Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

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#222 – End of the Year Show 2021 – Part Two

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In this episode, Chris, Martin and Chris are joined by Infinidat CMO, Eric Herzog. The aim of this continuing discussion is to review the storage news and events from 2021. As usual though, the agenda gets trashed and the conversation goes down a series of rabbit holes. However, the team do manage to discuss the changing world of storage management, SmartNICs, the expansion … [Read more...] about #222 – End of the Year Show 2021 – Part Two

#221 – End of the Year Show 2021 – Part One

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This week, the team take a review of 2021, looking at the events in storage and a lot more. In fact, this episode goes way off-piste in the conversation, so be prepared for public cloud, China, service models and storage unicorns. This is part 1 of a two-part "double header", the next episode of which will be published in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, enjoy this … [Read more...] about #221 – End of the Year Show 2021 – Part One

#219 – Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack

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This week Chris chats to Tony Mendoza, Senior Director of IT at Spectra Logic. The conversation covers the ransomware attack experienced by Spectra in May 2020 and the subsequent response to deal with the problem. On 7th May 2020, the company detected a ransomware exploit was encrypting files across application servers. In their place was a plain text file, demanding money … [Read more...] about #219 – Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack

#218 – Real World Customer Data Protection Experiences with Don Foster (Sponsored)

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This week, Chris is in conversation with Don Foster, Global Head of Sales Engineering for Commvault. The discussion covers the experiences of customers as IT continues to evolve into public, hybrid and multi-clouds. Don runs the global Sales Engineering teams, tasked with helping customers protect their data in a world that now includes on-premises deployments, the public … [Read more...] about #218 – Real World Customer Data Protection Experiences with Don Foster (Sponsored)

#217 – Introduction to CXL with Jim Pappas

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This week, Chris and Martin discuss the emerging CXL technology with CXL Consortium Chair, Jim Pappas. CXL or Compute Express Link, is a new solution that will provide improved connectivity between processors and accelerator devices connected through the PCIe 5.0 bus. With CXL, central processors, GPUs and other co-processors can share memory and operate closer together with … [Read more...] about #217 – Introduction to CXL with Jim Pappas

#216 – The Data Explosion with VAST Data CEO Renen Hallak

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This week, Chris chats to VAST Data CEO, Renen Hallak about the explosion in data and the challenges of analysing and managing huge quantities of unstructured content. VAST Data has built a scale-out unstructured object store that customers are now using to store petabytes of complex data. But what does complex mean, and how is that data being used? Renen explains how many … [Read more...] about #216 – The Data Explosion with VAST Data CEO Renen Hallak

#211 – Pure//Launch – Announcing Fusion and Portworx Data Services (Sponsored)

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In this week's sponsored episode, Chris chats to Alex McMullan, CTO International at Pure Storage. The discussion covers Pure//Launch and today's announcements of two SaaS solutions - Fusion and Portworx Data Services. Fusion is a new SaaS management plane for administering and optimising Pure Storage hardware and software products, including FlashArray, FlashBlade and Cloud … [Read more...] about #211 – Pure//Launch – Announcing Fusion and Portworx Data Services (Sponsored)

#209 – Discovering Unified Fast File and Object with Pure Storage (Sponsored)

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In this week's episode, Chris and Martin meet with Brian Carpenter, Senior Director of Unstructured Technology Strategy at Pure Storage, to talk about UFFO - Unified Fast File and Object. UFFO is a technology bringing together the two main types of unstructured data into a single platform - FlashBlade. The discussion centres on the benefits of using a single platform that … [Read more...] about #209 – Discovering Unified Fast File and Object with Pure Storage (Sponsored)

#206 – An Update on NVMe 2.0 with Amber Huffman

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This week, Chris and Martin chat to Amber Huffman, Intel Fellow and President of NVM Express about the updates in NVMe 2.0. NVM Express (generally abbreviated to NVMe) is a storage protocol that was developed to overcome some of the shortcomings of traditional protocols when working with new high performance media such as NAND SSDs and Optane. The 2.0 release of the NVMe … [Read more...] about #206 – An Update on NVMe 2.0 with Amber Huffman

#205 – 25 Years of Commvault & the Power of And (Sponsored)

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In this week's episode, Chris and Martin have a great conversation with David Ngo, CTO for Metallic at Commvault, and Ranga Rajagopalan, VP Product Management for Commvault and Metallic. Commvault is celebrating 25 years in data protection, while Metallic, a SaaS data protection solution from Commvault has been available for nearly two years. In this discussion, David and … [Read more...] about #205 – 25 Years of Commvault & the Power of And (Sponsored)