Technology:Unpacked

In this week’s podcast, the team talk to Alex Chircop, CTO at StorageOS about the implications on storage of the recent Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities.  Much has been made of the potential impact to I/O performance and by definition storage platforms and products.  The guys talk about what the vulnerabilities actually mean for end users and what […]

In this week’s podcast, the team chat again with Jim Handy from Objective Analysis.  Jim is an analyst covering the semiconductor industry and provides some great insight into where pricing is headed in the NAND flash market.  The conversation covers some of the technical challenges the industry faces, as well as the impact from China entering the market.  Finally, the guys discuss the impact on Enterprise storage pricing.

There are some interesting observations in this conversation, such as the capability for NAND to be used in multiple densities and how the ability for the Enterprise market to follow the consumer market is driven by increasingly more sophisticated controllers.  Enjoy!

You can find out more about Jim’s company at http://objective-analysis.com/ and follow him on his two blogs at http://thessdguy.com/ and http://thememoryguy.com/.

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Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intro.

* 00:01:45 – Why has there been delays in getting 3D-NAND to market?

* 00:03:00 – MLC, QLC, TLC, XTC, do the users care?

* 00:04:54 – Stupid question time, can NAND morph into any type of media?

* 00:06:30 – Consumer leads the enterprise towards cheaper NAND products.

* 00:07:30 – Who gets their NAND first?

* 00:09:20 – Let’s talk about China and $140 billion!

* 00:15:50 – Where can we expect the price of NAND and DRAM to go in the long term?

* 00:19:00 – How far off are we from the next price collapse?

* 00:21:30 – How will price drops affect the Enterprise market?

* 00:28:30 – Wrap Up!

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In this week’s podcast, the team chat again with Jim Handy from Objective Analysis.  Jim is an analyst covering the semiconductor industry and provides some great insight into where pricing is headed in the NAND flash market.  The conversation covers some of the technical challenges the industry faces, as well as the impact from China […]

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.

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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.

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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 […]