SNW USA Spring 2013 in Orland Florida, while Im waiting for my flight home,

Bruce Ravid catches up with Marc Farely now with Microsoft after they bought storsimple, and before that HP after they bought 3PAR, after he left Dell when they acquired Equallogic among others. Bruce and Marc talk basketball, industry trends, Dell and SNW.

SNW USA Spring 2013 in Orland Florida, while Im waiting for my flight home, Bruce Ravid catches up with Tony DiCenzo of Oracle and SNIA for a quick hallway conversation. Their conversation covers SNW spring 2013 and industry trends.

SNW USA Spring 2013 in Orland Florida, Bruce Ravid and our guest SNIA Chairman Wayne Adams join me. Wayne was one of our first podcast guests back in fall of 2012 and he returns to give us a SNIA spring 2013 update. Wayne updates us on what is new with SNIA including their new SPDEcon conference (check out the separate podcast for that), along with SMIS, Cloud, education tutorials, videos and more. Listen to our conversation and check out the snia.org website.

SNW USA Spring 2013 in Orland Florida, I am joined by Bruce Ravid and our guest Justin Stottlemyer, Shutterfly Fellow and Storage Architect. Our conversation centers on how Justin and Shutterfly maximize their return on innovation (the new ROI) by using object storage along with other technology and techniques to create a resilient, scalable flexible data infrastructure. Listen in to hear how Justin and Shutterfly are currently managing 80PB of storage with over 30PB of user data that continues to grow.

SNW USA Spring 2013 in Orland Florida, Im joined by Bruce Ravid and our guest SNIA Chairman Wayne Adams and from SNIA Education SW Worth. Our conversation centers around the new SNIA SPDEcon conference that will occur June 10th in Santa Clara California with a tag line of being for experts by experts and those who want to become storage experts. Listen to our conversation and check out the snia.org and snia.org/spdecon websites to signup and participate in this new event.

In this episode, we go virtual, both with the topic (virtualization) and communicating around the world via Skype. My guest is Alastair Cooke (@DemitasseNZ) who joins me from New Zealand to talk about VMware education, training and social networking. Some of the topics that we cover include vForums, vBrownbags, VMware VCDX certification, VDI, Autolab, Professional vBrownbag tech talks, coffee and more. If you are into server virtualization or virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI), or need to learn more, Alastair talks about some great resources. Check out Alastairs site www.demitasse.co.nz for more information about the AutoLab, training and education, along with the vBrownbag podcasts that are also available on iTunes.

Jim Handy of Objective Analysis at the LSI AIS (Accelerating Innovation Summit) 2012 in San Jose. Our conversation includes SSD past, present and future, market and industry trends, who are doing what and things to keep an eye and ear, open for along with server, storage and memory convergence.

Ceph day in Amsterdam Holland event at the Tobacco Theatre hosted by on42.com and inktank.com. My guest for this episode is Curtis (Mr. Backup) Preston of Backup School and Truth in IT fame where we discuss what is Ceph and object storage, cloud storage, file systems, backup and data protection along with dinner we had at an Indonesian restaurant. Also check out the companion to this podcast where I meet up with Ceph Creator Sage Weil while at Ceph Day. Note that this is a special episode in that while Im recording the podcast, Curtis is recording a video of our discussion for his truebit.tv site.

Ceph day in Amsterdam Holland event at the Tobacco Theatre. My guest for this episode is Ceph (Cephalanthera) creator Sage Weil who is also the founder of inktank.com that provides services and support for the open source based Ceph project. For those not familiar with Ceph, it is an open source distributed object scale out software platform that can be used for deploying cloud and managed services, general purpose storage for research, commercial, scientific, high performance computing (HPC) or high productivity computing (commercial) along with backup or data protection and archiving destinations. During our conversation Sage presents an overview of what Ceph is (e.g. Ceph for non Dummies), where and how it can be used, some history of the project and how it fits in with or provides an alternative to other solutions. Sage also talks about the business or commercial considerations for open source based projects, importance of community and having good business mentors and partners as well as staying busy with his young family. If you are a Ceph fan, gain more insight into Sage along with Ceph day sponsors Inktank and 42on. On the other hand, if you new to object storage, open source storage software or cloud storage, listen in to gain perspectives of where technology such as Ceph fits for public, private, hybrid or traditional environments.

Frankfurt Germany with Ben Woo of Neuralytix.com. Our conversation includes cloud; big data and how buzzword bingo technology focused discussions can result in missed business benefits for both vendors and customers. We also reminisce about MTI where we worked together along with protecting home storage.