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#83 – Introduction to NetApp MAX Data

Chris Evans 18 January 2019Data Management, Guest Speakers

On this week’s podcast, recorded live at NetApp Insight 2018, Chris talks to Greg Knieriemen and Rob McDonald about the introduction of Memory Accelerated Data, commonly called MAX Data. The MAX Data solution is a software product that implements a local file system on a server using local persistent memory such as Intel Optane. Of course, this is what DAS (Direct Attached Storage) used to offer 20 years ago and this is definitely not what MAX Data provides. Protection against loss within a server is achieved with a feature called MAX Recovery that synchronously replicates …

#78 – Thoughts on NetApp with Greg Knieriemen

Chris Evans 11 December 2018Guest Speakers

Last week Chris attended NetApp Insight in Barcelona and had a chance to chat to Greg Knieriemen, Chief Technologist in the Storage Systems & Software business at NetApp. Greg was formerly at Hitachi Vantara where he held a similar role. This conversation touches on Greg’s reasons for choosing NetApp and exactly what he will be focusing on within the company. Elapsed Time: 00:17:07 Timeline 00:00:00 – Intros 00:01:30 – Why move to NetApp? 00:04:00 – Three BUs, Storage/Systems, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Services 00:07:00 – The Data Fabric is much more real today than two years …

Soundbytes #015: NetApp HCI with Martin Cooper

Chris Evans 24 November 2017Soundbytes

In this podcast, recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin, November 2017, Chris talks to Martin Cooper, Senior Director of Field Engineering, Next Generation Data Centre. The conversation introduces HCI, NetApp’s hyper-converged offering, which recently went GA. NetApp HCI uses SolidFire storage and scales differently to traditional HCI solutions in that the processor cores aren’t shared by storage and compute. Instead each is delivered as a separate server, more like CI. Martin and Chris discuss the reasons for this architectural choice and how it fits a different market space than traditional hyper-converged solutions. Elapsed Time: 00:11:54 …

Soundbytes #014: A Conversation with NetApp Founder Dave Hitz

Chris Evans 20 November 2017Soundbytes

This podcast was recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin on 15 November 2017. Chris talks to Dave Hitz, founder of NetApp Inc. The conversation is fairly free flowing, covering a general discussion on data management, NetApp’s positioning with Azure NFS and how we can expect to see hybrid cloud work in the future. You’ll notice there’s no discussion on any hardware products at all and little product discussion of any kind. This conversation could have continued for hours (and in fact we did continue off-air), but we kept it to 20 minutes. Elapsed Time: 00:19:05 …