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Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

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#168 – Storage Unicorns

24 July 2020 by Chris Evans

#168 – Storage Unicorns

This week Chris and Martin review the idea of storage unicorns, companies that have a valuation of one billion dollars or more. What exactly is the basis or justification for a billion dollar price tag? Is this something invented by the VC industry or is there a real degree of science behind the assumptions? The list in question comes from a Blocks & Files article … [Read more...] about #168 – Storage Unicorns

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: Acronis, Actifio, Backblaze, Barracuda Networks, Cloudian, Cohesity, Datrium, DDN, Druva, INFINIDAT, Kaseya, Nasuni, Qumulo, Rubrik, Scality, VAST Data, Veeam Software, Wasabi, Weka

#94 – Backblaze HDD Reliability Stats with Andy Klein

12 April 2019 by Chris Evans

#94 – Backblaze HDD Reliability Stats with Andy Klein

In this episode, Martin and Chris talk to Andy Klein from Backblaze.  Since 2014, Backblaze has been collecting and publishing hard drive reliability information for their storage pods.  The pods are custom-built and used to hold backup data from customers and to support the B2 cloud storage offering.  Rather than buy an expensive storage platform or use the public cloud, Ba … [Read more...] about #94 – Backblaze HDD Reliability Stats with Andy Klein

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: Andy Klein, B2, Backblaze, data protection, HDD stats, SMART

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