#102 – May Midrange Madness with Chris Mellor

#102 – May Midrange Madness with Chris Mellor

Chris EvansAll-Flash, Garbage Collection

This week Martin, Chris Evans and Chris Mellor discuss Dell EMC’s plans for merging the three current midrange storage platforms marketed by the company.  This is a follow-up to the article Chris recently posted on https://blockandfiles.com that discusses Project Trident. There are a lot of moving parts to consider when merging storage platforms.  Customers have spent time and effort developing processes and scripting to automate common processes.  How will these be supported?  Will the new platform appear to take on the persona of the previous three?  Should customers (as Martin believes) be forced to make …

Soundbytes #005: John Rollason at DockerCon 2017

Soundbytes #005: John Rollason at DockerCon 2017

Chris EvansSoundbytes

In this podcast, ChrisE talks to John Rollason, Director, Product Marketing, Next Generation Data Centre at NetApp.  The conversation covers NetApp’s Docker plugins, the continued integration of SolidFire plus the upcoming HCI offering.  Apologies for the sound quality towards the end of the podcast.  The recording was done outside without the benefit of a microphone cover! Elapsed Time: 00:14:57 Timeline 00:00:00 – Introductions – Outside at the convention centre 00:01:00 – The need for persistent storage and NetApp Docker Plugin 00:02:30 – Mature features, snapshots, clones, replication 00:03:00 – Project Trident 00:03:53 – Support for …