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A weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data

#138 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part I)

10 January 2020 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#138 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part I)

This week Chris and Martin are joined by Chris Mellor for what is turning into an annual look at storage technology for the year ahead. We should point out that this is only for enterprise storage and not a forecast on the world in general! We start with a discussion on media. At the macro level, capacities continue to grow for SSDs and HDDs year on year. This trend is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: Chris Mellor, composable, flash, HDD, NAND, SSD

#117 – Introduction to Computational Storage with NGD Systems

13 September 2019 by Chris Evans 5 Comments

#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...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers, Storage Hardware Tagged With: Computational Storage, Flash Memory Summit, NGD Systems, NVMe, SSD

#87 – The Risks of Storage Media Reuse versus Recycling

15 February 2019 by Chris Evans Leave a Comment

#87 – The Risks of Storage Media Reuse versus Recycling

In this episode, Chris and Martin talk to Simon Zola from Avtel Data Destruction.  This is a follow-up episode to #85 (Storage for Home and Homelabs) where Martin and Chris questioned the ease of recovering data from pre-owned storage media.  As we find out, the process was pretty easy.  Martin was able to recover significant amounts of personal data with little effort and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: Avtel, data protection, Data Security, GDPR, HDD, SSD

#79 – Learning More About QLC Storage with Steve Hanna

14 December 2018 by Chris Evans 2 Comments

#79 – Learning More About QLC Storage with Steve Hanna

This week Chris and Martin talk to Steve Hanna, Senior Product Manager for Enterprise SSDs at Micron.  Steve looks after the 5210 ION QLC SSD product line, which was introduced earlier this year.  As an evolution of existing flash technology, QLC offers greater capacities at lower cost.  But what are the issues? The conversation covers how QLC has reduced the price to 1/100th … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers Tagged With: 5210 ION, Enterprise, flash, Micron, QLC, SSD

#55 – Storage for Hyperscalers

29 June 2018 by Chris Evans 9 Comments

#55 – Storage for Hyperscalers

This week we talk to Mark Carlson, co-chair of the SNIA Technical Council, about the storage needs of hyperscalers.  Mark defines hyperscalers as those companies opening multiple data centres a year, most notably Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google and Facebook in the US and Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent in China.  These vendors are deploying petabytes of storage a year, with specific … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: HDD, hyperscalers, Mark Carlson, SNIA, SSD

#44 – Ultra High Capacity Flash Drives

30 March 2018 by Chris Evans 4 Comments

#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 … [Read more...]

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

#34 – NAND Shortage? What NAND Shortage! with Jim Handy

19 January 2018 by Chris Evans 6 Comments

#34 – NAND Shortage? What NAND Shortage!  with Jim Handy

In this week's podcast, the team chat again with Jim Handy from Objective Analysis.  Jim is an analyst covering the semiconductor industry and provides some great insight into where pricing is headed in the NAND flash market.  The conversation covers some of the technical challenges the industry faces, as well as the impact from China entering the market.  Finally, the guys … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: flash, Jim Handy, NAND, SSD

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