and has a 10-year history at the company, working on initiatives including Clustered ONTAP. This conversation covers how NetApp is developing an Edge-to-Core-to-Cloud strategy that includes collecting and … [Read more...]
#79 – Learning More About QLC Storage with Steve Hanna
This week Chris and Martin talk to Steve Hanna, Senior Product Manager for Enterprise SSDs at Micron. Steve looks after the 5210 ION QLC SSD product line, which was introduced earlier this year. As an evolution of existing flash technology, QLC offers greater capacities at lower cost. But what are the issues? The conversation covers how QLC has reduced the price to … [Read more...]
#78 – Thoughts on NetApp with Greg Knieriemen
Last week Chris attended NetApp Insight in Barcelona and had a chance to chat to Greg Knieriemen, Chief Technologist in the Storage Systems & Software business at NetApp. Greg was formerly at Hitachi Vantara where he held a similar role. This conversation touches on Greg's reasons for choosing NetApp and exactly what he will be focusing on within the company. Elapsed … [Read more...]
#77 – HPE Performance Insights with Ivan Iannaccone
This week HPE announced Performance Insights, an extension to the InfoSight platform that provides storage customers with greater detail on their 3PAR array storage performance. Performance Insights takes the knowledge of years of HPE 3PAR data and combines it with genuine machine learning and AI to give HPE 3PAR customers actionable insights on the performance characteristics … [Read more...]
#76 – Fibre Channel and NVMe with Mark Jones
In this week's podcast, Chris and Martin talk to Mark Jones from the Fibre Channel Industry Association. This recording is an introduction to running NVMe over Fibre Channel, setting the scene on how Fibre Channel has evolved and will continue to be a storage protocol for many years. Fibre Channel reached an important milestone in 2018. It's been 30 years since development … [Read more...]
#74 – All About Serial Attached SCSI with Rick Kutcipal
Most people probably don't think about the protocol that connects their storage device to a PC or server. However, NVMe has changed that and become one of the storage buzzwords of 2018. But what about existing devices not using NVMe? SAS or Serial Attached SCSI has been a mainstay of storage connectivity for 20 years. With 12Gb/s throughput, SAS provides back-end … [Read more...]
#73 – HYCU – Data Protection for Hyper-converged Infrastructure (Sponsored)
This week, Chris and Martin talk to Subbiah Sundaram, VP of Products at HYCU, Inc. HYCU is both the name of the company and the data protection product sold by HYCU Inc. The market already has many data protection solutions, so the unique differentiator for HYCU is focusing on the HCI market, specifically offering backup for Nutanix (both ESXi and AHV). Of course, HCI … [Read more...]
#72 – Hitachi Vantara Looking Forward with Shawn Rosemarin
This is the fourth and final podcast of four recorded at Hitachi NEXT 2018 in San Diego. Previous episodes are listed below. This conversation between Chris and Shawn Rosemarin, SVP and CTO of Global Field and Industry at Hitachi Vantara discusses how customer's approach to managing their data has changed and how Hitachi will continue to evolve the Vantara brand during the … [Read more...]
#71 – IP EXPO 2018 – Scale Computing, StorMagic, Nasuni and Nephos
This is the second of two podcasts recorded live at IP EXPO 2018 in London. You can find the first here. In this episode, Chris and Martin speak to Scale Computing, StorMagic, Nasuni and Nephos Technologies. The guests are: Aad Dekkers, Marketing Director, EMEA at Scale Computing John Glendenning, SVP Sales and Business Development at StorMagic Andy Hardy, Vice … [Read more...]