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#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

#185 – Pure-as-a-Service 2.0 (Sponsored)

4 December 2020 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#185 – Pure-as-a-Service 2.0 (Sponsored)

This week Chris and Martin talk to Rob Walters, GM for Pure-as-a-Service at Pure Storage. The company has recently announced upgrades and expansion of the "as-a-service" model, formerly known as Evergreen storage. The name change and the widening of the portfolio represents an opportunity for customers to see transparent pricing and a greater depth of service offerings. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Pure Storage, Sponsored, Storage Hardware Tagged With: Rob Walters

#184 – MCAS – Memory Centric Active Storage

27 November 2020 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#184 – MCAS – Memory Centric Active Storage

This week, Chris and Martin talk to Daniel Waddington, Principal Research Staff Member in the Global Storage Research Group at IBM Research. Daniel is developing MCAS - Memory Centric Active Storage - a high-performance key-value store designed for persistent memory. The aim is to create a platform that can be used to bring storage and compute closer together. Persistent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, In-Memory Computing, Persistent Memory

#180 – SmartNICs – Pliops Storage Processor

30 October 2020 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#180 – SmartNICs – Pliops Storage Processor

This week Chris and Martin chat to Steve Fingerhut, CMO at Pliops. Pliops has developed a "Storage Processor" in the form factor of an AIC (add-in card) that offloads storage functions from application software. This discussion looks at why the technology is needed and how Pliops has implemented the solution to drop into an existing server. The Pliops Storage Processor … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Pliops, Storage Hardware

#178 – Monetising the Value of Data

16 October 2020 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#178 – Monetising the Value of Data

This week, Chris has a great conversation with Bill Schmarzo, Chief Innovation Officer at Hitachi Vantara. Bill maintains a consultancy practice within Hitachi that helps customers build processes and identify data that can be used to create business value within an organisation. In this discussion, Bill outlines the process for identifying opportunities, capturing the data … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Management, Guest Speakers, Hitachi Vantara Tagged With: Bill Schmarzo

#175 – IBM FlashSystem Deep Dive (Sponsored)

25 September 2020 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#175 – IBM FlashSystem Deep Dive (Sponsored)

This week Chris catches up with Ralf Colbus from IBM to talk about the evolution of FlashSystem. The FlashSystem platform is an enterprise-class block-based storage solution that scales from SMB/SME offerings to high-end all-NVMe and SCM capable devices. At the heart of the design is the software behind Spectrum Virtualise, the SAN Volume Controller or SVC. FlashSystem now … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, IBM, Sponsored, Storage Hardware

#174 – Introduction to Zoned Storage with Phil Bullinger

18 September 2020 by Chris Evans 2 Comments

#174 – Introduction to Zoned Storage with Phil Bullinger

This week, Chris and Martin chat to Phil Bullinger, Senior VP and General Manager for the Data Centre Business Unit at Western Digital. As storage media capacities increase, recording methods are introducing challenges to maintaining resiliency and performance. SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) and ZNS (Zoned Namespaces) are two techniques that have developed to address the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Storage Hardware, Western Digital Tagged With: SMR, ZNS

#173 – Transparent Enterprise Storage Pricing

11 September 2020 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#173 – Transparent Enterprise Storage Pricing

Enterprise storage pricing has all the simplicity of a mobile phone tariff. Vendors love to obfuscate the costs, whereas prospective purchasers just like a good, honest price. Why does enterprise storage pricing have to be so complicated and can't we just have pricing online? Chris and Martin chat to George Crump from StorONE about strategies for pricing from both the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Vendors Tagged With: Dell EMC, IBM, Microsoft Azure, NetApp, Pure Storage, StorONE

#172 – Tintri SQL Integrated Storage

4 September 2020 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#172 – Tintri SQL Integrated Storage

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Management, Databases, Guest Speakers, Tintri

#171 – Exploiting Persistent Memory with MemVerge

28 August 2020 by Chris Evans 2 Comments

#171 – Exploiting Persistent Memory with MemVerge

This week the team double down on the topics of in-memory computing and persistent memory. Chris and Martin talk to Charles Fan, CEO at MemVerge about Big Memory and using persistent memory technology (specifically Optane) to supplement system DRAM. DRAM is expensive and as capacities scale linearly, the price of memory increases exponentially. Systems are limited by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, In-Memory Computing, MemVerge

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