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...]
#135 – Introducing Datrium DRaaS Connect with Simon Long
This episode was recorded live at the Datrium offices in Silicon Valley. Chris chats to fellow Brit Simon Long about the announcement of DRaaS Connect and Instant RTO. Both are new features/products in the data mobility and DR space and complement Datrium's existing storage and virtualisation offerings. Enterprises traditionally implement DR failover for virtual … [Read more...]
#101 – Datrium Automatrix with Brian Biles and Tim Page (Sponsored)
In this podcast episode, Chris talks to Brian Biles (Chief Product Officer and co-founder) and Tim Page (CEO) from Datrium about the announcement of Automatrix. The Datrium Automatrix platform implements five important components needed to deliver a consistent approach to application mobility. These are primary storage, backup, disaster recovery, encryption and data … [Read more...]
#63 – Datrium CloudShift
In this episode, Chris and Martin catch up with the Datrium team to discuss CloudShift, Datrium's new SaaS DR offering. CloudShift provides the capability to use backups that have been written to Cloud DVX and fire up a VMware Cloud on AWS instance, recovering the backups into the vSphere cluster. CloudShift can also be used to do DR between primary and secondary DVX … [Read more...]
Garbage Collection #005 – Disaggregated Storage
In this podcast, recorded on 6th September 2017, Chris, Martin and Gavin discuss the subject of disaggregated storage. With the move to NVMe, traditional dual controller architectures are hamstrung by the need for all data to go via the processor(s). Disaggregation takes the component parts and makes them scalable, while removing the controller bottleneck. The guys discuss … [Read more...]