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It's Insight 2015 and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here to give you all the latest news. Here is their recap of day 4 of Insight.

It's Insight 2015 and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here to give you all the latest news. Here is their recap of day 3 of Insight.

It's Insight 2015 and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here to give you all the latest news. Here is their recap of day 2 of Insight.

The hyper-scale cloud providers, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Asure, and IBM SoftLayer, provide highly available, and highly durable, storage for a reasonable price. This means that many organizations are looking to, and adopting, public cloud providers as another tier of storage for their organization. NetApp’s AltaVault provides the ability for any organization to leverage their existing backup suite of software, while storing the data in the cloud. This seamlessly enables massive scalability, offsite recoverability, and efficient storage of backup data for any organization, with minimal effort.

Our guest this week is NetApp’s Rachel Dines, Product Marketing Manager for AltaVault. Rachel and the podcast team discuss cloud economics, use cases, and how AltaVault increases flexibility, efficiency, and security for organizations who want to use the cloud as a backup target. If you’re tired of tape backups, then you must listen to this episode!

This week we sit down with NetApp’s John Spinks, Technical Marketing Engineer, to talk about SnapCenter. SnapCenter is the next generation of our SnapManager and SnapCreator technology, and is the first step in NetApp’s centralized data protection software vision. SnapCenter provides protection that works across the entire data fabric as applications move back and forth, in and out of the cloud.

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.