In this podcast, recorded in December 2017, Chris talks to Nigel Tozer, Solutions Marketing Director, EMEA at Commvault.  Today the subject is GDPR, otherwise known as the General Data Protection Regulation.  GDPR is an update to existing data protection legislation that is meant to reflect the needs of EU citizens in protecting their personal data in a digital age.

Chris and Nigel talk through the issues, some of the steps end users can take and how Commvault offers solutions to bring businesses in line with GDPR.

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Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intro

* 00:01:40 – What is GDPR?

* 00:03:40 – Why is GDPR such a big deal now?

* 00:05:00 – Will GDPR have the bite to match the bark?

* 00:07:44 – How have the rules been tightened in the UK compared to previous data protection?

* 00:09:00 – Reduce the legalise, please!

* 00:10:00 – Portability and ownership of data, how will it work?

* 00:12:00 – It’s people, process and technology.

* 00:13:00 – What practical changes need to be made?

* 00:15:00 – Right to be forgotten versus the law – who wins?

* 00:17:19 – What about technology?

* 00:20:30 – The positive side of GDPR

* 00:23:20 – Will people change their behaviour?

* 00:27:00 – Wrap Up

In the podcast, Nigel mentioned the ICO statement regarding the Uber breach.  More details are here (The Independent).  For more details on Commvault’s GDPR solutions and advice, check out www.commvault.com/gdpr.

In this podcast, recorded in December 2017, Chris talks to Nigel Tozer, Solutions Marketing Director, EMEA at Commvault.  Today the subject is GDPR, otherwise known as the General Data Protection Regulation.  GDPR is an update to existing data protection legislation that is meant to reflect the needs of EU citizens in protecting their personal data […]

In this podcast, recorded on 21 November 2017, Chris, Gavin and Martin talk about thoughts from Chris’ recent trips to CommVault GO, Storage Field Day 14 and NetApp Insight.  The CommVault and SFD14 events were held in the US, with NetApp Insight talking place in Berlin, Germany.  At Storage Field Day, Dell EMC, E8 Storage, Scality and Congruity 360 presented.  This podcast talks about the Dell EMC presentations. E8 Storage has been a recent podcast guest.

Feelings on the events and content were mixed.  Some good and some bad.  What do you think?  Leave us your feedback as a comment or on Twitter.  You could even use our LinkedIn group.

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Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intro

* 00:01:00 – CommVault – great data protection, what else do they do?

* 00:03:00 – GDPR – the world is going to end!!

* 00:05:00 – Robert Swan – 2041.com, trek to the South pole

* 00:06:00 – Apologies in advance to all marketing people…

* 00:06:30 – Storage Field Day 14 and Dell EMC.

* 00:07:00 – The benefit of SRDF on VMAX and XtremIO X2.

* 00:08:00 – Back to the data services question again

* 00:11:00 – Dell EMC Midrange discussion

* 00:13:30 – Dell EMC Backup solutions.

* 00:14:30 – The marketing hype of Ransomware

* 00:16:00 – Creating consistency across backup solutions – please!

* 00:17:00 – Everybody loves an EBC

* 00:18:30 – NetApp Insight, moving on from Las Vegas to Berlin

* 00:20:00 – Differentiating HCI offerings

* 00:25:00 – Railing on Microsoft

* 00:27:00 – Looking ahead to AWS re:Invent

* 00:28:30 – Gartner infrastructure conferences

* 00:29:00 – Bananarama and Rick Parfitt Jr Band

* 00:30:30 – Wrap up

Companies & Products Referenced

Equifax, CommVault, Dell EMC, VMAX, XtremIO, Equallogic, Dell SC, Unity, VNX, HPE, NetApp HCI, SolidFire, Nutanix, AHV, Microsoft Azure, NFS for Azure.

Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Storage Unpacked.  No reproduction or re-use without permission.

 

In this podcast, recorded on 21 November 2017, Chris, Gavin and Martin talk about thoughts from Chris’ recent trips to CommVault GO, Storage Field Day 14 and NetApp Insight.  The CommVault and SFD14 events were held in the US, with NetApp Insight talking place in Berlin, Germany.  At Storage Field Day, Dell EMC, E8 Storage, […]

In this podcast, recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin, November 2017, Chris talks to Martin Cooper, Senior Director of Field Engineering, Next Generation Data Centre.  The conversation introduces HCI, NetApp’s hyper-converged offering, which recently went GA.  NetApp HCI uses SolidFire storage and scales differently to traditional HCI solutions in that the processor cores aren’t shared by storage and compute.  Instead each is delivered as a separate server, more like CI.

Martin and Chris discuss the reasons for this architectural choice and how it fits a different market space than traditional hyper-converged solutions.

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Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intro

* 00:00:40 – Crowd control at the HCI Booth!

* 00:01:00 – HCI – first internally developed product for some time (FlashRay?)

* 00:02:45 – FlexpodSF – Flexed on Cisco using ElementOS

* 00:03:30 – NetApp HCI, how is it differentiated?

* 00:06:00 – Exploiting the SolidFire architecture – programmable storage

* 00:06:30 – Day one support – vSphere – but it could be used for other things

* 00:09:00 – Integrating into the “Data Fabric” story – the infrastructure fabric

* 00:11:00 – Wrap Up

Links

* NetApp HCI homepage

* NetApp Blogs (filter middle option on HCI)

Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Storage Unpacked.  No reproduction or re-use without permission.

In this podcast, recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin, November 2017, Chris talks to Martin Cooper, Senior Director of Field Engineering, Next Generation Data Centre.  The conversation introduces HCI, NetApp’s hyper-converged offering, which recently went GA.  NetApp HCI uses SolidFire storage and scales differently to traditional HCI solutions in that the processor cores aren’t shared by storage and compute.  Instead each is delivered as a separate server, more like CI.

Martin and Chris discuss the reasons for this architectural choice and how it fits a different market space than traditional hyper-converged solutions.

Elapsed Time: 00:11:54

Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intro

* 00:00:40 – Crowd control at the HCI Booth!

* 00:01:00 – HCI – first internally developed product for some time (FlashRay?)

* 00:02:45 – FlexpodSF – Flexed on Cisco using ElementOS

* 00:03:30 – NetApp HCI, how is it differentiated?

* 00:06:00 – Exploiting the SolidFire architecture – programmable storage

* 00:06:30 – Day one support – vSphere – but it could be used for other things

* 00:09:00 – Integrating into the “Data Fabric” story – the infrastructure fabric

* 00:11:00 – Wrap Up

Links

* NetApp HCI homepage

* NetApp Blogs (filter middle option on HCI)

Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Storage Unpacked.  No reproduction or re-use without permission.

In this podcast, recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin, November 2017, Chris talks to Martin Cooper, Senior Director of Field Engineering, Next Generation Data Centre.  The conversation introduces HCI, NetApp’s hyper-converged offering, which recently went GA.  NetApp HCI uses SolidFire storage and scales differently to traditional HCI solutions in that the processor cores aren’t shared […]

This podcast was recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin on 15 November 2017.  Chris talks to Dave Hitz, founder of NetApp Inc.  The conversation is fairly free flowing, covering a general discussion on data management, NetApp’s positioning with Azure NFS and how we can expect to see hybrid cloud work in the future.  You’ll notice there’s no discussion on any hardware products at all and little product discussion of any kind.

This conversation could have continued for hours (and in fact we did continue off-air), but we kept it to 20 minutes.

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Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intro

* 00:00:30 – Embracing the cloud

* 00:01:30 – Azure Files, NFS?  What’s it called?

* 00:03:30 – Linux in Azure – 30% or 40%

* 00:05:00 – Transforming into data management

* 00:06:00 – The stickiness of cloud – additional functionality creates a pull

* 00:08:20 – What is big data?  Big files, big downloads or lots of complex content?

* 00:09:30 – Yes, the UK is still part of the EU for now and we will have GDPR

* 00:11:00 – Data security, how do we fix it – is the cloud more or less secure?

* 00:12:00 – Public reporting of data breaches, Sunshine laws

* 00:13:00 – How long will we have a hybrid world?

* 00:15:00 – Three ways to build IT

* 00:17:30 – Will NetApp become a service provider?

* 00:19:00 – Wrap up

Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Storage Unpacked.  No reproduction or re-use without permission.

This podcast was recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin on 15 November 2017.  Chris talks to Dave Hitz, founder of NetApp Inc.  The conversation is fairly free flowing, covering a general discussion on data management, NetApp’s positioning with Azure NFS and how we can expect to see hybrid cloud work in the future.  You’ll notice there’s no discussion on any hardware products at all and little product discussion of any kind.

This conversation could have continued for hours (and in fact we did continue off-air), but we kept it to 20 minutes.

Elapsed Time: 00:19:05

Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intro

* 00:00:30 – Embracing the cloud

* 00:01:30 – Azure Files, NFS?  What’s it called?

* 00:03:30 – Linux in Azure – 30% or 40%

* 00:05:00 – Transforming into data management

* 00:06:00 – The stickiness of cloud – additional functionality creates a pull

* 00:08:20 – What is big data?  Big files, big downloads or lots of complex content?

* 00:09:30 – Yes, the UK is still part of the EU for now and we will have GDPR

* 00:11:00 – Data security, how do we fix it – is the cloud more or less secure?

* 00:12:00 – Public reporting of data breaches, Sunshine laws

* 00:13:00 – How long will we have a hybrid world?

* 00:15:00 – Three ways to build IT

* 00:17:30 – Will NetApp become a service provider?

* 00:19:00 – Wrap up

Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Storage Unpacked.  No reproduction or re-use without permission.

This podcast was recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin on 15 November 2017.  Chris talks to Dave Hitz, founder of NetApp Inc.  The conversation is fairly free flowing, covering a general discussion on data management, NetApp’s positioning with Azure NFS and how we can expect to see hybrid cloud work in the future.  You’ll notice […]