This week, Chris is in San Diego attending Hitachi NEXT 2018, the annual user conference for Hitachi Vantara customers. Hitachi Vantara was formed in 2017 from the merger of Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group and Pentaho. Last year we spoke to Greg Knieriemen about the new company and the reasons behind the decision to move on from the HDS brand. One year on from … [Read more...]
#65 – Challenges in Managing Unstructured Data with Shirish Phatak
In this week's podcast we focus on the issues of managing unstructured data in a distributed world. Chris and Martin are joined by Shirish Phatak, CEO at Talon Storage. It's interesting that "unstructured" proves to have a moveable definition, depending on what you want to include. While we traditionally think of files and objects as unstructured, these so-called binary … [Read more...]
#63 – Datrium CloudShift
In this episode, Chris and Martin catch up with the Datrium team to discuss CloudShift, Datrium's new SaaS DR offering. CloudShift provides the capability to use backups that have been written to Cloud DVX and fire up a VMware Cloud on AWS instance, recovering the backups into the vSphere cluster. CloudShift can also be used to do DR between primary and secondary DVX … [Read more...]
#62 – The Future of Data Infrastructure with Scott Hamilton
This is the third of a series of three podcasts recorded at Flash Memory Summit 2018. In this conversation, Chris talks to Scott Hamilton, Senior Director of Product Management, DCS group at Western Digital Corporation. WDC are working on a new architecture that will deliver a composable data infrastructure for the enterprise. This podcast discussed why composable is needed … [Read more...]
#61 – Introduction to NVM Express with Amber Huffman
This is the second of a series of podcasts recorded at Flash Memory Summit 2018 in Santa Clara. In this episode, Chris talks to Amber Huffman, Intel Fellow and President and founder of NVM Express Inc. NVM Express is the standards body that governs the development of the NVMe base standard, NVMe-MI (Management Interface) and NVMe over Fabrics. Amber explains how standards' … [Read more...]
#60 – New Data Economy with Derek Dicker
This week Chris is attending the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara. This is the first of three podcast recordings from the event and is a conversation with Derek Dicker CVP and GM of the Storage Business Unit at Micron. Derek participated in a keynote session at the event and talked about the challenges of managing new data types. This includes processing data coming from … [Read more...]
#59 – Ethernet vs Fibre Channel
This week's podcast looks at storage networking and in particular the choice of using Ethernet vs Fibre Channel as the network protocol. Traditionally, enterprise storage platforms have been Fibre Channel connected, with only a small amount of iSCSI usage. However, the world isn't just block storage and in fact, as guest Marty Lans (General Manager, Storage Connectivity … [Read more...]
#57 – Storage on the Edge with Scott Shadley
What is computational storage and how do we manage storage on the edge of the network? This week's conversation is a discussion on how storage and data is managed within IoT devices and partially covers the new segment of computational storage. Martin and Chris talk to Scott Shadley, VP of Marketing for NGD Systems. Edge storage means more than simply managing the data on … [Read more...]
#55 – Storage for Hyperscalers
This week we talk to Mark Carlson, co-chair of the SNIA Technical Council, about the storage needs of hyperscalers. Mark defines hyperscalers as those companies opening multiple data centres a year, most notably Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google and Facebook in the US and Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent in China. These vendors are deploying petabytes of storage a year, with specific … [Read more...]
#53 – Persistent Storage and Kubernetes with Evan Powell
This week Chris and Martin talk to Evan Powell, CEO of OpenEBS and formerly the founding CEO of Nexenta. The conversation covers the use of persistent storage with container orchestration tool, Kubernetes. Despite what the industry might think, persistent storage that can be mapped to a container (or in this case pod) is still an important problem to solve. Evan sets the … [Read more...]