Grey Beards on Systems

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 … Continue reading "164: GreyBeards talk FMS24 Wrap-up with Jim Handy, General Dir., Objective Analysis"

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 … Continue reading "163: GreyBeards talk Ultra Ethernet with Dr J Metz, Chair of UEC steering committee, Chair of SNIA BoD, & Tech. Dir. AMD"

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 … Continue reading "162: GreyBeards talk cold storage with Steffen Hellmold, Dir. Cerabyte Inc."

In this episode, Andy Warfield, VP Distinguished Engineer at Amazon and expert in data storage, discusses the evolution and advancements of AWS S3. He sheds light on S3 Express and One Zone storage, which promise lower response times. Andy dives into the role of S3 in supporting generative AI and the complexities of file versus object storage. With insights from his teaching background, he explains the importance of durability in data storage and highlights innovations that enhance operator experience and efficiency in various industries.

Sponsored By: 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 … Continue reading "160: GreyBeard talks data security with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder & CTO, RackTop Systems"

Jason 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"

Sponsored 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"

Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Oxide Computer, talks about their bet on rack scale computing, their own designed rack and sleds, and their OS Helios. They provide EC2-like compute and EBS-like storage with API driven software and no software licensing fees.

Sponsored 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"

Dr. 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"