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- Podcast #122: Navigating The AI Landscape: Real-World Insights And Challenges
This week Brian sits down with our own AI expert, Jordan Ranous, to discuss and speculate on the challenges facing enterprises and small businesses as they try to get a grip on the hot topic of the decade, Artificial Intelligence. If you have been following StorageReview, then you are aware of some of the tests, reviews, and trials we have been exploring in our lab. Jordan is engaged in almost all AI content posted on our site.
This week Brian sits down with our own AI expert, Jordan Ranous, to discuss and speculate on the challenges facing enterprises and small businesses as they try to get a grip on the hot topic of the decade, Artificial Intelligence. If you have been following StorageReview, then you are aware of some of the tests, reviews, and trials we have been exploring in our lab. Jordan is engaged in almost all AI content posted on our site.
Jordan is an experienced AI technologist with a background working with financial institutions. Brian always offers his guests some tough questions, and Jordan gets the same treatment. AI is such a hot topic, and the buzz in the industry just keeps getting louder, generating more questions than answers. Jordan has a rare talent of being an expert in AI and being able to articulate answers that can be easily understood.
This is the first podcast that we’re actually integrating live with our Discord community so they can interact and ask questions on topics we are hitting at that moment.
If it’s AI-related, Brian and Jordan talk about it. It is certainly worth watching the podcast in its entirety, but if you would like to hop around, we have the time-stamped transcript below.
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00:00 Introduction
- Setting the stage for the live event
- Invited the StorageReveiw Discord community
- Exploring AI in the lab
- Hands-on
- Recapping Flash Memory Summit (FMS
- AI Vision Demo
- SR Sloths stole the show
- AI does not have a universal definition
- Generative AI tools
- ChatGPT
- Dall-E
- Generative AI vs AGI (artificial general intelligence)
- Computer Vision
- A subset of broader AI
- Object recognition
- Image Datasets
05:00 Finetuning the model
- Business Intelligence
- Categorizing images
- Identifying brands rather than just shapes
- Self-checkout
- Loss Prevention
- Creating the Datasets
- Training data
- Install disparity between enterprise and small retail shops
- Tools for AI
- Leveraging the right tools for the job
- Implementation challenges
- Creating chatbots for various industries
10:00 Chatbots for customer service
- Chatbot is programmed to fix the problem, not initiate transferring the call
- Pressing zero doesn’t do anything
- Creating higher frustration for customers
- Catching AI doing something it shouldn’t
- AI has the potential to hyperextend in any direction
- Keep an eye on your AI model to keep it honest and focused
- Quality data means quality results
15:00 Security is paramount
- Inherent biases in AI
- Training data collection is critical
- Gather a diverse group to build the training data
- Proper finetuning
- Be careful of the persona you create
- Doom server demo
- AI’s talking trash
- AI gamers fighting each other and making disparaging jokes
- AI understood the assignment and acted upon it
- Ethics
- Enterprises might be reluctant to provide too much information
- Know where it should go
- And where it might go
- The fear of the unknown
20:00 Active Directory for access levels
- Keeping data secure and available to appropriate teams
- Call centers probably do not need access to proprietary marketing material
- NeMo Guardrails
- How questions are asked or how to prompt the question
- Hiring Prompt Engineers
- Support tools
- Democratizing the toolset
25:00 What’s the on-ramp for small businesses
- Set up internally
- Create solid prompts
- Do the simple stuff first
- Ease into the technology
- Understand how it works
- Understand limitations
- Use an AI model to analyze CRM data
- Help with sales forecasts
- Analyzing the sales funnel
- Use built-in tools
- Not every business needs a custom model
30:00 What’s a good starting point
- Fund IT for AI APIs
- Consume available tools
- Employ a paid version of ChatGPT4
- Monitor billing
- API provides additional freedom
35:00 What about the hardware
- Workstations with GPUs
- Keep GPUs busy
- Parallelize
- Rack space consideration
- Liquid or Air cooled
- TBs of storage
- GPUs take slots that might have been used for storage
- How much power can a rack support
40:00 Dell’s latest CPU servers
- Fast, shared storage
- Software
- SSDs
- E1.S
- Inferencing cards
- Ultra-high-speed servers and workstations
45:00 Where cloud can benefit AI
- OVH
- Cloud is a valuable resource
- Hourly billing
50:00 Wrap-up
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52 min - Podcast #121: Simplifying Data Protection with an Integrated Appliance
We recently spent some time with the Dell PowerProtect Appliance, posting an in-depth review that illustrates the operational simplicity often overlooked when securing mission-critical data. Dell put a lot of thought into ensuring simplicity in the setup, configuration, and management of the PowerProtect Appliance. The intuitive interface walks a user through the entire process, from installation to data protection.
We recently spent some time with the Dell PowerProtect Appliance, posting an in-depth review that illustrates the operational simplicity often overlooked when securing mission-critical data. Dell put a lot of thought into ensuring simplicity in the setup, configuration, and management of the PowerProtect Appliance. The intuitive interface walks a user through the entire process, from installation to data protection.
Brian went to Hopkinson to get an up-close introduction to the new PowerProtect Appliance and was duly impressed with the design and the software that powers the appliance. As a follow-up, Brian invited David Noy, the Vice President of Product Management at Dell Technologies, to join him for a podcast and find out what went into the design and where the product is headed in the future. The discussion gives us a better understanding of this seamlessly integrated appliance that can be up and running in just 15 minutes, ensuring data protection from the start.
David has been with Dell Technologies since 2021, but this was an encore, having worked with Dell EMC between 2012 and 2017. His background covers data protection and storage, so this was a perfect fit. David spent time with Cohesity and Veritas in a previous life, and before rejoining Dell, he was the Vice President of Product Management At VAST Data. A solid history working with data storage and securing that data.
Securing data is a critical topic, and this podcast covers topics that help Dell stay at the top of its game. Give it a listen, but if you don’t have time to listen to the whole thing, check the timestamps below to jump to the topics that interest you.
00:00 Introduction
- Product background
- Hardware
- Software
- PDM -PowerProtect Data Manager
- Protect Data Domain
- Virtualization, cloud, containers
05:00 Reducing cloud backups
- Storing images for security
- Ability to scale
- IDPA
- Steps to a fully integrated solution
- Keeping it simple
10:00 Consolidating functions
- The litmus test to determine ease of use
- Consistent results in getting PowerProtect up and running
- Our interaction with PowerProtect Appliance
- Disparate teams working together
- Hardware descriptions
- Built on PowerEdge Server
- Future proof
- Penetration testing
15:00 Cybersecurity
- Integration with the cyber stack
- Snapshots
- Speed of backup and restore
- Easier licensing model
- Planned growth
- Built to be containerized
- Product focus
- Expanding enterprise markets
20:00 What customers ask for
- Targeting backup between 200-800 TB
- Maybe up to a petabyte
- Five PB versus five one PB backup
- Cloud protection
- Cyber protection vault
- Driving cloud consumption
- Ability to tier and replicate
- AI and retail
- Use case for internal cloud
25:00 Kubernetes integration
- Next-generation data protection
- NAS
- Adding support for Hadoop
- Workload support
- On-prem vs. public cloud
- Cloud Snapshot manager
30:00 Unifying management on a single product
- Multicloud strategy
- Protecting multi-availability zones, multiple regions
- Make a plan and test it
35:00 Create and test the playbook
- Integration with other Dell products
- Better Together story
- Giving customers choices
40:00 Data Mobility
- How to orchestrate mobility
- Simple, secure, modern, resilient
- The importance of resilience
- How to get hands-on
45:00 Conclusion
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46 min - Podcast #120: Seagate Exos CORVAULT
Recently, Brian took a trip to Longmont, Colorado, to look at the Seagate Exos CORVAULT, a high-density storage platform five years in the making! We followed up his visit by posting a deep dive into the CORVAULT, looking at everything from unboxing to setup and highlighting the many features associated with this technology.
Recently, Brian took a trip to Longmont, Colorado, to look at the Seagate Exos CORVAULT, a high-density storage platform five years in the making! We followed up his visit by posting a deep dive into the CORVAULT, looking at everything from unboxing to setup and highlighting the many features associated with this technology.
Brian’s guest on this show is Erik Salo, Seagate’s vice president of product and business marketing. Erik has been with Seagate for over ten years and has had his hands on everything from distribution, storage, and cloud-edge technology. With that kind of background, Erik was the perfect choice to get some background on this new storage platform.
The concept for CORVAULT was hatched during a meeting, thinking about all the sophisticated and innovative technology used in building Seagate products. Erik believed that, instead of thinking of storage in single 3.5-inch increments, it might be time to think in terms of hundreds of those 3.5-inch products in a high-density platform. The discussion moved to cloud storage, and the numbers just kept growing.
This is a podcast with plenty of detail about what goes into creating a product like CORVAULT. It is certainly worth a view, but if you need just to hit some highlights, the video is transcribed below.
00:00 Introduction (recorded on-site in Longmont, CO)
- CORVAULT background
- Think about storage differently
- How to manage those disks
- Focus
- Erasure encoding
- Failure management
05:00 Dramatic changes in scale
- Server overhead
- Server management
- Inefficiency when making all products the same
- Built for resiliency
- Costs
- Erik’s history in replacing drives
- Smart drives
10:00 Smart drives know
- Servers are smart enough to know what capacity remains
- Self-resilient systems
- Who makes up the customer population
- Enterprise
- Cloud
- Staying focused
- How do customers decide on storage technology
- What do they want to do
- How do they want to do it
- How much will it cost
- What hardware is available
15:00 Building out infrastructures in the lab
- Focus on core competence
- How software uses storage
- Deciding what goes into a system
- Keep it simple
- Use cases for specific products
- What if a customer doesn’t need 106 drives
- A smaller unit with all the same features
20:00 Bigger, Bigger, Bigger
- From floppies to Terabytes
- How much of the data is useful
- Surveillance videos
- Sophistication
25:00 Helping customer figure out what’s next
- Seagate is an adopter of all the technology
- AI
- High volume manufacturer
- Components are still hard to get
- Companies stopped ordering during COVID
- Seagate has a long-term view
30:00 How to get customers interested
- Three step process
- Reference ArchitectureWhat about flash
- Provide demo unit
- Performance of CORVAULT
- What is the system tuned for
- What about flash
- Managing supply chain
35:00 Conclusion
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37 min - Podcast #118: Going Deep on Microsoft Azure Arc, Cloud, Managed SQL, AVD, HCI and More!
Brian invited Ernie Costa to join him for this podcast. Ernie is a Team Lead at Commvault and a Microsoft Azure Hybrid MVP (Most Valuable Professional). Ernie’s LinkedIn profile lists his background as a Systems Administrator, Engineer, and Architect with 20 years of Enterprise, SMB, Financial, Hospitality, and Educational experience.
Brian invited Ernie Costa to join him for this podcast. Ernie is a Team Lead at Commvault and a Microsoft Azure Hybrid MVP (Most Valuable Professional). Ernie’s LinkedIn profile lists his background as a Systems Administrator, Engineer, and Architect with 20 years of Enterprise, SMB, Financial, Hospitality, and Educational experience.
He was involved with data center operations, on-premises and cloud infrastructure design and implementation, networking architecting, project management, vendor contract negotiations, and multi-tier Help Desk procedures. Ernie knows his way around the data center and the cloud.
As mentioned above, Ernie is also a Microsoft MVP. To put the MVP title into context, Microsoft describes the “award” this way:
“Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the “bleeding edge” and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products, and solutions to solve real-world problems. MVPs make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries/regions and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and quest for knowledge. Above all, and in addition to their amazing technical abilities, MVPs are always willing to help others – that’s what sets them apart.”
Taking advantage of Ernie’s MVP Award, their conversation gets into Microsoft Azure Arc, Managed SQL Server, HCI Stack, and more.
Podcast #87: What’s Next for Azure Stack HCI with Cosmos Darwin?
Podcast #119 timestamp:
00 Introduction
- Background
- Current role with Commvault
- Microsoft consumption
- Azure
- Hyper-V
- Azure Stack HCI
05 Hypervisor and HCI
- Why Hyper-V?
- On-prem HCI
- Reasons for HCI from an internal perspective
10 Hybrid model
- Folding all Azure Cloud features into an on-prem HCI
- Governance and Security
- Azure Arc
- What is Arc
- Branding term
- A suite of cloud-connected technologies
- Management
15 Virtual Appliance
- SQL Server deployment
- SQL on Linux
- Everything gets handled for you
- It’s less worry about
- Containerization
20 Server Names
- Naming conventions
- Operational benefits
- Test environments
- Manual vs. Automation
25 Azure Stack vs. Azure Cloud
- Similarities
- On-prem vs. cloud management
- Kubernetes tools
- Arc delivers all the visibility
30 Costs
- It costs to have it cloud easy
- Azure Stack HCI is cost-effective and fast
- Early support was spotty
- Support today is better
35 Other services
- AVD – Azure Virtual Desktop on HCI
- Thin Clients
- Security
- Corporate espionage
- Data exfiltration
40 Dispersed Workforce
- Global workforces
- Data Gravity
- On-premise virtual desktops
- GPU Partitioning
45 Azure Stack HCI update cadence
- Management
- Microsoft remote support through Azure
- Network desired state
- How to experience Azure Arc
- Azure Arc Jumpstart
50 Sandbox
- SQL Server Managed Instance
- Powershell
- That’s a wrap
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53 min - Podcast#117: Fibre Channel Still Tops for Virtualization
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
- Candid introduction
- VMware vSphere integration
- Bringing the data center on-prem
- Operational simplicity and reliability
05:00 It just works because of the engineering effort
- Fibre Channel versus the “new things”
- NVMe
- NVMe over Fabrics
- ESXi support
- Adoption
10:00 Deployment cycle
- Currently, a small number of adopters for NVMe over fabrics
- How to be successful with NVMe
- The hardware is pretty solid
- The software is taking longer
- critical features are lacking
- ESXi 8 should be the driving factor
15:00 What about DPUs
- How will it transform the industry
- Used as networking/accelerators
- VMware bringing DPUs on-prem
- Storage applications are typically mission-critical
- DPUs are proven for networking
- DPUs could offload storage processing
- CXL timeframe
20:00 CXL potential
- CXL opportunity
- How do technologies impact engineering
- How server vendors prioritize technology
- How lanes are utilized
27:00 CPU Interactions
- Cooling
- Green initiatives
- Visibility into energy consumption
30:00 Economics
- Energy consumption
- Management and visualization
- vVols
- Loss of visibility
- Challenges with monitoring external applications
- Troubleshooting challenges
- VM-ID
35:00 More on VM-ID
- Worldwide unique IDs
- Using the data to determine the impact
- Future of performance capabilities
- Speed discussion
- 64G FC arrays
40:00 Performance dynamics
- Migrations with FC
- Congestion issues
- Drivers for increased speeds
- Intelligent and value-driven
- What’s at the edge
- Infrastructure is stretched
- Retrain the workforce
46:00 Edge challenges
- Unmanaged/unmanned
- We need to add more storage at the edge
- Higher performance at the edge
- Cost
- Making devices autonomous
- Vendor direction
50:00 Wrap up
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53 min - Podcast #116: Delete those files!
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)
- Why the interest in data deletion
- Risk profile
- Why keep all that data
- Inexpensive to store
- Risk vs. Liability
05:00 Point of diminishing returns
- It depends on what you will do with the data
- Examples of value
- Medication
- Social Media
- Finding a way to use the data
- Risk profile
- Is the value higher for older or current data
- Purpose
10:00 Good hygiene for data
- Encrypt
- The cost of keeping data
- Reasons to keep the data
- Violation
- Remediation
15:00 It’s hard
- Data is stored everywhere now
- files
- databases
- cloud
- wire
- Who is responsible
- Risk justification
- Where to start
- Legal Ramifications
20:00 What are the processes
- Encrypt or destroy
- Long-term costs
- Green initiatives
25:00 Philosophical
- Should the Internet “forget” data
- Leaving the decision to the social media companies
- Clicking the “I agree” box without reading the content
30:00 What happens when companies get acquired
- Risk to backups
- Bad actors go for the backups
- Is it necessary to backup
- What do cloud service providers say?
- Cloud is just different
- Encrypt
- who has access to the keys
- What data does need to be kept
- orphaned data
35:00 Is there an easy button
- Externalized cost of the benefit of the computing industry
- Drawbacks
- Losing data is the exception
- What happens to the data during troubleshooting
- What happens to the data when someone leaves the organization
- The industry doesn’t have this discussion
40:00 Shared docs
- File sizes
- Number of files shared
- Docs that get shared over and over
- What is the liability of the data
- Should SAS companies create a best practices
45:00 Wrap-up
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48 min - Podcast #115: Is Computational Storage Just a Fancy Name for Storage?
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
- What is computational storage
- How is it used
- How did it evolve
- Where does the technology fit
- Why does JB hate the term
05:30 Computational Storage Participants
- Product evolution
- Product functional requirements
- Making the drive simple to integrate
- Plug and Play
- Functionality
11:30 Technology
- Compression
- Scaling
- Value Prop
- Data reduction
16:30 Gen4 Performance
- How ScaleFlux meets the performance numbers
- How do customers scale
- Use cases
- Array discussion
21:00 DPU Technology
- Where do customers allocate compute
- Creating a rich feature set
- FPGA pitfalls for size
25:00 Form factors
- E1.S
- Costs and pricing
- Price vs. performance
- Premium performance drive
- Reducing energy consumption
- Visualizing the benefits
31:00 Wrap-up
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33 min - Podcast #114: Dell Alpine Delivered – PowerFlex on AWS
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
- PowerFlex and Software-Defined Storage
- Cloud-enabled
- ScaleIO
- PowerEdge
05:00 Cloud Storage
- How does Dell collect and aggregate storage in the cloud
- Creating high-capacity storage
- Deploying across availability zones (AZ)
- BC/DR across regions
- Rebuilding systems in the cloud
10:00 More on multi-AZs
- On-prem infrastructure requirements
- Multi-rack deployment
- Where does PowerFlex fit in the portfolio
- PowerStore
- PowerMax
- PowerFlex
- Engineering solutions
15:00 PowerFlex vs PowerScale
- Differences
- Building the system
- Scalable
- How is early adoption on AWS Marketplace
- How customers are using cloud and on-prem
21:00 Running on AWS
- How does it compare
- Compliments AWS service
- On-prem customer vs AWS customer
25:00 Is there an Edge play?
- Starting small
- Growth design
- Use cases
- Oriented to mission-critical applications
30:00 Product design
- Scale-out
- Performance and cost savings
- Efficiency
- Address the entire stack
- Cloud vs on-prem
- Everything is the same
35:00 How updates work
- Automating the process
- Alpine
- Simplify delivery
- Expansion
- Geos-other clouds
40:00 How do customers get there from here?
- The easiest path to get there
- Based on workloads
- Qualified sales experts to guide the customer
- Wrap up
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44 min - Podcast #113: Dell PowerScale and the Impact of QLC SSDs
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.
Solidigm P5316 Review
00:00 Introduction
- David’s responsibilities with Dell Technologies
- A short recap of Dell Tech World
- PowerScale as-a-Service
- Software-Defined OneFS
05:00 Cloud Delivery
- Steps to get to Cloud Delivery
- OneFS
- Abstract from hardware
- Feature Parity
- QLC adoption
- How drives are used
10:00 QLC Drive Capacities
- Densities
- Quality and Endurance
- Write performance
- Read performance
15:00 Bigger capacities are always preferred
- Density rules
- Datasets are expanding
- What will Dell do to increase densities
- Jamming more drives in servers
- Tuning performance
- Customer pushback
20:00 Multi-Source
- Solidigm
- Whatever the customer seeks
- Spreading the data load
25:00 Endurance
- Dell’s tests to ensure endurance
- Drive performance with workloads
- Software alerts on drive performance
- Security
- Cyber Protection
30:00 Backup products
- Takes the right product
- focus on user behavior
- Protecction alternatives
- PowerScale Solution
35:00 Data Security Ownership
- Driven by CISO
- Repercussions
- Can Solution scale across product line
40:00 It’s an Antivirus World
- What will get backed up?
- Alpine
- Alternatives to spin off data
- Agility
45:00 Dell’s supply chain
- Agility is critical
- Wrap-up
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50 min - Podcast #112: Why HDDs Aren’t Going Away
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
- General overview of Broadcom
- Rick is in the Data Center Solutions Group
- Products in the DCSG
- Future focus for Rick’s group
- Visibility into HDD space
- Flash is important, but HDD is relevant
- Still a need for rotational media in hyperscale systems
05:00 OCP Show discussion
- Interfaces
- SAS & SATA
- NVMe HDDs
- Multi-actuator
- Power to the drive is important
12:00 Dual-actuator in the enterprise
- Form Factors
- Other forms and form factors
- Easy with SSDs
- Challenging for round form factors
- More platters
15:00 Hyperscalers
- SMR drives
- Sounds good but comes at a cost
- Better if the user owns the OS and Applications
- Advancements are necessary to continue to evolve capacities
- Small innovative steps
- Hammer
20:00 QLC Flash Drives
- The software can change the game
- Dedupe
- Cost for warm storage
- Complications associated with QLC
- Find a technology, pick it!
- View on accelerators and drive management
25:00 Love to see innovation in the space
- Thinking about the end game
- Some pieces of the technology will make it into mainstream
- New thought leadership in these areas
- What does Broadcom have to do to remain relevant
- RAID architecture
- Using different architecture
- Actively innovating in the space
- Data protection
30:00 DPUs
- Broadcom is watching the technology closely
- Based on the business model
- CXL business impact
- Hot topic
- Emerging technology
- Networking and fabric
- Ethernet NICs
- Faster speeds
33:00 Wrap-up
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