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#188 – Is Intel Optane Ready for Primetime?

15 January 2021 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#188 – Is Intel Optane Ready for Primetime?

This week, Chris and Martin dig deeper into the adoption of Intel Optane technology in both the consumer and enterprise markets. Optane is a new persistent memory technology that offers greater performance and lower latency compared to NAND flash, but currently is more expensive and offers smaller capacity devices. As Optane becomes more prevalent in both markets, how is it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All-Flash, Garbage Collection, Intel, NVMe, Persistent Memory

#157 – Introduction to Dell PowerStore (sponsored)

11 May 2020 by Chris Evans 2 Comments

#157 – Introduction to Dell PowerStore (sponsored)

In this sponsored episode, Chris and Martin look at the newly announced midrange storage platform from Dell Technologies. PowerStore is a new all-flash midrange storage solution that offers both scale-up and scale-out capabilities. As we find out in the discussion with Dan Cummins and Devon Reed, this is only one aspect of the new technology. Through a feature called AppsOn, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, NVMe, Sponsored, Storage Hardware Tagged With: Dell Technologies, NVMe, PowerStore

#154 – Hitachi Vantara VSP E990 NVMe Midrange Appliance with Colin Gallagher (Sponsored)

21 April 2020 by Chris Evans 2 Comments

#154 – Hitachi Vantara VSP E990 NVMe Midrange Appliance with Colin Gallagher (Sponsored)

Today, Hitachi Vantara announced the VSP E990, a midrange all-NVMe storage appliance. The new solution, available immediately, offers up to 5.8 million IOPS, I/O latency as low as 64µs with up to 64PB effective capacity. In this episode, Chris Evans chats remotely to Colin Gallagher about the new platform. VSP E990 extends the existing solutions in the VSP family, from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, NVMe, Storage Hardware Tagged With: Hitachi Vantara, VSP E990

#130 – Making Money in the Storage Business

22 November 2019 by Chris Evans 2 Comments

#130 – Making Money in the Storage Business

This week, Chris and Martin reflect on changes in the storage industry and the ways in which vendors can make money from storage hardware and software. It's been a tough time for storage vendors of late and the discussion starts by looking at the challenges of making money in a market where components are commodity and decline in price each month. How should vendors adapt … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All-Flash, Garbage Collection, NVMe, Storage Hardware Tagged With: NetApp, Pure Storage, Seagate, Western Digital

#123 – Hitachi Next 2019: VSP 5000

18 October 2019 by Chris Evans 3 Comments

#123 – Hitachi Next 2019: VSP 5000

This is the first of a series of podcast episodes recorded at Hitachi NEXT 2019 in Las Vegas. Hitachi announced the next generation of VSP storage arrays, the VSP 5000 at the show. The new platform provides greater performance and capacity than previous systems at lower latency. Chris meets with Colin Gallagher (VP Product Marketing for the Infrastructure Portfolio) and Dan … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, NVMe, Storage Hardware Tagged With: All-flash, Hitachi Vantara, NVMe, VSP 5000

#121 – NVMe 1.4 Deep Dive Part II with J Metz

4 October 2019 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#121 – NVMe 1.4 Deep Dive Part II with J Metz

This podcast episode continues the discussion with Dr J Metz and focuses on the detail of NVMe 1.4 and NVMe over Fabrics 1.1. Both standards are complete and have been published in the last few months. The conversation today digs deeper into what the new standards offer and specifically how NVMe/TCP becomes "officially" part of the NVMe standard. The conversation on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, NVMe, Storage Hardware Tagged With: J Metz, NVM Express, NVMe

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