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Hitachi Vantara

#154 – Hitachi Vantara VSP E990 NVMe Midrange Appliance with Colin Gallagher (Sponsored)

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Today, Hitachi Vantara announced the VSP E990, a midrange all-NVMe storage appliance. The new solution, available immediately, offers up to 5.8 million IOPS, I/O latency as low as 64µs with up to 64PB effective capacity. In this episode, Chris Evans chats remotely to Colin Gallagher about the new platform. VSP E990 extends the existing solutions in the VSP family, from the … [Read more...] about #154 – Hitachi Vantara VSP E990 NVMe Midrange Appliance with Colin Gallagher (Sponsored)

#137 – Hitachi Next 2019: Wrap Up with Jonathan Martin

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In the first podcast episode of 2020, Chris meets with Jonathan Martin, CMO at Hitachi Vantara to reflect on experiences at Hitachi NEXT 2019. This episode was recorded live onsite at the event in October 2019. Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting are planned to merge in 2020 (press release). This is another step in the evolution towards making Hitachi Vantara a … [Read more...] about #137 – Hitachi Next 2019: Wrap Up with Jonathan Martin

#127 – Hitachi Next 2019: CI & HCI Solutions Update

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This is the third in a series of podcasts recorded earlier this year at Hitachi NEXT 2019 in Las Vegas. This episode is a discussion on updates to the Hitachi Vantara UCP CI & HCI solutions portfolio with Chris Gugger (Director, Infrastructure Marketing) and Ed Reidenbach (Senior Director, Product Management). Hitachi produces two updates a year, covering spring and … [Read more...] about #127 – Hitachi Next 2019: CI & HCI Solutions Update

#125 – Hitachi Next 2019: Ops Center

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This is the second recording from the Hitachi NEXT 2019 conference held in Las Vegas in October 2019. In a previous episode we looked at the new VSP 5000 platform. In this discussion, Chris talks to Stan Stevens, Director of Infrastructure Software Product Marketing, about Ops Center, the new platform for Hitachi storage management. Ops Center has four main components; … [Read more...] about #125 – Hitachi Next 2019: Ops Center

#123 – Hitachi Next 2019: VSP 5000

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This is the first of a series of podcast episodes recorded at Hitachi NEXT 2019 in Las Vegas. Hitachi announced the next generation of VSP storage arrays, the VSP 5000 at the show. The new platform provides greater performance and capacity than previous systems at lower latency. Chris meets with Colin Gallagher (VP Product Marketing for the Infrastructure Portfolio) and Dan … [Read more...] about #123 – Hitachi Next 2019: VSP 5000

#103 – Data Management and DataOps with Hitachi Vantara (Sponsored)

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This week Chris speaks to Jonathan Martin (CMO) and John Magee (VP, Portfolio Marketing) at Hitachi Vantara.  This episode was recorded live onsite at the new Hitachi Vantara offices in Santa Clara. As data becomes ever more valuable to organisations, the process of building data pipelines will continue to be a time and resource intensive task.  In order to keep up with demand, … [Read more...] about #103 – Data Management and DataOps with Hitachi Vantara (Sponsored)

#72 – Hitachi Vantara Looking Forward with Shawn Rosemarin

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This is the fourth and final podcast of four recorded at Hitachi NEXT 2018 in San Diego.  Previous episodes are listed below.  This conversation between Chris and Shawn Rosemarin, SVP and CTO of Global Field and Industry at Hitachi Vantara discusses how customer's approach to managing their data has changed and how Hitachi will continue to evolve the Vantara brand during the n … [Read more...] about #72 – Hitachi Vantara Looking Forward with Shawn Rosemarin

#70 – Pentaho Data Aggregation with Arik Pelkey

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In this third podcast recorded live at Hitachi NEXT 2018, Chris talks to Arik Pelkey, Senior Director, Analytics Portfolio Product Marketing at Hitachi Vantara.  Arik is responsible for the Pentaho platform, an acquisition made originally by Hitachi Data Systems in 2015.  Pentaho is a data integration, visualisation and analytics platform used by data engineers to create data p … [Read more...] about #70 – Pentaho Data Aggregation with Arik Pelkey

#68 – Intelligent Object Storage with Scott Baker

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This is the second in a series of podcasts recorded at Hitachi NEXT 2018.  In this episode, Chris talks to Scott Baker, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Content and Data Intelligence at Hitachi Vantara.  The topic of conversation is how intelligent processing can be applied to content stored in Hitachi's object storage platform, HCP.  HCI, Hitachi Content Intelligence al … [Read more...] about #68 – Intelligent Object Storage with Scott Baker

#67 – Hitachi Vantara One Year On with John Magee

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This week, Chris is in San Diego attending Hitachi NEXT 2018, the annual user conference for Hitachi Vantara customers.  Hitachi Vantara was formed in 2017 from the merger of Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group and Pentaho.  Last year we spoke to Greg Knieriemen about the new company and the reasons behind the decision to move on from the HDS brand.  One year on from th … [Read more...] about #67 – Hitachi Vantara One Year On with John Magee