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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 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 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.

Hybrid Cloud 011 – Devising Strategies for Hybrid Cloud Adoption with Seagate

Chris Evans 27 January 2023Cloud, Data Management, Guest Speakers, Hybrid Cloud Podcast, Object Storage

In this podcast recording, Chris talks to Manjusha Gangadharan (VP of Customer Engagement) and Kshitish Soman (Head of Product and Operations), both from the Lyve Cloud division of Seagate.

Data Unpacked 005 – Securing SaaS Data Protection Solutions with Commvault Metallic (Sponsored)

Chris Evans 23 January 2023Commvault, Data Management, Data Protection, Data Unpacked Podcast, Guest Speakers, Sponsored

In this recording, Chris talks with David Ngo (CTO for Metallic) and Indu Peddibhotla (VP Products at Commvault) on how Commvault and the Metallic platform implement secure SaaS data protection. Customers depend on Metallic to recover from ransomware and other data loss scenarios. This puts more pressure on SaaS backup to be secure, protected and impregnable from assault. Commvault uses a set of design principles in its approach with Metallic that include; Security built-in, Certification, Air-gapped security, audit trails, multi-factor authentication, zero-trust methodology and early threat detection to achieve secure status. In the conversation, David …

Data Unpacked 004 – Reflections on Data Management, Security and Protection with HYCU CEO Simon Taylor

Chris Evans 9 January 2023AWS Reinvent, Data Management, Data Protection, Data Unpacked Podcast, Guest Speakers

In this live recording from AWS:Reinvent in December 2022, Chris catches up with HYCU CEO Simon Taylor to discuss data management, security and protection.

Data Unpacked 002 – Data Management in the Hybrid Cloud

Chris Evans 28 October 2022Data Management, Data Unpacked Podcast, Guest Speakers, Hammerspace

With data dispersed across many locations that today could include on-premises, the public cloud, edge and co-location facilities, how can businesses ensure that data is in the right place at the right time, without the issue of creating multiple copies?

Data Unpacked 001 – Defining a Data Platform

Chris Evans 10 October 2022Data Management, Data Unpacked Podcast, Guest Speakers

What makes a file system a data platform? Chris Evans talks to Colin Gallagher and Joel Kaufman from Weka about Weka 4 and defining a data platform.

#228 – Exploiting Data in the Third Wave of IT Agility with Murli Thirumale (Sponsored)

Chris Evans 25 February 2022Cloud, Data Management, Databases, Guest Speakers, Pure Storage, Sponsored, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this episode, Chris talks to Murli Thirumale VP & GM of the Cloud Native Business Unit at Pure Storage about data agility.

#226 – VAST Data Universal Storage for Data Protection (Sponsored)

Chris Evans 9 February 2022All-Flash, Data Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers, Sponsored, Storage Unpacked Podcast, VAST Data

In this episode, Chris and Martin discuss data protection on a “vast” scale, with VAST Data VP of Data Protection, George Axberg. VAST has just announced a partnership with Commvault that will integrate Universal Storage with Commvault’s data management solutions.