Soundbytes #013: Hitachi Vantara with Greg Knieriemen

Soundbytes #013: Hitachi Vantara with Greg Knieriemen

Chris EvansSoundbytes

In this quick podcast, recorded live at Commvault GO 2017, Chris talks to Greg Knieriemen, Technology Evangelist with Hitachi Vantara.  Hitachi recently merged the HDS (Hitachi Data Systems), Pentaho and Hitachi Insight Group brands together into a single entity, Hitachi Vantara. The new company will focus more on data and IoT, as Greg explains.  Unfortunately the recording terminated early, so we lost about a minute of wrap up and some of the conversation with Max Mortillaro, who joined us at the beginning of the recording. Elapsed Time: 00:14:36 Timeline 00:00:00 – Intro 00:01:17 – Oops …

All-Flash – Does it Justify a Market Segment?

All-Flash – Does it Justify a Market Segment?

Chris EvansAll-Flash, Guest Speakers

All-Flash has been highlighted as a specific market segment within the storage industry.  Initially this was probably justified because of the number of new start-ups that were developing for the market.  With all of the major storage vendors either amending or acquiring technology, is there really a justification for having a separate market segment for all-flash or should we flip this on its head and say all-flash is the norm and the rest are legacy arrays? In this podcast, recorded on 24 October 2016, we talk with Bob Madaio, VP Infrastructure Solutions at Hitachi Data …

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. …

Soundbytes: A Conversation About IoT With Michael Hay

Soundbytes: A Conversation About IoT With Michael Hay

Chris EvansSoundbytes, Storage Unpacked Podcast

In this episode, recorded live at Hitachi’s 2016 Strategy Event in Las Vegas, Chris Evans talks to Michael Hay (https://twitter.com/mihay42), Vice President and Chief Engineer with Hitachi.  IoT generates large volumes of unstructured data, particularly at the “edge” – outside the data centre and wherever devices are located. Elapsed Time: 00:06:15 SFW: Yes Further Reading Hitachi’s IoT microsite HSP – Hitachi hyper-converged solution for Big Data and IoT Recorded live on 5th October 2016.  Copyright (c) Storage Unpacked.  No reproduction or re-use without permission.