Storage Unpacked is a technology podcast that focuses on the enterprise storage market. Chris Evans, Martin Glassborow and guests discuss technology issues with vendors and industry experts.
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In this episode, Chris talks to Sharad Kumar, Field CTO at Qlik about the value of good-quality data when developing AI solutions.
In this episode, Chris discusses the options available to storage system vendors when building modern storage appliances, with Bill Basinas, Senior Director, Product Marketing at Infinidat. The conversation derives from an observation on architectural choices, following the move to AMD processors from Intel for the latest G4 systems built by Infinidat. AMD offers a greater core count per processor compared to Intel, allowing Infinidat to move to single socket designs, while gaining improvements from PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 memory. Ultimately, this discussion highlights how modern storage system design can take standardised components and build flexible architectures, implementing most features in software. For Infinidat, that could mean expanding its range of solutions for smaller enterprise requirements, or building out products specifically for Edge use cases. Although Bill did not reveal any future plans, the implication is clear - watch this space for future evolution of the InfiniBox architecture to a wider and more varied set of hardwaree configurations. Elapsed Time: 00:37:13 Timeline 00:00:00 - Intros 00:01:15 - How do vendors choose the hardware components for storage systems? 00:02:30 - What are the main (storage) technology challenges for customers? 00:04:08 - Customers want predictable data features 00:05:55 - Capacity demand continues to grow relentlessly 00:07:30 - Infinidat features are built into software 00:09:35 - Most AI requirements wil run on existing performance storage 00:11:20 - Modern hardware provides significant flexibility for system design 00:15:00 - AMD gives access to single and high core-count processors 00:16:10 - PCIe 5.0 provides for faster SSDs and power efficiency 00:18:46 - Infinidat has introduced smaller form-factor solutions 00:21:32 - Multiple cores will always get used! 00:25:53 - Infinidat G4 architecture provides for in-place controller upgrades 00:28:22 - Storage arrays should become more “virtual” 00:34:10 - Data services implementations are very different between vendors 00:35:55 - Hybrid architecture still has value in the Infinidat world 00:36:20 - Wrap Up Related Podcasts & Blogs Storage Unpacked 258 - Introducing Infinidat G4, InfuzeOS 8 and InfiniSafe ACP #202 - Enterprise Storage Consolidation with Phil Bullinger from Infinidat Infinidat adds customer value with SSA Express and improved SSA capacity Copyright (c) 2016-2025 Unpacked Network. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #e4dr
In this episode, Chris discusses the enduring benefits of centralised storage, particularly with reference to storage virtualisation, with Dan Kogan, VP of Enterprise Growth and Solutions and Cody Hosterman, Senior Director of Product Management, both from Pure Storage.
In this episode, Chris is in conversation with Jeb Horton, SVP Global Services at Hitachi Vantara, discussing the capabilities of Hitachi Vantara's Global Services offerings, which deliver infrastructure management and infrastructure as a service to its customers. In addition to EverFlex, Hitachi Vantara has a long history of managed services capabilities that span more than just outsourced storage. As Jeb explains, the company also manages storage infrastructure from other vendors, in addition to non-storage systems. The interesting aspect of this discussion is the complex nature of the interaction between customers and Hitachi. Solutions offerings aren't merely "transactional", but have a human aspect and are tailored to meeting the specific goals of the customer. This conversation explores some of the nuances of working with customers to transfer the burden of infrastructure management to Hitachi, enabling businesses to focus on more strategic opportunities. To learn more about Hitachi Vantara check out the Infrastructure as a Service section on the Hitachi website - https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/services/infrastructure-as-a-service. Elapsed Time: 00:48:02 Timeline 00:00:00 - Intros 00:01:43 - What is “Infrastructure as a Service”? 00:03:25 - What else to customers want from a service (other than cost saving)? 00:05:20 - Public cloud has increased the appetite for service-based consumption 00:06:24 - What is the core of the Hitachi Vantara services offering? 00:07:14 - Hitachi added automation into a “services platform” 00:10:26 - The human aspect involves skills but also relationships 00:12:20 - A service contract involves a detailed commercial model 00:13:51 - Service also means service levels and agreements 00:16:53 - Cloud is transactional, what is Hitachi's “value add”? 00:19:45 - Data has value, which is the focus of service offerings 00:22:26 - How does Hitachi help government institutions? 00:26:50 - What sort of data issues does Hitachi deal with? 00:28:33 - Data and AI will be a key issue to manage 00:30:40 - How does the engagement process work with Hitachi (and what is EverFlex)? 00:37:15 - What are real-world examples of Hitachi customers and requirements? 00:46:51 - Wrap Up Related Podcasts & Blogs Hitachi Vantara Microsite Storage Unpacked 260 - Hitachi VSP One Updates with Dan McConnell Storage Unpacked 254 - Announcing VSP One and Hitachi Vantara Reorganisation Copyright (c) 2016-2024 Unpacked Network. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #4d3x
In this recording, Chris talks to Subbiah Sundaram, SVP of Products at HYCU, Inc. about the 2024 edition of the HYCU State of SaaS Resilence Report. The report surveys customers to understand the gaps in perceived and actual data protection for SaaS platforms and the results are quite surprising.
In this podcast episode, Chris is in conversation with Jeffries Briginshaw (Head of EMEA Government Relations at NetApp) and Adam Gale (CTO for AI & Cyber Security, NetApp) discussing the EU AI Act and the regulation of artificial intelligence across the world. The EU AI Act is an early introduction into the regulation of the use of AI by businesses within their engagements and interactions with customers. As explained in this conversation, there are classifications of AI types and within that, restrictions on what businesses are permitted to implement based on those categorisations. Some AI usage will be banned, while others will require human intervention and close monitoring. How should your business engage with AI and ensure compliance with the act? Listen to the discussion for more details. As mentioned in the recording, for details on what NetApp can offer, point your favourite browser to https://www.netapp.com/artificial-intelligence/ to learn more. Elapsed Time: 00:52:17 Timeline 00:00:00 - Intros 00:01:19 - Why should we be regulating AI? 00:02:30 - What will the impacts of AI be on personal and work life? 00:03:55 - What if we get regulation wrong? 00:05:30 - What happens if AI goes wrong, such as data poisoning? 00:09:04 - Existing EU/UK law has been successful at regulation (GDPR) 00:10:25 - What is the EU AI Act? 00:11:46 - “Prohibited Practices” will be banned from 2025 00:14:00 - How will the use of business in AI be regulated? 00:18:05 - The EU AI Act appears to focus on protection for individuals 00:20:56 - EU citizens are broadly positive to AI - if it is successfully regulated 00:21:52 - Compliance has an overhead - in terms of hard costs (developers) 00:25:20 - What are the penalties for not complying with the EU AI Act? 00:29:50 - What about the rest of the world - the US and elsewhere? 00:35:10 - Could we see “cross-border” complexity? 00:37:40 - What are the technology implications for AI regulation? 00:40:07 - Should businesses be demonstrating their AI compliance? 00:44:03 - What does NetApp offer customers to help AI compliance? 00:47:38 - AI will require a “big red stop button” 00:50:00 - Wrap Up Copyright (c) 2016-2024 Unpacked Network. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #dfsx
In this podcast episode, Chris discusses the platform update announcements from Pure Accelerate 2024 with Prakash Darji, VP and GM of the Digital Experience BU at Pure Storage.
In this podcast episode, Chris catches up with Dan McConnell, Senior VP for Product Management at Hitachi Vantara. The company recently announced VSP One Block, a new mid-range appliance for block storage.
In this episode, Chris discusses the topic of building sustainable storage solutions with Shawn Rosemarin, Global VP of Customer Engineering at Pure Storage.
In this episode, Chris talks to Infinidat CMO, Eric Herzog. Infinidat has announced one of the biggest upgrades in eight years, with the release of InfiniBox and InfiniBox SSA G4, the fourth generation of enterprise-class storage.
In this sponsored episode, Chris talks to Fred Lherault and Larry Touchette from Pure Storage on the evolution of storage in the enterprise and the impacts on storage administration.
In 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.
In 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.
In 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.
In 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.
In 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.
In 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.
In 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 field. Infinidat has also introduced a new SSA II, the F4316T with up to 6.6PB of effective capacity, doubling the previous maximum. The F4304T has been discontinued, so to meet the requirements of customers to scale from small to large systems, the existing F4308T and new F4316T can be initially deployed at 60%, 80% and 100% full. This scale-up option gives customers choice on how to deploy and extend all-flash implementations. More information on the new offerings can be found at https://www.infinidat.com/ and more details on Infinidat at our Infinidat Microsite. Elapsed Time: 00:33:51 Timeline 00:00:00 - Intros 00:01:00 - Quick update on announcements this year 00:03:30 - Vendors need to be offering value-add 00:04:25 - SSA Express is a software upgrade to add an embedded all-flash array 00:05:30 - SSA gains expansion and scale-up capabilities 00:06:40 - What is the SSA (and SSA II)? 00:08:45 - SSA Express is a free software upgrade 00:10:55 - SSA Express is similar to pinned volumes 00:13:20 - Infinidat will validate the suitability for SSA Express 00:14:50 - Most vendors don't retro-fit a feature across all historical platforms 00:16:55 - InfiniBox is generally deployed fully configured 00:18:20 - SSA now offers double capacity with F4316T 00:24:05 - The new scalability allows customers to grow capacity more easily 00:25:35 - Partially populated SSA II still runs at 100% performance 00:28:10 - Value add for the customer is important in the current market 00:31:35 - Wrap Up Related Podcasts & Blogs Storage Unpacked 247 - Infinidat announces InfuzeOS Cloud Edition and InfiniSafe Cyber Detection Storage Unpacked 231 - Introducing Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II Storage Unpacked 227 - Infinidat InfiniGuard Enhancements with Eric Herzog Infinidat Microsite The Quiet Success of Infinidat Copyright (c) 2016-2023 Unpacked Network. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #nf34
In 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 data is presented back through the CPU route. This dual processor architecture enables Nyriad to deliver a product with 20GB/s of throughput, scale to multiple petabytes of capacity and provide dynamic data protection defined by the customer. Nyriad sees UltraIO being used across four industries - HPC, Media & Entertainment, Backup and Recovery, and Active Archive. Essentially the solution excels at handling large volumes of unstructured data that needs high throughput processing. Learn more about Nyriad, the origins of the solution with the Square Kilometre Array and customer examples at https://www.nyriad.io/ Elapsed Time: 00:32:28 Timeline 00:00:00 - Intros 00:01:40 - UltraIO was introduced in 2022 00:02:25 - Why is UltraIO different to traditional storage systems? 00:03:30 - GPUs can be used within data storage systems 00:04:10 - The Square Kilometre Array was an early customer 00:06:15 - UltraIO fits a specific set of requirements around data ingestion throughput 00:06:55 - UltraIO uses hard disk drives and erasure coding 00:08:00 - Ingested data is processed via GPU, then accessed by CPU 00:10:00 - Erasure coding allows customer-based resiliency settings 00:12:00 - The hardware for UltraIO uses standardised off the shelf hardware 00:14:50 - What markets does UltraIO fit? (HPC, M&E, Backup/Recovery & Active Archive) 00:16:15 - The UltraIO architecture has strong sustainability characteristics 00:18:45 - Most vendors have moved away from HDDs 00:23:00 - Digital Image replaced three systems with an UltraIO 00:24:20 - Don't keep data forever! 00:26:35 - UltraIO helped Digital Glue deliver a media asset management solution 00:27:30 - System capacities are from one to three petabytes raw 00:29:15 - Nyriad works through the channel 00:31:00 - Wrap Up Copyright (c) 2016-2023 Unpacked Network. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #3erd
In this episode, Chris talks to Dan Kogan from Pure Storage about the upgraded FlashArray R4 systems and new FlashArray//E platform.
In 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.
In 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.
In 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.
In 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.
In this episode, Chris chats to Pure Storage International CTO, Alex McMullan, about the announcement of FlashBlade//E.
In this episode, Chris chats to Matt Hamilton, Developer Advocate at Protocol Labs about the Filecoin decentralised storage network.
In 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.
In 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 by Sebastien can be found here - https://phisonblog.com/ Elapsed Time: 00:44:01 Timeline 00:00:00 - Intros 00:02:45 - Predictions of the death of the hard drive are overdone 00:04:15 - Enterprise SSD prices continue to drop - but don't HDDs do that too? 00:05:30 - 2020 was the cutover year for units produced (SSD vs HDD) 00:06:45 - HDD capacity growth has slowed 00:07:50 - SSD growth is being achieved with 3D techniques 00:09:15 - Floors could be used to increase layer count 00:11:00 - Latency is increasing in newer flash designs 00:13:05 - What is the “acceptable” limit for SSD capacity? 00:14:15 - Dense SSDs will be the norm with NVMe connectivity 00:15:30 - New form factors will drive greater drive capacities 00:17:00 - Is $/GB too simple a measure? 00:19:40 - SSD rebuilds are quick, avoiding the need for RAID-6 00:20:45 - SSD failure is not predictable 00:25:00 - Are HDD shipping costs relevant? 00:26:30 - How are the hyper-scalers using HDDs and driving change? 00:29:15 - Where do we go next - PLC? 00:32:00 - Could an entire SSD be dynamic between SLC and QLC? 00:35:45 - What about new technology Optane 4.0 or MRAM? 00:40:30 - Look out for CXL-enabled SSDs 00:42:40 - 2Tb NAND dies will bring HDD parity Copyright (c) 2016-2022 Unpacked Network. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #34ee.
The 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 into the detail about the improvements. The timeline for PCI Express means we're seeing new PCIe 5.0 devices on the market today, with PCIe 6.0 devices expected in 2025 and PCIe 7.0 supported hardware in 2028. With a certain future for PCI Express, vendors can develop products and have confidence that forward and backward compatibility will be maintained until the end of the decade. For more information on PCI-SIG, go to https://pcisig.com/. Elapsed Time: 00:22:53 Timeline 00:00:00 - Intros00:01:25 - PCIe 6.0 was discussed last March, now we're discussing PCIe 7.000:02:00 - PCIe 7.0 in 2025, a three year cadence.00:03:15 - Compliance is a big benefit of the PCIe standard00:04:00 - PCIe devices are backwards and forwards compatible00:07:00 - Throughput is important but low latency is critical too00:08:30 - PCIe 7.0 will evolve as the standard is developed00:09:15 - PCIe continues to improve in power efficiency00:11:20 - Using next gen PCIe could be to gain cabling or power efficiencies00:13:25 - PCISig is working on standardisation of cabling00:14:05 - Technology is becoming more integrated00:17:30 - Timelines - PCIe 5.0 devices now, announced 201900:18:40 - PCIe 6.0 - announced 2022, devices expected 202500:19:00 - PCIe 7.0 - ratification in 2025, devices expected 202800:20:30 - ESG will put a focus on the ability to use a range of PCIe speeds00:21:30 - Wrap Up Related Podcasts & Blogs #229 - Exploring the PCIe 6.0 Specification with Al Yanes#217 - Introduction to CXL with Jim Pappas Copyright (c) 2016-2022 Unpacked Network. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #pci7.
The 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 […] The post #239 – Unpacking the details of PCI Express 7.0 with Al Yanes appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
Once 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 management, mainly driven by the demands of hyper-scalers. These include Command Duration Limits, Format with Presets and Logical Depopulation. There are also additional features still in discussion that may yet be added in future releases. To learn more about the work of the SCSI Trade Association, hop over to www.scsita.org, or of course, simply listen to our next podcast after Flash Memory Summit 2023. Elapsed Time: 00:00:24:19 Timeline 00:00:00 - Intros 00:01:45 - How has the SCSI/SAS standard evolved? 00:03:00 - There's no need (currently) to go faster than 24Gb 00:03:50 - What features keep SAS relevant in the market? 00:05:35 - Hyper-scalers are driving the use of HDDs and SAS 00:06:50 - What's new in 24Gb+? 00:09:45 - Enterprise customers will use new features (driven by hyper-scalers) 00:10:15 - What is Command Duration Limits (CDL)? 00:11:25 - What is Format with Presets? 00:13:25 - What is Logical Depopulation? 00:17:30 - Drive failure is a part of “normal” operations 00:17:50 - What features are under consideration? 00:20:15 - How will 24Gb+ features be rolled out? 00:22:30 - Wrap Up Related Podcasts & Blogs #74 - All About Serial Attached SCSI with Rick Kutcipal #161 - Seagate MACH.2 Dual Actuator Drive Deep Dive #174 - Introduction to Zoned Storage with Phil Bullinger Copyright (c) 2016-2022 Storage Unpacked. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #fveh.
Once 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 […] The post #238 – SAS 24GB+ Updates with Rick Kutcipal appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
In 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 post #237 – Flash Memory Summit 2022 in Review with Chris Mellor appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
In this episode, recorded life at FMS 2022, Chris chats to IBM Fellow, Storage CTO and FlashSystem Architect, Andy Walls. The post #236 – A FlashCore Module Primer with IBM Fellow & Storage CTO Andy Walls appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
In 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 […] The post #235 – FlashCore Futures with IBM CMO Scott Baker appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
In 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 post #234 – Introducing Pure Storage FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex with CTO Rob Lee (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
In 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 […] The post #233 – Introduction to the VAST Data Ceres Hardware Platform with Jeff Denworth (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
In 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 […] The post #232 – Building Power-Efficient Storage Systems with Justin Emerson from Pure Storage (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked.
In 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.
In 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.
In 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.
In 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.
Infinidat 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.
In 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.
Chris 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.
Chris 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.
In 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.
In 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.
This 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.
Chris 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.
In 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.
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