The French Storage Podcast: Recent Episodes
Ph. Nicolas
"The French Storage Podcast" (aka TFSP) is about Data, Data Management and Storage.
It is owned, hosted and driven by Philippe Nicolas, observer of the storage industry for more than 30 years.
As an international podcast, TFSP has the mission to cover the industry as a whole with interviews, debates, round tables and technical talks, and the wish to keep some french aspects and episodes when needed.
TFSP publishes a new episode every Friday at 12pm Paris time.
You can contact me on Twitter via @CDP_FST.
On TFSP, in addition to new episodes, you can also find all past episodes produced during the USP ("Unleash your storage passion") podcast period between April 2020 and July 2021. As a reminder USP was launched in April 2020 by Yoann Castillo and Philippe Nicolas during the Covid-19 with the idea to unify, discuss and boost the French data storage community.
A few weeks ago, a small of group key industry players joined together and unveiled The Open Flash Platform initiative aka OFP to address storage for AI challenges. The goal is to reach new capacity, density and performance level levering open standard and open source such as Linux, pNFS and DPU models. I summarized the initiative and added some remarks and comments as OFP approach is very interesting and more members should join in the coming months now. Enjoy the listening.
New edition of The Future of Memory and Storage conference aka FMS and the annual summer rendez-vous confirms its role and place in the industry. Several key vendors were present as exhibitors or not and tons of informations have been presented, unveiled and shared with new products, technologies, synergies, partnerships or just corporate directions. I tried to summarize what I saw there, enjoy the short recap and listening.
Twice a year, Coldago Research produces its long awaited Storage Unicorn in June and December. The last report was published in June 2025 and lists 18 companies: Acronis, Barracuda Networks, Cohesity, DataCore, DDN, Druva, Eon, ExaGrid, Infinidat, Kaseya, MinIO, Nasuni, NinjaOne, Qumulo, VAST Data, Veeam Software, Wasabi Technologies and WEKA. Enjoy the listening of this short episode.
The last session we had early June during the 62nd edition of The IT Press Tour with Phison presenting the Lonestar case study was a real trigger inviting me to think that I need to talk to the master of this project. And with the help of Phison, we secured the recording with Chris Stott, chairman, CEO and co-founder. We talked about the utopia this kind of project could represent in people's mind or let say the unrealistic idea it crystalizes. In fact, the reality is different they already did a mission so Chris shared lots of informations, what they develop, their partner ecosystem like Phison and why they chose Phison and the Pascari product line, what kind of services they offer, who need this and why they need it, the pricing and business model and of cours we conclude with the calendar of next phases. I hope you'll enjoy this episode, really unique approach. Merci Chris.
The 62nd edition of The IT Press Tour took place early June in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, California.
The event was very good, dense with a very compelling program. We met 9 companies and organizations: Cohesity, DDN, Graid Technology, Hunch, Lucidity, Phison Electronics, PuppyGraph, Tabsdata and the Ultra Link Accelerator Consortium, all having something to say in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data and Storage Management, Big Data and Analytics and of course AI.
It also means that we beat new records with 340 distinct companies and 586 sessions for more 26,000 generated articles since 2010 !!
We had the opportunity and privilege to meet again Phison during the recent 62nd edition of The IT Press Tour in California early June. Michael Wu, president, Phison US, and his team delivered a very good session with lots of informations. It gave me the idea to record a new episode this time with Phison's CTO Sebastien Jean to cover some technical aspects, strategy choices and of course technology and product elements about Pascari and we even spoke about Lonestar. A great episode I hope you will enjoy. Thank you Sebastien.
Following the sad news last week, I wrote this new episode based on the StorageNewsletter Top News we published July 2nd, 2025 with future directions and perspectives for the #1 Worldwide Data Storage Industry News website. The adventure continues, believe me.
Jean-Jacques Maleval, the man behind StorageNewsletter passed away February 3rd, 2025. This episode is the audio of the article I wrote on his publication July 1st, 2025 and officially marked the transition to a new phase led by me. RIP JJM.
With a fantastic session with DDN during the recent IT Press Tour in California early June with Paul Bloch, President and co-founder, and Sven Oehme, CTO, covering HPC Storage but above all AI Storage and all connected domains and challenges, I got the idea to extend this with a special talk with Sven. We spoke about the product strategy of course, ExaScaler and Infinia in details, new design requirements to deliver new performance levels, how their installed base and new customers adopt Infinia and of course spent some time on the directions and the future. A great episode I invite you to listen carefully. Enjoy, Thank you Sven.
Cohesity, I should say the NEW Cohesity, participated to The IT Press Tour for the 4th time and this moment was again key to learn about the current state of the union 6 months after the effective date last December. We had a dense meeting with Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President, and his executives team and based on that I decided to record a episode with Vasu Murthy, Cohesity's CPO. We spoke about the products convergence, roadmap, new features, synergies and what is coming... a very good and dense program that protects users' investment. This also confirms that Cohesity is now the market leader in terms of Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software based on revenue, market share and protected data volume. Enjoy the episode, a really good one with lots of info. Thank you Vasu.
Participating to the Storage Technology Showcase for a few years, I decided this time to record a special interview with Quinn Mitchell, creator and owner of the conference. We spoke about the genesis of the event, the mission, goals, objectives and future directions. A very interesting episode to learn more about a unique conference in the industry. Enjoy, Thank you Quinn.
I follow Lucidity since they wen tout of stealth and became visible on the market and I was intrigued by the mechanism they used behind. Lucidity decided to join the recent 62nd edition of The IT Press Tour in California to launch their new product Lumen, a block tiering solution in addition to AutoScaler, their current and first product. In this episode with Nitin Bhadauria, founder of Lucidity with Vatsal Rastogi, we cover the genesis of the project, what challenges the team wish to solve, how the 2 product work, where and how they're deployed, their go-to-market model and pricing philosophy and of course cover a bit of the future directions. A very interesting talk and I invite you to watch carefully Lucidity. Enjoy the listening, thank you Nitin.
The LTO Consortium has made a significant step with the LTO-10 and a few vendors have announced its availability with, again, some disappointments as it offers only 30TB raw. If you consider the original roadmap it represents a big drop. I discuss all these points in this episode as tape is today only considered for archive and deep archive with a key advantage, its cost associated with its nature being a passive media. Enjoy.
Beyond classic annual Coldago Research End-Users Surveys I had the idea to collect, around the end of 2024, opinions and comments from the field asking only end-users about the most impacting data storage technologies in the first 25 years of the century. And we got amazing results, I let your discover the top 3 and if you insist I can even share the #4, #5 and #6. Enjoy.
I discovered Quesma during The IT Press Tour we ran in Boston in October 2024 with the Hydrolix session explaining why Quesma is key for their solution adoption and integration and what they offer. I invited Jacek Migdal, CEO and founder of Quesma, for this last edition in Europe, this time in London, UK, as I wished to learn more and understand better how it works. With Jacek, we spoke about the genesis of the project, what pains they address, how they solve these, their GTM and pricing model and conclude with some future directions. Very good episode, hope you will enjoy it. Thank you Jacek.
The 4th edition of Huawei Technologies Innovative Data Infrastructure Forum 2025 took place in Munich, Germany, last week. With several announcements, news, updates and refreshes plus a good comprehensive expo zone, the Chinese giant continues its pressure on the markets with AI Storage, All Flash Data center products, High scalability and resiliency at a very attractive dense, cost effective and green dimensions. We understand that a new A600 is coming, the 122TB SSD will be shipped overseas, the Dorado v7 architecture penetrates the marketOceanProtect with impressive capacity plus DCS and DME. A great event where I had the privilege to deliver a keynote. Thank you.
The Huawei Innovative Data Infrastructure Forum 2025 in Munich, Germany, was the opportunity to talk with Michael Fan, Marketing Director of the Data Storage product line at Huawei. We spoke together about the Huawei strategy, innovation in cloud, flash, data protection, HPC and AI with the A, Pacific and Dorado Series. A very good exchange with Michael, hope you'd like it. Enjoy.
The 61st edition of The IT Press Tour took place early April at Battersea Power Station in London, UK.
It was, once again, a very good event with 15 European IT journalists and reporters at a fantastic place, modernized, perfect to host our new edition. With that 61st edition, we beat new records with 335 distincts companies and 577 sessions for more 26,000 generated articles since 2010 !!
For this edition we met 6 organizations covering IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data and Storage Management, Big Data and Analytics and of course AI. In the alpha order, they're AppsCode, Auwau, DAOS, FerretDB, Quesma and Storadera.
Second participation for Storadera, a company I, first, invited in Paris in September 2022, this time for the 61st edition of The IT Press Tour in London. We had the privilege to get a company and product update from Tommi Kannisto, CEO and founder. He joined us to present a deep update on what they did for last few months, how the product works, what are the key differentiators and what he plans for the company and the product in the coming quarters. Storadera is pretty unique with a very simple pricing model with just €6/TB/mon everything included. I hope you will enjoy tis episode. Thank you Tommi.
We got the scoop during the recent IT Press Tour when we learned that CloudFabrix renamed itself into Fabrix.AI to surf and take advantage of the coming AI Tsunami. With this new positioning and AI integration we saw lots of progress for their platform and I decided to talk with Raju Penmetsa, the CTO of the company. We spoke about the architecture, how they leverage AI, Deepseek and other famous technologies, some specific LLMs... and land on their value proposition around Data, AI and Automation Fabric. We concluded with some future product directions and many things are coming. A very good talk, I hope you will enjoy this episode. Thank you Raju.
Young Block Software Defined Storage aka SDS player, Volumez joined recently the 60th edition of The IT Press Tour and it was the opportunity to measure all the progress made by the team in terms of product and market penetration. With the introduction of their Data Infrastructure as a Service, a super set above classic cloud IaaS and their recent performance results for the MLPerf benchmarks, it gave me idea to discuss with John Blumenthal, Chief Product and Business Officer at Volumez, about all these and much more. With John we spoke about his choice of Volumez and the challenge he found, the approach the company took on this AI storage infrastructure and how the product works, the value for users and developers, their business approach following impressive MLPerf results and we concluded with sone future directions. A very interesting talk with John, it was a good moment I hope you will like it as much as I enjoyed it. Thank you John.
Reference in Unstructured Data Management for on-premises and cloud open systems, Komprise continues to drive its product line at a rapid pace. Known for its modern file migration approach based on its Transparent Move Technology, aka TMT, Komprise invented a radical way to manage tiering without any stub files. The product supports a wide variety of NAS and S3 sources and targets, both deployed on-premises or in the cloud. As we met Komprise during the last IT Press Tour in January, I thought that it could be interesting to speak with its CTO, Mike Peercy to dig into a few technical aspects of their solution. And we did it, with Mike we spoke about the architecture of the product, how they leverage ElasticSearch, why and how the global File Index, aka GFI, works and its role, and we also covered the recent announcement related to AI and how the sensitive data protection is implemented. And we concluded with a bit of future directions. Komprise has been recognized, once again, as a leader in the Coldago Research Map 2024 for Unstructured Data Management. It was a pleasure to discuss and record tis episode, hope you will enjoy it.
Panzura is a pioneer in Cloud File Storage serving data at any points on the planet from a central data repository stored on public or private cloud. It mixes object storage with edge access points and maintains NAS protocols for edge clients. It delivers a strict consistency model across sides and has been designed with a pretty unique star and mesh topology across CloudFS servers and back to the central storage. Following the recent IT Press Tour in January, I decided to record this episode with Sundar Kanthadai, the CTO of Panzura for 2 and half years. In addition Panzura has acquired Moonwalk Universal and sells it today with some extensions as Symphony jumping into Unstructured Data Management. Panzura has been recognized, once again, as a leader in the Coldago Research Map 2024 for Cloud File Storage. We spoke about all these points with Sundar, starting with his motivation to join Panzura following his experience at Pavilion Data Systems. I really enjoyed this talk, hope you will as well. Thank you Sundar.
We unveiled to the world Leil Storage in April 2024 for the 55th edition of The IT Press Tour in Roma, Italy. It was the opportunity to discover the Estonian company who develops a scalable high end secondary storage approach based on SaunaFS, their Google like File System, coupled with erasure coding and ICE - Infinite Cold Engine - to reduce and control power usage coupled with SMR HDDs. I recorded this episode this week at Leil HQ in Tallinn, Estonia, speaking with David Gerstein, CTO, and Piotr Modrzyk, Principal Architect. During this talk, we go deeper explaining how their SaunaFS works, their differentiators, how they coupled it with erasure coding and integrate power control to reduce energy consumption. They leverage SMR HDDs with high capacity, more dedicated to sequential workloads, and use some techniques to reduce power and thus at scale cut significantly electricity bill. We learn also more about their future directions. Enjoy this technical talk. Thank you David and Piotr.
New year and new meeting during The IT Press Tour with CloudFabrix Software now morphed into Fabrix.AI to maximize its solution and impact on IT with AI. I talked with Raju Datla, CEO and co-founder of Fabrix.AI, and we covered the genesis of the company, his team, its solution approach fueled by AI, the recent announcements, the go-to-market and pricing model and a bit of future directions as well. Enjoy this new episode about Fabrix.AI, thank you Raju.
New meeting during The IT Press Tour with iXsystems, the company insisted on its TrueNAS brand wishing to be aligned with the success of its storage servers and as an effect from the sale of its server business to Amaara Networks. I spoke with Brett Davis, EVP, about the company strategy, the new direction around storage, new products especially the H30 model, next release TrueNAS 25.04 and several other successes as 2024 was a good year plus some future steps. Really a good episode with Brett. Thank you. Enjoy.
New exercice or at least at a different frequency, this episode covers the first 2 months of 2025 with some market news I selected. I spoke about VC funding and investments, IPOs, M&A, new product iterations, people's moves, architecture and technology. Enjoy.
The 60th edition of The IT Press Tour took place last week of January in Silicon Valley, California.
It's a major milestone for our organization, if you put things in perspective with 60 editions, what other event has reached that number, I let you check... but it will be tough to find some...
Success is about regularity, consistency coupled with unique value proposition and innovation it introduces, The IT Press Tour is all about that, a special club. And check the numbers with this 60th edition: 330 distincts companies and 571 sessions since 2010 !!
For this edition we met 9 organizations covering IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data and Storage Management, Big Data and Analytics and of course AI. In the alpha order, they're Aquila Clouds, CloudFabrix now Fabrix.AI, Crystal DBA, Hammerspace, Komprise, MLCommons, Panzura, TrueNAS aka iXsystems and Volumez.
2025 is well started and Coldago Research published a few days ago its Gem list 2025 with 5 key players to watch in the coming months: ExaGrid, Leil Storage, QStar Technologies, Volumez and Wasabi Technologies. Enjoy the listening of this new episode.
Classic exercice for a few years for Coldago Research, I share my predictions for 2025 covering AI and its impact, Cloud, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, Media and Connectivity and Energy. Enjoy this episode.
Regular exercice for the Coldago Research team publishing its bi-annual Storage Unicorn in June and December. The last report was published in December 2024 and lists 16 companies: Acronis, Barracuda Networks, Cohesity, DataCore, DDN, Druva, ExaGrid, Infinidat, Kaseya, MinIO, Nasuni, Qumulo, Rubrik, VAST Data, Veeam Software and Wasabi Technologies. Enjoy the listening of this short episode.
Classic exercise I do every year, here is once again my choice for the key facts related to the data storage industry in 2024. I cover Funding aspects, IPOs, M&As, new Unicorns and Trends. All these elements are also key to follow for the coming year as they announce some real changes. A very interesting and promising year in perspective. And I should say it starts well with the Infinidat acquisition by Lenovo. Enjoy.
Coldago Research has launched and released a brand new Map about Modern Data Protection aka MDP as we live in a fast changing world with pressure and challenges in all domains. This study analyzed 16 companies: Acronis, Arcserve, Atempo, Bacula, Cohesity, Commvault, Dell, Druva, HYCU, IBM, Kaseya, N-able, OpenText, Rubrik, Salesforce and Veeam and we elect 4 leaders: Cohesity, Commvault, Rubrik and Veeam. I really hope this episode will meet your expectations. Enjoy.
New Map for Coldago Research with the new annual Map for Unstructured Data Management aka UDM. The 2024 report analyzes 17 companies: Arcitecta, Atempo, Congruity360, Data Dynamics, Datadobi, Dell, Hammerspace, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, Huawei, IBM, iRODS, Komprise, NetApp, Spectra Logic, Starfish and Veritas and we elect 4 leaders: Arcitecta, Data Dynamics, Hammerspace and Komprise. I hope you'll like this short episode about a paramount function within enterprises. Enjoy.
Coldago Research has unveiled its 6th edition of its annual Map for File Storage. The 2024 report analyzes 27 distinct companies over 3 Maps: Enterprise, High Performance and Cloud File Storage: AWS, CTERA, DDN, Dell, Egnyte, Fujitsu, Hammerspace, HPE, Huawei, IBM, iXsystems, LucidLink, Microsoft, Nasuni, NetApp, Panzura, Peer Software, Pure Storage, Quantum, Qumulo, Quobyte, SUSE, ThinkParQ, Tiger Technology, VAST Data, Vdura and WEKA and we elect leaders for each category. I let you listen to this episode to discover who are the winners. Enjoy.
The 59th edition of The IT Press Tour took place early December in Valletta, Malta.
We continue our European stops and this time for the 59th edition we landed in beautiful Malta. It was once again a fantastic edition as we had the opportunity to meet 6 European companies: DigiFilm, EasyVirt, Indexima, Manticore Search, ProxySQL and Scalytics. I hope you will like the episode and we'll be in a few weeks, for the 60th edition, amazing right, in Silicon Valley.
Wasabi Technologies, the reference in cloud storage, alternative to hyperscalers' solutions with a very efficient and cost effective S3 API service, participated to the recent IT Press Tour in Boston in October. It was the perfect opportunity to meet company's executives and David Friend, co-founder and CEO, who shared his view on the market, genesis of the project and of course directions of the company. It gaves me the idea to record a dedicated episode with David to go deeper in some aspects and we did it recently, we spoke about his background and the trajectory of Wasabi with today a status of Centaur passing the $100M ARR, his partner in crime Jeff Flowers, CTO of Wasabi, some new services around the classic offering especially with the AI engine acquired based on Curio AI, business model with a pure indirect model powered by 16,000 partners and a very unique pricing model charging only the capacity used. We also covered the directions of the company with a potential IPO and for the storage service with some ideas around a on-premises instance and w few other things. A very interesting dialog with David, I hope you will like this episode. Thank you David.
SuperComputing 24 took place a few weeks ago in Atlanta, Georgia, and once again it was a very good edition with the best ever number of attendees with 18,000+, 4,000 more than last year, very impressive show. The topic was about Acceleration in various domains such a HPC, AI, Storage, Memory or Network. I insisted on key trends, some technologies and products I saw very present on the floor. Enjoy the listening.
Coldago Research has unveiled its 6th edition of its annual Map for Object Storage. The 2024 report analyzes 13 companies: Cloudian, DataCore, Dell, Hitachi Vantara, Huawei, IBM, MinIO, NetApp, Pure Storage, Quantum, Scality, VAST Data and WEKA and then elect 9 Leaders. I let you listen to this episode to discover who are the winners. Enjoy.
QStar Technologies exists since 1987 and embodies a real pioneer in its segment who continues to drive innovations and leads the market. The company is pretty small but agile and recognized for its expertise in this domain. It is illustrated by a strong footprint on the market with key end-users and installations for several decades. I decided to record this podcast with Max Finotti, its CTO, after The IT Press Tour we did in April in Rome, to better understand their last product, the soon to be famous Global ArchiveSpace or GAS. This solution introduces several key concepts to address new data and storage challenges in the secondary storage space and in particular in the data archiving landscape. So, with Max, we tried to cover that aspect to learn more about GAS, how it works, its design, what is coming... A great talk, I hope you will enjoy the listening. Thank you Max.
Congruity360, a fast growing player in unstructured data management, recently participated to The IT Press Tour in Boston. It was the opportunity to learn more about its company and product strategies. With Mark Ward, COO, we spoke about the root of the company, its architecture, its benefits and values, how it works, how AI is used, of course some business info related to the business and pricing models and conclude on the future with some new things coming soon. A very interesting dialog with Mark, I hope you will like this episode. Thank you Mark.
ExaGrid, the pure player and market leader in secondary storage with dedicated backup appliance, joined the recent edition of The IT Press Tour in Boston. The session we had with Bill Andrews, CEO, at the company HQ invited me to record a specific interview to cover the pretty unique trajectory of ExaGrid and one of the longest CEO tenure with 20 years in our industry. We spoke about the product and its special characteristics and of course benefits versus classic dedupe backup appliances, some key developments and backup software integrations with Veeam, Veritas and Commvault, the go-to-market and pricing model and of course some futures directions for the company and the product. Once again, an episode I like very much to record and I'm sure you will like this episode. Thank you Bill.
Hydrolix, a fast growing data analytics US company, participated to the recent edition of The IT Press Tour in Boston. With what I saw and understood, I decided to record this new episode with Marty Kagan, CEO and co-founder, to go beyond that session and cover multiple aspects. Among them, we spoke about the genesis of the company, why companies need such technology, a bit of product info, their go-to-market model and pricing philosophy, of course some references and use cases plus competition and we conclude with the future around company and products. Very good episode once again with a simple direct exchange. I hope you will like this episode, I'm pretty sure it will be the case. Thank you Marty.
Swissbit, the European leader in Flash media and SSD, joined the recent edition of The IT Press Tour in Boston, MA. We had the opportunity to learn more about the company and its product strategy and then this podcast was a natural extension. With Silvio Muschter, CEO, we discussed about the genesis of the project, how did the company start, its mission of course that evolved over time, its product line, its M&A trajectory with Hyperstone and Burlywood Technology assets acquisitions and insisted also on their security products plus the go-to-market strategy and pricing model and we conclude with some future directions for the company and products. A very interesting episode with lots of informations, I hope you would like this episode, enjoy your listening. Thank you Silvio.
Very interesting NetApp Insight 2024 user conference a few weeks ago in Las Vegas with a train of strategic and products announcements especially regarding AI and associated storage infrastructure. The product team unveiled new ASA A-Series block storage arrays, 2 new FAS, BlueXP extensions, new cloud services and security features plus some key AI services and architecture with disaggregated and composable block storage architecture and pNFS for file access layer. NetApp understood that some new developments and new steps are needed as AI radically shakes enterprises and globally the IT industry. Enjoy.
Cleondris, a key partner for NetApp in the data security and protection domain, participated to the recent 57th edition of The IT Press Tour in Istanbul, Turkey. At the event, the company unveiled Cleondris ONE, an advanced ransomware protection, and officially launched it during the recent NetApp INSIGHT 2024 in Las Vegas. We spoke about the company, its genesis, the solution and how it works, the go-to-market model and pricing philosophy and we conclude with a few future elements related to the company and products. I think you would like this episode, enjoy your listening. Thank you Christian.
Amazing Huawei Connect 2024 conference and expo in Shanghai, China, a few ays ago. It was the right moment to refresh users and partners on the various product lines and storage in particular. I recorded this episode as a recap of it and I insist on Pacific and Dorado. with its brand new v7 architecture. Again, it was an impressive show with 20,000+ attendees that illustrated the rapid progress Huawei made in various domains. Enjoy.
The 57th edition of The IT Press Tour took place early September in Istanbul, Turkey.
With this European format, we met 6 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Management, Storage and of course AI. By alpha order it was Cleondris, Datashelter, EU eArchiving Initiative, Hopsworks, MooseFS and ZeroPoint Technologies. Another very good edition in the beautiful city of Istanbul, I hope you will really enjoy listening to it.
MooseFS, one of the few pioneers in scalable distributed file system, joined recently The IT Press Tour. It was the opportunity for the team to launch Moose 4.0 Community Edition. With Jakub Ratajczak, CEO, we spoke, in this episode, about the genesis of the project following the Google File System paper in 2003, the various flavors and key features, how the revenue is generated and pricing philosophy with business model. We conclude with future directions and next steps for MooseFS. I hope you would like this episode, enjoy your listening. Thank you Jakub.
A special episode today with some statistics with some notes and comments about the recent HYCU SaaS Backup Survey Report and my recent talk with Simon Taylor, CEO of HYCU, and the acquisitions of Own announced yesterday by Salesforce. A short episode but these 2 elements deserve to be covered. Enjoy.
Large drives is a need and a reality for the industry but they have introduced some new needs to protect data and manage them at scale. I covered all these aspects in this episode and much more explaining some historical key points and then iterate of logical volumes, erasure coding and green with 3 key technologies to leverage to maximize a green effect. Enjoy your listenig.
New name for an established industry conference, the "Flash Memory Summit" has morphed into The "Future of Memory and Storage" which is definitely a good name with the acronym. Once again this year it was the rendez-vous of semi-conductor professionals plus a few other adjacent profiles. Plenty of new things, awards of course but also new products, technology directions and trends confirmed by vendors products iterations. A good show as usual, I hope you will enjoy this short recap.
The last FMS 2024 conference was the opportunity to celebrate Harriet Coverston, a real pioneer in the storage domain and especially in the data archiving space. Harriet just received the SuperWomen of FMS Leadership Award that rewards a brilliant carrier and strong industry contributions. After some times at Lawrence Livermore and Control Data Corp., she founded LSC in 1986 with famous SAM-FS and QFS, later acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2001 where she stayed 10 years. In 2011, she founded Versity Software as CTO with Bruce Gilpin, CEO, to address new data archiving challenges developing a modern data archiving platform. A great talk and a real honor to exchange with Harriet, a reference in storage, I hope you will enjoy the listening. Thank you Harriet.
Following the recent IT Press Tour and the very interesting session we had at MaxLinear, I decided to meet again the company and go more in details on Panther III, the storage accelerator card, well adopted by the market and recognized as one of the fastest in the industry. I talked with Mark Moran, Executive Director, and Pinaki Chanda, Director Software Engineering, during FMS, the famous conference now operating under a new name "The Future of Memory and Storage" and still with the same acronym. We discussed about the strategy of the company but go deeper into the product, its features, its performance and values delivered to users but also key partners. A very interesting exchange about this advanced technology paramount in this fast growing AI era. I hope you will enjoy listening to it. Thank you Mark and Pinaki.
Following ISC and the recent IT Press Tour with the 8th participation of DDN, not counting ones with Nexenta, Tegile or Tintri, before their respective acquisitions, I decided to record a new technical episode with the product leader at DDN, James Coomer. We spoke about the company of course but we insisted on ExaScaler and Infinia, their last high performance storage platform, and their approach of the HPC and AI with some differences but also many similarities. And many more things I hope you will enjoy. Thank you James.
Our data storage industry moves fast and I decided to record this recap of the first 6 months of 2024. It's a short episode but I covered multiples aspects with VC fundings, IPOs and Unicorns effects, M&As, some failures and surprising news, a few trends, technologies and products, some people moves and new companies. I hope you will enjoy it, it is a pretty good one during holidays.
As a usual and classic note, twice a year, Coldago Research publishes its Storage Unicorn report which presents the club and its selection of storage unicorns. This June 2024 edition, the 15th one listed 17 companies with a few change with Rubrik now a public company, WEKA joining the club following its last round and Cohesity key events early this year. By alpha order, they're Acronis, Barracuda Networks, Cohesity, DataCore, DDN, Druva, Infinidat, Kaseya, MinIO, Nasuni, OwnBackup, Qumulo, VAST Data, Veeam Software, Veritas Technologies, Wasabi Technologies. and WEKA. Enjoy the listening, it's a very short episode that invites you to dig into the topic.
Viking Enterprise Solutions, aka VES, a product division of Sanmina, a reference in compute and storage server design and manufacturing, participated recently to The IT Press Tour. It was the perfect time to understand who is Sanmina and VES, what they do, how they work for other IT companies developing their hardware solutions such as DDN, Infinidat or VAST Data, coupled potentially with some open source software. We discuss with Rick Kumar, SVP of VES, about the mission of the company, their expertise, the various use cases with AI of course but also go-to-market and revenue models. We conclude with some future directions, always interesting with entities like VES. I hope you would like this episode, enjoy your listening. Thank you Rick.
MaxLinear, a leader and fast data processing with advanced connectivity for data center with ethernet and storage dedicated products, participated recently to The IT Press Tour. It was a good time to get a company and product update before FMS early August. We learnt MaxLinear storage product strategy and all details around Panther III and its roadmap. With Vikas Choudhary, VP & GM of the Ethernet and Storage Business, we spoke about all that and get some future directions for the company and product developments. A very interesting talk I hope you would appreciate as well. Enjoy your listening. Thank you Vikas.
Index Engines, a pioneer in enterprise content indexing, joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and announced their 99.99% SLA in ransomware protection. It was the perfect opportunity to learn more about the company, founded in 2003, by CrosStor founders, previously known as Programmed Logic, and get the full product pitch and demo around ransomware protection. With Tim Williams, CEO and founder of the company, we spoke about all that trajectory and covered in details how the product works, the business model with key oems, the pricing philosophy and touched a bit of the future directions. Plenty of good things coming and we should see the product in several new places soon. A very good talk with Tim I hope you would like as well. Enjoy your listening. Thank you Tim.
Among this CTO talk series, I recorded this one with Trond Myklebust, CTO, Hammerspace, during the last MSST conference in Santa Clara, early June, a few days before The IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley. It was the perfect opportunity to discuss the Hammerspace mission, GDE and HyperScale NAS, leveraging pNFS for multi-site, multi-client and multi-protocol file access and deliver an advanced data sharing service. We spoke about new features especially around pNFS Flex Files and services like erasure coding with RozoFS' Mojette Transform addition and the S3 client. S3-to-Tape is also covered as the team chose to partner with QStar, PoINT Software and Systems or Grau Data to offer a real end-to-end data management approach. A very good talk with Trond, I hope you will enjoy it. Thank you Trond.
A new talk, this time with Aron Brand, CTO at CTera, recorded a few weeks following the IT Press Tour early April in Rome where the company shared some exclusive news. Its was once again the opportunity to go deeper in their product and strategy especially around AI and how they will integrate it. We also spoke about their Data Services Platform and its role and how NAS and S3 are glued together. We have insisted on the security aspect of their product with recent additions around ransomware protection with vaulting technique, decoy and honeypot techniques. Good talk again with Aron, I really enjoy our discussion and hope you will enjoy it as well. Thank you Aron.
ISC 2024 took place in Hamburg, Germany, this week and it was the opportunity to meet vendors, discuss with various people, attend sessions and see some sort of convergence between HPC and AI as they some similarities or at least some constraints at sale. We saw several parallel file system vendors, flash at many places, a few HDD resistance, tape as well, of curse GPU and alterantives... in a nutshell a good show. Enjoy the listening.
Huawei Technologies organized its last Innovative Data Infrastructure Forum 2024 in Berlin, Germany, this week. It was the opportunity to meet company's executives. The Chinese giant announced a series of new product such as the 128TB NVMe SSD, again the A800 and a few others hardware and software solutions targeting high demanding environments such as AI. We learnt a lot again on the strategy in data storage from the company that innovates at a rapid pace. Enjoy the listening.
The 55th edition of The IT Press Tour took place early April in Rome, Italy.
We met 6 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Management, Storage and I added AI. By alpha order it was CTERA, Fujifilm Recording Media, Know and Decide, Leil Storage, QStar Technologies and Quickwit. A very good edition again and I hope you will really enjoy listening to it.
Know and Decide, a fast growing IT Asset Management company, joined The IT Press Tour organized recently in Rome. Emmanuel Moreau, CEO and founder, introduced the company and its solution to address IT resource management challenges representing a big issue especially within large enterprises and corporations. The product took advantage of deep CIO connection Emmanuel has to define and specify the product according large IT environments. We spoke about the genesis of the company, why he launched the project, how the product works, the key use cases, the go-to-market and pricing model of course. Emmanuel also insisted on the fact that he's actively looking for partners to distribute its solution even oems. A very interesting talk episode with lots of information. Enjoy your listening. Thank you Emmanuel.
QStar Technologies, a pioneer in the data archiving space, participated recently to The IT Press Tour organized in the beautiful city of Rome. The management team took advantage of their participation to launch their new product - Global ArchiveSpace - a scalable multi-node solution able to support very large volumes of data but also very large archived datasets and tape libraries. We also spoke with Riccardo Finotti about the genesis of the company, its evolution, QStar's product line, a bit how it works and the philosophy of archive, the go-to-market and pricing model of course. A very good episode, very interactive with tons of information on QStar. Enjoy your listening. Thank you Riccardo.
Leil Storage, an Estonian company joined The IT Press Tour, this week in Rome, to introduce their storage approach with Powered control storage system as a evolution of MAID coupled with erasure coding and SaunaFS, a distributed file system, inspired by the famous Google File System. With Aleksandr Ragel, founder and CEO, we spoke about the genesis of the company, their products and how they approach the market. I let you discover the interview with a very interesting solution. I think you will appreciate it. Thank you Sasha.
The 54th edition of The IT Press Tour took place early March in Denver, Colorado, and the bay area in California.
We visited and met 9 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Management, Storage and I added AI. By alpha order it was Arcitecta, BMC, Cohesity, Hammerspace, Quantum, Qumulo, Solix, StoneFly and WEKA. A very good edition again and I hope you will really enjoy listening to it.
Cohesity shook the storage industry with the M&A announcement with Veritas Technologies a few weeks ago, nobody has really anticipated that move. We met Sanjay Poonen, CEO, and his executive team, during the recent IT Press Tour and it appeared natural and logic for me to record this interview and we did a few days after our visit. With Sanjay we spoke about the genesis of the deal, the Cohesity business situation and business climate, the rationale behind the deal, the financial aspect of it, what it means for NetBackup users, also for DataProtect, the recent announcement about GAIA, the Cohesity RAG AI approach, and of course the future with some projections of the coming months. Super interview, I really hope you will love it as well. Thank you Sanjay.
A new talk with Shimon Ben David, CTO of WEKA, recorded during the Nvidia GTC following the recent IT Press Tour in California. Beyond a refresh about WEKA, the parallel file system background and the Modern Data Platform approach, we spoke about the recent performance public benchmarks available on SPEC web site where WEKA clearly takes the lead in various domains, the certification of the WEKApod, a hardware flavor of the WEKA solution offered as an appliance, with the NVidia SuperPOD reference architecture and program and we covered a bit the future. Good exchange again with Shimon as always, a real pleasure to discuss with one of the hot gems in the storage industry, so I hope you will enjoy it. Thank you Shimon.
During the last 2 decades, Google File System had a huge impact of the storage industry inviting several companies to imagine and design pretty similar distributed file system solutions clearly inspired by GFS. We had also Facebook with f4 and Haystack, of course Hadoop and HDFS, plus a myriad of several open source projects and products. I tried in this episode to rapidly cover each of them, I count more than 10 file system instances. I'm sure you know some of them and at the same time I'm also pretty sure you will discover some new names. Enjoy your listening.
With all the improvements developed and made by various vendors, I decided to record this episode dedicated to file sharing methods with NFS, its option like nconnect, multipathing and pNFS, but also SMB, its RDAM extension with SMB Direct also available for NFS and of course NVidia GPUDirect Storage extension. Enjoy this rapid overview of the file sharing protocols landscape.
A new episode this time with the CTO of XenData, Mark Broadbent, to discuss archiving and more precisely Active Archive, a few weeks following The IT Press Tour organized in Madrid in December 2023. The company founded more than 2 decades ago designed and developed the X-Series and the E-Series, a solution that combines disk space and tale storage to store massive amount of files data. The product is well deployed and recognized in some verticals such as Media & Entertainment. Mark told me that they plan to add Generative AI to make some additional processing on metadata but also they wish to extend the disk capacity of these products and will soon release a media browser. I let you discover this new episode, it was a real pleasure to record, so I hope you will enjoy it. Thank you Mark.
New talk and new format with an exchange with a product or technology executive and this time I invited Subbiah Sundaram, SVP Products at HYCU. We talked about R-Cloud of course, its last iteration with the integration with Anthropic Cloud Generative AI service in the module development process launched during the last IT Press Tour in January in California and of course all other aspects of it like R-Graph, the marketplace... I hope you will enjoy it, thank you Subbiah.
I invited AirMettle, a company I discovered a few quarters ago, for the recent 53rd edition of The IT Press Tour in California, as I identified a real compelling story. Donpaul Stephens, CEO and co-founder of the company, has founded Violin Memory in 2005 to put things in perspective. The presentation was impressive, the team has built a very good solution and thus it was obvious for me to continue to talk with its founder so this interview. We spoke about many different things starting with Violin of course, the trigger that invited him to think about AirMettle with the identified pains at customers' sites not solved yet by the industry, how the product works, its values and key differentiators, a bit of the go-to-market strategy and the pricing model and what is coming. A very interesting talk with Donpaul, indeed, I hope you all will appreciate. Enjoy your listening. Thank you Donpaul.
The 53rd edition of The IT Press Tour took place a few weeks ago in San Francisco and the bay area.
We visited and met 9 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Management, Storage and I added AI. By alpha order it was AirMettle, Cerabyte, CloudFabrix, Graid Technology, Groq, Hammerspace, HYCU, Rimage and StorageX. Some of these companies are recent, others more established and all address modern IT challenges via key innovations. This tour edition was, once again, a very good one and I hope you will really enjoy listening to it.
Cerabyte joined us recently for the 53rd edition of The IT Press Tour in California and it was the right time to record an interview with its CEO, Christian Pflaum. We spoke about the genesis of the idea even before it was a project and then covered multiple aspects of the under development solution with the media of course, its nature, the writing and reading process and even tried to speak about the business model, go-to-market and pricing approaches even if we understand it is very early. Very interesting talk with Christian and above all, the project is initiated in Europe by a European company. I hope you'll like it, it was a real pleasure to meet and discuss again with Christian following several talks we had int he past, the tour session and even the recent visit of the prototype in December in Germany. Thank you Christian.
Rimage chose the 53rd edition of The IT Press Tour in California to launch their Digital Asset Management solution, Sophia. It is a big shift and news for Rimage who was a pioneer and reference of the CD, DVD and Blu-Ray disk publishing. With Christopher Rence, CEO of Rimage, we spoke about the genesis of the company, the market, the evolution of Rimage, users' challenges and needs and cover in details Sophia. We also covered the go-to-market and pricing model and we spoke about the future directions for the company and the product. With the launch in mind, recording this episode in California was a real pleasure and I hope you'll like it. Thank you Christopher.
2024 will continue the classic release of the Coldago Research with its Gem list and its 5 companies to watch in the coming months. I select Arcitecta, Nyriad, Tiger Technology, Tuxera and XenData. Enjoy the listening of this short episode.
2024 just started and it's time to share my predictions for 2024 as I will continue what I mentioned for my retrospective for 2023. We'll see if this year will be more dense especially on the technology and products side but also on IPOs, M&As and funds raising. It should be a good one. Enjoy.
Twice a year, Coldago Research produces its Storage Unicorn note, a dedicated report covering the market climate and its selection of storage unicorns. Last December, like in June 2023, the 14th edition of this report listed 17 companies without any changes. By alpha order they're Acronis, Barracuda Networks, Cohesity, DataCore, DDN, Druva, Infinidat, Kaseya, MinIO, Nasuni, OwnBackup, Qumulo, Rubrik, VAST Data, Veeam Software, Veritas Technologies and Wasabi Technologies. Enjoy the listening, it's a very short episode that invites you to dig into the topic.
As a usual exercice, I tried at the end of each year to summarize what have happened during the last 12 months on our market. I cover company news, technology aspects, product announcements, M&A, VC rounds or IPOs. A pretty rich year again and 2024 should be even more dense. Enjoy the listening.
Coldago Research has announced recently its 5th edition of its annual Map for File Storage, a classic annual rendez-vous for the industry. The 2023 report analyzes 29 distinct companies among 3 Maps: Enterprise, High Performance and Cloud. We elect various leaders in each category and we invite the reader to listen to the episode to discover all of them. Enjoy.
The 52nd edition of The IT Press Tour took place early December in the magnificent city of Madrid, capital of Spain.
In this innovative 2 days format, we met 6 companies playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Management, Storage and a few key other areas. By alpha order it was DataCore, Disk Archive, Inspeere, Tiger Technology, XenData and ZettaScale Technology. Some are already famous and established and others more recent and young and it is in our mission to promote innovations and leaders especially this time from US and Europe. This tour was, once again, a very good one and I really enjoyed producing this episode, happy listening.
XenData joined the recent IT Press Tour in Madrid, Spain, and it was the perfect opportunity to record this podcast with Philip Storey, CEO of the company. We discussed about the genesis of the company, the market, the role of tape, their active archive solution and also their recent object storage product. We also covered the go-to-market and pricing model and we spoke about the future directions for the company and the product. I enjoyed recording this episode in Madrid and I hope you'll like it. Thank you Philip.
Coldago Research has unveiled its 5th edition of its annual Map for Object Storage. The 2023 report analyzes 13 companies: Cloudian, DataCore, Dell, Hitachi Vantara, Huawei, IBM, MinIO, NetApp, Pure Storage, Quantum, Scality, Spectra Logic and VAST Data and elect 9 Leaders. I let you listen to this episode to discover who are the winners. Enjoy.
SuperComputing 23 took place last week in Denver, Colorado, and once again it was a very good edition with the best ever number of attendees with 14,000+. The topic was about Acceleration in various domains such a HPC, AI, Storage, Memory or Network. I insisted on key trends, some technologies and products I saw very present on the floor. Enjoy the listening.
SuperComputing is always a good moment to announce or refresh products and several vendors did this. there is also coming the AWS Re:invent in a few days. It is the case for DDN with Infinia, Qumulo with ANQ and its Global NameSpace, Arcitecta, Hammerspace, Huawei, HYCU and GRAID. A short episode that invite our listeners to check vendors web site to learn more about these solutions. Enjoy.
Western Digital has imagined a split of its business, between HDD and Flash/SSD, but it didn;t go through due to external stakeholder pressure. We analyze these facts, put things in perspective with Toshiba and Kioxia story, spoke about Elliott and obviously cover as well Seagate. It is a very interesting story that should land somewhere very soon. Enjoy the listing of this special Tech Talk.
Object Storage is hot for many years and we see several trends and waves in its development and maturity journey. Coldago Research has produced and published the only available timeline in the domain and helps users to identify players and directions. Beyond that, AWS S3, introduced in 2006, became a de-facto standard and provides impressive data durability levels. On-premises tried to mimic and clone this but failed to deliver the same level as it is essentially one site solutions. I explained all this in this episode, I hope you will enjoy it like others.
ZFS and his companion OpenZFS are largely adopted and present in various products on the market. It offers a strong foundation for storage services and products with very advanced features. I wish to give an update on current release, developments and future directions following the last OpenZFS Developer Conference in San Francisco mid-October. We'll see soon dRAID and Fast Dedupe. Enjoy this short episode about one of the famous disk file systems on the market with VERITAS File System aka VxFS or SGI XFS aka eXtended File System.
Storage-as-a-Service aka STaaS is everywhere today as hardware vendors have to offer this without any options to stay in their historical model. Hyperscalers put pressure on them and we see plenty of offerings from big irons but also emerging vendors. Definitely an interesting trend to follow in the storage industry. Enjoy the listening of this short episode.
This episode is a recap of the recent DataCore Days 2023 event with channel and partners at Le Puy-du-Fou in France. It was the opportunity to meet company's leaders and learn more about some key news, company's directions and get product updates. Enjoy.
This episode is a recap of the recent Huawei Connect 2023 expo and conference, organized in Shanghai, China. The company issued several news related to processor, compute, networking, storage and of course AI. A impressive show with 20,000+ attendees that demonstrated if needed the power of Huawei. Enjoy.
Amber Huffman, President of the NVMe Consortium and Principal Engineer at Google Cloud, received the Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 at the recent Flash Memory Summit early August. We met there and decided to record a special episode about NVMe, the consortium, its impact on the industry, its recent developments and future directions. We cover all these points and much more with some ideas, opinions and remarks on markets and technology developments from Amber. A very interesting episode I hope you'll like as I really enjoyed its recording. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Amber.
Huawei Connect 2023 in Shanghai was an exceptional opportunity to feel what China has become especially in the IT space with Huawei presence in various domain leading some segments. During the show, it was the perfect moment to capture Huawei leader's mind about data storage strategy and product line, AI storage for sure and other connected topics such cloud and container/Kubernetes domains. I spoke with Guobin Zhang, market and product leader for a very long time as he joined the company in the early days, initiated and built several aspects of the company's strategy we see results today. It was a very good and rich exchange, hope you will enjoy it, happy listening. Thank you Guobin.
Meeting again Jim Handy during the recent FMS show gave me the idea to interview him to get his opinion and view on the current trends and business climate we see in the NAND, Flash and controllers market segment. We covered all these points with Jim and much more as we extended the talk to some adjacent topics. Very interesting exchange with Jim, one of the most prolific analyst in this domain. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Jim.
New episode about the bi-annual Coldago Research Report about Storage Unicorn. The last report, which is the thirteenth edition, was published in June 2023 and lists 17 companies: Acronis, Barracuda Networks, Cohesity, DataCore, DDN, Druva, Infinidat, Kaseya, MinIO, Nasuni, OwnBackup, Qumulo, Rubrik, VAST Data, Veeam Software, Veritas Technologies and Wasabi Technologies. Enjoy the listening of this short episode and watch the report page for more information.
This episode is a recap of the recent Flash Memory Summit 2023 that took place in Santa Clara, CA, early August. Lots of announcements, lots of players, some missing... but still the annual industry rendez-vous not yet to be replaced Enjoy.
In parallel of the recent Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara early August, I decided to visit the new Pure Storage HQ in Santa Clara, CA, and record an exclusive interview with Charles Giancarlo, CEO of the company. It was a very good moment, super frank and direct and we both enjoyed the recording. Together, we covered its role within the company, his goals, objectives and achievements, technology choices made made Pure several years ago like the famous DirectFlash Module aka DFM, Purity as the global OS for all products, obviously FlashArray and FlashBlade, services of course with EverGreen but also the cloud operating model and managed services plus software developments and new services based on Compuverde or Portworx acquisitions for Container and Kubernetes presence, financial results, market climate and business drivers, the famous "no more HDD to be sold in 2028", AI of course with AIRI and META collaboration and some future directions such as the 300TB DFM, the ubiquity and commoditization of the storage... A very dense and super episode once again I really enjoyed to record. Happy listening. Thank you Charlie.
Phison Electronics joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and it gave me the idea to record this podcast episode with KS Pua, CEO, during the recent Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara early August. We spoke about the financials of the company, its products lines with SSD controllers, embedded and flash modules marketed and promoted by Kingston or Seagate among others, its use cases and comfort zones for its products like gaming, automotive, IoT, space..., its go-to-market and pricing models, its unique Imagin+ design program and a bit of the future and directions for the company and products. A very dense episode, I enjoyed to record and I hope you'll enjoy to listen. Thank you KS.
Tuxera participated to the recent IT Press Tour in Berlin, Germany, and we got a perfect snapshot fo the company, its history, its product lines and strategy. It was the good opportunity to speak with is CEO, Tuukka Ahoniemi, and go beyond the session with a dedicated interview. Together we covered different aspects in details like the strategy of the company especially being strong in embedded and more recently entering the enterprise segment with Fusion file share among other things, the various use cases, the go-to-market model, a potential exit and much more. I really enjoyed this recording, hope you will enjoy the listening as well. Thank you Tuukka.
The 51st edition of The IT Press Tour took place end of June in the beautiful city of Berlin in Germany.
In 2 days, we met 6 companies playing in IT Infrastructure, Data Management, Storage and a few key other areas. By alpha order it was Croit, CunoFS, Insurgo, Simplyblock, Tuxera and Yuzuy. Some are already known and others really new and young and it is in our mission to promote such innovations and leaders especially from Europe. This tour was a very good and I really enjoyed producing this episode, happy listening.
Qumulo joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and it was the perfect opportunity to get a company and product update. It gave me the idea to record a podcast with Bill Richter, CEO of the company. Together with Bill, we spoke about the evolution and trajectory of the company, its business with a clear shift to multi-cloud and product line with a special angle of the various covered workloads and use cases, the market trend, the Scale Anywhere approach, how Qumulo works with AI, the go-to-market and pricing model and we conclude with a bit of future directions. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Bill.
Versity Software, who protects today probably the largest data sets over long time, joined the recent 50th edition of The IT Press Tour in California. We got a deep company and product update and the primer of a product announcement. With Bruce Gilpin, CEO of the company, we spoke about the genesis of the project, how he reached the point to collaborate with Harriet Coverston, a real legend in that data archiving space, why they decided to develop ScoutFS, a dedicated file system for such demanding needs, its companion ScoutAM and the last S3 Gateway, but covered also the market, its uses cases and targets segments, the go-to-market and pricing model and conclude with a bit of future directions. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Bruce.
DDN, known also as DDN Storage, presents itself now as The AI Data Company and we understand why. DDN joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and it was the right opportunity to get an update on their classic HPC business, their fast growing AI activity and also their enterprise entity with Tintri, IntelliFlash and Nexenta technologies. So being in Paris a few weeks ago I decided to interview Paul Bloch, founder of the company with Alex Bouzari in 1998. As president and founder, Paul has a special view of the market, understands perfectly what is currently developed and also knows the current business situation. So together we spoke about the market of course, competition, their HPC and AI businesses, their product line and development, an update on the go-to-market strategy and pricing model and we covered also some future directions. A very dense exchange with lots of informations from Paul. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Paul.
Arcitecta, a leading data management player founded in 1998 in Australia, participated recently to The IT Press Tour in Colorado and beyond an interesting session and talk with the team, I got the idea to interview Jason Lohrey, the founder, CEO and CTO, in other words, the brain behind Mediaflux. We spoke about the root of the project, how did the adventure start and why, how does the product work, its key features and data services, its philosophy and value proposition, the various use cases covered already deployed in 400+ sites, the go to market and pricing model and we conclude with the future directions for the company and the product. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Jason.
Volumez, new comer in the storage galaxy, joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and it was the perfect opportunity to learn more about what they do with the idea to share this with the world. The team has developed a radical new storage approach leveraging the cloud, NVMe, Kubernetes and other key elements to provide a very easy way to build high performant and high resilient block storage volumes for Linux machines. So I decided to record a new episode with Amir Faintuch, CEO of Volumez, and we spoke about the genesis of the project, why Amir joined the adventure, how this approach is really different with a compelling value proposition, use cases and references, the go to market and pricing model and we conclude with the future directions for the company and the product. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Amir.
Nyriad, promoter of a fast, resilient and cost effective block storage for high capacity use cases, participated recently to the 50th edition of The IT Press Tour. As the content is very interesting, I mean Nyriad develops a very compelling solution, I decided to record an interview with Derek Dicker, CEO of the company. We spoke about the roots of the company, I could say the 2 lives of Nyriad now a US company, triggers that invited founders to start the project, the current value proposition, of course dig a bit into the product, the market, their use cases and a few key references, the go to market and pricing model and we conclude with the future with interesting directions. I hope you will enjoy this new interview. Thank you Derek.
The 50th edition of The IT Press Tour visited Colorado and California and, once again, the trip was dense and very good.
We met 9 companies playing in IT Infrastructure, Data Management, Storage and a few key other areas. By alpha order it was Arcitecta, DDN, MinIO, Nyriad, Phison Electronics, Qumulo, Spectra Logic, Versity and Volumez. We met very interesting leaders with real disruptive ideas and other with proven ideas and products, a very good mix of companies. I really hope you will enjoy the episode, happy listening.
With the 50th edition of The IT Press Tour, clearly we thought and wished to make a pause to record a special episode to share some numbers to measure the impact of The IT Press Tour on the industry. Started in June 2010, it continues to exist because it delivers value for vendors, press and organizers. Just a few of them 283 distinct companies met, 497 sessions, more than 1000 CxO, more than 22,000 press items... All good record numbers and it's not finished the 51t edition is approaching, we'll be in Berlin June 27 & 28 to meet 6 innovative European companies. Enjoy the listening.
StorONE joined the recent 49th edition of The IT Press Tour in Israel and this time I decided to record an interview with Gal Naor, CEO and founder of the company. We spoke about the genesis of the company, why he launched the project, the value proposition, of course the product and some recent developments around VSC - Virtual Storage Containers - , the market, their use cases and customers, the go to market and pricing model and we conclude with the future. Gal told us that he wishes to do an IPO., we'll see. I hope you will enjoy this new interview. Thank you Gal.
Reading various sources with press articles, vendor messaging and other materials invite me to consider a special episode on this file system confusion that requires a real clarification. This episode defines what is a parallel file system, what do you need to qualify a file system but we also cover the various extensions added to NFS to boost transfer. And we finish by the list of products and vendors in each category. I hope you'll enjoy that episode, happy listening.
Gartner, the famous analyst firm, has published recently, April 26, 2023, a bizarre report entitled "Voice of the Customer for Primary Storage" reference G00752726 that clearly introduces a wrong definition of primary storage. The problem is that readers and subscribers to Gartner believe what is written but again this is not accurate. So when I read this document, I decided to record this podcast to participate to the right definition of primary storage. This is incredible, I let you read this report and then listen to this episode. Enjoy.
This episode is a recap of the recent European KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023 organized in Amsterdam in The Netherlands in March. Storage was not really visible at the show, the topic is ignored by this community speaking a different language with DataStore... Enjoy.
I met Insurgo and Gavin Griffiths at the recent STS Conference in Tucson, Arizona. It was an interesting talk that is really different from others classic tape pitch. It invites me to think about an interview and we recently did it to dig into the different tape services offered by his company. We spoke about all this, the market, drivers and the future. Tape is here to last long, no doubt about it. I hope you will enjoy this episode, a bit different from ones I used to produce. Enjoy. Thank you Gavin.
The IT Press Tour was recently in Israel for the 4th time and globally for the 49th edition. It was, once again, a fantastic trip.
We met 8 companies playing in IT Infrastructure, Data Management, Storage and a few key other areas. By alpha order it was CTERA, Equalum, Finout, Pliops, Rookout, StorONE, Treeverse and UnifabriX. We met very interesting people, real innovators developing key technologies. Enjoy.
We met CTERA recently during the 49th edition of The IT Press Tour in Israel and we got great exclusive news with the new executive team as Oded Nagel was promoted CEO, Liran Eshel, moving to Executive Chairman and a few other moves and promotions. We spoke about these changes with Oded and covered some recent product news around ransomware, cloud routing, CTERA Direct or unified file and object storage. And we also discussed about the future directions both in terms of products but also in terms of company. It was a very good talk, I hope you'll enjoy this episode. Thank you Oded.
UnifabriX just joined the 49th edition of The IT Press Tour in Israel and it was the perfect opportunity to learn more about the team and what they do. They clearly belong and participate to the coming disruptive wave based on CXL - the Compute Express Link - that will change drastically how the data center resources are connected. So the idea to interview Ronen Hyatt, CEO and founder of UnifabriX, was the natural step moving forward. We did it and I took a great pleasure to speak with Ronen, I hope it will be the case for all of you as we understand the role of the company, what they develop, already sell and what they prepare. Enjoy this episode. Thank you Ronen.
Two recents news invites me to think about this episode, first Quantum who introduces a modern file and object storage solution based on share-everything model, full NVMe and disaggregated architecture. A very good news for the champion of secondary storage. And the second HPE for its GreenLake storage services that recognizes once again its incapacity to develop file and object storage product by themselves. They're completely naked on this. They pick VAST Data, this is a fantastic news for VAST Data and a disaster for Qumulo. I hope you'll enjoy this episode.
RAID is well known and mastered for all IT people especially infrastructure ones. But with the growing capacity of the HDD, the arrival of flash and SSDs, of course NVMe and the explosion of volume of data, RAID was and is under pressure. I see several new implementation, discovery of drawbacks and the confirmation of Erasure Coding we saw 2 decades ago with Isilon and more recently with large scale storage software like object storage. It's also the case for P2P, dispersed or decentralized storage that push the concept further. I met several players with new approach based on PCIe card, some implements GPU on it, it is the case for GRAID Technology, Nyriad or Pliops. As a technology component it plays a key role especially at scale. I hope you will enjoy the listening.
Tape was dead for some people but guess what tape is still there and even more present than ever with cyberattacks and ransomware pressure. LTO continues to flood the market and hyperscalers adopted tape libraries and use them at a new scale and pace. Vendors design new models specifically for them, it is the case for Quantum and IBM and we wait some offerings from Spectra Logic. LTO roadmap is published up to LTO-14 without any date of course. We even heard that some hyperscalers plan to develop their own tape library. We'll see as there is plenty of new things in the domain. Great. Enjoy your listening.
The Storage Technology Showcase restarted a few days ago in Tucson, AZ and it was for me the opportunity to visit La Mecqua, the IBM Storage Labs. It was good to meet peers and speak about key storage challenges at scale. The topic of the year was about "Engaging the Rising Generation of Storage Professionals" and we also learned plenty of things, one of these being the Vertical Market Failure. I made this recap, I hope you'll enjoy listening to it.
Two companies launched recently their SaaS applications backup service, HYCU and Asigra. HYCU chose The IT Press Tour end of January in California to unveil R-Cloud, a comprehensive solution to protect any SaaS applications and for Asigra SAASBackup it was more recent. Their products represent the market need for a new approach, it won't be acceptable to have point products protecting data for each SaaS service in addition to bare metal, VM, container ad other cloud-based services. The industry creates its own complexity and at the same time, it is a real opportunity for some new or existing players. I detail the requirement in this episode, introduce HYCU R-Cloud and Asigra SAASBackup and present their similarities and differences. I hope you will enjoy it, it's pretty short and right to the point.
Secondary Storage is hot, nothing new here, and new offerings appear, new players and some old technologies got modernized like optical and recent tape developments are interesting. Flash is coming to secondary storage to offer more than Active but Instant recovery or archive. Hyperscalers put pressure on tape library vendors to release special models for them. Energy is even more important today coupled with data reduction techniques and erasure coding to deliver high durability level. Object storage also is present in different flavors, S3 is the king of course, and appear with 8 vendors S3-to-tape, a sort fo modern VTL. I have to mention also projects around P2P, Decentralized, Dispersed, Blockchain, DNA, glass or holographic or even Piql with 35mm microfilm. I tried to cover all these in this episode, a dense one but I'm sure you will love it. Enjoy.
I wish to do this episode for quite some time, it is about the pattern I detected on the market several years ago and it has been confirmed over the years. This is about Storage Giants essentially developing Block storage products. These storage giants are DDN, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Infinidat, Lenovo, NetApp and Pure Storage covering for me here the mid to high-end on-premises storage segment. And I found that 81% of them - 9 on 11 - confirm that statement. Enjoy the listening of this special tech talk.
Like every year I started an exercise to list Winners and Losers, in other words, who in terms of companies or product or technology made a positive impact on the industry and on the other side negative one. I tried to cover block, file and object storage, primary and secondary storage, Kubernetes, Cloud and SaaS, tape, optical, RAID, DPU... but also M&A, investments or bankruptcy. It's an interesting list and I'm sure you will enjoy it. Have fun.
The IT Press Tour came back end of January to California for the 48th edition. What a ride.
We met 8 companies playing in DevOps and Kubernetes and more globally very active in Multi-Cloud environments. By alpha order it was Amberflo, CloudFabrix, HYCU, Pulumi, Robin.io now Rakuten Symphony, Solo.io, Sysdig and project Velero. IT was once again a very informative tour, I hope you'll enjoy its listening. Enjoy
New year so new Gem list from Coldago Research with 5 companies that should have a serious impact on the market in the coming quarters. We select GRAID Technology, LINBIT, Pliops, PoINT Software & Systems and UniFabrix. Enjoy the listening of this short episode.
Rakuten Symphony acquired Robin.io, fast growing player in Kubernetes, in 2022. Robin.io was a pioneer of Cloud Native Storage and Platform. The company just participated to the recent 48th edition of The IT Press Tour dedicated to Kubernetes and DevOps in California. It was the opportunity to discuss with Partha Seetala, founder of Robin.io, a company we met a few times during the pandemic but online, to learn more about the product line but also the new strategy now within Rakuten. We spoke about the genesis of the project, the "new" strategy of the company, how product work, Kubernetes of course, go to market and pricing and we conclude with a thing key element about the future. Enjoy this episode. Thank you Partha.
Classic episode with the bi-annual Coldago Research Report about Storage Unicorn. The last report was published in December 2022 and lists 17 companies: Acronis, Barracuda Networks, Cohesity, DataCore, DDN, Druva, Infinidat, Kaseya, MinIO, Nasuni, OwnBackup, Qumulo, Rubrik, VAST Data, Veeam Software, Veritas Technologies and Wasabi Technologies. Enjoy the listening of this short episode.
Linbit, a reference in Linux HA and data replication, has participated to the recent IT Press Tour in Lisbon, Portugal, and it was the perfect opportunity to learn more about the standard in data protection for production data. So I decided to make this interview with Philipp Reisner, CEO and founder of the company, a story he started more than 20 years ago when he was a student working in the domain. So I let you imagine the expertise Philipp has developed during that period. We spoke about all, the genesis of the project, the strategy of the company, how product work, Kubernetes of course, go to market and pricing and we conclude by a bit of future directions. A very interesting episode I invite you to discover and listen carefully. Enjoy. Thank you Philipp.
First episode of 2023 and first episode of the 4th season. This time with My Predictions, some of them are a bit provocative and others are more classics and follow the market directions. We'll expect a better year, we'll see, on the technology side, it will be interesting but it will be impacted by the general business, energy and diplomatic climate.
Last episode of the year and it is a tradition to recap the year. I've selected some elements to cover M&As, IPOs, Investment Rounds, Technology, Trends and Products and companies who has made some real progresses during last 12 months with also some new ones. I wish all the best for 2023.
We approach the end of the year and it's the right moment to summarize the last 3 Coldago Maps 2022 related to Unstructured Data Management, File and Object Storage. This year a few new things with a NEW Map, the one about Unstructured Data Management, I follow this domain for 30 years so it deserves a Map, and the second is about the File Storage Map with a split into Enterprise, High Performance and Cloud File Storage. As you can listen, we study lots of companies, probably more than 50. For more information on these reports, please to check Coldago.com or .net. Happy listening.
The IT Press Tour organized its second European edition in Lisbon, Portugal, early December. It was globally the 47th edition just to put things in perspective. We met 6 hot European companies: Atempo from France, Cleondris from Switzerland, LINBIT from Austria, NGX Storage from Turkey, Nuclia from Spain and Tiger Technology from Bulgaria. I invite you to listen to this recap and summary of this Lisbon edition, Enjoy.
A few weeks after a great SC22 conference in Dallas, TX, I wrote this recap with of course lots of HPC, AI, ML and Analysis but also CXL, NVMe, composability. Enjoy.
This episode is a recap of the recent North America KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022 organized in Detroit, MI, last October. Storage is a bit ignored by this community speaking a different language, interesting. Enjoy.
This episode is about the recent OCP Global Summit 2022 that took place mid-October in San Jose, California. The main topic was Empowering Open with optics, CXL (Compute Express Link) and networking fueled by keynotes, sessions, workshops, forum and symposium. Enjoy.
The IT Press Tour delivered a new edition, the number 46, in California last October to meet 10 companies I should 9 as Pavilion Data exploded the same week 2 days before our meeting with them. The others are AuriStor, Data Dynamics, GRAID Technology, HYCU, N-able, Panzura, Protocol Labs, ScaleFlux and Smart IOPS. I invite you to listen to this recap and summary of this 46th edition, Enjoy.
Existing for a few decades this DFS, AFS and more recent OpenAFS and well promoted by AuriStor, a software company based in New-York, dedicated to this domain. We met again AuriStor during the recent IT Press Tour and it was the perfect opportunity to record this podcast and discuss with Jeffrey Altman, CEO and founder of AuriStor, the only active ISV in the area. With Jeffrey, we spoke about the history part of AFS with university aspect with Carnegie Mellon, and companies Transarc, IBM or Coda instance. We discussed about the philosophy of the product, how it works, why users adopt AFS-based solutions, use cases and deployments examples, also the go-to-market and pricing model and of course some future directions. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Jeffrey.
Recorded during the recent Open Compute Project Summit in San Jose, ScaleFlux also joined the IT Press Tour the week before also in the valley. It was the perfect opportunity to discuss with Hao Zhong, CEO and co-founder of ScaleFlux, a emerging leader in Computational Storage. We talked about the roots of the projet, what challenges Hao wished to address, details on the SSD product line as well, the evolution with PCIe Gen 3 and 4 and soon Gen 5, CXL of course that promises to be a real big step, the go-to-market model with oems, the associated pricing model and obviously some future directions. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Hao.
Smart IOPS joined the recent IT Press Tour in California, it was the right moment as the company started to accelerate on the sales side and also plan to release some new stuff. So I recorded a new interview with Ashutosh Das, CEO and co-founder of Smart IOPS, a pretty confidential SSD vendor that deserves a stop as they develop some interesting products. We spoke about the genesis of the company, what kind of product they design for which use cases offering which characteristics, their current generation with Gen 3 and 4, their plan for Gen 5 and CXL and also covering some development of a new special device. We also discussed about their recent big deals, their go-to-market and pricing model with the next product line in perspective. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Ashutosh.
Panzura recently participated to the 46th edition of The IT Press Tour in California and I took advantage of the visit to record a podcast episode with Jill Stelfox, CEO of the company for two and alf years now. It is really the episode 5 of Panzura as the company has several lives with a strong technology since the origin and more recently a better focus to precise use cases and execution. We spoke about all that with Jill but also covered some products aspects, the business rapidly growing, the competition, the go-to-market strategy, the pricing model and a bit of future directions as well. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Jill.
GRAID Technology joined the 46th edition of The IT Press Tour in California this week and it was the perfect opportunity to record a new podcast episode with Leander Yu, CEO and founder of the company. The company designs, develops and builds a GPU-based RAID PCIe card to protect NVMe SSDs. We spoke about the roots of the project, its financial profile, the product, how does it work, the use cases ad workloads support, the got-to-market, the pricing and a bit of future directions as well. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Leander.
Taking advantage of being at the N-able Empower conference in Las Vegas this week, I recorded a new episode with John Pagliuca, CEO of the company. We spoke about the genesis of the company being a spin-off of SolarWinds, its mission for MSPs, its Cove Data Protection solution, a pretty comprehensive endpoint and server backup software specifically developed for MSPs, but also about the competition and especially the recent Datto acquisition by Kaseya, the go-to-market, the pricing model and a bit of future directions. This podcast is produced just a few days before N-able joins the 46th IT Press Tour in California. Enjoy the listening. Thank you John.
Well established and recognized worldwide, The IT Press Tour has extended its coverage to Europe beyond its classic US and Israeli editions. This very first European edition, globally the 45th tour, took place in Paris, France early September and it was the perfect opportunity to meet 6 companies, 5 from Europe and 1 from US. I invited Biomemory Labs from France, DataCore from US, Nodeum from Belgium, PoINT Software & Systems from Germany, Storadera from Estonia and StorPool from Bulgaria. I invite you to listen to this recap and summary of this Paris edition, Enjoy.
PoINT Software & Systems joined the recent 45th edition of The IT Press Tour early September in Paris, France. Thomas Thalmann, CEO of the company, updated the group on the company and the product line with Storage Manager, Archival Gateway and Data Replicator. Thomas also announced a new product, I should say an extension, to Archival Gateway with Unified Object Storage. It couples disk and tape under a single namespace and I anticipate some others in the future. We spoke about the genesis of the company, almost 3 decades ago, the various products, the new one, the installed base, the go-to-market model, the pricing philosophy and a bit of future. A very good episode and for sure with a company that many listeners will discover as the company is a bit confidential. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Thomas.
For the first time, Nodeum joined The IT Press Tour, it was a few days ago in Paris for the 45th edition. With Valery Guilleaume, CEO of Nodeum, we covered the market trend, the mission of Nodeum, the 3 key pillars of the company, what the company develops in term of data mover, various uses cases and success stories, the ransomware threat, the go-to-market strategy with key partners such DataCore and Quantum and pricing model and we conclude with a bit of future. A very interesting episode with a European company already identified by a few key vendors for its deep expertise. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Valery.
DataCore and its CEO Dave Zabrowski joined the recent 45th edition of The IT Press Tour in Paris. In fact it was the European press launch for DataCore new vision DataCore NEXT, Edge Computing strategy, Perifery, as a new Swarm object storage iteration dedicated to that domain and new partnership with Symply for Media archiving announced at IBC today, Friday September 9th. So as you can imagine it was the perfect opportunity to discuss with Dave about all of these news, get an update on DataCore as a company and other product lines and speak a bit about future directions as well. I hope you will find this episode as much interesting as the pleasure I had to record it so enjoy its listening. Thank you Dave.
I visited Liqid at his HQ on Broomfield, CO, last June for the 44th IT Press Tour and clearly I realized that something is happening. This team is shaking the server and infrastructure established positions. So this interview became obvious and we decided with Sumit Puri, CEO of Liqid, to record it during VMware Explore. We covered the genesis of the company, the business and IT need of composability, the market dynamism around Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure or CDI, how the product works, the various use cases, the partner ecosystem and go-to-market, the pricing and of course the future. Lots of informations, Sumit shared lots of very interesting points and we anticipate a rapid acceleration in the coming months. Enjoy the listening, it is a great one, thank you Sumit.
The recent Fujifilm Summit last June in San Diego was the perfect opportunity to share and discuss various industry directions regarding technologies, use cases and state of the art for long term data preservation. I had the privilege to attend this conference, deliver a keynote and meet other colleagues all involved in this key secondary storage domain. And what we learnt deserves an episode and I've jut made it in less than 10 minutes. I spoke about primary versus secondary storage, tape, LTO-9, its disastrous roadmap, the Fujifilm/IBM 580TB tape project, hyperscalers needs and challenges for the industry, HDD, Flash, active and instant archive, optical, glass, holographic and DNA Data Storage. Enjoy the listening.
I met SpeeDB during the recent 43rd edition of The IT Press Tour in Israel and realized that this team is working on something big, a new storage engine that replaces RocksDB, the open source one invented by Facebook. It is used by hundreds of thousands of database worldwide and they all suffer sooner or later by performance and scalability limitations and therefore see the associated cost increase to address these limitations. So I decided to interview Adi Gelvan, CEO and one of the 3 co-founders of SpeeDB, we spoke about the genesis of the project, how the engine works, the use cases and already deployed configurations, the go-to-market strategy and pricing model and as well their cloud and Kubernetes approach. We conclude by some elements of the future with some interesting directions. I let you discover this episode, a very interesting one, enjoy and thank you Adi.
Pleasure and honor for me to have this very interesting talk with Fred Moore, President of Horison. We had a very open discussion around multiple topics, of course the market, its climate and trends, some technologies, the famous disappointing LTO roadmap, the Fujifilm - IBM project with a 580TB tape cartridge, HDD and even Flash in archive, his famous storage pyramid, Hyperscalers needs and pressure, but also best practices and projects to follow and future directions. A super episode once again, I hope you'll like it as I took pleasure to record it. Enjoy.
Kalista is a young player founded by Albert Chen dedicated to optimize storage and especially SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) based storage infrastructure. We met Albert inJanuary during the 41st edition of The IT Press Tour and I found this approach super interesting wishing to dig more. I also realized that doing with interview with him would be a good idea. So we did it a few days ago and here is the result. Albert shared lots of information around CMR and SMR, why and how he started the project, how it works, what are the advantages of its product Phalanx, the various use cases and integrations with MinIO, Ceph or Hadoop but also crypto stuff, and we conclude with a bit of future. I hope you will enjoy the episode, thank you Albert and happy listening.
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Suite à l'épisode sur le stockage dans Kubernetes, il était naturel de couvrir la protection de données dans de tels clusters applicatifs. D'où cette table-ronde sur l'autre sujet chaud de Kubernetes avec bien sûr un peu de technologie, les différentes approches, les bonnes pratiques, le rôle de la CNCF, l'apport de l'open source et quelques directions fonctionnelles. Nous parlons de tout ça avec mes 2 invités:
- Xavier Bourdelois, Ingénieur avant-vente senior chez Commvault,
- Nicolas Streng, Ingénieur systèmes chez Athéo Ingénierie,
- et nous regrettons le retrait de Veritas Technologies qui a refusé de participer avec ses concurrents.
Merci Messieurs et bonne écoute à tous.
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Une nouvelle table-ronde sur un sujet chaud le stockage pour Kubernetes avec bien sûr la partie persistence des données au travers des PVs ou de stockage "externe". Nous parlons aussi de CSI, des travaux de la CNCF, d'open source et des offres commerciales et nous terminons par le futur. Je couvre tout ça avec:
- Vincent Jamois, Architecte Cloud EMEA chez Pure Storage,
- Yacine Kheddache, Manager des Architectes Spécialistes chez Red Hat,
- et Lionel Bardeau, Architecte Solutions chez DataCore.
Merci Messieurs et bonne écoute à tous.
We visited Infinidat last April in Herzliya, Israel, for the 43rd IT Press Tour and I really wished to interview Phil Bullinger, CEO of Infinidat, as the company is really different from other usual suspects. So we took time together to talk and as you'll see we spoke about why he joined the company, the financial state of Infinidat, the current offering and differentiators an da bit of future. A very good episode again, Phil giving lots of informations, I hope you will enjoy the episode, thank you Phil and happy listening.
Quantum participated to the recent 44th IT Press Tour and we had the privilege to meet and visit the company at its EBC in Englewood in Colorado. It was the opportunity to have a great session with plenty of details about the company and product strategy with the top management. But we also had the opportunity to visit the manufacturing and saw hyperscalers' tape libraries. We spoke about all this with Jamie Lerner during this interview, the new Quantum becoming a real software machine with some interesting stuff in preparation as well. A very good episode again, I really enjoyed it, thank you Jamie and happy listening.
The 12th annual Fujifilm Summit happened last week in San Diego and it was a good moment to re-connect with many top participants in the storage industry with vendors, end-users, experts and analysts. Hypersaclers were invited and we understood some very interesting inputs from them and also from Quantum. Spectra Logic also covered its story about Ransonware and how they recovered from it. So the idea to speak with Rich Gadomski, Head fo Tape Evangelism at Fujifilm Recording Media USA, about the rich content of the conference was obvious. We spoke about the the current tape industry state, new usages and technology directions. A very good episode once again, thank you Rich and happy listening.
The last IT Press Tour, Edition 44, was an amazing edition, meeting and visiting 9 hot companies like iXsystems, Lightbits Labs, Liqid, Nasuni, Quantum, Spectra Logic, VAST Data, Veritas and WEKA. It was the opportunity to get an update directly from top executives introducing new products, launching a new initiative or just updating their solutions. Again it was fantastic, beyond California we spent time in Colorado to meet Quantum at their EBC with manufacturing in Englewood, Spectra Logic HQ and manufacturing in Boulder and Liqid HQ in Broomfield. I made this recap to share our experiences and news, you can also visit the IT Press Tour web site to learn more. Enjoy.
WEKA joined the 44th IT Press Tour a few days ago and it was the perfect opportunity to discuss with Liran Zvibel and record an interview. WEKA is hot and its trajectory is impressive so we needed to get an update. At the same time the company announced a major release - WEKA 4 - with key new features and capabilities. We spoke about the genesis of the company, the product philosophy and how it is different from other parallel file systems but also about the go-to-market model, the pricing and of course about the future. A very good episode once again, thank you Liran and happy listening.
With the current IT Press Tour, the 44th, we conclude a series of editions that confirm if needed that File Storage is super hot. We have met this week iX, Nasuni, Quantum, Spectra Logic, VAST Data, Veritas and WEKA and in April CTera Networks, Data Dynamics and in January DDN, Hammerspace and Tiger Technology. I can even add Pure Storage with their announcement this week. Enjoy the recap.
Discovered a few months ago, Nexustorage develops an interesting data management solution that optimizes data placement whatever the size and the nature of the storage entity and environment. Working at a sub-file level, it then places file data chunks to the right place I mean on the right storage level. We speak about all this with Glen Olsen, founder and CEO of Nexustorage, how and why he launched the company, how the product works, how he sells the solution, at what price and a bit of future of course. I hope you will enjoy this episode, thank you Glen and happy listening.
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Nouvel épisode pour ce tech talk qui m'a permis de discuter avec Johan Lombardi, Senior Principale Engineer chez Intel, qui se consacre au projet DAOS (Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage). Un échange qui nous permet de rentrer dans le détail du produit, sa philosophie, ses mécanismes de protection, ses performances et à qui il se destine. Une belle discussion pour en savoir plus sur un projet dédié aux environnements ExaScale demandant des latences très faibles, un nombre important d'IOPS et une très haute bande passante. Merci Johann et bonne écoute.
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La MDP ou Modern Data Protection mérite bien une table ronde vue les tendances actuelles avec toujours plus de technologies pour couvrir toujours plus de besoins. On parle avec nos invités de modernité pour un sujet bien établie, des nouveaux défis et menaces, bien sûr de Ransomware, et d'autres thèmes et développements avec, vous le verrez, une vraie convergence entre 3 acteurs pourtant bien différents. J'ai invité 3 interlocuteurs pertinents:
- Louis-Frédéric Lazlo - Directeur du Product Management chez Atempo
- Christophe Absalon - Ingénieur avant-vente chez HYCU
- et Jean-Baptiste Grandvallet - Ingénieur avant-vente chez Cohesity
Following CTera Networks for years, our recent visit in Israel during the 43rd IT Press Tour was the perfect opportunity for a company and product update but also to understand the directions of the product development. We spoke about all this with Liran Eshel, CEO and founder of the company, but also how the company started, its roots, what challenges they solve, how the product works, their GTM and pricing model and we conclude with the future. I hope you will enjoy this episode like me, we learn a lot, thank you Liran and happy listening.
Following the recent visit in Israel during the 43rd IT Press Tour and an impressive session we did at Pliops, having a podcast with Uri Beitler, CEO and co-founder, was a natural next step. We talked about the genesis of the project, the challenges in I/O at large scale Pliops solve again with NVMe, SSDs and PCIe today, the product itself, use cases, go-to-market, pricing and a bit of future. A very good and interesting episode about a technology company you have to follow in the coming quarters. Happy listening. Thank you Uri.
Real exclusivity and exceptional moment with Chris Gladwin at Ocient HQ in Chicago for the recording of the interview for The French Storage Podcast.
We started to speak about of course the leader and one of the pioneer of object storage Cleversafe that landed finally at IBM for $1.3B in 2015, the only big acquisition in that space that triggered some dreams at others' mind but no one did this. We learn a lot of things of the Ocient story, the genesis of the project, how it get started, how Chris thought about it and above all the product itself, what challenges it addresses, how the team does that with a new architecture that leverage NVMe, PCIe lanes and CPUs cores plus a tons of others clever things to optimize everything at massive scale. Real pleasure again to meet and discuss with someone who disrupts and has/had a serious impact on our industry several times. Thank you Chris.
Met recently in Israel during the 43rd IT Press Tour, the idea of an interview with Gil Peleg, CEO and founder of Model9, was a natural next step. You'll discover with this interview a real good data management idea sustained by a compelling business opportunity. Listen to this episode to discover Model9 Manager, Gravity and Shield, the go-to-market strategy and a bit of future. Enjoy your listening and Thank you again Gil.
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Vraie découverte d'une jeune pousse française, Inspeere, qui développe une solution de protection de données distribuée avec les données réparties et dispersées sur les autres systèmes déployés dans un mode privé ou public. L'appliance de sauvegarde, baptisé DatisBox, qui tourne un Linux Debian, s'appuie sur ZFS, ses snapshots et Reed-Solomon pour éclater les blocs de données à protéger entre toutes les machines du réseau Inspeere. Une belle discussion avec Michael Ferrec, son président, qui confirme la richesse et les donnes idées de nos chercheurs, Merci Michael.
New episode and a new angle for the podcast with today a summary of the last 3 IT Press Tour editions we had in January, March and April in California and Israel meeting in total 29 companies playing in IT Infrastructure, data and storage management, business and IT applications. Here is the list of companies we met during each of these 3 tours:
- January 2022 in California: Atempo, DDN, Filebase, Fungible, Hammerspace, Iodyne, Kalista, Komprise, MinIO, N-able, Nasuni, Nebulon and Tiger Technology.
- March 2022 in California: Alation, BMC, FlashGrid, GridGain, Hazelcast, Observe, SambaNova and SingleStore.
- April 2022 in Israel: CTera Networks, Data Dynamics, HYCU, Infinidat, Komodor, Model9, Pliops and Speedb.
A new interview, this time with Simon Taylor, Founder and CEO of HYCU, a Modern Data Protection vendor that addresses the recent IT challenges and needs aligned with the cloud and new workloads. In this interview we covered the genesis of the company, even if Simon didn't mention pedigree and background of the origins of the company, the surprising new meaning of the HYCU acronym, it is not the same explanation today than the one given a few years ago, the HYCU cloud strategy, of course Protégé and some other key features, go-to-market approaches and partnerships that makes HYCU a pretty unique vendor. Enjoy your listening and Thank you again Simon (and Don).
A real pleasure to talk to Piyush Mehta, CEO of Data Dynamics, about the company Data Management strategy in a very dynamic market climate. The company leverages a largely deployed product named StorageX and added more recently other key modules such as ControlX and Insight AnalytiX to provide a holistic unified data platform dedicated to orchestrate unstructured data within the enterprise residing within companies' perimeter but also in the cloud. Enjoy your listening and Thank you again Piyush.
Really glad I have the chance to discuss again a few days ago with Boyan Ivanov, CEO and co-founder of StorPool Storage, a Bulgarian storage software company. I identified this company many many years ago in 2014 when I unveiled the product to the world with a famous blog post. StorPool is one of the rare pure block Software-Defined Storage on the market proposing a radical new approach for high performance high resilient storage. If you don't know StorPool yet, I encourage you to test the product, you would probably adopt it right away. In the meantime, I invite you to listen to this very interesting episode covering a really attractive company and product. Enjoy your listening and Thank you again Boyan.
The volume of data explodes for everyone, from large corporations to individual users, especially pro-consumers with strict requirements such performance and resiliency. Iodyne rethinks this approach with the Pro Data, a 15" 12 or 24TB block storage array fully equipped with M.2 SSDs directly connected to Mac machines. I recorded this episode a few days ago at Iodyne HQ in Mill Valley, CA with Jeff Bonwick and Mike Shapiro, co-founders and co-presidents, to understand the root of the project, the nature and design of the product and various key features like the data protection model. You probably remember these names form past key industry products as they invented ZFS, FISHworks and DSSD. I invite you to listen to this very interesting episode covering a real compelling product initiative. Enjoy your listening and Thank you again Jeff and Mike.
Distributed enterprise is a reality and Covid period has demonstrated a new iteration of strong need for such approach. I had the privilege to speak to a technologist I respect a lot, Andres Rodriguez, founder and now CTO of Nasuni. For some of you who follow me and the industry, Andres was the founder in 2003 of Archivas, a distributed, CAS/object storage software, acquired in 2007 by Hitachi and it's now HCP. Nasuni, launched in 2009, tackles a completely different problem, how to provide a universal NAS model to any users, local or remote, from the same data source being central on-premises or public object storage. This model merges primary and secondary storage and deliver a pretty unique user experience on the market. We talked about all of this with Andres, the genesis of the project, the philosophy of the product, a bit of technology, use cases and differentiators around several key things like ransomware protection, caching techniques, global locking and versioning to name a few. Enjoy your listening and Thank you again Andres.
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Episode sponsorisé avec un entretien exclusif avec 2 membres clés d'Atempo, je devrais dire du nouveau Atempo
- Luc d'Urso, CEO
- Louis-Frédéric Laszlo, Dir. Product Management
J'ai eu l'opportunité et le plaisir d'échanger avec Luc et Louis à propos d'Atempo, son histoire et sa trajectoire depuis plusieurs années, le nouveau visage de l'entreprise, ses ambitions, ses initiatives technologiques notamment avec le laboratoire d'IA NextIno, bien sûr Tina, le produit historique de protection de données, et Miria, la nouvelle génération centrée sur la gestion de données, qui confirme son rôle de plateforme convergente de gestion de données qui offre toute une constellation de services et qui représente le futur de l'éditeur. Merci Luc et Louis, bonne écoute à tous.
File Storage is definitely a hot topic and today I speak with David Flynn, founder and CEO of Hammerspace, the data management company who designs, builds and develops a global file services named GDE for Global Data Environment. If you follow me for quite some time, you should see that I already wrote many times on Hammerspace, Primary Data, Tonian Systems, parallel file system and pNFS being one of my favorite topics. I invite you to listen to this pretty long interview with lots of details from David on the genesis on the company, how the products works, wha you can do wit hit and a few secret sauce elements. Enjoy your listening and Thank you again David.
Very good opportunity to listen to Alexander Lefterov, founder and CEO of Tiger Technology, a company a bit confidential who developed for many years a very interesting solution for hybrid cloud file storage. I had the chance to record this interview during the recent IT Press Tour in California where all the team had the time to learn and understand the "On-Premises First" hybrid cloud strategy. Thus the result is a very efficient episode that goes directly to the point, discover more Tiger Technology and what they do. Enjoy your listening and Thank you again Alex.
<< SPECIAL PURE STORAGE - SPONSORED EPISODE >>
Special episode with an interview with 2 key members of the FlashBlade Business Unit at Pure Storage:
- Amy Fowler, Vice President, Strategy and Solutions
- Brian Gold, Senior Director for Engineering
I had the opportunity to discuss recently with Amy and Brian to understand the genesis of the project, internally named Iridium at the beginning, the strategy around uses cases and workloads, solutions and partnerships, a bit of product design and architecture choices made by the team and of course a zest of future. A dense episode with lots of information, Amy and Brian were very transparent, to learn more about FlashBlade, one of the most advanced* file and object storage product on the market. A real pleasure for me and I wish you a happy listening.
* Coldago Research named Pure Storage as a Leader in 2021, 2020 and 2019 in its Maps for File Storage and Object Storage.
What a pleasure to interview AB Periasamy, founder and CEO of MinIO. We first met in 2015 a few months following the launch of the company. MinIO joined 7 times The IT Press Tour so I have measured all the milestones of the company. The Tsunami I mentioned a few years ago about MinIO impact on the industry continues to be real. And Coldago listed MinIO as a leader for the 3 Object Storage Maps. I invite you to listen to the episode and we of course covered the big news with their Series B of $103M. Enjoy your listening and Thank you again AB.
New interview this time with Joshua Noble, CEO of Filebase, developer of a decentralized cloud storage offering. Filebase operates as a universal S3 gateway in the cloud to connect to back-end decentralized object stores such Sia, Storj or Skynet. Very interesting discussion with Joshua that invites the audience to discover a young storage player in the cloud storage space, alternative to other famous names. Enjoy your listening and Thank you again Joshua.
Wow I finally decided to unveil the Gems 2022 and record a short episode about them. Discover the 5 companies I invite you to watch in 2022. For more information on these reports, please to check Coldago.com. Happy listening.
First episode for 2022 and real start of the 3rd season of The French Storage Podcast now confirming its unique role in the observation of the storage industry. This episode is very simple as it list my predictions for the coming year with several strong trends started a few years ago and some others that started to confirm their place and need on the market. Happy listening.
New episode but also the last of 2021 representing the 86th globally. What a year for The French Storage Podcast and also in the Storage Industry as a whole. This episode covers facts, news, trends I consider significant in 2021 and I added also at the end the very last information related to the 10th Storage Unicorn Report published a few days ago. You can always check Coldago.com for more information. Happy listening.
Episode in French
Une table ronde avec 3 leaders du marché - Pure Storage, Dell Technologies et HPE - pour évoquer le stockage et l'infrastructure à la demande qui semblent mettre tout le monde d'accord. Ou comment les acteurs de stockage on-premises ont fait évoluer leur offre pour proposer une expérience héritée des grands acteurs du cloud pour leurs offres "locales". Une discussion dynamique avec 3 invités qui se complètent parfaitement :
- Gabriel Ferreira - Directeur avant-vente France chez Pure Storage
- Eric Bézille - Directeur avant-vente chez Dell Technologies
- et François Puig - Directeur avant-vente France chez HPE
Un nouvel épisode cette fois-ci avec un entretien avec Bruno Buffenoir, patron pour la France et l'Europe du Nord Ouest chez Nutanix. Une discussion qui nous permet de mieux comprendre les forces de l'éditeur, son mode logiciel disponible en mode SaaS, les derniers développements relatif à AHV et autour des services notamment DBaaS et les accords stratégiques avec Red Hat et Citrix qui permettent d'envisager le futur. Une belle discussion ouverte et sans tabou, Merci Bruno.
It's my pleasure to introduce the 2021 Coldago Map about File Storage and Object Storage. Like every year for a few years at the same period, I publish these 2 Maps that study, analyse and rank established players in their respective domain. I let you discover the Leaders, the BlitzScalers and the vendors to watch in 2022. For more information on these reports, please to check Coldago.com. Happy listening.
New interview with Krishna Subramanian, COO of Komprise, a software company she cofounded in 2014 with Kumar Goswami, CEO, and Michael Peercy, CTO. Komprise solves the unstructured data deluge delivering an intelligent data management approach leveraging data movement across storage entities, a total visibility of the data for enterprises and thus a compelling ROI. Very interesting dialog with Krishna that contributes to the discovery of one of the few gems of the storage and data management market. Enjoy your listening and Thank you again Krishna.
Entretien Exclusif avec Erfane Arwani, CEO de fondateur de Biomemory, enregistrée Mardi 23 Novembre 2 heures avant l'archivage sur capsule DNA Drive des textes des droits de l'homme et de la femme aux archives nationales. Un belle surprise que m'a réservée Erfane et un dialogue ouvert pour découvrir et mieux comprendre le stockage sur ADN et le projet Biomemory soutenu par le CNRS et Sorbonne Université. Un super projet, très prometteur, qui permet, une nouvelle fois, de mettre en avant la France, sa recherche et ses chercheurs que le monde nous envie. A écouter au calme et même plusieurs fois pour certaines parties où Erfane détaille les processus de synthèse et de séquençage. Merci Erfane.
Real pleasure to interview Eran Kirzner, CEO and founder of Lightbits Labs, being a pioneer of NVMe/TCP and the original believer, designer and developer of the TCP transport for NVMe. The momentum is now visible with some validations and adoptions by several giant vendors to initiate a tsunami. A good example is the recent validation of NVMe/TCP by VMware under the last iteration of ESXi. We learn more about the roots of the company, the original triggers of the project and other key information such financial trajectory. So a lot of good answers from Eran with the pleasure to have also Philippe Schwartz, partner at Square Peg Capital, who believes strongly in Lightbits Labs since the beginning of the project. Enjoy your listening and Thank you again Eran and Philippe.
Une nouvelle table ronde pour évoquer NVMe et bien sûr sa déclinaison réseau avec les différentes méthodes de transport et notamment TCP. Cela va nous permettre de comprendre la technologie, son intérêt, les cas d'usages et pourquoi l'industrie a introduit NVMe aujourd'hui sur PCIe Gen 4, très prochainement sur Gen5 en attendant CXL. On a discuté de tout ça avec 3 invités qui partagent certaines idées mais qui sont aussi très complémentaires :
- Laurent Delaisse - Responsable avant-vente Europe du Sud chez Hitachi Vantara
- Stéphane Rigaud - Architecte solution chez Infinidat
- et Stéphane Colin - Responsable des architectes avant-ventes chez Antemeta
Un nouveau Tech Talk pour une clarification nécessaire visiblement où même les analystes comme Gartner entretiennent une confusion entre stockage primaire et stockage en mode bloc. Je voulais revenir sur ces notions, rappeler aussi le stockage secondaire, le stockage de production et de protection. Un exposé qui frôle le coup de gueule. J'espère que vous apprécierez.
Great honor to interview Renen Hallak, CEO and founder of VAST Data, a recent storage player who disrupts the market with an innovative high performance and high resilient unstructured data platform. This episode tells us more about the genesis of the company, the design goals and how they succeeded to deliver such advanced product. Plenty of good information shared by Renen, so I invite you to listen to it and share it among your contacts and friends. Enjoy and Thank you Renen.
I had the privilege to interview Nathan Thompson, CEO and founder of Spectra Logic, to get an update of his company, their strategy especially at the moment they just announced a new data management software solution named Vail aligned with a significant refresh of their "classic" products line fueled by several security and ransomware prevention features. Lots of information as usual with Nathan who really makes this interview a simple and direct exercice, Thank you Nathan.
Les data centers sont au coeur de l'informatique d'aujourd'hui et j'ai choisi EBRC et son patron et fondateur, Yves Reding, pour ce nouvel entretien. Pionnier dans les centres de données Tier 4, Yves nous partage sa passion pour l'excellence des services IT aux entreprises et couvre l'histoire de l'entreprise, son évolution, sa gamme de services et son rôle dans Gaia-X. Une belle discussion qui dévoile un acteur Européen de grande envergure un peu trop confidentiel.
Nouvel entretien cette fois-ci avec Nicolas Combaret, patron des ventes de Rubrik pour l'europe du sud, qui va nous permettre de comprendre le nouveau Rubrik, les nouvelles approches solutions notamment autour des ransomwares et les directions de l'entreprise.
Un nouvel épisode pour discuter de NetApp SnapDiff v3 qui change l'écosystème Backup de NetApp, certains partenaires se rapprochent, d'autres sont contraints de faire sans. Donc une belle discussion avec des points de vue différents donc un débat, un vrai, avec nos invités :
- Jean-Michel Magnani - Responsable avant-vente entreprise @NetApp France
- Louis-Frédéric Laszlo - Directeur du product management @Atempo
- Pierre-François Guglielmi - Directeur technique alliance @Rubrik
I visited Svalbard archipelago for the 2021 digital deposit ceremony at the Arctic World Archive (AWA) and took advantage to be there to interview Rena Bjerkestrand, Managing Director of Piql. Rena shares his story, Piql approach and products and extends with the AWA project. Super interesting discussion, I invite you to listen carefully to Rena as he explained lots of key elements of Piql's technology. This interview was recorded in the Svalbard at Longyearbyen on Sept. 23th, 2021.
Je rencontre Nathan Richard, fondateur de la jeune pousse Française, Memento Cloud, qui développe une solution de protection de données avec une approche intéressante, simple et économique. Cela nous rappelle certains projets 😉
Un sujet chaud vu les circonstances notamment l'omniprésence des ransomware mais pas que. Nous évoquerons aussi la protection des accès et la compréhension du patrimoine informationnelle de l'entreprise. Nous parlons de tout ça avec nos invités :
- Jérôme Soyer - Directeur Avant-Vente pour l'Europe de l'Ouest @Varonis
- François Esnol-Feugeas - Fondateur et CEO @Oxibox
- Amaury Couffignal - Avant-vente @Veritas Technologies
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Un épisode de discussion punchy et intimiste avec Philippe Nicolas et Yoann Castillo qui échangent sans langue de bois pour décrypter une actualité ou une technologie du monde du stockage...
Cet épisode est consacré à Nasuni et à son Global File Service, une des pépites du marché.
Je vous invite à découvrir l'entreprise, son parcours, ses produits et sa technologie.
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Une discussion autour de la pertinence des technologies qui gravitent autour de l'IA dans le monde des infrastructures de stockage. Est-ce une réalité ? Un buzz word ?
Nos invités :
- Bernard Peultier - CEO NextIno & VP Innovation @Atempo
- Jean-Thomas Acquaviva - Team lead research group @DDN Storage
- Olivier Tant - Bus Dev. Manager Infra @HPE
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Nextino, un centre de recherche en IA, permettant de mieux comprendre les mécanismes Big Data et les optimisations au sein de systèmes de fichiers complexes et exigeants.
Un échange intéressant avec son CEO, Bernard Peultier.
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Moderniser vos architectures de protection de données. Rien que ca ! Durant cet échange informel nous tentons de rappeler cette définition et les grands sujets qui entourent cette course à l'innovation.
Un défi d'objectivité pour certains membres de l'équipe, mais le challenge a été relevé et la discussion, nous l'espérons, a été à la hauteur du sujet !
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Nous avons décidé de nous éloigner pour quelques minutes du monde du stockage et discuter de la donnée et de la meilleure façon de l'analyser et surtout de l'optimiser ! Nicolas Korchia vient nous présenter la société Indexima qui propose une approche intéressante et novatrice.
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Pour faire suite à l'entretien HPE avec Charles Henry, l'équipe USP voulait discuter quelques minutes des informations partagées et faire echo à la conférence HPE Discover qui se déroulera dans peu de temps !
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Tout le monde connait Oodrive, mais moins de monde peut se vanter de comprendre parfaitement leur stratégie et leur vision... Découvrez tout cela lors d'une discussion passionnante avec Stephane Ankaoua !
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Charles Henry a partagé avec nous la vision de HPE sur le stockage, la Data et plus particulièrement les dernières actualités !
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Tirer les leçons des actualités récentes et évaluer quelques bonnes pratiques sur les architectures Datacenter et les approches Cloud ? C'est ce que nous avons tenté de faire durant cet épisode avec nos invités.
Nos invités :
- Olivier Deletrez - Partner System Engineer @Dell Technologies
- Etienne Menguy - Site Reliability Engineer @Croit
- Jean-Philippe Germe - Team Leader, Platform Services @EBRC
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Discussion passionnante autour des technologies et des innovations que la société Fungible propose ! L'équipe USP a eu l'honneur de pouvoir discuter avec Bertrand Serlet, l'une des personnes derrière ce projet d'avenir.
Prenez quelques minutes pour découvrir ce monde et peut être le futur...
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Nous n'en parlons pas assez et pourtant c'est d'une importance capitale ! Le Benchmark et test des Cloud du marché... Ca ne vous dit rien ? Ou vous voulez en savoir plus ? Nous avons eu le plaisir d'échanger avec l'un des spécialiste du marché, Anthony Monthe.
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Episode exceptionnel et presque Hors-série pour notre Podcast. L'équipe USP est très fière d'avoir réuni autour du micro quatre intervenants d'exception pour discuter d'un sujet d'actualité et quelque peu encore obscur pour certains…
Qu'est ce que l'initiative GAIA-X ? Dans quel but ? A qui s'adresse ce projet ? Son organisation ? Autant de questions auxquelles nous avons tenté de répondre tous ensemble.
Merci aux invités :
- Caroline Comet-Fraigneau : VP France & Benelux & Africa @OVHCloud
- Servane Augier : VP Développement et Affaires Publiques @3DS OUTSCALE
- Yann Lechelle : CEO @Scaleway
- Luc D'Urso : CEO @Atempo.Wooxo
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Nous avons décidé de nous éloigner quelque peu du sujet du stockage, bien que... Et cette semaine nous abordons les sujets du Big Data et de l'Analytics. Nous échangeons autour de leur définition, des cas d'usages et de la vision respective de nos invités.
Pour discuter de ce sujet, nous avons eu autour de la table :
- Nicolas Korchia - COO & Co-fondateur @Indexima
- Stephane Estevez - EMEA Director Product Marketing @Splunk
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L'équipe a voulu vous faire découvrir la société WekaIO derrière laquelle se cache WekaFS, un système de fichier intéressant et plein de promesses !
L'approche de WekaIO est quelque peu différente de ce que nous utilisons au quotidien et les cas d'usages sont à l'image de la technologie !
On en discute ensemble ?...
Un épisode de discussion punchy et intimiste avec Philippe Nicolas et Yoann Castillo qui échangent sans langue de bois pour décrypter une actualité ou une technologie du monde du stockage…
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Vous connaissez AWS ? Acteur incontournable du Cloud et précurseur de nombreuses technologies… 2020, il était temps de poser quelques questions à son directeur de la technologie pour la France et comprendre la vision et la stratégie du leader du monde du Cloud !
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Tout le monde connait le stockage objet et les technologies Flash. Mais depuis plus récemment nous constatons que ces deux technologies se sont rencontrées et désormais sont proposées ensemble chez certains éditeurs. Bonne ou mauvaise raison ?
Pour discuter de ce sujet nous avons eu autour de la table :
- Lionel Meoni - Senior Pre-Sales Engineer @VAST Data
- Peter Long - Technical Sales Engineer @Cloudian
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Suite à l'incident arrivé au sein d'un Datacenter de OVHCloud, beaucoup de débats et discussions alimentent les réseaux... Il y a les détracteurs et les défenseurs ; le plus important dans cette affaire sera peut être de se remettre en question pour beaucoup d'entreprises.
Philippe et Yoann font un constat de l'évènement OVH, mais aussi et surtout évoquent la prise de conscience urgente et nécessaire des entreprises Françaises.
Un épisode de discussion punchy et intimiste avec Philippe Nicolas et Yoann Castillo qui échangent sans langue de bois pour décrypter une actualité ou une technologie du monde du stockage…
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Episode un peu particulier, puisque Philippe Nicolas nous livre son regard et son quotidien au sein d'un cabinet d'Analyse et de Recherche. Nous parlons aussi de nos amis Gartner, IDC, Forrester, etc... Et de leur place dans les entreprises.
La frontière avec l'entretien n'était pas loin, mais ce Let's Talk ouvre peut être la voie à un nouveau format et une série d'Entretiens… 😉
Un épisode de discussion punchy et intimiste avec Philippe Nicolas et Yoann Castillo qui échangent sans langue de bois pour décrypter une actualité ou une technologie du monde du stockage…
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Nous avons déjà évoqué VAST Data lors d'un Let's Talk il y a quelques mois. Et désormais le bureau Français est ouvert ! Nous sommes ravi de discuter avec Dominique Fleury de la vision et la stratégie de cette solution innovante.
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C'est une technologie encore méconnue, un monde foisonnant et complexe, mais qui sera surement le moteur de nos futures architectures ! Cette semaine nous vous proposons de découvrir le Computational Storage et les DPU (Data Processing Unit)...
Pour parler de ce sujet, nous avons eu l'honneur d'avoir autour de la table des invités aussi reconnus qu'experts... Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet.
Les intervenants :
- Vladimir Alves - CTO & Co-fondateur @NGD Systems
- Bertrand Serlet - Co-Fondateur @Fungible
- Frederic Chomette - Directeur solutions @Metanext
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Il était temps de parler de DataCore et de sa vision sur le marché du stockage ! Pierre Aguerreberry partage avec nous la vision de la société, les nouveautés technologiques et évoque également la récente acquisition de Caringo.
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Cette semaine, Guillaume de Landtsheer nous fait l'honneur de sa présence dans un nouvel entretien. Il nous en dit plus sur la vision de NetApp, les grands développements et la stratégie technologique de la société.
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Les APIs sont aussi complexes que passionnantes ! Leur utilité n'est plus à démontrer ; le monde de l'IT et du stockage ne sont qu'une petite partie de leur utilité au quotidien… Durant cette table ronde nous avons tenté de donner une définition exacte et une ligne d'évolution dans notre monde si petit de l'IT.
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet.
Les intervenants :
- Yacine Kheddache - Specialist Solution Architect Manager @Red Hat
- Daniel De Prezzo - CTO SEMEA/Benelux/Nordics @Veritas Technologies
- Noham Medyouni - enterprise architect @Dell technologies
- Etienne Menguy - Site Reliability Engineer @Croit
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Cette semaine nous avons eu le plaisir d'échanger avec Yann Lechelle, Directeur général de la société Scaleway. Il nous présente la vision de ce beau fournisseur Cloud Européen (et Français !).
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Cette table ronde un peu spéciale, une fois de plus, et se déclinant en 3 épisodes ; va nous permettre de recueillir les prédictions technologiques pour cette année 2021.
Le second de la série réunit des intervenants venant de sociétés "éditeurs", "constructeurs", etc...
Merci à nos experts du jour :
- Laurent Delaisse - Directeur technique France & Benelux @Hitachi Vantara
- Elisabeth Gameiro - Sales Manager @Fujifilm
- Nicolas Groh - Field CTO @Rubrik
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Cette table ronde un peu spéciale, une fois de plus, et se déclinant en 3 épisodes ; va nous permettre de recueillir les prédictions technologiques pour cette année 2021.
Le second de la série réunit des intervenants venant de sociétés "éditeurs", "constructeurs", etc...
Merci à nos experts du jour :
- Laurent Delaisse - Directeur technique France & Benelux @Hitachi Vantara
- Elisabeth Gameiro - Sales Manager @Fujifilm
- Nicolas Groh - Field CTO @Rubrik
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6 minutes d'échanges entre Philippe Nicolas et Yoann Castillo… Cette bande annonce permet à la team USP d'introduire les épisodes sur les prédictions 2021 qui arriveront dans quelques semaines !
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Cette table ronde un peu spéciale, une fois de plus, et se déclinant en 3 épisodes ; va nous permettre de recueillir les prédictions technologiques pour cette année 2021.
Le second de la série réunit des intervenants venant de sociétés "éditeurs", "constructeurs", etc...
Merci à nos experts du jour :
- Laurent Delaisse - Directeur technique France & Benelux @Hitachi Vantara
- Elisabeth Gameiro - Sales Manager @Fujifilm
- Nicolas Groh - Field CTO @Rubrik
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Cette semaine nous parlons de la société Quantum. Yann Le Borgne, Directeur des ventes France et Benelux, nous partage la vision de la société, le positionnement des solutions et nous prouve que Quantum est un acteur innovant !
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Cet épisode est la partie 2 de la rétrospective 2020 !
On se retrouve pour le premier épisode de l'année 2021 ! Au menu, des analyses de tendances stockage, des commentaires sur les acquisitions de l'année et plein de petites choses qui viennent s'ajouter à ce buffet... Nous faisons un retour sur les faits marquants de 2020 dans le monde du stockage !
Dans un format que nous affectionnons tout particulièrement ; Philippe et Yoann ont échangé sur l'année 2020 et ils nous offrent une rétrospective haute en couleur !
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On se retrouve pour le premier épisode de l'année 2021 ! Au menu, des analyses de tendances stockage, des commentaires sur les acquisitions de l'année et plein de petites choses qui viennent s'ajouter à ce buffet... Nous faisons un retour sur les faits marquants de 2020 dans le monde du stockage !
Dans un format que nous affectionnons tout particulièrement ; Philippe et Yoann ont échangé sur l'année 2020 et ils nous offrent une rétrospective haute en couleur !
Cet épisode est la partie 1 ! Il va falloir patienter jusqu'à la semaine prochaine pour la seconde partie...
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Un épisode de discussion punchy et intimiste avec Philippe Nicolas et Yoann Castillo qui échangent sans langue de bois pour décrypter une actualité ou une technologie du monde du stockage…
N'en déplaise aux détracteurs, Quantum innove et innove plutôt bien ! Une multitude d'annonces ont été dévoilées ces derniers mois et 2021 s'annonce intéressante pour la société historique Quantum.
Nous échangeons sur les trois principales annonces de la société et décryptons le positionnement et la stratégie associée.
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Un épisode de discussion punchy et intimiste avec Philippe Nicolas et Yoann Castillo qui échangent sans langue de bois pour décrypter une actualité ou une technologie du monde du stockage...
Cet épisode est consacré à la société Pavilion Data et sa technologie "HyperParallel Flash Array™". De la performance au menu et une hyper-scalabilité. Rien de plus, rien de moins dans cette startup innovante.
Venez écouter nos échanges sur cette société qui mérite amplement de prendre du temps pour la découvrir.
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Sur un format court de 20 à 30 minutes, nous posons quelques questions autour de la stratégie, la vision ou encore l'actualité d'une société du monde du stockage et de la Data. Qui de mieux que son CEO ou représentant Français pour nous en parler !
Cette semaine nous accueillons avec plaisir Vincent Gibert pour partager avec nous la vision de la société Qumulo, acteur innovant dans le monde du File, du multi-Cloud et des plateformes distribuées... Mais pas que !... 😉 Pour en savoir plus, il ne vous reste plus qu'à écouter l'épisode !
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Parler de l'IT et plus particulièrement de stockage et ne pas évoquer à un moment l'Open Source serait une très grosse erreur… L'Open Source est partout et omniprésent dans les projets et infrastructures. Il est désormais incontournable. Pourquoi ? Est-ce vrai ?...
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet.
Les intervenants :
- Olivier Deletrez - Advisory systems engineer @Dell Technologies
- Yacine Kheddache - Specialist Solution Architect Manager @RedHat
- Julien Mousqueton - Chief technologist @Computacenter
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Sur un format court de 20 à 30 minutes, nous posons quelques questions autour de la stratégie, la vision ou encore l'actualité d'une société du monde du stockage et de la Data. Qui de mieux que son CEO ou représentant Français pour nous en parler !
Cette semaine nous accueillons avec plaisir Hugues Heuzé pour nous parler de la société Pure Storage. Leader dans le monde du Flash, mais pas que…! Venez découvrir quelles innovations réserves Pure Storage et la vision Française !
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Un épisode de discussion punchy et intimiste avec Philippe Nicolas et Yoann Castillo qui échangent sans langue de bois pour décrypter une actualité ou une technologie du monde du stockage...
Cette semaine nous avons décidé d'échanger autour de la solution Kasten (by Veeam). Tout récemment racheté par la société Veeam ; nous discutons, avec Philippe, de la stratégie de ces deux sociétés, de la pertinence technologique de Kasten et plus globalement des containers… Trop de choses à vous raconter en ~20 minutes... 😄
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Sur un format court de 20 à 30 minutes, nous posons quelques questions autour de la stratégie, la vision ou encore l'actualité d'une société du monde du stockage et de la Data. Qui de mieux que son CEO ou représentant Français pour nous en parler !
Pour cet épisode exceptionnel, nous avons eu la chance d'échange avec Sylvain Staub, Fondateur et CEO de Data Legal Drive. Sylvain est également avocat associé chez DS Avocats.
Durant 30 minutes nous avons discuté de RGPD, de protection et régulation de vos données. Bien sur Sylvain nous a présenté sa société dont nous étions très curieux d'en apprendre un peu plus… A votre tour maintenant ?!
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Un épisode de discussion punchy et intimiste avec Philippe Nicolas et Yoann Castillo qui échangent sans langue de bois pour décrypter une actualité ou une technologie du monde du stockage...
Cette semaine nous avons décidé d'échanger autour de la solution VAST DATA. Acteur revendiqué de "l'Universal Storage" ! Et vous, qu'en pensez vous ?...
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AWS et son besoin de conquête nous amène à avoir cette discussion aujourd'hui, dans ce podcast et avec nos super invités du jour... On se pose la question tous ensemble sur la raison et la stratégie de AWS de venir "grignoter" le marché du on-premise. Et en plus ils ne sont pas les seuls ! Azure, GCP et OVH aussi ont leur mot à dire et on en cause...
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet.
Les intervenants :
- Nicolas Groh - Field CTO EMEA @Rubrik
- Christophe Lambert - Directeur SE EMEA @Cohesity
- Mathias Robichon - Directeur SE France @NetApp
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Un épisode de discussion punchy et intimiste avec Philippe Nicolas et Yoann Castillo qui échangent sans langue de bois pour décrypter une actualité ou une technologie du monde du stockage...
Cette semaine nous avons décidé d'échanger autour de la solution Nebulon. Nouvel entrant dans le monde du stockage avec une approche, selon eux, disruptive et qui ouvre la voie pour le futur... On en parle ?
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Sur un format court de 20 à 30 minutes, nous posons quelques questions autour de la stratégie, la vision ou encore l'actualité d'une société du monde du stockage et de la Data. Qui de mieux que son CEO ou représentant Français pour nous en parler !
Venez découvrir et comprendre l’actualité et la vision de Ugloo avec son Directeur des Opérations : Gonzague Dupont.
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Après tout, parler de stockage, d'innovation et plein de trucs super sympa et malheureusement encore beaucoup de personnes pensent que les entreprises SMB n'ont pas le droit d'en profiter... On en discute et on vous prouve le contraire ?
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet.
Les intervenants :
- Ivan lebowski - Product Manager @Synology
- Said Boukhizou - Directeur solution architect EMEA @Datacore
- Scherif Sidibé - Sales and Marketing manager @QNAP
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C’est quoi au juste une infrastructure composable ? Comment et de quoi est-ce composé ? Est-ce une réelle innovation ? Beaucoup de questions autour de cette technologie qui sera, peut être, le futur de nos Datacenters...
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet.
Les intervenants :
- Eric Szabo - Server Solutions Presales Architect @HPE
- Jean-Sébastien Volte - Brand Manager Offres Serveurs et Réseaux @Dell Technologies
- Marc Bonnet - Technologist Datacenter @Western Digital
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Sur un format court de 20 à 30 minutes, nous posons quelques questions autour de la stratégie, la vision ou encore l'actualité d'une société du monde du stockage et de la Data. Qui de mieux que son CEO ou représentant Français pour nous en parler !
Venez découvrir et comprendre l’actualité et la vision de Data Dynamics avec Henri Richard, membre du conseil d'administration. Henri est également un vétéran de l'IT et a participé notamment au sein de NetApp à de belles aventures.
Cet entretien, comme une sorte de parenthèse au milieu du tumulte de nos vies. Faisons pause quelques instants avec Henri et Philippe pour décrypter l'actualité...
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Un sujet nouveau, mais pas que...! La protection, sauvegarde et archivage des applications SaaS sont des sujets qui deviennent récurrents et stratégiques au sein des entreprises.
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet.
Les intervenants :
- Christophe Absalon - System Engineer SEMEA @HYCU
- Stephane Berthaud - Directeur technique France & Afrique @Veeam
- Michael Arrouas - Director Pre-Sales, EMEA @OwnBackup
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Sur un format court de 20 à 30 minutes, nous posons quelques questions autour de la stratégie, la vision ou encore l'actualité d'une société du monde du stockage et de la Data. Qui de mieux que son CEO ou représentant Français pour nous en parler !
Venez découvrir et comprendre l’actualité et la vision de HYCU avec son Directeur Europe du Sud : Xavier Stern.
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Veni vidi vici... Nous avons eu 45 minutes pour faire un historique et surtout, surtout ! Comprendre pourquoi en 2020 et pour de nombreuses années encore la Bande est une technologie encore largement utilisée, respectée et innovante.
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet.
Les intervenants :
- Stephane Cardot - Directeur Pre-Sales EMEA @Quantum
- Elisabeth Gameiro - Sales Manager France @Fujifilm
- Julien Demeulenaere - Responsable de l'offre Tape EMEA @IBM
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Vous avez toujours rêvé de comprendre une recette complexe et ainsi pouvoir la réaliser et en parler des heures durant ? Et bien nous l'avons fait ! L'ingrédient principal étant le RGPD. Nos experts ont été géniaux et extrêmement pertinents. A écouter sans modération et avec curiosité !
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet.
Les intervenants :
- Sylvain Staub - CEO de Data Legal Drive & Avocat Associé chez DS Avocats
- Frederic Assuncao - Spécialiste de la gouvernance de la donnée @Veritas Technologies
- Simon Decarpentries - Enterprise Solution Sales, Business Development @NetApp
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Sur un format court de 20 à 30 minutes, nous posons quelques questions autour de la stratégie, la vision ou encore l'actualité d'une société du monde du stockage et de la Data. Qui de mieux que son CEO ou représentant Français pour nous en parler !
Venez découvrir et comprendre l’actualité et la vision de Portworx avec son Directeur Europe : Stéphane Gaillard.
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La technologie WORM est un vrai sujet d'actualité ! Les entreprises prennent conscience ces dernières années de la valeur de leurs données et de l'importance de les conserver...
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet.
Les intervenants :
- Nicolas Groh - Field CTO EMEA @Rubrik
- Peter Long - Technical Sales Engineer SEMEA @Cloudian
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Sur un format court de 20 à 30 minutes, nous posons quelques questions autour de la stratégie, la vision ou encore l'actualité d'une société du monde du stockage et de la Data. Qui de mieux que son CEO ou représentant Français pour nous en parler !
Venez découvrir et comprendre l’actualité et la vision de Wasabi Technologies avec son Directeur Europe : Richard Czech.
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Les données explosent et nous arrivent en pleine face... Ou que nous soyons, quoi que nous fassions. Les MetaData sont très certainement la réponse à ce déferlement pour pouvoir cadrer, comprendre, organiser et réutiliser ce "melting pot"... Qu'en pensez vous ?
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet.
Les intervenants :
- Herve Collard - VP Marketing @Atempo
- Joel Rodriguez - Consultant stockage @Arcserve
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Ils nous accompagnent depuis le commencement de l'IT... Et nous les connaissons sous bien des formes. On a tenté avec nos invités d'échanger avec objectivité, mais sans objectif précis ! 😀
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet.
Les intervenants :
- Jean-Thomas Acquaviva - Team lead research group @DDN Storage
- Nicolas Mahé - Spécialiste infrastructure @Lenovo
- Rodolphe Garcia - Consultant avant-vente @Qumulo
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Ils n'étaient que deux pour cet épisode et pourtant les échanges ont été de grande qualité ! Qui a dit que les mots HSM, tiering et archivage ne sont pas/plus à la mode ?...
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet.
Les intervenants :
- Frederic Chomette - Directeur solutions @Metanext
- Emmanuel Florac - Technical Manager and co-founder @Intellique
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Tout a déjà été dit ? C'est évident pour vous ? Restez tout de même, nos intervenants vous réserve quelques surprises... Le stockage primaire est une notion que nous utilisons tous au quotidien, mais le faisons nous bien ? Savons nous réellement ce qu'est le Stockage primaire ?
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet.
Les intervenants :
- Stephane Rigaud - Solution Architect @Infinidat
- Jean-luc Berrier - Directeur BU Modern workplace @Cyllene
- Laurent Delaisse - Pre-sales Director France @Hitachi
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Sur un format court de 20 minutes, nous posons quelques questions autour de la stratégie, la vision ou encore l'actualité d'une société du monde du stockage et de la Data. Qui de mieux que son CEO ou représentant Français pour nous en parler !
Venez découvrir et comprendre l’actualité et la vision de Veeam avec son Country Manager, Thierry Lottin.
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Moi-même je me suis perdu dans les dédales de ces nouvelles technologies et ces nouveaux usages ! Trois intervenants que nous avons enfermés rien que pour vous durant 45 minutes pour nous expliquer le Edge Computing et le ROBO…
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet qui anime les débats et l'actualité.
Les intervenants :
- Mickael Benchetrit - Responsable d’équipe Solutions Engineer @CTERA
- Christophe Lambert - Director, Systems Engineering, Strategic Business EMEA @Cohesity
- Yann Valains - Co-fondateur et Président @ArcITek
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Sur un format court de 20 minutes, nous posons quelques questions autour de la stratégie, la vision ou encore l'actualité d'une société du monde du stockage et de la Data. Qui de mieux que son CEO ou représentant Français pour nous en parler !
Venez découvrir et comprendre la belle dynamique de la société Atempo ; ainsi que sa vision pour les mois et années à venir avec Luc d'Urso son CEO.
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Nous avons mis au défi trois experts de nous donner une définition et une synthèse du Stockage Objet, et ce en 45 minutes ! Woot ! Ouvrez grand vos oreilles, car le Stockage Objet n'est pas si simple que cela à appréhender...
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet qui anime les débats et l'actualité depuis de nombreuses années.
Les intervenants :
- Laurent Delaisse - Directeur technique France, Benelux @Hitachi
- Stephane Cardot - Directeur technique EMEA @Quantum
- Julien Mousqueton - Chief Technologist @Computacenter
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Vous pensiez que tout a déjà été évoqué avec le Software Defined Storage (SDS) ? Peut être... Ou pas ! Le SDS c'est un très vieux sujet, et en même temps bourré d'innovations... Mais alors, il faut dire quoi exactement ? C'est par ici que ça se passe justement. 🙂
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous experts et passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet qui anime les débats et l'actualité depuis de nombreuses années.
Les intervenants :
- Said Boukhizou - Directeur technique SEMEA @Datacore
- Samuel Berthollier - Business Line Manager @AntemetA
- Mathias Robichon - Directeur technique France @NetApp
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Un sujet d'urgence absolue qui dépasse largement les frontières du stockage et de l'IT. Nous avons discuté aussi environnemental et social... Il y a tellement de belles choses et de malheureuses à dire sur ce sujet que je vous invite à vraiment vous poser ou, pourquoi pas à vous défouler, en écoutant cet épisode passionnant.
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous experts et passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet qui anime les débats et l'actualité depuis de nombreuses années.
Les intervenants :
- Martin Dargent - Co-Founder & CEO @EasyVirt
- Gabriel Ferreira - Director, Systems Engineering @PureStorage France
- Pierre Jaeger - Systems Technical Manager @IBM France
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Oups ! Nous avons osé... Oui parler du Cloud et de ses composantes et tout cela seulement en 45 minutes. Les concepts de Cloud, MultiCloud, Hybrid, localité de la donnée et bien d'autres choses ont été abordés. Cet épisode vous invite à écouter les principaux concepts et je vous le confirme, déjà quelques sujets "focus" sont en préparation pour approfondir la discussion ! 😉
Venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous experts et passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet qui anime les débats et l'actualité...
Les intervenants :
- Romain Decker - Staff Technical Product Manager @VMware
- Thierry Vallier - Azure Sales Lead France @NetApp
- Jean-Michel Carre - Alliances Manager EMEA @Wasabi Technologies
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L’innovation ne s’arrête jamais pour certains, et encore moins pour nos Datacenters ! Les containers, depuis peu de temps sont présents dans toutes les discussions ; évoqués dans beaucoup de projets… Et un prétexte aux équipes pour prendre une pause café et débattre de longues minutes. Bref ! Les Containers sont là, ils sont chauds. Et ça tombe bien, parce que nous aussi !
Durant 45 minutes, venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous experts et passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet qui anime les débats et l'actualité... Sans aucun doute, nous aurons droit à un second épisode pour compléter celui-ci ! 🐵
Les intervenants :
- Francois Martel - Director, Solution Architecture @Portworx
- Denis Jannot - Distinguished Sales Engineer @D2IQ
- Yacine Kheddache - Specialist Solution Architect Manager @RedHat
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J’espère que votre jauge d’énergie est élevée, car aujourd’hui nous abordons un thème qui risque de partir dans beaucoup de directions… Pour notre plus grand plaisir !
Nous avons tenté de comprendre quel est le rapport entre le Data Management et le Stockage et bien sûr de vous donner des pistes ainsi que les bonnes pratiques pour la suite de l’aventure...
Durant 45 minutes, venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous experts et passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet qui anime les débats et l'actualité... Sans aucun doute, nous aurons droit à un second épisode pour compléter celui-ci ! (Ca devient une habitude...) 🐵
Les intervenants :
- Hervé Collard - VP Marketing @Atempo
- Lionel Meoni - Sales Engineering Manager @Rubrik
- Peter Long - Technical Sales Engineer @Cloudian
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L'Hyperconvergence est d’actualité. Un peu trop à votre goût ? Vous n'en pouvez plus de voir son nom placardé partout sur les murs virtuels du web.... Et bien navré de vous le dire les ami(e)s, mais OUI il y a encore des choses à dire !
Durant 45 minutes, venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous experts et passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet qui anime les débats et l'actualité... Sans aucun doute, nous aurons droit à un second épisode pour compléter celui-ci ! (Ca devient une habitude...) 🐵
Les intervenants :
- Fabrice Colas - Senior System Engineer @Nutanix
- Olivier Deletrez - Partner Systems Engineer @Dell Technologies
- Herve Oliny - PreSales Manager @VMware
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"Plus tu es parano, mieux tu dors !" .... Dixit un de nos intervenants du jour.
Nous évoquons dans cet épisode le sujet, ô combien, d'actualité du Ransomware et plus largement de la sécurité des données au sein du stockage.
Durant 45 minutes, venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous experts et passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet qui anime les débats et l'actualité... Sans aucun doute, nous aurons droit à un second épisode pour compléter celui-ci !
Les intervenants :
- Stephane Berthaud - Senior Director Technical Sales, France & Africa @Veeam
- Louis Laszlo - Product Manager @Atempo
- Benoit Vautrin - Storage France Business Development @IBM
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Les technologies Flash et le monde fascinant qui les entoure... Etes vous en quête de performance ? De résilience ? de services ? d'optimisations ? D'innovations financières ?
Durant 45 minutes, venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous experts et passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce sujet qui anime les débats et l'actualité...
Nos intervenants :
- Bertrand Ounanian - Pure Storage
- Karl Herbst - HP Enterprise
- Stephane Rigaud - Infinidat
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Le stockage secondaire englobe beaucoup de composantes (technologiques, humaines et économiques). On ne peut l'enfermer dans une seule et même technologie ou un seul éditeur… Ce serait trop facile et bien trop réducteur.
Durant 45 minutes, venez écouter nos invités du jour, tous experts et passionnés dans leur domaine. Dans la bonne humeur et le sérieux nous tentons d'évoquer et de décrypter certaines composantes de ce "stockage" qui anime les débats et les discussions depuis peu de temps...
Nos intervenants :
- Arnaud Alapaquette - SCC
- Fouad El Akkad - Nutanix
- Noham Medyouni - Dell Technologies
- Olivier Parcollet - Nutanix
- Nicolas Groh - Rubrik
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