Coldago Research has unveiled its 6th edition of its annual Map for File Storage. The 2024 report analyzes 27 distinct companies over 3 Maps: Enterprise, High Performance and Cloud File Storage: AWS, CTERA, DDN, Dell, Egnyte, Fujitsu, Hammerspace, HPE, Huawei, IBM, iXsystems, LucidLink, Microsoft, Nasuni, NetApp, Panzura, Peer Software, Pure Storage, Quantum, Qumulo, Quobyte, SUSE, ThinkParQ, Tiger Technology, VAST Data, Vdura and WEKA and we elect leaders for each category. I let you listen to this episode to discover who are the winners. Enjoy.

The 59th edition of The IT Press Tour took place early December in Valletta, Malta.

We continue our European stops and this time for the 59th edition we landed in beautiful Malta. It was once again a fantastic edition as we had the opportunity to meet 6 European companies: DigiFilm, EasyVirt, Indexima, Manticore Search, ProxySQL and Scalytics. I hope you will like the episode and we'll be in a few weeks, for the 60th edition, amazing right, in Silicon Valley.

Wasabi Technologies, the reference in cloud storage, alternative to hyperscalers' solutions with a very efficient and cost effective S3 API service, participated to the recent IT Press Tour in Boston in October. It was the perfect opportunity to meet company's executives and David Friend, co-founder and CEO, who shared his view on the market, genesis of the project and of course directions of the company. It gaves me the idea to record a dedicated episode with David to go deeper in some aspects and we did it recently, we spoke about his background and the trajectory of Wasabi with today a status of Centaur passing the $100M ARR, his partner in crime Jeff Flowers, CTO of Wasabi, some new services around the classic offering especially with the AI engine acquired based on Curio AI, business model with a pure indirect model powered by 16,000 partners and a very unique pricing model charging only the capacity used. We also covered the directions of the company with a potential IPO and for the storage service with some ideas around a on-premises instance and w few other things. A very interesting dialog with David, I hope you will like this episode. Thank you David.

SuperComputing 24 took place a few weeks ago in Atlanta, Georgia, and once again it was a very good edition with the best ever number of attendees with 18,000+, 4,000 more than last year, very impressive show. The topic was about Acceleration in various domains such a HPC, AI, Storage, Memory or Network. I insisted on key trends, some technologies and products I saw very present on the floor. Enjoy the listening.

Coldago Research has unveiled its 6th edition of its annual Map for Object Storage. The 2024 report analyzes 13 companies: Cloudian, DataCore, Dell, Hitachi Vantara, Huawei, IBM, MinIO, NetApp, Pure Storage, Quantum, Scality, VAST Data and WEKA and then elect 9 Leaders. I let you listen to this episode to discover who are the winners. Enjoy.

QStar Technologies exists since 1987 and embodies a real pioneer in its segment who continues to drive innovations and leads the market. The company is pretty small but agile and recognized for its expertise in this domain. It is illustrated by a strong footprint on the market with key end-users and installations for several decades. I decided to record this podcast with Max Finotti, its CTO, after The IT Press Tour we did in April in Rome, to better understand their last product, the soon to be famous Global ArchiveSpace or GAS. This solution introduces several key concepts to address new data and storage challenges in the secondary storage space and in particular in the data archiving landscape. So, with Max, we tried to cover that aspect to learn more about GAS, how it works, its design, what is coming... A great talk, I hope you will enjoy the listening. Thank you Max.

Congruity360, a fast growing player in unstructured data management, recently participated to The IT Press Tour in Boston. It was the opportunity to learn more about its company and product strategies. With Mark Ward, COO, we spoke about the root of the company, its architecture, its benefits and values, how it works, how AI is used, of course some business info related to the business and pricing models and conclude on the future with some new things coming soon. A very interesting dialog with Mark, I hope you will like this episode. Thank you Mark.

ExaGrid, the pure player and market leader in secondary storage with dedicated backup appliance, joined the recent edition of The IT Press Tour in Boston. The session we had with Bill Andrews, CEO, at the company HQ invited me to record a specific interview to cover the pretty unique trajectory of ExaGrid and one of the longest CEO tenure with 20 years in our industry. We spoke about the product and its special characteristics and of course benefits versus classic dedupe backup appliances, some key developments and backup software integrations with Veeam, Veritas and Commvault, the go-to-market and pricing model and of course some futures directions for the company and the product. Once again, an episode I like very much to record and I'm sure you will like this episode. Thank you Bill.

The 58th edition of The IT Press Tour took place early October in Boston, MA.

After several years on the west coast, it was clear that we must come back on the other side of the country and we did it. We met 8 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Analytics, Data Management, Storage and of course AI. By alpha order it was Congruity360, ExaGrid, HYCU, Hydrolix, iRODS, Swissbit, Sync Computing and Wasabi Technologies. Another very good edition in the great place of Boston, I hope you will really enjoy listening to it.

Hydrolix, a fast growing data analytics US company, participated to the recent edition of The IT Press Tour in Boston. With what I saw and understood, I decided to record this new episode with Marty Kagan, CEO and co-founder, to go beyond that session and cover multiple aspects. Among them, we spoke about the genesis of the company, why companies need such technology, a bit of product info, their go-to-market model and pricing philosophy, of course some references and use cases plus competition and we conclude with the future around company and products. Very good episode once again with a simple direct exchange. I hope you will like this episode, I'm pretty sure it will be the case. Thank you Marty.