TechONTAPPodcast

Episode 400 - NetApp Launch Announcements February 2025 Feb 13, 2025

The NetApp A-Team drops by to chat about the NetApp launch announcements for February 2025. Listen as we cover updates to the ASA platform, new hardware models, BlueXP improvements and more!

Episode 399: The T-Systems Health Hybrid Cloud Feb 06, 2025

The healthcare industry has long been known for its cautious approach to technology, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced a dramatic shift. In this episode, Scott Charles from T-Systems (scott.charles@tsystems.com), and Brian O’Mahony from NetApp (omahony@netapp.com), break down how the healthcare sector has evolved in response to the pandemic and the role technology plays in this transformation.

Episode 398 - NetApp Hardware Announcements Fall 2024 Nov 20, 2024

This week, the NetApp A-Team joins us to discuss the latest NetApp hardware announcements, including the new A90 platform, as well as some new BlueXP additions!

Episode 397 - Navigating the New EU AI Regulations (w/ Adam Gale) Oct 08, 2024

This week on the Tech ONTAP podcast, Adam Gale joins us to discuss the new EU AI regulations and how they may impact you and your business.

Tech ONTAP Podcast Episode 396 - BlueXP Classification Sep 04, 2024

Sifting through millions of files to filter out PII, compliance violations, or other sensitive data is a huge burden for many organizations. BlueXP Classification from NetApp provides a way to simplify those tasks and make regulatory compliance more of a molehill than a mountain. Ben Kesten joins us to discuss how BlueXP Classification is changing the way you manage your data.

Episode 395 - How Azure NetApp Files Powers EDA Workloads Jul 25, 2024

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is the industry that powers the innovations to technology we utilize everyday by making smaller, more powerful microchips for use in our cell phones, smart devices, self-driving cars, laptops and more. EDA requires a massive amount of compute and storage at a rapidly growing scale that most datacenters simply cannot keep up with in a cost effective manner. Usually, by the time a new datacenter is finished, it's already too small. That is why more and more EDA vendors and chip makers are turning to the cloud for their workflows. Microsoft's Global Black Belt for EDA - Andy Chan - and NetApp's EDA expert Michael Johnson, join us to discuss how Azure NetApp Files is an ideal solution for EDA workloads.

Episode 394 - DataDobi Jul 12, 2024

DataDobi provides world class migration and data analytics software that works seamlessly with NetApp ONTAP - both on-prem and in the cloud. Danny Esposito from DataDobi joins us to tell us all about DataDobi, StorageMap and more.

Episode 393 - SnapCenter 5.0 Use Cases Jun 12, 2024

SnapCenter 5.0 brought with it a ton of new features and functionality, and NetApp Solutions Architect Artie Noel joins us to discuss how exactly SnapCenter 5.0 can benefit your backup and recovery use cases.

Episode 392 - Talking EDA with Jon from Asianometry Jun 05, 2024

Asianometry is a newsletter and podcast channel started by a gentleman named Jon who became disillusioned with Silicon Valley and moved to Asia, started making videos about Asia, economics and the EDA industry. Jon from Asianometry joins us to discuss his podcast and the EDA industry in general.

Episode 391 - What's in a brand? NetApp's New Identity May 16, 2024

Brands define how people think about companies, so it's not only important to get it right, but to stay current and not be afraid to switch it up when necessary. NetApp recently pivoted their brand to position Intelligent Data Infrastructure and we invited NetApp's VP of Marketing, Emily Miller, as well as two NetApp celebrities - Phoebe Goh and Matt Watts!

Episode 390 - NetApp Goes All In on AI May 14, 2024

While it may feel like AI/ML are simply tech buzzwords, the influence on enterprises and their products is unquestionable. As a result, many companies are making significant investments in AI/ML and betting on its success. NetApp recently announced greater dedication towards AI/ML and we invited the AI team at NetApp to tell us all about it.

Episode 389 - Current State of AI in Healthcare May 01, 2024

While generative AI is getting all the press in recent years, the practical use cases for AI, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing have grown exponentially - particularly in the Healthcare and Life Sciences verticals. Brian O'Mahony and Tony Chidiac stop by to tell us all about the current state of AI in Healthcare.

Episode 388 - StorageGRID 11.8 Apr 24, 2024

Object storage is gaining more and more of a foothold in an ever evolving cloud storage world and NetApp StorageGRID is delivering more functionality to address the growing demands. Vishnu Vardhan joins us to discuss the latest release of StorageGRID.

Episode 387 - How NetApp Drives the Automotive Industry Apr 12, 2024

A lot goes into making a car, and even more data is used. That data has to go somewhere, and oftentimes, it goes on NetApp storage - whether on-prem or in the cloud. Tilman Schroeder, NetApp's automotive industry expert, joins us to discuss how NetApp helps drive the automotive industry.

Episode 386 - Managed Cloud Security with SolCyber Mar 27, 2024

Security is one of the most important - and most complex - concepts to address when dealing with any aspect of IT. This becomes much more apparent in the cloud, which is why using a managed service makes a lot of sense, particularly for small to medium businesses that do not have the money or expertise to manage their own security. Scott McCrady of SolCyber joins us to discuss how SolCyber provides managed security for the cloud.

Episode 385 - Introducing SnapCenter 5.0 Mar 14, 2024

SnapCenter is NetApp's flagship application driven backup and restore offering that provides data protection for databases such as SQL, Oracle, SAP and more. The latest release of SnapCenter also provides better cloud integration, including support for volumes as a service offerings such as Azure NetApp Files. Join us as we discuss the new SnapCenter 5.0 release and all it delivers.

Episode 384 - Managed Cloud with Opti9tech Feb 26, 2024

NetApp's ONTAP software design - with its multi-tenant Storage Virtual Machines, nondisruptive operations, integrated backup and replication, scale out approach - lends itself well to cloud deployments. Opti9Tech understands this, which is why, as a managed cloud provider, they use ONTAP and its features to deliver leading cloud services to their customers. Opti9Tech CTO Sagi Brody joins us to talk about how Opti9Tech helps you manage cloud without having to manage cloud.

Episode 383 - Using Databases on Amazon FSxN for ONTAP Feb 14, 2024

Databases traditionally are run in on-premises data centers, but as they scale larger and larger and require more performance, admins need to start evaluating whether to purchase new hardware to manage or move to a lease-based model in the cloud. Amazon FSxN for NetApp ONTAP offers a way for database adminstrators to confidently move their workloads to the cloud without sacrificing performance or the feature-richness of NetApp ONTAP. Semion Mazor and Pedro Fernandes join us to discuss how Amazon FSxN for NetApp ONTAP improves the life of database administrators considering a move to the cloud.

Episode 382 - Electronic Design Automation 101 Jan 31, 2024

Ever wonder how the chips in your phones, TVs, cars and appliances are made? Well, a lot goes into those and in this episode, NetApp's resident Electronic Design Automation expert Michael Johnson tells us about the processes, challenges and basics of the EDA chip manufacturing industry.

Episode 381 - What's New in ONTAP 9.14.1 Dec 13, 2023

Another fall brings another new ONTAP release here at NetApp and this one is chock full of new features to better improve your NetApp experience. Keith Aasen joins us to break it all down and explain what's new.

Episode 380 - NetApp in Gaming with Justin Monast (former Naughty Dog) Nov 29, 2023

This week, a former director of IT at Naughty Dog - Justin Monast - stops by to discuss how NetApp ONTAP powered some of the most influential games in gaming history.

Episode 379 - NetApp Astra 23.10 Updates Nov 02, 2023

When you have a Kubernetes cluster that your applications depend on to stay online, you have to seriously consider how you plan on recovering in the case a disaster strikes. Ransomware, power failures, cloud region outages all can wreak havoc on Kubernetes clusters. NetApp Astra helps mitigate disasters with strong backup, recovery and replication technology backed by NetApp ONTAP and SnapMirror. Dean Steadman and Luis Rico from the NetApp Astra team join us to discuss the latest updates for NetApp Astra in version 23.10.

Episode 378 - Electronic Healthcare Records in the Cloud with AWS Oct 25, 2023

The more healthcare companies start to digitize their records, the more they realize they need more capacity to do it, but they don't always have the resources to manage it. That's where the cloud comes in. The Amazon AWS FSx NetApp offering provides a plethora of features that help enable EHR workloads to perform better, save space and provide a viable and efficient disaster recovery plan with immutable backups for better protection against ransomware. NetApp healthcare expert Brian O'Mahony and AWS healthcare SME Randy Seamans join us to chat about all the benefits of ONTAP, AWS and FSxN for EHR workloads.

Episode 377 - ONTAP 9.13.1 Oct 12, 2023

This week, we go over the newest additions to ONTAP in the latest release with Keith Aasen. Join us as we discuss the new guarantee program, autonomous ransomware updates and much more!

Episode 376 - How To Stop Being A Cloud Skeptic (w Melissa Palmer) Sep 28, 2023

IT admins are raised on skepticism and there's an entire security philosophy centered around distrust, right? So, so when you start talking about managed services and what we like in the cloud and what we see in the cloud, you start to run into a lot of IT admins that simply do not like it. And we've invited one. Melissa Palmer (also known as vMiss) joins us to tell us all about her cloud skepticism and how Azure VMware Solution with Azure NetApp Files helped her see the light about the usefulness of cloud.

Episode 375 - BlueXP Backup: Fall 2023 Updates Sep 14, 2023

NetApp BlueXP delivers a unified experience for storage and data services across on-premises and cloud environments. It enables operational simplicity through the power of AIOps, with the flexible consumption parameters and integrated protection required for today’s cloud-led world. And now, BlueXP offers a more complete solution for backup and recovery in your cloud deployments. NetApp's Semion Mazor joins us to discuss how BlueXP Backup and Recovery is improving life for backup admins.

Episode 374 - Improving Postgres with pganalyze Sep 06, 2023

Postgres is a popular open source database that powers applications for companies such as Atlassian and DoorDash due to its cost, performance and versatility. But what if you could make Postgres perform better? Pganalyze gives you visibility into your Postgres database deployments and its queries to make suggestions for improvements, tuning and maintenance. Pganlyze CEO and founder Lukas Fittl joins us to discuss all the ins and outs of Postgres, as well as how pganalyze makes life better for the Postgres database admin.

Episode 373 - Medical Imaging on Amazon FSxN for NetApp ONTAP Aug 30, 2023

Medical imaging is a prevalent cog in the healthcare industry. Millions of images can be stored in a single location and provide use cases not just in radiology, X-rays, CT scans, MRIs, and EKGs, but also for post-op wounds, dermatology and more. Medical imaging is being extended into more use cases, such as digital pathology, where slides are scanned for later analysis. These millions of images have to be stored somewhere, and more and more hospitals are looking toward the cloud to provide that data storage - specifically AWS FSx using NetApp ONTAP storage. In this episode, Sasha Paegle of AWS and Kim Garriott of NetApp talk about the Amazon FSxN cloud solution for Medical Imaging.

Episode 372 - Jetstream Software And Azure VMware Solutions on Azure NetApp FIles Aug 16, 2023

Jetstream Software offers one of the premiere backup and recovery options for VMware in the cloud and we invited Dennis Bray to tell us all about it. Dennis really knows his stuff, which is why he uses Azure NetApp Files for his customer demos. We've got a good partnership with NetApp and back to this idea of using cloud based technologies and trying to help with cost efficiency, resource utilization, efficiency and the like. When Azure NetApp Files became available with the Azure VMware solution, then it was natural for us, right? Here's a way now that the customer can scale the storage that they require for this DR, or for just for production for that matter, but we're thinking about DR. They can scale the storage for that private cloud without having to add additional AVS notes, right? So from our perspective, and likely the customer and NetApp's perspective, there's real value here. - Dennis Bray, Jetstream Software Azure VMware Solution with Azure NetApp Files is a proven cloud solution - a first party service within Microsoft's Azure ecosystem, which is why customers feel secure in using it for their enterprise NAS workloads.

Episode 371 - Azure VMware Solution in the Financial Sector Jul 14, 2023

When dealing with storing data in the cloud, trust becomes a critical component for customers - especially ones in the financial sector. If you can't trust the solution you've chosen, then you'll always be looking over your shoulder. Azure NetApp Files is a proven cloud solution - a first party service within Microsoft's Azure ecosystem, which is why customers feel secure in using it for their enterprise NAS workloads. In this episode, we talk to a customer (Mark Sahadeo) in that industry about how they're using Azure NetApp Files for their Azure VMware Solution workloads.

Episode 370 - Azure VMware Solutions on Azure NetApp Files with Baptist Health: Customer Story Jul 07, 2023

The shift to remote work in the past few years has caused enterprises to re-think how they handle virtualization infrastructure. Do they continue to offer it on-prem, where they have to manage all the hardware and software components and deal with access from multiple locations across the globe? Or do they move to a managed service that is flexible, scalable and able to be offered in multiple cloud regions? Azure VMware Solutions provides a robust way to handle the increasing requirements for organizations in the cloud while keeping costs manageable. LeRoy Vanek of Baptist Health of South Florida joins us to come speak about why they chose the service and how it has been performing for them so far.

Episode 369 - Cloud Deployment Automation with Argonaut Jun 30, 2023

Site reliability engineers for cloud providers are the oil that makes the cloud engine run smoothly. They're responsible for the management and automation of the cloud resource backend. One of the challenges of automation isn't just about automating tasks, but about automating the tasks in the right, most efficient way. If your initial approach is flawed, then you've wasted time and will have to re-architect everything later on down the road. Argonaut's founder Surya Oruganti joins us to discuss how his product can help SREs automate the cloud in the right way to save time and money down the line.

Episode 368 - Spot by NetApp: Elastigroup for your Spot VM Instances Jun 09, 2023

A Spot instance is a cost effective way to provision storage because you give cloud providers control over when the instance's resources can be reclaimed. But what if you want the cost savings without worrying if your mission critical applications will be shut down at any given moment? Spot Elastigroup uses machine learning and cloud trends to help predict when a spot VM instance will be removed and will reallocate resources as needed, as well as help you manage scale as your applications require more (or less) compute - all without your admins needing to babysit the workloads. Yarden Kesari and Carl Gridley of Spot by NetApp join us to describe how Spot Elastigroup works and how it can help you save money in the cloud while simplifying your day to day operations.

Episode 367 - Infrastructure Automation with RackN May 26, 2023

!!WARNING: DEEP SYSADMIN CUTS AHEAD!! Back in the early 2000s, if you were a sysadmin that had to set up desktops or servers, you probably used Norton Ghost to create images. When virtualization became big, that process moved to creating VM templates. But there was still often a lot of manual intervention in these tasks - password setting, BIOS updates, vCenter installations and more. As the IT world moves more and more towards automating software tasks, what about automating infrastructure provisioning? Sure, there's cloud, but what if you're still on-prem? This week, Rob Hirschfeld of RackN joins us to discuss how RackN helps automate the previously un-automate-able.

Episode 366: Incident Response Automation with Spot Connect May 19, 2023

Incident response in enterprise IT environments is a time critical task, where any delays can mean potential loss of revenue. When dealing with the cloud, incident response takes on a whole new set of challenges, as most of the infrastructure involved is outside of your administrators reach. At that point, you're looking at mitigating the risk by addressing incidents at the application layer. With Spot Connect, you can put more of that infrastructure power into your administrator's hands and automate incident responses for faster, more effective resolution of issues, which frees up your staff to create better architectures. In this episode, Prasen Shelar of Spot by NetApp joins us to talk about how Spot Connect can revolutionize your incident response workflows.

Episode 365 - The Future of CloudOps featuring Spot by NetApp May 12, 2023

There's an old saying: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But what if it could be better? What if "fixing it" simply means "improving it"? Or - even better - letting someone else handle it so you have more time to take care of the numerous other tasks in your job? That's what the cloud is for, and in this Tech ONTAP Podcast episode, NetApp DeveloperAdvocate Shon Harris drops by to discuss the past, present and future of CloudOps and how it compares to all the other ops floating around out there in the IT-o-sphere and how Spot by NetApp can help improve the lives of DevOps engineers.

Episode 364: NetApp Spot Ocean Continuous Delivery May 05, 2023

Kubernetes does a great job at autoscaling for applications. But when you run Kubernetes in the cloud, auto scaling might not always be so great - especially if it doesn't scale back down. Spot by NetApp features Ocean - a way to address runaway cloud costs associated with Kubernetes deployments. This week, Zak Harabedian stops by to discuss Spot Ocean and how it can positively impact your Azure Kubernetes Service deployments.

Episode 363: NetApp, the US Public Sector and Trident Warrior 2022 Apr 07, 2023

On April Fools' Day, you stay on your guard to avoid being pranked. In IT, you always want to test before releasing something into production to avoid any surprises. That methodology extends into other places, including the US military. Every year, the Navy and Marines conduct experimental training exercises to test field deployment readiness called Trident Warrior. And in even years, Trident Warrior combines with other allied nations RIMPAC forces to conduct these tests. NetApp was able to participate in these exercises recently and Eddie Huerta, Frank Alcantar and Dan Holmay join us to discuss their experience and how NetApp ONTAP helps enhance the US Public Sector's storage needs.

Episode 362: Perforce with NetApp in the Cloud Mar 31, 2023

Did you know that over 3 billion people play video games? That's nearly 50% of the world's population! And if you've ever played a video game (which, statistically, you have), you've probably played something that was built using Perforce, which is *the* source code versioning software that nearly all the major game developers use. With the increase of online gaming and global distribution of game studios, the cloud is becoming a critical component in game development and delivery. As a result, cloud service providers are offering "as a service" products for applications like Perforce, Unreal Engine and more. Ravi Prakash joins us this week to discuss Perforce and how NetApp ONTAP is enhancing the cloud experience for game developers on-prem and in the cloud.

Episode 361: NetApp Spot Security - What's New in Spring 2023 Mar 24, 2023

If you've ever worked an IT support job and had to do on-call rotations, you probably know how noisy things can get with alerts and events - especially when they get sent to your phone or work device. I can recall rolling out of bed at 3AM to the sound of alerts on my phone, only to realize that most of the alarms were either false positives or things that were not high urgency. That gets old fast, and you start to tune the alerts out. Naturally, that's when the big outage happens and your boss wonders why you didn't respond quickly enough. That gets even more complicated when you are dealing with infrastructure that you don't even own - such as the cloud. Good luck tracking down where the problem is in your environment or where a potential security vulnerability might be hiding out. It's like finding a needle in a haystack. NetApp Spot Security aims to simplify your cloud security monitoring by providing a single interface to monitor multiple clouds, notify you of potential misconfiguration issues that might lead to breaches, filter out noisy events so that you only get the important alerts, and much more. Spot Security PM Isma Rizvi joins us to tell us all about what's new with Spot Security in the Spring 2023 release!

Episode 360: NetApp AI and Nvidia with Apache Spark Horovod Mar 17, 2023

Did you know that Google created Tensorflow and Kubernetes? Or that Solaris invented NFS? That Amazon created S3? Or that Uber created Apache Spark Horovod? Some of the key technologies that companies use today were originally created by businesses trying to solve their own internal challenges. In this episode of the Tech ONTAP Podcast, NetApp TME Rick Huang and Solutions Architect Ken Hillier join us to discuss Rick's new blog on using NetApp AI with Apache Spark Horovod for deep learning and inference use cases.

Episode 359: Exploring DORA Mar 10, 2023

Before the war in Ukraine started, a rash of cybersecurity incidents started to crop up - particularly in the Ukrainian financial sector and against government websites. This created a substantial amount of chaos with the day to day operations in Ukraine, and a week later, Russia invaded. In the wake of these and other cyber attacks against critical infrastructure across the globe, countries are starting to realize that data security is a vital part of national security. This week on the podcast, NetApp's Adam Gale joins us to discuss a new set of regulations around cyber security, data protection and more called the Digital Operational Resiliency Act (DORA).

Episode 358: NetApp, Brocade and Cyber Resiliency Mar 03, 2023

What's in a name? When people say the words "cyber resiliency," what do you do? Do you cringe at the buzzy-ness of the term? Do you pause and think, "do we have yet another term to worry about?" Or, do you realize that cyber resiliency is just a way to describe all the best practices we need to use when ensuring data protection, security and recovery in our enterprise IT environments. In this case, buzzy-ness is just business. In this episode, AJ Casamento of Brocade and Ant Tyrell of NetApp join us to discuss how NetApp and Brocade are teaming up to help you get the best overall results for your cyber resiliency plans.

Episode 357 - Cloud Data Sense Data Governance and Compliance Feb 24, 2023

When I was a kid, my room was often a mess. Clothes on the floor, toys everywhere. My mom would try to stay on me to keep it clean, but it was mostly a losing battle for her. What usually inspired me to clean up, however, was when I couldn't find something. Then I knew it was time to take inventory and get a bit more organized (for the time being, at least). Data management isn't much different - especially with large unstructured data lakes. Not only are there potentially millions - or billions - of files, but much of that data is redundant, unnecessary or obsolete. The problem is, if you haven't been keeping your data sets clean, you are now stuck with the arduous task of finding out what is in your data. This week on the podcast, Cecile Kellam and Michael Landau join me to discuss how Cloud Data Sense can quickly and easily help you find out what is in your data, with the end goal of tidying up your messy data sets.

Episode 356: Kubernetes, Prometheus and ChatGPT w/ Natan Yellin Feb 03, 2023

ChatGPT is the latest in a series of AI tools available to help people get their work done, but can it help you manage your Kubernetes cluster? Natan Yellin from the Robusta Open Source project joins us to help us find out!

Tech ONTAP Podcast Episode 355 - The Human Side of Digital Business Transformation w/ Kamales Lardi Jan 23, 2023

Artificial Intelligence. Blockchain. ChatGPT. Remote working. What do all of these things have in common? They're technology disruptors that businesses are having to learn to navigate and integrate into their day to day operations, each with their own unique challenges and benefits. They're also all pieces of a bigger digital transformation puzzle. This week, Kamales Lardi joins us to discuss her book "The Human Side of Digital Business Transformation" as well as what digital transformation means to people in uncertain times.

Episode 354 - FlexGroup Volumes and BlueXP Cloud Backup Jan 13, 2023

This week, Semion Mazor and Cecile Kellam join us to discuss the new addition to BlueXP Cloud Backup - FlexGroup volumes! Now you can backup, index and restore your high file count environments at a better speed, efficiency and simplify restores with search functionality.

Tech ONTAP Podcast Episode 353 - NetApp Cloud Volumes Edge Cache Jan 06, 2023

This week on the podcast, Jaap van Duijvenbode joins us to talk all about Cloud Volumes Edge Cache and how you can use it for remote and edge locations for better localization of data sets instead of having to move terabytes of data around when you need it.

Episode 352 - Google Cloud Medical Imaging Suite Dec 28, 2022

This week on the podcast, Jason Klotzer of Google and Kim Garriott of NetApp join me to discuss the new Google Cloud Medical Imaging Suite offering!

Episode 351 - Fluid and NetApp BlueXP Dec 16, 2022

This week on the podcast, Andrew Sjoquist joins us to talk about how Fluid - a software defined infrastructure platform which allows for the simplified and automated rollout of cloud-like environments anywhere. Find out how Fluid integrates into NetApp BlueXP and how it can help you deploy your own cloud-like infrastructure on-premises or at the edge!

Episode 350 - NetApp Blue XP Overview Dec 09, 2022

Have you heard of NetApp's BlueXP? No? Don't worry, we have you covered. Phoebe Goh, Cecille Kellam and Semion Mazor stop by to tell us all about the new centralized, cloud-resident control plane to manage NetApp products!

Episode 349 - NetApp FlexCache and Storage Efficiency Updates for ONTAP 9.12.1 Dec 02, 2022

This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, Chris Hurley and Elliott Ecton join us to discuss the latest FlexCache updates in ONTAP 9.12.1, as well as the latest information on the set of storage efficiency features in NetApp ONTAP.

Episode 348 - NetApp ONTAP 9.12.1 - S3 Updates Nov 18, 2022

This week on the podcast, NetApp TME John Lantz joins us to discuss the latest ONTAP S3 updates for ONTAP 9.12.1, including S3/NAS interoperability.

Episode 347 - NetApp ONTAP 9.12.1 Overview Nov 11, 2022

This week, Keith Aasen and Ken Mencher from the ONTAP product team join us to discuss what's in ONTAP 9.12.1!

Episode 346 - Executech's Approach to Cybersecurity Nov 04, 2022

This week, James Fair of Executech joins us to discuss how they approach cybersecurity as an MSP and we teach James about what NetApp has to offer in that arena.

Episode 345 - NetApp and Digital Pathology with Kim Garriott Oct 28, 2022

This week, Kim Garriott drops by to teach us all about digital pathology and how it is the next wave of change in the healthcare IT industry.

Episode 344 - NetApp Cloud Insights featuring ONTAP Essentials Oct 07, 2022

This week, Yossi Weihs and Ed Barron join us to discuss Cloud Insights and the latest feature - ONTAP Essentials.

Episode 343 - VMware Explore 2022 NetApp Recap Sep 30, 2022

This week on the podcast, NetApp TMEs Chance Bingen (chance.bingen@netapp.com, @CB8MyDataCenter) and Niyaz Mohamed (niyaz.mohamed@netapp.com) join NetApp's Director of the Global VMware Alliance, Jason Kotsaftis (jason.kotsaftis@netapp.com), to discuss NetApp's announcements at VMware Explore 2022 including the VMware Cloud on Amazon FSx ONTAP solution!

Episode 342: All About Yves (Weisser), Kubernetes and GitHub Sep 23, 2022

This week, NetApp Solutions Architect Yves Weisser (yves.weisser@netapp.com) joins us to discuss his Kubernetes journey, Astra, his excellent GitHub repo and the French NetApp podcast!

Episode 341 - NetApp Astra Control DR - Customer Perspectives Sep 16, 2022

This week on the podcast, we feature two of our NetApp Astra Control customers as they kick the tires on the new SnapMirror support in Astra 22.08. Join me and Astra Product Manager Hrishi Kermane (hrishi@netapp.com) as we hear from SAP's Jacob Jiang (jacob.jiang@sap.com) and Hyland's Casey Shenberger (casey.shenberger@hyland.com) and their thoughts on the importance of simple, fast, application-aware DR that can be accomplished with a few clicks!

Episode 340 - NetApp Spot Security Sep 09, 2022

This week, NetApp Spot Product Manager Isma Rizvi and Security Evangelist Matt Trudewind join us to discuss cloud security by way of NetApp Spot Security!

Episode 339 - NetApp Astra Control Updates - August 2022 Sep 02, 2022

This week, Sayan Saha joins us to discuss the latest updates to NetApp's Astra Control product - NetApp's application-aware data protection and mobility offering for stateful Kubernetes applications.

Episode 338 - Introducing FlexPod XCS Aug 26, 2022

This week, NetApp Product Manager Anand Louis (anand.louis@netapp.com) joins us to discuss the new FlexPod XCS offering with Cisco Intersight integration!

Episode 337 - All About VMUG Aug 19, 2022

This week, Brad Tompkins from VMware User Group (VMUG) joins us to discuss what they're all about and how you can be a part of the community. We also brought along Seth Forgosh and Ken Jeras from NetApp to discuss the storage angle.

Episode 336 - NetApp and the Medical Imaging Cloud Journey Aug 12, 2022

This week, NetApp Healthcare experts Kim Garriott and Tony Turner join me to discuss medical imaging and where the cloud journey for those workloads currently stands.

Episode 335 - NetApp SAN Simplification with Brocade Jul 29, 2022

This week, learn about the many different ways NetApp ONTAP and Brocade Gen 7 helps simplify your enterprise SAN workloads, featuring Ant Tyrell of NetApp and AJ Casamento of Brocade.

Episode 334 - NetApp, SambaNova Systems and Medical Imaging Workloads Jul 22, 2022

This week, Matt Taylor of SambaNova Systems and Esteban Rubens of NetApp join us to discuss medical imaging workloads and how Samba Nova and NetApp partner to improve the overall AI/ML experience for those use cases.

Episode 333 - NetApp Cloud Backup Services and StorageGRID Jul 15, 2022

This week, we discuss NetApp's Cloud Backup Services and how it integrates with StorageGRID's rich S3 capabilities.

Episode 332 - How NetApp Approaches DevOps Jul 01, 2022

This week, NetApp Astra Product Manager Tim Doering joins us to talk about how NetApp approaches DevOps and what sort of solutions are available in the NetApp product portfolio. For more informaton: • Our DevOps blogs: https://cloud.netapp.com/blog/topic/devops • Our DevOps landing page: https://www.netapp.com/devops-solutions/ • Astra Data Store (+ EAP sign up, “Get started”): https://cloud.netapp.com/astra-data-store

Episode 331 - NetApp ONTAP 9.11.1 Security Overview Jun 24, 2022

This week, NetApp Security Evangelist Matt Trudewind and Security TME Dan Tulledge join us to discuss the latest updates for security in ONTAP 9.11.1.

Episode 330 - NetApp ONTAP 9.11.1 Overview Jun 17, 2022

This week, we cover what's new in NetApp ONTAP 9.11.1 with ONTAP Evangelist Keith Aasen!

Episode 329 - NetApp ONTAP Consistency Groups Deep Dive Jun 10, 2022

This week, NetApp's go-to database expert Jeffrey Steiner joins us to break down NetApp ONTAP consistency groups and dive deep into the whats, hows and whys of the feature.

Episode 328 - NetApp and vVols Backup Jun 03, 2022

This week, Chance Bingen joins us to discuss NetApp's VMware vVol support and their approach to backing them up.

Episode 327 - The NetApp Ransomware Protection Approach May 27, 2022

This week, we discuss NetApp's approach to ransomware detection, prevention and recovery with Security Evangelist Matt Trudewind, Security TME Dan Tulledge, Cloud Insights PM Amit Schwartz and Cloud Product Owner Shahar Livschitz.

Episode 326 - NetApp SuperPOD featuring NVIDIA and E-Series May 20, 2022

This week, NetApp Software Developer Chris Weber and Solutions Marketing Manager Mike McNamara join us to break down SuperPOD - the latest AI/ML solution featuring NetApp E-Series and BeeGFS.

Episode 325 - RiskIQ with Steve Ginty May 13, 2022

This week, Steve Ginty of RiskIQ joins NetApp's Security Evangelist Matt Trudewind and NetApp Spot's Azzedine Benameur to discuss how RiskIQ helps identify vulnerabilities across attack surfaces and where NetApp fits in.

Episode 324 - Cleondris SnapGuard with NetApp ONTAP May 06, 2022

This week, Dr. Christian Plattner and Rob Horsfield of Cleondris join NetApp's security evangelist Matt Trudewind to discuss how Cleondris SnapGuard fits in with NetApp ONTAP and ransomware detection, prevention and remediation.

Episode 323 - How Natural Language Processing Enhances Healthcare Insurance Apr 29, 2022

This week, David Talby from John Snow Labs joins Esteban Rubens and Lisa Hines of NetApp to discuss how natural language processing enhances the healthcare insurance industry and how John Snow Labs leverages Kubernetes containers for agile deployments.

Episode 322 - Cloud Backup for Applications Apr 01, 2022

This week, Semion Mazor and Deb Prakash of NetApp discuss the new Cloud Backup for Applications product and how you can access a preview of the software.

Episode 321 - SAN Security with Broadcom and NetApp Mar 25, 2022

This week, AJ Casamento of Broadcom and Ant Tyrell of NetApp join us to discuss security considerations in SAN environments.

Episode 320 - NetApp ONTAP 9.10.1 Overview Mar 18, 2022

This week, Keith Aasen from ONTAP Product Management joins us to deliver an overview of the latest ONTAP release, ONTAP 9.10.1.

Episode 319: SUSE Rancher, Kubernetes and NetApp Mar 04, 2022

This week, Andy King and Luke Mwila of SUSE join us to discuss Rancher and its place in the long line of Kubernetes orchestration tools. We'll chat about Kubernetes' future, how Rancher integrates with NetApp and much more!

Episode 318 - Natural Language Processing with John Snow Labs Feb 25, 2022

This week, David Talby of John Snow Labs and Esteban Rubens of NetApp join us to discuss how natural language processing is revolutionizing the way doctors diagnose and treat patients.

Episode 317 - Astra Control Center: What's new for Winter 2022? Feb 11, 2022

This week, NetApp Senior Product Manager Hrishi Keramane joins us to cover the newest updates to Astra Control Center.

Episode 316 - The Mark III and NetApp Medical AI Partnership Jan 28, 2022

This week, Andy Lin of Mark III and Esteban Rubens of NetApp join us to discuss the medical AI partnership between Mark III and NetApp and how Mark III enables customer access to medical AI with end-to-end support.

Episode 315 - Enterprise Imaging Workloads with NetApp and Google Cloud Jan 24, 2022

This week, Esteban Rubens of NetApp and Jason Klotzer of Google join us to discuss enterprise imaging in healthcare and how NetApp and Google Cloud team up to offer some of the best solutions in the industry.

Episode 314: What's New in NetApp Active IQ Digital Advisor - Jan 2022 Jan 14, 2022

This week, Principal TME Brett Albertson joins us to discuss the latest updates to NetApp ActiveIQ Digital Advisor and how to get the most out of your ActiveIQ software.

Episode 313: Autonomous SAN with NetApp and Broadcom Jan 07, 2022

This week, AJ Casamento and Ant Tyrell join us to discuss how Broadcom and NetApp are changing the way enterprise SAN remediates issues and adjusts for performance changes with autonomous SAN.

Episode 312 - NFS over RDMA - NetApp ONTAP 9.10.1 Dec 22, 2021

This week, NetApp TME David Arnette joins us to discuss the new NFS over RDMA feature in NetApp ONTAP 9.10.1 and how it boosts performance for AI, ML and other HPC workloads.

Episode 311 - Introducing the NetApp AFF A900 Dec 14, 2021

This week, Cheryl George and Chris Lueth join us to discuss the latest addition to the NetApp ONTAP platform portfolio, the AFF A900!

Episode 310 - How NetApp US Public Sector Innovation Secures Top Secret Data Dec 10, 2021

This week, we discuss NetApp's latest efforts to achieve US Public Sector certification for Top Secret data and how NetApp ONTAP delivers the best enterprise security for storage in the industry.

Episode 309 - NetApp Cloud Data Sense Dec 03, 2021

This week, Yossi Ashkenazi and Ben Kesten of NetApp join us to discuss NetApp's Cloud Data Sense, which offers data management and analytics capabilities for your cloud and on-prem configurations.

Episode 308 - Talkin' Kubernetes with Kaslin Fields of Google Nov 19, 2021

CNCF Ambassador and Developer Advocate Kaslin Fields of Google joins Jonathan Rippy of NetApp to discuss Kubernetes, Kubecon and NetApp Trident.

Episode 307 - Localize Kubernetes Storage with NetApp Astra Data Store Nov 12, 2021

This week, Gunna Marripudi and Arindam Banjeree join us to discuss the new Astra Data Store offering and how presenting NFS storage locally to Kubernetes clusters can create new possibilities.

Episode 306 - The DevOps Revolution with Emily Freeman Nov 05, 2021

This week, Emily Freeman of Amazon and Phoebe Goh of NetApp join us to discuss Emily's new DevOps revolution keynote, DevOps for dummies and the people aspect of DevOps.

Episode 305 - Taking a Look at Amazon FSx Oct 29, 2021

This week, Rajesh Rajaraman and Andy Grimes from NetApp and Andy Crudge from Amazon give us the lowdown on the latest cloud offering from NetApp and Amazon - Amazon FSx!

Episode 304 - Machine Learning in Breast Cancer Screening using iCad (with Laurence Yudkovitch) Oct 22, 2021

With breast cancer, early detection is critical in survival and remission rates. If you can reduce the amount of time it takes to find cancerous cells by using AI/ML workflows, you can literally save lives. Laurence Yudkovitch joins us to discuss just how iCad is cutting cancer detection times down, increasing accuracy and reducing the workload of radiologists.

Episode 303 - NetApp Insight 2021 Preview Oct 15, 2021

This week, the NetApp A-Team joins us to discuss this year's NetApp Insight virtual event and what they're looking forward to most.

Episode 302 - ONTAP AI Use Cases Oct 08, 2021

This week, Ray White, David Arnette and Rick Huang from NetApp join us to discuss ONTAP AI use cases and data science workflows.

Episode 301: NVMe over TCP in ONTAP 9.10.1 Oct 01, 2021

This week, the SAN guy at NetApp - Mike Peppers - drops by to discuss the latest advancement in NVMe as a protocol and what it means for the other TCP based SAN protocol - iSCSI.

Episode 300 - Medical AI at MUSC with Dr. Hamilton Baker Sep 24, 2021

This week, Dr. Hamilton Baker of the Medical University of South Carolina drops by to discuss medical AI and how it's being used for a variety of use cases, including in pediatric vaccination trials for COVID-19.

Episode 299 - NetApp Lab on Demand Early Access Program Sep 17, 2021

This week, NetApp's Lab on Demand Content Manager Brian de Loureiro stops by to tell us all about the new Early Access Program feature of the NetApp Hands on Labs.

Episode 298 - FlexPod for SAP Aug 20, 2021

This week, we learn all about the new NetApp FlexPod offering for SAP HANA from Pramod Ramamurthy of Cisco and Marco Schoen of NetApp!

Episode 297: Accelerate Enterprise SAN Apps with NVMe over FC Aug 13, 2021

This week, the SAN solutions team joins us to discuss how you can increase performance for enterprise SAN workloads with existing FCP hardware just by enabling a license!

Episode 296: SAN Automation with NetApp and Broadcom Jul 23, 2021

This week, AJ Casamento from Broadcom joins us to discuss NetApp SAN automation with Mike Peppers and Madhu Pai of NetApp.

Episode 295 - NetApp DataOps Toolkit Jul 12, 2021

This week, NetApp TME Michael Oglesby joins us to discuss data, AI/ML and the new DataOps Toolkit from NetApp!

Episode 294: Maintaining Business Operations through Disaster with ONTAP 9.9.1 Jun 28, 2021

This week, we discuss how SnapMirror Business Continuity (SMBC) and MetroCluster over IP in ONTAP 9.9.1 helps maintain business operations through disasters, as well as when you'd want to use one over the other.

Episode 293: NVMe - Disruptive Technology Brought to You Non-Disruptively by Broadcom and NetApp Jun 21, 2021

This week, we discuss NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMeFC) with experts from NetApp and Brocade, and how the protocol stacks up to the SCSI SAN protocols.

Episode 292 - NetApp E-Series EF300 Jun 14, 2021

This week, Mitch Blackburn joins us to discuss the E-Series EF300 and what's new with the E-Series line.

Episode 291: Introducing VMware Tanzu Jun 07, 2021

This week, we discuss VMware Tanzu, containers and how it all fits into the NetApp ecosystem with Myles Gray and Glenn Sizemore of VMware and Chance Bingen of NetApp.

Episode 290: NetApp E-Series BeeGFS CSI Driver May 28, 2021

This week we discuss NetApp E-Series support for BeeGFS and the new CSI driver for containers and Kubernetes deployments.

Episode 289 - Rubrik and NetApp: Better Together May 21, 2021

This week, we discuss the latest news in the NetApp/Rubrik partnership and how Rubrik works with Ben Kendall and PF Guglielmi of Rubrik and Chris Maino of NetApp.

Episode 288 - ONTAP System Manager 9.9.1 May 07, 2021

This week, Chris Gebhardt, Aniket Singh and Yizhao Zhuang join us to discuss the newest release of ONTAP System Manager and how we've been listening to your feedback!

Episode 287: Splunk SmartStore and NetApp StorageGrid Apr 30, 2021

This week, Josh Atwell (Splunk), Steven Pruchniewski (NetApp), James Bradshaw (NetApp), Raj Grewal (NetApp) and Joseph Kandatilparambil (NetApp) all join us to discuss Splunk SmartStore and the certification work being done with NetApp StorageGrid.

Episode 286: Virtual Desktop Service and VMware vSphere with ONTAP Apr 23, 2021

This week, we discuss the new Virtual Desktop Service offering from NetApp with Technical Marketing Engineer Suresh Thoppay!

Episode 285: Project Astra? Project No More! Apr 16, 2021

This week, NetApp Technical Director Garrett Mueller and Senior Director of Cloud Management Sayan Saha join us to discuss NetApp's Kubernetes automation stack, Astra, achieving general availability status!

Episode 284 - Arterys and the Cloud Native Approach to Medical AI Apr 09, 2021

This week, Arterys CEO John Axerio-Cillies and NetApp Healthcare Business Development Manager Esteban Rubens join us to discuss Arterys and their cloud native approach to medical artificial intelligence workloads.

Episode 283 - NetApp ONTAP AI Reference Architectures Apr 02, 2021

This week, we discuss the latest NetApp ONTAP AI reference architecture using NVIDIA DGX-2 servers with NetApp AI TME David Arnette!

Episode 282: Core to Cloud with NetApp SnapCenter Mar 12, 2021

This week, NetApp TMEs Mandohar Kulkarni and Ebin Kadavy join us to discuss the latest SnapCenter updates, including its foray into the cloud with SnapCenter Service.

Episode 281: Veeam is Turning it Up to 11 Feb 26, 2021

This week, we discuss the newest Veeam release (Veeam 11) with Veeam's Adam Bergh and vMiss, Melissa Palmer!

Episode 280: NetApp Trident Updates - Winter 2021 Feb 19, 2021

This week, NetApp Trident's product owner Chuck Fouts and Trident developer Jonathan Rippy drop by to discuss what's new for NetApp Trident!

Episode 279 - NetApp and Oracle - What's New? Feb 12, 2021

This week, Jeff Steiner joins us to drop some Oracle knowledge on us, as well as talk about how to best implement Oracle on NetApp storage and what's new for Oracle on NFS.

Episode 278: NetApp E-Series EF300 and NetApp HCI Feb 02, 2021

This week, NetApp's Mitch Blackburn and Sean Lee join us to discuss the latest E-Series EF300 platform, BeeGFS and NetApp HCI!

Episode 277: NetApp StorageGRID Updates - SG100 Jan 29, 2021

This week, NetApp PM Manager Steven Pruchniewski and StorageGRID developers Morgan Mears and Sam Fink join us to discuss the latest StorageGRID updates, as well as the new SG100 entry-level platform.

Episode 276: ONTAP 9.8 SAN Jan 22, 2021

This week, Mike Peppers and Praneeth Kavuri join us to discuss SAN and what's new for block storage in ONTAP 9.8.

Episode 275: ONTAP 9.8 Security Updates (featuring IPSec) Jan 15, 2021

This week, Juan Mojica and Matt Trudewind join us to talk about the latest security updates for ONTAP 9.8, including IPsec!

Episode 274: NetApp Ansible Updates - Winter 2020 Jan 08, 2021

This week, NetApp's Ansible expert - David Blackwell - joins us to discuss the latest work being done on the NetApp Ansible modules and how to start learning Ansible yourself.

Episode 273: Taking a Closer Look at the NetApp ONTAP Manageability Portfolio Dec 18, 2020

This week, Mr. Manageability Chris Gebhardt and Manageability PM Yuvaraju B join us to discuss the ONTAP Manageability portfolio and where each product fits in your data management environment.

Episode 272 - NetApp Keystone Flex Dec 11, 2020

This week, we discuss NetApp Keystone Flex and how the "pay as you go" subscription model is changing how customers think about buying storage.

Episode 271: NetApp Active IQ Unified Manager 9.8 Dec 04, 2020

This week, NetApp Active IQ TME Jacob John Andethethu joins us to discuss the latest updates with the NetApp Active IQ Unified Manager 9.8 release.

Episode 270 - NetApp ONTAP File Systems Analytics Nov 30, 2020

This week, we do a deep dive into the new ONTAP 9.8 feature in System Manager - File Systems Analytics - and why it's improving the lives of storage administrators.

Episode 269: Medical Imaging Workloads with NetApp Solutions Nov 20, 2020

This week, NetApp's Tony Turner drops by to talk about how NetApp solutions are driving successful deployments for medical imaging workloads.

Episode 268 - NetApp FabricPool and S3 in ONTAP 9.8 Nov 13, 2020

This week on the podcast, we discuss the new changes in the ONTAP 9.8 release for NetApp's cloud tiering solution - FabricPool - and the official support for ONTAP's S3 server with TME John Lantz and Product Manager James Hunter!

Episode 267: SnapMirror Business Continuity (SM-BC) for ONTAP 9.8 Nov 06, 2020

This week, NetApp SnapMirror TME Cheryl George joins us to discuss the new SnapMirror Business Continuity (SM-BC) feature available in ONTAP 9.8.

Episode 266: NetApp ONTAP System Manager 9.8 Oct 30, 2020

This week, Mr. Manageability Chris Gebhardt and TME Yizhao Zhuang join us to discuss all the latest changes in ONTAP 9.8 for NetApp System Manager.

Episode 265: NetApp SnapMirror Cloud featuring ProLion Oct 23, 2020

This week, NetApp TME Charlotte Brooks joins ProLion's CEO Robert Graf to discuss the new ONTAP feature SnapMirror Cloud and how it integrates with ProLion's backup features.

Episode 264: NetApp ONTAP SnapDiff Oct 16, 2020

This week, NetApp Technical Directory Ling Zheng and TME Charlotte Brooks join me to talk about SnapDiff, as well as the latest version and what it helps ONTAP accomplish in the cloud.

Episode 263: Virtualization in ONTAP - Fall 2020 Update Oct 09, 2020

This week, NetApp ONTAP Virtualization PM Karl Konnerth and Virtualization TME Chance Bingen join me to discuss the latest updates to ONTAP for VMware virtualization integration, as well as what sessions they recommend for NetApp Insight 2020.

Episode 262 - See Spot Run (Your NetApp Cloud Infrastructure) Oct 02, 2020

This week, Tomer Hadassi of newly acquired Spot joins us to discuss what Spot can do to save your organization money on their cloud implementations.

Episode 261: How DreamWorks Animation Creates New Worlds on NetApp ONTAP Sep 25, 2020

This week, I was lucky enough to snag a long-time NetApp customer and engineering partner DreamWorks Animation to talk about how the studio leverages NetApp ONTAP to build some of the most creative and effects intensive CG animated films on the planet.

Episode 260: NetApp Insight 2020 Preview Sep 18, 2020

This week, we invite the NetApp Insight team to talk to us about this year's 100% virtual event and how not being there in person actually has some benefits!

Episode 259: ESG, NetApp and the Hybrid Cloud Sep 11, 2020

This week, storage analyst Scott Sinclair from ESG joins Nick Howell and myself to discuss NetApp's place in the cloud market from an analyst's perspective.

Episode 258: Veeam Availability Orchestrator and NetApp DR Sep 04, 2020

This week, Veeam Global Alliance Architect Adam Bergh and Senior Technologist Melissa Palmer join us to talk about the latest release of Veeam's Availability Orchestrator, as well as how you can best design your disaster recovery plan for your virtualization environment.

Episode 257: NetApp, the Cloud and the Public Sector Aug 28, 2020

This week, NetApp's Steve Chesney joins us to discuss NetApp's cloud story and how it meshes with the security conscious public sector.

Episode 256: Multicloud Solutions with NetApp Professional Services Aug 21, 2020

This week, NetApp' Beth Philemon joins Enterprise Infrastructure Architect Mike Mitchell and Service Account Executive Glenn Steinhandler to discuss a new end to end multicloud service offering by NetApp Professional Services!

Episode 255 - Splunk 101 and AI Ops Aug 14, 2020

This week, Josh Atwell and Amélie Koran of Splunk join us to discuss the basics of Splunk - what it does, how it works - and where it fits into the growing AI market and the budding AI ops concept.

Episode 254: cnvrg.io and NetApp ONTAP AI Aug 07, 2020

This week, cnvrg.io CEO Yochay Ettun and NVIDIA Senior Manager, AI Systems Chris Kawalek joins NetApp data scientist Rick Huang and myself to discuss cnvrg.io, GPUs, containers, ONTAP AI and much more!

Episode 253 -Fujifilm, Healthcare AI and NetApp Jul 31, 2020

This week, Tom Hasley of Fujifilm drops by to talk healthcare and AI with Esteban Rubens. We discuss algorithms used in healthcare, PACS imaging and how NetApp solutions enable success stories for these workloads.

Episode 252: All the Ops! AI Ops with NetApp Active IQ Jul 24, 2020

This week, NetApp Director of Strategy and Technology John "Ricky" Martin and Principal Technologist Chris Merz join us to discuss the next wave of "ops" - AI Ops! Find out how NetApp's ActiveIQ leverages AI Ops and what's in store for predictive analytics for data management.

Episode 251: NetApp Documentation Updates Jul 17, 2020

This week, the NetApp Documentation team joins us for a discussion on what changes have been made to how NetApp documents things, as well as the gradual move to GitHub for documentation.

Episode 250: NetApp HCI Data Protection Strategies with Cleondris Jul 10, 2020

This week, the storage janitor (Andy Banta) joins us, along with NetApp HCI TME Michael White, to discuss data protection strategies for NetApp HCI using Cleondris!

Episode 249 - How NetApp Helps Accelerate the Automotive Industry Jul 03, 2020

This week, Mrinal Devadas and Christian Ott from NetApp's automotive team join us to discuss the automotive industry and what NetApp can do to help accelerate their business needs.

Episode 248: NABox and NetApp ONTAP Performance Monitoring with Harvest Jun 26, 2020

This week, we invite NetApp Technical Account Manager Yann Bizeul, NetApp Performance TME Dan Isaacs and Client Solutions Architect @ AHEAD Dan Burkland to discuss NABox - a self-contained, pre-configured VM instance of NetApp Harvest that lets you start monitoring NetApp ONTAP performance in a matter of minutes!

Episode 247 - Democratizing AI in Healthcare with NetApp and Intel Jun 19, 2020

In a pandemic, quality global healthcare becomes more important than ever. A virus knows no borders, so if you can provide the same quality of technology in Africa as you do in the United States, everyone wins. Leveraging the cloud to provide crucial analytical infrastructure for developing countries makes democratizing healthcare services a possibility, and when you factor in security using blockchain, these countries can also rest assured that the data has integrity. These technologies also are available to extend over to other important use cases, such as securing free elections. DR. Etienne Elie of Intel and NetApp Healthcare Business Development Manager Esteban Rubens join us to describe how NetApp and Intel can help these worthwhile endeavors.

Episode 246 - NetApp Active IQ and Iguazio Jun 12, 2020

In this podcast episode, we continue the discussion we had about Iguazio in Episode 237 by talking about how NetApp uses Iguazio for its Active IQ platform. NetApp Technical Director Shankar Pasupathy and Iguazio CTO Yaron Haviv join us to break it all down for us and tell us what NetApp features are used to power the Active IQ platform.

Episode 245: Containers, Kubernetes and Automation in Dev and QA at NetApp Jun 05, 2020

Automation technology - such as Kubernetes - is the current hot topic in IT circles, but it's not always clear where it might fit in existing environments. This podcast covers how NetApp's own dev and QA teams have made the transition to automating with Kubernetes, as well as information on Golang and NetApp Trident. Joining us: - Jonathan Rippy, Software Engineer, NetApp - Nick Gerace, Software Engineer, NetApp

Episode 244: NetApp REST API Update May 29, 2020

In this podcast episode, we cover the newest information about REST APIs in ONTAP 9.7 and what's in store for ZAPI, PowerShell and other ONTAP interfaces.

Episode 243: NetApp Project Astra May 22, 2020

This week on the podcast, we have a deep discussion about Project Astra and what it means going forward for NetApp's Cloudand Kubernetes story - as well as what went into container-izing ONTAP! Joining us this week: - Jonsi Steffanson: NetApp CTO & VP, Cloud Services - Jeff Prem: VP, Chief Architect ONTAP - Eric Han: VP, Product Management - Cloud - Phoebe Goh: Principal Architect and Business Liaison

Episode 242 - NetApp Cloud Insights and Cloud Secure May 15, 2020

This week on the podcast, we break down the new Cloud Insights functionality - Cloud Secure - and how it's helping businesses combat ransomware attacks with a fully cloud-resident SaaS offering. NetApp Senior Technical Product Manager for Cloud Insights, Kai Neibergall, joins us.

Episode 241: NetApp and ePlus - Powering Healthcare with Data Science May 08, 2020

This week on the podcast, everyone's mind is on healthcare - specifically COVID-19. One of the things being used to combat the pandemic is and unlikely combatant; data. Data science, AI and Machine Learning is hard at work trying to unlock the secrets of the novel coronavirus, and we discuss on this podcast the role that data science plays in healthcare in general with ePlus data scientist Andrew Malinow and NetApp's Healthcare Business Development Manager Esteban Ruebens.

Episode 240 - NetApp ONTAP S3 May 01, 2020

In this podcast episode, NetApp StorageGRID has long been the go-to solution for S3 when dealing with the NetApp portfolio. But, due to popular demand, S3 is now in ONTAP as a public preview! NetApp's StorageGRID's Senior Director and Object Store PM Duncan Moore joins us, along with StorageGRID Solutions Architect Luke Mun, ONTAP S3 PM James Hunter and TME John Lantz, as we discuss the ins and outs of ONTAP S3 and where it fits alongside StorageGRID in the NetApp object storage solution portfolio.

Episode 239: NetApp and RedHat Summit 2020 Apr 24, 2020

In this podcast episode, Red Hat joins us to discuss this year's virtual Red Hat Summit 2020, as well as the partnership with NetApp. Joining us are Nick Wallace and Andrew Sullivan of Red Hat and Mark Cates of NetApp.

Episode 238: NetApp Zero Trust Architectures Apr 21, 2020

In this podcast episode, NetApp security PM Juan Mojica and TME Dan Tulledge join us to tell us about how NetApp helps enterprises architect a zero-trust security solution with ONTAP.

Episode 237 - Iguazio Apr 17, 2020

This week on the podcast, Iguazio's CTO Yaron Haviv and VP of Business Development Ori Lev Ran join NetApp's Sr. Solutions Manager of AI, Hoseb Dermanilian and myself to talk about Iguazio and where they fit in the AI/ML landscape.

Episode 236: How NVIDIA, NetApp and AI in Healthcare Can Help Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic Apr 08, 2020

This week on the podcast, Dr. Mona Flores, the Global Lead for Hospitals and Clinical Partnerships from NVIDIA, joins NetApp's Healthcare Business Development Manager Esteban Ruebens to discuss how NetApp and NVIDIA are teaming up to help healthcare professionals use AI, as well as how AI is being used to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Episode 234: NetApp Keystone Mar 27, 2020

This week, Sunitha Rao and Jean Banko join us to discuss NetApp Keystone and how it's revolutionizing the cloud consumption model.

Episode 233 - NetApp Acquires Talon Storage Solutions Mar 20, 2020

This week on the podcast, we break down NetApp's acquisition of Talon Storage Solutions and how it fits into NetApp's Data Fabric Strategy. We cover why the acquisition was made, what to expect for new and old Talon customers, and what this means for NetApp's FlexCache feature.

Episode 232 - International Women's Day 2020 at NetApp Mar 13, 2020

This week on the podcast, we welcome some of NetApp's best and brightest women to discuss how NetApp celebrated International Women's Day 2020.

Episode 231 - How NetApp Automates Lab on Demand Mar 06, 2020

This week on the podcast, NetApp's Lab on Demand director Toby Creek joins us to discuss how Lab on Demand has handled increasing scale, public access and automation of lab environment setup.

Episode 230: Protecting Your Cloud, DevOps and Serverless Data Feb 28, 2020

This week on the podcast, we invite Glenn Dekhayser of Red8 and NetApp Trident Developer Johnathan Rippy to join us in a discussion about data protection with all the cloudy, devops-y, serverless buzz words we can think of. We also cover what's new in NetApp Trident.

Episode 229 - Veeam 10 Feb 21, 2020

This week on the podcast, Michael Cade and Adam Bergh from Veeam join myself and TME Jeannine Walter to discuss the latest release of Veeam.

Episode 228 - FlexPod for Industry Verticals: Healthcare Feb 14, 2020

This week on the podcast, we discuss FlexPod and the new initiative to create validated designs for industry verticals. First up - Healthcare and Epic software with NetApp Sr. Product Manager for Converged Infrastructure, Ketan Mota and NetApp Solutions Architect for Healthcare, Brian O'Mahony.

Episode 227 - Pacific Biosciences: ONTAP and Unstructured NAS Feb 07, 2020

This week on the podcast, Adam Knight of Pacific Biosciences joins us to discuss how PacBio uses ONTAP for all of its unstructured NAS workload requirements, with a focus on FlexGroup volumes!

Episode 226: NetApp Ansible Update - Winter 2020 Jan 31, 2020

This week on the podcast, TME David Blackwell joins us to talk about the latest updates to the NetApp Ansible modules.

Episode 225: NetApp Technical Support - Winter 2020 Updates Jan 24, 2020

This week on the podcast, NetApp support director John Boggs and Escalation Engineer Chance Bingen join us to discuss NetApp support, what's new and what's coming up!

Episode 224 - FabricPool Updates: ONTAP 9.7 Jan 17, 2020

This week, FabricPool TME John Lantz and PM Shriya Paramkusam stop by to give us the latest on what's new for FabricPool in ONTAP 9.7, as well as the new S3 server available for public preview!

Episode 223: NetApp Hands on Labs Jan 10, 2020

This week on the podcast, Toby Creek joins us to discuss the new public offering of NetApp's Hands on Labs.

Episode 222: To the Data Fabric and Beyond with Matt Watts Jan 03, 2020

This week on the podcast, NetApp's EMEA CTO Matt Watts joins us to discuss the data fabric and the new NetApp Keystone offering.

Episode 221: NetApp All SAN Array (ASA) Dec 20, 2019

This week on the podcast, we invite Mike Peppers, NetApp's SAN TME, to tell us all about the new All SAN Array (ASA) offering available with ONTAP 9.7. We also go into how storage failover work in general, and how ASA improves failover times.

Episode 220: ProLion, NetApp and Ransomware Solutions Dec 13, 2019

This week on the podcast, we invite Robert Graf and Steve Arlin of ProLion to discuss ransomware solutions, detection and prevention with NetApp Security TME Matt Trudewind. Robert and Steve are so confident in ProLion, they give out their personal phone numbers!

Episode 219 - FlexVol to FlexGroup Conversion Dec 06, 2019

This week on the podcast, we invite the FlexGroup Technical Director, Dan Tennant, and FlexGroup developer Jessica Peters, to talk to us about the ins and outs of converting a FlexVol to a FlexGroup in-place, with no copy and no outage!

Episode 218: NetApp E-Series Fall 2019 Update Nov 26, 2019

This week, E-Series PM Younes Ben-Brahim and TME Todd Edwards join us to discuss the latest in E-Series, including the new BeeGFS platform offering.

Episode 217: ONTAP 9.7 Nov 21, 2019

This week on the podcast, we chat about the latest release of ONTAP and what new features we can expect, as well as what value they add. Featured in this episode: - NetApp SVP Octavian Tanase - NetApp Director Jeff Baxter - NetApp Product Marketing Manager Jon Jacob - Netapp Technical Product Marketing Manager Skip Shapiro - NetApp TMEs Dan Isaacs and Mike Peppers

Episode 216: StorageGrid 11.3 and New Platforms Nov 15, 2019

This episode of the Tech ONTAP Podcast covers the latest release of NetApp StorageGrid 11.3, as well as the new all-flash platform, which is first of its kind in the object storage industry! Join Duncan Moore and Morgan Mears as they tell us all about it.

Episode 215: NetApp Insight 2019 Recap Nov 05, 2019

This week on the podcast, we recap NetApp Insight 2019 in Las Vegas. Join us as we cover the highlights of the event, as well as what people on the floor had to say.

Episode 214: NetApp WIT at Grace Hopper Celebration and Insight 2019 Oct 25, 2019

This week on the podcast, we invited NetApp’s Women in Technology to talk about Grace Hopper Celebration, Women in Technology and what’s going on at Insight 2019 in Las Vegas.

Episode 213 - Quarterly Security Update: Fall 2019 Oct 18, 2019

This week on the podcast, we continue our quarterly security series with some updates about Insight 2019, what’s new in security since the summer and some in-depth discussion about NetApp ONTAP’s Secure Purge Feature.

Episode 212: Azure NetApp Files Oct 11, 2019

This week on the podcast, Lee Jiles (NetApp Sr. Manager of Azure Global) and Will Stowe (NetApp Cloud Architect) tell us all about the NetApp cloud native offering in Microsoft Azure, why you might want to use it, and how easy it is to get access.

Episode 211 - NetApp Insight 2019 Preview Oct 04, 2019

This week on the podcast, we give you the lowdown on NetApp Insight 2019 in Las Vegas. Join us as we discuss this year’s Insight themes, fun events you might be interested in, sessions, Insight Central and much more!

Episode 210 - Rubrik 101 Sep 24, 2019

This week on the podcast, we discuss the recently announced NetApp-Rubrik partnership and cover the basics of what Rubrik is and can do for NAS data protection with Rubrik PM Tony Zhou, Rubrik Technical Partner Manager Pierre-François Guglielmi and NetApp’s Yossi Weihs, Keith Norbie, and Dan Issacs!

Episode 209: Designing an End-to-End Genomics Solution Using NetApp Sep 20, 2019

This week on the podcast, we talk genomics and how to design an end to end solution using NetApp products across the portfolio with Cloud Solution Architect Florian Fledhaus.

Episode 207 - VMworld 2019 Recap Sep 06, 2019

This week on the podcast, we bring in Chris Gebhardt, Keith Norbie and Bryce Cracco to tell us all about what went down for NetApp at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco.

Episode 206: NetApp, Intel and AI with Remi el-Ouazzane Aug 30, 2019

This week on the podcast, we talk with Intel’s Vice President, Artificial Intelligence Products Group, Remi el-Ouazzane and NetApp’s Hoseb Dermillian about AI trends and how NetApp and Intel products are enabling the AI data pipeline to become a reality.

Episode 205: VMworld 2019 Preview Aug 23, 2019

This week on the podcast, we invite a slew of people to talk about what will be going on from a NetApp perspective at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco. Join us and the following guests: - Dan Isaacs, Sr. TME at NetApp for NVMe - Chris Gebhardt, Principal TME at NetApp for MAX Data - Karl Konnerth, TME for Virtualization in ONTAP - Steven Cortéz Virtualization Technical Marketing Engineer - Yadin Porter de Leon, Global Executive Content Strategist at VMware - Andy Banta, Storage Janitor at NetApp - Pete Flecha, TME at VMware and host of the Virtually Speaking podcast

Episode 204 - Chainkit with Val Bercovici Aug 16, 2019

This week on the podcast, an old friend joins us to talk about his newest venture into blockchain and security. Join us as we discuss Chainkit and PencilDATA with founder Val Bercovici and how you can use it to protect your enterprise environments.

Episode 203: Intel and NetApp - Edge to Core to Cloud to VMworld 2019 Aug 09, 2019

This week on the podcast, we talk with Intel’s CTO Bill Giard about what Intel’s been up to with hybrid cloud and VMware, as well as what they might be up to at VMworld 2019! NetApp's MAX Data TME Chris Gebhardt also joins us.

Episode 202: TCP Performance Enhancements in ONTAP 9.6 - CUBIC TCP Aug 02, 2019

This week on the podcast, we bring in networking guru Richard Scheffenegger to discuss how networking performance over long distance WANs is crazy fast thanks to the implementation of CUBIC TCP in ONTAP 9.6. Dan Isaacs also joins us for a discussion with Richard about RDMA.

Episode 201: NVIDIA, NetApp and AI Jul 26, 2019

This week on the podcast, we welcome Tony Paikeday from NVIDIA and NetApp Technical Director Santosh Rao to talk about AI and if it’s here to stay or a passing fad...

Episode 200 - Cloud, Mentorship and Comics with Kaslin Fields Jul 19, 2019

This week on the podcast, we celebrate our 200th episode by inviting some old friends back to talk about cloud, mentoring and comics!

Episode 198: NetApp A-Team ETL 2019 Jul 05, 2019

This week on the podcast, the NetApp A-Team joins us to discuss their experiences at the annual ETL meeting at NetApp HQ. Find out what stuff stood out the most to them, what trends they’re seeing and who their favorite speakers were!

Episode 197: NetApp Accelerates Genomics Jun 28, 2019

This week on the podcast, we talk about genomics – from an overview to the disruptive impact genetic analytics is having on not only science and healthcare, but also on storage and data management and how NetApp is accelerating genomic workloads.

Episode 196: Intel, NetApp and High Performance Computing Jun 17, 2019

This week on the podcast, Intel joins us to talk about high-performance computing, cloud analytics and artificial intelligence, as well as how Intel and NetApp’s Data Fabric can help address challenges around these areas.

Episode 195 – Data Above, Data Below with Matt Watts Jun 14, 2019

This week on the podcast, we check in on “Watts” Matt (@mtjwatts) has been up to since we last checked in on him in Episode 135. This time around, we discuss Matt’s latest blog about data – what’s above it and what’s below it, and how we need to change how we have discussions about it.

Episode 194: Cloud Volumes ONTAP, FlexCache and ONTAP 9.6 Jun 07, 2019

This week on the podcast, we talk about how FlexCache and Cloud Volumes ONTAP play together in ONTAP 9.6, as well as what use cases you might leverage for the feature.

Episode 193: Quarterly Security Update - ONTAP 9.6 May 31, 2019

This week on the podcast, we deliver our quarterly security update – focusing on ONTAP 9.6 - with members of our security team.

Episode 192: REST APIs in ONTAP 9.6 May 24, 2019

This week on the podcast, we talk REST APIs in ONTAP 9.6 and how REST APIs will improve the overall ONTAP deployment experience.

Episode 191: Commvault Overview May 17, 2019

This week on the podcast, we invite Commvault to talk about their latest offerings and how they tie in to the NetApp Data Fabric! Featured in this podcast: - Ashutosh Tamankar, Commvault - Emannuelle Renard, NetApp

Episode 190: ONTAP 9.6 Hardware Update May 13, 2019

This week on the podcast, Hardware TME Chris Lueth joins us to discuss the latest hardware that’s coming out with the new ONTAP 9.6 release, including the A320, NVMe shelves and new switches!

Episode 189: ONTAP 9.6 Overview May 10, 2019

This week on the podcast, we give you the lowdown on the latest ONTAP 9.6 release with ONTAP Systems Group Vice President Octavian Tanase, Senior Director of Product Management Jeff Baxter, and Technical Product Marketing Manager Skip Shapiro! Join us as we talk about how ONTAP 9.6 brings more simplicity, productivity, customer use cases, data protection and security to your datacenter.

BONUS CONTENT: ONTAP 9.6 Feature Overview May 08, 2019

Don't have time to listen to the entire ONTAP 9.6 overview episode? Just need a quick rundown of the new features in ONTAP 9.6? Look no further! Spend ~5 minutes with us to learn about what's new in ONTAP 9.6.

Episode 188: FlexGroup Update May 03, 2019

This week on the podcast, FlexGroup lead developer Richard Jernigan and Technical Director Dan Tennant join us to give an update on what’s new in FlexGroup volumes, as well as what has changed since we last covered it in depth in Episode 46 of the podcast.

Episode 186: ONTAP Storage Efficiency Overview Apr 19, 2019

This week on the podcast, we talk ONTAP storage efficiencies with a team of ONTAP storage efficiency developers and the storage efficiency Product Manager, Karthik Viswanath!

Episode 184 – Don't Panic! It’s Only Cloud! Apr 05, 2019

This week on the podcast, we try to convince you not to panic - it’s just cloud. Join NetApp Cloud Architect Phoebe Goh, NetApp Technical Marketing Engineer Jeannine Walter and VMware Director of Influence Marketing Amy Lewis as we discuss cloud, use cases, misconceptions, career advice and... Dutch food?

Episode 183: NetApp Kubernetes Service Mar 29, 2019

This week on the podcast, we talk to NetApp’s Cloud Native Technical Director Matt Baldwin and TME Ariel Jatib about NetApp Kubernetes Service (NKS – formerly Stackpoint.io) and cover what it is, why you’d want to use it and where it fits. We also brought in Andrew Grimes to give his perspective as a new NKS user.

Episode 182: NetApp on NetApp - FlexGroups and Active IQ Mar 22, 2019

This week on the podcast, we invite in the guys from Customer One, who operate the NetApp on NetApp program. NetApp on NetApp is a program where we leverage the latest NetApp technologies within our own organizations. Eduardo Rivera and Faisal Salaam as we discuss how NetApp is using FlexGroup volumes to power Active IQ.

Episode 181 - ONTAP Networking Deep Dive and Tips Mar 15, 2019

This week on the podcast, we invite networking guru Richard Scheffenegger to nerd out on a variety of networking topics as a follow up to Episode 172: Scale Out Networking in ONTAP, as well as some tips for optimizing your current networking architecture, the danger of shallow buffer switches and what sort of new networking technologies are coming down the pipe.

Episode 180 - Cloud Volumes ONTAP Overview Mar 08, 2019

This week on the podcast, we give the lowdown on Cloud Volumes ONTAP. What are they? Who’s using them? What are the use cases? Join us as we invite the NetApp Manager of Cloud Solutions Architecture, Jens Dickmeis and NetApp Cloud Solutions Architect Akash Gupta to talk all about ONTAP in the cloud.

Episode 179: StorageGRID Webscale 11.2 Mar 01, 2019

This week on the podcast, we chat about the latest release of NetApp’s object storage solution – StorageGRID Webscale 11.2! Join us as we ask StorageGRID software director Duncan Moore and Global Solutions Architect Luke Mun all about StorageGRID and object storage.

Episode 178: SAN Overview and SAN Health Feb 22, 2019

This week on the podcast, we cover SAN – what it is and when to use it, as well as the new free tool, SAN Health from Brocade with SAN/Perf/NVMe TME Michael Peppers, SAN Technical Architect Steve Botkin and Naem Saafein from Broadcom!

Episode 177: Data Science Feb 15, 2019

This week on the podcast, we nerd out on data science and what it means to NetApp and its customers with a couple of NetApp data scientists – Garth Zoller and Stephen Kimel. We also get input from the ONTAP AI product manager Sundar Ranganathan and performance analyst Sung-Han Lin about the work NetApp is doing to spark conversations with data scientists and how ONTAP AI fits in.

Episode 176: NetApp Cloud Insights Feb 08, 2019

This week on the podcast, NetApp Product Manager James Holden joins us to talk about NetApp Cloud Insights, the new cloud-resident monitoring and analytics Software as a Service offering from NetApp.

Episode 175: Service Providers Using NetApp featuring Tierpoint Feb 01, 2019

This week on the podcast, we talk to David Hines of Tierpoint about how a service provider uses NetApp and what value they get out of the rich ONTAP feature set. If you are a service provider and want to tell your story, email us at podcast@netapp.com.

Episode 174: Veeam 9.5 Update 4 Jan 25, 2019

This week on the podcast, we chat with the Veeam team – Evangelists Michael Cade and Melissa Palmer, and NetApp architect Adam Bergh - about what’s new in Veeam 9.5 update 4.

Episode 173: NetApp Advanced Technology Group Jan 18, 2019

This week on the podcast, we unveil one of NetApp’s best kept secrets with Andrew Klosterman. Join us as we discuss what the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) does, what they’ve done in the past and what they’re looking at in the future. Topics range from ONTAP to new media types like SMR to blockchain.

Episode 172: Scale Out Networking in ONTAP Jan 11, 2019

This week on the podcast, we break down the latest networking enhancements in ONTAP, including virtual IP, BGP and TCP blackhole detection. We also talk about the vision of ONTAP networking and where we’re taking ONTAP as we modernize our networks!

Episode 171: Cloud Data Services with Nick Howell Jan 04, 2019

This week on the podcast, we catch up with NetApp’s newest old employee (or is it oldest new employee?) to see what he’s been up to, how he ended up back at NetApp and what he’s working on today. Join us as we discuss a variety of Cloud Data Services including Azure NetApp Files & NetApp Kubernetes Service with the original NetApp podcaster and DataCenterDude himself – Nick Howell!

Episode 170: Active IQ Dec 21, 2018

This week on the podcast, we talk NetApp Active IQ and how it can benefit storage administrators with guest co-host Dan Isaacs, Active IQ TME Brett Albertson and director of Solutions Engineering, Kim Weller!

Episode 169: Quarterly Security Update - Winter 2018 Dec 14, 2018

This week on the podcast, we continue our Quarterly Security Update series on the podcast with Security PM Andrae Middleton and Security TMEs Matt Trudewind and Dan Tulledge. Join us as we discuss all the latest in security across the NetApp Portfolio.

Episode 168: NetApp Insight 2018 - Barcelona Recap Dec 10, 2018

We recap NetApp Insight 2018 in Barcelona with some special guests and wrap it all up with the NetApp A-Team!

BONUS CONTENT: NetApp Insight 2018 Barcelona - Roaming Insight Central Dec 10, 2018

At NetApp Insight 2018 in Barcelona, I acted as a roving reporter and walked up to booths to see what conversations were being had at the event. I also created a new intro song, just for fun!

Episode 167: VMware Private Cloud on NetApp HCI Nov 30, 2018

This week on the podcast, we find out what a great fit VMware Private Cloud is on NetApp HCI with the Storage Janitor, Andy Banta and HCI Solution Engineer Sean Howard, as well as what they’ll be up to at NetApp Insight in Barcelona.

Episode 166: SnapMirror Synchronous Nov 23, 2018

This week on the podcast, we chat all about SnapMirror Synchronous, including technical details, what to expect for the initial use cases and where it fits into your business needs. Join us as we welcome Data Protection VP Harish Arora, Technical Director Balaji Ramani, Principal Enginner Akhil Kaushik and Product Manager Chris Winter to discuss!

BONUS CONTENT: ONTAP 9.5 Feature Overview Nov 20, 2018

Don't have time to listen to the entire ONTAP 9.5 overview episode? Just need a quick rundown of the new features in ONTAP 9.5? Look no further! Spend 5 minutes with us to learn about what's new in ONTAP 9.5.

Episode 165: Accelerate your NAS Data with FlexCache Nov 16, 2018

This week on the podcast, we talk about the new iteration of ONTAP’s NAS acceleration feature, FlexCache! Join us as we discuss with NetApp’s Technical Director Pranoop Erasani, FlexCache PM Shriya Paramkusam and FlexCache TME Chris Hurley.

Episode 164 - NetApp Data Availability Services Nov 09, 2018

This week on the podcast, we welcome Yossi Weihs and Charlotte Brooks in to discuss the new cloud resident backup orchestrator, brand new in ONTAP 9.5 - NetApp Data Availability Services for the Hybrid Cloud!

Episode 163: ONTAP 9.5 Nov 02, 2018

This week on the podcast, we cover the latest ONTAP release and the vision for ONTAP in general with “the ONTAP guy,” Octavian Tanase. We also dive a bit deeper into the features with Jon Jacob and Skip Shapiro!

Episode 162: NetApp Insight 2018 - Las Vegas Recap Oct 29, 2018

This week on the podcast, we recap NetApp Insight 2018 in Las Vegas, with a variety of special guests, including some familiar voices, as well as some new friends. The NetApp A-Team wraps it all up and gives their perspective on the event.

BONUS CONTENT: NetApp Insight 2018 Las Vegas - Roaming Insight Central Oct 27, 2018

At NetApp Insight 2018 in Las Vegas, I decided to try something new. I acted as a roving reporter and walked up to booths to see what conversations were being had at the event. I also created a new intro song, just for fun! If you think the segment works, or would like to be a part of the podcast at Insight Barcelona, email us at podcast@netapp.com!

Episode 161: ONTAP Select Updates Oct 19, 2018

This week on the podcast, Peter Skovrup, Senior Director of Product Management for ONTAP Select joins us to discuss what’s the latest and greatest for the software defined offering of ONTAP, as well as what’s going on at NetApp Insight 2018. We also cover the mobile datacenter and how you can check it out. Be sure to sign up for the following ONTAP Select sessions at NetApp Insight!

Episode 160: Converged Systems Advisor 3.0 for FlexPod Oct 12, 2018

This week on the podcast, Sr. Product Manager Wyatt Bennett joins us to talk about the latest release of Converged Systems Advisor and how it can improve your overall converged infrastructure experience.

Episode 159: NetApp at AnsibleFest Oct 01, 2018

This week on the podcast, NetApp TME David Blackwell and Sr. Product and Program Manage Lawrence Bunka join us to discuss what NetApp will be up to at AnsibleFest.

Episode 158: NetApp Insight 2018 Preview Sep 28, 2018

This week on the podcast, we break down NetApp Insight 2018 with a plethora of special guests. Listen as we discuss what sessions you should check out, what's going on at Insight Central and what's new about this year's show.

Episode 157: Performance Analysis Using OnCommand Unified Manager Sep 21, 2018

This week on the podcast, we welcome Mr. Performance himself, Tony Gaddis to give us a tutorial on easily finding performance issues using OnCommand Unified Manager, as well as some common “rules of thumb” when it comes to how much latency and node utilization is too much.

Episode 156: SnapCenter 4.1 Sep 14, 2018

This week on the podcast, the SnapCenter Wonder Twins - TMEs Steven Cortez (@mscproductions) and Jeanine Walter (@j9Walter) join us to give the lowdown on what’s new in the latest SnapCenter release.

Episode 155: Trident 18.07 and… Goodbye Sully? Sep 07, 2018

This week on the podcast, we make Sully do work on his last day at NetApp, as we discuss what’s new in NetApp Trident 18.07. We also have some special guests - Jonathan Rippy and Garrett Mueller - stop by to wish Sully well as he heads off to RedHat. We’ll miss you, Sully!

Episode 153: VVols and VMware Best Practices in ONTAP Aug 24, 2018

This week on the podcast, ONTAP Virtualization TME Karl Konnerth (@konnerth) joins us to give us the latest in VMware best practices for ONTAP, as well as a primer on VVols and what the latest functionality is in vSphere 7.2!

Episode 152: VMworld 2018 Preview + NetApp HCI Update Aug 17, 2018

This week on the podcast, VMworld 2018 is fast approaching! Join me and a group of NetApp’s finest virtualization experts to discuss what’s in store for NetApp at VMworld 2018, as well as what we can expect for NetApp HCI.

Episode 151: Honeycomb.io, Serverless and DevOps Aug 10, 2018

This week on the podcast, Honeycomb.io CEO Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) joins the Tech ONTAP podcast team (with special guest host Josh Atwell) to discuss Honeycomb.io, the concept of going serverless and testing in production!

Episode 150 - Tech Career Advancement with Yadin Porter de Leon Aug 03, 2018

This week on the podcast, we change it up a bit and bring in VMware Global Executive Content Strategist, Tech LevelUp founder, Sunnyvale VMUG leader, Tech Village podcaster and all around community all-star, Yadin Porter de Leon to talk about Tech Careers and how to advance. We also talk about combating imposter syndrome and overcoming your fears.

Episode 149 - Cloud Volumes Service Performance with Oracle Databases Jul 27, 2018

This week on the podcast, TME Chad Morgenstern joins us to discuss how performance looks in Cloud Volumes Service for Oracle Database workloads.

Episode 148 – An Introduction to Cloud Volumes Service Jul 20, 2018

This week on the podcast, we invited Technical Director Eiki Hrafnsson and Solutions Marketing Manager Ingo Fuchs to give us the lowdown on what Cloud Volumes Service are and where people are expected to use them.

Episode 147: SPC-1v3 AFF A800 Results Jul 13, 2018

This week on the podcast, we find out how the new NetApp A800 system fared in the rigorous SPC-1 v3 storage benchmarks. Can the NVMe attached SSDs truly help reduce latency while maintaining a high number of IOPs? Performance TME Dan Isaacs and the workload engineering team of Scott Lane, Jim Laing and Joe Scott join us to discuss!

Episode 146: OpenStack Summit 2018 + OpenStack FlexPod Jul 06, 2018

This week on the podcast, we bring in some of the NetApp OpenStack crew to discuss OpenStack Summit 2018 in Vancouver. Join Product Marketing Manager Pete Brey and TMEs Amit Borulkar and David Blackwell as we discuss all the happenings of the conferences, as well as Amit’s new OpenStack FlexPod Cisco Validated Design!

Episode 145: AI, Machine Learning, & ONTAP Jun 29, 2018

This week on the podcast, NetApp Senior Technical Director Santosh Rao joins us to talk about how NetApp and NVidia are partnering to enhance AI solutions with the DGX-1, ONTAP and FlexGroup volumes using NFS!

Episode 144: NetApp A-Team ETL 2018 Jun 22, 2018

This week on the podcast, the NetApp A-Team descends upon NetApp HQ in Sunnyvale, CA to get briefings on upcoming roadmap information and to give feedback to product operations.

Episode 143: NetApp Service Level Manager 1.0 GA Jun 15, 2018

This week on the podcast, we’re joined by NetApp Service Level Manager Product Managers Yossi Weihs and Naga Anur to discuss the latest GA release of NetApp Service Level Manager and how it helps provisioning NetApp storage like a service provider oh-so-easy.

Episode 142: Supportability in ONTAP Jun 08, 2018

This week on the podcast, we dish out information on one of NetApp’s best kept secrets – the supportability team! Join us as we uncover the work Matt Mercer, Scott Morris, Kunal Raina and Matt Trudewind are doing in the trenches to improve the overall customer experience for support of NetApp products.

Episode 141: FabricPool Enhancements in ONTAP 9.4 Jun 01, 2018

This week on the podcast, FabricPool Lifeguard/TME John Lantz discusses the latest enhancements to the cloud-connected feature in ONTAP 9.4, as well as the technical details behind how FabricPool works.

Episode 140: Quarterly Security Update - ONTAP 9.4 and GDPR May 25, 2018

This week on the podcast, we bring in Security PM Juan Mojica and Security TMEs Andrae Middleton and Dan Tulledge to get ready for GDPR by discussing ONTAP 9.4’s newest security enhancements and what they mean for the new European regulation as the grace period ends. We also discuss best practices and how to best protect your storage systems from breaches.

Episode 139: ONTAP 9.4 - NVMe and New Platforms May 18, 2018

This week on the podcast, we brought in an army of hardware and NVMe experts to discuss the newest NVMe features in ONTAP 9.4 and what new hardware platforms are coming soon. Join us as we welcome Dan Isaacs, Chris Lueth and Mike Peppers to the podcast!

Episode 138: ONTAP 9.4 Overview May 11, 2018

This week on the podcast, ONTAP 9.4 is here! I managed to snag ONTAP Senior Vice President Octavian Tanase and ONTAP Chief Evangelist Jeff Baxter to discuss what went into some of the decisions we made regarding the new feature payload, the future vision for ONTAP and what new stuff you can expect in this release.

ONTAP 9.4 - Feature Overview May 08, 2018

ONTAP 9.4 has been announced! Listen to this short 5 minute teaser to find out what's new at a high level and learn when new podcasts on ONTAP 9.4 will be coming out.

Episode 137: Name Services in ONTAP Apr 27, 2018

This week on the podcast, we talk Name Services in ONTAP and the introduction of the new global name services cache in ONTAP 9.3 with NAS TME, Chris Hurley!

Episode 136: Modernizing Dev and QA the NetApp Way Apr 20, 2018

This week on the podcast, we invited a couple of NetApp’s own dev and QA members – David Pressley and Mekka Williams – to discuss how NetApp is modernizing and streamlining their processes and how other businesses can take lessons from how NetApp is leveraging automation, dev/ops and the cloud to make development life fitter, happier and more productive!

Episode 135: Cattle, Pets and the Hive Mentality in Tech with Matt Watts Apr 13, 2018

This week on the podcast, NetApp Director of Technology and Strategy in EMEA, Matt Watts, joins us, to talk about his latest blog and how current technology is simply repeating the patterns in nature to better understand how people are using data and leveraging applications. For Matt’s latest blog titled “Pets, Cattle, Insects and the Fabric of life,” see: http://www.watts-innovating.com/pets-cattle-insects-and-the-fabric-of-life/

Episode 134 – The Active IQ Story: Building a Data Pipeline for Machine Learning Apr 06, 2018

This week on the podcast, Active IQ Technical Director Shankar Pasupathy joins us and tells us how AutoSupport’s infrastructure and backend evolved into Active IQ’s multicloud data pipeline. Learn how NetApp is using big data analytics and machine learning on ONTAP to improve the overall customer experience.

Episode 133: Inside the NetApp E-Series E5700 & EF570 Mar 30, 2018

This week on the podcast, we talk about what's new with the E-Series E5700 and the incredibly fast EF570, as well as where E-Series fits in the NetApp portfolio with Technical Marketing Engineer Todd Edwards and Product Manager Akash Gupta.

Episode 132: Vector Data Mar 23, 2018

This week on the podcast, we find out just how resilient ONTAP can get when we talk to Vector Data, who specializes in customized ruggedized ONTAP deployments in some of the harshest environments you can imagine. Join us as we discuss the past, present and future of Vector Data with VP of Sales, Rebecca Pinheiro and head of engineering, Chris Brill!

Episode 131: NetApp at Storage Field Day 15 Mar 16, 2018

This week on the podcast, we chat with the founder of Gestalt IT, Stephen Foskett and NetApp A-Team member/Storage Field Day 15 delegate, Glenn Dekhayser of Red8. We talk about what Tech Field Day is and how NetApp’s presentations were received.

Episode 130: WAFL Deep Dive Mar 09, 2018

This week on the podcast, we do a deep dive on WAFL with some of the folks that write the code.

Episode 129: Cloud Control - Guarding Your SaaS Data Mar 02, 2018

NetApp Solutions Architect Niyaz Mohamed joins us to discuss Cloud Control and how it fits into the NetApp Data Fabric.

Episode 128: OnCommand Unified Manager 7.3 Feb 23, 2018

This week on the podcast, Yossi Weihs and Philip Bachman join us to talk about the latest OnCommand Unified Manager release and make a compelling case around why everyone should be installing it.

Episode 127: NetApp United Feb 14, 2018

This week on the podcast, NetApp United is looking for new members! We bring the head of the program - Petya Stefanova - to give us a rundown, as well as some of the current NetApp United members to tell us about their experiences.

Episode 126: Komprise Feb 09, 2018

This week on the podcast, we bring in Komprise (@Komprise) CEO Kumar Goswami (@KumarKGoswami) to chat about data management and how their software helps get the most out of your NetApp storage systems!

Episode 125: ONTAP and Deep Learning Feb 02, 2018

This week on the podcast, we invited NetApp Sr. Technical Director Santosh Rao in to speak about deep learning, AI, big data and how these fast emerging technologies tie into the ONTAP story.

Episode 124: SnapCenter 4.0 Jan 26, 2018

This week on the podcast, we break down the latest and greatest features available in SnapCenter 4.0 with SnapCenter Product Manager, Anand Ranganathan.

Episode 123: StorageGRID 11 Jan 19, 2018

This week on the podcast, we bring in Tech ONTAP Podcast vet Duncan Moore to give us a rundown of StorageGRID 11, NetApp’s object storage solution!

Episode 122: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Jan 12, 2018

This week on the podcast, we chat with a couple of NetApp’s cloud guys – Mark Beaupre and John Fullbright – about the latest way to consume ONTAP storage. Join us as we talk about Infrastructure as a Service in AWS and Azure and find out where it’s heading and when you can get access.

Episode 121: KubeCon 2017 Recap + Kubernetes Primer Dec 29, 2017

This week on the podcast, we invited RedHat OpenShift developer Clayton Coleman to chat about KubeCon 2017 and Kubernetes with NetApp Technical Director Garrett Mueller and software developer Jonathan Rippy.

Episode 120: Quarterly Security Update (December 2017) Dec 22, 2017

This week on the podcast, we conduct our quarterly security update with Juan Mojica, Security Product Manager, and Mike Scanlin, Information Assurance Product Manager. We cover FIPS 140-2 validation in ONTAP, as well as what FIPS means and what the differences in levels pertain to.

Episode 119: NFSv4.x Deep Dive Dec 15, 2017

This week on the podcast, I pass the NFS torch on to Chris Hurley as we talk about NFSv4.x in ONTAP and why you should be thinking of making the move from NFSv3 in the near future.

Episode 118: MetroCluster Primer Dec 08, 2017

This week on the podcast, we cover everything you want to know about MetroCluster with Nabil Fares, MetroCluster TME, and Niels Reker, Solutions Architect, including the new MetroCluster over IP feature in ONTAP 9.3!

Episode 117: QoS and Performance in ONTAP 9.3 Dec 01, 2017

This week on the podcast, we invited the NTAPFLIGuy, Mike Peppers, to talk about QoS and Performance in ONTAP 9.3. Listen for a general overview of QoS maximums and minimums, as well as the new Adaptive QoS feature!

Episode 116: NetApp Insight Berlin 2017 Recap Nov 23, 2017

This week on the podcast, we say Auf Wiedersehen to Berlin for the last time as we recap NetApp Insight 2017 with the NetApp A-Team!

Episode 115: Primary Data Nov 13, 2017

This week on the podcast, Brendan Wolfe and Douglas Fallstrom from NetApp partners Primary Data joined us to discuss what Primary Data does and how it ties into the NetApp Data Fabric. Be sure to check out their booth at NetApp Insight in Berlin!

Episode 114: Introducing ONTAP 9.3 Nov 09, 2017

This week on the podcast, we talk with Senior Vice President of the ONTAP group, Octavian Tanase and Chief ONTAP Evangelist Jeff Baxter about the latest innovations available in ONTAP 9.3.

Episode 113: OpenStack Basics Nov 03, 2017

This week on the podcast, we invited a couple of OpenStack experts to help us understand what it takes to go from novice to expert when deploying and installing. Chad Morgenstern, NetApp Technical Marketing Engineer, and Pete Brey, NetApp SolidFire Product Marketing Manager, walk us through what resources to use, how to approach OpenStack as a beginner and what to expect at the upcoming OpenStack summit in Sydney, Australia.

Episode 112: NFLEX Overview Nov 03, 2017

This week on the podcast, we brought in our resident converged infrastructure Melissa Palmer to talk about NFLEX, the latest converged infrastructure offering from NetApp and Fujitsu. Tune in to learn more about NFLEX and when you can start ordering yours!

Episode 111 – Veeam 10 with Michael Cade Oct 27, 2017

This week on the podcast, we bring in Mr. Veeam, Michael Cade (https://vzilla.co.uk/) to talk about the latest Veeam release, as well as the blossoming partnership between Veeam and NetApp.

Episode 110: Automated Support with Elio and IBM Watson Oct 25, 2017

This week on the podcast, we invited Ross Ackerman in to discuss what Elio of SolidFire fame has been up to lately and how IBM Watson is using machine learning to automate some of the low hanging fruit support cases.

Episode 109: ONTAP 9.3 Security Enhancements Oct 20, 2017

This week on the podcast, we cover the new security enhancements in ONTAP 9.3 with the security super squad, Juan Mojica and Dan Tulledge. Join us as we discuss Multifactor Authentication and NetApp Volume Encryption enhancements.

Episode 108: NetApp Insight 2017: Las Vegas Recap Oct 05, 2017

This week on the podcast, we rounded up some of the NetApp A-Team members to discuss NetApp Insight 2017 in Las Vegas.

Episode 107: NetApp Insight, GPDR, & Data Fabric Sep 29, 2017

This week on the podcast, we get ready for Insight with a couple of interviews with some of the folks that will be attending the conference from NetApp and answering questions at Insight Central. Join us as we chat with Justine Ma, Professional Services Product Manager, and David Mancusi, Global Architect about NetApp Insight, GDPR and the Data Fabric!

Episode 106 - NetApp Insight 2017 Preview Sep 22, 2017

This week on the podcast, we preview NetApp Insight 2017 with one of the event’s track leads, Jake Thorne, as well as the mastermind of Insight Central, Melissa Hara! Join us as we discuss what is where at the event, as well as some tips on how you can best navigate the sessions at NetApp Insight 2017.

Episode 105 - Converged Systems Advisor Sep 15, 2017

This week on the podcast, we chat about converged systems like FlexPod, and how the NetApp acquisition of Immersive brought us Config Advisor for your Converged Infrastructure, Converged Systems Advisor (CSA)! Join us and Keith Barto, Director of Product Management for Converged Infrastructure Management for everything you need to know about CSA!

Episode 104 – NetApp E-Series Overview Sep 08, 2017

This week on the podcast, we rounded up a bevy of NetApp E-Series experts to give us a high level overview on what many consider to be NetApp's drag racer storage platform.

Episode 103 – vNAS using ONTAP Select Sep 01, 2017

This week on the podcast, we brought in the technical director for ONTAP Select, Peter Skovrup to discuss the latest improvements in ONTAP Select, including the ability to use ONTAP Select on VMware vSAN platforms!

Episode 102 – ONTAP Data Protection Overview Aug 25, 2017

This week on the podcast, we invited NetApp Data Protection Director of Product Management, Anand Nadathur and Data Protection TME Siddharth Agrawal to give us an overview of some of the data protection options available in ONTAP. This is the first episode in a series of episodes that cover a variety of data protection topics. Stay tuned for more data protection themed episodes in the near future!

Episode 101 - NetApp at VMworld 2017 & VSC 7.0 Aug 18, 2017

This week on the podcast, we bring in Dr. Desktop, Chris Gebhardt and Virtualization TME/NetApp A-Team member Steven Cortez to talk about what’s going on at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, what sessions to attend and what’s new in Virtual Storage Console (VSC) 7.0.

Episode 100 – XCP Aug 11, 2017

It’s the 100th episode of the Tech ONTAP Podcast! To help us celebrate, we brought in the XCP team. Join XCP developer Bogdan Minciu and Product Manager Joshey Lazer as we discuss the super-fast migration/reporting tool and to give us a preview of CIFS/SMB support with XCP, as well as coming up with some creative new uses for the tool – even to fill the gaps left by discontinued products like OSSV and File SRM. You can find XCP and use it for free at: http://xcp.netapp.com

Episode 99 – Databases as a Service: Containers Aug 04, 2017

This week on the podcast, we brought in NetApp’s Oracle expert, Jeff Steiner to talk about how he’s using Docker containers to deploy Oracle applications and implementing Databases as a Service.

Episode 98: SnapCenter 3.0 Jul 27, 2017

This week on the podcast, we check in with SnapCenter TME John Spinks to find out what’s in SnapCenter 3.0 – just in time for its release.

Episode 97: ONTAP Analytics and Telemetry Service (OATS) Jul 21, 2017

This week on the podcast, we’re talking ONTAP Analytics in the cloud and the new OATS product with a crew of performance folks including Greg Keller, Sr. Director, Performance Engineering, Matt Hambrick, Director of Performance Engineering, and Fred Peiffer, Performance Characterization Engineer/Architect. Find out how OATS is using existing performance data and machine learning to teach a system how to analyze and resolve performance issues, as well as how you can use OATS for your environment.

Episode 96: Death of the Specialized Admin Jul 14, 2017

This week on the podcast, we invite the Storage Janitor, Andy Banta and Developer Advocate, Josh Atwell to speak with us about the role of the storage and server admin in today’s next generation data centers. We also touch on VVols and where they stand in the hierarchy of storage management.

Episode 95 – Quarterly Security Update: WannaCry and Petya Jul 07, 2017

This week on the podcast, we kick off a series of quarterly security update episodes to reflect the ever-changing security and vulnerability landscape. We cover WannaCry, Petya/NotPetya and basic security best practices you can follow to help protect against threats. We join some of the NetApp security team, including Kevin Ryan from PSIRT at NetApp and Security TME Andrae Middleton, as well as esteemed NetApp A-Team member, Paul Stringfellow. Paul is the technical director at Gardner Systems in the UK. You can find his blog and podcast at https://techstringy.wordpress.com/.

Episode 94: FlexPod SF Jun 27, 2017

This week on the podcast, we discuss the latest NetApp converged offering, FlexPod with SolidFire, also known as FlexPod SF! Join us as we welcome FlexPod TME Melissa Palmer and NetApp SolidFire Product Manager Brett Siclair to talk about what FlexPod SF is and what it means for your next generation datacenter.

Episode 93: Women in Technology Jun 22, 2017

This week on the podcast, we chat with a few of NetApp’s Women in Tech about the Women in Tech program. In October, 2009, NetApp launched the Women in Technology group. Their mission is to support and foster the development of NetApp’s women by providing a forum for mentoring, networking, communication, and professional development. WIT is active in volunteer activities supporting women in our community, encouraging girls to study STEM, and helping those in need. There are currently over 900 members of WIT worldwide.

Episode 92: FabricPool Deep Dive Jun 16, 2017

This week on the podcast, we bring in the FabricPool lifeguard, John Lantz, to give us the nuts and bolts behind the new ONTAP 9.2 feature. Also joining us this week is the Senior Vice President of the ONTAP Systems Group, Octavian Tanase, as well as ONTAP Chief Architect, Ravi Kavuri. If you have any questions about FabricPool, reach out to the DL at fabricpool-info@netapp.com.

Episode 91: Learning to Code with Ashley McNamara Jun 09, 2017

This week on the podcast, we invite chat with developer advocate, Ashley McNamara of Pivotal to talk about how storage administrators (and pretty much anyone) should be learning to code. Ashley also gives us places to look for resources for aspiring developers and scripters to be successful.

Episode 89 - NetApp HCI. Enterprise-Scale Jun 05, 2017

This week on the podcast, we invite Derek Leslie and Gabriel Chapman for the big reveal of NetApp’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution! Come find out what hyperconverged means for NetApp and its customers, as well as how NetApp’s HCI solution ticks.

Episode 88 – ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes May 26, 2017

This week on the podcast, we invite Hadrian Baron of NetApp’s migration team to talk about NAS and SAN migrations, as well as how customers are finding migrations to be simpler with NetApp vetted processes. We also touch on how customers are moving to NetApp FlexGroup volumes.

Episode 87 – NetApp A-Team Visits NetApp in RTP May 19, 2017

This week on the podcast, we recap the NetApp A-Team’s visit to NetApp RTP for their annual meeting called Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) where NetApp leadership and product managers listen to feedback from the A-Teamers. This episode is chock full of interviews with A-Team leaders and members and we discuss what everyone’s opinion of the ETL was.

Episode 86 – Veeam 9.5 Update 2 May 12, 2017

This week on the podcast, we dub the week “Release Week” as we roll out a third episode of NetApp Tech ONTAP podcast goodness. We bring in the Tech Evangelist for Veeam and NetApp A-Team Member, Michael Cade to discuss the newest Veeam release, which has added support for ONTAP 9.1! If you’re traveling back from NetApp Converge, be sure to download episodes for the plane ride back home!

Episode 85 – ONTAP 9.2 Overview with Jeff Baxter May 11, 2017

This week on the podcast, we dub the week “Release Week” as we roll out a second episode of NetApp Tech ONTAP podcast goodness. If you’re travelling back from NetApp Converge, be sure to download episodes for the plane ride back home! We bring in the Chief Evangelist here at NetApp, Jeff Baxter to discuss Fabric Pools, Aggregate Inline Dedupe and more!

Episode 84 – StorageGRID Webscale 10.4 May 08, 2017

This week on the podcast, we welcome Duncan Moore, Director of StorageGRID at NetApp, in to chat about the latest and greatest StorageGRID WebScale release, which comes out today! As a bonus, we also discuss StorageGRID 10.3, which we somehow overlooked on the podcast. Tune in to find out what’s new in the world of S3!

Episode 83 – OnCommand Unified Manager 7.2 Apr 21, 2017

This week on the podcast, we chat with Philip Bachman and Yossi Weihs about the new OnCommand Unified Manager update! Find out what’s new and why Unified Manager can truly claim to be a Unified Manager!

Episode 82 – DockerCon Preview Featuring nDVP and Trident Apr 14, 2017

This week on the podcast, it’s just Justin and Andrew chatting about the upcoming Docker conference in Austin, TX, as well as updates to the NetApp Docker Volume Plugin and Trident. We get a bit rambuncuous on this one and in honor of Easter, we leave plenty of Easter eggs!

Episode 81 – NetApp Service Level Manager Apr 07, 2017

This week on the podcast, we invited the NetApp Service Level Manager team to talk to us about how they’re revolutionizing storage as a service and automating day to day storage administration tasks. Join Executive Architect Evan Miller, Product Manager Nagananda.Anur and Technical Director Ameet.Deulgaonkar as they detail the benefits of NetApp Service Level Manager!

Episode 80 – Active IQ (formerly MyAutosupport) Mar 31, 2017

This week on the podcast, we brought in Sudip Hore to talk about the new and improved MyAutosupport Dashboard. Join us as we discuss the new predictive and proactive features and what’s coming in the future.

Episode 79 – Databases and the Cloud with Jeff Steiner Mar 24, 2017

This week on the podcast, we amped up the brain power by inviting Jeff Steiner to discuss databases and the cloud as it pertains to ONTAP and SolidFire. We go over a wide array of things as Jeff tells us exactly how he feels about marketing and NVMe. Jeff pulls no punches.

Episode 78 – NetApp Certifications NCIE Featuring the NetApp A-Team Mar 17, 2017

This week on the podcast, several NetApp A-Team members were in RTP to help create the NetApp NCIE exams that are used to help officially certify storage administrators for ONTAP. We rounded up Ruari McBride, Scott Gelb and Steven Cortez to discuss how a NetApp certification exam gets created and why you’d want to take one.

Episode 77: 2017 CTO Predictions Mar 10, 2017

This week, we welcome NetApp CTO Dr. Mark Bregman to the podcast to discuss his recent CTO predictions with us and elaborate a bit on where he sees the IT industry shifting. Below is the short list of the predictions. Tune in for the details!

Episode 76 – Customer Chat with Yahoo’s Jeff Mohler Mar 03, 2017

This week on the podcast, we bring in a NetApp customer for a candid chat about how they use NetApp’s portfolio in their environment and what sort of challenges they face in day to day operations. Join us as we talk with Jeff Mohler, a principal Global Storage Architect at Yahoo and get a feel for how an enterprise customer manages thousands of NetApp systems.

Episode 75 - NetApp 101 Feb 24, 2017

This week, we brought in a couple of NetApp n00bz from SolidFire – Amy Lewis and Mike Turner to talk about NetApp basics, from our portfolio offerings to our culture. Mike plays the role of interviewer, while Glenn, Andrew and Justin play the role of podcast guests.

Episode 74 – ONTAP Performance 101 with Tony Gaddis Feb 17, 2017

This week, we invited Mr. Performance, Tony Gaddis, to discuss ONTAP performance and to give a high level overview of how to diagnose performance issues in ONTAP. Be sure to send in your performance questions to podcast@netapp.com and we’ll get Tony to answer them on the podcast at a later date!

Episode 73: SNIA and Technology Trends Feb 10, 2017

This week, we invite one of NetApp’s SNIA members, Alex McDonald, to discuss SNIA and technology trends in the storage industry. We get technical and discuss NVMe in some more detail as well. Justin also drops a timely Spaceballs reference.

Episode 72 - Demystifying NVMe Feb 03, 2017

This week, we welcome in a gaggle of NetApp technology brain power to discuss the next evolution in Flash storage – NVMe. We discuss whether NVMe is the future or a passing trend and where NVMe fits within the NetApp product portfolio.

Episode 71 - SPC-1 Results and the New A700s Jan 31, 2017

This week, we talk about the brand spanking new AFF platform, as well as the insanely high results from the SPC-1 benchmark test! We bring in the performance team, featuring Chad Morgenstern and Jim Laing, to talk numbers. Then, we invite Mr. Flash to give us the lowdown on the new compact beast, the A700s.

Episode 70: SnapCenter 2.0 Jan 27, 2017

This week on the podcast, John Spinks gives us the lowdown on the latest SnapCenter release, SnapCenter 2.0. Join us as we talk about all the new changes and feature additions!

Episode 69: SolidFire – First Year Review Jan 20, 2017

This week on the podcast, we invited Amy Lewis and Andy Banta to give us their thoughts on the past year after the SolidFire acquisition by NetApp. We also discuss the new Element OS, Fluorine.

Episode 68 - Big Data, Hadoop & NoSQL on NetApp Jan 13, 2017

This week on the podcast, we welcome NetApp Technical Marketing Engineer Karthikeyan Nagalingam to discuss Big Data solutions like Hadoop, Spark and NoSQL and how they fit into the NetApp portfolio. We also talk Big Data 101 – what it is, how it’s used and how it’s best implemented.

Episode 67 - Trident and Kubernetes Jan 06, 2017

2017 has arrived! After a holiday hiatus, the Tech ONTAP podcast guys return with Technical Director Garrett Mueller to talk about the NetApp Pub and the new storage orchestration tool that works with Kubernetes, Trident!

Episode 66 - vMiss Gets Her VCDX On Dec 02, 2016

This week, the Tech ONTAP Podcast team syncs up with NetApp's first VCDX - vMiss herself - Melissa Palmer! We talk about what VCDX is and what it means to be one.

NetApp Insight 2016 - Berlin: Day 4 Nov 17, 2016

Insight Berlin is a wrap! I managed to track down a few people before everyone headed back home. Glenn, Chris Gebhardt and I did the podcast from the hotel, and we were also able to chat with the Professional Services Cloud Transformation team yesterday.

NetApp Insight 2016 - Berlin: Day 3 Nov 16, 2016

Day 3 of NetApp Insight Berlin is wrapped up! We grabbed Pete Flecha from VMware, Michael Cade from Veeam and Ross Ackerman and Julia McClung from NetApp Customer Support to discuss their day. Plus, you get to hear Justin's horrible attempt at a British accent.

NetApp Insight 2016 - Berlin: Day 2 Nov 15, 2016

We rounded up the NetApp A-Team to give their thoughts on Day 2 of NetApp Insight 2016 in Berlin. We also managed to get the Lab on Demand guys as well as NetApp customer Michael Bergman.

NetApp Insight 2016 - Berlin: Day 1 Nov 14, 2016

Day 1 of NetApp Insight Berlin is in the books! Listen as we sit down with the folks manning the Developer Cafe as we discuss the lessons learned from the first day of the show, as well as how Andrew got lost on the train ride to Insight.

Episode 65: DevOps with Gene Kim Nov 11, 2016

This week, the Tech ONTAP Podcast team was very fortunate to corral the godfather of DevOps and author of the Phoenix Project, Gene Kim! We talk about all things DevOps, as well as Gene’s new book, The DevOps Handbook

Episode 64: VMworld & OpenStack Summit Recaps Nov 04, 2016

Barcelona had back to back tech conferences the past few weeks. First, VMworld, then OpenStack Summit. We talk with Keith Norbie (@KeithNorbie) and Andrew Sullivan, who were able to attend both events.

Episode 63: What Is FabricPool? Oct 28, 2016

This week on the podcast, we welcome NetApp Product Manager Arun Raman to talk about FabricPool, the latest thread in the Data Fabric.

Episode 62: ONTAP 9.1 Hardware Refresh Oct 21, 2016

This week on the podcast, we learn tons of new information about the latest platform releases for ONTAP 9.1 and bring in Flash TME Skip Shapiro and PM Mukesh Nigam to discuss all the bells and whistles.

Episode 61: Security and Storage Oct 14, 2016

This week on the podcast, we discuss security in storage systems with the new security TME Andrae Middleton and NetApp A-Team member Jarett Kulm of High Availability, Inc. We cover security at rest, in-flight, methodologies, ransomware and much more!

Episode 60: NetApp Insight 2016 Recap – Las Vegas Oct 07, 2016

This week on the podcast, we recap NetApp Insight 2016 in Las Vegas! Join us as we discuss the keynotes, what we were up to and what we thought of the event. In addition, we were able to sit down with Fujitsu to talk about their keynote and their cloud-as-a-service play, K5.

Insight 2016 Recap Las Vegas - Day 4 Sep 30, 2016

It's the last day of NetApp Insight Las Vegas 2016 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from the show. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

Insight 2016 Recap Las Vegas - Day 3 Sep 29, 2016

It's day 3 of NetApp Insight Las Vegas 2016 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from the show. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

Insight 2016 Recap Las Vegas - Day 2 Sep 28, 2016

Day 2 of NetApp Insight Las Vegas 2016 is in the books and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from the show. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

Insight 2016 Recap Las Vegas - Day 1 Sep 27, 2016

It's the first day of NetApp Insight Las Vegas 2016 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from the show. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

Episode 59 - NetApp Volume Encryption Sep 26, 2016

This week, we welcome Juan Mojica (@Juan_M_Mojica), product manager for the new feature NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE). NVE is available in ONTAP 9.1, which is being announced today at NetApp Insight!

Episode 58: NetApp Insight 2016 Preview - Las Vegas Sep 23, 2016

This week on the podcast, we invite some of our NetApp Insight resources to discuss what’s going on this year at the event. We welcome the NetApp Community team and Global Insight Central Program Manager Melissa Magrin to talk about all the fun stuff you can get involved with at NetApp Insight in Las Vegas. If you’re on Twitter, track the hashtags #NetAppInsight for lots of updates!

Episode 57 - Scale Out Networking in ONTAP Sep 16, 2016

This week on the podcast, we are joined by Juan Mojica (@juan_m_mojica), Product Manager at NetApp, for a technical discussion about scale out networking in ONTAP. We cover IP Spaces, broadcast domains and subnets, as well as some other tidbits to help you understand how the network stack works in your cluster.

Episode 56: VMworld 2016 Recap Sep 09, 2016

This week, we invite Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja), Josh Atwell (@josh_atwell)and Chris Gebhardt (@chrisgeb) to discuss VMworld 2016 in Vegas and how NetApp fared.

Episode 55: Foreign LUN Import Sep 02, 2016

This week, we talk Foreign LUN Import with the @NTAPFLIGuy himself, NetApp SAN TME Mike Peppers! Find out how you can easily migrate LUNs from competitor storage systems to ONTAP with minimal disruption.

Episode 54: VVols on SolidFire Aug 26, 2016

This week, we bring in the Storage Janitor™ himself, Andy Banta to do a deep dive into VVols on SolidFire. Andy will also be at VMWorld to answer your VVol questions, so be sure to visit him at the NetApp booth!

Episode 53: Developer Advocacy and Kubernetes Aug 19, 2016

This week, we welcome a very special guest – developer advocate rockstar Kelsey Hightower from Google/Kubernetes! Kelsey gives us the run down on his views on advocacy vs. evangelism and where Kubernetes fits in with a changing IT landscape.

Episode 52: SolidFire's Position in NetApp's Portfolio Aug 12, 2016

This week, we bring in NetApp/SolidFire’s Business Development Manager Keith Norbie and Product Marketing Manager Kelly Boeckman to talk about where SolidFire stands six months after the acquisition. They also further clarify how SolidFire is differentiated in the NetApp portfolio, and in what workloads it fits best.

Episode 51: Guided Problem Solving & Tech Support Chat Aug 05, 2016

This week, we welcome Ross Ackerman, Technical Director of Supportability, into the studio to talk about some exciting innovations within the support organization with regards to how customers and partners find solutions to problems. Guided Problem Solving is a new feature on the NetApp support site that does exactly what its name suggests – it guides people to solutions to solve problems based on workflow. In addition, we talk about the new live chat functionality and how these additions are already starting to see gains in the support center.

Episode 50: Cisco Live Recap Jul 29, 2016

This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, we unceremoniously celebrate our 50th episode with a chat with Glenn Sizemore on his Cisco Live experience and it turns into a FlexPod episode!

Episode 49: Data Governance & Operational Point Objectives Jul 22, 2016

This week we welcome NetApp IT to the show again to discuss data governance and how they’re applying security policies to data inside our own organization. Ensuring that your data is not just protected, but also secure, is an important, but often overlooked, aspect of any deployment. But, Operational Point Objectives (OPO) take things a step further by defining the business impact associated with data. The methodology used helps IT to quickly assess the needs of the infrastructure for backup and recovery by categorizing the data according to its impact. Not only that, but the OPO data significantly improves the recovery plan in the event of a disaster by providing a clearly defined priority for services.

Episode 48: ONTAP 9 Manageability Tools Jul 15, 2016

We wrap up ONTAP 9 Month here at the Tech ONTAP Podcast with Joel Kaufman, a Director of Technical Marketing here at NetApp. We discuss the new and improved manageability tools in ONTAP 9 – OnCommand System Manager and Performance Manager, as well as some of the other new features available in this robust release.

Episode 47: DockerCon 2016 Recap Jul 08, 2016

We take a break from "ONTAP 9 Month" during the holiday week to recap DockerCon 2016 with John Griffith, Software Engineer at SolidFire, and Garrett Mueller, Technical Director at NetApp. Join us as we discuss containers, Docker announcements and t-shirt snafus.

Episode 46: FlexGroups Jul 01, 2016

It’s still "ONTAP 9 Month" on the podcast and this week we discuss the new enterprise scale-out NAS file system – FlexGroups. Learn how NetApp is evolving how we deal with high file count and large capacity workloads with Senior Product Manager Sunitha Rao, Product Manager Shriya Paramkusam and Richard Jernigan, Principal Engineer for FlexGroups.

Episode 45: ONTAP Select & SAN Improvements in ONTAP 9 Jun 24, 2016

It’s still “ONTAP 9 Month” on the podcast and this week we’re talking about ONTAP Select and SAN improvements in ONTAP 9. We have two experts this week, Peter Skovrup, Director of Product Management for NetApp, and Mike Peppers, Technical Marketing Engineer for NetApp. Peter gives us the lowdown on ONTAP Select, including technical details and use cases. Mike Peppers runs down the list of SAN improvements in ONTAP 9, including the SAN optimization templates!

Episode 44: ONTAP 9 Flash Improvements Jun 17, 2016

It’s still "ONTAP 9 Month" on the podcast and this week we’re talking about improvements with flash. We have two experts this week, Dan Isaacs, Technical Marketing Engineer for NetApp, and Skip Shapiro, Technical Marketing Engineer for NetApp, who give us all the details about performance improvements for flash in ONTAP 9, including some impressive numbers for latency and IOPS. But, all the improvements are just all-flash related. If you’re using a hybrid, or even all HDD, system there’s lots of great info in this episode!

Episode 43: ONTAP 9 Data Protection Features Jun 10, 2016

ONTAP 9 Month continues with this week's episode on what new features are available for data protection. We invite Technical Marketing Engineers Siddharth Agrawal and Mike Worthen to discuss MetroCluster, SnapMirror Enhancements and the addition of SnapLock support to ONTAP 9! Mike and Sid dive into the details of data protection and why ONTAP 9 is so much better.

Episode 42: ONTAP 9 Overview Jun 03, 2016

This week, we welcome Quinn Summers in to talk about the new ONTAP 9 release and deliver a technical deep dive on those new features. We discuss RAID triple erasure coding, compaction and lots more! Additionally, we discuss the new SolidFire announcements in depth.

SolidFire Analyst Day MiniCast - #BringOnTheFuture Jun 02, 2016

This mini-podcast covers the June 2 SolidFire announcement at Analyst Day. We interview the SolidFire CTO Val Bercovici and chat about why this announcement is going to change the storage industry.

Episode 41: Why ONTAP 9? May 31, 2016

This week on the Tech ONTAP podcast, we introduce ONTAP 9 month by welcoming a special guest onto the podcast – Lee Caswell, Vice President, Product and Solutions Marketing. We talk to Lee about the thinking behind why NetApp went with ONTAP 9 as a release name, as well as an overview of some of the new features in the release. We also discuss how NetApp is changing the way they release software. Stay tuned for more ONTAP 9 goodness the rest of June 2016!

Episode 40 - Masters Of Puppet May 27, 2016

Puppet is a declarative configuration management tool which is used by many organizations around the world to implement “Infrastructure as Code”. Puppet is also an automation tool, allowing administrators, and others, to define the configuration they want for the infrastructure and rely on Puppet to implement it. This abstracts the administrator or developer who is requesting infrastructure resources from the implementation, allowing for standardization, simplicity, and ultimately maintainability. Today we welcome David Cain (@thedavecain), Technical Marketing Engineer for NetApp, back to the show and welcome Amit Borulkar (@amit_borulkar), Technical Marketing Engineer for NetApp. Dave and Amit discuss using Puppet to apply configuration to FlexPod using Puppet modules for NetApp, Cisco Nexus, and VMware vCenter, allowing anyone to quickly, efficiently, and effectively configure their hardware for the needs of the applications. If you’ve never heard of Puppet before, but are curious about automation and Infrastructure as Code, or if you simply want a better understanding of Puppet and how NetApp is using it to facilitate simplicity for customers, then be sure to give this episode a listen!

Episode 39: The NetApp A-Team Attend ETL May 20, 2016

The NetApp A-Team is NetApp’s social media advocacy equivalent to programs like Cisco Champions and VMware’s vExpert. Made up of customers and partners, the A-Team are NetApp fans that blog, tweet and evangelize NetApp. They are an asset to NetApp because they also provide feedback to the company on what they’re doing right and what they could be doing better. That feedback is invaluable. Each year, the NetApp A-Team gathers in Sunnyvale, CA to attend the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) event, which is akin to the Tech Field Days held by Stephen Foskett. NetApp leaders present on the present and future of NetApp and take feedback on what needs to change for the company to be successful. The Tech ONTAP Podcast team was fortunate enough to be invited to this event and talk with the NetApp A-Team to get their take on the event.

Episode 38: Docker Volume Plugin & OpenStack Summit Recap May 13, 2016

Not too long ago NetApp announced a Docker volume plugin. The plugin enables Docker users to simply and easily connect to and consume clustered Data ONTAP iSCSI and NFS storage with their containerized applications. During this episode we sit down with none other than our very own Andrew Sullivan. That’s right, one of our co-hosts is the Technical Marketing Engineer for containers at NetApp and we discuss amongst ourselves Docker, containers, microservices, and next generation applications. Also Andrew was able to sit down with Rob Esker, Product Manager at NetApp, and Brendan Wolfe, Senior Marketing Manager at NetApp to discuss OpenStack Summit Austin.

Episode 37: DevOps on Windows May 05, 2016

It’s official… DevOps is taking the IT industry by storm. As we’ve discussed previously on the show, this movement is different as it’s more a shift in how we work. On this week’s show we bring in Michael Greene from Microsoft and Steve Murawski from Chef to discuss DevOps and their recent whitepaper on the Release Pipeline model for a practical look at managing infrastructure as code.

Episode 36: Storage Services Design: Object Storage Apr 29, 2016

For our episode this week, we sit down with Evan Miller, Enterprise Architect for NetApp, Eduardo Rivera, Storage Architect for NetApp, and Stetson Webster, Storage Architect for NetApp to talk about object storage. Eduardo and Stetson are the storage architects for NetApp IT, also known as Customer 1, and they recently went through a Storage Services Design Workshop with Evan and his team. The result has been nothing less than phenomenal, resulting in appropriately sized storage systems which deliver improved services, balancing capacity and performance, and reduced overall cost for storage services.

Episode 35: Mesosphere DC/OS Apr 22, 2016

Earlier this week, Mesosphere announced the open source Datacenter Operating System, and NetApp is extremely excited to be a launch partner with them. Built on Mesos, the DC/OS uses open source technology fostered by Mesosphere to provide an environment for running containerized applications with ease. It provides a platform which current and next-generation applications can take advantage of—whether the application is built with microservices through and through, or uses big data analytics. This week we welcome a large crowd to the podcast to talk about the DC/OS launch.

Episode 34: OpenStack Summit Austin Preview Apr 15, 2016

OpenStack continues to become more and more popular for deploying private and hybrid cloud at many organizations. This week we welcome John Griffith, Principle Software Engineer for NetApp, Rob Esker, Product Manager for NetApp, Kelly Boeckman, Product Marketing Manager for NetApp, and Brendan Wolfe, Senior Marketing Manager for NetApp. These four represent the portfolio investment that NetApp, including SolidFire, Data ONTAP, and E-Series, has made in the OpenStack community and are with us to discuss the presence at OpenStack Summit. NetApp’s largest OpenStack Summit presence to date includes multiple sessions, a demo theater presentation, and some fun activities scheduled for the festival Tuesday night on Rainey Street.

Episode 33: The Return of Storage Service Design Apr 08, 2016

QoS is more than just preventing bullies, and the NetApp IT team, commonly referred to as Customer 1, is living the proof of that. For our episode this week we bring back Evan Miller, Enterprise Architect for NetApp, Eduardo Rivera, Storage Architect for NetApp, and Stetson Webster, Storage Architect for NetApp, to talk about the result of their storage service implementation.

Episode 32: SnapCenter 1.1 Mar 25, 2016

This week, John Spinks (@jbspinks), aka Mr. SnapCenter, joins us in the studio to discuss the new features in SnapCenter 1.1. We talk about backups, restores, and Oracle, as well as Justin’s visit to Storage Field Day at NetApp headquarters.

Episode 31: FlexPod with Infrastructure Automation Mar 18, 2016

This week we bring Wyatt Bennett onto the podcast to talk about the new FlexPod offering. Bennett talks about the automation behind the scenes, and why this solution should be compelling for anyone considering a ROBO (Remote Office/Branch Office) deployment. He also shares his palpable excitement for reducing the complexity associated with converged infrastructure deployments and his not-so-lofty aspirations to make all converged infrastructure deployments deployable by anyone.

Episode 30: DevOps and NetApp Private Storage Mar 11, 2016

This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, we welcome NetApp A-Team member Glenn Dekhayser (@gdekhayser) of Red8 to talk about DevOps and NetApp Private Storage as a Service. In this week’s episode we discuss what DevOps is, where it’s going, and if storage administrators will be left behind. We also talk about the use cases for NetApp Private Storage and what the future may hold for NPS.

Customer Interview: Netech Mar 07, 2016

The hybrid cloud has changed the rules of data management. Data may still be the crown jewels, but it’s only useful when you can put it where it’s needed—and safely. That’s according to Adam Bergh of Netech Corporation and NetApp’s Kelly Hemphill, who talked about the changing face of data management in a hybrid cloud world during NetApp Insight 2015 with the Tech ONTAP Podcast.

Episode 29: Virtual Volumes - VVols Mar 04, 2016

Virtual volumes, also known as VVols, are a VMware feature for providing VM granular, policy based storage management. What this means is that as a virtualization administrator you no longer have to track and juggle datastore features and capabilities. You can simply create a policy of the features you want to take advantage of, then rely on the storage provider to ensure that the requested capabilities are used for your virtual machine. This week on the podcast we have a bit of a homecoming, with our former host, Pete Flecha (@vPedroArrow) joining us. Pete is the Technical Marketing Engineer responsible for VVols integration at VMware, and he does a great job of explaining and elaborating on the value of VVols for everyone.

Customer Interview: Red8 Feb 29, 2016

At NetApp Insight 2015, NetApp Cloud Czar Val Bercovici and Red8’s Glenn Dekhayser shared their thoughts on how cloud has changed the world of DevOps, including what Bercovici calls the “Lean Cloud.” Dekhayser is practice lead in the Office of the CTO at Red8, a leader in designing software-defined data centers and a longtime NetApp partner. Bercovici and Dekhayser cover everything from the basics (What is DevOps?) to cloud economics to workload and data agility.

Episode 28: SolidFire Virtualization Feb 26, 2016

This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, we wrap up February, AKA SolidFire month, with Aaron Patten, virtualization architect for SolidFire. In today’s show, we discuss virtualization, where SolidFire fits into our customer’s environments, and a variety of other things while the third member of our podcast, Andrew Sullivan, travels across the Great White North.

Episode 27: Infrastructure Automation with Josh Atwell Feb 19, 2016

This week we welcome Josh Atwell, Developer Advocate for SolidFire, to the podcast to have a conversation about automation, APIs, PowerShell, and declarative state management. We also talk about how SolidFire’s full-featured API enables administrators, developers, orchestrators, applications, and everyone in-between to quickly and easily provision and manage storage for their needs.

Customer Interview: ING Direct Feb 17, 2016

A crisis is an opportunity in disguise. ING DIRECT, Australia learned this firsthand when a competing bank Down Under beat them to market with an iPad app. But instead of rolling over, ING DIRECT regrouped, evaluated their options and transformed their IT infrastructure, essentially putting their whole bank in the cloud. At NetApp Insight 2015, Ben Issa—ING DIRECT, Australia’s head of IT Strategy—tells the dramatic story of the 15-year-old bank’s rapid reinvention, and how partnerships with NetApp, Cisco and Microsoft made possible the project known as “Zero Touch.” By streamlining the development/test-to-production environment using NetApp’s FlexPod and clustered Data ONTAP, ING DIRECT reduced time to market for their products and services by 50 percent. Tune into this special edition of the Tech ONTAP Podcast to hear more about ING Direct's solution.

Episode 26: SolidFire Deep Dive Feb 12, 2016

Last week, we covered the SolidFire acquisition with NetApp’s Andy Grimes. This week, we are joined by SolidFire employees, Aaron Delp and Amy Lewis, to get their take on the acquisition, as well as Jeremiah Dooley and Andy Banta for a technical deep dive into everything SolidFire. This episode goes into overtime, but is certainly worth the extended listen.

Customer Interview: The Denver Broncos & the Road to Super Bowl 50 Feb 06, 2016

Super Bowl 50 is just around the corner, and that means the Denver Broncos, who are also NetApp customers, have the opportunity to once again hoist the Vince Lombardi trophy. Earlier this year, we had the opportunity to sit down with Russ Trainor, VP of IT for the Denver Broncos, Val Bercovici, and Cynthia Stoddard to discuss how NetApp has helped the team overcome their IT challenges and once again, make it to the big game.

Episode 25: NetApp Has Acquired SolidFire Feb 05, 2016

This week NetApp finalized its acquisition of SolidFire, and we can’t wait to get started talking about it! To kick off our dive into SolidFire, we welcome longtime NetApp employee Andy Grimes, Principle Architect for Flash, who has been working closely with SolidFire since NetApp announced its intent to acquire the company. Andy brings his knowledge of SolidFire’s technology and business to the podcast to discuss how the two technologies differ, their similarities, and how the new acquisition fits within NetApp’s flash portfolio. Whether you’re a customer, partner, or NetApp employee, this episode of the podcast will give you an overview of the all the latest news and a preview of everything to come.

Episode 24: OpenStack 101 Jan 29, 2016

OpenStack is one of those technologies that many people have heard of, but don’t perhaps fully understand. What is it intended for? Who uses it? Why do enterprise IT organizations value it so much? Is it as hard as some say? In the latest edition of the NetApp Tech ONTAP podcast, you’ll find the answers to these and other questions. This week, we are joined by two of the best and brightest technical marketing engineers from NetApp's OpenStack team, Jeff Applewhite and Akshai Parthasarathy, for a frank discussion about OpenStack, clouds (private and otherwise), orchestration and everything in between.

Episode 23: StorageGRID WebScale 10.2 Jan 22, 2016

StorageGRID Webscale is NetApp’s object data storage system. Recently version 10.2 was released and added a number of new and interesting features. To enlighten us, we asked none other than Duncan Moore, Director for StorageGRID at NetApp, to visit us and give us a breakdown. As always, Duncan does a great job extolling the benefits of object storage, so if you’re curious about object storage and it’s use cases, give this episode a listen!

Episode 22: Best of Insight 2015 Jan 15, 2016

With Glenn away, Justin and Andrew wanted to take the opportunity to playback some of their best interviews of Insight 2015. Tune in and listen as the guys sit down with Dave Hitz, NetApp's co-founder, Cynthia Stoddard, NetApp's CIO, and much more.

Episode 21: 2015 Year In Review Jan 08, 2016

For the first episode of 2016 we talk about the year past: the good, the bad, and everything in-between. We reminisce about all the fun we’ve had so far, beg for some feedback from our listeners, and at least one of us refuses to make any predictions for 2016.

Episode 20: The Holiday Edition Dec 31, 2015

On the eve of this year’s holiday season, we received quite the stocking stuffer when the news broke that NetApp plans to acquire SolidFire. Tune into this week’s podcast for all the latest news! Also on this week’s show, we have some great interviews from NetApp Insight 2015. First, we sat down with Antonio Pittalis, IT Infrastructure Manager for Tiscali, to learn more about how Tiscali is benefiting from its adoption of the hybrid cloud. Then later, we talk hyper-converged with Craig Chadwell, Product Manager for NetApp, and Mike Laverick, VMware.

Episode 19: Storage Service Design – Data Protection Dec 18, 2015

For our episode this week, we sit down with the group again, Evan Miller, Enterprise Architect for NetApp, Eduardo Rivera, Storage Architect for NetApp, and Stetson Webster, Storage Architect for NetApp. This week’s focus is on data protection being integrated with the storage services offerings. Protecting data is a critical function of any infrastructure, and working with the application administrators to clearly define a set of requirements early is key to ensuring success. The NetApp IT team talks to us about their experience with evaluating the needs of our applications and how they can more effectively provide protection while also keeping cost controlled.

Episode 18: Storage Service Design Dec 11, 2015

IT departments across all industries are trying to figure out how to become service providers to their own businesses, and storage is no exception to this. Designing storage services which are capable of meeting the needs of the applications which your organization uses is critical to ensuring success. For our episode this week we sit down with Evan Miller, Enterprise Architect for NetApp, Eduardo Rivera, Storage Architect for NetApp, and we welcome back Stetson Webster (@stetsonwebster), Storage Architect for NetApp. Eduardo and Stetson are the storage architects for NetApp IT, also known as Customer 1, and they recently went through a Storage Services Design Workshop with Evan and his team. The result has been nothing less than phenomenal, resulting in appropriately sized storage systems which deliver improved services, balancing capacity and performance, and reduced overall cost for storage services.

Episode 17: SMB in Clustered Data ONTAP Dec 04, 2015

With SMB 3.0., Microsoft changed the game for how applications like SQL and Hyper-V could be deployed. Continuously available file shares allow organizations to deploy business critical workloads with all the performance and availability traditionally associated with block based storage (iSCSI/FCP), but with the ease of use of a file share. Microsoft and NetApp have been partnering for years to provide enterprise class file storage. Clustered Data ONTAP’s implementation of SMB is the best iteration yet. On this week’s pre-recorded episode, the guys hop into a time bubble with Marc Waldrop to discuss all things SMB – starting with answering the age old, often debated question “CIFS or SMB?”. The guys leave no stone unturned. If you work in or around Microsoft products in any way, then you should check out this episode!

Episode 16: DockerCon & DevOps Nov 26, 2015

Docker remains one of the hot topics in the industry today, and last week was their second conference of the year: DockerCon EU 2015. NetApp was a Gold sponsor of the conference, and we proudly sent six people to meet, talk, geek, and fraternize with the attendees. We had several demos at our booth, including cloning containerized MongoDB utilizing FlexClones and the Snap Creator Framework, automatic registration of containerized applications with Snap Creator, the NetApp Native Driver for ClusterHQ’s Flocker, and deploying a scale-out Docker Registry using NetApp and SnapMirror. This week we have Garrett Mueller, Technical Director for NetApp, and Jonathan Rippy, Software Engineer for NetApp, on the podcast. Garrett and Rippy were two of NetApp’s representatives at DockerCon Europe and they share with us their experiences at the conference, as well as some of the things they learned from the sessions.

Episode 15: Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.2 RC1 Nov 20, 2015

The Tech ONTAP Podcast crew spent this past week broadcasting from Berlin, Germany at NetApp Insight 2015, and while we were there, some major news was announced. Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.2 RC1 is now available for download! We sat down with our friend Jay Goldfinch, Technical Marketing Engineer for Data ONTAP, to discuss all the new features, which includes copy-free transition, new All Flash FAS performance features, and much, much more.

NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 - Day 4 Recap Nov 20, 2015

It's the last day of NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from Germany. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 - Day 3 Recap Nov 19, 2015

Day three of NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 is in the books and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from Germany. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 - Day 2 Recap Nov 18, 2015

Day two of NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 is in the books and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from Germany. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 - Day 1 Recap Nov 17, 2015

It's the first day of NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from Germany. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

Episode 14: Protecting Your Data with SnapMirror to Everything Nov 13, 2015

NetApp Insight 2015 was a massive success, and certainly one of the many highlights was Dave Hitz, NetApp’s Founder and Executive Vice President, and Joe CaraDonna, Senior Technical Director, announcing that SnapMirror will now not only run in AltaVault, but will soon run across NetApp’s entire product line. This week, the gang is joined by data protection experts, Rachel Dines, John Spinks and Michael Cade, to discuss what “SnapMirror to Everything” means for the future of data protection and how it impacts NetApp’s vision of a Data Fabric. Also Pete Flecha has a major announcement you won’t want to miss!

Episode 13: OpenStack Summit Tokyo Nov 06, 2015

OpenStack is the choice of many organizations who want to provide private cloud services for their applications which follow the Amazon Web Services (AWS) model. This week we welcome Dave Cain to the Tech ONTAP Podcast. Dave and the guys discuss OpenStack’s Liberty release and the trip OpenStack Summit Tokyo. We also talk about the recently released FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat OpenStack, which provides a concise guide to deploying RHEL-OSP on the FlexPod platform.

Episode 12: Inside the Customer- 1 Program & the NetApp A-Team Oct 30, 2015

Earlier this year, we sat down with members of our engineering group, also known as the Customer-0 program, to learn more about how they test and implement new products and solutions before they become publicly available. Now its time to introduce you to members of NetApp’s IT team, known as the Customer-1 program, that test and implement those products and solutions within NetApp’s IT infrastructure once they become publicly available. Additionally, we sat down with the NetApp A-Team, which is a NetApp advocacy program, to talk all things NetApp.

Episode 11: Cloud ONTAP Oct 23, 2015

The public cloud is the future growth area for many organizations, enabling rapid development, prototyping, on-demand capacity, and many more features for building the next generation of applications. While cloud may be the future of applications, much of the data still resides in on premises resources. Bringing the data to the application is a complex problem that is being addressed head-on by NetApp using the Data Fabric.

NetApp Insight 2015: Day 4 Recap Oct 17, 2015

It's Insight 2015 and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here to give you all the latest news. Here is their recap of day 4 of Insight.

NetApp Insight 2015: Day 3 Recap Oct 16, 2015

It's Insight 2015 and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here to give you all the latest news. Here is their recap of day 3 of Insight.

NetApp Insight 2015: Day 2 Recap Oct 14, 2015

It's Insight 2015 and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here to give you all the latest news. Here is their recap of day 2 of Insight.

Episode 10: Cloud-Integrated Storage with AltaVault Oct 09, 2015

The hyper-scale cloud providers, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Asure, and IBM SoftLayer, provide highly available, and highly durable, storage for a reasonable price. This means that many organizations are looking to, and adopting, public cloud providers as another tier of storage for their organization. NetApp’s AltaVault provides the ability for any organization to leverage their existing backup suite of software, while storing the data in the cloud. This seamlessly enables massive scalability, offsite recoverability, and efficient storage of backup data for any organization, with minimal effort. Our guest this week is NetApp’s Rachel Dines, Product Marketing Manager for AltaVault. Rachel and the podcast team discuss cloud economics, use cases, and how AltaVault increases flexibility, efficiency, and security for organizations who want to use the cloud as a backup target. If you’re tired of tape backups, then you must listen to this episode!

Episode 9: Introducing Centralized Data Protection with NetApp SnapCenter Oct 02, 2015

This week we sit down with NetApp’s John Spinks, Technical Marketing Engineer, to talk about SnapCenter. SnapCenter is the next generation of our SnapManager and SnapCreator technology, and is the first step in NetApp’s centralized data protection software vision. SnapCenter provides protection that works across the entire data fabric as applications move back and forth, in and out of the cloud.

Episode 8 - The NetApp Customer Proof-of-Concept Lab Sep 25, 2015

Have you ever thought to yourself “I wonder if it’s possible to do this with NetApp?” Or, how about “I hear what my sales team is saying, but I’m not sure how it will behave with my application.” Well, we have the answer for you, and the answer is the Customer Proof-of-Concept (CPOC) lab. The CPOC team is dedicated to showing NetApp functionality and integration with customer applications, using real customer data, simulated tests, and sometimes just raw benchmarks by mimicking portions of customer environments. This week we feature Neto from Brazil (@netofrombrazil), a NetApp legend and database performance specialist on the CPOC team. Neto talks with us about the CPOC, it’s function in the company, and how customers can request an engagement from the team. He also happens to be one of NetApp’s premier Oracle specialists, so we take the opportunity to talk about database workloads when using NetApp All-Flash FAS.

Episode 7 - The Future of Flash and the Hybrid Cloud Sep 18, 2015

Flash has been the driving force behind significant change in the storage industry over the last 3-5 years, and that change continues to accelerate today. SSD drives are finally nearing the inflection point where the price per gigabyte is dropping below the price of traditional spinning hard drives and this will have another momentous impact to storage vendors and the devices being sold. This week’s episode features Val Bercovici, NetApp’s Cloud Czar, who talks to us about the future of flash media, including some interesting technology coming out of Intel, and how it will affect the storage industry as a whole.

Episode 6 - DevOps and Continuous Integration at NetApp Sep 11, 2015

DevOps is all the rage these days, and enterprises everywhere, of all sizes, want to eek the most efficiency from their people and infrastructure. The DevOps mentality is one way to help. DevOps strives to increase efficiency by focusing on communication, collaboration, automation, and shared responsibility between development and operations organizations. This week’s episode features Garrett Mueller, Technical Director, as we discuss DevOps and continuous integration at NetApp.

Episode 5 - The Past, Present and Future of NFS Sep 04, 2015

Network File Systems (NFS) were the first protocol supported by NetApp storage appliances way back in 1992, and have continued to be one of the most popular protocols used by customers to this day. For this week’s episode we sat down with Justin Parisi, Technical Marketing for Engineer and Name Services at NetApp, to take a close look at the past, present and future of NFS. We also learn more about how NFS works, the differences between versions 2, 3, 4, and 4.1, and Justin explains how some of the most commonly implemented features of the later versions actually work.

VMworld 2015 - Day 4 Recap Sep 03, 2015

Day 4 of VMworld is in the books and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here with all news you need about the event.

VMworld 2015 - Day 3 Recap Sep 02, 2015

Day 3 of VMworld is in the books and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here with all news you need about the event.

VMworld 2015 - Day 2 Recap Sep 01, 2015

Day 2 of VMworld is in the books and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here with all news you need about the event.

VMworld 2015 - Day 1 Recap Aug 31, 2015

VMworld is underway and the Tech ONTAP Podcast team is there to cover everything going on.

Episode 4: Docker Containers 101 Aug 28, 2015

Today’s episode takes a deep dive exploring containers with our guest Melissa Palmer, Technical Marketing Engineer for the FlexPod team. We talk with Melissa about what are containers, how they’re different than virtual machines, when to use them, and why to use them. If you are curious about microservices, persistent data for containers, or just want an overview of the container ecosystem, this is the episode for you!

Episode 3: Virtual Desktops for Developers and Engineers Aug 21, 2015

At NetApp, our engineering IT team recently deployed an large-scale virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) aimed at increasing security, flexibility, and mobility for all of our engineering workforce. As a part of this, the Customer-0 team, an engineering program which deploys the latest Data ONTAP operating systems to perform testing and validation before anyone else, is taking advantage of All-Flash FAS and the latest enhancements to clustered Data ONTAP to ensure that the VDI performs exceptionally well under all conditions.

Episode 2 - Converged Infrastructure vs. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Aug 14, 2015

Converged solutions, such as FlexPod, are the natural progression from the traditional IT infrastructure to simple, prevalidated solutions with integrated and standardized components. These converged infrastructures combine storage, networking, and server technologies into a single, flexible architecture for enterprise workload. Hyper Converged Solutions like NetApp Integrated EVO:RAIL Solution (NIERS) deliver a software-centric architecture that tightly integrates compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources in a commodity server supported by a single vendor. So what differentiates a converged infrastructure (CI) from hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)? On this episode of the Tech ONTAP Podcast, we sit down with Eric Railine, Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp, to discuss the rapidly growing HCI market and introduce the NetApp Integrated EVO:RAILS Solution.

Episode 1 - An All Flash FAS Deep Dive Aug 07, 2015

The results are in and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is a success. With hundreds of listens on our first episode, the Tech ONTAP Podcast team is back with another episode. In this week’s show, we do a deep dive into everything All Flash FAS (AFF) with Dan Isaacs, an All Flash FAS Technical Marketing Engineer at NetApp.

Episode 0 - Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.1 RC1 Jul 30, 2015

Pete, Glenn, and Andrew are back with the Tech OnTap Podcast, a new podcast from NetApp. For our inaugural episode, we are be joined by Jay Golfinch, Technical Marketing Engineer for Data ONTAP. Jay will be walking us through the payload of Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.1 RC1.

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