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#51 – Pure Accelerate Pregame

Chris Evans 30 May 2018Soundbytes

This episode was recorded at Pure Accelerate in San Francisco on Tuesday 22nd May 2018 just before the event started. Chris talks to Matt Leib and eventually Ray Lucchesi, initially about the role of the reseller, then eventually moving towards NVMe over Fabrics. As with all live recorded podcasts, there’s a little background noise, including the weekly noon siren test. The group speculates on what we can expect to be announced by Pure, the benefits of the Evergreen program, then whether we’re headed back to a hardware future for storage. In the recording Ray talks …

Soundbytes #015: NetApp HCI with Martin Cooper

Chris Evans 24 November 2017Soundbytes

In this podcast, recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin, November 2017, Chris talks to Martin Cooper, Senior Director of Field Engineering, Next Generation Data Centre. The conversation introduces HCI, NetApp’s hyper-converged offering, which recently went GA. NetApp HCI uses SolidFire storage and scales differently to traditional HCI solutions in that the processor cores aren’t shared by storage and compute. Instead each is delivered as a separate server, more like CI. Martin and Chris discuss the reasons for this architectural choice and how it fits a different market space than traditional hyper-converged solutions. Elapsed Time: 00:11:54 …

Soundbytes #014: A Conversation with NetApp Founder Dave Hitz

Chris Evans 20 November 2017Soundbytes

This podcast was recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin on 15 November 2017. Chris talks to Dave Hitz, founder of NetApp Inc. The conversation is fairly free flowing, covering a general discussion on data management, NetApp’s positioning with Azure NFS and how we can expect to see hybrid cloud work in the future. You’ll notice there’s no discussion on any hardware products at all and little product discussion of any kind. This conversation could have continued for hours (and in fact we did continue off-air), but we kept it to 20 minutes. Elapsed Time: 00:19:05 …

Soundbytes #013: Hitachi Vantara with Greg Knieriemen

Chris Evans 7 November 2017Soundbytes

In this quick podcast, recorded live at Commvault GO 2017, Chris talks to Greg Knieriemen, Technology Evangelist with Hitachi Vantara. Hitachi recently merged the HDS (Hitachi Data Systems), Pentaho and Hitachi Insight Group brands together into a single entity, Hitachi Vantara. The new company will focus more on data and IoT, as Greg explains. Unfortunately the recording terminated early, so we lost about a minute of wrap up and some of the conversation with Max Mortillaro, who joined us at the beginning of the recording. Elapsed Time: 00:14:36 Timeline 00:00:00 – Intro 00:01:17 – Oops …

Soundbytes #012: The Resurrection of Violin Systems with CEO Ebrahim Abbasi

Chris Evans 13 October 2017All-Flash, Soundbytes

In this podcast, recorded live on 13th October 2017 in London, Chris talks to Violin Systems CEO, Ebrahim Abbasi. Violin Systems is the new name for Violin Memory, one of the pioneers of all-flash storage. Violin Memory entered chapter 11 in December 2016 and the company assets were eventually acquired by the Soros Group. Violin Systems is back, with no debt, positive cashflow and plans for a strong future. Chris and Ebrahim discuss the software acquired from the relationship with Falconstor and taking a more software-focused approach to product development. We can expect scale-out, tiering …

Soundbytes #010: Discussing OpenIO Nano Nodes with Enrico Signoretti

Chris Evans 28 September 2017Soundbytes

In this podcast, recorded on 27th September in Lille, France at the OpenIO Summit, Chris catches a quick chat with Enrico Signoretti, Head of Product Strategy. The conversation covers Nano Nodes, a small form-factor device that attaches to a hard drive, turning it into a fully-fledged server. So why turn each hard drive into an independent server? The key is the ability to run code on each device that can be used for a variety of purposes. During the discussion, Chris and Enrico discuss how the concept of Serverless compute can be applied to the …

Soundbytes #009: FlashArray Update With Ivan Iannaccone at Pure Accelerate

Chris Evans 15 June 2017All-Flash, Pure Storage, Soundbytes

The following podcast was recorded at Pure Accelerate in San Francisco in June 2017. The recording was made behind the main stage, so apologies for the background noise which does get pretty loud for a while! Chris talks to Ivan Iannaccone, Director of Product Management (also known as Emperor of Flash) at Pure Storage. The conversation goes through the new software features of FlashArray, including ActiveCluster, VVOLs, NVMe and snapshots. Elapsed Time: 00:20:34 Timeline 00:00:00 – Introductions 00:01:04 – A wealth of new announcements 00:01:50 – ActiveCluster – synchronous replication 00:06:00 – Meta – AI …

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

Chris Evans 14 June 2017All-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 #007: Launch of StorageOS Beta – A Discussion with Chris Brandon at DockerCon 2017

Chris Evans 3 May 2017Soundbytes

This conversation was recorded between Chris E and Chris Brandon, CEO of StorageOS, a London-based storage startup. StorageOS has just released their storage platform as a public beta. Based on containers and delivering storage for containers, StorageOS creates a distributed scale-out storage platform based on deployment on bare metal, virtual or cloud instances. The category of SDS solutions based on containers continues to evolve. Companies like StorageOS are demonstrating that persistent storage is required by IT organisations, however traditional appliances don’t have to be the route forward. Elapsed Time: 00:09:23 Timeline 00:00:00 – Introductions 00:00:30 …

Soundbytes #006: A Discussion on The Storage Industry with Stephen Foskett at DockerCon 2017

Chris Evans 24 April 2017Soundbytes

In this podcast, recorded at DockerCon 2017, ChrisE talks to Stephen Foskett, organiser of the Tech Field Day events. During the short podcast, the conversation covers issues of the storage industry, how we’re moving towards software and whether the idea of “alpha” storage products really makes sense. Elapsed Time: 00:11:03 Timeline 00:00:00 – Introductions – Tech Field Day since 2009 00:01:30 – DockerCon – Storage, Networking, Security, Monitoring, the usual suspects 00:01:50 – The old the new side by side 00:02:30 – Storage with Docker 00:03:00 – Portworx, just like a traditional storage array 00:04:00 …