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Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

Dell EMC

#173 – Transparent Enterprise Storage Pricing

11 September 2020 by Chris Evans

#173 – Transparent Enterprise Storage Pricing

Enterprise storage pricing has all the simplicity of a mobile phone tariff. Vendors love to obfuscate the costs, whereas prospective purchasers just like a good, honest price. Why does enterprise storage pricing have to be so complicated and can't we just have pricing online? Chris and Martin chat to George Crump from StorONE about strategies for pricing from both the … [Read more...] about #173 – Transparent Enterprise Storage Pricing

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Vendors Tagged With: Dell EMC, IBM, Microsoft Azure, NetApp, Pure Storage, StorONE

#145 – Anthos Ready Storage for the Enterprise

28 February 2020 by Chris Evans

#145 – Anthos Ready Storage for the Enterprise

This week Chris and Martin discuss the announcement of Google Cloud partners offering Anthos Ready Storage. Anthos is Google's on-premises cloud infrastructure running Kubernetes-based containers. Platform users can now deploy locally in their data centre, on local hardware, while using the GCP management plane. What is the benefit of having storage certified for Anthos? … [Read more...] about #145 – Anthos Ready Storage for the Enterprise

Filed Under: Cloud, Containers, Garbage Collection Tagged With: Anthos, Dell EMC, GCP, HPE, NetApp, Portworx, Pure Storage, Robin

#102 – May Midrange Madness with Chris Mellor

31 May 2019 by Chris Evans

#102 – May Midrange Madness with Chris Mellor

This week Martin, Chris Evans and Chris Mellor discuss Dell EMC's plans for merging the three current midrange storage platforms marketed by the company.  This is a follow-up to the article Chris recently posted on https://blockandfiles.com that discusses Project Trident. There are a lot of moving parts to consider when merging storage platforms.  Customers have spent time and e … [Read more...] about #102 – May Midrange Madness with Chris Mellor

Filed Under: All-Flash, Garbage Collection Tagged With: CLARiiON, Compellent, Cray, Dell EMC, Isilon, NetApp, Trident, XtremIO

#90 – Dell EMC's Enterprise NVMe Strategy with Vince Westin (Sponsored)

8 March 2019 by Chris Evans

#90 – Dell EMC’s Enterprise NVMe Strategy with Vince Westin (Sponsored)

This week, Chris talks to Vince Westin, Technical Evangelist within the PowerMax Group at Dell EMC.  PowerMax is the latest in a storage product line with lineage back to the original Symmetrix systems of the early 1990s.  PowerMax is an all-NVMe storage array, reflecting an industry move towards faster, low latency media.  Vince takes us through the rationale for moving to NV … [Read more...] about #90 – Dell EMC's Enterprise NVMe Strategy with Vince Westin (Sponsored)

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Sponsored Tagged With: Dell EMC, FC-NVMe, NVMe, NVMe-oF, PowerMax, Storage, Vince Westin

#64 – Success & Failure in Storage Startup Land

31 August 2018 by Chris Evans

#64 – Success & Failure in Storage Startup Land

This week's conversation follows up on Chris' recent visit to Flash Memory Summit in the US.  Chris and Martin discuss the storage startup landscape and the range of companies appearing at the event. What makes a company successful?  Is IPO or acquisition the right route?  The discussion starts with a simple, yet tricky question - why does storage continue to be such a diverse m … [Read more...] about #64 – Success & Failure in Storage Startup Land

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: Actifio, Avere, AWS, Cisco, Cloudian, Cohesity, Coho Data, Coraid, Data Gravity, DDN, Dell EMC, Google, HPE, IBM, Intel, NetApp, Nimble, Plexistor, Primary Data, Pure Storage, Rubrik, Samsung, Scality, Simplivity, SK Hynix, SolidFire, StorSimple, Tegile, Tintri, TMS, Toshiba, Veeam, Violin, Western Digital, XtremIO

#58 – Storage Vendor Hero Numbers

20 July 2018 by Chris Evans

#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 t … [Read more...] about #58 – Storage Vendor Hero Numbers

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

#56 – Defining Scale-out Storage

6 July 2018 by Chris Evans

#56 – Defining Scale-out Storage

This week's podcast is a conversation between Martin and Chris, talking about how we define scale-up and scale-out storage.  A recent discussion on Twitter about Pure1 and the idea of federated scale-out generated some interesting feedback, so we thought it might be good to get some definitions in place. The opening discussion talks about how scale-up and scale-out should be … [Read more...] about #56 – Defining Scale-out Storage

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: Dell EMC, IBM, NetApp, Nimble, Pure Storage, SolidFire, Tintri

#41 – Does Open Source Have a Place in Storage?

9 March 2018 by Chris Evans

#41 – Does Open Source Have a Place in Storage?

This week, Martin, Chris and Gavin reflect on the decision by EMC to disband the {code} team and discuss whether open source has a place in storage.  {code} was a project started by EMC before the Dell acquisition. The team focused on open source advocacy and developing tools such as storage plugins for Docker.  Looking wider, companies like Red Hat have built their business on … [Read more...] about #41 – Does Open Source Have a Place in Storage?

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: ChrisE, Dell EMC, Gavin, HPE, MartinG, Sun, Tegile

#37 – State of the Storage Union with Chris Mellor

9 February 2018 by Chris Evans

#37 – State of the Storage Union with Chris Mellor

This week Chris and Gavin catch up with Chris Mellor, Storage Editor for The Register.  With so much happening in storage, it's difficult to know where to start, so the guys focus on the rumour of Dell EMC reversing into VMware.  Could this really happen and why is Dell EMC even thinking about this?  The conversation flows on to IBM and their super-mega-hyper-uber announcement o … [Read more...] about #37 – State of the Storage Union with Chris Mellor

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: Chris Mellor, ChrisE, Dell EMC, DSSD, E8 Storage, Excelero, FusionIO, Gavin, HPE, IBM, IDC, Kaminario, Lenovo, NetApp, Pure Storage, Toshiba, Violin Systems, VMware, X-IO

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