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Unpacking Technology Through The Medium of Podcasting

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 …

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 …

Soundbytes #005: John Rollason at DockerCon 2017

Chris Evans 21 April 2017Soundbytes

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 …

Talking Secondary Storage with Chris Wahl

Chris Evans 10 April 2017Guest Speakers

In this podcast, the team talk to Chris Wahl, Chief Technologist at Rubrik, a start-up offering data protection and archive solutions. The conversation covers a definition of what secondary storage means and how it moves on from traditional data protection and secondary application usages. You can find Rubrik online at https://www.rubrik.com/ and stalk Chris on Twitter at @ChrisWahl. Elapsed time: 00:35:16 00:00:00 – Introductions 00:02:00 – Secondary storage – a definition (or not) 00:05:00 – Why secondary storage now? 00:07:00 – Copan – remember them? 00:07:30 – Virtual APIs – differentiating today’s market 00:09:00 – Rubrik’s …

Garbage Collection #3 – Storage Predictions for 2017

Chris Evans 24 March 2017Garbage Collection

In this podcast, recorded in February, but finally being published in March, Chris, Martin and new host Gavin talk about what happened in 2016 and what’s coming up in 2017. Of course some of these predictions may seem prescient, being some 4 weeks after the recording! However this is a fast changing industry as we all know. Timeline 00:00:00 – Introduction and Gavin 00:01:20 – Recording in Feb, releasing in March – sorry! 00:02:00 – 2016 – Dell & EMC combine 00:03:30 – 2016 – The demise of Violin Memory 00:05:00 – 2016 – IBM …

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