This week, Chris and Martin discuss the announcement from CloudFlare of R2, a new object storage solution. With such a widely dispersed CDN network, could CloudFlare become a real competitor for S3, considering that the R2 platform will have no egress fees? This episode digs into the details, to look at what additional features object […] The post #214 – Can CloudFlare R2 Disrupt AWS S3? appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

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#214 – Can CloudFlare R2 Disrupt AWS S3?

With KubeCon North America 2021 looming, Chris and Martin spend this week looking at data protection for Kubernetes-native environments. Vendors have started to introduce backup solutions, some working within the container environment itself, some outside as part of existing products. Exactly what should be backed up and how should these products work? Are we right […] The post #213 – Kubernetes-Native Data Protection appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

#213 – Kubernetes-Native Data Protection

In this week’s podcast, Chris and Martin get together to discuss the curious case of missing files. In this instance, the files weren’t actually missing, but according to an article in The Verge, students running a software simulation didn’t know how to determine their location. In a world where the current generation have grown up […] The post #212 – File Not Found appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

#212 – File Not Found

In this week’s sponsored episode, Chris chats to Alex McMullan, CTO International at Pure Storage. The discussion covers Pure//Launch and today’s announcements of two SaaS solutions – Fusion and Portworx Data Services. Fusion is a new SaaS management plane for administering and optimising Pure Storage hardware and software products, including FlashArray, FlashBlade and Cloud Block […] The post #211 – Pure//Launch – Announcing Fusion and Portworx Data Services (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

#211 – Pure//Launch – Announcing Fusion and Portworx Data Services (Sponsored)

This week, Chris and Martin discuss the merits of building virtual SANs in the public cloud. Vendors including Silk and Pure Storage now offer virtual storage “appliances” built from virtual instances and cloud storage. Why are these solutions necessary, when the public cloud providers have plenty of high-performance block and file storage offerings? The discussion […] The post #210 – Building SANs in the Cloud appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

#210 – Building SANs in the Cloud

In this week’s episode, Chris and Martin meet with Brian Carpenter, Senior Director of Unstructured Technology Strategy at Pure Storage, to talk about UFFO – Unified Fast File and Object. UFFO is a technology bringing together the two main types of unstructured data into a single platform – FlashBlade. The discussion centres on the benefits […] The post #209 – Discovering Unified Fast File and Object with Pure Storage (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

#209 – Discovering Unified Fast File and Object with Pure Storage (Sponsored)

In this week’s podcast, Chris and Martin look at NVIDIA’s GPUDirect Storage (GDS), a technology for moving data directly from persistent storage to GPUs, bypassing the CPU. The aim of the technology is to provide greater throughput to keep GPUs active, and looking at some of the thoughts from our podcast with Liqid (#204), it’s […] The post #208 – NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage – More Than a Good Marketing Message? appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

#208 – NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage – More Than a Good Marketing Message?

This week the team is back after a short break and ready to talk all things cloud – or at least about Elastic Block Store. AWS recently announced io2 and io2 Block Express, the first new EBS block storage offerings for eight years. With such a long gap since io1 was first released, what has […] The post #207 – AWS Gets a SAN Upgrade appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

#207 – AWS Gets a SAN Upgrade

This week, Chris and Martin chat to Amber Huffman, Intel Fellow and President of NVM Express about the updates in NVMe 2.0. NVM Express (generally abbreviated to NVMe) is a storage protocol that was developed to overcome some of the shortcomings of traditional protocols when working with new high performance media such as NAND SSDs […] The post #206 – An Update on NVMe 2.0 with Amber Huffman appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

#206 – An Update on NVMe 2.0 with Amber Huffman

In this week’s episode, Chris and Martin have a great conversation with David Ngo, CTO for Metallic at Commvault, and Ranga Rajagopalan, VP Product Management for Commvault and Metallic. Commvault is celebrating 25 years in data protection, while Metallic, a SaaS data protection solution from Commvault has been available for nearly two years. In this […] The post #205 – 25 Years of Commvault & the Power of And (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

#205 – 25 Years of Commvault & the Power of And (Sponsored)

This week, Chris and Martin talk to Sumit Puri, CEO of Liqid Inc. Liqid has developed a composable infrastructure platform they call CDI or Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure. CDI enables IT organisations to take the building blocks of compute – storage, networking, CPUs, memory and GPUs then combine them dynamically in ways that address the processing […] The post #204 – Liqid Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

#204 – Liqid Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure

This week, Martin and Chris delve into cryptocurrency mining in a lengthy discussion on Chia with Robert Novak. Chia is a new cryptocurrency technology that differs from previous online currencies in that the basis for earning rewards (or coins) is based on the volume of data stored on disk, rather than raw compute performed. Rob […] The post #203 – Storage and Chia Cryptocurrency Farming appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

#203 – Storage and Chia Cryptocurrency Farming

In this week’s sponsored episode, Chris and Martin talk to Phil Bullinger, newly appointed CEO at Infinidat. The company has reached their ten-year anniversary, shipping over seven exabytes of capacity in that time. With successful growth in every quarter during 2020, we discuss how Infinidat is helping drive the consolidation story for large enterprises and […] The post #202 – Enterprise Storage Consolidation with Phil Bullinger from Infinidat (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

#202 – Enterprise Storage Consolidation with Phil Bullinger from Infinidat (Sponsored)

In this week’s episode, Chris and Martin talk to Paul Speciale (Chief Product Officer at Scality) and Chris Tinker (Distinguished Technologist with HPE) about the launch of ARTESCA, a new lightweight, cloud-native object storage solution. HPE and Scality have announced the product jointly, delivering the solution on HPE hardware with an exclusive distribution agreement for […] The post #201 – Introducing Scality ARTESCA (Sponsored) appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

#201 – Introducing Scality ARTESCA (Sponsored)

This week, Martin and Chris are joined by Jim Walker, VP of Product Marketing at Cockroach Labs. In a slight departure from a purely storage-based recording, this discussion follows the evolution of application packaging and deployment, from virtualisation to containers and serverless. The logical conclusion of any computing environment is to execute code and gradually, […] The post #200 – Virtualisation, Containers, Serverless and Data appeared first on Storage Unpacked Podcast.

#200 – Virtualisation, Containers, Serverless and Data

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