Brian invited his friend Nishant Lodha, Marvell’s Director of Emerging Technologies to sit for the podcast. Nishant has been with Marvell for over 13 years. His key responsibilities include subject matter expert, technology evangelist, driving growth in emerging markets, competitive analysis, product positioning, outbound marketing, and hands-on technology analysis.

Nishant has worked with StorageReview on several topics, most recently on Innovation and Reliability Make Fibre Channel the Choice for Data Center SANs. Nishant strongly believes that Fibre Channel is the best solution for SAN deployment, and he is not alone. Look to other vendors, and they will echo his thoughts (although maybe not as loudly).

This is an excellent discussion about SAN technology, where it is, and where it is going. It is worth the 45 minutes, but the time stamp is below if you need to jump around in the video.

00:00  Introduction

05:00  It just works because of the engineering effort

10:00  Deployment cycle

15:00  What about DPUs

20:00  CXL potential

27:00  CPU Interactions

30:00  Economics

35:00  More on VM-ID

40:00  Performance dynamics

46:00  Edge challenges

50:00  Wrap up

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Brian tackles the concept of data deletion on this podcast and why it is essential. Brian’s guest is Dr. Vincent Berk, Chief Strategy Officer at Quantum Xchange.

Brian tackles the concept of data deletion on this podcast and why it is essential. Brian’s guest is Dr. Vincent Berk, Chief Strategy Officer at Quantum Xchange.

Dr. Berk has a Ph.D. in AI/ML and describes himself as an “energetic technologist, entrepreneur, and animated thought leader in cyber security, driving growth through innovative SaaS solutions. He was the founder and CEO of FlowTraq, a cyber security company that Riverbed acquired.”  Dr. Berk is also a blogger, public speaker, and startup advisor. Before his current role, he was a computer science faculty member at Dartmouth College. He urged boards and executives to start viewing their hoarded data as a liability rather than a ticket to incredible growth. He stressed the importance of instituting policies that dealt with data destruction.

Why do we covet our data so passionately? According to Dr. Berk, the affordability, low maintenance, and ease of use of the cloud mean that organizations have an increasing tendency to hoard data. He asserts that this hoarded data is a corporate liability, a detriment to organizations that increases their appeal to bad actors. For example, from December 2022 through February 8, 2023, there have been nine data breach incidents. The unlucky targets included MailChimp, T-Mobile, JD Sports, and others. The Roomba data breach included leaked images from iRobot customers. Check your smart vacuum.

Brian wastes no time jumping right into the discussion by asking Dr. Berk how he got into the notion of people deleting data. It’s an interesting topic that gets overlooked. If you don’t have time to listen all the way through, the time stamps are listed below.

00:00  Intro (Jumping right into the topic)

05:00  Point of diminishing returns

10:00  Good hygiene for data

15:00 It’s hard

20:00  What are the processes

25:00  Philosophical

30:00  What happens when companies get acquired

35:00  Is there an easy button

40:00  Shared docs

45:00 Wrap-up

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Brian sat down with ScaleFlux’s JB Baker for an interesting discussion about computational storage and the impact ScaleFlux has had on the industry. StorageReview has covered ScaleFlux news for several releases, most recently in early January. Check out the review on the CSD 3000 SSD for some background.

Brian sat down with ScaleFlux’s JB Baker for an interesting discussion about computational storage and the impact ScaleFlux has had on the industry. StorageReview has covered ScaleFlux news for several releases, most recently in early January. Check out the review on the CSD 3000 SSD for some background.

Before getting too far into the podcast, computational storage integrates computing resources in the storage itself instead of relying on the host system’s computing resources.

JB is a storage veteran, having worked with Intel, LSI, and Seagate prior to joining ScaleFlux as Sr Director of Product Management. He was recently promoted to VP of Marketing, “helping users efficiently scale data processing, storage, and management.”

It is a candid and relaxed conversation that starts with the evolution of computational storage. JB is not necessarily a fan of the term and explains why early on in the podcast. It’s a fairly short podcast and well worth the time. Watch or listen to the conversation or you can skip around by using the timestamp below. Enjoy.

00:00  Introduction

05:30  Computational Storage Participants

11:30  Technology

16:30  Gen4 Performance

21:00  DPU Technology

25:00  Form factors

31:00  Wrap-up

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Brian recently caught up with Dell’s Michael Richtberg to get the latest on PowerFlexOS and dive into what’s on the roadmap for Storage Products from the Advanced Innovations team.

Brian recently caught up with Dell’s Michael Richtberg to get the latest on PowerFlexOS and dive into what’s on the roadmap for Storage Products from the Advanced Innovations team.

Michael has been a strategist for many years helping technology companies develop the next great “thing.” His specialty is product management, product marketing, M&A, and innovation discovery. Prior to joining Dell EMC in 2014, Michael spent his time working with organizations focused on storage, cloud services, and HCI with an eye on Software-Defined Storage.

StorageReview.com has spent a lot of time with Dell storage platforms and most recently covered the introduction of adding PowerFlex to AWS Marketplace. It’s easy to see Michael’s “fingerprints” all over that achievement.

Michael provides a great description of how the cloud model works for PowerFlex on AWS MarketPlace with real-world examples. If you have time to listen to the full 40 minutes, you will not be disappointed. However, we have broken down the Podcast into five-minute segments to help you get to the topics that are of interest to you.

00:00 Introduction

05:00 Cloud Storage

10:00 More on multi-AZs

15:00 PowerFlex vs PowerScale

21:00 Running on AWS

25:00 Is there an Edge play?

30:00 Product design

35:00 How updates work

40:00 How do customers get there from here?

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Brian connects with Dell’s Product Management VP, David Noy for this week’s podcast. David has a varied background but focuses on software-defined technology, scale-out storage, hyperconverged compute platforms, and data center and cloud virtualization.

Brian connects with Dell’s Product Management VP, David Noy for this week’s podcast. David has a varied background but focuses on software-defined technology, scale-out storage, hyperconverged compute platforms, and data center and cloud virtualization.

If you think back to Dell Technologies World, there were a number of announcements around software-defined and as-a-service options relating to storage and, more specifically, PowerScale. Dell believes the PowerScale is the most flexible and secure scale-out NAS solution on the market. Brian asks some pointed questions about Dell’s as-a-service consumption models as well as SSD partners.

It is an interesting conversation with specifics on Dell tests for SSD endurance and reliability. Dell uses the test results to determine how long the SSDs remain under warranty. David also discusses server densities and how that affects overall TCO. Overall this is a great primer for any PowerScale customer considering the new QLC SSD offering from Dell.

This is an interesting discussion about storage technology and the server market. It is definitely worth the time, but if you want to jump straight into a topic, the timestamps are below.

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00:00 Introduction

05:00 Cloud Delivery

10:00 QLC Drive Capacities

15:00 Bigger capacities are always preferred

20:00 Multi-Source

25:00 Endurance

30:00 Backup products

35:00 Data Security Ownership

40:00 It’s an Antivirus World

45:00 Dell’s supply chain

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Brian catches up with Broadcom’s Rick Kutcipal for this session. Rick is a Product Planner in the Data Center Solutions Group (DCSG) at Broadcom and focuses on storage technology, interfaces, and innovations in that sector. Primarily, Rick is interested in the HDD space and the innovations occurring around that technology.

Brian catches up with Broadcom’s Rick Kutcipal for this session. Rick is a Product Planner in the Data Center Solutions Group (DCSG) at Broadcom and focuses on storage technology, interfaces, and innovations in that sector. Primarily, Rick is interested in the HDD space and the innovations occurring around that technology.

Rick has been with Broadcom since 2014 and spent 14 years with LSI. He is highly regarded in the industry and interested in innovations in all storage sectors.

This podcast covers everything from HDD to SSD to CXL with relevant sidebars. This is an excellent topic if you are interested in where the industry is heading and how Broadcom expects it to shape.

It’s worth viewing the entire podcast, but if you are short of time or have a specific interest, look at the timestamps below.

00:00 Introduction

05:00  OCP Show discussion

12:00  Dual-actuator in the enterprise

15:00  Hyperscalers

20:00  QLC Flash Drives

25:00  Love to see innovation in the space

30:00  DPUs

33:00  Wrap-up

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This week Brian takes us on an HPE GreenLake deep dive with Omer Asad. Omer is SVP & GM of the $1.4 Billion Data Storage, Data Services SaaS, and HyperConverged business at HPE Storage and is responsible for Engineering, Product Management, and Operations for all Data and SaaS services in Storage and Data Infrastructure platforms.

This week Brian takes us on an HPE GreenLake deep dive with Omer Asad. Omer is SVP & GM of the $1.4 Billion Data Storage, Data Services SaaS, and HyperConverged business at HPE Storage and is responsible for Engineering, Product Management, and Operations for all Data and SaaS services in Storage and Data Infrastructure platforms.

A key component of GreenLake is the Alletra product portfolio. HPE Alletra delivers agility and simplicity for every application from edge to cloud and can be provided as a service, or a fully managed turnkey offering, all with the right mix of subscription and usage-based services. Recently, we ran a piece on the Alletra 5000, the latest in the Alletra portfolio.

Prior to becoming a member of the HPE Storage team, Omer was SVP & GM at Nimble Storage, acquired by HPE in 2017. Omer has also led teams at Pure Storage and Riverbed Technology. To say he has a deep technical understanding of customer challenges would be an understatement. In addition to storage, Omer is well versed in cloud and edge solutions.

More on HPE GreenLake from the June launch.

00:00  Introduction

04:40  What is GreenLake?

10:00  Advantages and simplicity

17:00  GreenLake overprovisioning for growth

25:00 Physical vs. the planning

30:00   Provisioned before it gets there

36:00  Customer owns the consoles

40:00  How does GreenLake fit the retail market

45:00  Unexpected benefits of GreenLake

51:00  Wrap Technology – cloud and edge

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For this podcast, Brian connected with Pliops Global VP of Products and Marketing, Tony Afshary. Brian has known Tony for a long time, so this is an effortless conversation with great insight into Pliops, accelerator card technologies, what is driving the market, and what the future might hold.

For this podcast, Brian connected with Pliops Global VP of Products and Marketing, Tony Afshary. Brian has known Tony for a long time, so this is an effortless conversation with great insight into Pliops, accelerator card technologies, what is driving the market, and what the future might hold.

Tony has been in the storage and accelerator technology sector for many years, working for companies like Intel, LSI, and Seagate before joining Pliops.

StorageReview did a detailed, in-depth review on the Pliops XDP recently and found it easy to install and use. The performance numbers were solid. Even giving Software RAID all the benefits available, the Pliops XDP far exceeded expectations based on real-world results.

There is a lot of information in this podcast, focusing on a hot product set. Certainly worth a listen.

00.00 Introduction

05.00 Evolution from RAID cards to Accelerators

11.00 Data Flow

15.00 Dense NAND technology

20:00 SR Tests with Pliops and Solidigm drives

25.00 More about Lanes

30.00 AMD v Intel

35.00 VMware support

40.00 Wrap up

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There continues to be increasing interest in liquid cooling technology but also trepidation in the unlikely event of some sort of leak or spill. Enter ZutaCore HyperCool2 direct-on-chip Enhanced Nucleation Evaporator (ENE), a single, closed-loop two-phase, waterless liquid cooling solution that yields unparalleled heat dissipation at the chip level.

There continues to be increasing interest in liquid cooling technology but also trepidation in the unlikely event of some sort of leak or spill. Enter ZutaCore HyperCool2 direct-on-chip Enhanced Nucleation Evaporator (ENE), a single, closed-loop two-phase, waterless liquid cooling solution that yields unparalleled heat dissipation at the chip level.

Brian invited Udi Paret, ZutaCore’s President, to discuss the technology around this new waterless liquid cooling system and how the data center mindset is changing with more movement to alternative cooling technologies. The benefits of liquid cooling systems are hard to ignore.

The ZutaCore HyperCool2 technology is revolutionizing the market by alleviating cooling boundaries at the chip level, server, rack, POD, and data center levels. Unlike water-based solutions that carry the risk of IT meltdown, HyperCool2 leverages a safe, non-conductive, refrigerant. It is a complete hardware system, enhanced by a software-defined-cooling platform resulting in a low-pressure system that triples computing densities on a fraction of the footprint.

Udi considers himself a strategic and operating executive with a demonstrated international history of success, leading Fortune 500 divisions and Venture Capital start-ups across a wide spectrum of industries like IP networking, data storage, and data center management in the enterprise, System Integrator, and renewable energy domains.

Prior to taking the helm with ZutaCore in 2019,  Udi was engaged with the company as an advisor from 20017 through 2019.  Udi continues to perform duties as an Adviser with Next Energy Technologies, a role he has held since 2014. Next has developed proprietary organic semiconducting materials — Soluble Small Molecule Organic Photovoltaic (SSM-OPV) — that are earth-abundant, low cost, and non-toxic.

Udi brings a lot of data center and cooling technology knowledge to this podcast. He also recognizes the need for companies to get up to speed on energy efficiencies and power management in small to massive data centers. This is a technology that will gain traction, so give this a listen.

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00:00 Introduction

05:00 Where ZutaCore fits

10:00 Comparisons

15:00 Keeping it cool

20:00 Talking about the loop

25:00 System maintenance

30:00 Data Center envelopes

35:00 AI is driving hardware growth

40:00 Mainstream vs. Hyper Scale markets

45:00 Economics

50:00 Gathering data to make systems more energy efficient

55:00 Wrap up

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Brian invites Jeff Ready to talk about //Scale Computing and their HCI product and edge computing during this very informative podcast. StorageReview.com recently profiled //Scale Computing and created a short youtube video showing the steps to set up the //Scale Computing HCI cluster. Let’s say it works as advertised.

Brian invites Jeff Ready to talk about //Scale Computing and their HCI product and edge computing during this very informative podcast. StorageReview.com recently profiled //Scale Computing and created a short youtube video showing the steps to set up the //Scale Computing HCI cluster. Let’s say it works as advertised.

Jeff describes himself as “a high-tech executive with a passion for entrepreneurship.” He is the founder and CEO of //Scale Computing, delivering edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions. Jeff continues to lead after 15 years through multiple rounds of funding, explosive growth, and many industry changes.

Jeff is passionate about entrepreneurship and startups in technology and non-tech ventures. To keep himself busy, he sits on the board of three companies and is chairman of the GEO Foundation, a non-profit organization that creates innovative schools across the country in the communities that will benefit the most. And he is co-founder of Centerpoint Brewing Company in Indianapolis.

After watching this podcast, it will be evident that Jeff is passionate about //Scale Computing and technology. This is an interesting conversation, and Jeff is forthcoming on all the topics. The podcast will seem to fly by, but if you need to hop around, the timestamp is listed below.

00:00 Introduction

10:00 Categorize //Scale

16:00 Disaggregation

20:00 It should be easy to use

25:00 Mid-Market focus

30:00 The abstraction

39:00 //Scale messaging

44:00 Broadcom purchase of VMware

52:00 //Scale has a different approach

1:00:00 How are customers using //Scale

1:06:00 Wrap-up

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