GreyBeards on Storage
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135: Greybeard(s) talk file and object challenges with Theresa Miller & David Jayanathan, Cohesity
July 29, 2022 15:58 - 23 minutes - 31.6 MBSponsored By: I’ve known Theresa Miller, Director of Technology Advocacy Group at Cohesity, for many years now and just met David Jayanathan (DJ), Cohesity Solutions Architect during the podcast. Theresa could easily qualify as an old timer, if she wished and DJ was very knowledgeable about traditional file and object storage. We had a wide … Continue reading "135: Greybeard(s) talk file and object challenges with Theresa Miller & David Jayanathan, Cohesity"
134: GreyBeards talk (storage) standards with Dr. J Metz, SNIA Chair & Technical Director AMD
July 07, 2022 21:17 - 44 minutes - 61 MBWe have known Dr. J Metz (@drjmetz, blog), Chair of SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) BoD, for over a decade now and he has always been an intelligent industry evangelist. DrJ was elected Chair of SNIA BoD in 2020. SNIA has been instrumental in the evolution of storage over the years working to help define … Continue reading "134: GreyBeards talk (storage) standards with Dr. J Metz, SNIA Chair & Technical Director AMD"
133: GreyBeards talk trillion row databases/data lakes with Ocient CEO & Co-founder, Chris Gladwin
June 10, 2022 16:10 - 43 minutes - 60.1 MBWe saw a recent article in Blocks and Files (Storage facing trillion-row db apocalypse), about a couple of companies which were trying to deal with trillion row database queries without taking weeks to respond. One of those companies was Ocient (@Ocient), a Chicago startup, whose CEO and Co-Founder, Chris Gladwin, was an old friend from … Continue reading "133: GreyBeards talk trillion row databases/data lakes with Ocient CEO & Co-founder, Chris Gladwin"
132: GreyBeards talk fast embedded k-v stores with Speedb’s Co-Founder&CEO Adi Gelvan
May 06, 2022 13:39 - 43 minutes - 59.9 MBWe’ve been talking a lot about K8s of late so we thought it was time to get back down to earth and spend some time with Adi Gelvan (@speedb_io), Co-founder and CEO of Speedb, an embedded key-value store, drop-in/replacement for RocksDB, that significantly improves on its IO performance for large metadata databases. At Adi’s last … Continue reading "132: GreyBeards talk fast embedded k-v stores with Speedb’s Co-Founder&CEO Adi Gelvan"
131: GreyBeards talk native K8s data protection using Veritas NetBackup with Reneé Carlisle
April 12, 2022 17:33 - 48 minutes - 66.4 MBThe GreyBeards have been discussing K8s storage services a lot over the last year or so and it was time to understand how container apps and data could be protected. Recently, we saw an article about a Veritas funded survey, discussing the need for data protection in K8s. As such, it seemed a good time … Continue reading "131: GreyBeards talk native K8s data protection using Veritas NetBackup with Reneé Carlisle"
130: GreyBeards talk high-speed database access using Apache Arrow Flight, with James Duong and David Li
March 23, 2022 15:27 - 42 minutes - 57.9 MBWe had heard about Apache Arrow and Arrow Flight as being a hi-performing database with access speeds to match for a while now and finally got a chance to hear what it was all about with James Duong, Co-Fourder of Bit Quill Technologies/Senior Staff Developer at Dremio and David Li (@lidavidm), Apache PMC and software … Continue reading "130: GreyBeards talk high-speed database access using Apache Arrow Flight, with James Duong and David Li"
129: GreyBeards talk composable infrastructure with GigaIO’s, Matt Demas, Field CTO
February 08, 2022 17:02 - 47 minutes - 64.9 MBWe haven’t talked composable infrastructure in a while now but it’s been heating up lately. GigaIO has some interesting tech and I’ve been meaning to have them on the show but scheduling never seemed to work out. Finally, we managed to sync schedules and have Matt Demas, field CTO at GigaIO (@giga_io) on our show. … Continue reading "129: GreyBeards talk composable infrastructure with GigaIO’s, Matt Demas, Field CTO"
128: GreyBeards talk containers, K8s, and object storage with AB Periasamy, Co-Founder&CEO MinIO
January 27, 2022 16:35 - 46 minutes - 63.6 MBSponsored by: Once again Keith and I are talking K8s storage, only this time it was object storage. Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, Co-founder and CEO of MinIO, has been on our show a couple of times now and its always an insightful discussion. He’s got an uncommon perspective on IT today and what needs to … Continue reading "128: GreyBeards talk containers, K8s, and object storage with AB Periasamy, Co-Founder&CEO MinIO"
127: Annual year end wrap up podcast with Keith, Matt & Ray
January 06, 2022 14:53 - 43 minutes - 59.5 MB[Ray’s sorry about his audio, it will be better next time he promises, The Eds] This was supposed to be the year where we killed off COVID for good. Alas, it was not to be and it’s going to be with us for some time to come. However, this didn’t stop that technical juggernaut we … Continue reading "127: Annual year end wrap up podcast with Keith, Matt & Ray"
126: GreyBeards talk k8s storage with Alex Chircop, CEO, Ondat
December 07, 2021 18:09 - 48 minutes - 66.8 MBKeith and I had an interesting discussion with Alex Chircop (@chira001), CEO of Ondat, a kubernetes storage provider. They have a high performing system, laser focused on providing storage for k8s stateful container applications. Their storage is entirely containerized and has a number of advanced features for data availability, performance and security that developers need … Continue reading "126: GreyBeards talk k8s storage with Alex Chircop, CEO, Ondat"
125: GreyBeard talk K8s storage with Tad Lebeck, US CTO for ionir
November 08, 2021 18:43 - 41 minutes - 57.2 MBWe had some technical difficulties with Matt getting on the podcast so, Ray had to fly solo. This month we continue our investigations into K8s storage with a discussion with Tad Lebeck (@TadLebeck) US CTO, ionir, a software defined storage system that only runs under K8s. ionir Kubernetes Data Services platform is an outgrowth of … Continue reading "125: GreyBeard talk K8s storage with Tad Lebeck, US CTO for ionir"
124: GreyBeards talk k8s storage orchestration using CNCF Rook Project with Sébastien Han & Travis Nielsen, Red Hat
October 09, 2021 19:15 - 45 minutes - 63 MBStateful containers are becoming a hot topic these days so we thought it a good time to talk to the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) Rook team about what they are doing to make storage easier to use for k8s container apps. CNCF put us into contact with Sébastien Han (@leseb_), Ceph Storage Architect and … Continue reading "124: GreyBeards talk k8s storage orchestration using CNCF Rook Project with Sébastien Han & Travis Nielsen, Red Hat"
123: GreyBeards talk data analytics with Sean Owen, Apache Spark committee/PMC member & Databricks, lead data scientist
September 14, 2021 15:49 - 43 minutes - 59.8 MBThe GreyBeards move up the stack this month with a talk on big data and data analytics with Sean Owen (@sean_r_owen), Data Science lead at Databricks and Apache Spark committee and PMC member. The focus of the talk was on Apache Spark. Spark is an Apache Software Foundation open-source data analytics project and has been … Continue reading "123: GreyBeards talk data analytics with Sean Owen, Apache Spark committee/PMC member & Databricks, lead data scientist"
122: GreyBeards talk big data archive with Floyd Christofferson, CEO StrongBox Data Solutions
August 20, 2021 15:23 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MBThe GreyBeards had a great discussion with Floyd Christofferson, CEO, StrongBox Data Solutions on their big data/HPC file and archive solution. Floyd’s is very knowledgeable on problems of extremely large data repositories and has been around the HPC and other data intensive industries for decades. StrongBox’s StrongLink solution offers a global namespace file system that … Continue reading "122: GreyBeards talk big data archive with Floyd Christofferson, CEO StrongBox Data Solutions"
121: GreyBeards talk Cloud NAS with Peter Thompson, CEO & George Dochev, CTO LucidLink
July 15, 2021 19:23 - 49 minutes - 68.6 MBGreyBeards had an amazing discussion with Peter Thompson (@Lucid_Link), CEO & co-founder and George Dochev (@GDochev), CTO & co-founder of LucidLink. Both Peter and George were very knowledgeable and easy to talk with. LucidLink’s Cloud NAS creates a NAS storage system out of cloud (any S3 compatible AND Azure Blob) object storage. LucidLink is made … Continue reading "121: GreyBeards talk Cloud NAS with Peter Thompson, CEO & George Dochev, CTO LucidLink"
120: GreyBeards talk CEPH storage with Phil Straw, Co-Founder & CEO, SoftIron
June 15, 2021 16:48 - 46 minutes - 63.5 MBGreyBeards talk universal CEPH storage solutions with Phil Straw (@SoftIronCEO), CEO of SoftIron. Phil’s been around IT and electronics technology for a long time and has gone from scuba diving electronics, to DARPA/DOD researcher, to networking, and is now doing storage. He’s also their former CTO and co-founder of the company. SoftIron make hardware storage … Continue reading "120: GreyBeards talk CEPH storage with Phil Straw, Co-Founder & CEO, SoftIron"
119: GreyBeards talk distributed cloud file systems with Glen Shok, VP Alliances,Panzura
May 11, 2021 15:37 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MBThis month we turn to distributed (cloud) filesystems as we talk with Glen Shok (@gshok), VP of Alliances for Panzura. Panzura uses backend (cloud or onprem, S3 compatible) object store with a ring of software (VMs) or hardware (appliance) gateways that provides caching for local files as well as managing and maintaining metadata which creates … Continue reading "119: GreyBeards talk distributed cloud file systems with Glen Shok, VP Alliances,Panzura"
118: GreyBeards talks cloud-native object storage with Greg DiFraia, Scality and Stephen Bacon, HPE
April 29, 2021 16:00 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBSponsored By: And Keith and I have talked with Stephen Bacon, Senior Director, Big Data Category, HPE, before (not on our podcast) but not Greg DiFraia, GM Americas, Scality. Both were very knowledgeable about how containerization is changing IT and the role of object storage in this transition. Scality’s ARTESCA, takes this changed world view … Continue reading "118: GreyBeards talks cloud-native object storage with Greg DiFraia, Scality and Stephen Bacon, HPE"
117: GreyBeards talk HPC file systems with Frank Herold, CEO of ThinkParQ, makers of BeeGFS
April 19, 2021 16:21 - 37 minutes - 50.8 MBWe return back to our storage thread with a discussion of HPC file systems with Frank Herold, (@BeeGFS) CEO of ThinkParQ GmbH, the makers of BeeGFS. I’ve seen BeeGFS start to show up in some IO500 top storage benchmark results and as more and more data keeps coming online every day, we thought it time … Continue reading "117: GreyBeards talk HPC file systems with Frank Herold, CEO of ThinkParQ, makers of BeeGFS"
116: GreyBeards talk VCF on VxBlock 1000 with Martin Hayes, DMTS, Dell Technologies
March 30, 2021 14:03 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBSponsored By: This past week, we had a great talk with Martin Hayes (@hayes_martinf), Distinguished Member Technical Staff at Dell Technologies about running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on VxBlock 1000 converged infrastructure (CI). It used to be that Cloud Foundation required VMware vSAN primary storage but that changed a few years ago. . When that … Continue reading "116: GreyBeards talk VCF on VxBlock 1000 with Martin Hayes, DMTS, Dell Technologies"
115-GreyBeards talk database acceleration with Moshe Twitto, CTO&Co-founder, Pliops
March 22, 2021 15:05 - 47 minutes - 65.1 MBWe seem to be on a computational tangent this year. So we thought it best to talk with Moshe Twitto, CTO and Co-Founder at Pliops (@pliopsltd). We had first seen them at SFD21 (see videos of their sessions here) and their talk on how they could speed up database IO was pretty impressive. Essentially, they … Continue reading "115-GreyBeards talk database acceleration with Moshe Twitto, CTO&Co-founder, Pliops"
114: GreyBeards talk computational storage with Tong Zhang, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, ScaleFlux
February 22, 2021 18:13 - 43 minutes - 60.1 MBSeeing as how one topic on last years FMS2020 wrap-up with Jim Handy was the rise of computational storage and it’s been a long time (see GreyBeards talk with Scott Shadley at NGD Systems) since we discussed this, we thought it time to check in on the technology. So we reached out to Dr. Tong … Continue reading "114: GreyBeards talk computational storage with Tong Zhang, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, ScaleFlux"
113: GreyBeards talk storage for next gen. workloads with Liran Zvibel, Co-Founder & CEO WekaIO
February 02, 2021 16:00 - 28 minutes - 39.2 MBSponsored By: I’ve known Liran Zvibel, Co-founder and CEO of Weka IO for many years now and it’s the second time he’s been on our show, (see: Episode 56: GreyBeards talk high performance file storage...). In those days, WekaIO was just coming out and hitting the world with this extremely high-performing, scale out unstructured data … Continue reading "113: GreyBeards talk storage for next gen. workloads with Liran Zvibel, Co-Founder & CEO WekaIO"
112: GreyBeards annual year end wrap-up with Keith & Matt
January 01, 2021 16:45 - 45 minutes - 62.2 MBIt’s the end of the year, so time for our regular year end wrap up discussion with the GreyBeards. 2020 has been an interesting year to say the least. It started out just fine, then COVID19 showed up and threw a wrench in everyone’s plans and as the year closes, we were just starting to … Continue reading "112: GreyBeards annual year end wrap-up with Keith & Matt"
111: GreyBeards talk data analytics with Matthew Tyrer, Sr. Mgr. Solutions Mkt & Competitive Intelligence, Commvault
December 10, 2020 14:46 - 25 minutes - 35.2 MBSponsored by: I’ve known Matthew Tyrer, Senior Manager Solutions Marketing and Competitive Intelligence, Commvault for quite awhile now and he’s always been knowledgeable about the problems the enterprise has in supporting and backing up large file data repositories. But lately he’s been focused on Commvault Activate their data analytics solution. We had a great talk … Continue reading "111: GreyBeards talk data analytics with Matthew Tyrer, Sr. Mgr. Solutions Mkt & Competitive Intelligence,...
110: GreyBeards talk FMS2020 wrap up with Jim Handy, General Director of Objective Analysis
December 02, 2020 16:56 - 48 minutes - 67.2 MBThis months it’s back to storage and our annual wrap-up on the Flash Memory Summit Conference with Jim Handy, General Director of Objective Analysis. Jim’s been on our show 5 times before and is a well known expert on NAND and SSDs (as well as DRAM and memory systems). Jim also blogs at TheSSDGuy.com and … Continue reading "110: GreyBeards talk FMS2020 wrap up with Jim Handy, General Director of Objective Analysis"
109: GreyBeards talk SmartNICs & DPUs with Kevin Deierling, Head of Marketing at NVIDIA Networking
November 18, 2020 00:15 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MBWe decided to take a short break (of sorts) from storage to talk about something equally important to the enterprise, networking. At (virtual) VMworld a month or so ago, Pat made mention of developing support for SmartNIC-DPUs and even porting vSphere to run on top of a DPU. So we thought it best to go … Continue reading "109: GreyBeards talk SmartNICs & DPUs with Kevin Deierling, Head of Marketing at NVIDIA Networking"
108: GreyBeards talk DNA storage with David Turek, CTO, Catalog DNA
October 17, 2020 17:14 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MBThe Greybeards get off the beaten (enterprise) path this month, to see what lies ahead with a discussion on DNA storage. David Turek, CTO, Catalog DNA (@CatalogDNA) is a long time IBMer that had been focused on HPC systems at IBM but left and went to Catalog DNA to pursue the commercialization of DNA storage, … Continue reading "108: GreyBeards talk DNA storage with David Turek, CTO, Catalog DNA"
107: GreyBeards talk MinIO’s support of VMware’s new Data Persistence Platform with AB Periasamy, CEO MinIO
September 25, 2020 19:15 - 25 minutes - 35.7 MBSponsored by: The GreyBeards have talked with Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy (@ABPeriasamy), CEO MinIO, before (see 097: GreyBeards talk open source S3… episode). And we also saw him earlier this year, at their headquarters for Storage Field Day 19 (SFD19) where AB gave a great discussion of what they were doing and how it worked … Continue reading "107: GreyBeards talk MinIO’s support of VMware’s new Data Persistence Platform with AB Periasamy, CEO MinIO"
106: Greybeards talk Intel’s new HPC file system with Kelsey Prantis, Senior Software Eng. Manager, Intel
September 17, 2020 16:38 - 43 minutes - 59.1 MBWe had talked with Intel at Storage Field Day 20 (SFD20), about a month ago. At the virtual event, Intel’s focus was on their Optane PMEM (persistent memory) technology. Kelsey Prantis (@kelseyprantis), Senior Software Engineering Manager, Intel was on the show and gave an introduction into Intel’s DAOS (Distributed Architecture Object Storage, DAOS.io) a new … Continue reading "106: Greybeards talk Intel’s new HPC file system with Kelsey Prantis, Senior Software Eng. Manager, Intel"
105: Greybeards talk new datacenter architecture with Pradeep Sindhu, CEO & Co-founder, Fungible
August 18, 2020 14:15 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBNeither Ray nor Keith has met Pradeep before, but Ray was very interested in Fungible’s technology. Turns out Pradeep Sindhu, CEO and Co-founder, Fungible has had a long and varied career in the industry starting at Xerox Parc, then co-founding and becoming chief scientist at Juniper, and now reachitecting the data center with Fungible. Pradeep … Continue reading "105: Greybeards talk new datacenter architecture with Pradeep Sindhu, CEO & Co-founder, Fungible"
104: GreyBeards talk new cloud defined (shared) storage with Siamak Nazari, CEO Nebulon
July 07, 2020 16:53 - 42 minutes - 58.5 MBRay has known Siamak Nazari (@NebulonInc), CEO Nebulon for three companies now but has rarely had a one (two) on one discussion with him. With Nebulon just emerging from stealth (a gutsy move during the pandemic), the GreyBeards felt it was a good time to get Siamak on the show to tell us what he’s … Continue reading "104: GreyBeards talk new cloud defined (shared) storage with Siamak Nazari, CEO Nebulon"
103: Greybeards talk scale-out file and cloud data with Molly Presley & Ben Gitenstein, Qumulo
June 23, 2020 15:01 - 25 minutes - 35.5 MBSponsored by: Ray has known Molly Presley (@Molly_J_Presley), Head of Global Product Marketing for just about a decade now and we both just met Ben Gitenstein (@Qumulo_Product), VP of Products & Solutions, Qumulo on this podcast. Both Molly and Ben were very knowledgeable about the problems customers have with massive data troves. Molly has been … Continue reading "103: Greybeards talk scale-out file and cloud data with Molly Presley & Ben Gitenstein, Qumulo"
0102 GreyBeards talk big memory data with Charles Fan, CEO & Co-founder, MemVerge
May 27, 2020 16:50 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBIt’s been a couple of months since we last talked with a startup, so the GreyBeards thought it was time. We reached out to Charles Fan (@CharlesFan14), CEO and Co-Founder of MemVerge to find out about their big memory solution or as Charles likes to call it, “software defined (big) memory”. Although neither Matt or … Continue reading "0102 GreyBeards talk big memory data with Charles Fan, CEO & Co-founder, MemVerge"
0101: Greybeards talk with Howard Marks, Technologist Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary at VAST
April 30, 2020 15:45 - 43 minutes - 60 MBAs most of you know, Howard Marks (@deepstoragenet), Technologist Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary at VAST Data used to be a Greybeards co-host and is still on our roster as a co-host emeritus. When I started to schedule this podcast, it was going to be our 100th podcast and we wanted to invite Howard and the rest … Continue reading "0101: Greybeards talk with Howard Marks, Technologist Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary at VAST"
0100: GreyBeards talk with Colin Gallagher, VP Dig. Infra. Prod. Mkt. @ Hitachi Vantara
April 21, 2020 15:06 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBSponsored By: We have known Colin Gallagher (@worldc3), VP, Digital Infrastructure Product Marketing at Hitachi Vantara, for a long time and he has always been an all around smart storage guy. Colin’s team at Hitachi Vantara are bringing out a brand new, midrange storage system and we thought it would be a good time to … Continue reading "0100: GreyBeards talk with Colin Gallagher, VP Dig. Infra. Prod. Mkt. @ Hitachi Vantara"
099: GreyBeards talk Folding@Home with Mike Harsch, a longtime enthusiast
April 01, 2020 17:33 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MBMike Harsch (@harschness) is a personal friend, a computer enthusiast with a particular and enduring interest in distributed systems and GPU computing. MIke’s been a longtime user and proponent of Folding@Home, a distributed system focused on protein dynamics that anyone can download and run on their personal computer(s) or gaming devices. We started the discussion … Continue reading "099: GreyBeards talk Folding@Home with Mike Harsch, a longtime enthusiast"
098: GreyBeards talk data protection & visualization for massive unstructured data repositories with Christian Smith, VP Product at Igneous
March 24, 2020 15:28 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBSponsored By: Even before COVID-19 there was a lot of file data being created and mined, but with the advent of the pandemic, this has accelerated considerably. As such, it seemed an appropriate time to talk with Christian Smith, VP of Product at Igneous, (@IgneousIO) a company that targets the protection and visibility of massive … Continue reading "098: GreyBeards talk data protection & visualization for massive unstructured data repositories with Christian Smith, VP Product at Igneous"
097: GreyBeards talk open source S3 object store with AB Periasamy, CEO MinIO
February 07, 2020 17:30 - 46 minutes - 64.5 MBRay was at SFD19 a few weeks ago and the last session of the week (usually dead) was with MinIO and they just blew us away (see videos of MinIO’s session here). Ray thought Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy (@ABPeriasamy), CEO MinIO, who was the main presenter at the session, would be a great invite for … Continue reading "097: GreyBeards talk open source S3 object store with AB Periasamy, CEO MinIO"
096: GreyBeards YE2019 IT Industry Trends podcast
January 02, 2020 15:18 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBIn this, our yearend industry wrap up episode, the GreyBeards discuss trends and technologdies impacting the IT industry in 2019 and what’s ahead for 2020. This year we have Matt and Keith on the podcast along with Ray. Just like last year, we start off with NVMeoF. NVMeoF unleashed This year just about every major … Continue reading "096: GreyBeards YE2019 IT Industry Trends podcast"
095: GreyBeards talk file sync&share with S. Azam Ali, VP Customer Success at CentreStack
December 20, 2019 17:14 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MBWe haven’t talked with a file synch and share vendor in a while now and Matt was interested in the technology. He had been talking with CentreStack, and found that they had been making some inroads in the enterprise. So we contacted S. Azam Ali, VP of Customer Success at CentreStack and asked if he … Continue reading "095: GreyBeards talk file sync&share with S. Azam Ali, VP Customer Success at CentreStack"
094: GreyBeards talk shedding light on data with Scott Baker, Dir. Content & Data Intelligence at Hitachi Vantara
December 05, 2019 18:10 - 23 minutes - 32.7 MBSponsored By: At Hitachi NEXT 2019 Conference, last month, there was a lot of talk about new data services from Hitachi. Keith and I thought it would be a good time to sit down and talk with Scott Baker (@Kraken-Scuba), Director of Content and Data Intelligence, at Hitachi Vantara about what’s going on with data … Continue reading "094: GreyBeards talk shedding light on data with Scott Baker, Dir. Content & Data Intelligence at Hitachi Vantara"
93: GreyBeards talk HPC storage with Larry Jones, Dir. Storage Prod. Mngmt. and Mark Wiertalla, Dir. Storage Prod. Mkt., at Cray, an HPE Enterprise Company
November 12, 2019 18:01 - 46 minutes - 63.3 MBSupercomputing Conference 2019 (SC19) is coming to Denver next week and in anticipation of that show, we thought it would be a good to talk with some HPC storage group. We contacted HPE and given their recent acquisition of Cray, they offered up Larry and Mark to talk about their new ClusterStor E1000 storage system. … Continue reading "93: GreyBeards talk HPC storage with Larry Jones, Dir. Storage Prod. Mngmt. and Mark Wiertalla, Dir. Storage Prod. Mkt., at Cray, an HPE Enterprise Company"
92: Ray talks AI with Mike McNamara, Sr. Manager, AI Solution Mkt., NetApp
November 04, 2019 16:05 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MBSponsored By: NetApp NetApp’s been working in the AI DL (deep learning) space for a long time now and announced their partnership with NVIDIA DGX systems, back in August of 2018. At NetApp Insight, this week they were showing off their new NVIDIA DGX systems reference architectures. These architectures use NetApp AFF A800 storage (for … Continue reading "92: Ray talks AI with Mike McNamara, Sr. Manager, AI Solution Mkt., NetApp"
91: Keith and Ray show at CommvaultGO 2019
October 23, 2019 21:47 - 23 minutes - 32.7 MBThere was a lot of news at CommvaultGO this year and it was our first chance to talk with their new CEO, Sanjay Mirchandani. Just prior to the show Commvault introduced new SaaS backup offering for the mid market, Metallic™ and about a month or so prior to the show Commvault had acquired Hedvig, a … Continue reading "91: Keith and Ray show at CommvaultGO 2019"
90: GreyBeards talk K8s containers storage with Michael Ferranti, VP Product Marketing, Portworx
October 02, 2019 14:22 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBAt VMworld2019 USA there was a lot of talk about integrating Kubernetes (K8s) into vSphere’s execution stack and operational model. We had heard that Portworx was a leader in K8s storage services or persistent volume support and thought it might be instructive to hear from Michael Ferranti (@ferrantiM), VP of Product Marketing at Portworx about … Continue reading "90: GreyBeards talk K8s containers storage with Michael Ferranti, VP Product Marketing, Portworx"
89: Keith & Ray show at Pure//Accelerate 2019
September 18, 2019 21:45 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBThere were plenty of announcements at Pure//Accelerate in Austin this past week and we were given a preview of them at a StorageFieldDay Exclusive (SFDx), the day before the announcement. First up is Pure’s DirectMemory. They have added Optane SSDs to FlashArray//X to be used as a read cache for customer data. As you may … Continue reading "89: Keith & Ray show at Pure//Accelerate 2019"
88: A GreyBeard talks DataPlatform with Jon Hildebrand, Principal Technologist, Cohesity at VMworld 2019
August 30, 2019 17:28 - 24 minutes - 33.3 MBSponsored by: This is another sponsored GreyBeards on Storage podcast and it was recorded at Vmworld 2019. I talked with Jon Hildebrand (@snoopJ123), Principal Technologist at Cohesity. Jon’s been a long time friend from TechFieldDay days and has been working with Cohesity for ~14 months now. For such a short time, Jon’s seen a lot … Continue reading "88: A GreyBeard talks DataPlatform with Jon Hildebrand, Principal Technologist, Cohesity at VMworld 2019"
87: Matt & Ray show at VMworld 2019
August 28, 2019 06:03 - 16 minutes - 22.8 MBMatt and Ray were both at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco this past week, and we did an impromptu podcast on recent news at the show. VMware announced a number of new projects and just prior to the show they announced the intent to acquire Pivotal and Carbon Black. Pat’s keynote the first day was … Continue reading "87: Matt & Ray show at VMworld 2019"
87: Matt & Ray show at VMworld 2109
August 28, 2019 06:03 - 16 minutes - 22.8 MBMatt and Ray were both at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco this past week, and we did an impromptu podcast on recent news at the show. VMware announced a number of new projects and just prior to the show they announced the intent to acquire Pivotal and Carbon Black. Pat’s keynote the first day was … Continue reading "87: Matt & Ray show at VMworld 2109"