Monthly Enterprise Tech Round-up – PODCAST

August 18, 2012 Podcast, Servers, Solid-State, Storage

This episode of the podcast is our monthly review of the tech world. Future monthly reviews will also include a wider scope of data centre and enterprise tech topics.  This month we discuss -

  • How to innovate and keep driving technology at big tech companies (R&D vs Spin-off/Spin-in vs acquisition….)
  • Do small MS Exchange customers care about performance or just ease of use and reliability
  • Kaminario’s recent destruction of just about all previous SPC-1 results
  • EMC finally rev’d Networker to version 8
  • STECs continued poor performance

This episode is based around Ray Lucchesi’s monthly Storage inteligence newletter. Thanks to Ray again for his insightful and constructive participation in the show.

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The Evolution of Data ONTAP

August 8, 2012 Data Center, Podcast, Solid-State, Storage

In this podcast Nigel and Rick are joined by Larry Freeman a.k.a Dr Dedupe from NetApp.

This show follows up on the recent Data ONTAP 8.1.1 Does One Size Really Fit All where we discussed some of the new features in ONTAP 8.1.1 and specifically Cluster Mode.

In this podcast the following subjects are discussed (plus more)

How NetApp makes its strategic decisions
Iron out some of the outstanding questions from the last ONTAP podcast
Dig deeper in to cluster mode and its relevance
The future of Data Centers and Storage
Larry’s self published book – The Evolution of the Storage Brain

Larry also runs the Storage Brain website

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HP Virtual Connect and Flattening the SAN

July 27, 2012 Data Center, Networking, Podcast, Servers, Storage

This podcast sees Hans De Leenheer join Nigel as co-host, as they quiz Alex Kramer from the HP Virtual Connect Engineering team.

BTW Hans has put a short article together with diagrams that help paint a clearer picture.

This show gets under the hood with the HP Virtual Connect technology as well as discussing the recently announced Direct Connect to 3PAR configuration, which is being referred to by many as flattening the SAN.

Topics covered include -

  • Description of Virtual Connect and how it works
  • Why did HP decide to develop Virtual Connect
  • Is Virtual Connect a network switch (or network bridge if you’re a networking purist)
  • Slicing and dicing NICs HBAs and CNAs
  • Who tends to manage Virtual Connect
  • Where does FCoE fit in
  • Quality (or lack of quality) of firmware
  • Pros and Cons of connecting direct from Virtual Connect to 3PAR storage arrays

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Data ONTAP 8.1.1 Does one size really fit all?

July 23, 2012 Data Center, Podcast, Storage

In this podcast Nigel is joined again by Ray Lucchesi of Silverton Consulting to review Rays monthly Storage News Letter.

The main focus of the show is NetApp’s Data ONTAP 8.1.1, with a focus on what this brings for the much hyped but slow to mature Cluster Mode (c-mode).

Other topics include -

  • Dell
  • Being a blogger vs being an analyst (Ray is both)
  • Is Data ONTAP a dinosaur
  • Have NetApp taken their eye off the ball while developing Cluster Mode
  • Are NetApp behind the competition with regards to tiering and flash options
  • Data ONTAP Edge Mode
  • Infinite Volumes
  • Immortal Clusters
  • A quick update on SPECSFS2008 submissions

Enjoy the show.

The next show will be a deep dive in to HP Virtual Connect.

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EMC World 2012 Review

June 1, 2012 Podcast, Servers, Solid-State, Storage

In this weeks show Rick and Nigel discuss the recent EMC World event with industry veteran Howard Marks. The discussion covers things such as -

Does EMC go overboard with marketing
VMAX Federated Tiered Storage (FTS)
Isilon
VNX
Data Domain
EMC building their own servers
The impact of XtremiO within EMC and the wider enterprise technology market

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Pure Storage Flash Array Gets the Deep Dive Treatment

May 16, 2012 Podcast, Solid-State, Storage

This Deep Dive episode of the podcast is lined up with the release of the Pure Storage FlashArray.

In this episode,Nigel and Rick put the Pure Storage FlashArray under the microscope with the aid of Stephen Foskett (Gestalt IT, TechFieldDay and organiser of the Solid State Storage Symposium) and Matt Kixmoeller (VP of Products at Pure Storage).

This is a great episode that gets under the hood of the recently announced FlashArray, as well as explaining why flash memory is revolutionizing the storage world, literally leaving legacy array architectures in the dust. If you want to know why flash is changing all the rules and may be want to impress the girls with your knowledge of how inline deduplication really does work with flash then you need to listen!

Some of the topics discussed include -

  • How inline deduplication is possible because of flash memory
  • How flash memory changes most of the accepted rules of storage array design
  • Scale out architectures vs dual controller architectures
  • Why consumer grade MLC and TLC flash will win
  • Differences between Tier 0 and Tier 1 markets

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