Technology:Unpacked

In this opinion piece, recorded on 31 October 2016, Martin Glassborow, Chris Mellor and Chris Evans discuss the state of the all-flash market and what we can expect to happen to the remaining all-flash startup vendors.  We discuss Violin’s delisting, talk about the range of vendors and size of the market.  Mr Mellor presents his interpretation […]

All-Flash has been highlighted as a specific market segment within the storage industry.  Initially this was probably justified because of the number of new start-ups that were developing for the market.  With all of the major storage vendors either amending or acquiring technology, is there really a justification for having a separate market segment for […]

In this Soundbytes edition of the Storage Unpacked podcast, Chris Evans takes the opportunity to chat with Jeff Lundberg (https://twitter.com/jeffhds), Product Marketing Manager, within the content business area at Hitachi Data Systems.  Jeff covers the object storage part of the HDS business, in particular the HCP (Hitachi Content Platform). We discuss what object storage is, how it […]

In this episode, recorded live at Hitachi’s 2016 Strategy Event in Las Vegas, Chris Evans talks to Michael Hay (https://twitter.com/mihay42), Vice President and Chief Engineer with Hitachi.  IoT generates large volumes of unstructured data, particularly at the “edge” – outside the data centre and wherever devices are located. Elapsed Time: 00:06:15 SFW: Yes Further Reading […]

All new things have to start somewhere, and here’s our brief intro podcast.  In this conversation, Martin and Chris introduce Storage Unpacked, the aims of the podcast and a call for guests.  Interested in joining us for technical discussions on how data storage affects you in the enterprise?  Get in touch at [email protected]. Elapsed Time: […]