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#76 – Fibre Channel and NVMe with Mark Jones

Chris Evans 23 November 2018Guest Speakers

In this week’s podcast, Chris and Martin talk to Mark Jones from the Fibre Channel Industry Association. This recording is an introduction to running NVMe over Fibre Channel, setting the scene on how Fibre Channel has evolved and will continue to be a storage protocol for many years. Fibre Channel reached an important milestone in 2018. It’s been 30 years since development and 25 years since the first products were shipped. Speeds started at 133Mb/s, while today, Gen 6 FC runs at 32Gb/s. Higher speeds are coming in 2019 and can also be achieved with …

#74 – All About Serial Attached SCSI with Rick Kutcipal

Chris Evans 2 November 2018Guest Speakers

Most people probably don’t think about the protocol that connects their storage device to a PC or server. However, NVMe has changed that and become one of the storage buzzwords of 2018. But what about existing devices not using NVMe? SAS or Serial Attached SCSI has been a mainstay of storage connectivity for 20 years. With 12Gb/s throughput, SAS provides back-end connectivity for almost all the enterprise storage arrays on the market today. The SAS protocol continues to be developed, with 24Gb/s speeds due in 2019. However, SAS is not all about speed, as we …

#73 – HYCU – Data Protection for Hyper-converged Infrastructure (Sponsored)

Chris Evans 26 October 2018Guest Speakers, Sponsored

This week, Chris and Martin talk to Subbiah Sundaram, VP of Products at HYCU, Inc. HYCU is both the name of the company and the data protection product sold by HYCU Inc. The market already has many data protection solutions, so the unique differentiator for HYCU is focusing on the HCI market, specifically offering backup for Nutanix (both ESXi and AHV). Of course, HCI platforms already have backup support, but as the discussion explains, having deeper integration into the HCI APIs, specifically those around changed file tracking, provide HYCU with an advantage over products backing …

#72 – Hitachi Vantara Looking Forward with Shawn Rosemarin

Chris Evans 19 October 2018Guest Speakers

This is the fourth and final podcast of four recorded at Hitachi NEXT 2018 in San Diego. Previous episodes are listed below. This conversation between Chris and Shawn Rosemarin, SVP and CTO of Global Field and Industry at Hitachi Vantara discusses how customer’s approach to managing their data has changed and how Hitachi will continue to evolve the Vantara brand during the next 12 months and beyond. This discussion is interesting as it covers areas areas like acquisitions and the number of services Hitachi Vantara now offers. Ultimately, as Shawn says, the goal is to …

#71 – IP EXPO 2018 – Scale Computing, StorMagic, Nasuni and Nephos

Chris Evans 12 October 2018Guest Speakers

This is the second of two podcasts recorded live at IP EXPO 2018 in London. You can find the first here. In this episode, Chris and Martin speak to Scale Computing, StorMagic, Nasuni and Nephos Technologies. The guests are: Aad Dekkers, Marketing Director, EMEA at Scale Computing John Glendenning, SVP Sales and Business Development at StorMagic Andy Hardy, Vice President, EMEA at Nasuni Michael Queenan, Co-founder at Nephos Technologies Both Scale Computing and StorMagic offer products that work in the hyper-converged area and fit well with Edge computing requirements. Nasuni is a global scale-out file …

#70 – Pentaho Data Aggregation with Arik Pelkey

Chris Evans 9 October 2018Guest Speakers

In this third podcast recorded live at Hitachi NEXT 2018, Chris talks to Arik Pelkey, Senior Director, Analytics Portfolio Product Marketing at Hitachi Vantara. Arik is responsible for the Pentaho platform, an acquisition made originally by Hitachi Data Systems in 2015. Pentaho is a data integration, visualisation and analytics platform used by data engineers to create data pipelines for AI models used by data scientists. The conversation between Chris and Arik focuses on how Hitachi Vantara engages with customers to build out complex data analytics solutions. Arik wraps up the conversation with a summary of …

#69 – IP EXPO 2018 – Cloudian, E8 Storage, StorCentric and Zerto

Chris Evans 5 October 2018Guest Speakers

This is one of two podcasts, recorded live at IP EXPO 2018 in London. The format is slightly different from what we’ve done in the past, in that we have four short 10-minute interviews with storage vendors. Each talks about their company, products and industry problem being solved. The four guests are: Steve Blow, Technology Evangelist with Zerto Neil Stobart, VP Global Systems Engineering at Cloudian Julie Herd, Director of Technical Marketing at E8 Storage Read Fenner, VP Global Sales for Nexsan and Drobo & Mark Walker, Channel Sales Director (Nexsan) from StorCentric These interviews …

#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 …

#67 – Hitachi Vantara One Year On with John Magee

Chris Evans 27 September 2018Guest Speakers

This week, Chris is in San Diego attending Hitachi NEXT 2018, the annual user conference for Hitachi Vantara customers. Hitachi Vantara was formed in 2017 from the merger of Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group and Pentaho. Last year we spoke to Greg Knieriemen about the new company and the reasons behind the decision to move on from the HDS brand. One year on from the launch of Vantara, Chris talks with John Magee, VP, Product & Solutions Marketing at Hitachi Vantara about how the transition is going. This podcast is one of a number …

#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 …