#43 – All-flash Market Review 2018 with Chris Mellor

#43 – All-flash Market Review 2018 with Chris Mellor

Chris EvansGuest Speakers, Storage Unpacked Podcast

This week, Chris and Martin review the all-flash market with Chris Mellor.  We looked at this sector around 12 months ago, so we’re ready for an update.  Lots of things have happened over the past 12 months.  Vendors have gone away and come back (Violin).  Existing vendors have seen a resurgence in their sales (IBM and NetApp), while others have struggled.  Pure Storage is now an incumbent alongside the likes of Dell EMC, IBM, NetApp and HPE. The conversation moves on to discuss some interesting start-ups like WekaIO and both Excelero and E8 Storage (previous …

Private Cloud Storage and The Tintri Platform with Kieran Harty

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

Chris EvansGuest 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 …

Soundbytes #008: FlashBlade 2.0 With Rob Lee at Pure Accelerate

Soundbytes #008: FlashBlade 2.0 With Rob Lee at Pure Accelerate

Chris EvansAll-Flash, Pure Storage, Pure//Accelerate, Soundbytes, Storage Hardware, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this podcast, recorded on 14th June 2017 at Pure Accelerate in San Francisco, Chris talks to Rob Lee, Chief Architect of the FlashBlade product line.  FlashBlade 2.0 sees greater scalability for the product, but more interesting is the way in which companies have taken the platform and used it creatively to achieve things that weren’t possible with traditional NAS products. Elapsed Time: 00:20:22 Timeline You can view more details on FlashBlade on the Tech Field Day website, specifically covering the event with dedicated FlashBlade sessions. Disclaimer: Chris was invited to the Pure Accelerate event, …

Soundbytes: Talking Object Storage With Jeff Lundberg

Soundbytes: Talking Object Storage With Jeff Lundberg

Chris EvansObject Storage, Soundbytes, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this Soundbytes edition of the Storage Unpacked podcast, Chris Evans takes the opportunity to chat with Jeff Lundberg (https://twitter.com/jeffhds), Product Marketing Manager, within the content business area at Hitachi Data Systems.  Jeff covers the object storage part of the HDS business, in particular the HCP (Hitachi Content Platform). We discuss what object storage is, how it can be used and why object stores are good for certain types of data.  We discuss how SDS (software-defined storage) has been kick started by the deployment of object storage and how metadata is key to managing and analysing content. …

Soundbytes: A Conversation About IoT With Michael Hay

Soundbytes: A Conversation About IoT With Michael Hay

Chris EvansSoundbytes, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this episode, recorded live at Hitachi’s 2016 Strategy Event in Las Vegas, Chris Evans talks to Michael Hay (https://twitter.com/mihay42), Vice President and Chief Engineer with Hitachi.  IoT generates large volumes of unstructured data, particularly at the “edge” – outside the data centre and wherever devices are located. Elapsed Time: 00:06:15 SFW: Yes Further Reading Hitachi’s IoT microsite HSP – Hitachi hyper-converged solution for Big Data and IoT Recorded live on 5th October 2016.  Copyright (c) Storage Unpacked.  No reproduction or re-use without permission.