Jim Handy, General Director at Objective Analysis and I were at FMS25 in Santa Clara last week and there was a lot of news going around. Jim’s been on our show just about every year to discuss FMS news, And with the recent focus beyond flash, it’s even harder for one person to keep up. Much of the discussion at FMS was on HBM4, new QLC capacity points, UAlink/UCe for chiplets, 100M IOP SSDs, and more. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Th.ere was not as much on CXL as in past shows. and ditto ...
Aug 20, 2025•49 min
Luke Norris (@ C Oentrepreneur ), CEO and Co-Founder, Kamiwaza AI , is a serial entreprenaur in Silverthorne CO, where the company is headquartered.. They presented at AIFD6 a couple of weeks back and the GreyBeards thought it would be interesting to learn more about what they were doing, especially since we are broadening the scope of the podcast, to now be GreyBeards on Systems. Describing Kamiwaza AI is a bit of a challenge. They settled on “AI orchestration” for the enterprise but it’s much ...
Feb 14, 2025•42 min
It’s time once again for our annual YE GBoS podcast. This year we have Howard back making a guest appearance with our usual cast of Jason and Keith in attendance. And the topic de jour seemed to be AI rolling out to the enterprise and everywhere else in the IT world. We led off with our discussion from last year, AI (again) but then it was all about new announcements, new capabilities and new functionality. This year it’s all about starting to take AI tools and functionality and make them availa...
Dec 30, 2024•41 min
Long time friend, Enrico Signoretti ( LinkedIn ), VP Product and Partnerships, Cubbit, used to be a common participant at Storage Field Day (SFD) events and I’ve known him since we first met there. Since then, he’s worked for a startup and a prominent analyst firms. But he’s back at another startup and this one looks like it’s got legs. Cubbit offers Distributed S3 compatible object storage that offers geo-distribution and geo-fencing for object data, in which the organization owns the hardware ...
Nov 04, 2024•52 min
Sponsored By: This is the first time we have talked with Hammerspace and Michael Kade ( Hammerspace on X) , Senior Solutions Architect. We have known about Hammerspace for years now and over the last couple of years, as large AI clusters have come into use, Hammerspace’s popularity has gone through the roof.. Mike’s been benchmarking storage for decades now and recently submitted results for MLperf Storage v1.0, an AI benchmark that focuses on storage activity for AI training and inferencing wor...
Sep 25, 2024•41 min
I’ve known Gina Rosenthal ( @gminks@mas.to ), Founder&CEO, Digital Sunshine Solutions seems like forever and she’s been on the very short list for being a GBoS co-host but she’s got her own Tech Aunties Podcast now. We were both at VMware Explore last week in Vegas. Gina was working in the community hub and I was in their analyst program. VMware (World) Explore has changed a lot since last year. I found the presentation/sessions to be just as insightful and full of users as last years, but i...
Sep 09, 2024•46 min
Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis , is our long, time goto guy on SSD and Memory Technologies and we were both at FMS (Future of Memory and Storage – new name/broader focus) 2024 conference last week in Santa Clara, CA. Lots of new SSD technology both on and off the show floor as well as new memory offerings and more. Jim helps Jason and I understand what’s happening with NAND, and other storage/memory technologies that matter to today’s IT infrastructure. Listen to the podcast to ...
Aug 16, 2024•43 min
Dr J Metz, ( @drjmetz , blog ) has been on our podcast before mostly in his role as SNIA spokesperson and BoD Chair, but this time he’s here discussing some of his latest work on the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) (LinkedIN: @ultraethernet , X: @ultraethernet ) The UEC is a full stack re-think of what Ethernet could do for large single application environments. UEC was originally focused on HPC, with 400-800 Gbps networks and single applications like simulating a hypersonic missile or airplane....
Apr 02, 2024•48 min
Steffen Hellmold, Director, Cerabyte Inc. is extremely knowledgeable about the storage device business. He has worked for WDC in storage technology and possesses an in-depth understanding of tape and disk storage technology trends. Cerabyte , a German startup, is developing cold storage. Steffen likened Cerabyte storage to ceramic punch cards that dominated IT and pre-IT over much of the last century. Once cards were punched, they created near-WORM storage that could be obliterated or shredded b...
Feb 21, 2024•42 min
We talked with Andy Warfield ( @AndyWarfield ), VP Distinguished Engineer, Amazon, about 10 years ago, when at Coho Data (see our (005:) Greybeards talk scale out storage … podcast). Andy has been a good friend for a long time and he’s been with Amazon S3 for over 5 years now. Since the recent S3 announcements at AWS Re:Invent, we thought it a good time to have him back on the show. Andy has a great knack for explaining technology, I suppose that comes from his time as a professor but whatever t...
Jan 19, 2024•48 min
Sponsored By: This is the last in this year’s, GreyBeards-RackTop Systems podcast series and once again we are talking with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop Systems. This time we discuss why traditional security practices can’t cut it alone, anymore. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Turns out traditional security practices are keeping … Continue reading "160: GreyBeard talks data security with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder & CTO, RackTop Systems"...
Jan 04, 2024•23 min
Jason and Keith joined Ray for our annual year end wrap up and look ahead to 2024. I planned to discuss infrastructure technical topics but was overruled. Once we started talking AI, we couldn’t stop. It’s hard to realize that Generative AI and ChatGPT in particular, haven’t been around that long. We discussed some practical … Continue reading "159: GreyBeards Year End 2023 Wrap Up"
Dec 29, 2023•47 min
Sponsored By: This is the 2nd time Brian Dean, Technical Marketing, Dell PowerFlex Storage has been on our show discussing their storage. Since last time there’s been a new release with significant functional enhancements to file services, Dell CloudIQ integration and other services. We discussed these and other topics on our talk with Brian. Please … Continue reading "158: GreyBeards talk software defined storage with Brian Dean, Tech. Mkt., Dell PowerFlex"...
Dec 07, 2023•23 min
Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill), CTO, Oxide Computer was a hard man to interrupt once started but the GreyBeards did their best to have a conversation. Nonetheless, this is a long podcast. Oxide are making a huge bet on rack scale computing and have done everything they can to make their rack easy to unbox, setup and … Continue reading "157: GreyBeards talk commercial cloud computer with Bryan Cantrill, CTO, Oxide Computer"...
Nov 21, 2023•56 min
Sponsored By: This is another repeat appearance of Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop Systems on our podcast. This time he was here to discuss whether storage admins need to become security subject matter experts (SMEs) or not. Short answer, no but these days, security is everybody’s responsibility. Listen to the podcast to learn more. … Continue reading "156: GreyBeards talk data security with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop Systems"...
Oct 12, 2023•26 min
Dr. J Metz (@drjmetz, blog), Technical Director of Systems Design at AMD and Chair of SNIA BoD, has been on our show before discussing SNIA research directions. We decided this year to add an annual podcast to discuss highlights from their Storage Developers Conference 2023 (SDC23). Dr, J is working at AMD to help raise … Continue reading "155: GreyBeards SDC23 wrap up podcast with Dr. J Metz, Technical Dir. of Systems Design AMD and Chair of SNIA BoD"...
Oct 09, 2023•48 min
Thanks, once again to The CTO Advisor|Keith Townsend, (@CTOadvisor) for letting us record the podcast in his studio. VMware Explore this year was better than last year. The show seemed larger. the show floor busier, the Hub better and the Hands-On Lab much larger than I ever remember before. The show seems to be growing, … Continue reading "154: GreyBeards annual VMware Explore wrap-up podcast"...
Sep 06, 2023•36 min
Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis and I were at the FMS 2023 conference in Santa Clara last week and there were a number of interesting discussions at the show. I was particularly struck with the progress being made on the CXL front. I was just a participant but Jim moderated and was on many … Continue reading "153: GreyBeards annual FMS2023 wrapup with Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis"...
Aug 17, 2023•46 min
Sponsored By: Once again we return to our ongoing series with RackTop Systems, and their Co-Founder & CTO, Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT). This time we discuss how agent-less, storage based, security works and how it can help secure many organizations with (IoT) end points they may not control or can’t deploy agents on them. But agent-less … Continue reading "152: GreyBeards talk agent-less data security with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder & CTO, RackTop Systems"...
Aug 08, 2023•25 min
Ray’s known David Kanter (@TheKanter), Executive Director, MLCommons, for quite awhile now and has been reporting on MLCommons Mlperf AI benchmark results for even longer. MLCommons releases new benchmark results each quarter and this last week they released new Data Center Training (v3.0) and new Tiny Inferencing (v1.1) results. So, the GreyBeards thought it was … Continue reading "151: GreyBeards talk AI (ML) performance benchmarks with David Kanter, Exec. Dir. MLCommons"...
Jul 07, 2023•49 min
Sponsored By: This is another in our series of sponsored podcasts with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), Co-Founder and CTO of RackTop Systems. You can hear more in Episode #147 on RansomWare protection and Episode #145 on proactive NAS security. Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) has been touted as the next level of security for a while now. … Continue reading "150: GreyBeard talks Zero Trust with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-founder & CTO, RackTop Systems"...
Jun 22, 2023•22 min
Ran across an article discussing ORION, ORNL’s new storage system which had 100s of PB of file storage and supported TB/sec of bandwidth, so naturally I thought the GreyBeards need to talk to these people. I reached out and Dustin Leverman, Group Leader HPC storage at Oak Ridge National Labs (ORNL)answered the call. Dustin has … Continue reading "149: GreyBeards talk HPC storage with Dustin Leverman, Group Leader, HPC storage at ORNL"...
May 31, 2023•49 min
Sponsored By: This is one of a series of podcasts the GreyBeards are doing with Dell PowerFlex software defined infrastructure. Today, we talked with Anthony Cinelli, Sr. Director Dell Technologies and Brian Dean, Technical Marketing for PowerFlex. We have talked with Brian before but this is the first time we’ve met Anthony. They were both … Continue reading "148: GreyBeards talk software defined infrastructure with Anthony Cinelli and Brian Dean, Dell PowerFlex"...
May 18, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Sponsored By: This is another in our series of sponsored podcasts with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), Co-Founder and CTO of RackTop Systems. You can hear more in Episode 145. We asked Jonathan what was wrong with ransomware protection today. Jonathan started by mentioning that bad actors had been present, on average, 277 days in an environment … Continue reading "147: GreyBeards talk ransomware protection with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop Systems"...
Apr 25, 2023•25 min
We’ve known Brian Carmody (@initzero), Field CTO, Volumez for over a decade now and he’s always been very technically astute. He moved to Volumez earlier this year and has once again joined a storage startup. Volumez is a cloud K8s storage provider with a new twist, K8s persistent volumes hosted on ephemeral storage. Volumes currently … Continue reading "146: GreyBeards talk K8s cloud storage with Brian Carmody, Field CTO, Volumez"...
Apr 13, 2023•49 min
Sponsored By: We’ve known about RackTop Systems. since episode 84, and have been watching them ever since. On this episode we, once again, talk with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), CTO and Co-Founder, RackTop Systems. RackTop was always very security oriented but lately they have taken this to the next level. As Jonathan says on the podcast, … Continue reading "145: GreyBeards talk proactive NAS security with Jonathan Halstuch, CTO & Co-Founder, RackTop Systems"...
Apr 04, 2023•23 min
Sponsored by Today we talked with VAST Data’s Subramanian Kartik (@phyzzycyst), Global Systems Engineering Lead and Howard Marks (@DeepStorage@mastodon.social, @deepstoragenet) former GreyBeards co-host and now Technologist Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary at VAST. Howard needs no introduction to our listeners but Kartik does. Kartik has supported a number of customers implementing AI apps at VAST and prior … Continue reading "144: Greybeard talks AI IO with Subramanian Kartik & Howard Ma...
Mar 28, 2023•26 min
Today we interview Jonmichael Hands (@LebanonJon, LinkedIn), VP Storage at Chia Project , who has been in and around the storage business forever, mostly with Intel and their SSD team, before it was sold. He was technical marketing for NVMe. He also ran the security and crypto track at FMS2022. He recently worked on sustainability, … Continue reading "143: GreyBeards talk Chia cypto with Jonmichael Hands, VP Storage at Chia Project"...
Mar 02, 2023•46 min
Software defined storage is a pretty full segment of the market these days. So, it’s surprising when a new entrant comes along. We saw a story on Quobyte in Blocks and Files and thought it would be great to talk with Bjorn Kolbeck (LinkedIn), Co-Founder & CEO, Quobyte. Bjorn got his PhD in scale out … Continue reading "142: GreyBeards talk scale-out, software defined storage with Bjorn Kolbeck, Co-Founder & CEO, Quobyte"...
Feb 02, 2023•46 min
Well it has been another year and time for our annual year end wrap up. Since Covid hit, every year has certainly been interesting. This year we have seen the start of back in person conferences which was a welcome change from the covid lockdown. We are very glad to start seeing everybody again. From … Continue reading "141: GreyBeards annual 2022 wrap-up podcast"
Dec 30, 2022•44 min
