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    Podcast #122: Navigating The AI Landscape: Real-World Insights And Challenges Sep 14, 2023

    This week Brian sits down with our own AI expert, Jordan Ranous, to discuss and speculate on the challenges facing enterprises and small businesses as they try to get a grip on the hot topic of the decade, Artificial Intelligence. If you have been following StorageReview, then you are aware of some of the tests, reviews, and trials we have been exploring in our lab. Jordan is engaged in almost all AI content posted on our site.

    This week Brian sits down with our own AI expert, Jordan Ranous, to discuss and speculate on the challenges facing enterprises and small businesses as they try to get a grip on the hot topic of the decade, Artificial Intelligence. If you have been following StorageReview, then you are aware of some of the tests, reviews, and trials we have been exploring in our lab. Jordan is engaged in almost all AI content posted on our site.

    Jordan is an experienced AI technologist with a background working with financial institutions. Brian always offers his guests some tough questions, and Jordan gets the same treatment. AI is such a hot topic, and the buzz in the industry just keeps getting louder, generating more questions than answers. Jordan has a rare talent of being an expert in AI and being able to articulate answers that can be easily understood.

    This is the first podcast that we’re actually integrating live with our Discord community so they can interact and ask questions on topics we are hitting at that moment.

    If it’s AI-related, Brian and Jordan talk about it. It is certainly worth watching the podcast in its entirety, but if you would like to hop around, we have the time-stamped transcript below.

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    00:00 Introduction

    • Setting the stage for the live event
      • Invited the StorageReveiw Discord community
      • Exploring AI in the lab
      • Hands-on
    • Recapping Flash Memory Summit (FMS
      • AI Vision Demo
      • SR Sloths stole the show
    • AI does not have a universal definition
      • Generative AI tools
        • ChatGPT
        • Dall-E
    • Generative AI vs AGI (artificial general intelligence)
    • Computer Vision
      • A subset of broader AI
      • Object recognition
      • Image Datasets

    05:00 Finetuning the model

    • Business Intelligence
      • Categorizing images
      • Identifying brands rather than just shapes
      • Self-checkout
      • Loss Prevention
    • Creating the Datasets
      • Training data
      • Install disparity between enterprise and small retail shops
    • Tools for AI
      • Leveraging the right tools for the job
    • Implementation challenges
    • Creating chatbots for various industries

    10:00 Chatbots for customer service

    • Chatbot is programmed to fix the problem, not initiate transferring the call
    • Pressing zero doesn’t do anything
    • Creating higher frustration for customers
    • Catching AI doing something it shouldn’t
    • AI has the potential to hyperextend in any direction
      • Keep an eye on your AI model to keep it honest and focused
      • Quality data means quality results

    15:00 Security is paramount

    • Inherent biases in AI
    • Training data collection is critical
    • Gather a diverse group to build the training data
    • Proper finetuning
    • Be careful of the persona you create
    • Doom server demo
      • AI’s talking trash
      • AI gamers fighting each other and making disparaging jokes
      • AI understood the assignment and acted upon it
    • Ethics
    • Enterprises might be reluctant to provide too much information
      • Know where it should go
      • And where it might go
      • The fear of the unknown

    20:00 Active Directory for access levels

    • Keeping data secure and available to appropriate teams
      • Call centers probably do not need access to proprietary marketing material
      • NeMo Guardrails
      • How questions are asked or how to prompt the question
    • Hiring Prompt Engineers
    • Support tools
      • Democratizing the toolset

    25:00 What’s the on-ramp for small businesses

    • Set up internally
    • Create solid prompts
    • Do the simple stuff first
    • Ease into the technology
      • Understand how it works
      • Understand limitations
    • Use an AI model to analyze CRM data
      • Help with sales forecasts
      • Analyzing the sales funnel
    • Use built-in tools
    • Not every business needs a custom model

    30:00 What’s a good starting point

    • Fund IT for AI APIs
    • Consume available tools
    • Employ a paid version of ChatGPT4
    • Monitor billing
    • API provides additional freedom

    35:00 What about the hardware

    • Workstations with GPUs
    • Keep GPUs busy
    • Parallelize
    • Rack space consideration
    • Liquid or Air cooled
    • TBs of storage
    • GPUs take slots that might have been used for storage
    • How much power can a rack support

    40:00 Dell’s latest CPU servers

    • Fast, shared storage
    • Software
    • SSDs
      • E1.S
    • Inferencing cards
    • Ultra-high-speed servers and workstations

    45:00 Where cloud can benefit AI

    • OVH
    • Cloud is a valuable resource
    • Hourly billing

    50:00 Wrap-up

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    Podcast #121: Simplifying Data Protection with an Integrated Appliance Jun 14, 2023

    We recently spent some time with the Dell PowerProtect Appliance, posting an in-depth review that illustrates the operational simplicity often overlooked when securing mission-critical data. Dell put a lot of thought into ensuring simplicity in the setup, configuration, and management of the PowerProtect Appliance. The intuitive interface walks a user through the entire process, from installation to data protection.

    We recently spent some time with the Dell PowerProtect Appliance, posting an in-depth review that illustrates the operational simplicity often overlooked when securing mission-critical data. Dell put a lot of thought into ensuring simplicity in the setup, configuration, and management of the PowerProtect Appliance. The intuitive interface walks a user through the entire process, from installation to data protection.

    Brian went to Hopkinson to get an up-close introduction to the new PowerProtect Appliance and was duly impressed with the design and the software that powers the appliance. As a follow-up, Brian invited David Noy, the Vice President of Product Management at Dell Technologies, to join him for a podcast and find out what went into the design and where the product is headed in the future. The discussion gives us a better understanding of this seamlessly integrated appliance that can be up and running in just 15 minutes, ensuring data protection from the start.

    David has been with Dell Technologies since 2021, but this was an encore, having worked with Dell EMC between 2012 and 2017. His background covers data protection and storage, so this was a perfect fit. David spent time with Cohesity and Veritas in a previous life, and before rejoining Dell, he was the Vice President of Product Management At VAST Data. A solid history working with data storage and securing that data.

    Securing data is a critical topic, and this podcast covers topics that help Dell stay at the top of its game. Give it a listen, but if you don’t have time to listen to the whole thing, check the timestamps below to jump to the topics that interest you.

    00:00 Introduction

    • Product background
      • Hardware
      • Software
    • PDM -PowerProtect Data Manager
    • Protect Data Domain
    • Virtualization, cloud, containers

    05:00 Reducing cloud backups

    • Storing images for security
    • Ability to scale
    • IDPA
    • Steps to a fully integrated solution
    • Keeping it simple

    10:00 Consolidating functions

    • The litmus test to determine ease of use
    • Consistent results in getting PowerProtect up and running
    • Our interaction with PowerProtect Appliance
    • Disparate teams working together
    • Hardware descriptions
      • Built on PowerEdge Server
      • Future proof
    • Penetration testing

    15:00 Cybersecurity

    • Integration with the cyber stack
    • Snapshots
    • Speed of backup and restore
    • Easier licensing model
    • Planned growth
    • Built to be containerized
    • Product focus
    • Expanding enterprise markets

    20:00 What customers ask for

    • Targeting backup between 200-800 TB
    • Maybe up to a petabyte
    • Five PB versus five one PB backup
    • Cloud protection
    • Cyber protection vault
    • Driving cloud consumption
    • Ability to tier and replicate
    • AI and retail
    • Use case for internal cloud

    25:00 Kubernetes integration

    • Next-generation data protection
    • NAS
    • Adding support for Hadoop
    • Workload support
    • On-prem vs. public cloud
    • Cloud Snapshot manager

    30:00 Unifying management on a single product

    • Multicloud strategy
    • Protecting multi-availability zones, multiple regions
    • Make a plan and test it

    35:00 Create and test the playbook

    • Integration with other Dell products
    • Better Together story
    • Giving customers choices

    40:00 Data Mobility

    • How to orchestrate mobility
    • Simple, secure, modern, resilient
    • The importance of resilience
    • How to get hands-on

    45:00 Conclusion

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    Podcast #120: Seagate Exos CORVAULT May 30, 2023

    Recently, Brian took a trip to Longmont, Colorado, to look at the Seagate Exos CORVAULT, a high-density storage platform five years in the making! We followed up his visit by posting a deep dive into the CORVAULT, looking at everything from unboxing to setup and highlighting the many features associated with this technology.

    Recently, Brian took a trip to Longmont, Colorado, to look at the Seagate Exos CORVAULT, a high-density storage platform five years in the making! We followed up his visit by posting a deep dive into the CORVAULT, looking at everything from unboxing to setup and highlighting the many features associated with this technology.

    Brian’s guest on this show is Erik Salo, Seagate’s vice president of product and business marketing. Erik has been with Seagate for over ten years and has had his hands on everything from distribution, storage, and cloud-edge technology. With that kind of background, Erik was the perfect choice to get some background on this new storage platform.

    The concept for CORVAULT was hatched during a meeting, thinking about all the sophisticated and innovative technology used in building Seagate products. Erik believed that, instead of thinking of storage in single 3.5-inch increments, it might be time to think in terms of hundreds of those 3.5-inch products in a high-density platform. The discussion moved to cloud storage, and the numbers just kept growing.

    This is a podcast with plenty of detail about what goes into creating a product like CORVAULT. It is certainly worth a view, but if you need just to hit some highlights, the video is transcribed below.

    00:00 Introduction (recorded on-site in Longmont, CO)

    • CORVAULT background
    • Think about storage differently
    • How to manage those disks
    • Focus
    • Erasure encoding
    • Failure management

    05:00 Dramatic changes in scale

    • Server overhead
    • Server management
    • Inefficiency when making all products the same
    • Built for resiliency
    • Costs
    • Erik’s history in replacing drives
    • Smart drives

    10:00 Smart drives know

    • Servers are smart enough to know what capacity remains
    • Self-resilient systems
    • Who makes up the customer population
      • Enterprise
      • Cloud
    • Staying focused
    • How do customers decide on storage technology
      • What do they want to do
      • How do they want to do it
      • How much will it cost
      • What hardware is available

    15:00 Building out infrastructures in the lab

    • Focus on core competence
    • How software uses storage
    • Deciding what goes into a system
    • Keep it simple
    • Use cases for specific products
    • What if a customer doesn’t need 106 drives
    • A smaller unit with all the same features

    20:00 Bigger, Bigger, Bigger

    • From floppies to Terabytes
    • How much of the data is useful
    • Surveillance videos
    • Sophistication

    25:00 Helping customer figure out what’s next

    • Seagate is an adopter of all the technology
      • AI
      • High volume manufacturer
      • Components are still hard to get
    • Companies stopped ordering during COVID
    • Seagate has a long-term view

    30:00 How to get customers interested

    • Three step process
      • Reference ArchitectureWhat about flash
      • Provide demo unit
    • Performance of CORVAULT
    • What is the system tuned for
    • What about flash
    • Managing supply chain

    35:00 Conclusion

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    Podcast #119: New HPE GreenLake File, Block and Data Protection Offerings Apr 11, 2023

    Brian flew down to Houston to attend HPE GreenLake Day for Storage, where he caught up with Patrick Osborne, amongst many others, to gain insight into new HPE GreenLake solutions. Patrick has been with Hewlett Packard Enterprise for over 13 years with a laser focus on storage technology, Cloud Infrastructure, and Big Data.

    Brian flew down to Houston to attend HPE GreenLake Day for Storage, where he caught up with Patrick Osborne, amongst many others, to gain insight into new HPE GreenLake solutions. Patrick has been with Hewlett Packard Enterprise for over 13 years with a laser focus on storage technology, Cloud Infrastructure, and Big Data.

    Patrick holds the SVP & GM position running the Cloud and Data Infrastructure Platforms business for HPE. Before this, Patrick was VP Storage Business Unit and, before that, VP & GM, Big Data, Analytics, and Scale-out- Platforms. Patrick describes himself as a technology and business leader focused on growth and scaling teams.

    In this podcast Brian and Patrick cover off on a lot of what’s new at HPE GreenLake like files services from VAST Data, new block storage options and even new data protection and replication offerings. The guys also get into what’s new with Alletra MP hardware, which underpins the new block and file services and how Alletra MP will impact HPE’s traditional SAN storage arrays in the near future.

    We timestamped this podcast to help you navigate the show.

    00:00 Introduction

    • GreenLake Day for Storage Intro
    • What’s new
    • GreenLake Cloud Platform
      • Block Storage
      • GreenLake for Block Storage
      • Features
      • New OS
      • Alletra MP

    05:00 Alletra MP

    • What’s in the Alletra MP Platform
    • Collect customer attributes
    • Assess data and plug it into the sizing model
    • Cloud physics
      • Review APIs
      • Deliver SLAs
      • RFPs are less focused on specs
    • Are workloads really that different between customers
    • Using the telemetry database
    • Storage teams are smaller

    10:00 Managing and protecting customer

    • Data Protection
      • IP protection
      • Government requirements
      • Data Sovereignty
    • Using Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS
    • New services
      • Web experiences
      • Mobile
    • Acquisition integration
    • GreenLake For File Storage
    • Partnering with VAST Data
      • Partnering with known vendors
      • Bespoke hardware
      • Making it easy for customers
      • Shipping in volume
      • Space is the new edge
    • Curated partnerships for GreenLake platform consumption

    14:00 HPE Partnerships

    • Open ecosystem
    • Partner friendly
    • Building the most modern partnerships for customers
    • File storage
    • Data services
    • Zerto
    • Protection for VMs
    • Ransomware

    18:00 Demos and Roadmaps

    • HPE release cadence
    • Waterfall release methodology
    • GreenLake Cloud Platform
      • releases can happen more often
    • Continuous delivery of improvement

    25:00 Shift in investments

    • CapEx vs. OpEx
    • Flexibility

    29:00 Wrap Up

    • That’s a wrap

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    Podcast #118: Going Deep on Microsoft Azure Arc, Cloud, Managed SQL, AVD, HCI and More! Mar 28, 2023

    Brian invited Ernie Costa to join him for this podcast. Ernie is a Team Lead at Commvault and a Microsoft Azure Hybrid MVP (Most Valuable Professional). Ernie’s LinkedIn profile lists his background as a Systems Administrator, Engineer, and Architect with 20 years of Enterprise, SMB, Financial, Hospitality, and Educational experience.

    Brian invited Ernie Costa to join him for this podcast. Ernie is a Team Lead at Commvault and a Microsoft Azure Hybrid MVP (Most Valuable Professional). Ernie’s LinkedIn profile lists his background as a Systems Administrator, Engineer, and Architect with 20 years of Enterprise, SMB, Financial, Hospitality, and Educational experience.

    He was involved with data center operations, on-premises and cloud infrastructure design and implementation, networking architecting, project management, vendor contract negotiations, and multi-tier Help Desk procedures. Ernie knows his way around the data center and the cloud.

    As mentioned above, Ernie is also a Microsoft MVP. To put the MVP title into context, Microsoft describes the “award” this way:

    “Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the “bleeding edge” and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products, and solutions to solve real-world problems. MVPs make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries/regions and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and quest for knowledge. Above all, and in addition to their amazing technical abilities, MVPs are always willing to help others – that’s what sets them apart.”

    Taking advantage of Ernie’s MVP Award, their conversation gets into Microsoft Azure Arc, Managed SQL Server, HCI Stack, and more.

    Podcast #87: What’s Next for Azure Stack HCI with Cosmos Darwin?

    Podcast #119 timestamp:

    00 Introduction

    • Background
      • Current role with Commvault
      • Microsoft consumption
        • Azure
        • Hyper-V
        • Azure Stack HCI

    05 Hypervisor and HCI

    • Why Hyper-V?
    • On-prem HCI
    • Reasons for HCI from an internal perspective

    10 Hybrid model

    • Folding all Azure Cloud features into an on-prem HCI
    • Governance and Security
    • Azure Arc
    • What is Arc
      • Branding term
      • A suite of cloud-connected technologies
      • Management

    15 Virtual Appliance

      • SQL Server deployment
      • SQL on Linux
      • Everything gets handled for you
      • It’s less worry about
      • Containerization

    20 Server Names

      • Naming conventions
      • Operational benefits
      • Test environments
      • Manual vs. Automation

    25 Azure Stack vs. Azure Cloud

    • Similarities
    • On-prem vs. cloud management
    • Kubernetes tools
    • Arc delivers all the visibility

    30 Costs

    • It costs to have it cloud easy
    • Azure Stack HCI is cost-effective and fast
    • Early support was spotty
    • Support today is better

    35 Other services

    • AVD – Azure Virtual Desktop on HCI
    • Thin Clients
    • Security
    • Corporate espionage
    • Data exfiltration

    40 Dispersed Workforce

    • Global workforces
    • Data Gravity
    • On-premise virtual desktops
    • GPU Partitioning

    45 Azure Stack HCI update cadence

    • Management
    • Microsoft remote support through Azure
    • Network desired state
    • How to experience Azure Arc
    • Azure Arc Jumpstart

    50 Sandbox

    • SQL Server Managed Instance
    • Powershell
    • That’s a wrap

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    Podcast#117: Fibre Channel Still Tops for Virtualization Mar 14, 2023

    Brian invited his friend Nishant Lodha, Marvell’s Director of Emerging Technologies to sit for the podcast. Nishant has been with Marvell for over 13 years. His key responsibilities include subject matter expert, technology evangelist, driving growth in emerging markets, competitive analysis, product positioning, outbound marketing, and hands-on technology analysis.

    Nishant has worked with StorageReview on several topics, most recently on Innovation and Reliability Make Fibre Channel the Choice for Data Center SANs. Nishant strongly believes that Fibre Channel is the best solution for SAN deployment, and he is not alone. Look to other vendors, and they will echo his thoughts (although maybe not as loudly).

    This is an excellent discussion about SAN technology, where it is, and where it is going. It is worth the 45 minutes, but the time stamp is below if you need to jump around in the video.

    00:00 Introduction

    • Candid introduction
    • VMware vSphere integration
    • Bringing the data center on-prem
    • Operational simplicity and reliability

    05:00 It just works because of the engineering effort

    • Fibre Channel versus the “new things”
      • NVMe
      • NVMe over Fabrics
      • ESXi support
      • Adoption

    10:00 Deployment cycle

    • Currently, a small number of adopters for NVMe over fabrics
    • How to be successful with NVMe
    • The hardware is pretty solid
    • The software is taking longer
      • critical features are lacking
      • ESXi 8 should be the driving factor

    15:00 What about DPUs

    • How will it transform the industry
    • Used as networking/accelerators
    • VMware bringing DPUs on-prem
    • Storage applications are typically mission-critical
    • DPUs are proven for networking
    • DPUs could offload storage processing
    • CXL timeframe

    20:00 CXL potential

    • CXL opportunity
    • How do technologies impact engineering
    • How server vendors prioritize technology
    • How lanes are utilized

    27:00 CPU Interactions

    • Cooling
    • Green initiatives
    • Visibility into energy consumption

    30:00 Economics

    • Energy consumption
    • Management and visualization
    • vVols
    • Loss of visibility
    • Challenges with monitoring external applications
    • Troubleshooting challenges
    • VM-ID

    35:00 More on VM-ID

    • Worldwide unique IDs
    • Using the data to determine the impact
    • Future of performance capabilities
    • Speed discussion
    • 64G FC arrays

    40:00 Performance dynamics

    • Migrations with FC
      • Congestion issues
      • Drivers for increased speeds
      • Intelligent and value-driven
      • What’s at the edge
    • Infrastructure is stretched
    • Retrain the workforce

    46:00 Edge challenges

    • Unmanaged/unmanned
    • We need to add more storage at the edge
    • Higher performance at the edge
    • Cost
    • Making devices autonomous
    • Vendor direction

    50:00 Wrap up

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    Podcast #116: Delete those files! Feb 22, 2023

    Brian tackles the concept of data deletion on this podcast and why it is essential. Brian’s guest is Dr. Vincent Berk, Chief Strategy Officer at Quantum Xchange.

    Brian tackles the concept of data deletion on this podcast and why it is essential. Brian’s guest is Dr. Vincent Berk, Chief Strategy Officer at Quantum Xchange.

    Dr. Berk has a Ph.D. in AI/ML and describes himself as an “energetic technologist, entrepreneur, and animated thought leader in cyber security, driving growth through innovative SaaS solutions. He was the founder and CEO of FlowTraq, a cyber security company that Riverbed acquired.” Dr. Berk is also a blogger, public speaker, and startup advisor. Before his current role, he was a computer science faculty member at Dartmouth College. He urged boards and executives to start viewing their hoarded data as a liability rather than a ticket to incredible growth. He stressed the importance of instituting policies that dealt with data destruction.

    Why do we covet our data so passionately? According to Dr. Berk, the affordability, low maintenance, and ease of use of the cloud mean that organizations have an increasing tendency to hoard data. He asserts that this hoarded data is a corporate liability, a detriment to organizations that increases their appeal to bad actors. For example, from December 2022 through February 8, 2023, there have been nine data breach incidents. The unlucky targets included MailChimp, T-Mobile, JD Sports, and others. The Roomba data breach included leaked images from iRobot customers. Check your smart vacuum.

    Brian wastes no time jumping right into the discussion by asking Dr. Berk how he got into the notion of people deleting data. It’s an interesting topic that gets overlooked. If you don’t have time to listen all the way through, the time stamps are listed below.

    00:00 Intro (Jumping right into the topic)

    • Why the interest in data deletion
    • Risk profile
    • Why keep all that data
    • Inexpensive to store
    • Risk vs. Liability

    05:00 Point of diminishing returns

    • It depends on what you will do with the data
    • Examples of value
      • Medication
      • Social Media
    • Finding a way to use the data
    • Risk profile
    • Is the value higher for older or current data
    • Purpose

    10:00 Good hygiene for data

    • Encrypt
    • The cost of keeping data
    • Reasons to keep the data
    • Violation
    • Remediation

    15:00 It’s hard

    • Data is stored everywhere now
      • files
      • databases
      • cloud
      • wire
    • Who is responsible
    • Risk justification
    • Where to start
    • Legal Ramifications

    20:00 What are the processes

    • Encrypt or destroy
    • Long-term costs
    • Green initiatives

    25:00 Philosophical

    • Should the Internet “forget” data
    • Leaving the decision to the social media companies
    • Clicking the “I agree” box without reading the content

    30:00 What happens when companies get acquired

    • Risk to backups
    • Bad actors go for the backups
    • Is it necessary to backup
      • What do cloud service providers say?
    • Cloud is just different
    • Encrypt
      • who has access to the keys
    • What data does need to be kept
      • orphaned data

    35:00 Is there an easy button

    • Externalized cost of the benefit of the computing industry
    • Drawbacks
    • Losing data is the exception
    • What happens to the data during troubleshooting
    • What happens to the data when someone leaves the organization
    • The industry doesn’t have this discussion

    40:00 Shared docs

    • File sizes
    • Number of files shared
    • Docs that get shared over and over
    • What is the liability of the data
    • Should SAS companies create a best practices

    45:00 Wrap-up

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    Podcast #115: Is Computational Storage Just a Fancy Name for Storage? Jan 31, 2023

    Brian sat down with ScaleFlux’s JB Baker for an interesting discussion about computational storage and the impact ScaleFlux has had on the industry. StorageReview has covered ScaleFlux news for several releases, most recently in early January. Check out the review on the CSD 3000 SSD for some background.

    Brian sat down with ScaleFlux’s JB Baker for an interesting discussion about computational storage and the impact ScaleFlux has had on the industry. StorageReview has covered ScaleFlux news for several releases, most recently in early January. Check out the review on the CSD 3000 SSD for some background.

    Before getting too far into the podcast, computational storage integrates computing resources in the storage itself instead of relying on the host system’s computing resources.

    JB is a storage veteran, having worked with Intel, LSI, and Seagate prior to joining ScaleFlux as Sr Director of Product Management. He was recently promoted to VP of Marketing, “helping users efficiently scale data processing, storage, and management.”

    It is a candid and relaxed conversation that starts with the evolution of computational storage. JB is not necessarily a fan of the term and explains why early on in the podcast. It’s a fairly short podcast and well worth the time. Watch or listen to the conversation or you can skip around by using the timestamp below. Enjoy.

    00:00 Introduction

    • What is computational storage
    • How is it used
    • How did it evolve
    • Where does the technology fit
    • Why does JB hate the term

    05:30 Computational Storage Participants

    • Product evolution
    • Product functional requirements
    • Making the drive simple to integrate
    • Plug and Play
    • Functionality

    11:30 Technology

    • Compression
    • Scaling
    • Value Prop
    • Data reduction

    16:30 Gen4 Performance

    • How ScaleFlux meets the performance numbers
    • How do customers scale
    • Use cases
    • Array discussion

    21:00 DPU Technology

    • Where do customers allocate compute
    • Creating a rich feature set
    • FPGA pitfalls for size

    25:00 Form factors

    • E1.S
    • Costs and pricing
    • Price vs. performance
    • Premium performance drive
    • Reducing energy consumption
    • Visualizing the benefits

    31:00 Wrap-up

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    Podcast #114: Dell Alpine Delivered – PowerFlex on AWS Dec 20, 2022

    Brian recently caught up with Dell’s Michael Richtberg to get the latest on PowerFlexOS and dive into what’s on the roadmap for Storage Products from the Advanced Innovations team.

    Brian recently caught up with Dell’s Michael Richtberg to get the latest on PowerFlexOS and dive into what’s on the roadmap for Storage Products from the Advanced Innovations team.

    Dell EMC PowerFlex SDS

    Michael has been a strategist for many years helping technology companies develop the next great “thing.” His specialty is product management, product marketing, M&A, and innovation discovery. Prior to joining Dell EMC in 2014, Michael spent his time working with organizations focused on storage, cloud services, and HCI with an eye on Software-Defined Storage.

    StorageReview.com has spent a lot of time with Dell storage platforms and most recently covered the introduction of adding PowerFlex to AWS Marketplace. It’s easy to see Michael’s “fingerprints” all over that achievement.

    Michael provides a great description of how the cloud model works for PowerFlex on AWS MarketPlace with real-world examples. If you have time to listen to the full 40 minutes, you will not be disappointed. However, we have broken down the Podcast into five-minute segments to help you get to the topics that are of interest to you.

    00:00 Introduction

    • PowerFlex and Software-Defined Storage
    • Cloud-enabled
    • ScaleIO
    • PowerEdge

    05:00 Cloud Storage

    • How does Dell collect and aggregate storage in the cloud
    • Creating high-capacity storage
    • Deploying across availability zones (AZ)
    • BC/DR across regions
    • Rebuilding systems in the cloud

    10:00 More on multi-AZs

    • On-prem infrastructure requirements
    • Multi-rack deployment
    • Where does PowerFlex fit in the portfolio
      • PowerStore
      • PowerMax
      • PowerFlex
      • Engineering solutions

    15:00 PowerFlex vs PowerScale

    • Differences
    • Building the system
    • Scalable
    • How is early adoption on AWS Marketplace
    • How customers are using cloud and on-prem

    21:00 Running on AWS

    • How does it compare
    • Compliments AWS service
    • On-prem customer vs AWS customer

    25:00 Is there an Edge play?

    • Starting small
    • Growth design
    • Use cases
    • Oriented to mission-critical applications

    30:00 Product design

    • Scale-out
    • Performance and cost savings
    • Efficiency
    • Address the entire stack
    • Cloud vs on-prem
      • Everything is the same

    35:00 How updates work

    • Automating the process
    • Alpine
      • Simplify delivery
      • Expansion
        • Geos-other clouds

    40:00 How do customers get there from here?

    • The easiest path to get there
    • Based on workloads
    • Qualified sales experts to guide the customer
    • Wrap up

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    Podcast #113: Dell PowerScale and the Impact of QLC SSDs Oct 18, 2022

    Brian connects with Dell’s Product Management VP, David Noy for this week’s podcast. David has a varied background but focuses on software-defined technology, scale-out storage, hyperconverged compute platforms, and data center and cloud virtualization.

    Brian connects with Dell’s Product Management VP, David Noy for this week’s podcast. David has a varied background but focuses on software-defined technology, scale-out storage, hyperconverged compute platforms, and data center and cloud virtualization.

    If you think back to Dell Technologies World, there were a number of announcements around software-defined and as-a-service options relating to storage and, more specifically, PowerScale. Dell believes the PowerScale is the most flexible and secure scale-out NAS solution on the market. Brian asks some pointed questions about Dell’s as-a-service consumption models as well as SSD partners.

    It is an interesting conversation with specifics on Dell tests for SSD endurance and reliability. Dell uses the test results to determine how long the SSDs remain under warranty. David also discusses server densities and how that affects overall TCO. Overall this is a great primer for any PowerScale customer considering the new QLC SSD offering from Dell.

    This is an interesting discussion about storage technology and the server market. It is definitely worth the time, but if you want to jump straight into a topic, the timestamps are below.

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    00:00 Introduction

    • David’s responsibilities with Dell Technologies
    • A short recap of Dell Tech World
    • PowerScale as-a-Service
    • Software-Defined OneFS

    05:00 Cloud Delivery

    • Steps to get to Cloud Delivery
    • OneFS
    • Abstract from hardware
    • Feature Parity
    • QLC adoption
    • How drives are used

    10:00 QLC Drive Capacities

    • Densities
    • Quality and Endurance
    • Write performance
    • Read performance

    15:00 Bigger capacities are always preferred

    • Density rules
    • Datasets are expanding
    • What will Dell do to increase densities
    • Jamming more drives in servers
    • Tuning performance
    • Customer pushback

    20:00 Multi-Source

    • Solidigm
    • Whatever the customer seeks
    • Spreading the data load

    25:00 Endurance

    • Dell’s tests to ensure endurance
    • Drive performance with workloads
    • Software alerts on drive performance
    • Security
    • Cyber Protection

    30:00 Backup products

    • Takes the right product
    • focus on user behavior
    • Protecction alternatives
    • PowerScale Solution

    35:00 Data Security Ownership

    • Driven by CISO
    • Repercussions
    • Can Solution scale across product line

    40:00 It’s an Antivirus World

    • What will get backed up?
    • Alpine
    • Alternatives to spin off data
    • Agility

    45:00 Dell’s supply chain

    • Agility is critical
    • Wrap-up

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    Podcast #112: Why HDDs Aren’t Going Away Oct 05, 2022

    Brian catches up with Broadcom’s Rick Kutcipal for this session. Rick is a Product Planner in the Data Center Solutions Group (DCSG) at Broadcom and focuses on storage technology, interfaces, and innovations in that sector. Primarily, Rick is interested in the HDD space and the innovations occurring around that technology.

    Brian catches up with Broadcom’s Rick Kutcipal for this session. Rick is a Product Planner in the Data Center Solutions Group (DCSG) at Broadcom and focuses on storage technology, interfaces, and innovations in that sector. Primarily, Rick is interested in the HDD space and the innovations occurring around that technology.

    Rick has been with Broadcom since 2014 and spent 14 years with LSI. He is highly regarded in the industry and interested in innovations in all storage sectors.

    This podcast covers everything from HDD to SSD to CXL with relevant sidebars. This is an excellent topic if you are interested in where the industry is heading and how Broadcom expects it to shape.

    It’s worth viewing the entire podcast, but if you are short of time or have a specific interest, look at the timestamps below.

    00:00 Introduction

    • General overview of Broadcom
    • Rick is in the Data Center Solutions Group
      • Products in the DCSG
    • Future focus for Rick’s group
      • Visibility into HDD space
      • Flash is important, but HDD is relevant
      • Still a need for rotational media in hyperscale systems

    05:00 OCP Show discussion

    • Interfaces
      • SAS & SATA
      • NVMe HDDs
      • Multi-actuator
      • Power to the drive is important

    12:00 Dual-actuator in the enterprise

    • Form Factors
      • Other forms and form factors
      • Easy with SSDs
      • Challenging for round form factors
      • More platters

    15:00 Hyperscalers

    • SMR drives
    • Sounds good but comes at a cost
    • Better if the user owns the OS and Applications
    • Advancements are necessary to continue to evolve capacities
    • Small innovative steps
    • Hammer

    20:00 QLC Flash Drives

    • The software can change the game
      • Dedupe
    • Cost for warm storage
    • Complications associated with QLC
    • Find a technology, pick it!
    • View on accelerators and drive management

    25:00 Love to see innovation in the space

    • Thinking about the end game
    • Some pieces of the technology will make it into mainstream
    • New thought leadership in these areas
    • What does Broadcom have to do to remain relevant
      • RAID architecture
      • Using different architecture
    • Actively innovating in the space
    • Data protection

    30:00 DPUs

    • Broadcom is watching the technology closely
    • Based on the business model
    • CXL business impact
      • Hot topic
      • Emerging technology
    • Networking and fabric
      • Ethernet NICs
      • Faster speeds

    33:00 Wrap-up

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    Podcast #111: HPE GreenLake Deep Dive Sep 23, 2022

    This week Brian takes us on an HPE GreenLake deep dive with Omer Asad. Omer is SVP & GM of the $1.4 Billion Data Storage, Data Services SaaS, and HyperConverged business at HPE Storage and is responsible for Engineering, Product Management, and Operations for all Data and SaaS services in Storage and Data Infrastructure platforms.

    This week Brian takes us on an HPE GreenLake deep dive with Omer Asad. Omer is SVP & GM of the $1.4 Billion Data Storage, Data Services SaaS, and HyperConverged business at HPE Storage and is responsible for Engineering, Product Management, and Operations for all Data and SaaS services in Storage and Data Infrastructure platforms.

    A key component of GreenLake is the Alletra product portfolio. HPE Alletra delivers agility and simplicity for every application from edge to cloud and can be provided as a service, or a fully managed turnkey offering, all with the right mix of subscription and usage-based services. Recently, we ran a piece on the Alletra 5000, the latest in the Alletra portfolio.

    Prior to becoming a member of the HPE Storage team, Omer was SVP & GM at Nimble Storage, acquired by HPE in 2017. Omer has also led teams at Pure Storage and Riverbed Technology. To say he has a deep technical understanding of customer challenges would be an understatement. In addition to storage, Omer is well versed in cloud and edge solutions.

    More on HPE GreenLake from the June launch.

    00:00 Introduction

    • Recap around HPE Discover
    • GreenLake service introduction
    • HPE as-a-Service meaning
    • Differentiation

    04:40 What is GreenLake?

    • Cloud consumption and operation model
    • What does a typical customer look like?
    • Move to Hyperscalers

    10:00 Advantages and simplicity

    • Public cloud vs. as-a-Service
    • Rate card attributes
    • Keep the rates simple

    17:00 GreenLake overprovisioning for growth

    • Determining how much hardware to deliver
    • Importance of Infosight
    • Sizing is performed through Infosight data simulation

    25:00 Physical vs. the planning

    • The timeframe from planning and worksheets to delivery
    • Determined by the subscriptions
    • How the hardware gets delivered
    • Turning up the service

    30:00 Provisioned before it gets there

    • Fleet service
    • Lifecycle environment
    • Maintenance
    • HPE maintains a state machine for every customer environment
    • IT can do important work when subscribing to GreenLake

    36:00 Customer owns the consoles

    • Allowing HPE support to maintain and support
    • What is the size of GreenLake
    • Built for all customers
    • Affordability – Rate Cards are available on partner sites

    40:00 How does GreenLake fit the retail market

    • Home Depot is a reference model
    • Retail is a perfect fit
    • Aruba is a crucial part of edge locations
    • A rack can be built for most environments

    45:00 Unexpected benefits of GreenLake

    • Simplicity for operations and procurement
    • Innovations for GreenLake
    • Application frameworks

    51:00 Wrap Technology – cloud and edge

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    Podcast #110: The Rising Importance of Storage Accelerator Cards Sep 07, 2022

    For this podcast, Brian connected with Pliops Global VP of Products and Marketing, Tony Afshary. Brian has known Tony for a long time, so this is an effortless conversation with great insight into Pliops, accelerator card technologies, what is driving the market, and what the future might hold.

    For this podcast, Brian connected with Pliops Global VP of Products and Marketing, Tony Afshary. Brian has known Tony for a long time, so this is an effortless conversation with great insight into Pliops, accelerator card technologies, what is driving the market, and what the future might hold.

    Tony has been in the storage and accelerator technology sector for many years, working for companies like Intel, LSI, and Seagate before joining Pliops.

    StorageReview did a detailed, in-depth review on the Pliops XDP recently and found it easy to install and use. The performance numbers were solid. Even giving Software RAID all the benefits available, the Pliops XDP far exceeded expectations based on real-world results.

    There is a lot of information in this podcast, focusing on a hot product set. Certainly worth a listen.

    00.00 Introduction

    • What the next generation of accelerator cards can do for computing and challenges
    • What problems are Pliops and their competitors trying to solve
    • The gap between what the CPU and Software can do
    • Bottlenecks when accessing NVMe drives
    • The need to offload tasks from CPU to accelerators

    05.00 Evolution from RAID cards to Accelerators

    • RAID card design
    • Storage drive technology created the need for new architecture
    • Discussion around Pliops hardware – visual
    • How the Pliops hardware works
    • Design
    • Key Value APIs

    11.00 Data Flow

    • How blocks flow through the card
    • What happens before data is written to SSD
    • Why Pliops is so effective and efficient

    15.00 Dense NAND technology

    • Pliops design
      • works with any vendor
      • the bigger the drive, the better
      • the cheaper the drive, the better
      • customer hesitation in going to larger drives
      • Things to avoid with NAND

    20:00 SR Tests with Pliops and Solidigm drives

    • Simple to install
    • Comparison between RAID5 and RAID0
    • Results
    • Why the need for a new ASIC?
    • Cost, density, and geometry are positive with ASIC
    • Flexibility
    • What’s with the Lane?

    25.00 More about Lanes

    • Lanes make a difference in performance
    • Managing fan-outs on a system
    • Form factor impact
    • CXL 2 v 3

    30.00 AMD v Intel

    • Both are okay with Pliops
    • Interest in ARM technology
    • No data on when applications will run on ARM

    35.00 VMware support

    • Orchestration and containers are the requirements
    • Virtualized environments need support
    • How do prospects check out Pliops
      • access to Pliops lab
      • most are deploying drives in their environment
      • partnering with phoenixnap

    40.00 Wrap up

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    Podcast #109: Direct-on-Chip Evaporative Liquid Cooling Aug 09, 2022

    There continues to be increasing interest in liquid cooling technology but also trepidation in the unlikely event of some sort of leak or spill. Enter ZutaCore HyperCool2 direct-on-chip Enhanced Nucleation Evaporator (ENE), a single, closed-loop two-phase, waterless liquid cooling solution that yields unparalleled heat dissipation at the chip level.

    There continues to be increasing interest in liquid cooling technology but also trepidation in the unlikely event of some sort of leak or spill. Enter ZutaCore HyperCool2 direct-on-chip Enhanced Nucleation Evaporator (ENE), a single, closed-loop two-phase, waterless liquid cooling solution that yields unparalleled heat dissipation at the chip level.

    Brian invited Udi Paret, ZutaCore’s President, to discuss the technology around this new waterless liquid cooling system and how the data center mindset is changing with more movement to alternative cooling technologies. The benefits of liquid cooling systems are hard to ignore.

    The ZutaCore HyperCool2 technology is revolutionizing the market by alleviating cooling boundaries at the chip level, server, rack, POD, and data center levels. Unlike water-based solutions that carry the risk of IT meltdown, HyperCool2 leverages a safe, non-conductive, refrigerant. It is a complete hardware system, enhanced by a software-defined-cooling platform resulting in a low-pressure system that triples computing densities on a fraction of the footprint.

    Udi considers himself a strategic and operating executive with a demonstrated international history of success, leading Fortune 500 divisions and Venture Capital start-ups across a wide spectrum of industries like IP networking, data storage, and data center management in the enterprise, System Integrator, and renewable energy domains.

    Prior to taking the helm with ZutaCore in 2019, Udi was engaged with the company as an advisor from 20017 through 2019. Udi continues to perform duties as an Adviser with Next Energy Technologies, a role he has held since 2014. Next has developed proprietary organic semiconducting materials — Soluble Small Molecule Organic Photovoltaic (SSM-OPV) — that are earth-abundant, low cost, and non-toxic.

    Udi brings a lot of data center and cooling technology knowledge to this podcast. He also recognizes the need for companies to get up to speed on energy efficiencies and power management in small to massive data centers. This is a technology that will gain traction, so give this a listen.

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    Show notes

    00:00 Introduction

    • A quick intro to cooling liquid v air
    • Perfect storm
    • Accelerators driving thermal challenges
    • Reaction from Dell Technologies World
    • Brian runs through the solutions available

    05:00 Where ZutaCore fits

    • Overview of implementation
    • Much like single-phase
    • The difference is the liquid
    • Visual of plate
    • Delivery mechanism is fundamentally different

    10:00 Comparisons

    • Walk through the functions of the vapor and liquid pipes
    • Available solutions from small in a rack, to end-of-row
    • Using gravity to move liquid

    15:00 Keeping it cool

    • How ZutaCore keeps the solution so small and compact
    • Energy efficient
    • Steps to swap normal heat sink with ZutaCore
    • Going beyond CPUs
    • What is the go to market for ZutaCore
    • Developing ecosystem including large SIs

    20:00 Talking about the loop

    • Scary concerns
      • What happens if there is a leak?
      • System designed to be leakage-free
      • Should a tube get cut, the system would be shut down for that tube
      • ZutaCore eliminates the need to add alternative safety mechanisms
      • Easy to install with flexible tubing

    25:00 System maintenance

    • Not typical for liquid to need topped up
    • Because it is closed loop and the make up of the liquid keeps it in tact
    • Disposing of the heat
      • Choices are determined by environment
      • Heat injection units

    30:00 Data Center envelopes

    • ZutaCore can be integrated in existing air cooled data centers
    • Power efficiencies are a differentiator
    • Wide scope of solutions for different data center environments
    • Technology is driving alternative cooling options
    • Adoption for greener initiatives

    35:00 AI is driving hardware growth

    • To keep up with AI and ML server farms are growing
      • That means more power to push air or retrofit a liquid solution to cool the hardware
      • Providers must be able to deliver and service cooling solutions
    • ZutaCore serves the HPC, edge and SMB markets
    • All environments have a need for cooling
    • Edge deployments are prime environments for ZutaCore

    40:00 Mainstream vs. Hyper Scale markets

    • Brian talks about the SR lab and the challenges around cooling
    • ZutaCore’s simplicity makes it attractive to different groups
    • Eliminates forklift upgrades
    • No changes to processes

    45:00 Economics

    • There is an investment
      • More efficiences
      • Rationalize financials
    • CapEx and OpEx savings for near term and long term projects
    • Software Defined Cooling based on data collected within the data center

    50:00 Gathering data to make systems more energy efficient

    • ZutaCore sits on many endpoints to collect data
    • Helps to lower power and make systems more efficient
    • Control system to guarantee 70 degree of heat coming out
    • Huge benefit from both hardware and software
    • Collecting existing data will make turn around simple

    55:00 Wrap up

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    Podcast #108: HCI at the Edge Aug 02, 2022

    Brian invites Jeff Ready to talk about //Scale Computing and their HCI product and edge computing during this very informative podcast. StorageReview.com recently profiled //Scale Computing and created a short youtube video showing the steps to set up the //Scale Computing HCI cluster. Let’s say it works as advertised.

    Brian invites Jeff Ready to talk about //Scale Computing and their HCI product and edge computing during this very informative podcast. StorageReview.com recently profiled //Scale Computing and created a short youtube video showing the steps to set up the //Scale Computing HCI cluster. Let’s say it works as advertised.

    Jeff describes himself as “a high-tech executive with a passion for entrepreneurship.” He is the founder and CEO of //Scale Computing, delivering edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions. Jeff continues to lead after 15 years through multiple rounds of funding, explosive growth, and many industry changes.

    Jeff is passionate about entrepreneurship and startups in technology and non-tech ventures. To keep himself busy, he sits on the board of three companies and is chairman of the GEO Foundation, a non-profit organization that creates innovative schools across the country in the communities that will benefit the most. And he is co-founder of Centerpoint Brewing Company in Indianapolis.

    After watching this podcast, it will be evident that Jeff is passionate about //Scale Computing and technology. This is an interesting conversation, and Jeff is forthcoming on all the topics. The podcast will seem to fly by, but if you need to hop around, the timestamp is listed below.

    00:00 Introduction

    • Centerpoint Brewing Company
      • Jeff is Co-founder
      • Tech vs. Brewing
    • Who is //Scale Computing
      • Simplifying IT infrastructure
      • Jeff’s vision for the company
      • Create a system that can heal itself
      • Build a system as reliable as the AS400
      • Create a company as successful as IBM

    10:00 Categorize //Scale

    • How did Jeff communicate what //Scale did
      • The initial product was storage
      • Integrating open-source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) into the storage system
      • Why not run the applications on that system? And Hyperconvergence is born!
      • How //Scale coined the phrase Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
      • Differentiating from other vendors

    16:00 Disaggregation

    • Open source community
    • Getting into open source projects
    • Shifts in workloads
    • Open source projects are typically difficult to manage

    20:00 It should be easy to use

    • //Scale may not be the first to develop products because it needs to be wrapped into an easy-to-use system
    • The system needs to take care of itself
    • Everything is NOT going to the cloud – now we know that
    • One size fits all rarely happens

    25:00 Mid-Market focus

    • Sometimes the mid-market lags behind
    • Blue collar mentality in mid-market businesses
    • Making the most of available tools
    • What pieces go to the cloud and what stays on-premises
    • Point use cases that make sense to move to the cloud

    30:00 The abstraction

    • Use case example
      • Metalworks
      • LAN traffic
      • Industrial edge
      • How open source helps mid markets
        • Affordability
        • How did //Scale weather the storm?
        • //Scale was always different
          • The leading competitor was VMware
        • Keeping it simple

    39:00 //Scale messaging

    • It was complex selling into a VMware market
    • //Scale was successful because of the simplicity
    • Looking for Operating System alternatives
    • With the focus on edge, //Scale was the right solution

    44:00 Broadcom purchase of VMware

    • Companies will think about it more before signing a new contract
    • The purchase was not for R&D
    • How will VMware support the smaller customers
      • Using IBM as an example
      • MS came in with client/server and took the business
    • Customers might be nervous about renewing contracts
    • Support is vital to //Scale
      • Spending more on support than other companies
      • A real person answers the support line

    52:00 //Scale has a different approach

    • Apple would be jealous of //Scale’s customer base
    • //Scale is still an unknown to many
    • Customer fear of acquisition
    • //Scale has survived while larger competitors were bought up
    • Taking an active position in supporting the customer community

    1:00:00 How are customers using //Scale

    • Existing users will respond immediately when a question pops up in the community.
    • There is a sense of community
    • It works as advertised
    • The new edge use case is opening the door for //Scale

    1:06:00 Wrap-up

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    Podcast #107: Q and A From The Lab With Kevin OBrien Jul 26, 2022

    Brian invited Genius Lab Guy Kevin O’Brien to step out of his comfort zone and answer burning questions from the community and a few topics pulled from social media.

    Brian invited Genius Lab Guy Kevin O’Brien to step out of his comfort zone and answer burning questions from the community and a few topics pulled from social media.

    Kevin has been with StorageReview.com for over 11 years, with his first role as a Managing Editor, directing the Enterprise Test Lab and finding ways to test the next generation of storage devices in new and challenging ways. He would step out of the lab and put on his managing editor hat to review content for our site’s enterprise and consumer sections. After a couple of years in the managing editor role, Kevin moved to Lab director overseeing the day-to-day operations of the StorageReview.com Test Lab, building company relationships to grow lab resources, and researching new testing methodology to incorporate into reviews.

    In addition to running the lab, performing evaluations, developing test scenarios, and working with vendors, Kevin takes time to review some of the content for technical accuracy before it gets published.

    Kevin rarely goes one-on-one with Brian, so give this one a view.

    00:00 Introduction

    • Recap of vendors that have come through the lab

    02:00 Question #1

    • What is the best NAS?
      • Synology vs QNAP vs TrueNAS
      • A matter of trust
      • What works well with modern devices
    • Security gotchas
    • Features
    • Innovation

    11:00 Question #2

    • Caddies
      • Why do we need them
      • Cost
      • Smart designs

    14:00 Question #3

    • Advice on Networking
    • What’s with the fiber?
    • Cables
    • The environment will dictate cable selection

    17:00 Question #4

    • Lenovo P620
      • Why not build your own?
      • Fans on DRAM
      • Disadvantages to Build Your Own
      • System operating models

    20:00 Question #5

    • Dell ME5
      • Buy or build your own?
      • Costs
      • NVMe is ready for primetime
    • Storage at branch offices
      • The lower end of SMB
      • Pricing from big players vs. smaller vendors
      • HPE GreenLake
        • On-Premises vs. Cloud
    • If your costs are inching toward $10k-$15K, it might be time to look at enterprise kit

    28:00 Question #6

    • Why are there so many batteries in the office?
    • And why are there so many portable power station reviews on the site?
    • There are more systems
      • More interest from the community
      • Power grids are not as reliable
      • More reliance on portable energy
      • More use cases
        • Edge
        • Retail

    33:00 Wrap-up

    Let us know if you like this format, and we will do more in the future.

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    #106: AWS Snow Family Deep Dive Jul 12, 2022

    Brian calls on Wayne Duso, Vice President, AWS Storage, Edge, and Data Governance, to join him in this podcast and talk about data transfer and the power of the AWS “Snow” offerings. You might be amazed at the computational power, not just data transfer capabilities, that’s available within the Snow family.

    Brian calls on Wayne Duso, Vice President, AWS Storage, Edge, and Data Governance, to join him in this podcast and talk about data transfer and the power of the AWS “Snow” offerings. You might be amazed at the computational power, not just data transfer capabilities, that’s available within the Snow family.

    Wayne describes himself as a curious and articulate entrepreneur, investor, pioneer, builder, and leader who’s passionate about sponsoring rising-leaders, building teams, launching products, and growing businesses that deliver highly disruptive value for customers and benefit the communities I have the privilege of serving.

    As a long-time Amazon employee (he’s been there almost ten years) and AWS contributor, Wayne has a deep understanding of AWS products, especially where it concerns data movement and storage.

    Snowcone on the ISS

    AWS and Axiom Space are collaborating on developing a more efficient way to analyze data from Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) via AWS Snowcone SSD. AWS Snowcone is a small, rugged, and secure device offering edge computing, data storage, and data transfer on the go in an austere environment with little or no connectivity. Ax-1 is the first of several private space missions to ISS planned by Axiom Space, with the ultimate goal of building the first commercial space station.

    We ran an article in June that described the collaboration between Amazon and Axiom Space Remotely Operate AWS Snowcone on the International Space Station (ISS). We also have a video of the Snowcone setup on our Instagram page.

    More information on AWS Snow products can be found on AWS Snow Family.

    This is a very informative discussion with plenty of detail about AWS’s Snow products, Edge Data, and Data Transfer options. If you want to skip around, the timestamps are listed below.

    Timestamp

    00:00 Introduction

    • Discussion around Snow product
    • Edge computing
    • What problem was being addressed
    • The journey to move massive amounts of data
    • Created Snowball

    05:00 How it works

    • Customers wanted to process the data before transfer
    • Service evolved to collect and process data
    • Creation of Edge device
    • Data migration expectations

    10:00 Outposts and Snow

    • Outpost systems are intended to extend an AWS region
    • Snow is further out on the edge but connected to the Internet
    • Snow devices at top-secret sites
    • How that works with AWS and ingesting data
    • Economics

    15:00 Transforming business to Edge Compute

    • Payment structure
    • Supply and demand
    • All about logistics
    • Inventory management

    20:00 Filtering services

    • What is the process
    • Use signals from customers to aid in planning
    • Planning is done every year, and it changes every year
    • What applications are being built
    • How those applications are built
    • And use cases
    • Adding IoT and RDS to devices
    • Flexibility in design

    25:00 Hardware design principles

    • Hardware shared between service groups
    • Limit the number of part numbers
    • AWS is a holistic environment
    • Applications can be tested on a virtual machine
    • Can be run in-region

    30:00 Management

    • Monitoring
    • Reporting
    • Edge Console
    • Accessible via API
    • Snowmobile – aptly named?
    • Logistics for Snowmobile, Snowball, Snowcone

    35:00 How to connect Snowmobile to the datacenter

    • Simple explanation
    • Make it simple so there is no need for professional services
    • Lots of planning put in place
    • Axiom application in ISS
    • Moving photographs

    40:00 Running Snowcone on ISS

    • What did the ISS get
    • Nothing special
    • Same Snowcone as displayed on AWS with special tape wrapping
    • How the data is protected

    45:00 Security

    • RAID protection
    • AWS Datacenter
    • ISS Snowcone is still in space

    46:00 Wrap up

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    Podcast #105: Infrastructure Trends from Edge to Core Jul 05, 2022

    Storagereview.com has always had a strong relationship with Supermicro with engagements in hardware testing, integration, and multi-vendor environments. There seems to be a Supermicro server somewhere in the lab. Supermicro has been at the forefront of hardware and software development innovation.

    Storagereview.com has always had a strong relationship with Supermicro with engagements in hardware testing, integration, and multi-vendor environments. There seems to be a Supermicro server somewhere in the lab. Supermicro has been at the forefront of hardware and software development innovation.

    Supermicro SuperEdge nodes pulled out side view

    This week, Brian invited Supermicro’s Michael McNerney to discuss the company’s vision for the future and a look in the rearview mirror. Michael is Vice President of Marketing and Network Security with Supermicro, so he is well-positioned to discuss what Supermicro’s vision is for the future and how technology drives the development of data center servers and edge markets.

    The discussion on this podcast covers hardware and software, how it affects server design, private-cloud versus public-cloud, and what drives innovation. Michael brings his deep knowledge of the server environment and discusses Supermicro’s continued innovation path.

    The timestamp for each section is found below if you want to hop around.

    00:00 Introduction

    • Michael’s focus at Supermicro
    • Security is a primary focus
    • Supermicro is prioritizing internal and external security
    • Attack vectors

    05:00 Modernizing

    • Accelerating innovation
    • What is exciting to Supermicro
    • Hardware development is moving quickly
    • Trying to keep up with the enterprise requirements
    • Trying to arbitrate for our customers
    • Keeping up with innovations

    10:00 New form factors

    • Considerations for new hardware
    • Designs for new technology
    • Discussion around building blocks for design
    • Customers want to design around workloads

    15:00 Applications dictating system design

    • Optimizing infrastructure for customer workloads
    • Design goes all the way up the stack
    • Software-Defined market
    • What do they see in traditional architecture
    • Cloud vs. non-cloud, scale-out, architecture

    20:00 On-premise cloud architecture

    • Everything is being built on cloud architecture
    • It’s not just the public cloud
    • On-premise cloud
    • Budgets are 50-50 public cloud vs. private cloud
    • Enterprises what to own their own business
    • The public cloud has that convenience factor

    25:00 Addressing complexity

    • Controlling efficiencies
    • Deployments have different benefits for different workloads
    • High-value edge deployments

    30:00 Serviceability at the edge

    • What’s different for edge
    • Reliability for edge deployments
    • Software is designed to support reliability and uptime
    • No silver bullet
    • Thermals have an effect
    • Physical challenges
    • Edge boxes are benefiting from data center designs

    35:00 Cooling

    • Liquid cooling is more efficient
    • There is a greater adoption level for liquid cooling
    • Reliability argument

    40:00 Latest Vision

    • Software v Hardware
    • S/W staff has tripled over the past five years
    • Software investment is huge
    • GPU portfolio is compelling
    • Sorting through GPU technology and how it fits into the decision matrix
    • What are the options

    45:00 Wrap up and closing

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    Podcast #104: The Latest on HPC and Scale-Out Storage Jun 29, 2022

    Brian gets Curtis Anderson of Panasas to join him for a deep and detailed view of HPC. Curtis is the Software Architect at Panasas and co-chair of the MLCommons Storage Working Group. What is MLCommons Storage Working Group? MLCommons is an industry consortium working to accelerate machine learning and increase its positive impact on society. It publishes several standards for the performance of AI/ML models, among other things. As one of the co-chairs, Curtis defines standard(s) for evaluating the performance of storage subsystems that feed AI/ML environments.

    Brian gets Curtis Anderson of Panasas to join him for a deep and detailed view of HPC. Curtis is the Software Architect at Panasas and co-chair of the MLCommons Storage Working Group. What is MLCommons Storage Working Group? MLCommons is an industry consortium working to accelerate machine learning and increase its positive impact on society. It publishes several standards for the performance of AI/ML models, among other things. As one of the co-chairs, Curtis defines standard(s) for evaluating the performance of storage subsystems that feed AI/ML environments.

    As a Software Architect at Panasas, Curtis coordinates all the technology teams in the Sunnyvale office: Platform, OSD (Object Storage Device), CLI/GUI Management, NFS and CIFS gateway, and interfacing to the hardware and QA teams. He also gets to write code again(!).

    The market for scale-out storage with a commercial feature set is growing rapidly, and competitors like NetApp have the commercial feature set but haven’t been able to master scale-out. Panasas has 15 years of scale-out performance and the resiliency everyone wants but needs the commercial feature set that some commercial players have.

    Brian digs deep into the technology and asks Curtis to explain use cases and the software structure, where Panasas fits in the overall market and their new flash systems.

    This is a great podcast; if HPC is of interest, you should give this a listen. It’s only 45 minutes, but if you want to jump around, we have put some timestamps below:

    00:00 Intro

    • Supercomputing history
    • Use cases – HPC
    • Hardware
      • New features
      • Scale-out
      • Parallel systems vs. traditional systems

    05:00 How Panasas systems work

    • Why it was invented
    • Best for moderate/large files
    • Nodes for workload types

    10:00 Software structure

    • PanFS
    • More on Parallel file systems
    • Why didn’t the big providers address the Parallel F/S

    15:00 How it handles multiple HPC projects

    • Where does Panasas fit in the market
    • Media & Entertainment constraints
      • Where does PanFS fit
      • CGI

    20:00 How M&E works

    • Why CGI is different
    • Difference between M7E and HPC workloads
    • What fits in the HPC market
    • AI/ML

    25:00 Costs

    • GPU’s
    • Flash expense
    • Compute strategies
    • Skillset needed

    30:00 How to set up a smaller company for HPC

    • How to recruit
    • Back to the cloud
      • Cloud is the honeypot
      • Easy to use
      • Low cost
      • Not set up for HPC
    • Can a Panasas system be consumed in the cloud
    • How to architect PanFS for Cloud

    35:00 Edge Placement

    • Hard to justify

    40:00 Environmental impact

    • Efficiency
    • What has Panasas seen as HPC use cases
    • Traditional HPC is changing
      • Oil and Gas
      • Exploration companies are now looking for Salt Fields to store fuel

    45:00 How to engage Panasas

    Closing and wrap-up

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    Podcast #103: A Deep Dive on Immersion Cooling Jun 21, 2022

    There has been a lot of buzz around liquid cooling, especially when discussing performance degradation when chips overheat. Liquid cooling technology is a successful solution to keeping components cool and operating at peak performance.

    There has been a lot of buzz around liquid cooling, especially when discussing performance degradation when chips overheat. Liquid cooling technology is a successful solution to keeping components cool and operating at peak performance.

    StorageReview.com has covered the progress and acceptance of this technology with much focus on GPUs, but it goes deeper. So, while attending Dell Technologies World 2022, Brian was given a chance to look closely at some of the solutions TMGcore had on display. We posted a few short videos from the event, which garnered a lot of conversation. The technology was impressive, so Brian reached out to Taylor Monnig, Chief Operating Officer at TMGcore, to join him for an in-depth discussion on immersion cooling.

    TMGcore is focused on developing advanced immersion cooling and has developed a suite of products that includes both hardware and software solutions. Located in Plano, the tech hub of Texas, TMGcore has its fingers in all major technologies like HPC, AI &Machine Learning, Edge, Cloud, Gaming, Government, and more. Taylor takes Brian through liquid cooling options, challenges facing air-cooling, and the paradigm shift to liquid cooling. Taylor also talks about server and card design to support liquid cooling and the differences between the liquids used in the immersion technology.

    This is an in-depth discussion with someone who understands and believes in the technology. This emerging technology continues to gain traction, and this podcast provides excellent detail from a company dedicated to immersion cooling.

    Social Videos:

    • Single-phase demo – TikTok | Instagram
    • Two-phase demo – TikTok | Instagram

    If you don’t have time to watch the podcast in its entirety, you can jump to the sections that are most interesting to you by checking the timestamps below.

    Timestamp

    00:00 Introduction

    • Introduction to immersion cooling
    • Options
      • Liquid on-chip
      • Rear door heat exchange
      • two-phase
      • Cooling distribution unit
    • Steps to move to immersion

    05:00 Challenges

    • Air cooling challenges
    • HPC
    • Paradigm shift to immersion
    • Driving migration to liquid cooling
    • Design changes to increase performance

    10:00 TMGcore Servers

    • Server design
    • Thermals
    • Re-use warm egress water
    • What components use immersion

    15:00 Impacts

    • Impact on power consumption
    • Modifications to existing servers
    • Eliminating needs for specific components
      • Reduce the waste that goes to landfills
    • Not for storage
      • SSDs
      • HDDs

    20:00 Servicing

    • Device serviceability
    • Removing, servicing, re-inserting into liquid
    • Hot updates not recommended
    • Single-phase vs. two-phase

    25:00 Markets

    • #1 Crypto
    • #2 HPC
    • #3 Government
    • How two-phase works
    • Fluid differences
    • Maintenance

    30:00 Costs

    • Cost of ownership
    • Fluid vendors

    35:00 Data Center designs

    • What are the design considerations for data center layout
    • Vision for SMB/Small Enterprise
    • What do OEMs need to do to build immersion-ready servers
    • Creativity in design

    40:00 Edge

    • Edge boxes
    • Areas of acceptance
    • Reasons for acceptance in specific regions

    45:00 Deployments

    • Rugged design deployments
    • Government
    • Military
    • Foreign deployment
    • Logistics

    50:00 Wrap up!

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    Podcast #102: Dan Kogan, Product Focus at Pure//Accelerate techfest22 Jun 14, 2022

    Pure Storage kicked off Pure//Accelerate techfest22 earlier this month in Los Angeles, and that gave Brian a chance to catch up with Dan Kogan, Vice President, Product Management and Product Marketing at Pure Storage. Dan leads product management for new business, cloud, and the as-a-Service group within Pure’s FlashArray BU, along with leading FlashArray’s overall product marketing team.

    Pure Storage kicked off Pure//Accelerate techfest22 earlier this month in Los Angeles, and that gave Brian a chance to catch up with Dan Kogan, Vice President, Product Management and Product Marketing at Pure Storage. Dan leads product management for new business, cloud, and the as-a-Service group within Pure’s FlashArray BU, along with leading FlashArray’s overall product marketing team.

    Pure unveiled several new and rebranded products during the event. StorageReview.com posted the news as it happened. You can read more about the key announcements for the Expanded Evergreen Portfolio, the FlashBlade//S, and AIRI//S AI-Ready Infrastructure. Pure Storage has been busy, and these announcements are just the beginning.

    Pure Storage AIRI//S

    There is a focus on as-a-Service offerings, strengthening partnerships with NVIDIA, and launching the FlashBlade//S. Dan has his hand in many of the new initiatives within Pure Storage.

    Brian has questions about the new announcements, what’s next, cloud deliverables, and more. This very informative podcast offers insights into the direction Pure Storage is taking for the future.

    The last few minutes of the video were lost, but the audio was preserved.

    Please give it a listen, or skip around using the timestamps below.

    00:00 Introduction

    • Intro
    • What resonates with customers
    • Cloud and cloud acceptance
    • Datacenters are growing
    • It’s complicated
    • Hybrid scenarios
    • Cloud costs are getting in the way

    05:00 Cloud focus

    • Applications moving to the cloud: What is the right mix/balance
    • Considerations that determine cloud migration
    • SMB vs. Enterprise
    • Cloud migration is based on company maturity
    • Pure Storage customers:
      • Large SAS users
      • Cloud economics don’t work

    10:00 Educating the masses

    • Training partners like MSPs, VARS, Integrators
    • Pure is not your typical storage vendor
    • Remember that Pure is a software company
    • The magic sauce is how the software work with the hardware

    15:00 Pure//Accelerate techfest22

    • What was on display
    • Focus on Pure Fusion
    • Fusion changes the field for IT’s ability to support and deploy
    • Creation of Service Provider modality

    20:00 History

    • A look back at EMC Viper
    • Pure Fusion won’t make the same mistakes
    • Pure and cloud – Block Store
      • supported on AWS and Azure

    25:00 Pricing and Chargeback

    • Pricing and chargeback for different tiers can surprise customers
    • Pure provides customers with all prices and costs upfront
    • Specifics on new and rebranded products
    • Emphasis on Evergreen
    • New – Evergreen//Flex – subscription service

    30:00 Where is everyone going?

    • as-a-Service is the choice for vendors
    • Pure’s secret sauce – data reduction
      • On-premises
      • In the cloud

    35:00 What are those charges?

    • Customers are going all-in on cloud and but the invoice forces a rethink
    • Cloud migration and overwhelming options are making cloud harder
    • Too many options
    • It’s more about as-a-Service
    • Portworx discussion

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    40:00 Portworx

    • API level integration
    • PDS – Portworx Data Services
    • Legacy workloads that can run in a container
    • Where will the VMware relationship go with the pending Broadcom purchase
    • NVIDIA partnership
    • What’s new with FlashBlade//S
    • Customers are excited about GPUs

    46:00 Wrap-up!

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    Podcast #101: James Martin Talks About Adding Intelligence to Infrastructure Jun 07, 2022

    This week, Brian connected with Eaton’s Global Connectivity Product Manager, James Martin, to talk about managing the products that Eaton builds. James has been with Eaton for over ten years and brings his product management skills and deep understanding of the importance of cybersecurity. Eaton has a significant portfolio of software management tools to help customers with disaster avoidance, data center infrastructure management, and demand response management, and has been delivering a mobile app, Control Xpert, helping manage those PDUs from anywhere.

    This week, Brian connected with Eaton’s Global Connectivity Product Manager, James Martin, to talk about managing the products that Eaton builds. James has been with Eaton for over ten years and brings his product management skills and deep understanding of the importance of cybersecurity. Eaton has a significant portfolio of software management tools to help customers with disaster avoidance, data center infrastructure management, and demand response management, and has been delivering a mobile app, Control Xpert, helping manage those PDUs from anywhere.

    Building intelligence into the PDU makes sense, but it is generally overlooked with all the cyber attacks directed at servers and systems. However, hacking into a PDU and shutting down entire racks can prove devastating. File corruption, getting systems back online, and bringing power back to a normal state can take hours, which could turn into days. This is just another example of ransomware attackers controlling your server environment.

    It is an interesting conversation and should get you thinking about protecting your data all the way to the plug.

    Take a look at this podcast to gain insight into how Eaton is working to protect the data center.

    00:00 Introduction

    • What is Eaton doing with software development
    • Monitoring activities and connected devices
    • Making PDUs intelligent
    • Connected technologies
    • Security

    05:00 Gathering information

    • Ransomware attacks more than the server and storage
    • How does Eaton protect access
    • Eatons scope of access

    10:00 Power devices are becoming a desirable target

    • Eaton history behind connectivity
    • Levels of vulnerability
    • Educating the masses

    15:00 What is the threat?

    • Working with customers to create an air gap

    20:00 Integration and automation

    • Physical vs. virtual
    • The steps to bring a UPS back online
    • Monitoring outside the PDU

    25:00 Types of probes

    • Edge scenarios
      • Brings more complexity
      • More devices to manage
      • More locations to manage
      • Grouping management tools
      • Difficulty to access

    30:00 Next steps

    • Emphasis
    • Robust monitoring
    • Ability to adjust settings
    • Creating maintenance models
    • Advanced automation
    • Steps to making fewer mistakes

    35:00 Eaton is making power more visible

    • Partnering with other platforms
      • vSphere
      • VxRail
    • Costs of management
    • Customer attachment rate
    • Making it easy to add devices

    40:00 Wrap up. https://youtu.be/dPo_inalXfw

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    Podcast #100: Dell Technologies World Highlights with Caitlin Gordon May 10, 2022

    While Brian was in Las Vegas attending Dell Technologies World at the beginning of May, he visited with Caitlin Gordon to have a conversation about products, direction, growth, and generally catch up. Caitlin is Dell Technologies Vice President of Product Management and had plenty of insight into the path of Dell’s product lineup. She spoke to as-a-Service offerings but also addressed questions regarding some hardware refreshes and all else of what’s new at Dell Technologies World 2022.

    While Brian was in Las Vegas attending Dell Technologies World at the beginning of May, he visited with Caitlin Gordon to have a conversation about products, direction, growth, and generally catch up. Caitlin is Dell Technologies Vice President of Product Management and had plenty of insight into the path of Dell’s product lineup. She spoke to as-a-Service offerings but also addressed questions regarding some hardware refreshes and all else of what’s new at Dell Technologies World 2022.

    Caitlin and Brian have worked together for many years, so this conversation was very relaxed and informative. Caitlin touched on cyber threats, Ransomware, the impact on customers, and hardware updates for PowerFlex, PowerStore, and PowerMax. There was also a discussion around mobile cloud and Project Alpine.

    Dell Technologies World 2022 News

      • Dell Technologies Expands APEX Multi-Cloud Experience, Collaborates with Snowflake
      • Dell Technologies Introduces Software Enhancements Across Storage Portfolio
      • Dell Technologies PowerScale Gets QLC SSD Support

    This is a relatively short podcast and well worth the time. There should be something for everyone to gain some insight into Dell’s future. The timestamp is listed below.

    00:00 Introduction

    • Brian introduces Caitlin
    • Caitlin gives some insight into what’s new
    • Cyber security
    • Customer challenges
    • Products are maturing

    05:00 Mobile Cloud offerings

    • Project Alpine (a Caitlin favorite)
    • keeping things consistent
    • Hardware updates
      • PowerFlex
      • PowerMax
      • PowerScale
      • PowerStore
    • Back to the cloud model
      • How are the service offerings sold
      • How are they supported
      • What is the consumption model

    10:00 How will cloud impact Dell’s product model

    • What happens when data gets to the cloud
    • Physical hardware
    • Details on hardware updates and refreshes

    15:00 High capacity drives

    • OneFS
    • NAB impact on files
    • Video is driving development
    • PowerStore refresh

    20:00 Looking forward

    • Announcements
    • New culture at Dell
    • Edge impacts

    25:00 Edge data continued

    • So much demand from retail for Edge computing
    • Challenges delivering suitable solutions that integrate

    Wrap up

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    Podcast #99: Lenovo Discusses the Benefits of Liquid Cooling Apr 20, 2022

    While in Raleigh recently, Brian had a chance to visit Lenovo and talk to Scott Tease about HPC, Liquid Cooling, and F1 racing. Scott is currently Vice President, General Manager HPC and AI WW at Lenovo, but has been in the HPC world for many years. He has been with Lenovo, through System X, for almost 8 years and prior to that 14 years with IBM.

    While in Raleigh recently, Brian had a chance to visit Lenovo and talk to Scott Tease about HPC, Liquid Cooling, and F1 racing. Scott is currently Vice President, General Manager HPC and AI WW at Lenovo, but has been in the HPC world for many years. He has been with Lenovo, through System X, for almost 8 years and prior to that 14 years with IBM.

    Lenovo Liquid Cooled 1U Servers

    Lenovo Liquid Cooled 1U Servers

    Brian’s guests are always knowledgeable and passionate about the technology they support and Scott is no exception. In fact, it would be unkind to limit his passion to HPC when he is truly concerned with the environment, energy consumption, efficiency, and helping customers get the most from the available technology offered. You can hear it in his descriptions, explaining how the right technology can help with controlling our carbon footprint.

    The conversation covered everything from what is currently happening with Lenovo, specifically HPC, moving into the enterprise space, liquid cooling versus air cooling and why that matters, and what is forcing this trend. It is an intelligent view of where we are technically and how the move to liquid cooling will drive down costs for the future. Definitely a podcast worth watching or just listening in.

    If you don’t have time to attend the entire 45-minute podcast, we have timestamped the conversation below. Skip around if you like.

    Minute

    00:00 Brian’s introduction

    • Where is Lenovo with HPC
    • Some history and the future
    • What customers are doing today
    • HPC and the Enterprise

    05:00 What is the main purpose for HPC

    • F1 racing and racetrack references
    • climate and changing patterns
    • HPC is used for EVERYTHING
    • Brian watches the fishing channel!?
      • Tuna humor

    10:00 Liquid cooling

    • Been around for a decade
    • Reasons to go Liquid
    • Costs are driving change and acceptance
    • Liquid versus Air
    • Liquid changes the dynamics

    15:00 Power/Environment/Benefits

    • Scott talks about the ThinkSystem SD650-N
    • Reaction to Liquid Cooling
      • The fear

    20:00 Home gaming

    • How it works in all systems
    • Lifespan of liquid servers
    • Adding life to components

    25:00 Where it’s headed

    • Why Liquid?

    30:00 Partnering

    • Challenges
    • Recent successes
    • How SR uses open-air cooling in the lab in Ohio
      • it’s cold in Cinncinnatti! (an editorial comment)
    • Even small businesses benefit from liquid cooling
      • how they are dealing with heat dispersion
    • Where are installs happening today
    • Cooling Distribution Unit (CDU)
    • Liquid to Air cooling

    35:00 Impact of design

    • Power budgets
      • Fans
      • Densities

    40:00 Use of Schedulers

    • What’s next
    • Lenovo is a leader in the HPC space

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    Podcast #98: Solidigm’s Greg Matson Talks NAND and the Future of Flash Apr 12, 2022

    Brian was invited to the VAST Data Ceres launch “party” recently and while there took advantage of sitting down with VAST Data partner Solidigm’s Greg Matson, Vice President, Strategic Planning and Marketing. Who is Solidigm you ask! Solidigm was borne from the 2020 agreement by SK hynix to acquire Intel’s NAND and SSD business. Solidigm is now poised to become the go-to partner for customers in solid-state memory storage with SK hynix’s global presence.

    Brian was invited to the VAST Data Ceres launch “party” recently and while there took advantage of sitting down with VAST Data partner Solidigm’s Greg Matson, Vice President, Strategic Planning and Marketing. Who is Solidigm you ask! Solidigm was borne from the 2020 agreement by SK hynix to acquire Intel’s NAND and SSD business. Solidigm is now poised to become the go-to partner for customers in solid-state memory storage with SK hynix’s global presence.

    Greg is not new to Intel’s NAND and SSD business, having spent 11 years at Intel as Sr. Director, GM, Strategic Planning and Marketing for Data Center SSDs. With ruler technology growing in popularity and the primary memory used in the new VAST Data Ceres platform, this conversation was timely and informative.

    Solidigm E1.L SSDs

    Solidigm E1.L SSDs

    StorageReview has reviewed a number of E1.S and E1.L rulers lately, with Solidigm being one of the vendors supplying hardware for our tests. Greg’s knowledge of the technology and the industry make this a great podcast. If you want to jump around the discussion, we have timestamped the entire podcast for you.

    • 00:00 Introductions
      • Greg’s background
      • NAND/Flash/QLC
      • Use Cases for each
      • Solidigm’s portfolio
        • QLC
        • VAST integration
    • 06:00 Technology innovation
      • Democratization of Flash
      • Startups can move faster because of this technology
      • Ruler specific discussion
    • 10:00 Rack height for servers
      • 2-U vs 1-U
      • Brian talks about new servers in the SR Lab
      • E1.S and E1.L Solidigm product focus
      • Flexibility
    • 15:00 Capacities
      • Storing data
      • Data Retrieval
    • 20:00 Design thresholds
      • Voltage
      • TLC Demands
        • SSAS
        • Evolution of existing systems
        • What do customers really want
        • Capacity and IOPS
      • 25:00 PCIe Gen3 vs Gen4 vs Gen5 vs Gen6, etc
        • Adoption of new technologies
        • Storage
          • What are the concerns
          • Thermals?
          • Heatsinks?
      • 30:00 Form factors for Flash
        • Disruptors
        • Success will drive change
      • 35:00 Media discussion
        • SCM and QLC in VAST Ceres platform
      • 40:00 Sourcing demands
        • QLC
        • TLC
        • History
          • SATA
          • NVMe
      • Conclusion and entertaining discussion to end podcast!

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    PodCast #97: NVIDIA Dives Into DPU Technology Apr 03, 2022

    While attending the VAST Launch event in San Jose, CA, recently, Brian was able to catch up with Rob Davis who is President of Storage Technology at the Nvidia Networking BU where he focuses on ways to apply high-speed interface technology to storage systems.

    Prior to becoming a part of NVIDIA Rob served as VP of Storage Technology at Mellanox Technologies. Rob is currently leading the development and marketing for products focused on NVMe over fabrics, which will allow for the high-speed networking of PCIe-based storage. NVIDIA is a VAST Data partner and is a supplier of products for the recently announced VAST Data Ceres platform.

    Rob and Brian covered a number of technologies relating to NVIDIA and how they fit into the VAST Data architecture. With data storage and retrieval a huge topic today, much of the conversation focused on DPUs. Rob also brought up NVIDIA converged accelerators, a product that combines the power of the NVIDIA Ampere architecture with the enhanced security and networking capabilities of the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU. This advanced architecture delivers unprecedented performance and strong security for AI-powered workloads in edge computing, telecommunications, and network security.

    vast data ceres dpuNVIDIA DPU in the Vast Data Ceres Node

    If you are interested in how NVIDIA is working with VAST Data to deliver Ceres, this is a great place to land. The related discussions around BlueField-2 DPU and converged accelerators, and how technologies are trying to catch up with the demands from data storage and retrieval.

    It is a short podcast, but if you want to skip around, the timestamps are below.

    • 00:00 Brian intro from VAST Data in San Jose
      • DPU Progression Summary
      • How the DPU fits with the GPU
      • Technology is catching up
      • DGX Server
    • 05:00 Impact of cooling demands
      • Supermicro servers
      • Liquid cooling and other partners are doing
      • Data evolution
      • AI is driving data retention
        • Autonomous Autos
    • 10:00 Data ingestion
      • Analytics plays an important role
      • Transferring data
      • Keeping GPUs busy
    • 15:00 Importance of the DPU
      • Storage acceleration
      • JBOF discussion
      • CPU usage becomes minimalized
      • Intro to VAST technology
      • BlueField-2
    • 20:00 NVMe
      • BlueField-2 Technology
      • VAST technologies associated with the DPU
      • VAST servers utilizing smaller form factor hardware
      • Power requirements are reduced
    • 25:00 RDMA functions
      • GDS
      • Efficiencies in design
      • VAST driving storage disruption
    • 30:00 Array growth driving technologies
        • NVMe
        • Flash
        • NAND
      • Rob’s focus at NVIDIA
        • New products
        • Converged Accelerator
        • Computational storage
      • How it works
    • 35:00 History
      • IBM Shark (humor)
      • Security
      • Encryption

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    PodCast #96: VAST Data is Flipping Storage on its Head Mar 22, 2022

    Brian sat down with VAST Data’s CMO and Co-founder Jeff Denworth for a deep dive into VAST’s technology and to learn more about why this is such a game-changer for the industry and their customers. VAST is one of the brightest players in the market and gets high marks from its customer base. In fact, VAST customers have exhibited the highest recommender rating, with 100% of the organizations submitting reviews saying they would recommend Universal Storage. In addition, VAST has recorded the third year of solid growth with its AI data platform.

    Brian sat down with VAST Data’s CMO and Co-founder Jeff Denworth for a deep dive into VAST’s technology and to learn more about why this is such a game-changer for the industry and their customers. VAST is one of the brightest players in the market and gets high marks from its customer base. In fact, VAST customers have exhibited the highest recommender rating, with 100% of the organizations submitting reviews saying they would recommend Universal Storage. In addition, VAST has recorded the third year of solid growth with its AI data platform.

    vast data ceres in rack

    Jeff is very forthcoming with details on VAST’s technology and shares his views on where the industry is headed. Although this is a lengthy discussion, this podcast is well worth the time.

    Time-stamped in case you want to jump to a specific topic.

    0:00 Brian asks Jeff to give VAST’s core mission

    • Simplifying data management and systems
    • How to make it easier
    • Flash TCO
    • Systems that scale
    • Nex-gen systems management
    • Google File System White Paper

    4:00 Architecture

    • NVMe-oF
    • Shared everything
    • ‘DASE’
        • DisAggregated Shared Everything
    • Systems that scale
    • Global Codes

    7:00 How it works

    • QLC requirements
    • Erase Blocks impact
    • Getting longevity out of flash storage

    10:00 Why haven’t others come up with a solution?

    • Addressing the cost of operation
    • The cache is the problem
    • How to get rid of cache
    • VAST’s field deployment and warranty

    15:00 Data Protection

    • Typical overhead
    • Global flash wear leveling
    • Data protection code
    • Erasure code is the differentiator
    • Global compression impact

    20:00 Deduplication and pattern matching efficiency

    23:00 What is a VAST System?

    • Types if clusters
    • Hardware that can be controlled by S/W
    • Enclosures determine density
    • The current 2U system supports up to 1.3 PB
      • Similar to a JBOF
    • No single point of failure

    32:00 Workloads and compression

    40:00 What’s next?

    • AI discussion
    • Future direction of the industry

    45:00 How VAST uses DPU

    • Hardware design
    • How VAST is push the market
    • Deeper density discussion

    50:00 Server vs Storage

    • Node failure
    • Cluster Architecture

    55:00 What do customers worry about?

    • Storage savvy customers
    • The Art of Possible
    • Hardware enclosures by AIC and Mercury with others on the horizon

    1:00:00 Partners

    • Resiliency
    • Value-added

    1:05:00 Processors

    • Performance and scale
    • Power metrics
    • Energy efficiency

    1:10:00 Continuing the discussion on power consumption

    • Part of NVIDIA SuperPod Program
    • NVMe-oF

    1:15:00 I/O traffic increases when adding flash to cluster

    • How VAST delivers POC in customer environments

    1:20:00 Deployment scenarios

    WRAP UP

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    Podcast #95: The Latest in HDD Technologies With WD’s Ashley Gorakhpurwalla Mar 17, 2022

    Brian talks with Western Digital’s Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, Executive Vice President and General Manager, HDD Business, about his transition from a storage consumer at Dell Technologies to leading WD’s HDD business. The pair cover off on the direction hard drives are heading, bringing products to market, and much more in this in-depth podcast.

    Brian talks with Western Digital’s Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, Executive Vice President and General Manager, HDD Business, about his transition from a storage consumer at Dell Technologies to leading WD’s HDD business. The pair cover off on the direction hard drives are heading, bringing products to market, and much more in this in-depth podcast.

    Prior to joining Western Digital to head up the HDD Business Unit, Ashley spent 20 years with Dell Technologies. He has a strong background in storage, systems engineering, and infrastructure. Brian and Ashley have a relationship that spans ten years in the storage and systems sector.

    This podcast gets into developing and delivering products to the enterprise, emerging technologies, and how to increase HDD capacity. This discussion will answer many questions around the continuing need and evolving HDD market and why that is important. It is well worth a listen, but if you want to focus on a particular topic, the timestamp is below.

    Intro:

    • Brian introduction
    • Ashley’s background and history

    Minute 5:00

    • The process to bring product to market
    • Helium sealed hard drive challenges
    • Extensive test and acceptance for helium-sealed drive

    Minute 10:00

    • What’s in the lab today
    • AI/ML in HDD technology

    Minute 15:00

    • Data growth
    • Too much to transfer
    • Compute power has caught up with storage technology
    • Data disruption
    • Rate of change in infrastructure changes at different pace

    Minute 20:00

    • Correlation of F1 Racing as it relates to digital twin
    • Digital data creative
    • Explosion of data and storage

    Minute 25:00

    • What customers are asking for relating to HDD technology
    • Capacity
    • Tiering
    • What is the HDD sweet-spot

    Minute 30:00

    • Capacity gains in development
    • HD has become back of mind and disappearing from consumer view
    • The new era of HDDs
    • Energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording ePMR vs PMR

    Minute 35:00

    • Architectural changes
    • Platter density technology

    Minute 40:00

    • Architecture is based on customer demands
    • Metadata built into HDs
    • AI built into HDs
    • OptiNAND is fundamental to HD in future

    Minute 45:

    • Managing complexity
    • Portfolio management
    • Sweetspot for TB space

    Minute 50:00

    • Flash form factor
    • E1.S Ruler technology
    • Cold storage

    Minute 58:00

    • Multi-actuator technology

    Minute 63:00

    • NVMe – do we need another interface
    • 50TB HDD’s are coming

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    Podcast #94: Dave Russell Talks Veeam Backup Solutions, Ransomware and VeeamON Mar 09, 2022

    While Brian and Kevin were in Denver working with Quantum, Dave Russell, VP Enterprise Strategy Veeam Software, drove down from Boulder to sit with Brian for a chat about Veeam and Quantum tape backup solutions. Dave and Brian have known each other for a few years and the conversation was relaxed and candid. They talked about the simplicity of the Quantum architecture and Veeam software and how they are addressing the multi-cloud environments most enterprises are building.

    While Brian and Kevin were in Denver working with Quantum, Dave Russell, VP Enterprise Strategy Veeam Software, drove down from Boulder to sit with Brian for a chat about Veeam and Quantum tape backup solutions. Dave and Brian have known each other for a few years and the conversation was relaxed and candid. They talked about the simplicity of the Quantum architecture and Veeam software and how they are addressing the multi-cloud environments most enterprises are building.

    Veeam has been delivering backup and restore solutions since 2006 with options for on-prem, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud installations. Deployments on physical systems, SaaS services, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud partnering with a large ecosystem including Quantum, Dell, AWS, Microsoft, and Lenovo to name a few.

    Here is the timestamp for the podcast. Skip to the topics that are interesting to you, but you will find this conversation to be interesting and open.

    Minutes 0-4:00

    • Intro from Brian
    • Dave talks about the relationship with Quantum
    • Discussion about tape solutions
    • Hot topic on how Quantum addresses ransomware with Ransom Block and Active Vault
    • Security is key component for any backup solution

    Minute 4:00

    • Cost of migrating to cloud especially during a pandemic
    • Tape performance and architecture
    • Using Veeam to restore data via tape
    • Benefits and capabilities of tape cartridges
    • off-site archival is not as relevant when using Quantum solution

    Minute 9:00

    • Veeam Best Practices
    • Customer feedback is key to the development cycle
    • Business requirements and asset investment
    • Edge from a Veeam perspective
    • What is considered key focus at the edge

    Minute 13:00

    • What’s new or different with the Veeam solution
    • Client interface and new Mac agent
    • Acceleration of cloud acceptance
    • Cloud is not being deployed as a replacement
    • Working with competitors and other vendors
    • How to utilize the cloud for backup/restore

    Minute 18:00

    • Staying relevant
    • Veeam growth plans
    • The number of backup apps in the enterprise. How does it affect admin and performance?
    • What will be the next wave
    • Workload expansion across enterprise

    Minute 25:00

    • How customers think about backup software
    • Emerging workloads
    • What are the needs for data movement
    • Customer retention
    • Resources for customers
    • Free and paid training events
    • Customer feedback

    Minute 30:00

    • Customer research and usage from downloads
    • Using feedback from forums
    • Hybrid VeeamOn event in Las Vegas
    • Veeam resources to everyone

    Minute 35:00

    • Wrap up

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    Podcast #93 Brian Hosts Al Yanes To Talk about PCI Gen6 Feb 15, 2022

    Although not a consumable product, PCI-Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced the release of the PCIe 6.0 specification. Brian hosts Al Yanes who is the President and Chairman of the PCI-SIG and a long-time IBMer. Al is focused on the IO piece of the technology and probably knows more about PCIe than most.

    Although not a consumable product, PCI-Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced the release of the PCIe 6.0 specification. Brian hosts Al Yanes who is the President and Chairman of the PCI-SIG and a long-time IBMer. Al is focused on the IO piece of the technology and probably knows more about PCIe than most.

    PCI Gen6

    The PCIe Gen6 specification adds new features while meeting industry demand for a high-speed, low-latency interconnect. PCIe 6.0 specification, with a 64 GT/s raw data rate, will pave the way for rapid innovation in emerging markets like the Data Center, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, HPC, Automotive, IoT, and Military/Aerospace.

    Topics covered include design aspects, profiles, and what system changes are needed to take advantage of this new release. We wrote up a news piece and posted that here.

    Minutes 0-5:00

    • Intro from Brian
    • Al talks about his background
    • PCIe history

    Minute 5:00

    • How PCIe SIG works with other standards groups
    • Time-lapse reasons between releases
    • Expected release timeframes
    • Market expectations

    Minute 10:00

    • Focus on PCIe Gen 6.0
    • Profiles and options for operating systems
    • Compatibility issues
    • Server performance
    • How many lanes are needed
    • Signaling

    Minute 15:00

    • Application performance
    • Interactions

    Minute 20:00

    • Changes to systems to take advantage of PCIe Gen 6.0

    Minute 25:00

    • System design
    • Heat dissipation

    Minute 30:00

    • Liquid cooling
    • Challenges
    • Retimers
    • More system design discussion
    • Considerations when choosing releases

    Minute 35:00

    • Opportunities
    • Automotive space
    • Mobile technology

    Minute 40:00

    • Backward compatible
    • Mix of Gen 5 and Gen 6
    • Next steps

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