#67 – Hitachi Vantara One Year On with John Magee

#67 – Hitachi Vantara One Year On with John Magee

Chris EvansGuest Speakers

This week, Chris is in San Diego attending Hitachi NEXT 2018, the annual user conference for Hitachi Vantara customers.  Hitachi Vantara was formed in 2017 from the merger of Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group and Pentaho.  Last year we spoke to Greg Knieriemen about the new company and the reasons behind the decision to move on from the HDS brand.  One year on from the launch of Vantara, Chris talks with John Magee, VP, Product & Solutions Marketing at Hitachi Vantara about how the transition is going. This podcast is one of a number …

Garbage Collection – Implementing a Multi-Vendor Storage Strategy

Garbage Collection – Implementing a Multi-Vendor Storage Strategy

Chris EvansGarbage Collection

  In this podcast, Chris and Martin discuss the issues in designing and implementing a multi-vendor storage strategy.  The discussion covers whether any one vendor can provide all of today’s storage products and who multiple vendors can be used to deliver a single requirement. Elapsed Time: 00:36:26 SFW: Yes 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:00:45 – A look at the market – product categories 00:01:30 – Vendor Roundup 00:03:20 – The product overlap problem 00:05:30 – Is storage unique in the data centre? 00:06:30 – Data Gravity 00:07:00 – Why do people change vendors? 00:07:50 – tension …

Soundbytes: Talking Object Storage With Jeff Lundberg

Soundbytes: Talking Object Storage With Jeff Lundberg

Chris EvansObject Storage, Soundbytes, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this Soundbytes edition of the Storage Unpacked podcast, Chris Evans takes the opportunity to chat with Jeff Lundberg (https://twitter.com/jeffhds), Product Marketing Manager, within the content business area at Hitachi Data Systems.  Jeff covers the object storage part of the HDS business, in particular the HCP (Hitachi Content Platform). We discuss what object storage is, how it can be used and why object stores are good for certain types of data.  We discuss how SDS (software-defined storage) has been kick started by the deployment of object storage and how metadata is key to managing and analysing content. …