Storage Unpacked Podcast
221 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsA weekly podcast on deploying and managing enterprise storage and data
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#107 – Should IBM Quit the Storage Hardware Business?
July 05, 2019 11:00 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBIDC recently released their latest quarterly storage sales figures. The data shows, yet again, that IBM sales continue to decline. In this week’s podcast, Chris and Martin discuss the state of IBM’s storage business. Is it time for IBM to quit? IBM has an embarrassment of riches in storage software and hardware (or a nice […] The post #107 – Should IBM Quit the Storage Hardware Business? appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#106 – Introduction to VAST Data (Part II) with Howard Marks (Sponsored)
June 26, 2019 11:00 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBIn this second episode on VAST Data, Chris and Martin continue the discussion with Howard Marks. You can find the previous episode at #105 – Introduction to VAST Data (Part I). This time, the conversation continues where the discussion left off, with Howard finishing the explanation of wide striping. To explain exactly how data is […] The post #106 – Introduction to VAST Data (Part II) with Howard Marks (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#105 – Introduction to VAST Data (Part I) with Howard Marks (Sponsored)
June 21, 2019 11:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBThis week, Chris and Martin talk to Howard Marks, Chief Storyteller at VAST Data. You may know Howard as an independent analyst and author for a range of online publications. Howard recently joined VAST to help explain and promote understanding of their data platform architecture. The VAST Data platform uses three main technologies that have […] The post #105 – Introduction to VAST Data (Part I) with Howard Marks (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#104 – Creating a Data Management Strategy with Paul Stringfellow
June 14, 2019 11:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBThis week, Chris talks to Paul Stringfellow, Technical Director at Gardner Systems, about the process of creating a data management strategy. As we adopt additional, sometimes disparate services from SaaS and IaaS vendors, increasingly businesses are seeing their data being dispersed across multiple platforms. With such a valuable asset at their fingertips, how do businesses […] The post #104 – Creating a Data Management Strategy with Paul Stringfellow appeared first on Storage Unpacked P...
#103 – Data Management and DataOps with Hitachi Vantara (Sponsored)
June 07, 2019 11:00 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBThis week Chris speaks to Jonathan Martin (CMO) and John Magee (VP, Portfolio Marketing) at Hitachi Vantara. This episode was recorded live onsite at the new Hitachi Vantara offices in Santa Clara. As data becomes ever more valuable to organisations, the process of building data pipelines will continue to be a time and resource intensive […] The post #103 – Data Management and DataOps with Hitachi Vantara (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#102 – May Midrange Madness with Chris Mellor
May 31, 2019 11:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBThis 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 […] The post #102 – May Midrange Madness with Chris Mellor appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#101 – Datrium Automatrix with Brian Biles and Tim Page (Sponsored)
May 24, 2019 11:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBIn this podcast episode, Chris talks to Brian Biles (Chief Product Officer and co-founder) and Tim Page (CEO) from Datrium about the announcement of Automatrix. The Datrium Automatrix platform implements five important components needed to deliver a consistent approach to application mobility. These are primary storage, backup, disaster recovery, encryption and data mobility. Automatrix brings […] The post #101 – Datrium Automatrix with Brian Biles and Tim Page (Sponsored) appeared first ...
#100 – Optimising Unstructured Data with Krishna Subramanian
May 17, 2019 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBThis week, Martin and Chris talk to Krishna Subramanian, President and COO at Komprise. We mentioned the Komprise technology back on episode #75 (It’s ILM All Over Again) as part of a discussion on managing the movement of files to and from archive storage. Krishna joins this discussion to fill in some background on the […] The post #100 – Optimising Unstructured Data with Krishna Subramanian appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#99 – Dell Technologies World 2019 in Review
May 10, 2019 11:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBThis week, Chris and Martin discuss the announcements from Dell Technologies World 2019, held in April/May 2019 at the Sands Convention Centre in Las Vegas. Chris attended as a guest of Dell Technologies, who covered flights and accommodation. Dell Technologies made a range of announcements, including improved capabilities on the Unity XT and Isilon storage […] The post #99 – Dell Technologies World 2019 in Review appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#98 – Shared Storage for Scale-out Databases with Walt Hinton from Pavilion Data
May 03, 2019 19:00 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBIn this third recording from Dell Technologies World 2019, Chris talks with Walt Hinton, Head of Corporate and Product Marketing at Pavilion Data Systems. The topic of conversation is the alignment of shared storage with scale-out NoSQL databases that typically place storage components on separate local disks. As rack-scale computing becomes more widely adopted, local […] The post #98 – Shared Storage for Scale-out Databases with Walt Hinton from Pavilion Data appeared first on Storage Unp...
#97 – Building Storage Using NVMe/TCP with Kam Eshghi from Lightbits Labs
May 03, 2019 15:00 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBThis episode was recorded live at Dell Technologies World 2019. Chris talks to Kam Eshghi, VP of Strategy & Business Development at Lightbits Labs. Lightbits has pioneered the development of NVMe/TCP, which allows standard Ethernet NICs to be used for NVMe-over-Fabrics storage traffic. The ability to implement NVMe-oF without custom NICs (like RDMA) offers the […] The post #97 – Building Storage Using NVMe/TCP with Kam Eshghi from Lightbits Labs appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#96 – Discussing SmartNICs and Storage with Rob Davis from Mellanox
May 03, 2019 11:00 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBIn this podcast, recorded live at Dell Technologies World 2019, Chris talks to Rob Davis, VP of Storage Technology at Mellanox, about the development of SmartNIC technology and storage. SmartNICs offload tasks such as encryption, compression and protocol traffic from core CPUs. This allows system vendors to create more efficient and cheaper products. It can […] The post #96 – Discussing SmartNICs and Storage with Rob Davis from Mellanox appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#95 – Quantifying Storage Vendor Guarantees with Chris Mellor and Eran Brown
April 26, 2019 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBThis week, Chris E is joined by Chris Mellor and returning guest Eran Brown. The team discuss the usefulness of storage vendor guarantees like de-dupe ratios and uptime. Do vendors use these metrics as a marketing tactic to attract new customers or is there any value in them? The idea of a sales/marketing guarantee sounds […] The post #95 – Quantifying Storage Vendor Guarantees with Chris Mellor and Eran Brown appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#94 – Backblaze HDD Reliability Stats with Andy Klein
April 12, 2019 12:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBIn this episode, Martin and Chris talk to Andy Klein from Backblaze. Since 2014, Backblaze has been collecting and publishing hard drive reliability information for their storage pods. The pods are custom-built and used to hold backup data from customers and to support the B2 cloud storage offering. Rather than buy an expensive storage platform […] The post #94 – Backblaze HDD Reliability Stats with Andy Klein appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#93 – Myspace Loses 12 Years’ of Music
March 29, 2019 12:00 - 24 minutes - 22 MBThis week, Chris and Martin discuss the issues at Myspace, which recently disclosed that 12 years’ worth of user content had been lost during a (failed) server migration. The once-mighty Myspace was the largest social networking site from 2005 to 2009 (according to Wikipedia) and had estimated revenues of $109 million in 2011. So, how […] The post #93 – Myspace Loses 12 Years’ of Music appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#92 – Introduction to Elastifile with Jerome McFarland (Sponsored)
March 22, 2019 12:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBThis 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 post #92 – Introduction to Elastifile with Jerome McFarland (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#91 – Storage Field Day 18 in Review
March 15, 2019 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBThis week, Martin leads the conversation as Chris discusses the vendors presenting at the recent Storage Field Day 18 event. SFD18 is part of the Tech Field Day series delivered by Stephen Foskett and GestaltIT. We last spoke with Stephen in April 2018 – an episode on why storage isn’t boring. Although there’s no official […] The post #91 – Storage Field Day 18 in Review appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#90 – Dell EMC’s Enterprise NVMe Strategy with Vince Westin (Sponsored)
March 08, 2019 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBThis week, Chris talks to Vince Westin, Technical Evangelist within the PowerMax Group at Dell EMC. PowerMax is the latest in a storage product line with lineage back to the original Symmetrix systems of the early 1990s. PowerMax is an all-NVMe storage array, reflecting an industry move towards faster, low latency media. Vince takes us […] The post #90 – Dell EMC’s Enterprise NVMe Strategy with Vince Westin (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#89 – Choices in NVMe Architectures
March 01, 2019 12:00 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBThis episode was recorded while Chris was in Silicon Valley for Storage Field Day 18. Although not part of the event, Chris took time to catch up with Pavilion Data. in particular Jeff Sosa, VP Product Management and Walt Hinton, Head of Corporate and Product Marketing. Both Jeff and Walt have a long history in […] The post #89 – Choices in NVMe Architectures appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#88 – Nigel Tozer returns to talk about Ransomware
February 22, 2019 12:00 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBThis week Chris and Martin talk to Nigel Tozer, Solutions Marketing Director for EMEA at Commvault. Nigel was a guest about 12 months ago and on that episode he talked about GDPR. This time the discussion is about ransomware and what businesses can do about it. The challenges of protecting data from theft or extortion […] The post #88 – Nigel Tozer returns to talk about Ransomware appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#87 – The Risks of Storage Media Reuse versus Recycling
February 15, 2019 12:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBIn this episode, Chris and Martin talk to Simon Zola from Avtel Data Destruction. This is a follow-up episode to #85 (Storage for Home and Homelabs) where Martin and Chris questioned the ease of recovering data from pre-owned storage media. As we find out, the process was pretty easy. Martin was able to recover significant […] The post #87 – The Risks of Storage Media Reuse versus Recycling appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#86 – Eran Brown Discusses Storage, Security & Multi-Cloud
February 08, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBThis week, Chris and Martin talk to Eran Brown, CTO in EMEA for INFINIDAT. As we move to a more distributed world, implementing data security becomes ever more challenging. Eran explains the issues and how his customers are looking to solve the problem. One of the initial choices is to decide exactly where to encrypt. […] The post #86 – Eran Brown Discusses Storage, Security & Multi-Cloud appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#85 – Storage for Home and Homelabs
February 01, 2019 12:00 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBThis week Chris and Martin discuss the subject of storage for home and homelabs. With so much content being personally generated these days, is it better to store data on local hardware or use the public cloud? It turns out that many of the home storage devices we’re familiar with are pushing more to SMB […] The post #85 – Storage for Home and Homelabs appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#84 – Discussing New NVMe Form Factors with Jonathan Hinkle
January 25, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBThis week, Chris and Martin talk to Jonathan Hinkle, Principal Researcher – System Architecture and Master Inventor at Lenovo. As solid-state storage and NVMe become more prevalent, the legacy 2.5″ HDD format is increasingly impractical for getting the best density, power and cooling in servers. Jonathan explains how his work led to the founding of […] The post #84 – Discussing New NVMe Form Factors with Jonathan Hinkle appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#83 – Introduction to NetApp MAX Data
January 18, 2019 12:00 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBOn this week’s podcast, recorded live at NetApp Insight 2018, Chris talks to Greg Knieriemen and Rob McDonald about the introduction of Memory Accelerated Data, commonly called MAX Data. The MAX Data solution is a software product that implements a local file system on a server using local persistent memory such as Intel Optane. Of […] The post #83 – Introduction to NetApp MAX Data appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#82 – Storage Predictions for 2019
January 11, 2019 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBThe idea of this episode was to put some structure around a set of enterprise storage predictions for 2019. As you will hear from the dialog, that’s not quite what we achieved! However, Chris Evans, Chris Mellor and Martin Glassborow do raise some interesting points on the direction of the industry in 2019. The conversation […] The post #82 – Storage Predictions for 2019 appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#81 – Storage or Data Asset Management?
January 04, 2019 12:00 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBThis week Chris and Martin talk about the evolution from storage management to data management. This follows from recent vendor events where data management featured highly, but still seemed to focus on infrastructure products. Is there a definition that can bridge the gap – something like Data Asset Management? The team start by trying to […] The post #81 – Storage or Data Asset Management? appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#80 – Discussing NetApp’s AI Strategy with Santosh Rao
December 19, 2018 12:00 - 24 minutes - 22 MBIn this podcast recorded at NetApp Insight 2018, Chris talks to Santosh Rao, Senior Technical Director at NetApp. Santosh leads NetApp’s AI and Data Engineering efforts and has a 10-year history at the company, working on initiatives including Clustered ONTAP. This conversation covers how NetApp is developing an Edge-to-Core-to-Cloud strategy that includes collecting and processing […] The post #80 – Discussing NetApp’s AI Strategy with Santosh Rao appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#79 – Learning More About QLC Storage with Steve Hanna
December 14, 2018 12:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBThis week Chris and Martin talk to Steve Hanna, Senior Product Manager for Enterprise SSDs at Micron. Steve looks after the 5210 ION QLC SSD product line, which was introduced earlier this year. As an evolution of existing flash technology, QLC offers greater capacities at lower cost. But what are the issues? The conversation covers […] The post #79 – Learning More About QLC Storage with Steve Hanna appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#78 – Thoughts on NetApp with Greg Knieriemen
December 11, 2018 12:00 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBLast week Chris attended NetApp Insight in Barcelona and had a chance to chat to Greg Knieriemen, Chief Technologist in the Storage Systems & Software business at NetApp. Greg was formerly at Hitachi Vantara where he held a similar role. This conversation touches on Greg’s reasons for choosing NetApp and exactly what he will be […] The post #78 – Thoughts on NetApp with Greg Knieriemen appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#77 – HPE Performance Insights with Ivan Iannaccone
November 28, 2018 10:41 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBThis week HPE announced Performance Insights, an extension to the InfoSight platform that provides storage customers with greater detail on their 3PAR array storage performance. Performance Insights takes the knowledge of years of HPE 3PAR data and combines it with genuine machine learning and AI to give HPE 3PAR customers actionable insights on the performance […] The post #77 – HPE Performance Insights with Ivan Iannaccone appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#76 – Fibre Channel and NVMe with Mark Jones
November 23, 2018 12:01 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBIn this week’s podcast, Chris and Martin talk to Mark Jones from the Fibre Channel Industry Association. This recording is an introduction to running NVMe over Fibre Channel, setting the scene on how Fibre Channel has evolved and will continue to be a storage protocol for many years. Fibre Channel reached an important milestone in […] The post #76 – Fibre Channel and NVMe with Mark Jones appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#75 – It’s ILM All Over Again with Chris Mellor
November 09, 2018 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBData volumes have always increased over time as we store more information with the hope that one day some of it will be useful. Even 30 years ago on the mainframe, Information Lifecycle Management or ILM was a thing with tools like DFHSM used to move content around between disk and tape. This week Martin, […] The post #75 – It’s ILM All Over Again with Chris Mellor appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#74 – All About Serial Attached SCSI with Rick Kutcipal
November 02, 2018 12:00 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBMost people probably don’t think about the protocol that connects their storage device to a PC or server. However, NVMe has changed that and become one of the storage buzzwords of 2018. But what about existing devices not using NVMe? SAS or Serial Attached SCSI has been a mainstay of storage connectivity for 20 years. […] The post #74 – All About Serial Attached SCSI with Rick Kutcipal appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#73 – HYCU – Data Protection for Hyper-converged Infrastructure (Sponsored)
October 26, 2018 11:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBThis week, Chris and Martin talk to Subbiah Sundaram, VP of Products at HYCU, Inc. HYCU is both the name of the company and the data protection product sold by HYCU Inc. The market already has many data protection solutions, so the unique differentiator for HYCU is focusing on the HCI market, specifically offering backup […] The post #73 – HYCU – Data Protection for Hyper-converged Infrastructure (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#72 – Hitachi Vantara Looking Forward with Shawn Rosemarin
October 19, 2018 11:00 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBThis is the fourth and final podcast of four recorded at Hitachi NEXT 2018 in San Diego. Previous episodes are listed below. This conversation between Chris and Shawn Rosemarin, SVP and CTO of Global Field and Industry at Hitachi Vantara discusses how customer’s approach to managing their data has changed and how Hitachi will continue […] The post #72 – Hitachi Vantara Looking Forward with Shawn Rosemarin appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#71 – IP EXPO 2018 – Scale Computing, StorMagic, Nasuni and Nephos
October 12, 2018 11:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBThis is the second of two podcasts recorded live at IP EXPO 2018 in London. You can find the first here. In this episode, Chris and Martin speak to Scale Computing, StorMagic, Nasuni and Nephos Technologies. The guests are: Aad Dekkers, Marketing Director, EMEA at Scale Computing John Glendenning, SVP Sales and Business Development at […] The post #71 – IP EXPO 2018 – Scale Computing, StorMagic, Nasuni and Nephos appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#70 – Pentaho Data Aggregation with Arik Pelkey
October 09, 2018 11:00 - 17 minutes - 16 MBIn this third podcast recorded live at Hitachi NEXT 2018, Chris talks to Arik Pelkey, Senior Director, Analytics Portfolio Product Marketing at Hitachi Vantara. Arik is responsible for the Pentaho platform, an acquisition made originally by Hitachi Data Systems in 2015. Pentaho is a data integration, visualisation and analytics platform used by data engineers to […] The post #70 – Pentaho Data Aggregation with Arik Pelkey appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#69 – IP EXPO 2018 – Cloudian, E8 Storage, StorCentric and Zerto
October 05, 2018 11:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBThis is one of two podcasts, recorded live at IP EXPO 2018 in London. The format is slightly different from what we’ve done in the past, in that we have four short 10-minute interviews with storage vendors. Each talks about their company, products and industry problem being solved. The four guests are: Steve Blow, Technology […] The post #69 – IP EXPO 2018 – Cloudian, E8 Storage, StorCentric and Zerto appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#68 – Intelligent Object Storage with Scott Baker
October 01, 2018 11:00 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBThis is the second in a series of podcasts recorded at Hitachi NEXT 2018. In this episode, Chris talks to Scott Baker, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Content and Data Intelligence at Hitachi Vantara. The topic of conversation is how intelligent processing can be applied to content stored in Hitachi’s object storage platform, HCP. […] The post #68 – Intelligent Object Storage with Scott Baker appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#67 – Hitachi Vantara One Year On with John Magee
September 27, 2018 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBThis week, Chris is in San Diego attending Hitachi NEXT 2018, the annual user conference for Hitachi Vantara customers. Hitachi Vantara was formed in 2017 from the merger of Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group and Pentaho. Last year we spoke to Greg Knieriemen about the new company and the reasons behind the decision to […] The post #67 – Hitachi Vantara One Year On with John Magee appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#66 – Amazon RDS – Coming to a vSphere Cluster Near You
September 14, 2018 12:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBAmazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware recently announced that RDS, the Relational Database Service was in tech preview as an on-premises deployment on vSphere. Running a service outside of Amazon’s data centre represents a big change for the company. The only non-core offering to date has been Snowball, the edge data appliance. In this week’s […] The post #66 – Amazon RDS – Coming to a vSphere Cluster Near You appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#65 – Challenges in Managing Unstructured Data with Shirish Phatak
September 07, 2018 12:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBIn this week’s podcast we focus on the issues of managing unstructured data in a distributed world. Chris and Martin are joined by Shirish Phatak, CEO at Talon Storage. It’s interesting that “unstructured” proves to have a moveable definition, depending on what you want to include. While we traditionally think of files and objects as […] The post #65 – Challenges in Managing Unstructured Data with Shirish Phatak appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#64 – Success & Failure in Storage Startup Land
August 31, 2018 12:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBThis week’s conversation follows up on Chris’ recent visit to Flash Memory Summit in the US. Chris and Martin discuss the storage startup landscape and the range of companies appearing at the event. What makes a company successful? Is IPO or acquisition the right route? The discussion starts with a simple, yet tricky question – […] The post #64 – Success & Failure in Storage Startup Land appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#63 – Datrium CloudShift
August 24, 2018 11:00 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBIn this episode, Chris and Martin catch up with the Datrium team to discuss CloudShift, Datrium’s new SaaS DR offering. CloudShift provides the capability to use backups that have been written to Cloud DVX and fire up a VMware Cloud on AWS instance, recovering the backups into the vSphere cluster. CloudShift can also be used […] The post #63 – Datrium CloudShift appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#62 – The Future of Data Infrastructure with Scott Hamilton
August 17, 2018 11:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBThis is the third of a series of three podcasts recorded at Flash Memory Summit 2018. In this conversation, Chris talks to Scott Hamilton, Senior Director of Product Management, DCS group at Western Digital Corporation. WDC are working on a new architecture that will deliver a composable data infrastructure for the enterprise. This podcast discussed […] The post #62 – The Future of Data Infrastructure with Scott Hamilton appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#61 – Introduction to NVM Express with Amber Huffman
August 14, 2018 11:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBThis is the second of a series of podcasts recorded at Flash Memory Summit 2018 in Santa Clara. In this episode, Chris talks to Amber Huffman, Intel Fellow and President and founder of NVM Express Inc. NVM Express is the standards body that governs the development of the NVMe base standard, NVMe-MI (Management Interface) and […] The post #61 – Introduction to NVM Express with Amber Huffman appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#60 – New Data Economy with Derek Dicker
August 10, 2018 11:00 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBThis week Chris is attending the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara. This is the first of three podcast recordings from the event and is a conversation with Derek Dicker CVP and GM of the Storage Business Unit at Micron. Derek participated in a keynote session at the event and talked about the challenges of […] The post #60 – New Data Economy with Derek Dicker appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#59 – Ethernet vs Fibre Channel
July 27, 2018 11:00 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBThis week’s podcast looks at storage networking and in particular the choice of using Ethernet vs Fibre Channel as the network protocol. Traditionally, enterprise storage platforms have been Fibre Channel connected, with only a small amount of iSCSI usage. However, the world isn’t just block storage and in fact, as guest Marty Lans (General Manager, […] The post #59 – Ethernet vs Fibre Channel appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.
#58 – Storage Vendor Hero Numbers
July 20, 2018 11:00 - 20 minutes - 19 MBThis week, Chris Mellor is back and the team take a dive into the subject of storage vendor hero numbers. What are hero numbers? We’ve all seen them, they’re the huge performance figures quoted by all-flash storage vendors aimed at putting their products forward in the best light possible. Are hero numbers believable or should […] The post #58 – Storage Vendor Hero Numbers appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.