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I decided to publish another Talkshow podcast and point you to the new home for ATITB on hpe.com. You can find it at www.hpe.com/dmn/ATITB. You can subscribe to it there on your favorite podcast network!

Around the IT Block is moving to a new hosting service (yeah, no ads inserted) and I explain the details why in this farewell to TalkShoe podcast. Here's where you can now subscribe to the "new" Around the IT Block podcast. * Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2Fyb3VuZC10aGUtaXQtYmxvY2s= * Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9849d4ca-19ee-4243-8d74-e7116efac1e6 * Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=656289 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0h38zPQLVss8EoqDxpqO4K * Podcast Addict: https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3648405 * Transistor (RSS feed from hosting service): https://feeds.transistor.fm/around-the-it-block

I was joined by MSA expert and Tech Marketing Engineer lead Ben Smith. Ben is one of my go-to-people when I need help with MSA and decided it was time to have him on the podcast. We talked about the MSA in general, what's new with MSA Gen6, and a bonus discussion talking about the J2000 "Just a bunch of Flash" enclosures.

In this podcast, I have two HPE GreenLake Lighthouse experts to help explain it and how it fits into HPE GreenLake. I was joined by Chris Eidler and John Gromala, both from the Lighthouse team. In the podcast, here's what we covered (note - times do NOT include the 30 second commercial that TalkShoe adds to the podcast): 00:00 Intros 04:40 What is HPE GreenLake Lighthouse and why was it developed? 07:40 Where does HPE GreenLake Lighthouse fit into HPE GreenLake Cloud Services? 09:25 How do we simplify the customer experience with HPE GreenLake Lighthouse? 14:20 HPE GreenLake is either on-premises or in a colo - how does it compare to hyperscalers? 15:40 How does a customer get HPE GreenLake Lighthouse? 21:40 What does HPE GreenLake Lighthouse actually do? 24:00 Compare composbility with HPE Synergy to HPE GreenLake Lighthouse 25:30 What does HPE GreenLake Lighthousesupport now and where is it going? 27:30 Summing up HPE GreenLake Lighthouse and HPE GreenLake 31:00 Wrap-up

In this podcast, I talk to Chris Coletti and Jon Hildebrand to talk about Cohesity, the relationship with HPE, and how the partnership is making data management and recovery easier. There's also an abbreviated version of this podcast on YouTube at https://youtu.be/b3fsC-SiWPU. Here's what we covered (however note that TalkShoe adds a 30 second commercial up front): * 0-2:25 Intros * 2:25-5:50 The importance and benefits of the tech community * 5:50-9:00 Intro to Cohesity * 9:00-14:20 HPE/Cohesity relationship * 14:25-19:35 Legacy backup and where are we now * 19:35-25:10 Nimble snapshot integration * 25:10-29:50 Cohesity architecture and why it's important * 29:50-35:05 Ransomware and how Cohesity helps * 35:05-36:40 Jon and Chris' podcasts and videos * 36:40-38:15 More info and wrap-up

Back in late April, Scality partnering with HPE announced ARTESCA. I'm joined by our partner OEM partner Scality and have a podcast looking at ARTESCA, cloud native object based storage. Joining me on the podcast is Wally MacDermid, VP of Strategic Alliances and Business Development at Scality and Candida Valois, Americas Field CTO for Scality. 

This is the last of three podcasts that I originally recorded as one but decided to chop them up into three. My guest in this podcast is Chris Kinzler, a Solution Product Manager in HPE Storage. Chris is responsible for SAP HANA and Oracle; in this podcast we talked Oracle and mixed workloads and in #7 we talked SAP HANA workloads. He discussed industry trends and some testing done with the new HPE Alletra data infrastructure that was announced on May 4th.

In this second of three podcasts talking about application workloads, Mike Harding, Solution Product Manager for HPE Storage joined me to talk about Microsoft SQL Server and what he is seeing both from an industry standpoint and specifically with workload testing that HPE has done with HPE Alletra, the new data infrastructure that was announced on May 4th.

This is the first of three podcasts that I originally recorded as one but decided to chop them up into three. My guest in this podcast is Chris Kinzler, a Solution Product Manager in HPE Storage. Chris is responsible for SAP HANA and Oracle; in this podcast we talked SAP HANA and in #9 we talked Oracle and mixed workloads. He discussed industry trends and some testing done with the new HPE Alletra data infrastructure that was announced on May 4th.

Ok - so let's move away from storage for this episode and look at HPE Compute. I caught up with Krista Satterthwaite, the VP and GM of HPE Mainstream Compute. In this podcast, we recapped what is the latest in HPE's mainstream compute portfolio. We talked about compute and transformation, updates to the ProLiant Gen10 Plus portfolio, security, workload-optimized compute, compute as-a-Service, and how HPE Financial Services is also helping. Learn more at www.hpe.com/solutions/compute.

In this podcast, I talked about the HPE Storage strategy and shared about the May 4th webcast that will include HPE CEO Antonio Neri. I also discussed VMware vVols and the leadership position HPE has with over 55% of all vVols on HPE Storage. It's a short podcast (10 minutes) and I titled it setting the record straight because each of the two topics had industry people misrepresenting HPE - and my sense of justice had to set the record straight! You can get an email reminder for the May 4th webcast here: http://www.hpe.com/dmn/unleashdata

I saw a video blog from Markus Leinonen talking about HPE SimpliVity about two years ago. I reached out to him because I really liked his style and wanted to help give him more exposure. He has continued to focus on making the complex easier to understand which I appreciate and in the podcast we talked about how he got into video blogging, why he likes HPE SimpliVity, the latest with SimpliVity v 4.1.0 and more. Here's a link to his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarkusLeinonen/featured

IDC recently released their Q4 worldwide trackers for storage, servers, and converged systems. In each, HPE increased market share vs key competitors. In this post, I'll briefly discuss these and point you to where you can read more. In this podcast, I recap what I wrote on Around the Storage Block looking at the results. There are links to IDC and the articles from CRN and Blocks and Files that you can read at https://community.hpe.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block/HPE-taking-market-share-in-storage-compute-and-converged-systems/ba-p/7126457.

I was joined by Michael Cade from Veeam Software to dive deep into what's new and improved in Veeam v11. Here's what we talked about: 0:00 - 2:00 Intro 2:00 - 3:50 Michael's 3 favorite features in v11 3:50 - 17:30 Diving deep into CDP, Ransomware, and Instant Recovery 17:30 - 20:20 Intelligent data management 20:20 - 23:45 Controlling backup/retention costs 23:45 - 37:20 Other features (improved dedup, Windows agent storage integration, All-in-one updates like NUMA) 37:30 - 39:30 Wrap-up

It's a new year and it was time for a change. In this very brief introduction to the new Around the IT Block Podcast, I talk about why the change.

Qumulo is a software-defined scale out file storage for the hybrid cloud. They focus on helping customers store massive amounts of unstructured data and we offer Qumulo solutions running on HPE Apollo and ProLiant servers. In this podcast, I am joined by Ben Gitenstein, Vice President of Products and Solutions at Qumulo. Ben gave an overview of Qumulo and we also discussed the latest with HPE, using NVMe.

I was joined by David Wang who leads product marketing in HPE Storage to look at the highlights of the year in HPE Storage. Despite many of the world events, it was an outstanding year in HPE Storage. David and I discussed awards, recognitions, and some of the product announcements that made 2020 a very good year for HPE Storage.

I sat down with Don Randall from our HPE GreenLake team to hear about all the news from Discover Virtual Experience. If you're not sure what HPE GreenLake is, the benefits, or it's recent success, we cover it all in this 25 minute ATSB Podcast.

At Discover Virtual Event, HPE introduced HPE Cloud Volumes Backup. In this deep dive podcast with Neil Fleming, WW Product Management and Business Development for the HPE Cloud Volumes portfolio. HPE Cloud Volumes Backup is a 100% cloud-native backup service that enables you to instantly start backing up to the cloud. It’s a true service that lets you protect all of your data centers and remote sites without any backup hardware to size, configure, or manage. It works with HPE and non-HPE Storage. You'll learn about it in this ATSB podcast.

There's big news in HPE Storage and in this podcast, we talk about all of it. The news centers around HPE Nimble Storage and HPE Primera. There are 4 pillars to our news: Advancing Intelligence, Mission Critical DR, Accelerating Apps, and On-Demand Automation. Joining me on the podcast is Sandeep Singh, VP of marketing and Omer Asad, GM and VP of the primary storage business.

In this ATSB podcast, we look at the latest hyper-converged (HCI) news from both HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and HPE SimpliVity. The Storage Godfather Calvin Zito was joined by Ryan Harris and Chuck Wood from product marketing to discuss the news.

I had a podcast last year with the HPE MSA product team talking about several new features. One of them was MSA Health Check. At the time of that podcast, it was a tool that was being used by HPE Support but plans were to extend it to MSA customers. MSA Health Check is now available to any customer by simply uploading your log files to www.hpe.com/storage/MSAHealthCheck. Learn about what it can do for you in this podcast.

With the complexities that admins, DevOps, DBAs, data scientists and others dealing with data and infrastructure, it's clear that intelligence is needed to help with decisions about data and infrastructure. In this podcast, my guest is Sandeep Singh, VP of HPE Storage Marketing, who discusses with me the challenges around data and digital transformation, the need for infrastructure intelligence, and how HPE Storage is addressing it with the Intelligent Data Platform.

I have a very comprehensive podcast with my friend and industry colleague Rick Vanover. In the podcast we take a deep dive into Veeam and HPE, focusing on the Veeam version 10 release as well as looking at integration between HPE Storage and Veeam. If you didn't know, we were the first company that Veeam did snapshot integration with back in 2012.

A long overdue podcast with @MorpheusDude and my former manager at HPE, Brad Parks. In this podcast, Brad gave an overview of Morpheus Data and talked about how HPE and Morpheus work together.

I had the opportunity to talk to Bill Richter, CEO of Qumulo, about the joint solution between HPE and Qumulo. If modern, software-defined file storage running on the industry's best platform, this is a must-listen podcast!

In this podcast, I talk about the 8th generation of the XP Storage family that was announced on October 9th. But maybe more interesting is looking back on an interesting story from when we announced the very first XP in 1999 - it was called the HP SureStore E Disk Array MC256 for about 48 hours. Hear the story in this podcast.

Nth Generation is a great HPE partner in Southern California. I've attended their event, Nth Symposium, every year for the last 9 or 10 years. I caught up with Nth CTO Dan Molina to talk about the event taking place in Anaheim at Disney's Grand California on October 23-24. Dan also shared exciting news about a keynote on October 24.

At VMworld, we held vExpert and blogger briefings covering the state of HPE and VMware. This is the section of that briefing where we talked about storage. Joining the briefing were Sandeep Singh, VP of Marketing for HPE Storage and Eric Siebert, one of the original vExperts and VMware for storage solution manager.

HPE and VMware made a joint announcement at VMworld about VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service running on HPE Synergy and GreenLake. In this podcast I talked to Don Randall from the HPE GreenLake team about it.

At VMworld in San Francisco, I hosted a blogger coffee talk. One of the hot topics was the relationship between HPE and VMware. I had the two alliances managers from both companies join the bloggers for this very lively conversation. I hope Michael Dell listens to this!

I grabbed HPE Primera product manager Phill Gilbert again to do a bit of a deep dive around what makes HPE Primera simple. In this podcast, we talked about the advances that have been built in to really change the notion of what is a mission-critical all-flash array.

On August 5th, HPE announced the acquisition of MapR business assets. In this podcast, I talk to Patrick Osborne, VP and GM of Big Data and AI in HPE Storage about Big Data and AI and how MapR fits into what HPE is doing around AI and Big Data.

In this podcast, I'm joined by Ed Burke from HPE Education Services. Ed helps me to understand what are the educational services HPE offers and how can customers benefit from them.

In my first podcast looking at the new tier-0 mission critical storage array, HPE Primera, I am joined by Phill Gilbert from the product management team. Phill has been involved with HPE Primera from it's inception and in this podcast we talk about the architecture and how it will use Storage Class Memory (SCM), NVMe, and SSDs.

In this podcast, I dive into a new product we announced at Discover, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI. What is it? It is disaggregated hyper-converged infrastructure and in this podcast we explore that - including what are the benefits and how is it like HCI through installation, adding compute or storage, and day-to-day management.

Dante Orsini joined me to discuss iLand, a cloud hosting service that uses HPE Nimble Storage as their backbone. Dante discusses what iLand does, how they use global analytics, and how they utilize Nimble Storage.

Dante Orsini joined me to discuss iLand, a cloud hosting service that uses HPE Nimble Storage as their backbone. Dante discusses what iLand does, how they use global analytics, and how they utilize Nimble Storage.

The City of Hamilton was having issues with the backup window and moved to Cohesity running on HPE ProLiant and Nimble Storage. In this edition of the ATSB podcast, Calvin Zito talks to Jonathan Mancini, Supervisor of Data Center Operations from the city.

With the focus on HPE Nimble Storage and 3PAR, I haven't talked about the MSA in a while. And with a few updates to the MSA, seemed like a good time to talk about it with the MSA product management team. Britt Terry and Keith Schlacter joined me to talk about the latest enhancement to the MSA that include a new support tool called MSA Health Checker. We also talked about a new generation of SSDs, bigger and cheaper 14TB drives, and solutions with HPE Complete partners Arxscan and Zerto.

Jerome Wendt is the founder of DCIG. DCIG produces buyers guides for different product categories and in this podcast I talked to Jerome about the process for the DCIG buyer's guides and specifically about the Enterprise Deduplication Backup Target Appliance buyer's guide. HPE StoreOnce earned the recommended rating and Simon Watkins from the Data Protection team joined us to discuss it.

Dave Russell is the VP of Enterprise Strategy at Veeam. With World Backup Day on March 31, I thought it would be a good time to get an update on what is going on with HPE and Veeam. In this podcast, Dave and I talk about customer challenges with data protection and what HPE and Veeam are doing to address that.

The Adventures of Mike and John is a video blog by John Bennett and Mike Meyer, a couple of HPE Storage guys out of Kentucky. They have a twitter account - @2StorageGuy - and we'd been talking about doing something together. Take two HPE storage guys and throw me in the mix and what do you get? No, not the three stooges. Three HPE storage guys! In this podcast version of their video blog we talked about how we each got started, what are some of the trends in storage, wild cows and a lot more. A fun discussion!

Sandeep Singh has rejoined HPE Storage as the VP of Product Marketing. Sandeep had been part of the 3PAR team for 11 years and led product management and strategy. He took a detour and spent 4 years at Pure Storage where he headed up product and solutions marketing. In the podcast we talk about his impressions of HPE Storage and what his priorities will be.

In this podcast, we look at what HPE Storage is doing around Big Data Analytics and focus in on the acquisition of BlueData. I am joined by Patrick Osborne, the VP and GM of Big Data and Secondary Storage at HPE Storage. For the last couple of minutes, Patrick and I also discuss the day-after-Christmas bowl game between our two colleges, Boise State and Boston College. This is a 17 minute podcast.

At HPE Discover in Madrid, HPE announced a deepening relationship with Cohesity. In this podcast, I talk with Sanjeev Desai, Sr Director of Solutions Marketing at Cohesity about the basics of Cohesity and the relationship that HPE has with them.

At Discover Madrid, we always have "coffee talks" with our independent bloggers. This podcast is an audio recording of the storage coffee talk. With the storage news (see podcast #249), there were a lot of questions about it. Here's roughly what was discussed: 0-5:00 Intro and overview of announcement 5:00 - 8:45 InfoSight update 8:45 - 12:15 Cloud Volumes update 12:15 - 15:45 Storage Class Memory and 3PAR updates 15:45 - 17:30 SCM and Sync replication with HPE Nimble Storage 17:30 - 56:00 Q & A

HPE 3PAR Performance Insights is a new on-premises solution that prevents performance bottlenecks in real time. In the podcast I have 3PAR product manager Phill Gilbert diving into the details of this new solution.

Get an overview of the storage announcements from HPE Discover. Also read http://www.hpe.com/storage/bog to dive into more details.

Are NVMe and SCM evolutionary or revolutionary technologies and what could the future of storage look like beyond that? Phill Gilbert from the 3PAR product management team talks about them and what else the future might hold for memory driven storage.

Are NVMe and SCM evolutionary or revolutionary technologies and what could the future of storage look like beyond that? Phill Gilbert from the 3PAR product management team talks about them and what else the future might hold for memory driven storage.