Storage Unpacked Podcast
220 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsA weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data
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Storage Unpacked 256 – Hyper-scalers and SAS with Rick Kutcipal
February 23, 2024 12:00 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MBIn this episode, Chris chats to Rick Kutcipal, "At-Large Director" with the SCSI Trade Association. The topic of conversation is the adoption of SAS media (both HDDs and SSDs) by hyper-scale customers that include public cloud vendors and companies such as Meta.
Storage Unpacked 255 – Data Management in a Hybrid Cloud World with Qumulo
November 10, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBIn this episode, Chris is in conversation with Ryan Farris (VP Product and Product Marketing) and Brandon Whitelaw (VP Cloud and Strategic Partnerships) at Qumulo. As the IT world becomes ever more focused on a hybrid cloud model, file storage becomes increasingly important, due to the legacy of applications and data already written to work with file servers.
Storage Unpacked 254 – Announcing VSP One and Hitachi Vantara Reorganisation with Gary Lyng
November 10, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBIn this live episode, recorded at Hitachi Exchange in Paris, Chris chats to Gary Lyng, VP of Products and Solutions at Hitachi Vantara. The company recently announced the VSP One platform, plus some organisational changes that will take Hitachi Vantara back to a focus on core infrastructure.
Storage Unpacked 253 – Building Virtual SANs in the Cloud (Revisited)
November 03, 2023 12:00 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MBIn this episode, Chris chats with Abel Gordon, Chief System Architect at Lightbits Labs, discussing the challenges and benefits of building a virtual storage area network (SAN) on public cloud infrastructure.
Storage Unpacked 252 – A Vision of Storage Future with Coz from Pure Storage
October 25, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MBIn this episode, Chris meets with Pure Storage co-founder John Colgrove (aka Coz) to discuss where the future of data storage lies in the enterprise.
Storage Unpacked 251 – Modernising Storage as a Service with Prakash Darji from Pure Storage (Sponsored)
October 10, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBIn this episode, Chris is in conversation with Prakash Darji, VP and GM at Pure Storage. The company has just announced a new Paid Power & Rack Space offering, new SLAs for service delivery and Pure Protect //DRaaS a new disaster recovery solution delivered as a service.
Storage Unpacked 250 – Infinidat announces SSA Express and higher capacity SSA II (Sponsored)
September 19, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MBIn this episode Chris gets an update on new announcements from Infinidat, including SSA Express and higher-capacity SSA II systems. SSA Express is a new feature of the InfiniBox "classic" platform that allows customers to implement what looks like a virtual SSA (all-flash array) within a hybrid InfiniBox. The solution effectively pins volumes in SSD rather than allowing the data to cascade to the HDD layer, with the benefit of SSA performance for no additional cost on 95% of hardware in the...
Storage Unpacked 249 – Introduction to Nyriad and the UltraIO Storage Platform
September 15, 2023 11:00 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MBIn this episode, Chris talks to Derek Dicker, CEO at Nyriad about the UltraIO storage array. Nyriad has developed a new storage architecture using GPUs that accelerate the calculations needed to store data using erasure coding. This enables UltraIO to implement system-wide data protection using erasure coding at the block level. In contrast to most storage vendors in the market today, the UltraIO platform uses hard disk drives, with a GPU to process data ingested by the system, while dat...
Storage Unpacked 248 – FlashArray R4 Announcements from Pure Accelerate 2023 (Sponsored)
June 14, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MBIn this episode, Chris talks to Dan Kogan from Pure Storage about the upgraded FlashArray R4 systems and new FlashArray//E platform.
Storage Unpacked 247 – Infinidat announces InfuzeOS Cloud Edition and InfiniSafe Cyber Detection (Sponsored)
May 24, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBIn this episode, Chris discusses the latest announcements from Infinidat with CMO Eric Herzog, including a cloud version of the Infinidat platform and new cyber detection capabilities.
Storage Unpacked 246 – The Next Era of Serverless Technology with Matt Butcher from Fermyon
May 19, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutes - 72.8 MBIn this episode, Chris has a wide-ranging conversation with Fermyon co-founder and CEO, Matt Butcher. The main essence of the discussion is to look at serverless technologies and how storage features are integrated into that ecosystem.
Storage Unpacked 245 – Design Strategies for 300TB Flash Drives with Shawn Rosemarin from Pure Storage (Sponsored)
May 12, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes - 63.6 MBIn this episode, Chris talks to Shawn Rosemarin (VP, R&D, Customer Engineering) from Pure Storage about the evolution towards 300TB direct flash modules, the custom-designed SSDs used in FlashArray and FlashBlade.
Storage Unpacked 244 – Unpacking GreenLake for File Storage with HPE and VAST Data (Sponsored)
May 05, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBIn this episode, Chris catches up with Omer Asad (SVP & GM) from HPE and Phil Manez (Director of Channel Sales) from VAST Data to discuss the recent announcement of HPE GreenLake for File Storage, powered by VAST Data's Universal Storage platform.
Storage Unpacked 243 – Introducing FlashBlade//E (Sponsored)
March 01, 2023 21:05 - 34 minutes - 47.8 MBIn this episode, Chris chats to Pure Storage International CTO, Alex McMullan, about the announcement of FlashBlade//E.
Storage Unpacked 242 – The Filecoin Decentralised Storage Network
February 24, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MBIn this episode, Chris chats to Matt Hamilton, Developer Advocate at Protocol Labs about the Filecoin decentralised storage network.
Storage Unpacked 241 – Kubernetes Database Performance Testing and Container Native Storage
January 13, 2023 12:00 - 47 minutes - 65.8 MBIn this podcast episode, Chris reviews the results from a recent project with Ondat, which examines the relative efficiency of container-native storage solutions running common database platforms on Kubernetes.
Storage Unpacked 240 – Predicting the HDD to SSD Transition Timeline
November 04, 2022 12:00 - 44 minutes - 60.5 MBIn this episode, Chris is joined by Phison CTO Sebastien Jean to discuss the transition from HDD to SSD. As pricing for the two media types comes close to reaching parity, this conversation looks at how the two media are evolving and how NAND flash SSDs are set to become the de facto choice for the enterprise data centre. The transition to an all-flash data centre has been predicted for some time, however end game could be on the horizon as soon as 2025 or 2026. The Phison blog discussed...
#239 – Unpacking the details of PCI Express 7.0 with Al Yanes
September 30, 2022 11:00 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MBThe PCI-SIG recently announced the next generation of PCI Express - 7.0 - will be released in 2025. We've only just heard about PCIe 6.0 (see this recent podcast), so it's interesting to see that the working group is already committed to extending the performance and capabilities of PCIe further into the future. Chris caught up with Al Yanes (President and Chairperson of PCI-SIG) earlier this year at Flash Memory Summit to get an update. This podcast was recorded after the event and goes i...
#238 – SAS 24GB+ Updates with Rick Kutcipal
September 16, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 33.4 MBOnce again Chris is joined by Rick Kutcipal, board member with the SCSI Trade Association. It's been four years since episode #74 when Rick provided an update on SAS 24Gb. This time, Rick has details of new features in 24Gb+. What does the "plus" mean in this context? While the bus speed may not be increasing, new features (+) are continually being added to the SAS protocol, hence the additional designation. In this episode, Rick discusses some interesting enhancements to drive managemen...
#237 – Flash Memory Summit 2022 in Review with Chris Mellor
August 16, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutes - 36.8 MBIn this episode, Chris chats to friend of the show Chris Mellor from Blocks and Files. Both Chris's attended Flash Memory Summit this year, held annually in San Jose and in person for the first time since 2019. Two big technology developments stand out from this year's event. Firstly CXL, which is current flavour of the month with all vendors. The second is the diversity of SSD products, from computational storage to Ethernet drives. Chris walks through some of his observations, includin...
#236 – A FlashCore Module Primer with IBM Fellow & Storage CTO Andy Walls
August 10, 2022 11:00 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBIn this episode, recorded life at FMS 2022, Chris chats to IBM Fellow, Storage CTO and FlashSystem Architect, Andy Walls.
#235 – FlashCore Futures with IBM CMO Scott Baker
August 04, 2022 11:00 - 13 minutes - 18.7 MBIn this episode, Chris is joined by IBM Storage CMO Scott Baker. The discussion takes place at Flash Memory Summit 2022 (FMS), being held in person in Santa Clara, USA. FlashCore Modules are IBM's custom flash drives, developed from IP acquired with the acquisition of Texas Memory Systems. Scott is presenting at FMS, discussing how FlashCore could be used for anomaly detection and enhanced ransomware protection. You can learn more about FlashCore modules in our deep dive into FlashSystem ...
#234 – Introducing Pure Storage FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex with CTO Rob Lee (Sponsored)
June 08, 2022 13:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBIn this episode, Chris talks to Rob Lee, CTO at Pure Storage about today's announcement covering FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex. FlashBlade//S is a new hardware platform that evolves the solution into a disaggregated architecture. The design enables compute and storage resources to be scaled independently, while incorporating existing DFMs (DirectFlash Modules) that are currently used in the FlashArray family. To exploit the benefits of FlashBlade//S, Pure has also announced a realignme...
#233 – Introduction to the VAST Data Ceres Hardware Platform with Jeff Denworth (Sponsored)
June 03, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBIn this episode, Chris is in conversation with VAST Data CMO, Jeff Denworth. The topic covers the recent announcement of Ceres, a new hardware platform combining ruler form-factor flash and BlueField DPUs. The new solution, which will eventually replace the current "Mavericks" D-boxes is a 1U system with flash, storage-class memory and network connectivity through DPU SmartNICs. The design can be vastly simplified compared to other storage solutions as the hardware component simply present...
#232 – Building Power-Efficient Storage Systems with Justin Emerson from Pure Storage (Sponsored)
May 19, 2022 11:00 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBIn this episode, Chris talks to Justin Emerson from Pure Storage about modern design considerations for power-efficient storage. The cost of powering data centres has increased massively over the last 12 months, driven by the global economy and recovery from COVID-19. At a component level, servers are increasing their power usage, with faster processors and memory, plus the use of power-hungry GPUs. By contrast, storage power demands have reduced, as flash takes over from HDDs. Of course,...
#231 – Introducing Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II (Sponsored)
May 03, 2022 11:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBIn this episode, Chris talks to Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat about the announcement of SSA II, the second generation all-flash InfiniBox platform. The first generation SSA (solid state array) was developed to address a customer requirement that all long-tail latency I/Os must be delivered at all-flash levels of performance. The InfiniBox architecture is capable […] The post #231 – Introducing Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#230 – Seagate NVMe Hard Drives
April 26, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBIn this episode, Chris and Martin talk to Tim Walker and Mohamad El-Batal about the development of NVMe Hard Drives. The post #230 – Seagate NVMe Hard Drives appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#229 – Exploring the PCIe 6.0 Specification with Al Yanes
March 07, 2022 12:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBIn this episode, Chris and Martin talk to Al Yanes, President and chair of the PCI Sig, on the announcement of the PCIe 6.0 specification. The post #229 – Exploring the PCIe 6.0 Specification with Al Yanes appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#228 – Exploiting Data in the Third Wave of IT Agility with Murli Thirumale (Sponsored)
February 25, 2022 12:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MBIn this episode, Chris talks to Murli Thirumale VP & GM of the Cloud Native Business Unit at Pure Storage about data agility. The post #228 – Exploiting Data in the Third Wave of IT Agility with Murli Thirumale (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#227 – Infinidat InfiniGuard Enhancements with Eric Herzog (Sponsored)
February 14, 2022 12:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBInfinidat has announced significant improvements to InfiniGuard. In this podcast, Eric Herzog, CMO updates Chris with the details. The post #227 – Infinidat InfiniGuard Enhancements with Eric Herzog (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#226 – VAST Data Universal Storage for Data Protection (Sponsored)
February 09, 2022 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBIn this episode, Chris and Martin discuss data protection on a “vast” scale, with VAST Data VP of Data Protection, George Axberg. VAST has just announced a partnership with Commvault that will integrate Universal Storage with Commvault’s data management solutions. Further data protection vendor partnerships are expected in due course. While the idea of using […] The post #226 – VAST Data Universal Storage for Data Protection (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#225 – Accelerating Modern Databases with Speedb
February 04, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBChris and Martin discuss the challenges of database sharding, scaling and performance with speedb CEO Adi Gelvan. The post #225 – Accelerating Modern Databases with Speedb appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#224 – FinOps and Optimising Cloud Consumption
January 28, 2022 12:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBChris and Martin discuss FinOps and the process of public cloud resource optimisation with Aran Khanna from Archera The post #224 – FinOps and Optimising Cloud Consumption appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#223 – Task Specific Software-Defined Storage
January 21, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MBIn this episode, Chris chats to Danny Abukalam, Product Engineering at SoftIron about the deployment of task-specific SDS solutions. The post #223 – Task Specific Software-Defined Storage appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#222 – End of the Year Show 2021 – Part Two
January 14, 2022 12:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBIn this second episode reviewing storage news of 2021, Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat joins the team to bring his opinion to the discussion. The post #222 – End of the Year Show 2021 – Part Two appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#221 – End of the Year Show 2021 – Part One
January 07, 2022 12:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MBThis week, the team take a review of 2021, looking at the events in storage and a lot more. In fact, this episode goes way off-piste in the conversation, so be prepared for public cloud, China, service models and storage unicorns. The post #221 – End of the Year Show 2021 – Part One appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#220 – AWS & Cloud File System Diversity
December 24, 2021 12:00 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBChris and Martin review the file system announcements coming out of AWS Reinvent event. Specifically FSx for OpenZFS and NetApp ONTAP. The post #220 – AWS & Cloud File System Diversity appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#219 – Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack
December 03, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBIn this week's episode, Chris talks to Tony Mendoza from Spectra Logic about their recent ransomware attack and recovery. The post #219 – Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#218 – Real World Customer Data Protection Experiences with Don Foster (Sponsored)
November 19, 2021 12:00 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBThis week, Chris is in conversation with Don Foster, Global Head of Sales Engineering at Commvault, looking at real-world customer challenges. The post #218 – Real World Customer Data Protection Experiences with Don Foster (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#217 – Introduction to CXL with Jim Pappas
November 12, 2021 12:00 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBChris and Martin talk about the features and benefits of CXL, or Compute Express Link with CXL Chair Jim Pappas. The post #217 – Introduction to CXL with Jim Pappas appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#216 – The Data Explosion with VAST Data CEO Renen Hallak
November 05, 2021 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBThis week, Chris chats to VAST Data CEO, Renen Hallak about the explosion in data and the challenges of analysing and managing huge quantities of unstructured content. VAST Data has built a scale-out unstructured object store that customers are now using to store petabytes of complex data. But what does complex mean, and how is […] The post #216 – The Data Explosion with VAST Data CEO Renen Hallak appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#215 – Stateless Compute Machines
October 29, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBIn this week’s episode, Chris and Martin discuss network booting and the ability to create completely stateless servers. The idea of SAN booting has been around for two decades, enabling both the operating system disk and data disks to be delivered from SAN storage. NVMe/TCP and other NVMe-oF protocols promise the ability to implement the […] The post #215 – Stateless Compute Machines appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#214 – Can CloudFlare R2 Disrupt AWS S3?
October 15, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBThis week, Chris and Martin discuss the announcement from CloudFlare of R2, a new object storage solution. With such a widely dispersed CDN network, could CloudFlare become a real competitor for S3, considering that the R2 platform will have no egress fees? This episode digs into the details, to look at what additional features object […] The post #214 – Can CloudFlare R2 Disrupt AWS S3? appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#213 – Kubernetes-Native Data Protection
October 08, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MBWith KubeCon North America 2021 looming, Chris and Martin spend this week looking at data protection for Kubernetes-native environments. Vendors have started to introduce backup solutions, some working within the container environment itself, some outside as part of existing products. Exactly what should be backed up and how should these products work? Are we right […] The post #213 – Kubernetes-Native Data Protection appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#212 – File Not Found
October 01, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBIn this week’s podcast, Chris and Martin get together to discuss the curious case of missing files. In this instance, the files weren’t actually missing, but according to an article in The Verge, students running a software simulation didn’t know how to determine their location. In a world where the current generation have grown up […] The post #212 – File Not Found appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#211 – Pure//Launch – Announcing Fusion and Portworx Data Services (Sponsored)
September 28, 2021 13:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBIn this week’s sponsored episode, Chris chats to Alex McMullan, CTO International at Pure Storage. The discussion covers Pure//Launch and today’s announcements of two SaaS solutions – Fusion and Portworx Data Services. Fusion is a new SaaS management plane for administering and optimising Pure Storage hardware and software products, including FlashArray, FlashBlade and Cloud Block […] The post #211 – Pure//Launch – Announcing Fusion and Portworx Data Services (Sponsored) appeared first on S...
#210 – Building SANs in the Cloud
September 10, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBThis week, Chris and Martin discuss the merits of building virtual SANs in the public cloud. Vendors including Silk and Pure Storage now offer virtual storage “appliances” built from virtual instances and cloud storage. Why are these solutions necessary, when the public cloud providers have plenty of high-performance block and file storage offerings? The discussion […] The post #210 – Building SANs in the Cloud appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#209 – Discovering Unified Fast File and Object with Pure Storage (Sponsored)
August 13, 2021 11:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBIn this week’s episode, Chris and Martin meet with Brian Carpenter, Senior Director of Unstructured Technology Strategy at Pure Storage, to talk about UFFO – Unified Fast File and Object. UFFO is a technology bringing together the two main types of unstructured data into a single platform – FlashBlade. The discussion centres on the benefits […] The post #209 – Discovering Unified Fast File and Object with Pure Storage (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#208 – NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage – More Than a Good Marketing Message?
August 06, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBIn this week’s podcast, Chris and Martin look at NVIDIA’s GPUDirect Storage (GDS), a technology for moving data directly from persistent storage to GPUs, bypassing the CPU. The aim of the technology is to provide greater throughput to keep GPUs active, and looking at some of the thoughts from our podcast with Liqid (#204), it’s […] The post #208 – NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage – More Than a Good Marketing Message? appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
#207 – AWS Gets a SAN Upgrade
July 30, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MBThis week the team is back after a short break and ready to talk all things cloud – or at least about Elastic Block Store. AWS recently announced io2 and io2 Block Express, the first new EBS block storage offerings for eight years. With such a long gap since io1 was first released, what has […] The post #207 – AWS Gets a SAN Upgrade appeared first on Storage Unpacked.