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Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

#229 – Exploring the PCIe 6.0 Specification with Al Yanes

7 March 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris and Martin explore the recently announced PCIe 6.0 specification with Al Yanes, President and chair of the PCI Sig. PCIe (PCI Express) has been a backbone of server and mobile technologies for almost two decades, providing high-speed interconnect for add-in cards and other peripherals. As one example of the benefit of PCIe, the introduction of NVMe … [Read more...] about #229 – Exploring the PCIe 6.0 Specification with Al Yanes

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Standards

#228 – Exploiting Data in the Third Wave of IT Agility with Murli Thirumale (Sponsored)

25 February 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris is in conversation with Portworx co-founder and VP, GM of the Cloud Native Business Unit at Pure Storage, Murli Thirumale. Rather than covering specific technologies, this discussion looks at data as the third wave of IT agility. Wave One was the efficient use of infrastructure. Wave Two provided application mobility and agility. In Wave Three, data … [Read more...] about #228 – Exploiting Data in the Third Wave of IT Agility with Murli Thirumale (Sponsored)

Filed Under: Cloud, Data Management, Databases, Guest Speakers, Pure Storage, Sponsored

#227 – Infinidat InfiniGuard Enhancements with Eric Herzog (Sponsored)

14 February 2022 by Chris Evans

Infinidat recently announced some significant enhancements to the InfiniGuard platform. InfiniGuard is a backup target appliance solution that includes deduplicating technology to optimise the storage and retrieval of backup data. In this podcast, Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat, talks about the new features and how they form part of a cyber resiliency strategy for modern data … [Read more...] about #227 – Infinidat InfiniGuard Enhancements with Eric Herzog (Sponsored)

Filed Under: Data Protection, Guest Speakers, Infinidat, Sponsored

#226 – VAST Data Universal Storage for Data Protection (Sponsored)

9 February 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris and Martin discuss data protection on a "vast" scale, with VAST Data VP of Data Protection, George Axberg. VAST has just announced a partnership with Commvault that will integrate Universal Storage with Commvault's data management solutions. Further data protection vendor partnerships are expected in due course. While the idea of using an all-flash … [Read more...] about #226 – VAST Data Universal Storage for Data Protection (Sponsored)

Filed Under: All-Flash, Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers, Sponsored, VAST Data

#225 – Accelerating Modern Databases with Speedb

4 February 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris and Martin discuss storage engine efficiency and performance with Speedb CEO, Adi Gelvan. Storage engines form the core of all databases, providing the translation between the structured form of data the application sees, and the way in which data is written onto physical media like disks or SSDs. The performance and resiliency of a database is directly … [Read more...] about #225 – Accelerating Modern Databases with Speedb

Filed Under: Databases, Guest Speakers

#224 – FinOps and Optimising Cloud Consumption

28 January 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris and Martin are in conversation with Aran Khanna, CEO and co-founder of Archera. The topic is cloud optimisation, also known as FinOps or Financial Operations. The public cloud introduces a transformation from capital to operational expenditure that, when combined with the frictionless ability to spin up any workload in minutes, can result in sprawl and … [Read more...] about #224 – FinOps and Optimising Cloud Consumption

Filed Under: Cloud, Guest Speakers

#223 – Task Specific Software-Defined Storage

21 January 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris talks to Danny Abukalam about implementations for Software-Defined Storage (SDS), in particular the Task Specific model. Danny works in Product Engineering at SoftIron, a company that develops hardware platforms for Open Source software. In the storage market, SoftIron offers solutions that combine task-specific designed hardware with Ceph Open Source … [Read more...] about #223 – Task Specific Software-Defined Storage

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Software-Defined Storage, Storage Hardware

#222 – End of the Year Show 2021 – Part Two

14 January 2022 by Chris Evans

In this episode, Chris, Martin and Chris are joined by Infinidat CMO, Eric Herzog. The aim of this continuing discussion is to review the storage news and events from 2021. As usual though, the agenda gets trashed and the conversation goes down a series of rabbit holes. However, the team do manage to discuss the changing world of storage management, SmartNICs, the expansion … [Read more...] about #222 – End of the Year Show 2021 – Part Two

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, SmartNICs

#221 – End of the Year Show 2021 – Part One

7 January 2022 by Chris Evans

This week, the team take a review of 2021, looking at the events in storage and a lot more. In fact, this episode goes way off-piste in the conversation, so be prepared for public cloud, China, service models and storage unicorns. This is part 1 of a two-part "double header", the next episode of which will be published in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, enjoy this … [Read more...] about #221 – End of the Year Show 2021 – Part One

Filed Under: Guest Speakers

#220 – AWS & Cloud File System Diversity

24 December 2021 by Chris Evans

This week, Chris and Martin review the announcements coming out of AWS Reinvent, specifically those covering file systems. AWS announced FSx for OpenZFS and recently added FSx for NetApp ONTAP to the existing offerings. With FSx for Windows Server and FSx for Lustre (plus EFS), AWS now has five different file system solutions. Why has AWS decided to partner or use existing … [Read more...] about #220 – AWS & Cloud File System Diversity

Filed Under: AWS, AWS Reinvent, Cloud, Data Management, File Systems

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