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#36 – The Persistence of Memory with Rob Peglar

Chris Evans 2 February 2018Guest Speakers

In this week’s episode, the team talk to Rob Peglar, Senior VP and CTO at SymbolicIO. The conversation covers persistent memory and in particular the NVDIMM format of devices that provide persistent storage in a standard server DIMM slot. Rob explains how the standards are set through JEDEC, with a description of the three types – NVDIMM-N, F and P. The discussion continues to use cases, which seem mainly to be for any application needing low latency with local server persistence. Databases and analytics are the main beneficiary, however Rob believes that the hyper-scalers may …

#35 – The Spectre of Meltdown with Alex Chircop

Chris Evans 27 January 2018Guest Speakers

In this week’s podcast, the team talk to Alex Chircop, CTO at StorageOS about the implications on storage of the recent Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities. Much has been made of the potential impact to I/O performance and by definition storage platforms and products. The guys talk about what the vulnerabilities actually mean for end users and what to expect from storage vendors. Finally, the podcast concludes with some suggestions from Martin, as the token end user in the discussion. Two references were made in the podcast. The first is to a Techspot article comparing NVMe and SSD …

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 …

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 …

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 …