In this episode we talk with Jim Handy (@thessdguy), Director at Objective Analysis, a semiconductor market research organization. Jim is an old friend and was on last year to discuss Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2016. Jim, Howard and I all attended FMS 2017 last week in Santa Clara and Jim and Howard were presenters at the … Continue reading "50: Greybeards wrap up Flash Memory Summit with Jim Handy, Director at Objective Analysis"...
Aug 19, 2017•49 min
Sponsored By: In this episode we talk with Brian Biles, CEO and Co-founder of Datrium. We last talked with Brian and Datrium in May of 2016 and at that time we called it deconstructed storage. These days, Datrium offers a converged infrastructure (C/I) solution, which they call “open convergence”. Datrium C/I Datrium’s C/I solution stores persistent data … Continue reading "49: Greybeards talk open convergence with Brian Biles, CEO and Co-founder of Datrium"...
Aug 15, 2017•25 min
In this episode we talk with Enrico Signoretti, Head of Product Strategy for OpenIO, a software defined, object storage startup out of Europe. Enrico is an old friend, having been a member of many Storage Field Day events (SFD) in the past which both Howard and I attended and we wanted to hear what he … Continue reading "48: Greybeards talk object storage with Enrico Signoretti, Head of Product Strategy, OpenIO"...
Jul 25, 2017•42 min
Sponsored By: In this episode, we talk with ClearSky Data’s Lazarus Vekiarides, CTO and Co-founder, who we have talked with before (see our podcast from October 2015). ClearSky Data provides a storage-as-a-service offering that uses an on-premises appliance plus point of presence (PoP) storage in the local metro area to hold customer data and offloads this data … Continue reading "47: Greybeards talk Storage as a Service with Lazarus Vekiarides, CTO & Co-Founder ClearSky Data"...
Jun 13, 2017•24 min
In this episode Howard and I were both at Dell EMC World2017 this past month and Alastair Cooke (@DemitasseNZ) asked us to do a talk at the show for the vBrownBag group (Youtube video here). The GreyBeards asked for a copy of the audio for this podcast. Sorry about the background noise, but we recorded live at … Continue reading "46: Greybeards discuss Dell EMC World2017 happenings on vBrownBag"...
Jun 02, 2017•41 min
In this episode, we talk with Andy Klein, Dir of Marketing for Backblaze, which backs up desktops and computers to the cloud and also offers cloud storage. Backblaze has a unique consumer data protection solution where customers pay a flat fee to backup their desktops and then may pay a separate fee for a large recovery. On their … Continue reading "45: Greybeards talk desktop cloud backup/storage & disk reliability with Andy Klein, Director Marketing, Backblaze"...
May 11, 2017•44 min
Sponsored By: In this episode, we talk with a new vendor that’s created a new method to backup database information. Our guest for this podcast is Tarun Thakur, CEO of Datos IO. Datos IO was started in 2014 with the express purpose to provide a better way to back up and recover databases in the cloud. … Continue reading "44: Greybeards talk 3rd platform backup with Tarun Thakur, CEO Datos IO"...
May 02, 2017•31 min
In this episode, we talk with another next gen, Tier 0 storage provider. This time our guests are Yaniv Romem CTO/Founder & Josh Goldenhar (@eeschwa) VP Products from Excelero, another new storage startup out of Israel. Both Howard and I talked with Excelero at SFD12 (videos here) earlier last month in San Jose. I was very impressed … Continue reading "43: GreyBeards talk Tier 0 again with Yaniv Romem CTO/Founder & Josh Goldenhar VP Products of Excelero"...
Apr 19, 2017•50 min
In this episode, we talk with Zivan Ori (@ZivanOri), CEO and Co-founder of E8 Storage, a new storage startup out of Israel. E8 Storage provides a tier 0, next generation all flash array storage solution for HPC and high end environments that need extremely high IO performance, with high availability and modest data services. We first … Continue reading "42: GreyBeards talk next gen, tier 0 flash storage with Zivan Ori, CEO & Co-founder E8 Storage."...
Mar 15, 2017•42 min
In this episode, we talk with Jacob Cherian (@JacCherian), VP of Product Management and Product Strategy at Reduxio. They have a produced a unique product that merges some characteristics of CDP storage and the best of hybrid and deduplicating storage today into a new primary storage system. We first saw Reduxio at VMworld a couple … Continue reading "41: Greybeards talk time shifting storage with Jacob Cherian, VP Product Management and Strategy, Reduxio"...
Feb 17, 2017•41 min
In this episode, the Greybeards discuss the year in storage and naturally we kick off with the consolidation trend in the industry and the big one last year, the DELL-EMC acquisition. How the high margin EMC storage business is going to work in a low margin company like Dell is the subject of much speculation. That … Continue reading "40: Greybeards storage industry yearend review podcast"...
Jan 03, 2017•48 min
In this episode, we talk with Matt Starr (@StarrFiles), CTO of Spectra Logic, the deep storage experts. Matt has been around a long time and Ray’s shared many a meal with Matt as we’re both in NW Denver. Howard has a minor quibble with Spectra Logic over the use of his company’s name (DeepStorage) in their product … Continue reading "39: Greybeards talk deep storage/archive with Matt Starr, CTO Spectra Logic"...
Dec 16, 2016•52 min
In this episode, we talk with Rob Peglar (@PeglarR), Senior VP and CTO of Symbolic IO, a computationally defined storage vendor. Rob has been around almost as long as the GreyBeards (~40 years) and most recently was with Micron and prior to that, EMC Isilon. Rob is also on the board of SNIA. Symbolic IO … Continue reading "38: GreyBeards talk with Rob Peglar, Senior VP and CTO, Symbolic IO"...
Nov 17, 2016•48 min
In this episode, we talk with Donna Dillenberger (@DonnaExplorer), IBM Fellow on IBM’s work with blockchain technology. Ray was at IBM Edge Conference last month where Donna and others presented on what BlockChain technology could do for financial services and asset provenance. Ray wrote a post on Blockchains at IBM after the conference. Blockchain is the … Continue reading "37: GreyBeards discuss blockchains with Donna Dillenberger, IBM Fellow"...
Oct 20, 2016•52 min
In this episode, we talk with Andy Banta (@andybanta), Storage Janitor (Principal Virt. Architect), Netapp SolidFire. Andy’s been involved in Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) and other VMware API implementations at SolidFire and worked at VMware and other storage/system vendor companies before that. Howard and I were at VMworld2016 late last month and we thought Andy would be a … Continue reading "36: GreyBeards discuss VMworld2016 with Andy Banta, Storage Janitor, NetApp Solidfire"...
Sep 13, 2016•42 min
In this episode, we talk with Jim Handy (@thessdguy), memory and flash analyst at Objective Analysis. Jim’s been on our podcast before and last time we had a great talk on flash trends. As Jim, Howard and Ray were all at Flash Memory Summit (FMS 2016) last week, we thought it appropriate to get together … Continue reading "35: GreyBeards talk Flash Memory Summit wrap-up with Jim Handy, Objective Analysis"...
Aug 18, 2016•53 min
In this episode, we talk with Ash Ashutosh (@ashashutosh), CEO of Actifio a copy data virtualization company. Howard met up with Ash at TechFieldDay11 (TFD11) a couple of weeks back and wanted another chance to talk with him. Ash seems to have been around forever, the first time we met I was at a former employer and he … Continue reading "34: GreyBeards talk Copy Data Management with Ash Ashutosh, CEO Actifio"...
Jul 18, 2016•46 min
In episode 33 we talk with Frederic Van Haren (@fvha), founder of HighFens, Inc. (@HighFens), a new HPC consultancy and former Senior Director of HPC at Nuance Communications. Howard and I got a chance to talk with Frederic at a recent HPE storage deep dive event, I met up with him again during SFD10, where he … Continue reading "33: GreyBeards talk HPC storage with Frederic Van Haren, founder HighFens & former Sr. Director of HPC at Nuance"...
Jun 16, 2016•41 min
In this our 32nd episode we talk with Brian Biles (@BrianBiles), CEO & Co-founder and Hugo Patterson, CTO & Co-founder of Datrium a new storage startup. We like to call it storage deconstructed, a new view of what storage could be based on today and future storage technologies. If I had to describe it succinctly, … Continue reading "GreyBeards deconstruct storage with Brian Biles and Hugo Patterson, CEO and CTO, Datrium"...
May 10, 2016•41 min
In our 30th episode, we talk with Dave Wright (@JungleDave), SolidFire founder, VP & GM SolidFire of NetApp and Lee Casswell (@LeeCaswell), VP Products, Solution & Services Marketing NetApp. Dave’s been on before as CEO of SolidFire back in May of 2014, but this is the first time for Lee. Dave’s also been a prominent guest … Continue reading "GreyBeards talk with Lee Caswell and Dave Wright of NetApp"...
Apr 11, 2016•39 min
In our 30th episode, we talk with 3rd time guest star, Marc Farley (@GoFarley), Formerly with Datera and Tegile. Marc has recently gone on sabbatical and we wanted to talk to him about what was keeping him busy and what was going on in storage/IT industry these days. Marc is currently curating a car comedy vlog … Continue reading "Greybeards talk car videos, storage and IT trends with Marc Farley"...
Mar 17, 2016•41 min
In our 29th episode, we talk with John Spiers (@lefthandsan), Co-founder & CEO of NexGen Storage and Ron Nash (@hronaldnash), Chairman & CEO of Pivot3, a hyper converged infrastructure provider. We have talked with John before (see last June’s podcast episode) about NexGen Storage technology. Recently, Pivot3 announced they were going to acquire NexGen Storage and Howard … Continue reading "GreyBeards talk with Pivot3 and NexGen Storage about their recent acquisition announcement"...
Feb 09, 2016•42 min
In our annual yearend podcast and it’s the Ray and Howard show, talking about storage futures, industry trends and some storage world excitement of- the past year. We start the discussion deconstructing recent reductions in year over year revenues at major storage vendors. It seems with the advent of all flash arrays (AFA), and all major vendors and most startups … Continue reading "GreyBeards on Storage year end 2015 podcast"...
Jan 13, 2016•50 min
oIn our 27th episode we talk with Molly Rector (@MollyRector), CMO & EVP of Product Management/Worldwide Marketing for DDN. Howard and I have known Molly since her days at Spectra Logic. Molly is also on the BoD of SNIA and Active Archive Alliance (AAA), so she’s very active in the storage industry, on multiple dimensions and a very … Continue reading "GreyBeards talk HPC storage with Molly Rector, CMO & EVP, DDN"...
Dec 17, 2015•45 min
In our 26th episode we talk with Brian Carmody (@initzero), CTO of Infinidat. Howard and I also talked with Inifinidat at Storage Field Day 8 (SFD8), a couple of weeks ago which recorded their session(s). For more information about Infinidat, we would highly suggest you watch the videos available here . As they say, Brian is … Continue reading "PB are the new TB, GreyBeards talk with Brian Carmody, CTO Inifinidat"...
Nov 12, 2015•42 min
In this edition we discuss ClearSky Data’s global storage service with Ellen Rubin (@ellen_rubin), CEO & Co-Founder and Laz Vekiarides (@lazvek), CTO & Co-founder of ClearSky Data. Both Ellen and Laz have been around the IT industry for decades and Laz in particular was deeply involved in the development of EqualLogic storage systems both at Dell and at … Continue reading "GreyBeards talk global storage with Ellen Rubin CEO & Laz Vekiarides CTO, ClearSky Data"...
Oct 16, 2015•41 min
In this edition we discuss Rubrik’s converged data backup with Chris Wahl (@ChrisWahl), Tech Evangelist for Rubrik. You may recall Chris as a blogger on a number of Tech, Virtualization and Storage Field Days (VFD2, TFD extra at VMworld2014, SFD4, etc.) which is where I met him. Chris is one of the bloggers that complains … Continue reading "GreyBeards talk VMware agentless backup with Chris Wahl, Tech Evangelist, Rubrik"...
Aug 19, 2015•42 min
In this podcast we discuss Qumulo’s data-aware, scale-out file system storage with Peter Godman, Co-founder & CEO of Qumulo. Peter has been involved in scale-out storage for a while now, coming from (EMC) Isilon before starting Qumulo. Although, this time he’s adding data-awareness to scale-out storage. Presently, Qumulo is vertically focused on the HPC and media/entertainment market … Continue reading "GreyBeards talk data-aware, scale-out file systems with Peter Godman, Co-founder & CE...
Jul 13, 2015•47 min
In this podcast we discuss Nexgen’s hybrid storage with John Spiers, Founder & CEO and Kelly Long, Founder & CTO of Nexgen Storage. Both John and Kelly have had a long and interesting career across multiple companies ranging from startups to major industry organizations, so they bring a unique perspective to what’s happening in the … Continue reading "GreyBeards talk Nexgen Storage with John Spiers, CEO and Kelly Long, CTO Nexgen Storage"...
Jun 05, 2015•40 min
In this podcast we discuss some of the more interesting storage announcements to come out of EMCWorld2015 last week with Chad Sakac, (@sakacc on twitter and VirtualGeek blogger) President, EMC Global Systems Engineering. Chad’s was up on the “big stage” at EMCWorld helping to introduce much of the news we found thought provoking. Chad said he was growing … Continue reading "GreyBeards talk EMCWorld2015 news with Chad Sakac, Pres. EMC System Eng."...
May 18, 2015•59 min
