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May 30, 2023Podcast #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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March 28, 2023Podcast #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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March 14, 2023Podcast#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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February 22, 2023Podcast #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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January 31, 2023Podcast #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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December 20, 2022Podcast #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
Podcast Video
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October 18, 2022Podcast #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
Podcast Video
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October 05, 2022Podcast #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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September 23, 2022Podcast #111: HPE GreenLake Deep Dive
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
Recap around HPE Discover
GreenLake service introduction
HPE as-a-Service meaning
Differentiation
04:40 What is GreenLake?
Cloud consumption and operation model
What does a typical customer look like?
Move to Hyperscalers
10:00 Advantages and simplicity
Public cloud vs. as-a-Service
Rate card attributes
Keep the rates simple
17:00 GreenLake overprovisioning for growth
Determining how much hardware to deliver
Importance of Infosight
Sizing is performed through Infosight data simulation
25:00 Physical vs. the planning
The timeframe from planning and worksheets to delivery
Determined by the subscriptions
How the hardware gets delivered
Turning up the service
30:00 Provisioned before it gets there
Fleet service
Lifecycle environment
Maintenance
HPE maintains a state machine for every customer environment
IT can do important work when subscribing to GreenLake
36:00 Customer owns the consoles
Allowing HPE support to maintain and support
What is the size of GreenLake
Built for all customers
Affordability – Rate Cards are available on partner sites
40:00 How does GreenLake fit the retail market
Home Depot is a reference model
Retail is a perfect fit
Aruba is a crucial part of edge locations
A rack can be built for most environments
45:00 Unexpected benefits of GreenLake
Simplicity for operations and procurement
Innovations for GreenLake
Application frameworks
51:00 Wrap Technology – cloud and edge
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September 07, 2022Podcast #110: The Rising Importance of Storage Accelerator Cards
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
What the next generation of accelerator cards can do for computing and challenges
What problems are Pliops and their competitors trying to solve
The gap between what the CPU and Software can do
Bottlenecks when accessing NVMe drives
The need to offload tasks from CPU to accelerators
05.00 Evolution from RAID cards to Accelerators
RAID card design
Storage drive technology created the need for new architecture
Discussion around Pliops hardware – visual
How the Pliops hardware works
Design
Key Value APIs
11.00 Data Flow
How blocks flow through the card
What happens before data is written to SSD
Why Pliops is so effective and efficient
15.00 Dense NAND technology
Pliops design
works with any vendor
the bigger the drive, the better
the cheaper the drive, the better
customer hesitation in going to larger drives
Things to avoid with NAND
20:00 SR Tests with Pliops and Solidigm drives
Simple to install
Comparison between RAID5 and RAID0
Results
Why the need for a new ASIC?
Cost, density, and geometry are positive with ASIC
Flexibility
What’s with the Lane?
25.00 More about Lanes
Lanes make a difference in performance
Managing fan-outs on a system
Form factor impact
CXL 2 v 3
30.00 AMD v Intel
Both are okay with Pliops
Interest in ARM technology
No data on when applications will run on ARM
35.00 VMware support
Orchestration and containers are the requirements
Virtualized environments need support
How do prospects check out Pliops
access to Pliops lab
most are deploying drives in their environment
partnering with phoenixnap
40.00 Wrap up
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