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Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

Guest Speakers

#224 – FinOps and Optimising Cloud Consumption

28 January 2022 by Chris Evans

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

Filed Under: Cloud, Guest Speakers

#223 – Task Specific Software-Defined Storage

21 January 2022 by Chris Evans

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

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Software-Defined Storage, Storage Hardware

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

14 January 2022 by Chris Evans

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

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, SmartNICs

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

7 January 2022 by Chris Evans

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

Filed Under: Guest Speakers

#219 – Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack

3 December 2021 by Chris Evans

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

Filed Under: Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers

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

19 November 2021 by Chris Evans

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)

Filed Under: Cloud, Commvault, Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers, Sponsored

#217 – Introduction to CXL with Jim Pappas

12 November 2021 by Chris Evans

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

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, SmartNICs, Storage Hardware

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

5 November 2021 by Chris Evans

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

Filed Under: All-Flash, Data Management, Guest Speakers, Storage Hardware, VAST Data

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

28 September 2021 by Chris Evans

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

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)

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Pure Storage, Pure//Launch, Sponsored

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

13 August 2021 by Chris Evans

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

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)

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Pure Storage, Storage Hardware Tagged With: Brian Carpenter, flashblade, UFFO

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