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Storage Unpacked 264 – Hitachi Vantara Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Chris Evans 22 November 2024Data Management, Guest Speakers, Hitachi Vantara, Storage Management, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this episode, Chris is in conversation with Jeb Horton, SVP Global Services at Hitachi Vantara, discussing the capabilities of Hitachi Vantara’s Global Services offerings, which deliver infrastructure management and infrastructure as a service to its customers. In addition to EverFlex, Hitachi Vantara has a long history of managed services capabilities that span more than just outsourced storage. As Jeb explains, the company also manages storage infrastructure from other vendors, in addition to non-storage systems. The interesting aspect of this discussion is the complex nature of the interaction between customers and Hitachi. Solutions offerings aren’t …

Storage Unpacked 263 – The HYCU State of SaaS Data Resilience Report 2024

Chris Evans 4 November 2024Data Protection, Guest Speakers, HYCU Inc, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this recording, Chris talks to Subbiah Sundaram, SVP of Products at HYCU, Inc. about the 2024 edition of the HYCU State of SaaS Resilence Report. The report surveys customers to understand the gaps in perceived and actual data protection for SaaS platforms and the results are quite surprising.

Storage Unpacked 262 – The Ethics and Regulation of AI

Chris Evans 18 October 2024Data Management, Guest Speakers, Standards, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this podcast episode, Chris is in conversation with Jeffries Briginshaw (Head of EMEA Government Relations at NetApp) and Adam Gale (CTO for AI & Cyber Security, NetApp) discussing the EU AI Act and the regulation of artificial intelligence across the world. The EU AI Act is an early introduction into the regulation of the use of AI by businesses within their engagements and interactions with customers. As explained in this conversation, there are classifications of AI types and within that, restrictions on what businesses are permitted to implement based on those categorisations. Some AI …

Storage Unpacked 261 – Pure Storage Platform Announcements at Accelerate 2024 (Sponsored)

Chris Evans 19 June 2024All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Pure Storage, Pure//Accelerate, Sponsored, Storage, Storage Management, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this podcast episode, Chris discusses the platform update announcements from Pure Accelerate 2024 with Prakash Darji, VP and GM of the Digital Experience BU at Pure Storage.

Storage Unpacked 260 – Hitachi VSP One Updates with Dan McConnell

Chris Evans 14 June 2024All-Flash, Cloud, Guest Speakers, Hitachi Vantara, Midrange, Storage, Storage Hardware, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this podcast episode, Chris catches up with Dan McConnell, Senior VP for Product Management at Hitachi Vantara. The company recently announced VSP One Block, a new mid-range appliance for block storage.

Storage Unpacked 259 – Sustainable Storage in the World of AI with Shawn Rosemarin (Sponsored)

Chris Evans 31 May 2024All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Pure Storage, Pure//Accelerate, Sponsored, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this episode, Chris discusses the topic of building sustainable storage solutions with Shawn Rosemarin, Global VP of Customer Engineering at Pure Storage.

Storage Unpacked 258 – Introducing Infinidat G4, InfuzeOS 8 and InfiniSafe ACP (Sponsored)

Chris Evans 22 May 2024All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, Guest Speakers, Infinidat, Sponsored, Storage Hardware, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this episode, Chris talks to Infinidat CMO, Eric Herzog. Infinidat has announced one of the biggest upgrades in eight years, with the release of InfiniBox and InfiniBox SSA G4, the fourth generation of enterprise-class storage.

Storage Unpacked 257 – The Future of Data Storage in the Enterprise (Sponsored)

Chris Evans 26 April 2024All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Pure Storage, Sponsored, Storage, Storage Management, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this sponsored episode, Chris talks to Fred Lherault and Larry Touchette from Pure Storage on the evolution of storage in the enterprise and the impacts on storage administration.

Storage Unpacked 256 – Hyper-scalers and SAS with Rick Kutcipal

Chris Evans 23 February 2024All-Flash, Cloud, Guest Speakers, Storage, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this episode, Chris chats to Rick Kutcipal, “At-Large Director” with the SCSI Trade Association. The topic of conversation is the adoption of SAS media (both HDDs and SSDs) by hyper-scale customers that include public cloud vendors and companies such as Meta.

Storage Unpacked 255 – Data Management in a Hybrid Cloud World with Qumulo

Chris Evans 10 November 2023Data Management, File Systems, Guest Speakers, Qumulo, Storage, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this episode, Chris is in conversation with Ryan Farris (VP Product and Product Marketing) and Brandon Whitelaw (VP Cloud and Strategic Partnerships) at Qumulo. As the IT world becomes ever more focused on a hybrid cloud model, file storage becomes increasingly important, due to the legacy of applications and data already written to work with file servers.