#92 – Introduction to Elastifile with Jerome McFarland (Sponsored)

#92 – Introduction to Elastifile with Jerome McFarland (Sponsored)

Chris EvansGuest Speakers, Sponsored

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 …

#52 – An Introduction to WekaIO Matrix with Liran Zvibel (Sponsored)

#52 – An Introduction to WekaIO Matrix with Liran Zvibel (Sponsored)

Chris EvansGuest Speakers, Sponsored

This week’s guest episode was recorded live in Silicon Valley at the offices of WekaIO.  The company has developed a scale-out parallel file system called Matrix that was specifically designed to exploit NVMe storage and new fast networking.  Chris is onsite to talk with CEO and co-founder, Liran Zivbel.  Martin is dialled in remotely from the bowels of the Storage Unpacked offices. The conversation covers how Matrix was developed to work with new media and at the same time address some of the issues seen in the use of parallel file systems such as managing …