Soundbytes #005: John Rollason at DockerCon 2017

Soundbytes #005: John Rollason at DockerCon 2017

Chris EvansSoundbytes

In this podcast, ChrisE talks to John Rollason, Director, Product Marketing, Next Generation Data Centre at NetApp.  The conversation covers NetApp’s Docker plugins, the continued integration of SolidFire plus the upcoming HCI offering.  Apologies for the sound quality towards the end of the podcast.  The recording was done outside without the benefit of a microphone cover!

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Timeline

  • 00:00:00 – Introductions – Outside at the convention centre
  • 00:01:00 – The need for persistent storage and NetApp Docker Plugin
  • 00:02:30 – Mature features, snapshots, clones, replication
  • 00:03:00 – Project Trident
  • 00:03:53 – Support for Docker plugins, new models like Slack and the Pub? (http://netapp.io)
  • 00:06:00 – Is NetApp becoming cool again?
  • 00:07:00 – NetApp HCI is coming!  The impact of SolidFire.
  • 00:09:00 – NTAP flash strategy, cache not tier (until later)
  • 00:10:00 – John answers a technical question!
  • 00:12:30 – Next Generation Datacenter – what is it??

Vendors mentioned in this podcast

NetApp, Oracle, VMware, OpenStack.

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