#68 – Intelligent Object Storage with Scott Baker

#68 – Intelligent Object Storage with Scott Baker

Chris EvansData 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

#65 – Challenges in Managing Unstructured Data with Shirish Phatak

Chris EvansData 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 …