Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

Guest Speakers

#204 – Liqid Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure

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This week, Chris and Martin talk to Sumit Puri, CEO of Liqid Inc. Liqid has developed a composable infrastructure platform they call CDI or Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure. CDI enables IT organisations to take the building blocks of compute - storage, networking, CPUs, memory and GPUs then combine them dynamically in ways that address the processing needs of the … [Read more...] about #204 – Liqid Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure

#203 – Storage and Chia Cryptocurrency Farming

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This week, Martin and Chris delve into cryptocurrency mining in a lengthy discussion on Chia with Robert Novak. Chia is a new cryptocurrency technology that differs from previous online currencies in that the basis for earning rewards (or coins) is based on the volume of data stored on disk, rather than raw compute performed. Rob takes the team through a discussion of the … [Read more...] about #203 – Storage and Chia Cryptocurrency Farming

#202 – Enterprise Storage Consolidation with Phil Bullinger from Infinidat (Sponsored)

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In this week's sponsored episode, Chris and Martin talk to Phil Bullinger, newly appointed CEO at Infinidat. The company has reached their ten-year anniversary, shipping over seven exabytes of capacity in that time. With successful growth in every quarter during 2020, we discuss how Infinidat is helping drive the consolidation story for large enterprises and MSPs looking to … [Read more...] about #202 – Enterprise Storage Consolidation with Phil Bullinger from Infinidat (Sponsored)

#201 – Introducing Scality ARTESCA (Sponsored)

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In this week's episode, Chris and Martin talk to Paul Speciale (Chief Product Officer at Scality) and Chris Tinker (Distinguished Technologist with HPE) about the launch of ARTESCA, a new lightweight, cloud-native object storage solution. HPE and Scality have announced the product jointly, delivering the solution on HPE hardware with an exclusive distribution agreement for 6 … [Read more...] about #201 – Introducing Scality ARTESCA (Sponsored)

#200 – Virtualisation, Containers, Serverless and Data

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This week, Martin and Chris are joined by Jim Walker, VP of Product Marketing at Cockroach Labs. In a slight departure from a purely storage-based recording, this discussion follows the evolution of application packaging and deployment, from virtualisation to containers and serverless. The logical conclusion of any computing environment is to execute code and gradually, we … [Read more...] about #200 – Virtualisation, Containers, Serverless and Data

#195 – Fungible Data Processing Units

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This week's podcast episode continues the discussion on SmartNICs and DPUs with Fungible, a company that claims to have originally coined the term DPU. Chris and Martin talk with Pradeep Sindhu (CEO and co-founder) and Jai Menon (Chief Scientist) about Fungible's storage cluster and host-based DPU. The Fungible architecture aims to solve the challenges of disaggregation, a … [Read more...] about #195 – Fungible Data Processing Units

#193 – HYCU Protégé Office 365 Backup as a Service

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This week, Chris and Martin are talking to a podcast repeat offender, Subbiah Sundaram, VP of Products at HYCU. HYCU has recently announced the availability of Protégé for Microsoft Office 365, delivered as SaaS or Backup as a Service (BaaS). This continues an expansion of the HYCU and Protégé backup offerings that started with Nutanix data protection and has expanded past on- … [Read more...] about #193 – HYCU Protégé Office 365 Backup as a Service

#192 – Storage & Kubernetes with Nigel Poulton

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This week, Chris and Martin chat to long-time friend and Kubernetes legend, Nigel Poulton. Nigel is well-known in the industry for producing training courses and books on Kubernetes, although was once a storage person in a previous life. The aim of this podcast episode is to examine how storage and Kubernetes come together. However, we start by asking Nigel to explain his … [Read more...] about #192 – Storage & Kubernetes with Nigel Poulton

#191 – CIO Pandemic Priorities

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This week, Chris and Martin are in discussion with Cathy Southwick, CIO at Pure Storage. The topic of conversation is the results of a CIO survey undertaken by Pure to look back at the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and how customers have changed their IT strategies. The discussion covers how Pure Storage has adapted to the lack of in-person site visits and adapting … [Read more...] about #191 – CIO Pandemic Priorities

#190 – NVIDIA BlueField SmartNICs & DPUs

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This week, Chris and Martin chat to Kevin Deierling, SVP of Marketing for Networking Products at NVIDIA. SmartNICs and DPUs (Data Processing Units) are starting to become mainstream as application use-cases such as AI and analytics drive a need for greater data throughput and performance. Kevin explains the design and thinking behind BlueField, NVIDIA's family of DPU products … [Read more...] about #190 – NVIDIA BlueField SmartNICs & DPUs