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#163 – Inflection Points in Storage Deployment Strategies

23 June 2020 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#163 – Inflection Points in Storage Deployment Strategies

Technology refreshes are a constant part of the IT landscape. Businesses need to frequently update and modernise their infrastructure. Typically, the inertia to move between vendors is strong, but inflection points do occur, when the cost and risk of change is outweighed by the benefits. How do you identify inflection points in your environment and then take advantage of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Management, Guest Speakers, Storage Management Tagged With: Atradius, MTI, NetApp

#162 – The Evolving Role of Storage Administration

19 June 2020 by Chris Evans 2 Comments

#162 – The Evolving Role of Storage Administration

The role of the storage administrator has changed over the years and is in many ways influenced by the three "V"s typically used to describe AI. Admins have to deal with increased data Volumes, with the Velocity of delivering resources and with a wide Variety of application profiles. This week, Chris talks to Clay Ryder (Senior Director of Enterprise Marketing) and Frank … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Storage Management

#160 – Updates on Hitachi Ops Center with Stan Stevens (sponsored)

5 June 2020 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#160 – Updates on Hitachi Ops Center with Stan Stevens (sponsored)

In this week's episode, Chris catches up with Stan Stevens, Director of Software Product Marketing at Hitachi Vantara to talk about updates to Hitachi Ops Center. Ops Center is the storage management platform for administering Hitachi VSP storage products. Stan discusses new features (including Ops Center Protector and support for VSP E990), and provides a view on what to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Management, Hitachi Vantara, Storage Management Tagged With: Ops Center, Stan Stevens

#153 – Post Pandemic Storage Efficiencies

17 April 2020 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#153 – Post Pandemic Storage Efficiencies

As we head towards week 4 of lockdown in the UK, Chris and Martin reflect on the personal changes in their daily routines, as well as the implications on businesses. This has been a time for dusting off old skills (like DNS/DHCP configurations) and finding new uses for Raspberry Pis and Arduinos. Working from home has placed significant focus on Zoom, where the attack … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection, Storage Management Tagged With: COVID-19, Storage Management

#142 – Storage, Automation and DevOps

7 February 2020 by Chris Evans 2 Comments

#142 – Storage, Automation and DevOps

This week, Chris and Martin discuss the automation of storage. In a follow-on from the Dell EMC presentation at Storage Field Day 19, this conversation looks at the challenges of opening storage provisioning and management to the wider developer community. In the past, SRM tools have focused on providing the "record of truth" for storage and well as the interface to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Management, Garbage Collection, Storage Management Tagged With: DevOps, SFD19, SRM, Storage Management, ViPR

#125 – Hitachi Next 2019: Ops Center

25 October 2019 by Chris Evans 4 Comments

#125 – Hitachi Next 2019: Ops Center

This is the second recording from the Hitachi NEXT 2019 conference held in Las Vegas in October 2019. In a previous episode we looked at the new VSP 5000 platform. In this discussion, Chris talks to Stan Stevens, Director of Infrastructure Software Product Marketing, about Ops Center, the new platform for Hitachi storage management. Ops Center has four main components; … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Storage Management Tagged With: Hitachi Next 2019, Hitachi Vantara, Stan Stevens, Storage Management, VSP 5000

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