Grey Beards on Systems

Sponsored by: In this episode we talk with Chris Wahl, Chief Technologist, Rubrik. This is our second time having Chris on our show. The last time was about three years ago (see our Chris on agentless backup podcast). Talking with Chris again was great and there’s been plenty of news since we last spoke with … Continue reading "64: GreyBeards discuss cloud data protection with Chris Wahl, Chief Technologist, Rubrik"

Sponsored by NetApp: In this episode, we talk with NetApp A-Team members John Woodall (@John_Woodall), VP Eng, Integrated Archive Systems and Paul Stringfellow (@techstringy), Technical Dir.  Data Management Consultancy, Gardner Systems Plc. Both John and Paul have been NetApp partners for quite awhile (John since the beginning of NetApp). John and Paul work directly with … Continue reading "63: GreyBeards talk with NetApp A-Team members John Woodall & Paul Stringfellow"

In this episode,  we continue on our NVMeoF track by talking with VR Satish (@satish_vr), Founder and CTO of Pavilion Data Systems (@PavilionData). Howard had talked with Pavilion Data over the last year or so and I just had a briefing with them over the past week. Pavilion data is taking a different tack to … Continue reading "62: GreyBeards talk NVMeoF storage with VR Satish, Founder & CTO Pavilion Data Systems"

In this episode,  we talk with Taufik Ma, CEO, Attala Systems (@AttalaSystems). Howard had met Taufik at last year’s FlashMemorySummit (FMS17) and was intrigued by their architecture which he thought was a harbinger of future trends in storage. The fact that Attala Systems was innovating with new, proprietary hardware made an interesting discussion, in its own … Continue reading "61: GreyBeards talk composable storage infrastructure with Taufik Ma, CEO, Attala Systems"

Sponsored by:In this episode, we talk with Eiki Hraffnsson (@Eirikurh), Technical Director, NetApp Cloud Data Services.  Eiki gave a great talk at Cloud Field Day 3 (CFD3), although neither Howard nor I were in attendance. I just met Eiki at a NetApp Spring Analyst event earlier this month and after that Howard and I had … Continue reading "60: GreyBeards talk cloud data services with Eiki Hrafnsson, Technical Director, NetApp"

In Episode 59,  we talk with Marc Farley, Senior Product Manager at HPE discussing trends in the storage industry today. Marc been on our show before (GreyBeards talk Cloud Storage…, GreyBeards video discussing file analytics, Greybeards talk cars, storage and IT…) and has been a longtime friend and associate of both Howard and I. Marc’s … Continue reading "59: GreyBeards talk IT trends with Marc Farley, Sr. Product Manager, HPE"

Sponsored by: NetApp In this episode we talk with Adam Carter (@yoadamcarter), Chief Architect, NetApp Solidfire & HCI (Hyper Converged Infrastructure) solutions. Howard talked with Adam at TFD16 and I have known Adam since before the acquisition. Adam did a tour de force session on HCI architectures at TFD16 and we would encourage you to view the … Continue reading "58: GreyBeards talk HCI with Adam Carter, Chief Architect NetApp Solidfire #NetAppHCI"

Sponsored by: Dell EMC Midrange Storage In this episode we talk with Pierluca Chiodelli  (@chiodp), Vice President of Product, Management and Customer Experience at Dell EMC Midrange storage.  Howard talked with Pierluca at SFD14 and I talked with Pierluca at SFD13. He started working there as a customer engineer and has worked his way up to VP … Continue reading "57: GreyBeards talk midrange storage with Pierluca Chiodelli, VP of Prod. Mgmt. & Cust. Ops., Dell EMC Midrange Storage"

This month we talk high performance, cluster file systems with Liran Zvibel (@liranzvibel), CEO and Co-Founder of WekaIO, a new software defined, scale-out file system. I first heard of WekaIO when it showed up on SPEC sfs2014 with a new SWBUILD benchmark submission. They had a 60 node EC2-AWS cluster running the benchmark and achieved, at … Continue reading "56: GreyBeards talk high performance file storage with Liran Zvibel, CEO & Co-Founder, WekaIO"

In 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"