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#167 – Adapting Open Source Storage for the Enterprise

17 July 2020 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#167 – Adapting Open Source Storage for the Enterprise

This week Chris and Martin catch up with Phil Straw, CEO at Softiron for a discussion on packaging Open Source storage solutions for adoption by the enterprise. Softiron sells a software appliance based on Ceph which has been tuned to deliver high performance with high efficiency. So, exactly how do vendors go about making Open Source more consumable without breaking the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Softiron, Software-Defined Storage, Storage Hardware Tagged With: Open Source, Phil Straw, SDS

#156 – Introduction to Hammerspace (sponsored)

1 May 2020 by Chris Evans 2 Comments

#156 – Introduction to Hammerspace (sponsored)

In this episode, returning guest Douglas Fallstrom from Hammerspace takes Chris and Martin through the details of the Hammerspace global file system platform. The solution is software-defined, running either on virtual machines or in the public cloud. Customers can choose to leave data on existing hardware platforms and simply abstract the data into the Hammerspace platform, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cloud, Data Management, Guest Speakers, Software-Defined Storage, Sponsored Tagged With: Douglas Fallstrom, Hammerspace, SDS

#151 – Introduction to StorageOS V2.0 (Sponsored)

1 April 2020 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#151 – Introduction to StorageOS V2.0 (Sponsored)

In this episode, Martin and Chris are joined in conversation by Alex Chircop, CEO at StorageOS. The company has announced StorageOS V2.0, a significant evolution in their storage platform, built for containers using containers. As this episode explains, the version 2.0 release of StorageOS enhances scalability and resiliency, with a strong focus on features needed for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cloud, Containers, Software-Defined Storage, Sponsored Tagged With: Alex Chircop, containers, Kubernetes, SDS, StorageOS

#126 – Software-Defined Storage in Review with Hal Woods

1 November 2019 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#126 – Software-Defined Storage in Review with Hal Woods

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...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Software-Defined Storage Tagged With: Hal Woods, SDS, Software Defined Storage

#45 – Modern Software Defined Storage With Avinash Lakshman

6 April 2018 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#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 Facebook. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: Avinash Lakshman, Hedvig, SDS, Software Defined Storage

Soundbytes #007: Launch of StorageOS Beta – A Discussion with Chris Brandon at DockerCon 2017

3 May 2017 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

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 category … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Soundbytes Tagged With: ChrisE, DockerCon, DockerCon2017, SDS, Software Defined Storage

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