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#266 What is the status of the HPE and VMware relationship

At VMworld in San Francisco, I hosted a blogger coffee talk. One of the hot topics was the relationship between HPE and VMware. I had the two alliances managers from both companies join the bloggers for this very lively conversation. I hope Michael Dell listens to this!

Aug 27, 2019

#265 HPE Primera designed for simplicity

I grabbed HPE Primera product manager Phill Gilbert again to do a bit of a deep dive around what makes HPE Primera simple. In this podcast, we talked about the advances that have been built in to really change the notion of what is a mission-critical all-flash array.

Aug 21, 2019

#264 - AI, Big Data, and MapR

On August 5th, HPE announced the acquisition of MapR business assets. In this podcast, I talk to Patrick Osborne, VP and GM of Big Data and AI in HPE Storage about Big Data and AI and how MapR fits into what HPE is doing around AI and Big Data.

Aug 08, 2019

#263 - Benefits of HPE Education Services

In this podcast, I'm joined by Ed Burke from HPE Education Services. Ed helps me to understand what are the educational services HPE offers and how can customers benefit from them.

Jul 22, 2019

#262 - HPE Primera architecture for SCM, NVMe, and SSDs

In my first podcast looking at the new tier-0 mission critical storage array, HPE Primera, I am joined by Phill Gilbert from the product management team. Phill has been involved with HPE Primera from it's inception and in this podcast we talk about the architecture and how it will use Storage Class Memory (SCM), NVMe, and SSDs.

Jul 04, 2019

#261 - What is HPE Nimble Storage dHCI

In this podcast, I dive into a new product we announced at Discover, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI. What is it? It is disaggregated hyper-converged infrastructure and in this podcast we explore that - including what are the benefits and how is it like HCI through installation, adding compute or storage, and day-to-day management.

Jul 01, 2019

#259 - City of Hamilton dramatically reduces their backup window

The City of Hamilton was having issues with the backup window and moved to Cohesity running on HPE ProLiant and Nimble Storage. In this edition of the ATSB podcast, Calvin Zito talks to Jonathan Mancini, Supervisor of Data Center Operations from the city.

May 22, 2019

#258 What's the latest with HPE MSA Storage?

With the focus on HPE Nimble Storage and 3PAR, I haven't talked about the MSA in a while. And with a few updates to the MSA, seemed like a good time to talk about it with the MSA product management team. Britt Terry and Keith Schlacter joined me to talk about the latest enhancement to the MSA that include a new support tool called MSA Health Checker. We also talked about a new generation of SSDs, bigger and cheaper 14TB drives, and solutions with HPE Complete partners Arxscan and Zerto.

Apr 29, 2019

#257 DCIG Buyer's Guide for Enterprise Deduplication Backup Target

Jerome Wendt is the founder of DCIG. DCIG produces buyers guides for different product categories and in this podcast I talked to Jerome about the process for the DCIG buyer's guides and specifically about the Enterprise Deduplication Backup Target Appliance buyer's guide. HPE StoreOnce earned the recommended rating and Simon Watkins from the Data Protection team joined us to discuss it.

Apr 16, 2019

#256 Update on Veeam and HPE partnership with Dave Russell

Dave Russell is the VP of Enterprise Strategy at Veeam. With World Backup Day on March 31, I thought it would be a good time to get an update on what is going on with HPE and Veeam. In this podcast, Dave and I talk about customer challenges with data protection and what HPE and Veeam are doing to address that.

Mar 29, 2019

#255 Three (HPE) Storage Guys talking about industry trends

The Adventures of Mike and John is a video blog by John Bennett and Mike Meyer, a couple of HPE Storage guys out of Kentucky. They have a twitter account - @2StorageGuy - and we'd been talking about doing something together. Take two HPE storage guys and throw me in the mix and what do you get? No, not the three stooges. Three HPE storage guys! In this podcast version of their video blog we talked about how we each got started, what are some of the trends in storage, wild cows and a lot more. A ...

Mar 25, 2019

#254 Update with new marketing VP Sandeep Singh

Sandeep Singh has rejoined HPE Storage as the VP of Product Marketing. Sandeep had been part of the 3PAR team for 11 years and led product management and strategy. He took a detour and spent 4 years at Pure Storage where he headed up product and solutions marketing. In the podcast we talk about his impressions of HPE Storage and what his priorities will be.

Feb 18, 2019

#253 Big Data Analytics at HPE and the acquisition of Blue Data

In this podcast, we look at what HPE Storage is doing around Big Data Analytics and focus in on the acquisition of BlueData. I am joined by Patrick Osborne, the VP and GM of Big Data and Secondary Storage at HPE Storage. For the last couple of minutes, Patrick and I also discuss the day-after-Christmas bowl game between our two colleges, Boise State and Boston College. This is a 17 minute podcast.

Dec 19, 2018

#252 HPE and Cohesity: a newbie's guide

At HPE Discover in Madrid, HPE announced a deepening relationship with Cohesity. In this podcast, I talk with Sanjeev Desai, Sr Director of Solutions Marketing at Cohesity about the basics of Cohesity and the relationship that HPE has with them.

Dec 04, 2018

#251 Blogger storage Q&A from Discover Madrid

At Discover Madrid, we always have "coffee talks" with our independent bloggers. This podcast is an audio recording of the storage coffee talk. With the storage news (see podcast #249), there were a lot of questions about it. Here's roughly what was discussed: 0-5:00 Intro and overview of announcement 5:00 - 8:45 InfoSight update 8:45 - 12:15 Cloud Volumes update 12:15 - 15:45 Storage Class Memory and 3PAR updates 15:45 - 17:30 SCM and Sync replication with HPE Nimble Storage 17:30 - 56:00 Q &am...

Nov 27, 2018

#248 NVMe and SCM impact on storage

Are NVMe and SCM evolutionary or revolutionary technologies and what could the future of storage look like beyond that? Phill Gilbert from the 3PAR product management team talks about them and what else the future might hold for memory driven storage.

Nov 22, 2018

#248 NVMe and SCM impact on storage

Are NVMe and SCM evolutionary or revolutionary technologies and what could the future of storage look like beyond that? Phill Gilbert from the 3PAR product management team talks about them and what else the future might hold for memory driven storage.

Nov 22, 2018

#247 A technologist's view of intelligent storage

Omer Asad is the VP and GM of HPE Nimble Storage. He recently spoke to bloggers at our storage Tech Day. As I listened to this session again, I think this is loaded with a lot of directional statements about what we are doing about intelligent storage. A very informative and intriguing conversation.

Nov 21, 2018

#246 VMware VVols are simpler, smarter, and faster

In this edition of the ATSB podcast, Pete Flecha, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect from VMware talks about why VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) are simpler, smarter, and faster. Pete gives an overview of VVols and compares them to the old approach of using LUNS and VMFS.

Sep 07, 2018

#245 HPE 3PAR update with VP & GM Ivan Iannaccone

Ivan Iannaccone has worked with the 3PAR team since 2009. He left HPE to work at a competitor in late 2016 and has now rejoined HPE as the VP and GM of the 3PAR business. In the podcast, I talked to Ivan about his journey with 3PAR and his vision for the future. This podcast is 27 minutes.

Jul 23, 2018

#244 - Strategy Trifecta from HPE Discover

At HPE Discover, I was able to talk to three VPs to get strategy updates. In this podcast, I have those three conversations that look at the over HPE focus, where are we going with InfoSight beyond storage, and what does HPE Storage want to be famous for. This is a great series of conversations in this episode.

Jul 02, 20180

#243 - BJ Miller, 2000 US Olympian (Swimming Gold)

BJ Miller was part the US Olympic team in 2000 and was part of the Gold Medal 4 x 100 women's medley relay. She spoke about her personal transformation and I thought this was worth sharing even though it's not a technical discussion.

Jun 17, 20180

#242 - What is HPE Cloud Volumes

HPE Cloud Volumes is a public block based cloud storage offering and in this podcast I get the details from Doug Ko. Doug joined me on podcast #237 to talk about Cloud Ready and this is a natural follow-on to that.

Jun 13, 20180

#241 - Protection from Ransomware

At VeeamON, I talked to Andrew Dickerson - who manages the Data Protection portfolio marketing team - about a very relevant topic, Ransomware. Andrew gives some tips on how to protection your data.

May 20, 20180

#240 - Catching up with Veeam's Rick Vanover

At VeeamON, I sat down for a discussion with Rick Vanover. At the event, Veeam focused on their strategy and vision but didn't share many product details. In the podcast, Rick discusses why and other changes at Veeam.

May 18, 20180
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