Meeting again Jim Handy during the recent FMS show gave me the idea to interview him to get his opinion and view on the current trends and business climate we see in the NAND, Flash and controllers market segment. We covered all these points with Jim and much more as we extended the talk to some adjacent topics. Very interesting exchange with Jim, one of the most prolific analyst in this domain. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Jim.

New episode about the bi-annual Coldago Research Report about Storage Unicorn. The last report, which is the thirteenth edition, was published in June 2023 and lists 17 companies: Acronis, Barracuda Networks, Cohesity, DataCore, DDN, Druva, Infinidat, Kaseya, MinIO, Nasuni, OwnBackup, Qumulo, Rubrik, VAST Data, Veeam Software, Veritas Technologies and Wasabi Technologies. Enjoy the listening of this short episode and watch the report page for more information.

This episode is a recap of the recent Flash Memory Summit 2023 that took place in Santa Clara, CA, early August. Lots of announcements, lots of players, some missing... but still the annual industry rendez-vous not yet to be replaced. Enjoy.

In parallel of the recent Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara early August, I decided to visit the new Pure Storage HQ in Santa Clara, CA, and record an exclusive interview with Charles Giancarlo, CEO of the company. It was a very good moment, super frank and direct and we both enjoyed the recording. Together, we covered its role within the company, his goals, objectives and achievements, technology choices made made Pure several years ago like the famous DirectFlash Module aka DFM, Purity as the global OS for all products, obviously FlashArray and FlashBlade, services of course with EverGreen but also the cloud operating model and managed services plus software developments and new services based on Compuverde or Portworx acquisitions for Container and Kubernetes presence, financial results, market climate and business drivers, the famous "no more HDD to be sold in 2028", AI of course with AIRI and META collaboration and some future directions such as the 300TB DFM, the ubiquity and commoditization of the storage... A very dense and super episode once again I really enjoyed to record. Happy listening. Thank you Charlie.

Phison Electronics joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and it gave me the idea to record this podcast episode with KS Pua, CEO, during the recent Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara early August. We spoke about the financials of the company, its products lines with SSD controllers, embedded and flash modules marketed and promoted by Kingston or Seagate among others, its use cases and comfort zones for its products like gaming, automotive, IoT, space..., its go-to-market and pricing models, its unique Imagin+ design program and a bit of the future and directions for the company and products. A very dense episode, I enjoyed to record and I hope you'll enjoy to listen. Thank you KS.

Tuxera participated to the recent IT Press Tour in Berlin, Germany, and we got a perfect snapshot fo the company, its history, its product lines and strategy. It was the good opportunity to speak with is CEO, Tuukka Ahoniemi, and go beyond the session with a dedicated interview. Together we covered different aspects in details like the strategy of the company especially being strong in embedded and more recently entering the enterprise segment with Fusion file share among other things, the various use cases, the go-to-market model, a potential exit and much more. I really enjoyed this recording, hope you will enjoy the listening as well. Thank you Tuukka.

The 51st edition of The IT Press Tour took place end of June in the beautiful city of Berlin in Germany.

In 2 days, we met 6 companies playing in IT Infrastructure, Data Management, Storage and a few key other areas. By alpha order it was Croit, CunoFS, Insurgo, Simplyblock, Tuxera and Yuzuy. Some are already known and others really new and young and it is in our mission to promote such innovations and leaders especially from Europe. This tour was a very good and I really enjoyed producing this episode, happy listening.

Qumulo joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and it was the perfect opportunity to get a company and product update. It gave me the idea to record a podcast with Bill Richter, CEO of the company. Together with Bill, we spoke about the evolution and trajectory of the company, its business with a clear shift to multi-cloud and product line with a special angle of the various covered workloads and use cases, the market trend, the Scale Anywhere approach, how Qumulo works with AI, the go-to-market and pricing model and we conclude with a bit of future directions. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Bill.

Versity Software, who protects today probably the largest data sets over long time, joined the recent 50th edition of The IT Press Tour in California. We got a deep company and product update and the primer of a product announcement. With Bruce Gilpin, CEO of the company, we spoke about the genesis of the project, how he reached the point to collaborate with Harriet Coverston, a real legend in that data archiving space, why they decided to develop ScoutFS, a dedicated file system for such demanding needs, its companion ScoutAM and the last S3 Gateway, but covered also the market, its uses cases and targets segments, the go-to-market and pricing model and conclude with a bit of future directions. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Bruce.

DDN, known also as DDN Storage, presents itself now as The AI Data Company and we understand why. DDN joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and it was the right opportunity to get an update on their classic HPC business, their fast growing AI activity and also their enterprise entity with Tintri, IntelliFlash and Nexenta technologies. So being in Paris a few weeks ago I decided to interview Paul Bloch, founder of the company with Alex Bouzari in 1998. As president and founder, Paul has a special view of the market, understands perfectly what is currently developed and also knows the current business situation. So together we spoke about the market of course, competition, their HPC and AI businesses, their product line and development, an update on the go-to-market strategy and pricing model and we covered also some future directions. A very dense exchange with lots of informations from Paul. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Paul.