Dr. Jay Metz (@drjmetz) has worked with NVMe for several years and is on the NVMe standards board. Last week he took a ridecast with Marc Farley (@GoFarley) to explain what NVMe is and why it is going to make such profound differences to data center infrastructures.

 

 

 

This week, Ford announced that they will deliver a Level 4 driverless car (autonomous vehicle) in 2021. Ken Pyle (@viodi) joins Marc Farley (@GoFarley) to talk about this and the moves that Uber is making to introduce driverless ridesharing cars in Pittsburgh this fall.

 

 

 

 

HPE announced two entry-level storage arrays earlier this week, the StoreVirtual 3200 and the MSA 2042. The two systems are expected to be solf for street prices of $6,000 and $10,000, respectively. Chris Evans (@chrismevans) and Marc Farley (@GoFarley) discuss why they think these will be very good deals for small IT shops.

 

 

 

 

Snap is open source telemetry technology that spans the complete system stack from system hardware all the way up to applications. Matt Matt Brender (@mjbrender) from Intel took a ridecast with Marc Farley (@GoFarley) prior to the the start of the Intel Development Forum in San Francisco to talk about it.

 

 

 

 

Seagate announced their new enormous 60TB SSD at the Flash Memory Summit this week.  Alex Galbraith (@alexgalbraith) goes on a ridecast with Marc Farley (@GoFarley) to talk about the implications that has for data protection.

 

 

 

 

It started with a power problem and turned into a huge outage that caused a lot of passengers long delays and confusion. Greg Ness (@Archimedius) took a ridecast with Marc Farley (@GoFarley) and spoke about the possibility that the expectations customers have for accessing flying information is far exceeding the abilities of inflexible, old back end systems to provide it and that failures in the system then become much more difficult to recover from.

 

 

 

This week at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, Seagate shocked attendees by announcing a 60TB SSD. Phil Gilbert (@gilphilbert) takes a ridecast with Marc Farley (@GoFarley) to speculate on the as yet unknown characteristics of the device.

 

 

 

A ridecast with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Marc Farley (@GoFarley). Farley will guest host on The Cube (@theCUBE) there and the two of them end up talking about the large role that storage has always had at the show. Stu suggests that one of the themes could be the “storageless” data center, akin to serverless computing in the cloud.

 

 

 

Is Julian Assange really a neutral journalist, or somebody who has a vested interest in the final results? Roger Strukhoff (@IoT2040) believes that he is not much of a journalist and puts his own interests far ahead of what journalists should.

A  ridecast selfie where Marc Farley (@GoFarley) is both driver and passenger, with different moods and agendas. This time, on vacation in Montana, happy Marc is driving into town from their vacation paradise to upload a video and run some errands, while crabby Marc is unhappy that they left the wild and pristine trout fishing to do more tech work.