This week's podcast was recorded on the road a few weeks ago in Silicon Valley. Chris dropped into the Datrium offices in Sunnyvale to talk about DVX, Datrium's open converged platform. Taking part in the podcast is Sazzala Reddy, CTO and co-founder and Tushar Agrawal, Director of Products. Datrium DVX is an extension of HCI that scales performance and capacity … [Read more...]
#47 – Enterprise Storage is Not Boring
This week Martin and Chris talk to Stephen Foskett, chief organiser at Tech Field Day. The team refute the concept that enterprise storage is boring, as posited by good friend Keith Townsend, also known as The CTO Advisor. To be fair, Keith was putting a positive spin on storage, however we thought it would be good to expand the conversation and look at why storage is so … [Read more...]
#46 – Another View on Open Source Storage with Neil Levine
A few weeks ago we discussed Open Source storage and whether it had any place in the enterprise. There was a lot of feedback, so we thought it would be good to follow up with another discussion, so we invited Neil Levine, Director of Product Management at Red Hat to give us his view. Martin, Chris and Neil discuss the difference in buying approach and whether bringing storage … [Read more...]
#45 – Modern Software Defined Storage With Avinash Lakshman
This week Chris is in the Bay area and was able to catch up for a chat with Hedvig CEO Avinash Lakshman. Hedvig is a start-up developing a scale-out software-defined storage platform, which makes Avinash the perfect guest to explain just where SDS has reached. Avinash also has serious SDS credentials, having co-developed Amazon Dynamo and developed Cassandra for … [Read more...]
#43 – All-flash Market Review 2018 with Chris Mellor
This week, Chris and Martin review the all-flash market with Chris Mellor. We looked at this sector around 12 months ago, so we're ready for an update. Lots of things have happened over the past 12 months. Vendors have gone away and come back (Violin). Existing vendors have seen a resurgence in their sales (IBM and NetApp), while others have struggled. Pure Storage is now … [Read more...]
#42 – Understanding Storage PR with Fred Monsone
In this week's episode, Martin and Chris talk to Fred Monsone, founder of A3 Communications, a boutique storage PR and communications company. It's clear that modern day PR isn't the right term any more and communications describes the work much more accurately. Fred describes the reasons why start-ups and seasoned companies want to find the right way to engage with the press … [Read more...]
#38 – Talking Dedicated Backup Appliances with Don Foster from Commvault
In this week's podcast, the team talk to Don Foster, Senior Director for WW Solutions Marketing at Commvault. Initially this podcast was intended to be recorded at Commvault Go last November (2017) in Washington DC, but schedules didn't align so we did it remotely. The audio quality is not as good as we'd like, so apologies for that. However, there are some good discussions … [Read more...]
#37 – State of the Storage Union with Chris Mellor
This week Chris and Gavin catch up with Chris Mellor, Storage Editor for The Register. With so much happening in storage, it's difficult to know where to start, so the guys focus on the rumour of Dell EMC reversing into VMware. Could this really happen and why is Dell EMC even thinking about this? The conversation flows on to IBM and their super-mega-hyper-uber announcement … [Read more...]
#36 – The Persistence of Memory with Rob Peglar
In this week's episode, the team talk to Rob Peglar, Senior VP and CTO at SymbolicIO. The conversation covers persistent memory and in particular the NVDIMM format of devices that provide persistent storage in a standard server DIMM slot. Rob explains how the standards are set through JEDEC, with a description of the three types - NVDIMM-N, F and P. The discussion … [Read more...]
#35 – The Spectre of Meltdown with Alex Chircop
In this week's podcast, the team talk to Alex Chircop, CTO at StorageOS about the implications on storage of the recent Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities. Much has been made of the potential impact to I/O performance and by definition storage platforms and products. The guys talk about what the vulnerabilities actually mean for end users and what to expect from storage … [Read more...]