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Episode 41: Why ONTAP 9? May 31, 2016

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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