Grey Beards on Systems

Thanks, 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"

Jim 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"

Sponsored 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"

Ray’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"

Sponsored 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"

Ran 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"

Sponsored 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"

Sponsored 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"

We’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"

Sponsored 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"