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ATITB presented by HPE has a home on hpe.com

I decided to publish another Talkshow podcast and point you to the new home for ATITB on hpe.com. You can find it at www.hpe.com/dmn/ATITB. You can subscribe to it there on your favorite podcast network!

Jan 12, 2022

#14 Goodbye and Farewell

Around the IT Block is moving to a new hosting service (yeah, no ads inserted) and I explain the details why in this farewell to TalkShoe podcast. Here's where you can now subscribe to the "new" Around the IT Block podcast. * Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2Fyb3VuZC10aGUtaXQtYmxvY2s= * Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9849d4ca-19ee-4243-8d74-e7116efac1e6 * Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=656289 * Spotify: https://open...

Oct 06, 202155 min

#13 What's new with HPE MSA Storage Gen6 and bonus JBOF discussion

I was joined by MSA expert and Tech Marketing Engineer lead Ben Smith. Ben is one of my go-to-people when I need help with MSA and decided it was time to have him on the podcast. We talked about the MSA in general, what's new with MSA Gen6, and a bonus discussion talking about the J2000 "Just a bunch of Flash" enclosures.

Jul 27, 2021

#12 HPE GreenLake Lighthouse deep dive

In this podcast, I have two HPE GreenLake Lighthouse experts to help explain it and how it fits into HPE GreenLake. I was joined by Chris Eidler and John Gromala, both from the Lighthouse team. In the podcast, here's what we covered (note - times do NOT include the 15 second commercial that TalkShoe added to the podcast): 00:00 Intros 04:40 What is HPE GreenLake Lighthouse and why was it developed? 07:40 Where does HPE GreenLake Lighthouse fit into HPE GreenLake Cloud Services? 09:25 How do we s...

Jul 19, 2021

#11 Talking about Cohesity and HPE with Chris Coletti and Jon Hildebrand

In this podcast, I talk to Chris Coletti and Jon Hildebrand to talk about Cohesity, the relationship with HPE, and how the partnership is making data management and recovery easier. There's also an abbreviated version of this podcast on YouTube at https://youtu.be/b3fsC-SiWPU. Here's what we covered (however note that TalkShoe adds a 30 second commercial up front): * 0-2:25 Intros * 2:25-5:50 The importance and benefits of the tech community * 5:50-9:00 Intro to Cohesity * 9:00-14:20 HPE/Cohesit...

Jun 29, 2021

#10 Talking about HPE and Scality ARTESCA

Back in late April, Scality partnering with HPE announced ARTESCA. I'm joined by our partner OEM partner Scality and have a podcast looking at ARTESCA, cloud native object based storage. Joining me on the podcast is Wally MacDermid, VP of Strategic Alliances and Business Development at Scality and Candida Valois, Americas Field CTO for Scality.

Jun 03, 2021

#9 Running Oracle and mix workloads with HPE Storage

This is the last of three podcasts that I originally recorded as one but decided to chop them up into three. My guest in this podcast is Chris Kinzler, a Solution Product Manager in HPE Storage. Chris is responsible for SAP HANA and Oracle; in this podcast we talked Oracle and mixed workloads and in #7 we talked SAP HANA workloads. He discussed industry trends and some testing done with the new HPE Alletra data infrastructure that was announced on May 4th.

May 24, 2021

#8 Running Microsoft SQL Server with HPE Storage

In this second of three podcasts talking about application workloads, Mike Harding, Solution Product Manager for HPE Storage joined me to talk about Microsoft SQL Server and what he is seeing both from an industry standpoint and specifically with workload testing that HPE has done with HPE Alletra, the new data infrastructure that was announced on May 4th.

May 24, 2021

#7 Running SAP HANA workloads on HPE Storage

This is the first of three podcasts that I originally recorded as one but decided to chop them up into three. My guest in this podcast is Chris Kinzler, a Solution Product Manager in HPE Storage. Chris is responsible for SAP HANA and Oracle; in this podcast we talked SAP HANA and in #9 we talked Oracle and mixed workloads. He discussed industry trends and some testing done with the new HPE Alletra data infrastructure that was announced on May 4th.

May 24, 2021

#6 What is the latest on HPE Compute?

Ok - so let's move away from storage for this episode and look at HPE Compute. I caught up with Krista Satterthwaite, the VP and GM of HPE Mainstream Compute. In this podcast, we recapped what is the latest in HPE's mainstream compute portfolio. We talked about compute and transformation, updates to the ProLiant Gen10 Plus portfolio, security, workload-optimized compute, compute as-a-Service, and how HPE Financial Services is also helping. Learn more at www.hpe.com/solutions/compute.

May 06, 2021

#5 Setting the record straight

In this podcast, I talked about the HPE Storage strategy and shared about the May 4th webcast that will include HPE CEO Antonio Neri. I also discussed VMware vVols and the leadership position HPE has with over 55% of all vVols on HPE Storage. It's a short podcast (10 minutes) and I titled it setting the record straight because each of the two topics had industry people misrepresenting HPE - and my sense of justice had to set the record straight! You can get an email reminder for the May 4th webc...

Apr 24, 2021

#4 Talking HCI with YouTuber Markus Leinonen

I saw a video blog from Markus Leinonen talking about HPE SimpliVity about two years ago. I reached out to him because I really liked his style and wanted to help give him more exposure. He has continued to focus on making the complex easier to understand which I appreciate and in the podcast we talked about how he got into video blogging, why he likes HPE SimpliVity, the latest with SimpliVity v 4.1.0 and more. Here's a link to his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarkusLeinonen/featu...

Mar 28, 2021

#3 HPE takes market share in storage, compute, and converged systems

IDC recently released their Q4 worldwide trackers for storage, servers, and converged systems. In each, HPE increased market share vs key competitors. In this post, I'll briefly discuss these and point you to where you can read more. In this podcast, I recap what I wrote on Around the Storage Block looking at the results. There are links to IDC and the articles from CRN and Blocks and Files that you can read at https://community.hpe.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block/HPE-taking-market-share-in-stor...

Mar 21, 2021

#2 What's new in Veeam v11 with Michael Cade

I was joined by Michael Cade from Veeam Software to dive deep into what's new and improved in Veeam v11. Here's what we talked about: 0:00 - 2:00 Intro 2:00 - 3:50 Michael's 3 favorite features in v11 3:50 - 17:30 Diving deep into CDP, Ransomware, and Instant Recovery 17:30 - 20:20 Intelligent data management 20:20 - 23:45 Controlling backup/retention costs 23:45 - 37:20 Other features (improved dedup, Windows agent storage integration, All-in-one updates like NUMA) 37:30 - 39:30 Wrap-up

Feb 23, 2021

#281 - Catching up with Qumulo

Qumulo is a software-defined scale out file storage for the hybrid cloud. They focus on helping customers store massive amounts of unstructured data and we offer Qumulo solutions running on HPE Apollo and ProLiant servers. In this podcast, I am joined by Ben Gitenstein, Vice President of Products and Solutions at Qumulo. Ben gave an overview of Qumulo and we also discussed the latest with HPE, using NVMe.

Dec 17, 2020

#280 - 2020 the year in review

I was joined by David Wang who leads product marketing in HPE Storage to look at the highlights of the year in HPE Storage. Despite many of the world events, it was an outstanding year in HPE Storage. David and I discussed awards, recognitions, and some of the product announcements that made 2020 a very good year for HPE Storage.

Dec 04, 2020

#279 HPE GreenLake news from Discover

I sat down with Don Randall from our HPE GreenLake team to hear about all the news from Discover Virtual Experience. If you're not sure what HPE GreenLake is, the benefits, or it's recent success, we cover it all in this 25 minute ATSB Podcast.

Jun 28, 2020

#278 - Introducing HPE Cloud Volumes Backup

At Discover Virtual Event, HPE introduced HPE Cloud Volumes Backup. In this deep dive podcast with Neil Fleming, WW Product Management and Business Development for the HPE Cloud Volumes portfolio. HPE Cloud Volumes Backup is a 100% cloud-native backup service that enables you to instantly start backing up to the cloud. It’s a true service that lets you protect all of your data centers and remote sites without any backup hardware to size, configure, or manage. It works with HPE and non-HPE Storag...

Jun 22, 2020

#277 Primary storage news for HPE Nimble Storage and HPE Primera

There's big news in HPE Storage and in this podcast, we talk about all of it. The news centers around HPE Nimble Storage and HPE Primera. There are 4 pillars to our news: Advancing Intelligence, Mission Critical DR, Accelerating Apps, and On-Demand Automation. Joining me on the podcast is Sandeep Singh, VP of marketing and Omer Asad, GM and VP of the primary storage business.

Jun 09, 2020

#276 HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and HPE SimpliVity news

In this ATSB podcast, we look at the latest hyper-converged (HCI) news from both HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and HPE SimpliVity. The Storage Godfather Calvin Zito was joined by Ryan Harris and Chuck Wood from product marketing to discuss the news.

May 06, 2020

#275 - What is MSA Health Check?

I had a podcast last year with the HPE MSA product team talking about several new features. One of them was MSA Health Check. At the time of that podcast, it was a tool that was being used by HPE Support but plans were to extend it to MSA customers. MSA Health Check is now available to any customer by simply uploading your log files to www.hpe.com/storage/MSAHealthCheck. Learn about what it can do for you in this podcast.

Apr 30, 2020

#274 - What is the IQ of your infrastructure

With the complexities that admins, DevOps, DBAs, data scientists and others dealing with data and infrastructure, it's clear that intelligence is needed to help with decisions about data and infrastructure. In this podcast, my guest is Sandeep Singh, VP of HPE Storage Marketing, who discusses with me the challenges around data and digital transformation, the need for infrastructure intelligence, and how HPE Storage is addressing it with the Intelligent Data Platform.

Mar 06, 2020

#273 HPE and Veeam integration and Veeam v10 podcast with Rick Vanover

I have a very comprehensive podcast with my friend and industry colleague Rick Vanover. In the podcast we take a deep dive into Veeam and HPE, focusing on the Veeam version 10 release as well as looking at integration between HPE Storage and Veeam. If you didn't know, we were the first company that Veeam did snapshot integration with back in 2012.

Feb 17, 2020

#272 - Morpheus Data overview with Brad Parks

A long overdue podcast with @MorpheusDude and my former manager at HPE, Brad Parks. In this podcast, Brad gave an overview of Morpheus Data and talked about how HPE and Morpheus work together.

Nov 20, 2019

#271 HPE and Qumulo with CEO Bill Richter

I had the opportunity to talk to Bill Richter, CEO of Qumulo, about the joint solution between HPE and Qumulo. If modern, software-defined file storage running on the industry's best platform, this is a must-listen podcast!

Nov 05, 2019

#270 Announcing the new HPE XP8 Storage and some storage memories

In this podcast, I talk about the 8th generation of the XP Storage family that was announced on October 9th. But maybe more interesting is looking back on an interesting story from when we announced the very first XP in 1999 - it was called the HP SureStore E Disk Array MC256 for about 48 hours. Hear the story in this podcast.

Oct 08, 2019

#269 - Nth Symposium 2019, an inside look

Nth Generation is a great HPE partner in Southern California. I've attended their event, Nth Symposium, every year for the last 9 or 10 years. I caught up with Nth CTO Dan Molina to talk about the event taking place in Anaheim at Disney's Grand California on October 23-24. Dan also shared exciting news about a keynote on October 24.

Oct 02, 2019

#268 - HPE Storage and VMware update - Q&A with bloggers at VMworld

At VMworld, we held vExpert and blogger briefings covering the state of HPE and VMware. This is the section of that briefing where we talked about storage. Joining the briefing were Sandeep Singh, VP of Marketing for HPE Storage and Eric Siebert, one of the original vExperts and VMware for storage solution manager.

Sep 02, 2019
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