#111 – The Cohesity Marketplace with Rawlinson Rivera

#111 – The Cohesity Marketplace with Rawlinson Rivera

Chris EvansData Management, Data Protection, Guest Speakers

This week Chris is in Silicon Valley and catches up with Rawlinson Rivera, Field CTO at Cohesity. The company recently released a new feature called Marketplace that enables customers to run data-focused applications directly on the Cohesity platform. The idea of running applications on data protection hardware has some benefits and potential disadvantages. Naturally, the focus is to provide a single point of truth for secondary data, reducing the risk of having many teams and departments storing their own data copy. But is DataPlatform capable of delivering the performance requirements of AI and ML? Rawlinson …

#104 – Creating a Data Management Strategy with Paul Stringfellow

#104 – Creating a Data Management Strategy with Paul Stringfellow

Chris EvansData Management, Guest Speakers

This week, Chris talks to Paul Stringfellow, Technical Director at Gardner Systems, about the process of creating a data management strategy.  As we adopt additional, sometimes disparate services from SaaS and IaaS vendors, increasingly businesses are seeing their data being dispersed across multiple platforms.  With such a valuable asset at their fingertips, how do businesses go about building a strategy for storing, managing and securing their information? The conversation starts with a look at three layers – physical infrastructure, smart storage management and data management.  Storage platforms are pretty fully functional these days, so features …

#103 – Data Management and DataOps with Hitachi Vantara (Sponsored)

#103 – Data Management and DataOps with Hitachi Vantara (Sponsored)

Chris EvansData Management, Guest Speakers

This week Chris speaks to Jonathan Martin (CMO) and John Magee (VP, Portfolio Marketing) at Hitachi Vantara.  This episode was recorded live onsite at the new Hitachi Vantara offices in Santa Clara. As data becomes ever more valuable to organisations, the process of building data pipelines will continue to be a time and resource intensive task.  In order to keep up with demand, Hitachi Vantara believes that businesses will need to implement automated processes that deal with the analytics pipeline – a concept called DataOps. DataOps is a methodology rather than any specific product.  It …

#93 – Myspace Loses 12 Years’ of Music

#93 – Myspace Loses 12 Years' of Music

Chris EvansData Management, Garbage Collection

This week, Chris and Martin discuss the issues at Myspace, which recently disclosed that 12 years’ worth of user content had been lost during a (failed) server migration.  The once-mighty Myspace was the largest social networking site from 2005 to 2009 (according to Wikipedia) and had estimated revenues of $109 million in 2011.  So, how could a company with such as large valuation and solid revenue manage to lose data so easily? In 2005, News Corporation purchased Myspace for $580 million, later selling he company in 2011 for a rumoured $35 million.  Would there have …

#65 – Challenges in Managing Unstructured Data with Shirish Phatak

#65 – Challenges in Managing Unstructured Data with Shirish Phatak

Chris EvansData Management, Guest Speakers

In this week’s podcast we focus on the issues of managing unstructured data in a distributed world.  Chris and Martin are joined by Shirish Phatak, CEO at Talon Storage. It’s interesting that “unstructured” proves to have a moveable definition, depending on what you want to include.  While we traditionally think of files and objects as unstructured, these so-called binary pieces of content typically do have structure within them.  In contrast, databases can be made up of unstructured data – e.g. files, that together take a structured form. Getting past the definition, we find that data …