Grey Beards on Systems

Sponsored 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"

Today 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"

Software 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"

Well 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"

As 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"

In 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"

We 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"

Jason 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"

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."

Sponsored 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"