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Grey Beards on Systems169: GreyBeards talk AgenticAI with Luke Norris, CEO&Co-founder, Kamiwaza AI
Luke Norris (@COentrepreneur), CEO and Co-Founder, Kamiwaza AI, is a serial entreprenaur in Silverthorne CO, where the company is headquartered.. They presented at AIFD6 a couple of weeks back and the GreyBeards thought it would be interesting to learn more about what they were doing, especially since we are broadening the scope of the podcast, to now be GreyBeards on Systems.
Describing Kamiwaza AI is a bit of a challenge. They settled on “AI orchestration” for the enterprise but it’s much more than that. One of their key capabilities is an inference mesh which supports accessing data i...2025-02-1441 minGrey Beards on Systems168: GreyBeards Year End 2024 podcast
It’s time once again for our annual YE GBoS podcast. This year we have Howard back making a guest appearance with our usual cast of Jason and Keith in attendance. And the topic de jour seemed to be AI rolling out to the enterprise and everywhere else in the IT world.
We led off with our discussion from last year, AI (again) but then it was all about new announcements, new capabilities and new functionality. This year it’s all about starting to take AI tools and functionality and make them available to help optimize organizational funct...2024-12-3041 minGrey Beards on Systems167: GreyBeards talk Distributed S3 storage with Enrico Signoretti, VP Product & Partnerships, Cubbit
Long time friend, Enrico Signoretti (LinkedIn), VP Product and Partnerships, Cubbit, used to be a common participant at Storage Field Day (SFD) events and I’ve known him since we first met there. Since then, he’s worked for a startup and a prominent analyst firms. But he’s back at another startup and this one looks like it’s got legs.
Cubbit offers Distributed S3 compatible object storage that offers geo-distribution and geo-fencing for object data, in which the organization owns the hardware and Cubbit supplies the software. There’s a management component, the Coordinator, which could run...2024-11-0452 minGrey Beards on Systems166: Greybeard talks MLperf Storage benchmark with Michael Kade, Sr. Solutions Architect, Hammerspace
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This is the first time we have talked with Hammerspace and Michael Kade (Hammerspace on X), Senior Solutions Architect. We have known about Hammerspace for years now and over the last couple of years, as large AI clusters have come into use, Hammerspace’s popularity has gone through the roof..
Mike’s been benchmarking storage for decades now and recently submitted results for MLperf Storage v1.0, an AI benchmark that focuses on storage activity for AI training and inferencing work. We have written previously on v0.5 of the benchmark, (see: AI benchmark for stor...2024-09-2540 minGrey Beards on Systems165: GreyBeard talks VMware Explore’24 wrap-up with Gina Rosenthal, Founder&CEO Digital Sunshine Solutions
I’ve known Gina Rosenthal (@gminks@mas.to), Founder&CEO, Digital Sunshine Solutions seems like forever and she’s been on the very short list for being a GBoS co-host but she’s got her own Tech Aunties Podcast now. We were both at VMware Explore last week in Vegas. Gina was working in the community hub and I was in their analyst program.
VMware (World) Explore has changed a lot since last year. I found the presentation/sessions to be just as insightful and full of users as last years, but it seems like there may have b...2024-09-0946 minGrey Beards on Systems164: GreyBeards talk FMS24 Wrap-up with Jim Handy, General Dir., Objective Analysis
Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis, is our long, time goto guy on SSD and Memory Technologies and we were both at FMS (Future of Memory and Storage – new name/broader focus) 2024 conference last week in Santa Clara, CA. Lots of new SSD technology both on and off the show floor as well as new memory offerings and more.
Jim helps Jason and I understand what’s happening with NAND, and other storage/memory technologies that matter to today’s IT infrastructure. Listen to the podcast to learn more.
First off, I heard at the show t...2024-08-1743 minGrey Beards on Systems163: GreyBeards talk Ultra Ethernet with Dr J Metz, Chair of UEC steering committee, Chair of SNIA BoD, & Tech. Dir. AMD
Dr J Metz, (@drjmetz, blog) has been on our podcast before mostly in his role as SNIA spokesperson and BoD Chair, but this time he’s here discussing some of his latest work on the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) (LinkedIN: @ultraethernet, X: @ultraethernet)
The UEC is a full stack re-think of what Ethernet could do for large single application environments. UEC was originally focused on HPC, with 400-800 Gbps networks and single applications like simulating a hypersonic missile or airplane. But with the emergence of GenAI and LLMs, UEC could also be very effective for large AI mo...2024-04-0247 minGrey Beards on Systems162: GreyBeards talk cold storage with Steffen Hellmold, Dir. Cerabyte Inc.
Steffen Hellmold, Director, Cerabyte Inc. is extremely knowledgeable about the storage device business. He has worked for WDC in storage technology and possesses an in-depth understanding of tape and disk storage technology trends.
Cerabyte, a German startup, is developing cold storage. Steffen likened Cerabyte storage to ceramic punch cards that dominated IT and pre-IT over much of the last century. Once cards were punched, they created near-WORM storage that could be obliterated or shredded but was very hard to modify. Listen to the podcast to learn more.
Cerabyte uses a unique combination of semiconductor (lithographic...2024-02-2142 minGrey Beards on Systems161: Greybeards talk AWS S3 storage with Andy Warfield, VP Distinguished Engineer, Amazon
We talked with Andy Warfield (@AndyWarfield), VP Distinguished Engineer, Amazon, about 10 years ago, when at Coho Data (see our (005:) Greybeards talk scale out storage … podcast). Andy has been a good friend for a long time and he’s been with Amazon S3 for over 5 years now. Since the recent S3 announcements at AWS Re:Invent, we thought it a good time to have him back on the show. Andy has a great knack for explaining technology, I suppose that comes from his time as a professor but whatever the reason, he was great to have on the show again.
...2024-01-1947 minGrey Beards on Systems160: GreyBeard talks data security with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder & CTO, RackTop Systems
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This is the last in this year’s, GreyBeards-RackTop Systems podcast series and once again we are talking with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop Systems. This time we discuss why traditional security practices can’t cut it alone, anymore. Listen to the podcast to learn more.
Turns out traditional security practices are keeping the bad guys out or supplies perimeter security with networking equivalents. But the problem is sometimes the bad guy is internal and at other times the bad guys pretend to be good guys with good credentials. Both of thes...2024-01-0423 minGrey Beards on Systems159: GreyBeards Year End 2023 Wrap UpJason and Keith joined Ray for our annual year end wrap up and look ahead to 2024. I planned to discuss infrastructure technical topics but was overruled. Once we started talking AI, we couldn’t stop. It’s hard to realize that Generative AI and ChatGPT in particular, haven’t been around that long. We discussed some practical … Continue reading "159: GreyBeards Year End 2023 Wrap Up"2023-12-2947 minGrey Beards on Systems158: GreyBeards talk software defined storage with Brian Dean, Tech. Mkt., Dell PowerFlexSponsored By: This is the 2nd time Brian Dean, Technical Marketing, Dell PowerFlex Storage has been on our show discussing their storage. Since last time there’s been a new release with significant functional enhancements to file services, Dell CloudIQ integration and other services. We discussed these and other topics on our talk with Brian. Please … Continue reading "158: GreyBeards talk software defined storage with Brian Dean, Tech. Mkt., Dell PowerFlex"2023-12-0722 minGrey Beards on Systems157: GreyBeards talk commercial cloud computer with Bryan Cantrill, CTO, Oxide ComputerBryan Cantrill (@bcantrill), CTO, Oxide Computer was a hard man to interrupt once started but the GreyBeards did their best to have a conversation. Nonetheless, this is a long podcast. Oxide are making a huge bet on rack scale computing and have done everything they can to make their rack easy to unbox, setup and … Continue reading "157: GreyBeards talk commercial cloud computer with Bryan Cantrill, CTO, Oxide Computer"2023-11-2156 minGrey Beards on Systems156: GreyBeards talk data security with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop SystemsSponsored By: This is another repeat appearance of Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop Systems on our podcast. This time he was here to discuss whether storage admins need to become security subject matter experts (SMEs) or not. Short answer, no but these days, security is everybody’s responsibility. Listen to the podcast to learn more. … Continue reading "156: GreyBeards talk data security with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop Systems"2023-10-1226 minGrey Beards on Systems155: GreyBeards SDC23 wrap up podcast with Dr. J Metz, Technical Dir. of Systems Design AMD and Chair of SNIA BoDDr. J Metz (@drjmetz, blog), Technical Director of Systems Design at AMD and Chair of SNIA BoD, has been on our show before discussing SNIA research directions. We decided this year to add an annual podcast to discuss highlights from their Storage Developers Conference 2023 (SDC23). Dr, J is working at AMD to help raise … Continue reading "155: GreyBeards SDC23 wrap up podcast with Dr. J Metz, Technical Dir. of Systems Design AMD and Chair of SNIA BoD"2023-10-0948 minGrey Beards on Systems154: GreyBeards annual VMware Explore wrap-up podcastThanks, once again to The CTO Advisor|Keith Townsend, (@CTOadvisor) for letting us record the podcast in his studio. VMware Explore this year was better than last year. The show seemed larger. the show floor busier, the Hub better and the Hands-On Lab much larger than I ever remember before. The show seems to be growing, … Continue reading "154: GreyBeards annual VMware Explore wrap-up podcast"2023-09-0636 minGrey Beards on Systems153: GreyBeards annual FMS2023 wrapup with Jim Handy, General Director, Objective AnalysisJim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis and I were at the FMS 2023 conference in Santa Clara last week and there were a number of interesting discussions at the show. I was particularly struck with the progress being made on the CXL front. I was just a participant but Jim moderated and was on many … Continue reading "153: GreyBeards annual FMS2023 wrapup with Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis"2023-08-1745 minGrey Beards on Systems152: GreyBeards talk agent-less data security with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder & CTO, RackTop SystemsSponsored By: Once again we return to our ongoing series with RackTop Systems, and their Co-Founder & CTO, Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT). This time we discuss how agent-less, storage based, security works and how it can help secure many organizations with (IoT) end points they may not control or can’t deploy agents on them. But agent-less … Continue reading "152: GreyBeards talk agent-less data security with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder & CTO, RackTop Systems"2023-08-0824 minGrey Beards on Systems151: GreyBeards talk AI (ML) performance benchmarks with David Kanter, Exec. Dir. MLCommonsRay’s known David Kanter (@TheKanter), Executive Director, MLCommons, for quite awhile now and has been reporting on MLCommons Mlperf AI benchmark results for even longer. MLCommons releases new benchmark results each quarter and this last week they released new Data Center Training (v3.0) and new Tiny Inferencing (v1.1) results. So, the GreyBeards thought it was … Continue reading "151: GreyBeards talk AI (ML) performance benchmarks with David Kanter, Exec. Dir. MLCommons"2023-07-0749 minGrey Beards on Systems150: GreyBeard talks Zero Trust with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-founder & CTO, RackTop SystemsSponsored By: This is another in our series of sponsored podcasts with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), Co-Founder and CTO of RackTop Systems. You can hear more in Episode #147 on RansomWare protection and Episode #145 on proactive NAS security. Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) has been touted as the next level of security for a while now. … Continue reading "150: GreyBeard talks Zero Trust with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-founder & CTO, RackTop Systems"2023-06-2222 minGrey Beards on Systems149: GreyBeards talk HPC storage with Dustin Leverman, Group Leader, HPC storage at ORNLRan across an article discussing ORION, ORNL’s new storage system which had 100s of PB of file storage and supported TB/sec of bandwidth, so naturally I thought the GreyBeards need to talk to these people. I reached out and Dustin Leverman, Group Leader HPC storage at Oak Ridge National Labs (ORNL)answered the call. Dustin has … Continue reading "149: GreyBeards talk HPC storage with Dustin Leverman, Group Leader, HPC storage at ORNL"2023-05-3149 minGrey Beards on Systems148: GreyBeards talk software defined infrastructure with Anthony Cinelli and Brian Dean, Dell PowerFlexSponsored By: This is one of a series of podcasts the GreyBeards are doing with Dell PowerFlex software defined infrastructure. Today, we talked with Anthony Cinelli, Sr. Director Dell Technologies and Brian Dean, Technical Marketing for PowerFlex. We have talked with Brian before but this is the first time we’ve met Anthony. They were both … Continue reading "148: GreyBeards talk software defined infrastructure with Anthony Cinelli and Brian Dean, Dell PowerFlex"2023-05-181h 02Grey Beards on Systems147: GreyBeards talk ransomware protection with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop SystemsSponsored By: This is another in our series of sponsored podcasts with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), Co-Founder and CTO of RackTop Systems. You can hear more in Episode 145. We asked Jonathan what was wrong with ransomware protection today. Jonathan started by mentioning that bad actors had been present, on average, 277 days in an environment … Continue reading "147: GreyBeards talk ransomware protection with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop Systems"2023-04-2525 minGrey Beards on Systems146: GreyBeards talk K8s cloud storage with Brian Carmody, Field CTO, VolumezWe’ve known Brian Carmody (@initzero), Field CTO, Volumez for over a decade now and he’s always been very technically astute. He moved to Volumez earlier this year and has once again joined a storage startup. Volumez is a cloud K8s storage provider with a new twist, K8s persistent volumes hosted on ephemeral storage. Volumes currently … Continue reading "146: GreyBeards talk K8s cloud storage with Brian Carmody, Field CTO, Volumez"2023-04-1348 minGrey Beards on Systems145: GreyBeards talk proactive NAS security with Jonathan Halstuch, CTO & Co-Founder, RackTop SystemsSponsored By: We’ve known about RackTop Systems. since episode 84, and have been watching them ever since. On this episode we, once again, talk with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), CTO and Co-Founder, RackTop Systems. RackTop was always very security oriented but lately they have taken this to the next level. As Jonathan says on the podcast, … Continue reading "145: GreyBeards talk proactive NAS security with Jonathan Halstuch, CTO & Co-Founder, RackTop Systems"2023-04-0422 minGrey Beards on Systems144: Greybeard talks AI IO with Subramanian Kartik & Howard Marks of VAST DataSponsored by Today we talked with VAST Data’s Subramanian Kartik (@phyzzycyst), Global Systems Engineering Lead and Howard Marks (@DeepStorage@mastodon.social, @deepstoragenet) former GreyBeards co-host and now Technologist Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary at VAST. Howard needs no introduction to our listeners but Kartik does. Kartik has supported a number of customers implementing AI apps at VAST and prior … Continue reading "144: Greybeard talks AI IO with Subramanian Kartik & Howard Marks of VAST Data"2023-03-2825 minGrey Beards on Systems143: GreyBeards talk Chia cypto with Jonmichael Hands, VP Storage at Chia ProjectToday we interview Jonmichael Hands (@LebanonJon, LinkedIn), VP Storage at Chia Project , who has been in and around the storage business forever, mostly with Intel and their SSD team, before it was sold. He was technical marketing for NVMe. He also ran the security and crypto track at FMS2022. He recently worked on sustainability, … Continue reading "143: GreyBeards talk Chia cypto with Jonmichael Hands, VP Storage at Chia Project"2023-03-0245 minGrey Beards on Systems142: GreyBeards talk scale-out, software defined storage with Bjorn Kolbeck, Co-Founder & CEO, QuobyteSoftware defined storage is a pretty full segment of the market these days. So, it’s surprising when a new entrant comes along. We saw a story on Quobyte in Blocks and Files and thought it would be great to talk with Bjorn Kolbeck (LinkedIn), Co-Founder & CEO, Quobyte. Bjorn got his PhD in scale out … Continue reading "142: GreyBeards talk scale-out, software defined storage with Bjorn Kolbeck, Co-Founder & CEO, Quobyte"2023-02-0245 minGrey Beards on Systems141: GreyBeards annual 2022 wrap-up podcastWell it has been another year and time for our annual year end wrap up. Since Covid hit, every year has certainly been interesting. This year we have seen the start of back in person conferences which was a welcome change from the covid lockdown. We are very glad to start seeing everybody again. From … Continue reading "141: GreyBeards annual 2022 wrap-up podcast"2022-12-3044 minGrey Beards on Systems140: Greybeards talk data orchestration with Matt Leib, Product Marketing Manager for IBM Spectrum FusionAs our listeners should know, Matt Leib (@MBleib) was a GreyBeards co-host But since then, Matt has joined IBM to become Product Marketing Manager on IBM Spectrum Fusion, a data orchestration solution for Red Hat OpenShift environments. Matt’s been in and around the storage and data management industry for many years which is why we … Continue reading "140: Greybeards talk data orchestration with Matt Leib, Product Marketing Manager for IBM Spectrum Fusion"2022-12-1246 minGrey Beards on Systems139: GreyBeards talk HPC file systems with Marc-André Vef and Alberto Miranda of GekkoFSIn honor of SC22 conference this month in Dallas, we thought it time to check in with our HPC brethren to find out what’s new in storage for their world. We happened to see that IO500 had some recent (ISC22) results using a relative new comer, GekkoFS (@GekkoFS). So we reached out to the team … Continue reading "139: GreyBeards talk HPC file systems with Marc-André Vef and Alberto Miranda of GekkoFS"2022-11-0844 minGrey Beards on Systems138: GreyBeards talk big data orchestration with Adit Madan, Dir. of Product, AlluxioWe have never talked with Alluxio before but after coming back last week from Cloud Field Day 15 (CFD15) it seemed a good time to talk with other solution providers attempting to make hybrid cloud easier to use. Adit Madan (@madanadit) , Director of Product Management, Alluxio, which is a data orchestration solution that’s available … Continue reading "138: GreyBeards talk big data orchestration with Adit Madan, Dir. of Product, Alluxio"2022-10-1350 minGrey Beards on Systems137: GreyBeards talk VMware Explore 2022 Wrap-upJason Collier Principle Member of Technical Staff, AMD (@bocanuts), a current GreyBeardsOnStorage co-host and I both attended VMware Explore 2022 this past week and we recorded a podcast discussing VMware’s announcements on the show floor. It turns out that Keith Townsend, TheCTOAdvisor (@thectoadvisor) had brought his Airstream &studio and was exhibiting on the show floor. … Continue reading "137: GreyBeards talk VMware Explore 2022 Wrap-up"2022-09-0600 minGrey Beards on Systems136: Flash Memory Summit 2022 wrap-up with Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Assoc.We have known Tom Coughlin (@thomascoughlin), President, Coughlin Associates for a very long time now. He’s been an industry heavyweight almost as long as Ray (maybe even longer). Tom has always been very active in storage media, storage drives, storage systems and memory as well as active in the semiconductor space. All this made him … Continue reading "136: Flash Memory Summit 2022 wrap-up with Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Assoc."2022-08-2047 minGrey Beards on Systems135: Greybeard(s) talk file and object challenges with Theresa Miller & David Jayanathan, CohesitySponsored By: I’ve known Theresa Miller, Director of Technology Advocacy Group at Cohesity, for many years now and just met David Jayanathan (DJ), Cohesity Solutions Architect during the podcast. Theresa could easily qualify as an old timer, if she wished and DJ was very knowledgeable about traditional file and object storage. We had a wide … Continue reading "135: Greybeard(s) talk file and object challenges with Theresa Miller & David Jayanathan, Cohesity"2022-08-0223 min
GreyBeards on Storage135: Greybeard(s) talk file and object challenges with Theresa Miller & David Jayanathan, CohesitySponsored By:
I’ve known Theresa Miller, Director of Technology Advocacy Group at Cohesity, for many years now and just met David Jayanathan (DJ), Cohesity Solutions Architect during the podcast. Theresa could easily qualify as an old timer, if she wished and DJ was very knowledgeable about traditional file and object storage.
We had a wide ranging discussion covering many of the challenges present in today’s file and object storage solutions. Listen to the podcast to learn more.
IT is becoming more distributed. Partly due to moving to the cloud, but now it’s moving...2022-07-2923 minGrey Beards on Systems134: GreyBeards talk (storage) standards with Dr. J Metz, SNIA Chair & Technical Director AMDWe have known Dr. J Metz (@drjmetz, blog), Chair of SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) BoD, for over a decade now and he has always been an intelligent industry evangelist. DrJ was elected Chair of SNIA BoD in 2020. SNIA has been instrumental in the evolution of storage over the years working to help define … Continue reading "134: GreyBeards talk (storage) standards with Dr. J Metz, SNIA Chair & Technical Director AMD"2022-07-0744 minGreyBeards on Storage134: GreyBeards talk (storage) standards with Dr. J Metz, SNIA Chair & Technical Director AMDWe have known Dr. J Metz (@drjmetz, blog), Chair of SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) BoD, for over a decade now and he has always been an intelligent industry evangelist. DrJ was elected Chair of SNIA BoD in 2020.
SNIA has been instrumental in the evolution of storage over the years working to help define storage networking, storage form factors, storage protocols, etc. Over the years it’s been crucial to the high adoption of storage systems in the enterprise and still is.. Listen to the podcast to learn more.
SNIA started out helping to define an...2022-07-0744 minGreyBeards on Storage133: GreyBeards talk trillion row databases/data lakes with Ocient CEO & Co-founder, Chris GladwinWe saw a recent article in Blocks and Files (Storage facing trillion-row db apocalypse), about a couple of companies which were trying to deal with trillion row database queries without taking weeks to respond. One of those companies was Ocient (@Ocient), a Chicago startup, whose CEO and Co-Founder, Chris Gladwin, was an old friend from CleverSafe (now IBM Cloud Object Storage).
Chris and team have been busy creating a new way to perform data analytics on massive data lakes. It’s has a lot to do with extreme parallelism, high core counts, NVMe SSDs, and sophisticated network an...2022-06-1043 minGrey Beards on Systems133: GreyBeards talk trillion row databases/data lakes with Ocient CEO & Co-founder, Chris GladwinWe saw a recent article in Blocks and Files (Storage facing trillion-row db apocalypse), about a couple of companies which were trying to deal with trillion row database queries without taking weeks to respond. One of those companies was Ocient (@Ocient), a Chicago startup, whose CEO and Co-Founder, Chris Gladwin, was an old friend from … Continue reading "133: GreyBeards talk trillion row databases/data lakes with Ocient CEO & Co-founder, Chris Gladwin"2022-06-1043 minGrey Beards on Systems132: GreyBeards talk fast embedded k-v stores with Speedb’s Co-Founder&CEO Adi GelvanWe’ve been talking a lot about K8s of late so we thought it was time to get back down to earth and spend some time with Adi Gelvan (@speedb_io), Co-founder and CEO of Speedb, an embedded key-value store, drop-in/replacement for RocksDB, that significantly improves on its IO performance for large metadata databases. At Adi’s last … Continue reading "132: GreyBeards talk fast embedded k-v stores with Speedb’s Co-Founder&CEO Adi Gelvan"2022-05-0643 minGreyBeards on Storage132: GreyBeards talk fast embedded k-v stores with Speedb’s Co-Founder&CEO Adi GelvanWe’ve been talking a lot about K8s of late so we thought it was time to get back down to earth and spend some time with Adi Gelvan (@speedb_io), Co-founder and CEO of Speedb, an embedded key-value store, drop-in/replacement for RocksDB, that significantly improves on its IO performance for large metadata databases.
At Adi’s last job they were searching for a key-values store or database to manage the substantial metadata they needed. After looking at RocksDB, they found it had a number of performance problems, especially as you got up to lots of m...2022-05-0643 minGreyBeards on Storage131: GreyBeards talk native K8s data protection using Veritas NetBackup with Reneé CarlisleThe GreyBeards have been discussing K8s storage services a lot over the last year or so and it was time to understand how container apps and data could be protected. Recently, we saw an article about a Veritas funded survey, discussing the need for data protection in K8s. As such, it seemed a good time to have a talk with Reneé Carlisle (@VeritasTechLLC), Staff Product Manager for NetBackup (K8S), Veritas.
It turns out that Veritas NetBackup (NBU) has just released their 2nd version of K8s data protection. It’s gone completely (K8s) nat...2022-04-1248 minGrey Beards on Systems131: GreyBeards talk native K8s data protection using Veritas NetBackup with Reneé CarlisleThe GreyBeards have been discussing K8s storage services a lot over the last year or so and it was time to understand how container apps and data could be protected. Recently, we saw an article about a Veritas funded survey, discussing the need for data protection in K8s. As such, it seemed a good time … Continue reading "131: GreyBeards talk native K8s data protection using Veritas NetBackup with Reneé Carlisle"2022-04-1248 minGreyBeards on Storage130: GreyBeards talk high-speed database access using Apache Arrow Flight, with James Duong and David LiWe had heard about Apache Arrow and Arrow Flight as being a hi-performing database with access speeds to match for a while now and finally got a chance to hear what it was all about with James Duong, Co-Fourder of Bit Quill Technologies/Senior Staff Developer at Dremio and David Li (@lidavidm), Apache PMC and software developer at Voltron Data.
First, Apache Arrow is an open source, in memory data base (GitHub repo) for columnar data that enables lightening fast access and processing of data. Apache Arrow Flight is a set of interfaces, protocols, and services that...2022-03-2342 minGrey Beards on Systems130: GreyBeards talk high-speed database access using Apache Arrow Flight, with James Duong and David LiWe had heard about Apache Arrow and Arrow Flight as being a hi-performing database with access speeds to match for a while now and finally got a chance to hear what it was all about with James Duong, Co-Fourder of Bit Quill Technologies/Senior Staff Developer at Dremio and David Li (@lidavidm), Apache PMC and software … Continue reading "130: GreyBeards talk high-speed database access using Apache Arrow Flight, with James Duong and David Li"2022-03-2342 minGrey Beards on Systems129: GreyBeards talk composable infrastructure with GigaIO’s, Matt Demas, Field CTOWe haven’t talked composable infrastructure in a while now but it’s been heating up lately. GigaIO has some interesting tech and I’ve been meaning to have them on the show but scheduling never seemed to work out. Finally, we managed to sync schedules and have Matt Demas, field CTO at GigaIO (@giga_io) on our show. … Continue reading "129: GreyBeards talk composable infrastructure with GigaIO’s, Matt Demas, Field CTO"2022-02-0847 minGreyBeards on Storage129: GreyBeards talk composable infrastructure with GigaIO’s, Matt Demas, Field CTOWe haven’t talked composable infrastructure in a while now but it’s been heating up lately. GigaIO has some interesting tech and I’ve been meaning to have them on the show but scheduling never seemed to work out. Finally, we managed to sync schedules and have Matt Demas, field CTO at GigaIO (@giga_io) on our show.
Also, please welcome Jason Collier (@bocanuts), a long time friend, technical guru and innovator to our show as another co-host. We used to have these crazy discussions in front of financial analysts where we disagreed completely on the direct...2022-02-0847 minGrey Beards on Systems128: GreyBeards talk containers, K8s, and object storage with AB Periasamy, Co-Founder&CEO MinIOSponsored by: Once again Keith and I are talking K8s storage, only this time it was object storage. Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, Co-founder and CEO of MinIO, has been on our show a couple of times now and its always an insightful discussion. He’s got an uncommon perspective on IT today and what needs to … Continue reading "128: GreyBeards talk containers, K8s, and object storage with AB Periasamy, Co-Founder&CEO MinIO"2022-01-2746 minGreyBeards on Storage128: GreyBeards talk containers, K8s, and object storage with AB Periasamy, Co-Founder&CEO MinIOSponsored by:
Once again Keith and I are talking K8s storage, only this time it was object storage. Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, Co-founder and CEO of MinIO, has been on our show a couple of times now and its always an insightful discussion. He’s got an uncommon perspective on IT today and what needs to change.
Although MinIO is an open source, uber-compatible, S3 object store, AB more often talks like a revolutionary, touting the benefits of containerization, scale and automation with K8s. Object storage is just one of the vehicles to he...2022-01-2746 minGrey Beards on Systems127: Annual year end wrap up podcast with Keith, Matt & Ray[Ray’s sorry about his audio, it will be better next time he promises, The Eds] This was supposed to be the year where we killed off COVID for good. Alas, it was not to be and it’s going to be with us for some time to come. However, this didn’t stop that technical juggernaut we … Continue reading "127: Annual year end wrap up podcast with Keith, Matt & Ray"2022-01-0643 minGreyBeards on Storage127: Annual year end wrap up podcast with Keith, Matt & Ray[Ray’s sorry about his audio, it will be better next time he promises, The Eds] This was supposed to be the year where we killed off COVID for good. Alas, it was not to be and it’s going to be with us for some time to come. However, this didn’t stop that technical juggernaut we call the GreyBeards on Storage podcast.
Once again we got Keith, Matt and Ray together to discuss the past year’s top 3 technology trends that would most likely impact the year(s) ahead. Given our recent podcasts, Kubernetes (K8s) stora...2022-01-0643 minGreyBeards on Storage126: GreyBeards talk k8s storage with Alex Chircop, CEO, OndatKeith and I had an interesting discussion with Alex Chircop (@chira001), CEO of Ondat, a kubernetes storage provider. They have a high performing system, laser focused on providing storage for k8s stateful container applications. Their storage is entirely containerized and has a number of advanced features for data availability, performance and security that developers need the run stateful container apps. Listen to the podcast to learn more.
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We started by asking Alex how Ondats different from all the other k8s storage solutions out there today (which we’ve been talking with lately). He...2021-12-0748 minGrey Beards on Systems126: GreyBeards talk k8s storage with Alex Chircop, CEO, OndatKeith and I had an interesting discussion with Alex Chircop (@chira001), CEO of Ondat, a kubernetes storage provider. They have a high performing system, laser focused on providing storage for k8s stateful container applications. Their storage is entirely containerized and has a number of advanced features for data availability, performance and security that developers need … Continue reading "126: GreyBeards talk k8s storage with Alex Chircop, CEO, Ondat"2021-12-0748 minGrey Beards on Systems125: GreyBeard talk K8s storage with Tad Lebeck, US CTO for ionirWe had some technical difficulties with Matt getting on the podcast so, Ray had to fly solo. This month we continue our investigations into K8s storage with a discussion with Tad Lebeck (@TadLebeck) US CTO, ionir, a software defined storage system that only runs under K8s. ionir Kubernetes Data Services platform is an outgrowth of … Continue reading "125: GreyBeard talk K8s storage with Tad Lebeck, US CTO for ionir"2021-11-0841 minGrey Beards on Systems124: GreyBeards talk k8s storage orchestration using CNCF Rook Project with Sébastien Han & Travis Nielsen, Red HatStateful containers are becoming a hot topic these days so we thought it a good time to talk to the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) Rook team about what they are doing to make storage easier to use for k8s container apps. CNCF put us into contact with Sébastien Han (@leseb_), Ceph Storage Architect and … Continue reading "124: GreyBeards talk k8s storage orchestration using CNCF Rook Project with Sébastien Han & Travis Nielsen, Red Hat"2021-10-0945 minGrey Beards on Systems123: GreyBeards talk data analytics with Sean Owen, Apache Spark committee/PMC member & Databricks, lead data scientistThe GreyBeards move up the stack this month with a talk on big data and data analytics with Sean Owen (@sean_r_owen), Data Science lead at Databricks and Apache Spark committee and PMC member. The focus of the talk was on Apache Spark. Spark is an Apache Software Foundation open-source data analytics project and has been … Continue reading "123: GreyBeards talk data analytics with Sean Owen, Apache Spark committee/PMC member & Databricks, lead data scientist"2021-09-1443 minGrey Beards on Systems122: GreyBeards talk big data archive with Floyd Christofferson, CEO StrongBox Data SolutionsThe GreyBeards had a great discussion with Floyd Christofferson, CEO, StrongBox Data Solutions on their big data/HPC file and archive solution. Floyd’s is very knowledgeable on problems of extremely large data repositories and has been around the HPC and other data intensive industries for decades. StrongBox’s StrongLink solution offers a global namespace file system that … Continue reading "122: GreyBeards talk big data archive with Floyd Christofferson, CEO StrongBox Data Solutions"2021-08-2044 minGrey Beards on Systems121: GreyBeards talk Cloud NAS with Peter Thompson, CEO & George Dochev, CTO LucidLinkGreyBeards had an amazing discussion with Peter Thompson (@Lucid_Link), CEO & co-founder and George Dochev (@GDochev), CTO & co-founder of LucidLink. Both Peter and George were very knowledgeable and easy to talk with. LucidLink’s Cloud NAS creates a NAS storage system out of cloud (any S3 compatible AND Azure Blob) object storage. LucidLink is made … Continue reading "121: GreyBeards talk Cloud NAS with Peter Thompson, CEO & George Dochev, CTO LucidLink"2021-07-1549 minGrey Beards on Systems120: GreyBeards talk CEPH storage with Phil Straw, Co-Founder & CEO, SoftIronGreyBeards talk universal CEPH storage solutions with Phil Straw (@SoftIronCEO), CEO of SoftIron. Phil’s been around IT and electronics technology for a long time and has gone from scuba diving electronics, to DARPA/DOD researcher, to networking, and is now doing storage. He’s also their former CTO and co-founder of the company. SoftIron make hardware storage … Continue reading "120: GreyBeards talk CEPH storage with Phil Straw, Co-Founder & CEO, SoftIron"2021-06-1546 minGrey Beards on Systems119: GreyBeards talk distributed cloud file systems with Glen Shok, VP Alliances,PanzuraThis month we turn to distributed (cloud) filesystems as we talk with Glen Shok (@gshok), VP of Alliances for Panzura. Panzura uses backend (cloud or onprem, S3 compatible) object store with a ring of software (VMs) or hardware (appliance) gateways that provides caching for local files as well as managing and maintaining metadata which creates … Continue reading "119: GreyBeards talk distributed cloud file systems with Glen Shok, VP Alliances,Panzura"2021-05-1145 minGrey Beards on Systems118: GreyBeards talks cloud-native object storage with Greg DiFraia, Scality and Stephen Bacon, HPESponsored By: And Keith and I have talked with Stephen Bacon, Senior Director, Big Data Category, HPE, before (not on our podcast) but not Greg DiFraia, GM Americas, Scality. Both were very knowledgeable about how containerization is changing IT and the role of object storage in this transition. Scality’s ARTESCA, takes this changed world view … Continue reading "118: GreyBeards talks cloud-native object storage with Greg DiFraia, Scality and Stephen Bacon, HPE"2021-04-2931 minGrey Beards on Systems117: GreyBeards talk HPC file systems with Frank Herold, CEO of ThinkParQ, makers of BeeGFSWe return back to our storage thread with a discussion of HPC file systems with Frank Herold, (@BeeGFS) CEO of ThinkParQ GmbH, the makers of BeeGFS. I’ve seen BeeGFS start to show up in some IO500 top storage benchmark results and as more and more data keeps coming online every day, we thought it time … Continue reading "117: GreyBeards talk HPC file systems with Frank Herold, CEO of ThinkParQ, makers of BeeGFS"2021-04-1937 minGrey Beards on Systems116: GreyBeards talk VCF on VxBlock 1000 with Martin Hayes, DMTS, Dell TechnologiesSponsored By: This past week, we had a great talk with Martin Hayes (@hayes_martinf), Distinguished Member Technical Staff at Dell Technologies about running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on VxBlock 1000 converged infrastructure (CI). It used to be that Cloud Foundation required VMware vSAN primary storage but that changed a few years ago. . When that … Continue reading "116: GreyBeards talk VCF on VxBlock 1000 with Martin Hayes, DMTS, Dell Technologies"2021-03-3032 minGrey Beards on Systems115-GreyBeards talk database acceleration with Moshe Twitto, CTO&Co-founder, PliopsWe seem to be on a computational tangent this year. So we thought it best to talk with Moshe Twitto, CTO and Co-Founder at Pliops (@pliopsltd). We had first seen them at SFD21 (see videos of their sessions here) and their talk on how they could speed up database IO was pretty impressive. Essentially, they … Continue reading "115-GreyBeards talk database acceleration with Moshe Twitto, CTO&Co-founder, Pliops"2021-03-2247 minGrey Beards on Systems114: GreyBeards talk computational storage with Tong Zhang, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, ScaleFluxSeeing as how one topic on last years FMS2020 wrap-up with Jim Handy was the rise of computational storage and it’s been a long time (see GreyBeards talk with Scott Shadley at NGD Systems) since we discussed this, we thought it time to check in on the technology. So we reached out to Dr. Tong … Continue reading "114: GreyBeards talk computational storage with Tong Zhang, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, ScaleFlux"2021-02-2243 minGrey Beards on Systems113: GreyBeards talk storage for next gen. workloads with Liran Zvibel, Co-Founder & CEO WekaIOSponsored By: I’ve known Liran Zvibel, Co-founder and CEO of Weka IO for many years now and it’s the second time he’s been on our show, (see: Episode 56: GreyBeards talk high performance file storage...). In those days, WekaIO was just coming out and hitting the world with this extremely high-performing, scale out unstructured data … Continue reading "113: GreyBeards talk storage for next gen. workloads with Liran Zvibel, Co-Founder & CEO WekaIO"2021-02-0228 minGrey Beards on Systems112: GreyBeards annual year end wrap-up with Keith & MattIt’s the end of the year, so time for our regular year end wrap up discussion with the GreyBeards. 2020 has been an interesting year to say the least. It started out just fine, then COVID19 showed up and threw a wrench in everyone’s plans and as the year closes, we were just starting to … Continue reading "112: GreyBeards annual year end wrap-up with Keith & Matt"2021-01-0145 minGrey Beards on Systems111: GreyBeards talk data analytics with Matthew Tyrer, Sr. Mgr. Solutions Mkt & Competitive Intelligence, CommvaultSponsored by: I’ve known Matthew Tyrer, Senior Manager Solutions Marketing and Competitive Intelligence, Commvault for quite awhile now and he’s always been knowledgeable about the problems the enterprise has in supporting and backing up large file data repositories. But lately he’s been focused on Commvault Activate their data analytics solution. We had a great talk … Continue reading "111: GreyBeards talk data analytics with Matthew Tyrer, Sr. Mgr. Solutions Mkt & Competitive Intelligence, Commvault"2020-12-1025 minGrey Beards on Systems110: GreyBeards talk FMS2020 wrap up with Jim Handy, General Director of Objective AnalysisThis months it’s back to storage and our annual wrap-up on the Flash Memory Summit Conference with Jim Handy, General Director of Objective Analysis. Jim’s been on our show 5 times before and is a well known expert on NAND and SSDs (as well as DRAM and memory systems). Jim also blogs at TheSSDGuy.com and … Continue reading "110: GreyBeards talk FMS2020 wrap up with Jim Handy, General Director of Objective Analysis"2020-12-0248 minGrey Beards on Systems109: GreyBeards talk SmartNICs & DPUs with Kevin Deierling, Head of Marketing at NVIDIA NetworkingWe decided to take a short break (of sorts) from storage to talk about something equally important to the enterprise, networking. At (virtual) VMworld a month or so ago, Pat made mention of developing support for SmartNIC-DPUs and even porting vSphere to run on top of a DPU. So we thought it best to go … Continue reading "109: GreyBeards talk SmartNICs & DPUs with Kevin Deierling, Head of Marketing at NVIDIA Networking"2020-11-1845 minGrey Beards on Systems108: GreyBeards talk DNA storage with David Turek, CTO, Catalog DNAThe Greybeards get off the beaten (enterprise) path this month, to see what lies ahead with a discussion on DNA storage. David Turek, CTO, Catalog DNA (@CatalogDNA) is a long time IBMer that had been focused on HPC systems at IBM but left and went to Catalog DNA to pursue the commercialization of DNA storage, … Continue reading "108: GreyBeards talk DNA storage with David Turek, CTO, Catalog DNA"2020-10-1746 minGrey Beards on Systems107: GreyBeards talk MinIO’s support of VMware’s new Data Persistence Platform with AB Periasamy, CEO MinIOSponsored by: The GreyBeards have talked with Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy (@ABPeriasamy), CEO MinIO, before (see 097: GreyBeards talk open source S3… episode). And we also saw him earlier this year, at their headquarters for Storage Field Day 19 (SFD19) where AB gave a great discussion of what they were doing and how it worked … Continue reading "107: GreyBeards talk MinIO’s support of VMware’s new Data Persistence Platform with AB Periasamy, CEO MinIO"2020-09-2525 minGrey Beards on Systems106: Greybeards talk Intel’s new HPC file system with Kelsey Prantis, Senior Software Eng. Manager, IntelWe had talked with Intel at Storage Field Day 20 (SFD20), about a month ago. At the virtual event, Intel’s focus was on their Optane PMEM (persistent memory) technology. Kelsey Prantis (@kelseyprantis), Senior Software Engineering Manager, Intel was on the show and gave an introduction into Intel’s DAOS (Distributed Architecture Object Storage, DAOS.io) a new … Continue reading "106: Greybeards talk Intel’s new HPC file system with Kelsey Prantis, Senior Software Eng. Manager, Intel"2020-09-1743 min
Utilizing Tech: The Podcast Series About Emerging Technology01x04: Is Enterprise IT Operations Really Ready for AI with Ray LucchesiStephen Foskett is joined by Ray Lucchesi, an expert on enterprise IT infrastructure and operations. Ray has seen many technologies come and go, but he's impressed by AI. Why does he think it's more reality than hype and how does he think it will affect the datacenter going forward? How are product vendors using AI and ML technology today, from storage to security to systems management? What will AI mean to datacenter infrastructure and the future of CPU and GPU hardware?Stephen Foskett can be found at GestaltIT.com and on Twitter @SFoskett. Ray Lucchesi can be...2020-09-1523 minGrey Beards on Systems105: Greybeards talk new datacenter architecture with Pradeep Sindhu, CEO & Co-founder, FungibleNeither Ray nor Keith has met Pradeep before, but Ray was very interested in Fungible’s technology. Turns out Pradeep Sindhu, CEO and Co-founder, Fungible has had a long and varied career in the industry starting at Xerox Parc, then co-founding and becoming chief scientist at Juniper, and now reachitecting the data center with Fungible. Pradeep … Continue reading "105: Greybeards talk new datacenter architecture with Pradeep Sindhu, CEO & Co-founder, Fungible"2020-08-1838 minGrey Beards on Systems104: GreyBeards talk new cloud defined (shared) storage with Siamak Nazari, CEO NebulonRay has known Siamak Nazari (@NebulonInc), CEO Nebulon for three companies now but has rarely had a one (two) on one discussion with him. With Nebulon just emerging from stealth (a gutsy move during the pandemic), the GreyBeards felt it was a good time to get Siamak on the show to tell us what he’s … Continue reading "104: GreyBeards talk new cloud defined (shared) storage with Siamak Nazari, CEO Nebulon"2020-07-0742 minGrey Beards on Systems103: Greybeards talk scale-out file and cloud data with Molly Presley & Ben Gitenstein, QumuloSponsored by: Ray has known Molly Presley (@Molly_J_Presley), Head of Global Product Marketing for just about a decade now and we both just met Ben Gitenstein (@Qumulo_Product), VP of Products & Solutions, Qumulo on this podcast. Both Molly and Ben were very knowledgeable about the problems customers have with massive data troves. Molly has been … Continue reading "103: Greybeards talk scale-out file and cloud data with Molly Presley & Ben Gitenstein, Qumulo"2020-06-2325 minGrey Beards on Systems0102 GreyBeards talk big memory data with Charles Fan, CEO & Co-founder, MemVergeIt’s been a couple of months since we last talked with a startup, so the GreyBeards thought it was time. We reached out to Charles Fan (@CharlesFan14), CEO and Co-Founder of MemVerge to find out about their big memory solution or as Charles likes to call it, “software defined (big) memory”. Although neither Matt or … Continue reading "0102 GreyBeards talk big memory data with Charles Fan, CEO & Co-founder, MemVerge"2020-05-2744 minGrey Beards on Systems0101: Greybeards talk with Howard Marks, Technologist Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary at VASTAs most of you know, Howard Marks (@deepstoragenet), Technologist Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary at VAST Data used to be a Greybeards co-host and is still on our roster as a co-host emeritus. When I started to schedule this podcast, it was going to be our 100th podcast and we wanted to invite Howard and the rest … Continue reading "0101: Greybeards talk with Howard Marks, Technologist Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary at VAST"2020-04-3043 minGrey Beards on Systems0100: GreyBeards talk with Colin Gallagher, VP Dig. Infra. Prod. Mkt. @ Hitachi VantaraSponsored By: We have known Colin Gallagher (@worldc3), VP, Digital Infrastructure Product Marketing at Hitachi Vantara, for a long time and he has always been an all around smart storage guy. Colin’s team at Hitachi Vantara are bringing out a brand new, midrange storage system and we thought it would be a good time to … Continue reading "0100: GreyBeards talk with Colin Gallagher, VP Dig. Infra. Prod. Mkt. @ Hitachi Vantara"2020-04-2123 minGrey Beards on Systems099: GreyBeards talk Folding@Home with Mike Harsch, a longtime enthusiastMike Harsch (@harschness) is a personal friend, a computer enthusiast with a particular and enduring interest in distributed systems and GPU computing. MIke’s been a longtime user and proponent of Folding@Home, a distributed system focused on protein dynamics that anyone can download and run on their personal computer(s) or gaming devices. We started the discussion … Continue reading "099: GreyBeards talk Folding@Home with Mike Harsch, a longtime enthusiast"2020-04-0139 minGrey Beards on Systems098: GreyBeards talk data protection & visualization for massive unstructured data repositories with Christian Smith, VP Product at IgneousSponsored By: Even before COVID-19 there was a lot of file data being created and mined, but with the advent of the pandemic, this has accelerated considerably. As such, it seemed an appropriate time to talk with Christian Smith, VP of Product at Igneous, (@IgneousIO) a company that targets the protection and visibility of massive … Continue reading "098: GreyBeards talk data protection & visualization for massive unstructured data repositories with Christian Smith, VP Product at Igneous"2020-03-2423 minGrey Beards on Systems097: GreyBeards talk open source S3 object store with AB Periasamy, CEO MinIORay was at SFD19 a few weeks ago and the last session of the week (usually dead) was with MinIO and they just blew us away (see videos of MinIO’s session here). Ray thought Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy (@ABPeriasamy), CEO MinIO, who was the main presenter at the session, would be a great invite for … Continue reading "097: GreyBeards talk open source S3 object store with AB Periasamy, CEO MinIO"2020-02-0746 minGrey Beards on Systems096: GreyBeards YE2019 IT Industry Trends podcastIn this, our yearend industry wrap up episode, the GreyBeards discuss trends and technologdies impacting the IT industry in 2019 and what’s ahead for 2020. This year we have Matt and Keith on the podcast along with Ray. Just like last year, we start off with NVMeoF. NVMeoF unleashed This year just about every major … Continue reading "096: GreyBeards YE2019 IT Industry Trends podcast"2020-01-0248 minGrey Beards on Systems095: GreyBeards talk file sync&share with S. Azam Ali, VP Customer Success at CentreStackWe haven’t talked with a file synch and share vendor in a while now and Matt was interested in the technology. He had been talking with CentreStack, and found that they had been making some inroads in the enterprise. So we contacted S. Azam Ali, VP of Customer Success at CentreStack and asked if he … Continue reading "095: GreyBeards talk file sync&share with S. Azam Ali, VP Customer Success at CentreStack"2019-12-2035 minGrey Beards on Systems094: GreyBeards talk shedding light on data with Scott Baker, Dir. Content & Data Intelligence at Hitachi VantaraSponsored By: At Hitachi NEXT 2019 Conference, last month, there was a lot of talk about new data services from Hitachi. Keith and I thought it would be a good time to sit down and talk with Scott Baker (@Kraken-Scuba), Director of Content and Data Intelligence, at Hitachi Vantara about what’s going on with data … Continue reading "094: GreyBeards talk shedding light on data with Scott Baker, Dir. Content & Data Intelligence at Hitachi Vantara"2019-12-0523 minGrey Beards on Systems92: Ray talks AI with Mike McNamara, Sr. Manager, AI Solution Mkt., NetAppSponsored By: NetApp NetApp’s been working in the AI DL (deep learning) space for a long time now and announced their partnership with NVIDIA DGX systems, back in August of 2018. At NetApp Insight, this week they were showing off their new NVIDIA DGX systems reference architectures. These architectures use NetApp AFF A800 storage (for … Continue reading "92: Ray talks AI with Mike McNamara, Sr. Manager, AI Solution Mkt., NetApp"2019-11-0427 minGrey Beards on Systems91: Keith and Ray show at CommvaultGO 2019There was a lot of news at CommvaultGO this year and it was our first chance to talk with their new CEO, Sanjay Mirchandani. Just prior to the show Commvault introduced new SaaS backup offering for the mid market, Metallic™ and about a month or so prior to the show Commvault had acquired Hedvig, a … Continue reading "91: Keith and Ray show at CommvaultGO 2019"2019-10-2323 minGrey Beards on Systems89: Keith & Ray show at Pure//Accelerate 2019There were plenty of announcements at Pure//Accelerate in Austin this past week and we were given a preview of them at a StorageFieldDay Exclusive (SFDx), the day before the announcement. First up is Pure’s DirectMemory. They have added Optane SSDs to FlashArray//X to be used as a read cache for customer data. As you may … Continue reading "89: Keith & Ray show at Pure//Accelerate 2019"2019-09-1823 minGrey Beards on Systems87: Matt & Ray show at VMworld 2019Matt and Ray were both at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco this past week, and we did an impromptu podcast on recent news at the show. VMware announced a number of new projects and just prior to the show they announced the intent to acquire Pivotal and Carbon Black. Pat’s keynote the first day was … Continue reading "87: Matt & Ray show at VMworld 2019"2019-08-2816 minGrey Beards on Systems55: GreyBeards storage and system yearend review with Ray & HowardIn this episode, the Greybeards discuss the year in systems and storage. This year we kick off the discussion with a long running IT trend which has taken off over the last couple of years. That is, recently the industry has taken to buying pre-built appliances rather than building them from the ground up. We can … Continue reading "55: GreyBeards storage and system yearend review with Ray & Howard"2017-12-3044 minGrey Beards on Systems39: Greybeards talk deep storage/archive with Matt Starr, CTO Spectra LogicIn this episode, we talk with Matt Starr (@StarrFiles), CTO of Spectra Logic, the deep storage experts. Matt has been around a long time and Ray’s shared many a meal with Matt as we’re both in NW Denver. Howard has a minor quibble with Spectra Logic over the use of his company’s name (DeepStorage) in their product … Continue reading "39: Greybeards talk deep storage/archive with Matt Starr, CTO Spectra Logic"2016-12-1651 minGrey Beards on Systems37: GreyBeards discuss blockchains with Donna Dillenberger, IBM FellowIn this episode, we talk with Donna Dillenberger (@DonnaExplorer), IBM Fellow on IBM’s work with blockchain technology. Ray was at IBM Edge Conference last month where Donna and others presented on what BlockChain technology could do for financial services and asset provenance. Ray wrote a post on Blockchains at IBM after the conference. Blockchain is the … Continue reading "37: GreyBeards discuss blockchains with Donna Dillenberger, IBM Fellow"2016-10-2051 minGrey Beards on Systems35: GreyBeards talk Flash Memory Summit wrap-up with Jim Handy, Objective AnalysisIn this episode, we talk with Jim Handy (@thessdguy), memory and flash analyst at Objective Analysis. Jim’s been on our podcast before and last time we had a great talk on flash trends. As Jim, Howard and Ray were all at Flash Memory Summit (FMS 2016) last week, we thought it appropriate to get together … Continue reading "35: GreyBeards talk Flash Memory Summit wrap-up with Jim Handy, Objective Analysis"2016-08-1853 minGrey Beards on SystemsGreyBeards on Storage year end 2015 podcastIn our annual yearend podcast and it’s the Ray and Howard show, talking about storage futures, industry trends and some storage world excitement of- the past year. We start the discussion deconstructing recent reductions in year over year revenues at major storage vendors. It seems with the advent of all flash arrays (AFA), and all major vendors and most startups … Continue reading "GreyBeards on Storage year end 2015 podcast"2016-01-1349 minGrey Beards on SystemsGreyBeards year end storage trends wrap-upWelcome to our fourth episode. In this year end wrap-up Howard and Ray talk about the three trends that have emerged over the last year or so which are impacting the storage industry in a big way and will continue to affect the industry in the the years to come. First up is scale-out storage. … Continue reading "GreyBeards year end storage trends wrap-up"2013-12-2736 minGrey Beards on SystemsGreyBeards discuss server side flash with Satyam Vaghani, Co-Founder & CTO PernixDataEpisode 2: Server Side Flash Software Welcome to our second GreyBeards on Storage (GBoS) podcast. The podcast was recorded on October 29, 2013, when Howard and Ray talked with Satyam Vaghani, Co-Founder & CTO PernixData, a scale-out, server side flash caching solution provider Well this month’s podcast runs about 40 minutes. Howard and I had … Continue reading "GreyBeards discuss server side flash with Satyam Vaghani, Co-Founder & CTO PernixData"2013-11-0240 minGrey Beards on SystemsGreyBeards talk converged infrastructure with Dheeraj Pandey, CEO NutanixEpisode 1: Converged Infrastructure Welcome to our inaugural GreyBeards on Storage (GBoS) podcast. The podcast was recorded on September 27th, 2013, when Howard and Ray talked with Dheeraj Pandey, CEO Nutanix. Our first podcast ran to ~48 minutes and was a broad, wide-ranging conversation that discussed everything from the specifics of Nutanix solutions to broader … Continue reading "GreyBeards talk converged infrastructure with Dheeraj Pandey, CEO Nutanix"2013-10-0248 min
Gregs Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure PodcastSNW 2012 Ray Lucchesi on SNW and StorageIn this episode, my co-host Bruce Rave aka Bruce Ravid of Ravid and Associates (twitter @brucerave) meets up with Ray Lucchesi (@RayLucchesi) of Silverton Consulting and Ray on storage blog in the Santa Clara Hyatt (event venue) lobby bar area. Our conversation covers past and present SNWs along with other industry conferences, shows and events, along with social networking, technology, being a soccer dad with teenage kids who are aspiring actors and more.2012-10-2309 min