This week, Chris talks to Vince Westin, Technical Evangelist within the PowerMax Group at Dell EMC. PowerMax is the latest in a storage product line with lineage back to the original Symmetrix systems of the early 1990s. PowerMax is an all-NVMe storage array, reflecting an industry move towards faster, low latency media. Vince takes us through the rationale for moving to … [Read more...]
#89 – Choices in NVMe Architectures
This episode was recorded while Chris was in Silicon Valley for Storage Field Day 18. Although not part of the event, Chris took time to catch up with Pavilion Data. in particular Jeff Sosa, VP Product Management and Walt Hinton, Head of Corporate and Product Marketing. Both Jeff and Walt have a long history in the storage industry, including companies like Virident, Western … [Read more...]
#88 – Nigel Tozer returns to talk about Ransomware
This week Chris and Martin talk to Nigel Tozer, Solutions Marketing Director for EMEA at Commvault. Nigel was a guest about 12 months ago and on that episode he talked about GDPR. This time the discussion is about ransomware and what businesses can do about it. The challenges of protecting data from theft or extortion are greater than ever. So, can we identify a common … [Read more...]
#87 – The Risks of Storage Media Reuse versus Recycling
In this episode, Chris and Martin talk to Simon Zola from Avtel Data Destruction. This is a follow-up episode to #85 (Storage for Home and Homelabs) where Martin and Chris questioned the ease of recovering data from pre-owned storage media. As we find out, the process was pretty easy. Martin was able to recover significant amounts of personal data with little effort and … [Read more...]
#86 – Eran Brown Discusses Storage, Security & Multi-Cloud
This week, Chris and Martin talk to Eran Brown, CTO in EMEA for INFINIDAT. As we move to a more distributed world, implementing data security becomes ever more challenging. Eran explains the issues and how his customers are looking to solve the problem. One of the initial choices is to decide exactly where to encrypt. We're familiar with drive-level encryption, even … [Read more...]
#84 – Discussing New NVMe Form Factors with Jonathan Hinkle
This week, Chris and Martin talk to Jonathan Hinkle, Principal Researcher - System Architecture and Master Inventor at Lenovo. As solid-state storage and NVMe become more prevalent, the legacy 2.5" HDD format is increasingly impractical for getting the best density, power and cooling in servers. Jonathan explains how his work led to the founding of the Enterprise and Data … [Read more...]
#83 – Introduction to NetApp MAX Data
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...]