Storage Unpacked Podcast
221 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsA weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data
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#157 – Introduction to Dell PowerStore (sponsored)
May 11, 2020 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBIn this sponsored episode, Chris and Martin look at the newly announced midrange storage platform from Dell Technologies. PowerStore is a new all-flash midrange storage solution that offers both scale-up and scale-out capabilities. As we find out in the discussion with Dan Cummins and Devon Reed, this is only one aspect of the new technology. […] The post #157 – Introduction to Dell PowerStore (sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#156 – Introduction to Hammerspace (sponsored)
May 01, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBIn this episode, returning guest Douglas Fallstrom from Hammerspace takes Chris and Martin through the details of the Hammerspace global file system platform. The solution is software-defined, running either on virtual machines or in the public cloud. Customers can choose to leave data on existing hardware platforms and simply abstract the data into the Hammerspace […] The post #156 – Introduction to Hammerspace (sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#155 – Introduction to Clumio with Chadd Kenney
April 29, 2020 13:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBIn this edition of the podcast, Chris chats to Chadd Kenney, VP and Chief Technologist at Clumio. Clumio is a SaaS data protection company that has recently expanded to support Office 365 environments. This discussion covers background on Clumio, how data protection for cloud should work and some specifics of the Clumio implementation. Looking deeper […] The post #155 – Introduction to Clumio with Chadd Kenney appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#154 – Hitachi Vantara VSP E990 NVMe Midrange Appliance with Colin Gallagher (Sponsored)
April 21, 2020 15:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBToday, Hitachi Vantara announced the VSP E990, a midrange all-NVMe storage appliance. The new solution, available immediately, offers up to 5.8 million IOPS, I/O latency as low as 64µs with up to 64PB effective capacity. In this episode, Chris Evans chats remotely to Colin Gallagher about the new platform. VSP E990 extends the existing solutions […] The post #154 – Hitachi Vantara VSP E990 NVMe Midrange Appliance with Colin Gallagher (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#153 – Post Pandemic Storage Efficiencies
April 17, 2020 11:00 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBAs we head towards week 4 of lockdown in the UK, Chris and Martin reflect on the personal changes in their daily routines, as well as the implications on businesses. This has been a time for dusting off old skills (like DNS/DHCP configurations) and finding new uses for Raspberry Pis and Arduinos. Working from home […] The post #153 – Post Pandemic Storage Efficiencies appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#152 – Global File System Concepts
April 10, 2020 12:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBThis week, Chris and Martin are joined by Douglas Fallstrom, SVP Product & Operations at Hammerspace, as the conversation on global file systems continues. Hammerspace has developed a global file system platform that caters for geographic data dispersion and sits above traditional storage. In this podcast episode, Douglas explains some of the challenges of stretching […] The post #152 – Global File System Concepts appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#151 – Introduction to StorageOS V2.0 (Sponsored)
April 01, 2020 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBIn this episode, Martin and Chris are joined in conversation by Alex Chircop, CEO at StorageOS. The company has announced StorageOS V2.0, a significant evolution in their storage platform, built for containers using containers. As this episode explains, the version 2.0 release of StorageOS enhances scalability and resiliency, with a strong focus on features needed […] The post #151 – Introduction to StorageOS V2.0 (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#150 – Myriad File Systems
March 27, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBFile systems provide structure and a way to store data on computer systems. From the early days of FAT and NTFS, we now see a proliferation of file systems in the enterprise. Why do we have so many and what benefits do they offer? In this episode, Chris and Martin look at the evolution of […] The post #150 – Myriad File Systems appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#149 – Coronavirus 2.0
March 20, 2020 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBThis week, Chris and Martin review their thoughts from the previous discussion on COVID-19 and what we have learned since then. In what is an incredibly fast-moving situation, the way in which we viewed the impacts of the global epidemic were perhaps a little naive. We take another look at how vendors will need to […] The post #149 – Coronavirus 2.0 appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#148 – Unpacking HPE’s Storage Strategy
March 13, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBAs reported by Chris Mellor, HPE recently announced Q1 2020 figures that show storage down 8% and servers down 15%. In light of these numbers, we look at HPE’s storage products, partners and overall strategy in the market. HPE primary products are strong contenders, with XP8 for high-end/mainframe, 3PAR & Primera, Nimble and MSA. Outside […] The post #148 – Unpacking HPE’s Storage Strategy appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#147 – Introduction to Key Value Stores and Redis
March 06, 2020 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBThis week, Chris and Martin look at Key-Value stores and in particular, Redis, with Kyle Davis, Head of Developer Advocacy at Redis Labs. Key Value stores are at first glance a lightweight way to store structured data. As it turns out, the implementation of Redis includes significantly more features and functionality as well as multiple […] The post #147 – Introduction to Key Value Stores and Redis appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#146 – Coronavirus and Impacts on the Technology Industry
March 03, 2020 12:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBIn this episode we take a look at the impact of COVID-19, commonly known as the Coronavirus. Since the outbreak in China towards the end of 2019, tens of thousands have been infected, thousands of people have died. As the spread of the disease moves outside China, we look at the effect on business, conferences […] The post #146 – Coronavirus and Impacts on the Technology Industry appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#145 – Anthos Ready Storage for the Enterprise
February 28, 2020 12:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBThis week Chris and Martin discuss the announcement of Google Cloud partners offering Anthos Ready Storage. Anthos is Google’s on-premises cloud infrastructure running Kubernetes-based containers. Platform users can now deploy locally in their data centre, on local hardware, while using the GCP management plane. What is the benefit of having storage certified for Anthos? The […] The post #145 – Anthos Ready Storage for the Enterprise appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#144 – Introduction to Storage as a Service
February 21, 2020 12:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBThis week, Chris and Martin chat to Gary Breder (Director of Cloud and Services Product Marketing) and Diane Clay (Sr Manager of Cloud and Services Product Marketing) from Hitachi Vantara about storage as a service. While we’ve had different consumption models in the past, does StaaS offer anything different? Perhaps the key takeaway from this […] The post #144 – Introduction to Storage as a Service appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#143 – Storage Adoption Myths & Realities
February 14, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBThis week, Chris and Martin chat to Paul Stringfellow, CTO at Gardner Systems, about the realities of technology adoption. We hear lots of talk about Kubernetes, HCI, all-flash and even SCM technologies. But are all organisations deploying these technologies from day one? In reality, businesses deploy technology in a timeline that matches a normal distribution […] The post #143 – Storage Adoption Myths & Realities appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#142 – Storage, Automation and DevOps
February 07, 2020 12:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBThis week, Chris and Martin discuss the automation of storage. In a follow-on from the Dell EMC presentation at Storage Field Day 19, this conversation looks at the challenges of opening storage provisioning and management to the wider developer community. In the past, SRM tools have focused on providing the “record of truth” for storage […] The post #142 – Storage, Automation and DevOps appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#141 – Building Storage Systems of the Future
January 31, 2020 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBThis week Chris and Martin are joined by Erik Kaulberg, Vice President at Infinidat. Erik has appeared on the podcast before and this time is here to talk about how we build storage systems of the future. You can tell from the introductions that we recorded this episode towards the end of 2019 – we […] The post #141 – Building Storage Systems of the Future appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#140 – Introduction to Document-Orientated Databases
January 24, 2020 12:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBThis week, Chris and Martin speak to David Koppe, Director of Information Strategy at MongoDB. The discussion covers document-orientated databases, or simply document databases, and their appeal to the enterprise. Document databases differ from traditional relational databases in that the data is stored within each “document” as a series of key-value pairs. In this instance […] The post #140 – Introduction to Document-Orientated Databases appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#139 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part II)
January 17, 2020 12:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBThis is the second of our predictions shows for 2020 that anticipates what we can expect in enterprise storage for the year ahead. This episode covers solutions and vendors. We open with a discussion on cloud-native storage, which saw a lot of traction in 2019. Will the future be one of these companies or as […] The post #139 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part II) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#138 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part I)
January 10, 2020 12:00 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBThis week Chris and Martin are joined by Chris Mellor for what is turning into an annual look at storage technology for the year ahead. We should point out that this is only for enterprise storage and not a forecast on the world in general! We start with a discussion on media. At the macro […] The post #138 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part I) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#137 – Hitachi Next 2019: Wrap Up with Jonathan Martin
January 03, 2020 12:00 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBIn the first podcast episode of 2020, Chris meets with Jonathan Martin, CMO at Hitachi Vantara to reflect on experiences at Hitachi NEXT 2019. This episode was recorded live onsite at the event in October 2019. Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting are planned to merge in 2020 (press release). This is another step in the […] The post #137 – Hitachi Next 2019: Wrap Up with Jonathan Martin appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#136 – The End of the Year Show 2019
December 30, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBIn this final, final show for 2019, Martin and Chris review both the year and decade just passed. How did predictions work for 2019? What technology has come and gone over the decade and what can we expect in the next 10 years? Downloads have increased exponentially again over the year. Thank you to everyone […] The post #136 – The End of the Year Show 2019 appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#135 – Introducing Datrium DRaaS Connect with Simon Long
December 20, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBThis episode was recorded live at the Datrium offices in Silicon Valley. Chris chats to fellow Brit Simon Long about the announcement of DRaaS Connect and Instant RTO. Both are new features/products in the data mobility and DR space and complement Datrium’s existing storage and virtualisation offerings. Enterprises traditionally implement DR failover for virtual environments […] The post #135 – Introducing Datrium DRaaS Connect with Simon Long appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#134 – Introduction to Datera with Hal Woods (Sponsored)
December 13, 2019 12:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBThis week Martin and Chris catch up again with Hal Woods, CTO at Datera. In this sponsored episode, we look in detail at the Datera Data Services Platform and how it differs from traditional storage. DSP is a software-defined solution, which is purchased either as a software licence or in conjunction with partners. Software-defined storage […] The post #134 – Introduction to Datera with Hal Woods (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#133 – FlashArray//C Deeper Dive with Pete Kirkpatrick
December 06, 2019 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBThis episode was recorded live at Pure Storage offices in Silicon Valley. Chris talks to Pete Kirkpatrick, Chief Hardware Architect at Pure Storage about the FlashArray//C platform. FlashArray//C is a new solution announced at Pure Accelerate 2019 that offers a lower-cost all-flash solution for less latency-sensitive workloads. FlashArray//C uses QLC technology, a cheaper, but slower […] The post #133 – FlashArray//C Deeper Dive with Pete Kirkpatrick appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podca...
#132 – Accelerating Ransomware Recovery with Eran Brown (Sponsored)
December 04, 2019 12:00 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBThis week Chris and Martin talk to Eran Brown, EMEA CTO at Infinidat about the challenges of ransomware and expediting fast recovery. Ransomware is a big challenge for IT organisations as hackers attempt to extort money from a range of businesses that include everything from large enterprises to healthcare organisations. However, is the traditional route […] The post #132 – Accelerating Ransomware Recovery with Eran Brown (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#131 – Hitachi Next 2019: Content Intelligence Update
November 27, 2019 12:00 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBIn this podcast episode, we continue the discussions from Hitachi NEXT 2019. Chris talks to Scott Baker, Senior Director, Emerging Business and Data Intelligence at Hitachi Vantara. Scott covers the HCP object storage platform and has responsibility for data protection solutions. This conversation looks at updates to the Hitachi HCP portfolio and associated tools and […] The post #131 – Hitachi Next 2019: Content Intelligence Update appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#130 – Making Money in the Storage Business
November 22, 2019 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThis week, Chris and Martin reflect on changes in the storage industry and the ways in which vendors can make money from storage hardware and software. It’s been a tough time for storage vendors of late and the discussion starts by looking at the challenges of making money in a market where components are commodity […] The post #130 – Making Money in the Storage Business appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#129 – Choices for Persistent Container Storage with Niraj Tolia
November 20, 2019 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBThis week Chris records a live podcast episode with Niraj Tolia, co-founder and CEO at Kasten Inc. As a follow-up to online discussions that dive into how container storage should be presented to Kubernetes (and other container) environments, this episode reviews some of Chris’ thoughts and Niraj’s opinions on the market as to how persistent […] The post #129 – Choices for Persistent Container Storage with Niraj Tolia appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#128 – Reflections on Commvault GO with Glenn Dekhayser
November 13, 2019 08:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBThis episode was recorded live (as you can tell from the background noise) at Commvault GO, held in October 2019. Chris talks to Glenn Dekhayser, Field CTO at Red8 about his reflections on the announcements from the event. The biggest news from the show was arguably the release of Metallic, a SaaS data protection offering […] The post #128 – Reflections on Commvault GO with Glenn Dekhayser appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#127 – Hitachi Next 2019: CI & HCI Solutions Update
November 08, 2019 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBThis is the third in a series of podcasts recorded earlier this year at Hitachi NEXT 2019 in Las Vegas. This episode is a discussion on updates to the Hitachi Vantara UCP CI & HCI solutions portfolio with Chris Gugger (Director, Infrastructure Marketing) and Ed Reidenbach (Senior Director, Product Management). Hitachi produces two updates a […] The post #127 – Hitachi Next 2019: CI & HCI Solutions Update appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#126 – Software-Defined Storage in Review with Hal Woods
November 01, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBThis week, Chris and Martin talk to Datera CTO, Hal Woods about the state of the software-defined storage (SDS) market. SDS emerged around ten years ago as a solution to overcome the expense of buying storage appliances. With cheap hardware, IT organisations could simply buy software or use one of many open-source solutions. Has SDS […] The post #126 – Software-Defined Storage in Review with Hal Woods appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#125 – Hitachi Next 2019: Ops Center
October 25, 2019 11:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBThis is the second recording from the Hitachi NEXT 2019 conference held in Las Vegas in October 2019. In a previous episode we looked at the new VSP 5000 platform. In this discussion, Chris talks to Stan Stevens, Director of Infrastructure Software Product Marketing, about Ops Center, the new platform for Hitachi storage management. Ops […] The post #125 – Hitachi Next 2019: Ops Center appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#124 – Initial Thoughts on Commvault Metallic with Chris Mellor
October 23, 2019 08:00 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBThis episode was recorded “live” at Commvault GO in Aurora, Colorado, close to Denver airport. Chris Evans and Chris Mellor discuss the announcement of Metallic, a new SaaS data protection solution from Commvault targeted at mid-market customers. Metallic has been advertised as a Commvault “venture”, establishing a separate brand and website for the platform. Initially, […] The post #124 – Initial Thoughts on Commvault Metallic with Chris Mellor appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#123 – Hitachi Next 2019: VSP 5000
October 18, 2019 11:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBThis is the first of a series of podcast episodes recorded at Hitachi NEXT 2019 in Las Vegas. Hitachi announced the next generation of VSP storage arrays, the VSP 5000 at the show. The new platform provides greater performance and capacity than previous systems at lower latency. Chris meets with Colin Gallagher (VP Product Marketing […] The post #123 – Hitachi Next 2019: VSP 5000 appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#122 – Managing Storage & Edge Computing Infrastructure with Phil White
October 11, 2019 11:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBThis week, Chris and Martin discuss the management of edge computing and storage infrastructure with Phil White, CTO at Scale Computing. Edge Computing isn’t new and there are plenty of examples of platforms and systems that have been running compute at the edge for many years. Just think of technologies like ATMs that can run […] The post #122 – Managing Storage & Edge Computing Infrastructure with Phil White appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#121 – NVMe 1.4 Deep Dive Part II with J Metz
October 04, 2019 10:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBThis podcast episode continues the discussion with Dr J Metz and focuses on the detail of NVMe 1.4 and NVMe over Fabrics 1.1. Both standards are complete and have been published in the last few months. The conversation today digs deeper into what the new standards offer and specifically how NVMe/TCP becomes “officially” part of […] The post #121 – NVMe 1.4 Deep Dive Part II with J Metz appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#120 – NVMe 1.4 Deep Dive Part I with J Metz
September 27, 2019 12:00 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBThis week Chris and Martin talk to J Metz, R&D Engineer in Cisco Systems’ Advanced Storage division. This is a two-parter – the second episode will be published on Monday 30th September 2019. The NVMe 1.4 specification has recently been published and is in the final 45-day ratification process. This discussion provides some background on […] The post #120 – NVMe 1.4 Deep Dive Part I with J Metz appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#119 – Storage Hardware is Back!
September 25, 2019 11:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBThis week, Chris and Martin catch up with some of the storage hardware on show at Flash Memory Summit 2019. FMS is essentially a trade show and so there are lots of technologies on display that haven’t quite made it to the enterprise. Technology vendors are selling to other vendors and this year there were […] The post #119 – Storage Hardware is Back! appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#118 – Pure Accelerate 2019 with Patrick Smith
September 18, 2019 15:48 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBThis week, Chris is in Austin, Texas at Pure Accelerate 2019. Prior to the event, Chris catches up with Patrick Smith, Field CTO for EMEA for Pure. Patrick moved to Pure after being a customer. The initial discussion covers why flash as a platform offers better reliability and consistency than traditional disk based storage. At […] The post #118 – Pure Accelerate 2019 with Patrick Smith appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#117 – Introduction to Computational Storage with NGD Systems
September 13, 2019 11:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBThis week’s episode is the final recording from Flash Memory Summit 2019. Chris is joined by the team from NGD Systems for a discussion on Computational Storage. On this podcast are Scott Shadley, VP of Marketing, Nader Salessi, CEO and Ashok Savdharia who has the lovely title of “technologist”. Computational storage uses the processing power […] The post #117 – Introduction to Computational Storage with NGD Systems appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#116 – Fixing Gaps in Cloud Storage with Andy Watson
September 06, 2019 12:00 - 22 minutes - 21 MBThis week, Chris chats with Andy Watson, CTO at WekaIO in another episode recorded live at Flash Memory Summit 2019. With the recent acquisition of E8 Storage and Elastifile by hyper-scale cloud companies, is this move an attempt to plug the gap in existing cloud storage offerings? Andy provides his opinion on the two acquisitions […] The post #116 – Fixing Gaps in Cloud Storage with Andy Watson appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#115 – The Transition to NVMe-oF Storage Solutions with Praveen Asthana
August 30, 2019 11:00 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBThis week, Chris catches up with Praveen Asthana from Exten Technologies in an episode recorded at Flash Memory Summit 2019. With NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics set to become the dominant technologies for public cloud and the enterprise, exactly how will the transition from current solutions occur? Praveen discusses the continuing need for centralised storage […] The post #115 – The Transition to NVMe-oF Storage Solutions with Praveen Asthana appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#114 – CIO Storage & Data Challenges with Clay Ryder
August 23, 2019 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week, Chris catches up with Clay Ryder from the DCS (Data Centre Systems) group at Western Digital. The discussion focuses on the challenges for today’s CIO, with an emphasis on storage and data. The division of responsibility between CTO and CIO isn’t always obvious. As we learn in this discussion, there’s a lot of […] The post #114 – CIO Storage & Data Challenges with Clay Ryder appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#113 – The Expanding Storage Hierarchy with Erik Kaulberg
August 16, 2019 11:00 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBThis week’s episode is the first in a series from Flash Memory Summit 2019. Chris catches up with Erik Kaulberg from INFINIDAT to discuss how the expanding hierarchy of solid-state storage media will drive new products and solutions in the future. The topics of conversation cover how media has diversified, with new solutions like MRAM […] The post #113 – The Expanding Storage Hierarchy with Erik Kaulberg appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#112 – Introduction to NetApp Data Availability Services (NDAS)
August 09, 2019 11:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBNetApp has developed a new backup service called NDAS or NetApp Data Availability Services. NDAS is based in the public cloud and provides the ability to run analytics against secondary data in AWS S3, without having re-hydrate through a backup platform. Chris met with Charlotte Brooks (Technical Marketing Engineer) and Joel Kaufman (Director of Technical […] The post #112 – Introduction to NetApp Data Availability Services (NDAS) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#111 – The Cohesity Marketplace with Rawlinson Rivera
August 02, 2019 11:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBThis week Chris is in Silicon Valley and catches up with Rawlinson Rivera, Field CTO at Cohesity. The company recently released a new feature called Marketplace that enables customers to run data-focused applications directly on the Cohesity platform. The idea of running applications on data protection hardware has some benefits and potential disadvantages. Naturally, the […] The post #111 – The Cohesity Marketplace with Rawlinson Rivera appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#110 – Storage Vendor Consolidations & Acquisitions
July 26, 2019 11:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBWe’ve started to see the consolidation of storage vendors as some startups and long-term players in the market get acquired. Is the reason for this buying spree one of positive growth, or a defensive position to maintain survival? Chris and Martin discuss the issues and the vendors doing the buying. Who’s been buying? Violin Systems […] The post #110 – Storage Vendor Consolidations & Acquisitions appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#109 – An Overview of ObjectEngine with Brian Schwarz
July 19, 2019 12:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBIn this episode, Chris talks to Brian Schwarz, VP of Product Management for FlashBlade and ObjectEngine at Pure Storage. ObjectEngine is a scale-out de-duplication engine that efficiently writes data to either FlashBlade or public cloud object stores. The solution developed from the acquisition of StorReduce in 2018. ObjectEngine was conceived when Pure Storage observed customers […] The post #109 – An Overview of ObjectEngine with Brian Schwarz appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#108 – Druva Cloud-Native Data Protection with Curtis Preston (Sponsored)
July 12, 2019 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBIn this week’s episode, Chris talks to W. Curtis Preston. Curtis is a long-time and well-known industry expert in the backup area and now Chief Technologist at Druva. Data protection in a multi-cloud world introduces new challenges compared to traditional on-premises backup. As a result, Druva has developed a cloud-native platform that protects on-premises, cloud, […] The post #108 – Druva Cloud-Native Data Protection with Curtis Preston (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Pod...