#62 – The Future of Data Infrastructure with Scott Hamilton

#62 – The Future of Data Infrastructure with Scott Hamilton

Chris EvansGuest Speakers

This is the third of a series of three podcasts recorded at Flash Memory Summit 2018.  In this conversation, Chris talks to Scott Hamilton, Senior Director of Product Management, DCS group at Western Digital Corporation.  WDC are working on a new architecture that will deliver a composable data infrastructure for the enterprise.  This podcast discussed why composable is needed and exactly what scale of customers will benefit from the disaggregation of compute and storage. WDC are not looking to move into the general infrastructure market with this solution, but rather are developing an open standard …

#61 – Introduction to NVM Express with Amber Huffman

#61 – Introduction to NVM Express with Amber Huffman

Chris EvansGuest Speakers, NVMe, Standards, Storage Unpacked Podcast

This is the second of a series of podcasts recorded at Flash Memory Summit 2018 in Santa Clara.  In this episode, Chris talks to Amber Huffman, Intel Fellow and President and founder of NVM Express Inc.  NVM Express is the standards body that governs the development of the NVMe base standard, NVMe-MI (Management Interface) and NVMe over Fabrics.  Amber explains how standards’ bodies are initially established, including the ongoing ownership of intellectual property.  The discussion continues, looking at how NVM Express standards are developed by committee, how the body is funded and how the process …

#60 – New Data Economy with Derek Dicker

#60 – New Data Economy with Derek Dicker

Chris EvansGuest Speakers

This week Chris is attending the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara.  This is the first of three podcast recordings from the event and is a conversation with Derek Dicker CVP and GM of the Storage Business Unit at Micron. Derek participated in a keynote session at the event and talked about the challenges of managing new data types.  This includes processing data coming from a range of new sources, as well as providing capabilities to do new processing like analytics at the core and edge.  The interesting part of the discussion is how ML/AI …