#151 – Introduction to StorageOS V2.0 (Sponsored)

#151 – Introduction to StorageOS V2.0 (Sponsored)

Chris EvansCloud, Containers, Software-Defined Storage, Sponsored

In this episode, Martin and Chris are joined in conversation by Alex Chircop, CEO at StorageOS. The company has announced StorageOS V2.0, a significant evolution in their storage platform, built for containers using containers. As this episode explains, the version 2.0 release of StorageOS enhances scalability and resiliency, with a strong focus on features needed for enterprise adoption. Each volume presented to a container now has a “mini-brain” to implement much more distributed application awareness. Availability is increased through the use of Delta Sync, a new technology to ensure data volumes are recovered to a …

#129 – Choices for Persistent Container Storage with Niraj Tolia

#129 – Choices for Persistent Container Storage with Niraj Tolia

Chris EvansContainers, Data Management, Data Protection, Software-Defined Storage

This week Chris records a live podcast episode with Niraj Tolia, co-founder and CEO at Kasten Inc. As a follow-up to online discussions that dive into how container storage should be presented to Kubernetes (and other container) environments, this episode reviews some of Chris’ thoughts and Niraj’s opinions on the market as to how persistent storage should evolve. The discussion starts by reviewing the idea of either block or file storage for container environments and moves on to discuss whether application-based replication could simply replace the need to have a persistent storage back-end. The Container …

#86 – Eran Brown Discusses Storage, Security & Multi-Cloud

#86 – Eran Brown Discusses Storage, Security & Multi-Cloud

Chris EvansGuest Speakers

This week, Chris and Martin talk to Eran Brown, CTO in EMEA for INFINIDAT.  As we move to a more distributed world, implementing data security becomes ever more challenging.  Eran explains the issues and how his customers are looking to solve the problem. One of the initial choices is to decide exactly where to encrypt.  We’re familiar with drive-level encryption, even host-level.  Eran sees hypervisor and application encryption being equally if not more important. What are the implications on technology?  Encryption reduces savings from de-duplication and compression, changing the cost model.  Encryption and data security …