This episode was recorded at Pure Accelerate in San Francisco on Tuesday 22nd May 2018 just before the event started. Chris talks to Matt Leib and eventually Ray Lucchesi, initially about the role of the reseller, then eventually moving towards NVMe over Fabrics. As with all live recorded podcasts, there's a little background noise, including the weekly noon siren test. The … [Read more...]
Soundbytes #015: NetApp HCI with Martin Cooper
In this podcast, recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin, November 2017, Chris talks to Martin Cooper, Senior Director of Field Engineering, Next Generation Data Centre. The conversation introduces HCI, NetApp's hyper-converged offering, which recently went GA. NetApp HCI uses SolidFire storage and scales differently to traditional HCI solutions in that the processor cores … [Read more...]
Soundbytes #014: A Conversation with NetApp Founder Dave Hitz
This podcast was recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin on 15 November 2017. Chris talks to Dave Hitz, founder of NetApp Inc. The conversation is fairly free flowing, covering a general discussion on data management, NetApp's positioning with Azure NFS and how we can expect to see hybrid cloud work in the future. You'll notice there's no discussion on any hardware products at … [Read more...]
Soundbytes #013: Hitachi Vantara with Greg Knieriemen
In this quick podcast, recorded live at Commvault GO 2017, Chris talks to Greg Knieriemen, Technology Evangelist with Hitachi Vantara. Hitachi recently merged the HDS (Hitachi Data Systems), Pentaho and Hitachi Insight Group brands together into a single entity, Hitachi Vantara. The new company will focus more on data and IoT, as Greg explains. Unfortunately the recording … [Read more...]
Soundbytes #012: The Resurrection of Violin Systems with CEO Ebrahim Abbasi
In this podcast, recorded live on 13th October 2017 in London, Chris talks to Violin Systems CEO, Ebrahim Abbasi. Violin Systems is the new name for Violin Memory, one of the pioneers of all-flash storage. Violin Memory entered chapter 11 in December 2016 and the company assets were eventually acquired by the Soros Group. Violin Systems is back, with no debt, positive … [Read more...]
Soundbytes #010: Discussing OpenIO Nano Nodes with Enrico Signoretti
In this podcast, recorded on 27th September in Lille, France at the OpenIO Summit, Chris catches a quick chat with Enrico Signoretti, Head of Product Strategy. The conversation covers Nano Nodes, a small form-factor device that attaches to a hard drive, turning it into a fully-fledged server. So why turn each hard drive into an independent server? The key is the ability to … [Read more...]
Soundbytes #009: FlashArray Update With Ivan Iannaccone at Pure Accelerate
The following podcast was recorded at Pure Accelerate in San Francisco in June 2017. The recording was made behind the main stage, so apologies for the background noise which does get pretty loud for a while! Chris talks to Ivan Iannaccone, Director of Product Management (also known as Emperor of Flash) at Pure Storage. The conversation goes through the new software features … [Read more...]
Soundbytes #008: FlashBlade 2.0 With Rob Lee at Pure Accelerate
In this podcast, recorded on 14th June 2017 at Pure Accelerate in San Francisco, Chris talks to Rob Lee, Chief Architect of the FlashBlade product line. FlashBlade 2.0 sees greater scalability for the product, but more interesting is the way in which companies have taken the platform and used it creatively to achieve things that weren't possible with traditional NAS … [Read more...]
Soundbytes #007: Launch of StorageOS Beta – A Discussion with Chris Brandon at DockerCon 2017
This conversation was recorded between Chris E and Chris Brandon, CEO of StorageOS, a London-based storage startup. StorageOS has just released their storage platform as a public beta. Based on containers and delivering storage for containers, StorageOS creates a distributed scale-out storage platform based on deployment on bare metal, virtual or cloud instances. The category … [Read more...]
Soundbytes #006: A Discussion on The Storage Industry with Stephen Foskett at DockerCon 2017
In this podcast, recorded at DockerCon 2017, ChrisE talks to Stephen Foskett, organiser of the Tech Field Day events. During the short podcast, the conversation covers issues of the storage industry, how we're moving towards software and whether the idea of "alpha" storage products really makes sense. Elapsed Time: 00:11:03 Timeline 00:00:00 - Introductions - Tech Field Day … [Read more...]