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Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

Storage Hardware

#166 – Infinidat Elastic Storage Pricing with Eran Brown (Sponsored)

10 July 2020 by Chris Evans

#166 – Infinidat Elastic Storage Pricing with Eran Brown (Sponsored)

This week, Chris and Martin are joined by Chris Mellor from Blocks & Files and Eran Brown from Infinidat to discuss flexible pricing strategies in light of current business disruptions. Infinidat has introduced an elastic pricing model for both capex and opex purchases. How is this implemented and what platform features enable Infinidat to deliver this capability? As … [Read more...] about #166 – Infinidat Elastic Storage Pricing with Eran Brown (Sponsored)

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Storage Hardware Tagged With: Chris Mellor, Elastic Pricing, Eran Brown

#164 – Introduction to StorONE S1: All-Flash Array.next with George Crump (Sponsored)

26 June 2020 by Chris Evans

#164 – Introduction to StorONE S1: All-Flash Array.next with George Crump (Sponsored)

Storage startup StorONE has introduced the S1: All-Flash Array.next (also known as S1:AFAn) which accelerates performance using Intel Optane technology. In this podcast, Chris and Martin discuss the benefits of Optane within the S1 platform in a conversation with George Crump, CMO at StorONE and formerly the founder of Storage Switzerland. S1 is a software-defined storage … [Read more...] about #164 – Introduction to StorONE S1: All-Flash Array.next with George Crump (Sponsored)

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Software-Defined Storage, Sponsored, Storage Hardware, StorONE Tagged With: George Crump, S1:AFAn

#161 – Seagate MACH.2 Dual Actuator Drive Deep Dive

12 June 2020 by Chris Evans

#161 – Seagate MACH.2 Dual Actuator Drive Deep Dive

This week, Chris and Martin look at the dual actuator drive technology developed by Seagate, also known as MACH.2. This conversation with Colin Presly and Tim Walker digs down into the detail of the hardware implementation and the operational aspects of deploying a hard drive that acts as two physically independent units. Dual actuator technology was developed to overcome … [Read more...] about #161 – Seagate MACH.2 Dual Actuator Drive Deep Dive

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Storage Hardware Tagged With: MACH.2, Seagate

#159 – Introduction to MRAM with Joe O'Hare from Everspin

22 May 2020 by Chris Evans

#159 – Introduction to MRAM with Joe O’Hare from Everspin

This week, Chris and Martin dig deeper into storage media and look at magneto-resistive RAM, commonly known as MRAM in this conversation with Joe O'Hare, Director of Distribution and Product Marketing at Everspin Technologies. MRAM is a persistent memory technology that uses resistance to determine the state of data. Everspin, the leading provider of MRAM technologies … [Read more...] about #159 – Introduction to MRAM with Joe O'Hare from Everspin

Filed Under: Everspin Technologies, Guest Speakers, Storage Hardware Tagged With: Magneto-resistive RAM, MRAM

#157 – Introduction to Dell PowerStore (sponsored)

11 May 2020 by Chris Evans

#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...] about #157 – Introduction to Dell PowerStore (sponsored)

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

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

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

#148 – Unpacking HPE's Storage Strategy

13 March 2020 by Chris Evans

#148 – Unpacking HPE’s Storage Strategy

As reported by Chris Mellor, HPE recently announced Q1 2020 figures that show storage down 8% and servers down 15%. In light of these numbers, we look at HPE's storage products, partners and overall strategy in the market. HPE primary products are strong contenders, with XP8 for high-end/mainframe, 3PAR & Primera, Nimble and MSA. Outside of the main platforms, HPE has … [Read more...] about #148 – Unpacking HPE's Storage Strategy

Filed Under: Object Storage, Software-Defined Storage, Storage Hardware Tagged With: 3PAR, HPE, MSA, Nimble, Primera

#141 – Building Storage Systems of the Future

31 January 2020 by Chris Evans

#141 – Building Storage Systems of the Future

This week Chris and Martin are joined by Erik Kaulberg, Vice President at Infinidat. Erik has appeared on the podcast before and this time is here to talk about how we build storage systems of the future. You can tell from the introductions that we recorded this episode towards the end of 2019 - we haven't been transported into the future! With many choices in new media, … [Read more...] about #141 – Building Storage Systems of the Future

Filed Under: Data Management, Guest Speakers, Storage Hardware Tagged With: Erik Kaulberg, INFINIDAT

#130 – Making Money in the Storage Business

22 November 2019 by Chris Evans

#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 to … [Read more...] about #130 – Making Money in the Storage Business

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

#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...] about #123 – Hitachi Next 2019: VSP 5000

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

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