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...]
#127 – Hitachi Next 2019: CI & HCI Solutions Update
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...]
#125 – Hitachi Next 2019: Ops Center
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...]
#123 – Hitachi Next 2019: VSP 5000
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...]
#103 – Data Management and DataOps with Hitachi Vantara (Sponsored)
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 … [Read more...]
#72 – Hitachi Vantara Looking Forward with Shawn Rosemarin
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 … [Read more...]
#70 – Pentaho Data Aggregation with Arik Pelkey
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 … [Read more...]
#68 – Intelligent Object Storage with Scott Baker
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 … [Read more...]
#67 – Hitachi Vantara One Year On with John Magee
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 … [Read more...]
Soundbytes #013: Hitachi Vantara with Greg Knieriemen
In this quick podcast, recorded live at Commvault GO 2017, Chris talks to Greg Knieriemen, Technology Evangelist with Hitachi Vantara. Hitachi recently merged the HDS (Hitachi Data Systems), Pentaho and Hitachi Insight Group brands together into a single entity, Hitachi Vantara. The new company will focus more on data and IoT, as Greg explains. Unfortunately the recording … [Read more...]