Have you ever thought to yourself “I wonder if it’s possible to do this with NetApp?” Or, how about “I hear what my sales team is saying, but I’m not sure how it will behave with my application.” Well, we have the answer for you, and the answer is the Customer Proof-of-Concept (CPOC) lab. The CPOC team is dedicated to showing NetApp functionality and integration with customer applications, using real customer data, simulated tests, and sometimes just raw benchmarks by mimicking portions of customer environments. This week we feature Neto from Brazil (@netofrombrazil), a NetApp legend and database performance specialist on the CPOC team. Neto talks with us about the CPOC, it’s function in the company, and how customers can request an engagement from the team. He also happens to be one of NetApp’s premier Oracle specialists, so we take the opportunity to talk about database workloads when using NetApp All-Flash FAS.

Flash has been the driving force behind significant change in the storage industry over the last 3-5 years, and that change continues to accelerate today. SSD drives are finally nearing the inflection point where the price per gigabyte is dropping below the price of traditional spinning hard drives and this will have another momentous impact to storage vendors and the devices being sold. This week’s episode features Val Bercovici, NetApp’s Cloud Czar, who talks to us about the future of flash media, including some interesting technology coming out of Intel, and how it will affect the storage industry as a whole.

DevOps is all the rage these days, and enterprises everywhere, of all sizes, want to eek the most efficiency from their people and infrastructure. The DevOps mentality is one way to help. DevOps strives to increase efficiency by focusing on communication, collaboration, automation, and shared responsibility between development and operations organizations. This week’s episode features Garrett Mueller, Technical Director, as we discuss DevOps and continuous integration at NetApp.

Network File Systems (NFS) were the first protocol supported by NetApp storage appliances way back in 1992, and have continued to be one of the most popular protocols used by customers to this day.

For this week’s episode we sat down with Justin Parisi, Technical Marketing for Engineer and Name Services at NetApp, to take a close look at the past, present and future of NFS. We also learn more about how NFS works, the differences between versions 2, 3, 4, and 4.1, and Justin explains how some of the most commonly implemented features of the later versions actually work.

Day 4 of VMworld is in the books and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here with all news you need about the event.

Day 3 of VMworld is in the books and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here with all news you need about the event.

Day 2 of VMworld is in the books and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here with all news you need about the event.

VMworld is underway and the Tech ONTAP Podcast team is there to cover everything going on.

Today’s episode takes a deep dive exploring containers with our guest Melissa Palmer, Technical Marketing Engineer for the FlexPod team. We talk with Melissa about what are containers, how they’re different than virtual machines, when to use them, and why to use them. If you are curious about microservices, persistent data for containers, or just want an overview of the container ecosystem, this is the episode for you!

At NetApp, our engineering IT team recently deployed an large-scale virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) aimed at increasing security, flexibility, and mobility for all of our engineering workforce. As a part of this, the Customer-0 team, an engineering program which deploys the latest Data ONTAP operating systems to perform testing and validation before anyone else, is taking advantage of All-Flash FAS and the latest enhancements to clustered Data ONTAP to ensure that the VDI performs exceptionally well under all conditions.