This week, Chris and Martin talk to Datera CTO, Hal Woods about the state of the software-defined storage (SDS) market. SDS emerged around ten years ago as a solution to overcome the expense of buying storage appliances. With cheap hardware, IT organisations could simply buy software or use one of many open-source solutions. Has SDS been successful and how has it … [Read more...]
#45 – Modern Software Defined Storage With Avinash Lakshman
This week Chris is in the Bay area and was able to catch up for a chat with Hedvig CEO Avinash Lakshman. Hedvig is a start-up developing a scale-out software-defined storage platform, which makes Avinash the perfect guest to explain just where SDS has reached. Avinash also has serious SDS credentials, having co-developed Amazon Dynamo and developed Cassandra for … [Read more...]
Soundbytes #007: Launch of StorageOS Beta – A Discussion with Chris Brandon at DockerCon 2017
This conversation was recorded between Chris E and Chris Brandon, CEO of StorageOS, a London-based storage startup. StorageOS has just released their storage platform as a public beta. Based on containers and delivering storage for containers, StorageOS creates a distributed scale-out storage platform based on deployment on bare metal, virtual or cloud instances. The … [Read more...]