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#168 – Storage Unicorns

Chris Evans 24 July 2020Garbage Collection, Storage Unpacked Podcast

This week Chris and Martin review the idea of storage unicorns, companies that have a valuation of one billion dollars or more. What exactly is the basis or justification for a billion dollar price tag? Is this something invented by the VC industry or is there a real degree of science behind the assumptions? The list in question comes from a Blocks & Files article written by Chris Mellor, which in turn references the list produced by an analyst firm. While valuation based on some multiple of money invested does give some indication of value, …

#71 – IP EXPO 2018 – Scale Computing, StorMagic, Nasuni and Nephos

Chris Evans 12 October 2018Guest Speakers

This is the second of two podcasts recorded live at IP EXPO 2018 in London. You can find the first here. In this episode, Chris and Martin speak to Scale Computing, StorMagic, Nasuni and Nephos Technologies. The guests are: Aad Dekkers, Marketing Director, EMEA at Scale Computing John Glendenning, SVP Sales and Business Development at StorMagic Andy Hardy, Vice President, EMEA at Nasuni Michael Queenan, Co-founder at Nephos Technologies Both Scale Computing and StorMagic offer products that work in the hyper-converged area and fit well with Edge computing requirements. Nasuni is a global scale-out file …

Cloud File Storage – A Conversation with Andy Hardy from Nasuni

Chris Evans 8 October 2017Guest Speakers

In this podcast, recorded on 2nd September 2017, the guys chat to Andy Hardy, Regional Vice President at Nasuni. Nasuni has developed a global file platform that uses cloud storage as the “backing store”. In this podcast, the guys chat to Andy about the benefits of a global file system that requires very little on-premises storage and the components it replaces, including backup and DR. The conversation also touches on where the market is headed, who is having success and the continual divergence between IOPS for block and capacity storage for file/object. Elapsed Time: 00:29:09 …