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#81 – Storage or Data Asset Management?

Chris Evans 4 January 2019Data Management, Garbage Collection

This week Chris and Martin talk about the evolution from storage management to data management. This follows from recent vendor events where data management featured highly, but still seemed to focus on infrastructure products. Is there a definition that can bridge the gap – something like Data Asset Management? The team start by trying to get a handle on what storage and data management actually mean. In the data protection world, for example, DLP – data leakage prevention, or data loss prevention refer to more advanced versions of simple backup. Things get more complex when …

#75 – It's ILM All Over Again with Chris Mellor

Chris Evans 9 November 2018Data Management, Garbage Collection

Data volumes have always increased over time as we store more information with the hope that one day some of it will be useful. Even 30 years ago on the mainframe, Information Lifecycle Management or ILM was a thing with tools like DFHSM used to move content around between disk and tape. This week Martin, Chris Evans and Chris Mellor talk about the new range of data management or ILM products that are looking to resolve the current issues of data sprawl. How do these products work? It is all about data ingest, or just …

#68 – Intelligent Object Storage with Scott Baker

Chris Evans 1 October 2018Data Management, Guest Speakers

This is the second in a series of podcasts recorded at Hitachi NEXT 2018. In this episode, Chris talks to Scott Baker, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Content and Data Intelligence at Hitachi Vantara. The topic of conversation is how intelligent processing can be applied to content stored in Hitachi’s object storage platform, HCP. HCI, Hitachi Content Intelligence allows data to be pre-processed in memory before storing on the HCP archive. Why is pre-processing so important? Customers, including Rabobank (mentioned in the podcast) are using the technology to ensure compliance around GDPR and other …

#65 – Challenges in Managing Unstructured Data with Shirish Phatak

Chris Evans 7 September 2018Data Management, Guest Speakers

In this week’s podcast we focus on the issues of managing unstructured data in a distributed world. Chris and Martin are joined by Shirish Phatak, CEO at Talon Storage. It’s interesting that “unstructured” proves to have a moveable definition, depending on what you want to include. While we traditionally think of files and objects as unstructured, these so-called binary pieces of content typically do have structure within them. In contrast, databases can be made up of unstructured data – e.g. files, that together take a structured form. Getting past the definition, we find that data …