Soundbytes #005: John Rollason at DockerCon 2017

Soundbytes #005: John Rollason at DockerCon 2017

Chris EvansSoundbytes

In this podcast, ChrisE talks to John Rollason, Director, Product Marketing, Next Generation Data Centre at NetApp.  The conversation covers NetApp’s Docker plugins, the continued integration of SolidFire plus the upcoming HCI offering.  Apologies for the sound quality towards the end of the podcast.  The recording was done outside without the benefit of a microphone cover! Elapsed Time: 00:14:57 Timeline 00:00:00 – Introductions – Outside at the convention centre 00:01:00 – The need for persistent storage and NetApp Docker Plugin 00:02:30 – Mature features, snapshots, clones, replication 00:03:00 – Project Trident 00:03:53 – Support for …

Soundbytes 004: Discussing HPE Storage at HPE Discover with Marc Farley and Matt Leib

Soundbytes 004: Discussing HPE Storage at HPE Discover with Marc Farley and Matt Leib

Chris EvansSoundbytes

In this podcast, recorded live at HPE Discover, Martin and Chris talk to Marc Farley and Matt Leib (two invited bloggers) about the state of HPE’s storage portfolio.  As you will hear, this podcast was recorded live and has tannoy announcements and a brief greeting from Brad Parks who didn’t realise we were recording! Elapsed Time: 00:19:58 SFW: Yes Timeline 00:00:00 – Introduction. 00:01:00 – Marc gives us his opinion on HPE Storage. 00:01:15 – 3PAR improvements – integration and solution packaging. 00:02:00 – Is 3PAR and other platforms in their twilight years? 00:02:25 – …

Soundbytes: The Data Fabric Explained with NetApp CTO Mark Bregman

Soundbytes: The Data Fabric Explained with NetApp CTO Mark Bregman

Chris EvansSoundbytes

This podcast was recorded live on 16 November 2016 at NetApp Insight in Berlin.  The conversation is between Chris Evans and Mark Bregman, CTO for NetApp.  Mark discusses NetApp’s move to focus on data management, with the Data Fabric, a concept that binds together NetApp’s storage assets with public cloud and data mobility features. Elapsed Time: 00:16:28 SFW: Yes Timeline 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:00:40 – Data Fabric Introduction (link) 00:02:00 – Delivering storage features as SaaS – completely heterogeneous 00:02:30 – The customer perspective 00:03:10 – It’s about the data, not the storage 00:04:30 – The …

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.