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Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

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#181 – Is There a Future for Storage Infrastructure Companies?

6 November 2020 by Chris Evans

#181 – Is There a Future for Storage Infrastructure Companies?

This week Chris and Martin debate the future of on-premises storage infrastructure companies in light of announcements and events from IBM, Dell and NetApp. IBM is splitting in two, while Dell and NetApp have recently held virtual versions of their annual conferences. Is the on-premises infrastructure business shrinking and becoming too low-margin to be worthwhile? Martin … [Read more...] about #181 – Is There a Future for Storage Infrastructure Companies?

Filed Under: Garbage Collection, Storage Hardware Tagged With: Dell, Druva, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Red Hat, Violin Systems

#148 – Unpacking HPE's Storage Strategy

13 March 2020 by Chris Evans

#148 – Unpacking HPE’s Storage Strategy

As reported by Chris Mellor, HPE recently announced Q1 2020 figures that show storage down 8% and servers down 15%. In light of these numbers, we look at HPE's storage products, partners and overall strategy in the market. HPE primary products are strong contenders, with XP8 for high-end/mainframe, 3PAR & Primera, Nimble and MSA. Outside of the main platforms, HPE has … [Read more...] about #148 – Unpacking HPE's Storage Strategy

Filed Under: Object Storage, Software-Defined Storage, Storage Hardware Tagged With: 3PAR, HPE, MSA, Nimble, Primera

#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

#139 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part II)

17 January 2020 by Chris Evans

#139 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part II)

This is the second of our predictions shows for 2020 that anticipates what we can expect in enterprise storage for the year ahead. This episode covers solutions and vendors. We open with a discussion on cloud-native storage, which saw a lot of traction in 2019. Will the future be one of these companies or as Chris says, should we just rely on VMware to underpin our container … [Read more...] about #139 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part II)

Filed Under: Containers, Data Management, Data Protection, Garbage Collection Tagged With: Cohesity, HPE, MinIO, Rubrik, VMware, Whiptail

#82 – Storage Predictions for 2019

11 January 2019 by Chris Evans

#82 – Storage Predictions for 2019

The idea of this episode was to put some structure around a set of enterprise storage predictions for 2019.  As you will hear from the dialog, that's not quite what we achieved!  However, Chris Evans, Chris Mellor and Martin Glassborow do raise some interesting points on the direction of the industry in 2019.  The conversation starts with a look at media.  QLC flash is likely to … [Read more...] about #82 – Storage Predictions for 2019

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: 3D-XPoint, 3PAR, Actifio, CDMI, Commvault, flash, HAMR, HPE, IBM, MAMR, Micron, Nimble Storage, PM, Pure Storage, QLC, S3, SCM

#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

#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

Garbage Collection #006 – LTO-8 and the Future of Tape

27 October 2017 by Chris Evans

Garbage Collection #006 – LTO-8 and the Future of Tape

This week LTO-8 was announced, with raw cartridge capacities of up to 12.8TB.  In this podcast, recorded on 23rd October 2017, Chris and Martin discuss the evolution of LTO from a lowly 100GB to todays media with 120x the capacity. Tape is changing and becoming more of an archive medium, as backup has increasingly moved to disk.  This begs the question, should standard formats l … [Read more...] about Garbage Collection #006 – LTO-8 and the Future of Tape

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: Black Pearl, HPE, IBM, Iomega, Jaz, LTO, Quantum, Spectra Logic, ZIP, ZX Spectrum

Garbage Collection – Implementing a Multi-Vendor Storage Strategy

29 November 2016 by Chris Evans

Garbage Collection – Implementing a Multi-Vendor Storage Strategy

  In this podcast, Chris and Martin discuss the issues in designing and implementing a multi-vendor storage strategy.  The discussion covers whether any one vendor can provide all of today's storage products and who multiple vendors can be used to deliver a single requirement. Elapsed Time: 00:36:26 SFW: Yes 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:00:45 - A look at the market - product c … [Read more...] about Garbage Collection – Implementing a Multi-Vendor Storage Strategy

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: AWS, Ceph, ChrisE, EMC, HDS, HPE, IBM, MartinG, Microsoft, NetApp, Veritas, VMware

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