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#35 – The Spectre of Meltdown with Alex Chircop

Chris Evans 27 January 2018Guest Speakers

In this week’s podcast, the team talk to Alex Chircop, CTO at StorageOS about the implications on storage of the recent Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities. Much has been made of the potential impact to I/O performance and by definition storage platforms and products. The guys talk about what the vulnerabilities actually mean for end users and what to expect from storage vendors. Finally, the podcast concludes with some suggestions from Martin, as the token end user in the discussion. Two references were made in the podcast. The first is to a Techspot article comparing NVMe and SSD …

#34 – NAND Shortage? What NAND Shortage! with Jim Handy

Chris Evans 19 January 2018Guest Speakers

In this week’s podcast, the team chat again with Jim Handy from Objective Analysis. Jim is an analyst covering the semiconductor industry and provides some great insight into where pricing is headed in the NAND flash market. The conversation covers some of the technical challenges the industry faces, as well as the impact from China entering the market. Finally, the guys discuss the impact on Enterprise storage pricing. There are some interesting observations in this conversation, such as the capability for NAND to be used in multiple densities and how the ability for the Enterprise …

Disaggregated Storage Part II with Zivan Ori from E8 Storage

Chris Evans 3 November 2017Guest Speakers

In this podcast, originally recorded on 30 October 2017, Chris and Gavin follow up on the subject of disaggregated storage with Zivan Ori, CEO at E8 Storage. E8 is a start-up that markets and sells a storage array that uses a disaggregated architecture. The conversation covers what disaggregation really means and how E8 focuses on splitting the data and control paths of traditional I/O commands. With NVMe and RDMA, the E8 architecture allows direct access to metadata on dual controllers within the E8 hardware. This piece was actually a revelation during the conversation as it …

Storage Unpacked 25 – Private Cloud Storage and The Tintri Platform with Kieran Harty

Chris Evans 20 October 2017Guest Speakers, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this podcast, recorded on 9 October 2017, Chris and Martin chat to Kieran Harty, CTO and co-founder at Tintri. The discussion covers the requirements for private cloud and in particular how storage should be deployed in private cloud environments. Kieran highlights how Tintri has adapted their all-flash and hybrid arrays to meet the needs of organisations looking to transform to private cloud operations. During the podcast Kieran mentions Tintri Scale-out. Details can be found here. Chris mentions the HPE 3PAR paper on private cloud storage, which can be found here. Elapsed Time: 00:32:15 Timeline …

Cloud File Storage – A Conversation with Andy Hardy from Nasuni

Chris Evans 8 October 2017Guest Speakers

In this podcast, recorded on 2nd September 2017, the guys chat to Andy Hardy, Regional Vice President at Nasuni. Nasuni has developed a global file platform that uses cloud storage as the “backing store”. In this podcast, the guys chat to Andy about the benefits of a global file system that requires very little on-premises storage and the components it replaces, including backup and DR. The conversation also touches on where the market is headed, who is having success and the continual divergence between IOPS for block and capacity storage for file/object. Elapsed Time: 00:29:09 …

Soundbytes #011: Tech Trailblazers Update with Rose Ross and Jon Toigo

Chris Evans 30 September 2017Guest Speakers

In this special episode, recorded on 28th September 2017, Gavin talks to Rose Ross, Chief Trailblazer with Tech Trailblazers, the global awards programme that promotes and supports new technology startups. Joining Gavin and Rose is Jon Toigo, industry veteran and Managing Partner at Toigo Partners International LLC. Jon is a member of the Tech Trailblazer judging panel. For more information on Tech Trailblazers, check out their website at http://www.techtrailblazers.com/. Elapsed Time: 00:19:40 Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Storage Unpacked. No reproduction or re-use without permission.

Talking Secondary Storage with Chris Wahl

Chris Evans 10 April 2017Guest Speakers

In this podcast, the team talk to Chris Wahl, Chief Technologist at Rubrik, a start-up offering data protection and archive solutions. The conversation covers a definition of what secondary storage means and how it moves on from traditional data protection and secondary application usages. You can find Rubrik online at https://www.rubrik.com/ and stalk Chris on Twitter at @ChrisWahl. Elapsed time: 00:35:16 00:00:00 – Introductions 00:02:00 – Secondary storage – a definition (or not) 00:05:00 – Why secondary storage now? 00:07:00 – Copan – remember them? 00:07:30 – Virtual APIs – differentiating today’s market 00:09:00 – Rubrik’s …

Talking NAND Flash With Jim Handy – Part Two

Chris Evans 27 January 2017Guest Speakers

The following podcast was recorded with Jim Handy, from Objective Analysis on 12th December 2016. This is the second of two parts, talking about persistent memory. The first part is available here. You can reach Jim on Twitter at The SSD Guy, or via his blog(s) at http://thessdguy.com/and http://thememoryguy.com/. Feel free to provide feedback as comments on our blog or on our Linkedin group. If you like this podcast, like us on iTunes! Elapsed Time: 00:24:21 SFW: Yes Timeline 00:00:00 – Intro 00:00:17 – Other types of persistent media – Phase Change Memory (PCM) 00:02:30 – 3D-Xpoint …