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June 07, 2022Podcast #101: James Martin Talks About Adding Intelligence to Infrastructure
This week, Brian connected with Eaton’s Global Connectivity Product Manager, James Martin, to talk about managing the products that Eaton builds. James has been with Eaton for over ten years and brings his product management skills and deep understanding of the importance of cybersecurity. Eaton has a significant portfolio of software management tools to help customers with disaster avoidance, data center infrastructure management, and demand response management, and has been delivering a mobile app, Control Xpert, helping manage those PDUs from anywhere.
This week, Brian connected with Eaton’s Global Connectivity Product Manager, James Martin, to talk about managing the products that Eaton builds. James has been with Eaton for over ten years and brings his product management skills and deep understanding of the importance of cybersecurity. Eaton has a significant portfolio of software management tools to help customers with disaster avoidance, data center infrastructure management, and demand response management, and has been delivering a mobile app, Control Xpert, helping manage those PDUs from anywhere.
Building intelligence into the PDU makes sense, but it is generally overlooked with all the cyber attacks directed at servers and systems. However, hacking into a PDU and shutting down entire racks can prove devastating. File corruption, getting systems back online, and bringing power back to a normal state can take hours, which could turn into days. This is just another example of ransomware attackers controlling your server environment.
It is an interesting conversation and should get you thinking about protecting your data all the way to the plug.
Take a look at this podcast to gain insight into how Eaton is working to protect the data center.
00:00 Introduction
What is Eaton doing with software development
Monitoring activities and connected devices
Making PDUs intelligent
Connected technologies
Security
05:00 Gathering information
Ransomware attacks more than the server and storage
How does Eaton protect access
Eatons scope of access
10:00 Power devices are becoming a desirable target
Eaton history behind connectivity
Levels of vulnerability
Educating the masses
15:00 What is the threat?
Working with customers to create an air gap
20:00 Integration and automation
Physical vs. virtual
The steps to bring a UPS back online
Monitoring outside the PDU
25:00 Types of probes
Edge scenarios
Brings more complexity
More devices to manage
More locations to manage
Grouping management tools
Difficulty to access
30:00 Next steps
Emphasis
Robust monitoring
Ability to adjust settings
Creating maintenance models
Advanced automation
Steps to making fewer mistakes
35:00 Eaton is making power more visible
Partnering with other platforms
vSphere
VxRail
Costs of management
Customer attachment rate
Making it easy to add devices
40:00 Wrap up. https://youtu.be/dPo_inalXfw
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42 min
May 10, 2022Podcast #100: Dell Technologies World Highlights with Caitlin Gordon
While Brian was in Las Vegas attending Dell Technologies World at the beginning of May, he visited with Caitlin Gordon to have a conversation about products, direction, growth, and generally catch up. Caitlin is Dell Technologies Vice President of Product Management and had plenty of insight into the path of Dell’s product lineup. She spoke to as-a-Service offerings but also addressed questions regarding some hardware refreshes and all else of what’s new at Dell Technologies World 2022.
While Brian was in Las Vegas attending Dell Technologies World at the beginning of May, he visited with Caitlin Gordon to have a conversation about products, direction, growth, and generally catch up. Caitlin is Dell Technologies Vice President of Product Management and had plenty of insight into the path of Dell’s product lineup. She spoke to as-a-Service offerings but also addressed questions regarding some hardware refreshes and all else of what’s new at Dell Technologies World 2022.
Caitlin and Brian have worked together for many years, so this conversation was very relaxed and informative. Caitlin touched on cyber threats, Ransomware, the impact on customers, and hardware updates for PowerFlex, PowerStore, and PowerMax. There was also a discussion around mobile cloud and Project Alpine.
Dell Technologies World 2022 News
Dell Technologies Expands APEX Multi-Cloud Experience, Collaborates with Snowflake
Dell Technologies Introduces Software Enhancements Across Storage Portfolio
Dell Technologies PowerScale Gets QLC SSD Support
This is a relatively short podcast and well worth the time. There should be something for everyone to gain some insight into Dell’s future. The timestamp is listed below.
00:00 Introduction
Brian introduces Caitlin
Caitlin gives some insight into what’s new
Cyber security
Customer challenges
Products are maturing
05:00 Mobile Cloud offerings
Project Alpine (a Caitlin favorite)
keeping things consistent
Hardware updates
PowerFlex
PowerMax
PowerScale
PowerStore
Back to the cloud model
How are the service offerings sold
How are they supported
What is the consumption model
10:00 How will cloud impact Dell’s product model
What happens when data gets to the cloud
Physical hardware
Details on hardware updates and refreshes
15:00 High capacity drives
OneFS
NAB impact on files
Video is driving development
PowerStore refresh
20:00 Looking forward
Announcements
New culture at Dell
Edge impacts
25:00 Edge data continued
So much demand from retail for Edge computing
Challenges delivering suitable solutions that integrate
Wrap up
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31 min
April 20, 2022Podcast #99: Lenovo Discusses the Benefits of Liquid Cooling
While in Raleigh recently, Brian had a chance to visit Lenovo and talk to Scott Tease about HPC, Liquid Cooling, and F1 racing. Scott is currently Vice President, General Manager HPC and AI WW at Lenovo, but has been in the HPC world for many years. He has been with Lenovo, through System X, for almost 8 years and prior to that 14 years with IBM.
While in Raleigh recently, Brian had a chance to visit Lenovo and talk to Scott Tease about HPC, Liquid Cooling, and F1 racing. Scott is currently Vice President, General Manager HPC and AI WW at Lenovo, but has been in the HPC world for many years. He has been with Lenovo, through System X, for almost 8 years and prior to that 14 years with IBM.
Lenovo Liquid Cooled 1U Servers
Brian’s guests are always knowledgeable and passionate about the technology they support and Scott is no exception. In fact, it would be unkind to limit his passion to HPC when he is truly concerned with the environment, energy consumption, efficiency, and helping customers get the most from the available technology offered. You can hear it in his descriptions, explaining how the right technology can help with controlling our carbon footprint.
The conversation covered everything from what is currently happening with Lenovo, specifically HPC, moving into the enterprise space, liquid cooling versus air cooling and why that matters, and what is forcing this trend. It is an intelligent view of where we are technically and how the move to liquid cooling will drive down costs for the future. Definitely a podcast worth watching or just listening in.
If you don’t have time to attend the entire 45-minute podcast, we have timestamped the conversation below. Skip around if you like.
Minute
00:00 Brian’s introduction
Where is Lenovo with HPC
Some history and the future
What customers are doing today
HPC and the Enterprise
05:00 What is the main purpose for HPC
F1 racing and racetrack references
climate and changing patterns
HPC is used for EVERYTHING
Brian watches the fishing channel!?
Tuna humor
10:00 Liquid cooling
Been around for a decade
Reasons to go Liquid
Costs are driving change and acceptance
Liquid versus Air
Liquid changes the dynamics
15:00 Power/Environment/Benefits
Scott talks about the ThinkSystem SD650-N
Reaction to Liquid Cooling
The fear
20:00 Home gaming
How it works in all systems
Lifespan of liquid servers
Adding life to components
25:00 Where it’s headed
Why Liquid?
30:00 Partnering
Challenges
Recent successes
How SR uses open-air cooling in the lab in Ohio
it’s cold in Cinncinnatti! (an editorial comment)
Even small businesses benefit from liquid cooling
how they are dealing with heat dispersion
Where are installs happening today
Cooling Distribution Unit (CDU)
Liquid to Air cooling
35:00 Impact of design
Power budgets
Fans
Densities
40:00 Use of Schedulers
What’s next
Lenovo is a leader in the HPC space
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46 min
April 12, 2022 Podcast #98: Solidigm’s Greg Matson Talks NAND and the Future of Flash
Brian was invited to the VAST Data Ceres launch "party" recently and while there took advantage of sitting down with VAST Data partner Solidigm's Greg Matson, Vice President, Strategic Planning and Marketing. Who is Solidigm you ask! Solidigm was borne from the 2020 agreement by SK hynix to acquire Intel's NAND and SSD business. Solidigm is now poised to become the go-to partner for customers in solid-state memory storage with SK hynix's global presence.
46 min
April 03, 2022PodCast #97: NVIDIA Dives Into DPU Technology
While attending the VAST Launch event in San Jose, CA, recently, Brian was able to catch up with Rob Davis who is President of Storage Technology at the Nvidia Networking BU where he focuses on ways to apply high-speed interface technology to storage systems.
Prior to becoming a part of NVIDIA Rob served as VP of Storage Technology at Mellanox Technologies. Rob is currently leading the development and marketing for products focused on NVMe over fabrics, which will allow for the high-speed networking of PCIe-based storage. NVIDIA is a VAST Data partner and is a supplier of products for the recently announced VAST Data Ceres platform.
Rob and Brian covered a number of technologies relating to NVIDIA and how they fit into the VAST Data architecture. With data storage and retrieval a huge topic today, much of the conversation focused on DPUs. Rob also brought up NVIDIA converged accelerators, a product that combines the power of the NVIDIA Ampere architecture with the enhanced security and networking capabilities of the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU. This advanced architecture delivers unprecedented performance and strong security for AI-powered workloads in edge computing, telecommunications, and network security.
NVIDIA DPU in the Vast Data Ceres Node
If you are interested in how NVIDIA is working with VAST Data to deliver Ceres, this is a great place to land. The related discussions around BlueField-2 DPU and converged accelerators, and how technologies are trying to catch up with the demands from data storage and retrieval.
It is a short podcast, but if you want to skip around, the timestamps are below.
00:00 Brian intro from VAST Data in San Jose
DPU Progression Summary

How the DPU fits with the GPU

Technology is catching up

DGX Server

05:00 Impact of cooling demands
Supermicro servers

Liquid cooling and other partners are doing

Data evolution

AI is driving data retention
Autonomous Autos

10:00 Data ingestion
Analytics plays an important role

Transferring data

Keeping GPUs busy

15:00 Importance of the DPU
Storage acceleration

JBOF discussion

CPU usage becomes minimalized

Intro to VAST technology

BlueField-2

20:00 NVMe
BlueField-2 Technology

VAST technologies associated with the DPU

VAST servers utilizing smaller form factor hardware

Power requirements are reduced

25:00 RDMA functions
GDS

Efficiencies in design

VAST driving storage disruption

30:00 Array growth driving technologies
NVMe

Flash

NAND

Rob's focus at NVIDIA
New products

Converged Accelerator

Computational storage

How it works

35:00 History
IBM Shark (humor)

Security

Encryption
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41 min
March 22, 2022 PodCast #96: VAST Data is Flipping Storage on its Head
Brian sat down with VAST Data's CMO and Co-founder Jeff Denworth for a deep dive into VAST's technology and to learn more about why this is such a game-changer for the industry and their customers. VAST is one of the brightest players in the market and gets high marks from its customer base. In fact, VAST customers have exhibited the highest recommender rating, with 100% of the organizations submitting reviews saying they would recommend Universal Storage. In addition, VAST has recorded the third year of solid growth with its AI data platform.
1 hr 24 min
March 17, 2022 Podcast #95: The Latest in HDD Technologies With WD’s Ashley Gorakhpurwalla
Brian talks with Western Digital's Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, Executive Vice President and General Manager, HDD Business, about his transition from a storage consumer at Dell Technologies to leading WD's HDD business. The pair cover off on the direction hard drives are heading, bringing products to market, and much more in this in-depth podcast.
1 hr 8 min
March 09, 2022 Podcast #94: Dave Russell Talks Veeam Backup Solutions, Ransomware and VeeamON
While Brian and Kevin were in Denver working with Quantum, Dave Russell, VP Enterprise Strategy Veeam Software, drove down from Boulder to sit with Brian for a chat about Veeam and Quantum tape backup solutions. Dave and Brian have known each other for a few years and the conversation was relaxed and candid. They talked about the simplicity of the Quantum architecture and Veeam software and how they are addressing the multi-cloud environments most enterprises are building.
35 min
February 15, 2022 Podcast #93 Brian Hosts Al Yanes To Talk about PCI Gen6
Although not a consumable product, PCI-Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced the release of the PCIe 6.0 specification. Brian hosts Al Yanes who is the President and Chairman of the PCI-SIG and a long-time IBMer. Al is focused on the IO piece of the technology and probably knows more about PCIe than most.
46 min
January 13, 2022 Podcast #92: Intel’s Allyn Malventano Joins Brian For A Lively Discussion On PCIe Gen 5.0
Brian invites Allyn Malventano to join him in the lab for an often candid discussion of SSD technology, specifically PCIe Gen 5.0. Allyn is, as he puts it, a jack-of-all-trades-storage, Storage Technical Analyst. Although Allyn works for Intel, he is tasked with understanding all vendor equipment related to storage and servers.
52 min

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