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#92 – Introduction to Elastifile with Jerome McFarland (Sponsored)

Chris Evans 22 March 2019Guest Speakers, Sponsored

This week, Chris talks to Jerome McFarland, VP of Marketing with Elastifile, Inc. Elastifile has developed a scale-out distributed file system called ECFS – the Elastifile Cloud File System. ECFS runs either on-premises, in the public cloud as a marketplace offering or, most recently as a full native storage service in GCP. In addition to the base file system, Elastifile provides the capability to move any on-premises NAS data into the public cloud with CloudConnect. ClearTier provides the facility to use the public cloud for tiering of cool or inactive data. Jerome explains the reasons …

#90 – Dell EMC's Enterprise NVMe Strategy with Vince Westin (Sponsored)

Chris Evans 8 March 2019Guest Speakers, Sponsored

This week, Chris talks to Vince Westin, Technical Evangelist within the PowerMax Group at Dell EMC. PowerMax is the latest in a storage product line with lineage back to the original Symmetrix systems of the early 1990s. PowerMax is an all-NVMe storage array, reflecting an industry move towards faster, low latency media. Vince takes us through the rationale for moving to NVMe across the Dell portfolio and PowerMax in particular. Some of the more interesting aspects of the transition include the ability to simplify code paths with NVMe compared to back-end SAS. NVMe introduces a …

#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 …

#52 – An Introduction to WekaIO Matrix with Liran Zvibel (Sponsored)

Chris Evans 5 June 2018Guest Speakers, Sponsored

This week’s guest episode was recorded live in Silicon Valley at the offices of WekaIO. The company has developed a scale-out parallel file system called Matrix that was specifically designed to exploit NVMe storage and new fast networking. Chris is onsite to talk with CEO and co-founder, Liran Zivbel. Martin is dialled in remotely from the bowels of the Storage Unpacked offices. The conversation covers how Matrix was developed to work with new media and at the same time address some of the issues seen in the use of parallel file systems such as managing …

#48 – Introduction to Datrium DVX (Sponsored)

Chris Evans 27 April 2018Guest Speakers, Sponsored

This week’s podcast was recorded on the road a few weeks ago in Silicon Valley. Chris dropped into the Datrium offices in Sunnyvale to talk about DVX, Datrium’s open converged platform. Taking part in the podcast is Sazzala Reddy, CTO and co-founder and Tushar Agrawal, Director of Products. Datrium DVX is an extension of HCI that scales performance and capacity separately. Persistent storage is deployed on a shared array, with each compute host using local cache in the form of flash storage. You can find out more on a recent blog post covering DVX. The …