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#140 – Introduction to Document-Orientated Databases

Chris Evans 24 January 2020Databases, Guest Speakers, Storage Unpacked Podcast

This week, Chris and Martin speak to David Koppe, Director of Information Strategy at MongoDB. The discussion covers document-orientated databases, or simply document databases, and their appeal to the enterprise. Document databases differ from traditional relational databases in that the data is stored within each “document” as a series of key-value pairs. In this instance a document is not to be confused with a Word or PDF file. Unlike relational databases, document records don’t have to be “symmetrical” and aren’t required to contain every field (or a null value for empty fields). This makes the …

#49 – Reputation in Technology Marketing

Chris Evans 4 May 2018Guest Speakers

This week Chris and Martin talk to Gina Minks, who works on product marketing at VMware within the Cloud BU. The discussion evolved from a post Gina published on www.24x7itconnection.com talking about how vendors shouldn’t go negative when promoting their own technology. We’ve seen hyperbole from many vendors in the past – you know who you are! During the conversation, the topics cover the original Twitpisses that used to take place regularly on social media. This leads on to the independence of bloggers who have been acquired by big corporations yet still use their own …

#39 – Garbage Collection: Storage Mythbusters Part I

Chris Evans 23 February 2018Garbage Collection

In this week’s podcast, the guys talk about some of the myths in the storage industry. The focus is mainly on traditional storage arrays and some of the features that end users might not need. The conversation takes a marketing turn, with questions on how five 9’s availability is marketed and the use of dedupe/compression as a tool to reduce costs. What do you think? Are there any myths you believe exist within the industry? Drop us a line and give us your thoughts or areas we should be discussing. Elapsed Time: 00:31:05 Timeline 00:00:00 …

#36 – The Persistence of Memory with Rob Peglar

Chris Evans 2 February 2018Guest Speakers

In this week’s episode, the team talk to Rob Peglar, Senior VP and CTO at SymbolicIO. The conversation covers persistent memory and in particular the NVDIMM format of devices that provide persistent storage in a standard server DIMM slot. Rob explains how the standards are set through JEDEC, with a description of the three types – NVDIMM-N, F and P. The discussion continues to use cases, which seem mainly to be for any application needing low latency with local server persistence. Databases and analytics are the main beneficiary, however Rob believes that the hyper-scalers may …

#35 – The Spectre of Meltdown with Alex Chircop

Chris Evans 27 January 2018Guest Speakers

In this week’s podcast, the team talk to Alex Chircop, CTO at StorageOS about the implications on storage of the recent Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities. Much has been made of the potential impact to I/O performance and by definition storage platforms and products. The guys talk about what the vulnerabilities actually mean for end users and what to expect from storage vendors. Finally, the podcast concludes with some suggestions from Martin, as the token end user in the discussion. Two references were made in the podcast. The first is to a Techspot article comparing NVMe and SSD …

Disaggregated Storage Part III with Josh Goldenhar from Excelero

Chris Evans 15 November 2017All-Flash

Continuing on our theme of disaggregated storage, Gavin and Martin talk to Josh Goldenhar, VP Products at Excelero. In this podcast, recorded on 6th November 2017, the guys talk about NVMesh, the Excelero technology that transforms servers and NVMe drives into a distributed storage mesh. As we’re starting to see, there are some common themes developing here, with Linux-based support, some client and (in this case) host software. Elapsed Time: 00:43:21 Timeline 00:00:00 – Introductions, Martin, Gavin – no Chris 00:01:51 – Who are Excelero? 00:03:50 – Excelero – software only (with partners) 00:05:30 – …