Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

Guest Speakers

#232 – Building Power-Efficient Storage Systems with Justin Emerson from Pure Storage (Sponsored)

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In this episode, Chris talks to Justin Emerson from Pure Storage about modern design considerations for power-efficient storage. The cost of powering data centres has increased massively over the last 12 months, driven by the global economy and recovery from COVID-19. At a component level, servers are increasing their power usage, with faster processors and memory, plus the … [Read more...] about #232 – Building Power-Efficient Storage Systems with Justin Emerson from Pure Storage (Sponsored)

#231 – Introducing Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II (Sponsored)

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In this episode, Chris talks to Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat about the announcement of SSA II, the second generation all-flash InfiniBox platform. The first generation SSA (solid state array) was developed to address a customer requirement that all long-tail latency I/Os must be delivered at all-flash levels of performance. The InfiniBox architecture is capable of delivering … [Read more...] about #231 – Introducing Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II (Sponsored)

#230 – Seagate NVMe Hard Drives

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In this episode, Chris and Martin discuss NVMe hard drives with Tim Walker and Mohamad El-Batal from Seagate Research. The concept behind the NVMe HDD is simple - provide a native NVMe interface to traditional enterprise nearline hard drives. Does this approach make sense and what can be gained, other than standardising on an interface? With SMR, multi-actuator and other … [Read more...] about #230 – Seagate NVMe Hard Drives

#229 – Exploring the PCIe 6.0 Specification with Al Yanes

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In this episode, Chris and Martin explore the recently announced PCIe 6.0 specification with Al Yanes, President and chair of the PCI Sig. PCIe (PCI Express) has been a backbone of server and mobile technologies for almost two decades, providing high-speed interconnect for add-in cards and other peripherals. As one example of the benefit of PCIe, the introduction of NVMe … [Read more...] about #229 – Exploring the PCIe 6.0 Specification with Al Yanes

#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)

#227 – Infinidat InfiniGuard Enhancements with Eric Herzog (Sponsored)

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Infinidat recently announced some significant enhancements to the InfiniGuard platform. InfiniGuard is a backup target appliance solution that includes deduplicating technology to optimise the storage and retrieval of backup data. In this podcast, Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat, talks about the new features and how they form part of a cyber resiliency strategy for modern data … [Read more...] about #227 – Infinidat InfiniGuard Enhancements with Eric Herzog (Sponsored)

#226 – VAST Data Universal Storage for Data Protection (Sponsored)

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In this episode, Chris and Martin discuss data protection on a "vast" scale, with VAST Data VP of Data Protection, George Axberg. VAST has just announced a partnership with Commvault that will integrate Universal Storage with Commvault's data management solutions. Further data protection vendor partnerships are expected in due course. While the idea of using an all-flash … [Read more...] about #226 – VAST Data Universal Storage for Data Protection (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

#224 – FinOps and Optimising Cloud Consumption

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In this episode, Chris and Martin are in conversation with Aran Khanna, CEO and co-founder of Archera. The topic is cloud optimisation, also known as FinOps or Financial Operations. The public cloud introduces a transformation from capital to operational expenditure that, when combined with the frictionless ability to spin up any workload in minutes, can result in sprawl and … [Read more...] about #224 – FinOps and Optimising Cloud Consumption

#223 – Task Specific Software-Defined Storage

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In this episode, Chris talks to Danny Abukalam about implementations for Software-Defined Storage (SDS), in particular the Task Specific model. Danny works in Product Engineering at SoftIron, a company that develops hardware platforms for Open Source software. In the storage market, SoftIron offers solutions that combine task-specific designed hardware with Ceph Open Source … [Read more...] about #223 – Task Specific Software-Defined Storage