Young Block Software Defined Storage aka SDS player, Volumez joined recently the 60th edition of The IT Press Tour and it was the opportunity to measure all the progress made by the team in terms of product and market penetration. With the introduction of their Data Infrastructure as a Service, a super set above classic cloud IaaS and their recent performance results for the MLPerf benchmarks, it gave me idea to discuss with John Blumenthal, Chief Product and Business Officer at Volumez, about all these and much more. With John we spoke about his choice of Volumez and the challenge he found, the approach the company took on this AI storage infrastructure and how the product works, the value for users and developers, their business approach following impressive MLPerf results and we concluded with sone future directions. A very interesting talk with John, it was a good moment I hope you will like it as much as I enjoyed it. Thank you John.

Reference in Unstructured Data Management for on-premises and cloud open systems, Komprise continues to drive its product line at a rapid pace. Known for its modern file migration approach based on its Transparent Move Technology, aka TMT, Komprise invented a radical way to manage tiering without any stub files. The product supports a wide variety of NAS and S3 sources and targets, both deployed on-premises or in the cloud. As we met Komprise during the last IT Press Tour in January, I thought that it could be interesting to speak with its CTO, Mike Peercy to dig into a few technical aspects of their solution. And we did it, with Mike we spoke about the architecture of the product, how they leverage ElasticSearch, why and how the global File Index, aka GFI, works and its role, and we also covered the recent announcement related to AI and how the sensitive data protection is implemented. And we concluded with a bit of future directions. Komprise has been recognized, once again, as a leader in the Coldago Research Map 2024 for Unstructured Data Management. It was a pleasure to discuss and record tis episode, hope you will enjoy it.

Panzura is a pioneer in Cloud File Storage serving data at any points on the planet from a central data repository stored on public or private cloud. It mixes object storage with edge access points and maintains NAS protocols for edge clients. It delivers a strict consistency model across sides and has been designed with a pretty unique star and mesh topology across CloudFS servers and back to the central storage. Following the recent IT Press Tour in January, I decided to record this episode with Sundar Kanthadai, the CTO of Panzura for 2 and half years. In addition Panzura has acquired Moonwalk Universal and sells it today with some extensions as Symphony jumping into Unstructured Data Management. Panzura has been recognized, once again, as a leader in the Coldago Research Map 2024 for Cloud File Storage. We spoke about all these points with Sundar, starting with his motivation to join Panzura following his experience at Pavilion Data Systems. I really enjoyed this talk, hope you will as well. Thank you Sundar.

We unveiled to the world Leil Storage in April 2024 for the 55th edition of The IT Press Tour in Roma, Italy. It was the opportunity to discover the Estonian company who develops a scalable high end secondary storage approach based on SaunaFS, their Google like File System, coupled with erasure coding and ICE - Infinite Cold Engine - to reduce and control power usage coupled with SMR HDDs. I recorded this episode this week at Leil HQ in Tallinn, Estonia, speaking with David Gerstein, CTO, and Piotr Modrzyk, Principal Architect. During this talk, we go deeper explaining how their SaunaFS works, their differentiators, how they coupled it with erasure coding and integrate power control to reduce energy consumption. They leverage SMR HDDs with high capacity, more dedicated to sequential workloads, and use some techniques to reduce power and thus at scale cut significantly electricity bill. We learn also more about their future directions. Enjoy this technical talk. Thank you David and Piotr.

New year and new meeting during The IT Press Tour with CloudFabrix Software now morphed into Fabrix.AI to maximize its solution and impact on IT with AI. I talked with Raju Datla, CEO and co-founder of Fabrix.AI, and we covered the genesis of the company, his team, its solution approach fueled by AI, the recent announcements, the go-to-market and pricing model and a bit of future directions as well. Enjoy this new episode about Fabrix.AI, thank you Raju.

New meeting during The IT Press Tour with iXsystems, the company insisted on its TrueNAS brand wishing to be aligned with the success of its storage servers and as an effect from the sale of its server business to Amaara Networks. I spoke with Brett Davis, EVP, about the company strategy, the new direction around storage, new products especially the H30 model, next release TrueNAS 25.04 and several other successes as 2024 was a good year plus some future steps. Really a good episode with Brett. Thank you. Enjoy.

New exercice or at least at a different frequency, this episode covers the first 2 months of 2025 with some market news I selected. I spoke about VC funding and investments, IPOs, M&A, new product iterations, people's moves, architecture and technology. Enjoy.

The 60th edition of The IT Press Tour took place last week of January in Silicon Valley, California.

It's a major milestone for our organization, if you put things in perspective with 60 editions, what other event has reached that number, I let you check... but it will be tough to find some...

Success is about regularity, consistency coupled with unique value proposition and innovation it introduces, The IT Press Tour is all about that, a special club. And check the numbers with this 60th edition: 330 distincts companies and 571 sessions since 2010 !!

For this edition we met 9 organizations covering IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data and Storage Management, Big Data and Analytics and of course AI. In the alpha order, they're Aquila Clouds, CloudFabrix now Fabrix.AI, Crystal DBA, Hammerspace, Komprise, MLCommons, Panzura, TrueNAS aka iXsystems and Volumez.

2025 is well started and Coldago Research published a few days ago its Gem list 2025 with 5 key players to watch in the coming months: ExaGrid, Leil Storage, QStar Technologies, Volumez and Wasabi Technologies. Enjoy the listening of this new episode.

Classic exercice for a few years for Coldago Research, I share my predictions for 2025 covering AI and its impact, Cloud, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, Media and Connectivity and Energy. Enjoy this episode.