Garbage Collection #008 – Chris’ Travels – Commvault, NetApp & SFD14

Garbage Collection #008 – Chris' Travels – Commvault, NetApp & SFD14

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In this podcast, recorded on 21 November 2017, Chris, Gavin and Martin talk about thoughts from Chris’ recent trips to CommVault GO, Storage Field Day 14 and NetApp Insight.  The CommVault and SFD14 events were held in the US, with NetApp Insight talking place in Berlin, Germany.  At Storage Field Day, Dell EMC, E8 Storage, Scality and Congruity 360 presented.  This podcast talks about the Dell EMC presentations. E8 Storage has been a recent podcast guest. Feelings on the events and content were mixed.  Some good and some bad.  What do you think?  Leave us …

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

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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? …

Garbage Collection #3 – Storage Predictions for 2017

Garbage Collection #3 – Storage Predictions for 2017

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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 …