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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 …

Soundbytes #011: Tech Trailblazers Update with Rose Ross and Jon Toigo

Chris Evans 30 September 2017Guest Speakers

In this special episode, recorded on 28th September 2017, Gavin talks to Rose Ross, Chief Trailblazer with Tech Trailblazers, the global awards programme that promotes and supports new technology startups. Joining Gavin and Rose is Jon Toigo, industry veteran and Managing Partner at Toigo Partners International LLC. Jon is a member of the Tech Trailblazer judging panel. For more information on Tech Trailblazers, check out their website at http://www.techtrailblazers.com/. Elapsed Time: 00:19:40 Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Storage Unpacked. No reproduction or re-use without permission.

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 …

Garbage Collection #005 – Disaggregated Storage

Chris Evans 26 September 2017Garbage Collection

In this podcast, recorded on 6th September 2017, Chris, Martin and Gavin discuss the subject of disaggregated storage. With the move to NVMe, traditional dual controller architectures are hamstrung by the need for all data to go via the processor(s). Disaggregation takes the component parts and makes them scalable, while removing the controller bottleneck. The guys discuss why these solutions are needed, who the players are in the market and what we can expect to see as this section of the storage industry develops. Elapsed time: 00:21:02 Timeline 00:00:00 – Introductions – What do we …

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, …

Garbage Collection #004 – Dell EMC World Preview, DockerCon 2017 and The Return of Violin Memory

Chris Evans 8 May 2017Garbage Collection

In this podcast, recorded on 27 April 2017, ChrisE, Martin and Gavin discuss what is likely to be announced at Dell-EMC World in May. The team talk about DockerCon 2017, held in Austin and muse about the possible return of Violin Memory, resurrected after their buyout. Image courtesy 0f Sven Storbeck – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=289284 Elapsed Time: 00:27:05 Timeline 00:00:00 – Introductions 00:00:42 – Dell-EMC World! 00:00:57 – RIP DSSD 00:03:00 – Whatever happened to Atmos? 00:04:30 – Remember folks it’s all about storing data 00:05:40 – EMC Unity or Nexsan Unity? …

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 …

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