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#40 – Garbage Collection: Death of the Storage Admin

Chris Evans 2 March 2018Garbage Collection

This week’s podcast was recorded a few months ago, so apologies for the sound quality. The team discuss the role of the storage administrator and whether we will see the eventual demise of storage admins or simply a transition to another role. The conversation tracks the responsibilities of storage administrators over the last 30 years, from the era of the mainframe to today’s software-defined offerings. Early on, Martin invents a new word (abomnerbation)! The discussions finally agree that the age of the LUN monkey is over. Elapsed Time: 00:26:57 Timeline 00:00:00 – Intro 00:01:00 – …

#38 – Talking Dedicated Backup Appliances with Don Foster from Commvault

Chris Evans 16 February 2018Commvault, Guest Speakers

In this week’s podcast, the team talk to Don Foster, Senior Director for WW Solutions Marketing at Commvault. Initially this podcast was intended to be recorded at Commvault Go last November (2017) in Washington DC, but schedules didn’t align so we did it remotely. The audio quality is not as good as we’d like, so apologies for that. However, there are some good discussions in this episode, including lots to think about if you’re looking to deploy a backup appliance in place of a traditional DIY solution. Don spends some time at the end of …

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

Chris Evans 3 December 2017Garbage Collection

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

Chris Evans 8 May 2017Garbage Collection

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

Chris Evans 24 March 2017Garbage Collection

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 …

Talking NAND Flash With Jim Handy – Part Two

Chris Evans 27 January 2017Guest Speakers

The following podcast was recorded with Jim Handy, from Objective Analysis on 12th December 2016. This is the second of two parts, talking about persistent memory. The first part is available here. You can reach Jim on Twitter at The SSD Guy, or via his blog(s) at http://thessdguy.com/and http://thememoryguy.com/. Feel free to provide feedback as comments on our blog or on our Linkedin group. If you like this podcast, like us on iTunes! Elapsed Time: 00:24:21 SFW: Yes Timeline 00:00:00 – Intro 00:00:17 – Other types of persistent media – Phase Change Memory (PCM) 00:02:30 – 3D-Xpoint …

Talking NAND Flash With Jim Handy – Part One

Chris Evans 6 January 2017Guest Speakers

The following podcast was recorded with Jim Handy, from Objective Analysis on 12th December 2016. The discussion is all about NAND Flash, what it is, where it came from and what we can expect in the future. Martin and Chris talked to Jim for a little over an hour, so we’ve split the content into two parts. You can reach Jim on Twitter at The SSD Guy, or via his blog(s) at http://thessdguy.com/ and http://thememoryguy.com/. Feel free to provide feedback as comments on our blog or on our Linkedin group. If you like this podcast, like …

Soundbytes 004: Discussing HPE Storage at HPE Discover with Marc Farley and Matt Leib

Chris Evans 8 December 2016Soundbytes

In this podcast, recorded live at HPE Discover, Martin and Chris talk to Marc Farley and Matt Leib (two invited bloggers) about the state of HPE’s storage portfolio. As you will hear, this podcast was recorded live and has tannoy announcements and a brief greeting from Brad Parks who didn’t realise we were recording! Elapsed Time: 00:19:58 SFW: Yes Timeline 00:00:00 – Introduction. 00:01:00 – Marc gives us his opinion on HPE Storage. 00:01:15 – 3PAR improvements – integration and solution packaging. 00:02:00 – Is 3PAR and other platforms in their twilight years? 00:02:25 – …

Garbage Collection – Implementing a Multi-Vendor Storage Strategy

Chris Evans 29 November 2016Garbage 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 …

Garbage Collection – All-flash Market Consolidation

Chris Evans 3 November 2016Garbage Collection

In this opinion piece, recorded on 31 October 2016, Martin Glassborow, Chris Mellor and Chris Evans discuss the state of the all-flash market and what we can expect to happen to the remaining all-flash startup vendors. We discuss Violin’s delisting, talk about the range of vendors and size of the market. Mr Mellor presents his interpretation on the “Supernatural Quadrangle” of all-flash vendors and products. We then speculate on the Chinese and the similarity of IBM’s storage portfolio to, well you’ll just have to listen…. One other thing – we promise to get ChrisM a headset …