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82: GreyBeards talk composable infrastructure with Sumit Puri, CEO & Co-founder, Liqid Inc. May 07, 2019

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This is the first time we’ve had Sumit Puri, CEO & GM Co-founder of Liqid on the show but both Greg and I have talked with Liqid in the past. Given that we talked with another composable infrastructure company (see our DriveScale podcast), we thought it would be nice to hear from their competition. We …

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81: Greybeards talk cloud storage with David Friend, Co-founder & CEO, Wasabi Technologies Mar 27, 2019

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This is our first time talking with David Friend, (@Wasabi_Dave) Co-founder and CEO, Wasabi Technologies, but he certainly knows his way around storage. He has started a number of successful companies, the last one prior to Wasabi was Carbonite, a cloud backup company. Before we get to the podcast, Howard Marks has retired from active …

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80: Greybeards talk composable infrastructure with Tom Lyon, Co-Founder/Chief Scientist and Brian Pawlowski, CTO, DriveScale Feb 26, 2019

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We haven’t talked with Tom Lyon (@aka_pugs) or Brian Pawlowski before on our show but both Howard and I know Brian from his prior employers. Tom and Brian work for DriveScale, a composable infrastructure software supplier. There’s been a lot of press lately on NVMeoF and the GreyBeards thought it would be good time to …

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79: GreyBeards talk AI deep learning infrastructure with Frederic Van Haren, CTO & Founder, HighFens, Inc. Jan 28, 2019

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We’ve talked with Frederic before (see: Episode #33 on HPC storage) but since then, he has worked for an analyst firm and now he’s back on his own again, at HighFens. Given all the interest of late in AI, machine learning and deep learning, we thought it would be a great time to catch up …

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78: GreyBeards YE2018 IT industry wrap-up podcast Jan 09, 2019

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In this, our yearend industry wrap up episode, we discuss trends and technology impacting the IT industry in 2018 and what we can see ahead for 2019 and first up is NVMeoF NVMeoF has matured In the prior years, NVMeoF was coming from startups, but last year it’s major vendors like IBM FlashSystem, Dell EMC …

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77: GreyBeards talk high performance databases with Brian Bulkowski, Founder & CTO, Aerospike Dec 07, 2018

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In this episode we discuss high performance databases and the storage needed to get there, with Brian Bulkowski, Founder and CTO of Aerospike. Howard met Brian at an Intel Optane event last summer and thought he’d be a good person to talk with. I couldn’t agree more. Howard and I both thought Aerospike was an …

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76: GreyBeards talk backup content, GDPR and cyber security with Jim McGann, VP Mkt & Bus. Dev., Index Engines Nov 14, 2018

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In this episode we talkindexing old backups, GDPR and CyberSense, a new approach to cyber security, with Jim McGann, VP Marketing and Business Development, Index Engines. Jim’s an old industry hand that’s been around backups, e-discovery and security almost since the beginning. Index Engines solution to cyber security, CyberSense, is also offered by Dell EMC …

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75: GreyBeards talk persistent memory IO with Andy Grimes, Principal Technologist, NetApp Nov 06, 2018

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Sponsored By: NetApp In this episode we talk new persistent memory IO technology with Andy Grimes, Principal Technologist, NetApp. Andy presented at the NetApp Insight 2018 TechFieldDay Extra (TFDx) event (video available here). If you get a chance we encourage you to watch the videos as Andy, did a great job describing their new MAX …

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74: Greybeards talk NVMe shared storage with Josh Goldenhar, VP Cust. Success, Excelero Oct 30, 2018

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Sponsored by: In this episode we talk NVMe shared storage with Josh Goldenhar (@eeschwa), VP, Customer Success at Excelero. Josh has been on our show before (please see our April 2017 podcast), the last time with Excelero’s CTO & Co-founder, Yavin Romen. This is Excelero’s 1st sponsored GBoS podcast and we wish to welcome them …

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73: GreyBeards talk HCI with Gabriel Chapman, Sr. Mgr. Cloud Infrastructure NetApp Oct 26, 2018

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Sponsored by: NetApp In this episode we talk HCI with Gabriel Chapman (@Bacon_Is_King), Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure, NetApp. Gabriel presented at the NetApp Insight 2018 TechFieldDay Extra (TFDx) event (video available here). Gabriel also presented last year at the VMworld 2017 TFDx event (video available here). If you get a chance we encourage you to watch the …

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