This week, Chris talks to Jerome McFarland, VP of Marketing with Elastifile, Inc. Elastifile has developed a scale-out distributed file system called ECFS – the Elastifile Cloud File System. ECFS runs either on-premises, in the public cloud as a marketplace offering or, most recently as a full native storage service in GCP. In addition to the base file system, Elastifile provides the capability to move any on-premises NAS data into the public cloud with CloudConnect. ClearTier provides the facility to use the public cloud for tiering of cool or inactive data. Jerome explains the reasons …
Talking Cloud Data Protection with Jaspreet Singh
In this podcast, recorded in December 2016, Chris talks to Jaspreet Singh, founder and CEO of Druva Inc, a cloud-focused data protection company. The conversation covers the issues of how cloud-based backup differs from typical on-premises operations, the considerations that have to be thought of and how cloud backup can be used for more than just recovery. You can find Druva online at https://www.druva.com/ and information on the TCO calculator, discussed on the podcast at https://www.druva.com/partners/cdw_tco/. Elapsed Time: 00:39:22 Timeline 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:00:46 – Background information, why Cloud? 00:03:40 – the changing face of backup 00:05:00 …