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Storage Unpacked

A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

MartinG

#66 – Amazon RDS – Coming to a vSphere Cluster Near You

14 September 2018 by Chris Evans

#66 – Amazon RDS – Coming to a vSphere Cluster Near You

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware recently announced that RDS, the Relational Database Service was in tech preview as an on-premises deployment on vSphere.  Running a service outside of Amazon's data centre represents a big change for the company.  The only non-core offering to date has been Snowball, the edge data appliance.  In this week's recording, Martin and Chris di … [Read more...] about #66 – Amazon RDS – Coming to a vSphere Cluster Near You

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: AWS, ChrisE, databases, Instapaper, MartinG, RDS, VMware

#65 – Challenges in Managing Unstructured Data with Shirish Phatak

7 September 2018 by Chris Evans

#65 – Challenges in Managing Unstructured Data with Shirish Phatak

In this week's podcast we focus on the issues of managing unstructured data in a distributed world.  Chris and Martin are joined by Shirish Phatak, CEO at Talon Storage. It's interesting that "unstructured" proves to have a moveable definition, depending on what you want to include.  While we traditionally think of files and objects as unstructured, these so-called binary p … [Read more...] about #65 – Challenges in Managing Unstructured Data with Shirish Phatak

Filed Under: Data Management, Guest Speakers Tagged With: Big Data, ChrisE, Data Management, MartinG, Shirish Phatak, Talon Storage

#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

#52 – An Introduction to WekaIO Matrix with Liran Zvibel (Sponsored)

5 June 2018 by Chris Evans

#52 – An Introduction to WekaIO Matrix with Liran Zvibel (Sponsored)

This week's guest episode was recorded live in Silicon Valley at the offices of WekaIO.  The company has developed a scale-out parallel file system called Matrix that was specifically designed to exploit NVMe storage and new fast networking.  Chris is onsite to talk with CEO and co-founder, Liran Zivbel.  Martin is dialled in remotely from the bowels of the Storage Unpacked of … [Read more...] about #52 – An Introduction to WekaIO Matrix with Liran Zvibel (Sponsored)

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Sponsored Tagged With: ChrisE, MartinG, Parallel File System, Scale-out, WekaIO

#50 – Introduction to Quantum Computing

18 May 2018 by Chris Evans

#50 – Introduction to Quantum Computing

How does quantum computing relate to storage?  This week's episode is a bit of a diversion from our normal podcasting topics.  In episode #47 (Enterprise Storage is not Boring), we mused as to how quantum computers use data.  With no real knowledge between us, we asked for listeners to help us out.  As a result, we're joined in this episode by Scott Crowder, Vice President & … [Read more...] about #50 – Introduction to Quantum Computing

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: ChrisE, MartinG, Quantum Computing, Scott Crowder

#46 – Another View on Open Source Storage with Neil Levine

13 April 2018 by Chris Evans

#46 – Another View on Open Source Storage with Neil Levine

A few weeks ago we discussed Open Source storage and whether it had any place in the enterprise.  There was a lot of feedback, so we thought it would be good to follow up with another discussion, so we invited Neil Levine, Director of Product Management at Red Hat to give us his view.  Martin, Chris and Neil discuss the difference in buying approach and whether bringing storage … [Read more...] about #46 – Another View on Open Source Storage with Neil Levine

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: ChrisE, MartinG, Neil Levine, Open Source, Red Hat

#44 – Ultra High Capacity Flash Drives

30 March 2018 by Chris Evans

#44 – Ultra High Capacity Flash Drives

This week, Chris and Martin discuss the availability of super-high capacity or ultra-capacity flash drives.  The conversation comes out of an announcement from Nimbus Data that has produced a 100TB SATA SSD.  This follows up from last year's 50TB drives that were OEMed to Viking and Smart Modular.  You can find some more background at Architecting IT here.  With so much cap … [Read more...] about #44 – Ultra High Capacity Flash Drives

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: ChrisE, flash, MartinG, NAND, Nimbus Data, SSD

#43 – All-flash Market Review 2018 with Chris Mellor

23 March 2018 by Chris Evans

#43 – All-flash Market Review 2018 with Chris Mellor

This week, Chris and Martin review the all-flash market with Chris Mellor.  We looked at this sector around 12 months ago, so we're ready for an update.  Lots of things have happened over the past 12 months.  Vendors have gone away and come back (Violin).  Existing vendors have seen a resurgence in their sales (IBM and NetApp), while others have struggled.  Pure Storage is now a … [Read more...] about #43 – All-flash Market Review 2018 with Chris Mellor

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: Chris Mellor, ChrisE, MartinG

#42 – Understanding Storage PR with Fred Monsone

16 March 2018 by Chris Evans

#42 – Understanding Storage PR with Fred Monsone

In this week's episode, Martin and Chris talk to Fred Monsone, founder of A3 Communications, a boutique storage PR and communications company.  It's clear that modern day PR isn't the right term any more and communications describes the work much more accurately.  Fred describes the reasons why start-ups and seasoned companies want to find the right way to engage with the press … [Read more...] about #42 – Understanding Storage PR with Fred Monsone

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: A3 Communications, ChrisE, Fred Monsone, MartinG

#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

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