NetApp has developed a new backup service called NDAS or NetApp Data Availability Services. NDAS is based in the public cloud and provides the ability to run analytics against secondary data in AWS S3, without having re-hydrate through a backup platform. Chris met with Charlotte Brooks (Technical Marketing Engineer) and Joel Kaufman (Director of Technical Marketing) to … [Read more...]
#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, … [Read more...]
#87 – The Risks of Storage Media Reuse versus Recycling
In this episode, Chris and Martin talk to Simon Zola from Avtel Data Destruction. This is a follow-up episode to #85 (Storage for Home and Homelabs) where Martin and Chris questioned the ease of recovering data from pre-owned storage media. As we find out, the process was pretty easy. Martin was able to recover significant amounts of personal data with little effort and … [Read more...]
#73 – HYCU – Data Protection for Hyper-converged Infrastructure (Sponsored)
This week, Chris and Martin talk to Subbiah Sundaram, VP of Products at HYCU, Inc. HYCU is both the name of the company and the data protection product sold by HYCU Inc. The market already has many data protection solutions, so the unique differentiator for HYCU is focusing on the HCI market, specifically offering backup for Nutanix (both ESXi and AHV). Of course, HCI … [Read more...]
#38 – Talking Dedicated Backup Appliances with Don Foster from Commvault
In this week's podcast, the team talk to Don Foster, Senior Director for WW Solutions Marketing at Commvault. Initially this podcast was intended to be recorded at Commvault Go last November (2017) in Washington DC, but schedules didn't align so we did it remotely. The audio quality is not as good as we'd like, so apologies for that. However, there are some good discussions … [Read more...]
Talking Cloud Data Protection with Jaspreet Singh
In this podcast, recorded in December 2016, Chris talks to Jaspreet Singh, founder and CEO of Druva Inc, a cloud-focused data protection company. The conversation covers the issues of how cloud-based backup differs from typical on-premises operations, the considerations that have to be thought of and how cloud backup can be used for more than just recovery. You can find … [Read more...]