In 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 platform, or use block storage to build out a distributed file system.

The ability to abstract the physical placement of data from metadata allows customers to choose exactly how to manage their content. Traditional storage platforms have implemented data protection or other management features at the system or hardware level. With Hammerspace, this can now be applied directly to individual files through policies.

Extensible and rich metadata also allows workflow to be applied to data in ways that couldn’t achieved before. Douglas highlights some examples in the recording, including customers with over 100 billion files.

You can find more information on the Hammerspace platform at https://hammerspace.com/ or watch the Tech Field Day recordings at https://techfieldday.com/companies/hammerspace/. Follow Hammerspace on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Hammerspace_Inc and Douglas at https://twitter.com/dfsweden.

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Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intros* 00:02:45 – Hammerspace is an SDS solution, VMs or the cloud* 00:04:10 – Hammerspace can use existing data in place or block storage* 00:06:25 – How is existing data put under Hammerspace management? * 00:09:30 – Hammerspace supports multi-protocol – NFS & SMB* 00:11:00 – Metadata management is a key differentiator in Hammerspace* 00:16:00 – Does Hammerspace use underlying physical storage attributes?* 00:20:25 – Protection is assigned at the data level, not storage* 00:23:00 – Searches generate no I/O load on the underlying storage platform* 00:28:10 – What type of data is deployed on the Hammerspace platform?* 00:32:15 – What if I want to take Hammerspace out of the environment?* 00:36:00 – Migration is one use-case for the Hammerspace platform * 00:37:00 – What container-based support does Hammerspace offer? * 00:39:30 – What is the lightbulb moment?  Demos! * 00:41:00 – Wrap Up

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