GreyBeards on Storage

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GreyBeards talk backup with Rick Vanover, Product Strategy Specialist for Veeam Jun 11, 2014

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Welcome to our 9th monthly episode where we discuss data backup with Rick Vanover, Product Strategy Specialist for Veeam Software. The GreyBeards just talked with Rick and Veeam at last month’s Storage Field Day 5 (SFD5) in Silicon Valley and once again we would suggest everyone who wants to know more about Veeam backup and …

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Greybeards talk all-flash arrays with Dave Wright, CEO and founder of SolidFire May 13, 2014

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Welcome to our eight episode where we discuss all-flash storage with Dave Wright, CEO and founder of SolidFire. The Greybeards just talked with Dave at the SDDC14 and Storage Field Day 5 in San Jose, CA last month. In this podcast, we learn a lot about SolidFire and other storage arrays from a leading light …

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Greybeards talk cloud storage with Marc Farley, product marketing for Microsoft StorSimple Apr 11, 2014

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Welcome to our seventh episode. This time we talk about cloud storage and how data centers can have both cloud and on premises storage with the proper system. We discuss all this with Marc Farley, Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft StorSimple Cloud-integrated Storage solution. Marc’s an old friend so besides talking about StorSimple’s technology we …

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Greybeards talk server DRAM IO caching with Peter Smith, Director, Product Management at Infinio Mar 04, 2014

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Welcome to our sixth episode. We once again dive into the technical end of the pool with an in-depth discussion of DRAM based server side caching with Peter Smith, Director of Product Management at Infinio. Unlike PernixData (checkout Episode 2, with Satyam Vaghani, CTO PernixData) and others in the server side caching business, Infinio supplies VMware server side …

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GreyBeards talk scale-out storage with Coho Data CTO/Co-founder, Andy Warfield Feb 03, 2014

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Welcome to our fifth episode. We return now to an in-depth technical discussion of leading edge storage systems, this time with Andrew Warfield, CTO and Co-founder of Coho Data. Coho Data supplies VMware scale-out storage solutions with PCIe SSDs and disk storage using the NFS protocol. Howard and I talked with Andy and Coho Data at …

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GreyBeards year end storage trends wrap-up Dec 27, 2013

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Welcome to our fourth episode. In this year end wrap-up Howard and Ray talk about the three trends that have emerged over the last year or so which are impacting the storage industry in a big way and will continue to affect the industry in the the years to come. First up is scale-out storage. …

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GreyBeards talk enterprise Hadoop with Jack Norris, CMO MapR Technologies Dec 08, 2013

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Welcome to our third episode. In this podcast we take a step up from the technical depths to talk with Jack Norris, Chief Marketing Officer of MapR Technologies about their enterprise class Hadoop distribution that customers far and wide are finding a viable solution to today’s Hadoop problems. This months podcast runs a little over …

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GreyBeards discuss server side flash with Satyam Vaghani, Co-Founder & CTO PernixData Nov 02, 2013

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Episode 2: Server Side Flash Software Welcome to our second GreyBeards on Storage (GBoS) podcast. The podcast was recorded on October 29, 2013, when Howard and Ray talked with Satyam Vaghani, Co-Founder & CTO PernixData, a scale-out, server side flash caching solution provider Well this month’s podcast runs about 40 minutes. Howard and I had …

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GreyBeards talk converged infrastructure with Dheeraj Pandey, CEO Nutanix Oct 02, 2013

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Episode 1: Converged Infrastructure Welcome to our inaugural GreyBeards on Storage (GBoS) podcast. The podcast was recorded on September 27th, 2013, when Howard and Ray talked with Dheeraj Pandey, CEO Nutanix. Our first podcast ran to ~48 minutes and was a broad, wide-ranging conversation that discussed everything from the specifics of Nutanix solutions to broader …

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