Garbage Collection #004 – Dell EMC World Preview, DockerCon 2017 and The Return of Violin Memory

Garbage Collection #004 – Dell EMC World Preview, DockerCon 2017 and The Return of Violin Memory

Chris EvansGarbage 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

Soundbytes #007: Launch of StorageOS Beta – A Discussion with Chris Brandon at DockerCon 2017

Chris EvansSoundbytes

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

Soundbytes #006: A Discussion on The Storage Industry with Stephen Foskett at DockerCon 2017

Chris EvansSoundbytes

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 …