This week's guest episode was recorded live in Silicon Valley at the offices of WekaIO. The company has developed a scale-out parallel file system called Matrix that was specifically designed to exploit NVMe storage and new fast networking. Chris is onsite to talk with CEO and co-founder, Liran Zivbel. Martin is dialled in remotely from the bowels of the Storage Unpacked … [Read more...]
#51 – Pure Accelerate Pregame
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...]
#50 – Introduction to Quantum Computing
How does quantum computing relate to storage? This week's episode is a bit of a diversion from our normal podcasting topics. In episode #47 (Enterprise Storage is not Boring), we mused as to how quantum computers use data. With no real knowledge between us, we asked for listeners to help us out. As a result, we're joined in this episode by Scott Crowder, Vice President … [Read more...]
#49 – Reputation in Technology Marketing
This week Chris and Martin talk to Gina Minks, who works on product marketing at VMware within the Cloud BU. The discussion evolved from a post Gina published on www.24x7itconnection.com talking about how vendors shouldn't go negative when promoting their own technology. We've seen hyperbole from many vendors in the past - you know who you are! During the conversation, the … [Read more...]
#48 – Introduction to Datrium DVX (Sponsored)
This week's podcast was recorded on the road a few weeks ago in Silicon Valley. Chris dropped into the Datrium offices in Sunnyvale to talk about DVX, Datrium's open converged platform. Taking part in the podcast is Sazzala Reddy, CTO and co-founder and Tushar Agrawal, Director of Products. Datrium DVX is an extension of HCI that scales performance and capacity … [Read more...]
#47 – Enterprise Storage is Not Boring
This week Martin and Chris talk to Stephen Foskett, chief organiser at Tech Field Day. The team refute the concept that enterprise storage is boring, as posited by good friend Keith Townsend, also known as The CTO Advisor. To be fair, Keith was putting a positive spin on storage, however we thought it would be good to expand the conversation and look at why storage is so … [Read more...]
#46 – Another View on Open Source Storage with Neil Levine
A few weeks ago we discussed Open Source storage and whether it had any place in the enterprise. There was a lot of feedback, so we thought it would be good to follow up with another discussion, so we invited Neil Levine, Director of Product Management at Red Hat to give us his view. Martin, Chris and Neil discuss the difference in buying approach and whether bringing storage … [Read more...]
#45 – Modern Software Defined Storage With Avinash Lakshman
This week Chris is in the Bay area and was able to catch up for a chat with Hedvig CEO Avinash Lakshman. Hedvig is a start-up developing a scale-out software-defined storage platform, which makes Avinash the perfect guest to explain just where SDS has reached. Avinash also has serious SDS credentials, having co-developed Amazon Dynamo and developed Cassandra for … [Read more...]
#44 – Ultra High Capacity Flash Drives
This week, Chris and Martin discuss the availability of super-high capacity or ultra-capacity flash drives. The conversation comes out of an announcement from Nimbus Data that has produced a 100TB SATA SSD. This follows up from last year's 50TB drives that were OEMed to Viking and Smart Modular. You can find some more background at Architecting IT here. With so much … [Read more...]
#43 – All-flash Market Review 2018 with Chris Mellor
This week, Chris and Martin review the all-flash market with Chris Mellor. We looked at this sector around 12 months ago, so we're ready for an update. Lots of things have happened over the past 12 months. Vendors have gone away and come back (Violin). Existing vendors have seen a resurgence in their sales (IBM and NetApp), while others have struggled. Pure Storage is now … [Read more...]