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A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

#140 – Introduction to Document-Orientated Databases

24 January 2020 by Chris Evans 2 Comments

#140 – Introduction to Document-Orientated Databases

This week, Chris and Martin speak to David Koppe, Director of Information Strategy at MongoDB. The discussion covers document-orientated databases, or simply document databases, and their appeal to the enterprise. Document databases differ from traditional relational databases in that the data is stored within each "document" as a series of key-value pairs. In this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Databases, Guest Speakers Tagged With: ChrisE, David Koppe, Martin, MongoDB, NoSQL Databases

#66 – Amazon RDS – Coming to a vSphere Cluster Near You

14 September 2018 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#66 – Amazon RDS – Coming to a vSphere Cluster Near You

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware recently announced that RDS, the Relational Database Service was in tech preview as an on-premises deployment on vSphere.  Running a service outside of Amazon's data centre represents a big change for the company.  The only non-core offering to date has been Snowball, the edge data appliance.  In this week's recording, Martin and Chris … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: AWS, ChrisE, databases, Instapaper, MartinG, RDS, VMware

#65 – Challenges in Managing Unstructured Data with Shirish Phatak

7 September 2018 by Chris Evans 5 Comments

#65 – Challenges in Managing Unstructured Data with Shirish Phatak

In this week's podcast we focus on the issues of managing unstructured data in a distributed world.  Chris and Martin are joined by Shirish Phatak, CEO at Talon Storage. It's interesting that "unstructured" proves to have a moveable definition, depending on what you want to include.  While we traditionally think of files and objects as unstructured, these so-called binary … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Management, Guest Speakers Tagged With: Big Data, ChrisE, Data Management, MartinG, Shirish Phatak, Talon Storage

#62 – The Future of Data Infrastructure with Scott Hamilton

17 August 2018 by Chris Evans 2 Comments

#62 – The Future of Data Infrastructure with Scott Hamilton

This is the third of a series of three podcasts recorded at Flash Memory Summit 2018.  In this conversation, Chris talks to Scott Hamilton, Senior Director of Product Management, DCS group at Western Digital Corporation.  WDC are working on a new architecture that will deliver a composable data infrastructure for the enterprise.  This podcast discussed why composable is needed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: ChrisE, composable, FMS2018, Scott Hamilton, WDC, Western Digital

#58 – Storage Vendor Hero Numbers

20 July 2018 by Chris Evans 4 Comments

#58 – Storage Vendor Hero Numbers

This week, Chris Mellor is back and the team take a dive into the subject of storage vendor hero numbers.  What are hero numbers?  We've all seen them, they're the huge performance figures quoted by all-flash storage vendors aimed at putting their products forward in the best light possible. Are hero numbers believable or should we be looking at certified vendor benchmark … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: All-flash, ChrisE, chrism, Dell EMC, IBM FlashSystem, MartinG, NVMe, Pure Storage, Violin Systems

#52 – An Introduction to WekaIO Matrix with Liran Zvibel (Sponsored)

5 June 2018 by Chris Evans 5 Comments

#52 – An Introduction to WekaIO Matrix with Liran Zvibel (Sponsored)

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...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Sponsored Tagged With: ChrisE, MartinG, Parallel File System, Scale-out, WekaIO

#51 – Pure Accelerate Pregame

30 May 2018 by Chris Evans 2 Comments

#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...]

Filed Under: Soundbytes Tagged With: Apeiron Data, ChrisE, NVMeoF, Pure Storage

#50 – Introduction to Quantum Computing

18 May 2018 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#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...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: ChrisE, MartinG, Quantum Computing, Scott Crowder

#46 – Another View on Open Source Storage with Neil Levine

13 April 2018 by Chris Evans 3 Comments

#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...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: ChrisE, MartinG, Neil Levine, Open Source, Red Hat

#44 – Ultra High Capacity Flash Drives

30 March 2018 by Chris Evans 4 Comments

#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...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: ChrisE, flash, MartinG, NAND, Nimbus Data, SSD

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