The Storage Podcast looks at the proposed buyout of EMC by Dell. George Crump, Joseph Ortiz and Charlie Hodges discuss the $67 billion deal and what it means to the storage business. Will it mean other companies in the storage…
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Podcast: Bringing Docker-Like Technology to Windows with Container – How and Why
Docker brings efficiency to the Linux environment, allowing more applications to run on the same physical hardware via a container technology. Microsoft has committed to bringing similar technology to Windows in the future but what if you want to take…
ChalkTalk Video: Overcoming Storage Infrastructure Challenges
The modern storage infrastructure presents IT professionals with a myriad of challenges. Three challenges however top the list: reducing costs, creating flexibility and delivering storage as a service (SaaS). Software solutions like EMC’s ViPR provide IT professionals with the ability…
ChalkTalk Video: Infrastructure Agnostic Business Continuity
IT professionals are being flooded with infrastructure options to solve their business continuity challenges. Do they continue to leverage on-premises equipment and the organization’s own disaster recovery facilities, or should they leverage one of the cloud options? Join Storage Switzerland…
Meet The Software Defined CEO – PernixData’s Poojan Kumar on MeetTheCEO
Poojan Kumar, the CEO of PernixData, joins us in this week’s MeetTheCEO. PernixData optimizes storage for virtualized environments by decoupling strategic storage performance and management functions from the underlying storage hardware. Poojan talks to us about his company and how he…
ChalkTalk Video: An Incremental Journey to Software Defined Storage (SDS)
Some vendors present Software Defined Storage (SDS) as a revolution in the storage infrastructure. Data Centers, especially those with an existing investment in storage systems, are looking for a more incremental journey that allows them to move to SDS, while…
Storage News and Insights — October 8
George Crump, Joseph Ortiz and Charlie Hodges talk about the latest news out of the storage industry this week. We have some thoughts about Cleversafe’s acquisition by IBM and Pure Storage’s IPO. Show Notes Too much of a Good Thing?…
ChalkTalk Video: Using Object Storage to deal with the Data Explosion
Organizations are being inundated with data for a variety of use cases like storing old data or rich media, enabling file sharing and synchronization and forming a data lake for analytics projects. They need to store all this data, ideally…
ChalkTalk Video: Valets vs. Parking Lots – Explaining Object Storage
Object storage is ideal for storing unstructured data. Understanding why it is so good at object storage is the challenge. In this ChalkTalk video George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Sanjay Patel, an Advisory Systems Engineer for EMC,…
MeetTheCEO Podcast with John Spiers CEO of NexGen Storage
In this week’s MeetTheCEO podcast George Crump and I sit down with John Spiers, CEO of NexGen Storage. We’ll talk about a fundamental problem facing storage systems. At any given time, only five percent of global data is considered relevant. Yet…
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