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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 …

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 …

Talking NAND Flash With Jim Handy – Part Two

Chris Evans 27 January 2017Guest Speakers

The following podcast was recorded with Jim Handy, from Objective Analysis on 12th December 2016. This is the second of two parts, talking about persistent memory. The first part is available here. You can reach Jim on Twitter at The SSD Guy, or via his blog(s) at http://thessdguy.com/and http://thememoryguy.com/. Feel free to provide feedback as comments on our blog or on our Linkedin group. If you like this podcast, like us on iTunes! Elapsed Time: 00:24:21 SFW: Yes Timeline 00:00:00 – Intro 00:00:17 – Other types of persistent media – Phase Change Memory (PCM) 00:02:30 – 3D-Xpoint …

Talking NAND Flash With Jim Handy – Part One

Chris Evans 6 January 2017Guest Speakers

The following podcast was recorded with Jim Handy, from Objective Analysis on 12th December 2016. The discussion is all about NAND Flash, what it is, where it came from and what we can expect in the future. Martin and Chris talked to Jim for a little over an hour, so we’ve split the content into two parts. You can reach Jim on Twitter at The SSD Guy, or via his blog(s) at http://thessdguy.com/ and http://thememoryguy.com/. Feel free to provide feedback as comments on our blog or on our Linkedin group. If you like this podcast, like …

Soundbytes 004: Discussing HPE Storage at HPE Discover with Marc Farley and Matt Leib

Chris Evans 8 December 2016Soundbytes

In this podcast, recorded live at HPE Discover, Martin and Chris talk to Marc Farley and Matt Leib (two invited bloggers) about the state of HPE’s storage portfolio. As you will hear, this podcast was recorded live and has tannoy announcements and a brief greeting from Brad Parks who didn’t realise we were recording! Elapsed Time: 00:19:58 SFW: Yes Timeline 00:00:00 – Introduction. 00:01:00 – Marc gives us his opinion on HPE Storage. 00:01:15 – 3PAR improvements – integration and solution packaging. 00:02:00 – Is 3PAR and other platforms in their twilight years? 00:02:25 – …

Garbage Collection – Implementing a Multi-Vendor Storage Strategy

Chris Evans 29 November 2016Garbage Collection

In this podcast, Chris and Martin discuss the issues in designing and implementing a multi-vendor storage strategy. The discussion covers whether any one vendor can provide all of today’s storage products and who multiple vendors can be used to deliver a single requirement. Elapsed Time: 00:36:26 SFW: Yes 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:00:45 – A look at the market – product categories 00:01:30 – Vendor Roundup 00:03:20 – The product overlap problem 00:05:30 – Is storage unique in the data centre? 00:06:30 – Data Gravity 00:07:00 – Why do people change vendors? 00:07:50 – tension …

Soundbytes: The Data Fabric Explained with NetApp CTO Mark Bregman

Chris Evans 19 November 2016Soundbytes

This podcast was recorded live on 16 November 2016 at NetApp Insight in Berlin. The conversation is between Chris Evans and Mark Bregman, CTO for NetApp. Mark discusses NetApp’s move to focus on data management, with the Data Fabric, a concept that binds together NetApp’s storage assets with public cloud and data mobility features. Elapsed Time: 00:16:28 SFW: Yes Timeline 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:00:40 – Data Fabric Introduction (link) 00:02:00 – Delivering storage features as SaaS – completely heterogeneous 00:02:30 – The customer perspective 00:03:10 – It’s about the data, not the storage 00:04:30 – The …

Garbage Collection – All-flash Market Consolidation

Chris Evans 3 November 2016Garbage Collection

In this opinion piece, recorded on 31 October 2016, Martin Glassborow, Chris Mellor and Chris Evans discuss the state of the all-flash market and what we can expect to happen to the remaining all-flash startup vendors. We discuss Violin’s delisting, talk about the range of vendors and size of the market. Mr Mellor presents his interpretation on the “Supernatural Quadrangle” of all-flash vendors and products. We then speculate on the Chinese and the similarity of IBM’s storage portfolio to, well you’ll just have to listen…. One other thing – we promise to get ChrisM a headset …

All-Flash – Does it Justify a Market Segment?

Chris Evans 28 October 2016All-Flash, Guest Speakers

All-Flash has been highlighted as a specific market segment within the storage industry. Initially this was probably justified because of the number of new start-ups that were developing for the market. With all of the major storage vendors either amending or acquiring technology, is there really a justification for having a separate market segment for all-flash or should we flip this on its head and say all-flash is the norm and the rest are legacy arrays? In this podcast, recorded on 24 October 2016, we talk with Bob Madaio, VP Infrastructure Solutions at Hitachi Data …