The Unpacked Network

Unpacking Technology Through The Medium of Podcasting

Garbage Collection #008 – Chris' Travels – Commvault, NetApp & SFD14

Chris Evans 3 December 2017Garbage Collection

In this podcast, recorded on 21 November 2017, Chris, Gavin and Martin talk about thoughts from Chris’ recent trips to CommVault GO, Storage Field Day 14 and NetApp Insight. The CommVault and SFD14 events were held in the US, with NetApp Insight talking place in Berlin, Germany. At Storage Field Day, Dell EMC, E8 Storage, Scality and Congruity 360 presented. This podcast talks about the Dell EMC presentations. E8 Storage has been a recent podcast guest. Feelings on the events and content were mixed. Some good and some bad. What do you think? Leave us …

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 …

Disaggregated Storage Part III with Josh Goldenhar from Excelero

Chris Evans 15 November 2017All-Flash

Continuing on our theme of disaggregated storage, Gavin and Martin talk to Josh Goldenhar, VP Products at Excelero. In this podcast, recorded on 6th November 2017, the guys talk about NVMesh, the Excelero technology that transforms servers and NVMe drives into a distributed storage mesh. As we’re starting to see, there are some common themes developing here, with Linux-based support, some client and (in this case) host software. Elapsed Time: 00:43:21 Timeline 00:00:00 – Introductions, Martin, Gavin – no Chris 00:01:51 – Who are Excelero? 00:03:50 – Excelero – software only (with partners) 00:05:30 – …

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 …

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 …

Garbage Collection #006 – LTO-8 and the Future of Tape

Chris Evans 27 October 2017Garbage Collection

This week LTO-8 was announced, with raw cartridge capacities of up to 12.8TB. In this podcast, recorded on 23rd October 2017, Chris and Martin discuss the evolution of LTO from a lowly 100GB to todays media with 120x the capacity. Tape is changing and becoming more of an archive medium, as backup has increasingly moved to disk. This begs the question, should standard formats like LTFS be more common? How should media be recycled and what other ways are there for getting data onto tape media? For a bit of nostalgia, there’s mention of the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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