On this week's podcast, recorded live at NetApp Insight 2018, Chris talks to Greg Knieriemen and Rob McDonald about the introduction of Memory Accelerated Data, commonly called MAX Data. The MAX Data solution is a software product that implements a local file system on a server using local persistent memory such as Intel Optane. Of course, this is what DAS (Direct Attached … [Read more...]
#78 – Thoughts on NetApp with Greg Knieriemen
Last week Chris attended NetApp Insight in Barcelona and had a chance to chat to Greg Knieriemen, Chief Technologist in the Storage Systems & Software business at NetApp. Greg was formerly at Hitachi Vantara where he held a similar role. This conversation touches on Greg's reasons for choosing NetApp and exactly what he will be focusing on within the company. Elapsed … [Read more...]
Soundbytes #015: NetApp HCI with Martin Cooper
In this podcast, recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin, November 2017, Chris talks to Martin Cooper, Senior Director of Field Engineering, Next Generation Data Centre. The conversation introduces HCI, NetApp's hyper-converged offering, which recently went GA. NetApp HCI uses SolidFire storage and scales differently to traditional HCI solutions in that the processor cores … [Read more...]
Soundbytes #014: A Conversation with NetApp Founder Dave Hitz
This podcast was recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin on 15 November 2017. Chris talks to Dave Hitz, founder of NetApp Inc. The conversation is fairly free flowing, covering a general discussion on data management, NetApp's positioning with Azure NFS and how we can expect to see hybrid cloud work in the future. You'll notice there's no discussion on any hardware products at … [Read more...]