David Tuhy, amongst other things, is the GM - Data Center Optane Storage Division, at Intel. In this podcast Brian and David discuss the modern data center and the impact of Optane SSDs on these architectures. Some of the new use cases include traditional architectures like Dell EMC PowerStore, which is using dual-ported Optane NVMe SSDs. For an emerging use case, David highlights VAST Data, which has a software-defined solution that leverages Optane SSDs in conjunction with low-cost QLC SSDs to deliver a blend of performance and aggressive economics.

Caitlin Gordon joins Brian on this podcast to talk all things Dell EMC PowerStore with a little Brady/Gronk mixed in. PowerStore is an entirely new platform for Dell EMC that is intended to take over as the lead product in the all-flash midmarket space. The clean sheet design allowed Dell EMC to take the best of their existing lines like XtremIO and SC Storage to create a platform that is actually quite unique. PowerStore scales both up and out, and has the ability to run apps natively on the box, which adds a little flair of HCI to the equation.

In this week's podcast Brian talks with Alex Kantrowitz, author of the new book Always Day One. In his book, Alex profiles a number of the tech giants we all know and maybe love, including Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook. The book highlights what these companies are doing culturally to encourage innovation.

In this week's podcast Brian sits down with Geoffrey Cain, author of an amazing book, Samsung Rising.  Geoffrey details in amazing clarity the origins of Samsung - documenting the scandals, success and failures along the way. The book covers off on the rise of the semiconductor business as well, which includes details on how that NAND business got off the ground in the first place. Spoiler alert, this involves ripping off Micron by memorizing and copying their engineering designs. Moves like this would have led to mass arrests for corporate espionage today, but in the 80s, Samsung was used to getting away with such behavior.

In this week's podcast Brian sits down with Jeff Kennedy from Eaton. Brian and Jeff discuss Eaton's new line of racks designed for edge use cases. Incidentally, StorageReview just had the Eaton MiniRaQ come into the lab, YouTube video coming very soon. The edge racks are designed to be wall-mounted and can fit a full-length server (22-35") and come in sizes from 2U to 10U. Brian and Jeff also cover off on PDUs, Eaton's IT Galaxy infographic game and much more.

In this week's podcast Brian sits down with Howard Lo, Vice President of Sales and Marketing of DataON. DataON provides an extensive set of products and services around Microsoft solutions. In our experience with DataON, that's meant Azure Stack HCI primarily. Howard walks through the latest developments in their business, what customers are doing with Azure Stack HCI and dives into their new two-node switchless HCI solution for small offices and edge use cases. In fact, there's a Kepler system en route to the StorageReview lab right now, expect a new video next week. Howard closes out the podcast interview with dangerous poker advice.

On this week's podcast Brian talks with Simon Taylor, CEO of HYCU. HYCU is a backup and recovery provider who started out not long ago as a dedicated backup application for Nutanix HCI systems. Simon talks through the origins of HYCU and what they're doing today to enable newly supported Azure cloud backup. For those that want to try out HYCU for Azure, they're offering a free three month trial.

In the podcast this week Brian interviews Dakota Calvert from SanDisk. The guys discuss what it means for SanDisk to be reliable for content creators, and emerging tech to support creators, like memory cards capable of 1700MB/s reads. Additionally the team covers off on all things Corona, including events being pushed back, Dell Tech World is now in October as a virtual event, VeeamON was also pushed back and virtual only.

In this week's podcast Christina Garza joins us from Western Digital. More specifically, Christina is a Sr. Manager of Product marketing, leading global marketing strategy for WD's G-Technology brand. G-Technology has been around for a very long time, offering premium portable and desktop storage for creative pros. Brian and Christina discuss modern workflows for professionals and the need to have good storage to make it all go faster. Additionally the podcast team breaks down the news of the week, discusses upcoming projects with iXsystems, Asigra, Seagate and much more, including Brian declaring. the Lenovo SE350 as the most innovative device he's seen in the last 6 months.

This week’s podcast features an interview with Krish Prasad from VMware. VMware had a big week this week with many launches including vSphere 7, vSAN 7 & updates to Tanzu. Krish walks us through the key vSphere updates, with a deep look at much of what VMware is doing with many investments in Kubernetes and next generation applications.