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...]
#121 – NVMe 1.4 Deep Dive Part II with J Metz
This podcast episode continues the discussion with Dr J Metz and focuses on the detail of NVMe 1.4 and NVMe over Fabrics 1.1. Both standards are complete and have been published in the last few months. The conversation today digs deeper into what the new standards offer and specifically how NVMe/TCP becomes "officially" part of the NVMe standard. The conversation on … [Read more...]
#120 – NVMe 1.4 Deep Dive Part I with J Metz
This week Chris and Martin talk to J Metz, R&D Engineer in Cisco Systems' Advanced Storage division. This is a two-parter - the second episode will be published on Monday 30th September 2019. The NVMe 1.4 specification has recently been published and is in the final 45-day ratification process. This discussion provides some background on NVMe then dives pretty deep … [Read more...]
#117 – Introduction to Computational Storage with NGD Systems
This week's episode is the final recording from Flash Memory Summit 2019. Chris is joined by the team from NGD Systems for a discussion on Computational Storage. On this podcast are Scott Shadley, VP of Marketing, Nader Salessi, CEO and Ashok Savdharia who has the lovely title of "technologist". Computational storage uses the processing power of modern SSD controllers to … [Read more...]
#115 – The Transition to NVMe-oF Storage Solutions with Praveen Asthana
This week, Chris catches up with Praveen Asthana from Exten Technologies in an episode recorded at Flash Memory Summit 2019. With NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics set to become the dominant technologies for public cloud and the enterprise, exactly how will the transition from current solutions occur? Praveen discusses the continuing need for centralised storage that can fully … [Read more...]
#97 – Building Storage Using NVMe/TCP with Kam Eshghi from Lightbits Labs
This episode was recorded live at Dell Technologies World 2019. Chris talks to Kam Eshghi, VP of Strategy & Business Development at Lightbits Labs. Lightbits has pioneered the development of NVMe/TCP, which allows standard Ethernet NICs to be used for NVMe-over-Fabrics storage traffic. The ability to implement NVMe-oF without custom NICs (like RDMA) offers the … [Read more...]
#90 – Dell EMC’s Enterprise NVMe Strategy with Vince Westin (Sponsored)
This week, Chris talks to Vince Westin, Technical Evangelist within the PowerMax Group at Dell EMC. PowerMax is the latest in a storage product line with lineage back to the original Symmetrix systems of the early 1990s. PowerMax is an all-NVMe storage array, reflecting an industry move towards faster, low latency media. Vince takes us through the rationale for moving to … [Read more...]
#89 – Choices in NVMe Architectures
This episode was recorded while Chris was in Silicon Valley for Storage Field Day 18. Although not part of the event, Chris took time to catch up with Pavilion Data. in particular Jeff Sosa, VP Product Management and Walt Hinton, Head of Corporate and Product Marketing. Both Jeff and Walt have a long history in the storage industry, including companies like Virident, Western … [Read more...]
#76 – Fibre Channel and NVMe with Mark Jones
In this week's podcast, Chris and Martin talk to Mark Jones from the Fibre Channel Industry Association. This recording is an introduction to running NVMe over Fibre Channel, setting the scene on how Fibre Channel has evolved and will continue to be a storage protocol for many years. Fibre Channel reached an important milestone in 2018. It's been 30 years since development … [Read more...]
#74 – All About Serial Attached SCSI with Rick Kutcipal
Most people probably don't think about the protocol that connects their storage device to a PC or server. However, NVMe has changed that and become one of the storage buzzwords of 2018. But what about existing devices not using NVMe? SAS or Serial Attached SCSI has been a mainstay of storage connectivity for 20 years. With 12Gb/s throughput, SAS provides back-end … [Read more...]