Grey Beards on Storage

Nov 04 2024 169 ep. 40 mins 43
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Greybeards on storage are two gentlemen that have been around the industry to many years to count and have a good, in-depth understanding of today’s storage, server and networking trends and developments. In our podcasts we interview leading technology executives and get them to talk about their products, the industry and where the IT world is going.

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166: Greybeard talks MLperf Storage benchmark with Michael Kade, Sr. Solutions Architect, Hammerspace

Sep 25 2024 40 mins  
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 … Continue reading "166: Greybeard t

165: GreyBeard talks VMware Explore’24 wrap-up with Gina Rosenthal, Founder&CEO Digital Sunshine Solutions

Sep 09 2024 46 mins  
Gina and I were at VMware Explore and we discuss some of the changes we saw there and what's the latest functionality coming out that matters to the enterprise.

164: GreyBeards talk FMS24 Wrap-up with Jim Handy, General Dir., Objective Analysis

Aug 16 2024 43 mins  
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 … Continue reading "164: GreyBeards talk FMS24 Wrap-up with Jim Handy, General

163: GreyBeards talk Ultra Ethernet with Dr J Metz, Chair of UEC steering committee, Chair of SNIA BoD, & Tech. Dir. AMD

Apr 01 2024 47 mins  
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 … Continue reading "163: GreyBeards talk Ultra Ethernet wit

162: GreyBeards talk cold storage with Steffen Hellmold, Dir. Cerabyte Inc.

Feb 21 2024 42 mins  
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 … Co

161: Greybeards talk AWS S3 storage with Andy Warfield, VP Distinguished Engineer, Amazon

Jan 19 2024 47 mins  
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 … Continue reading "161: Greybeards talk AWS S3 storage with Andy

160: GreyBeard talks data security with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder & CTO, RackTop Systems

Jan 04 2024 23 mins  
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 rea

159: GreyBeards Year End 2023 Wrap Up

Dec 29 2023 47 mins  
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

158: GreyBeards talk software defined storage with Brian Dean, Tech. Mkt., Dell PowerFlex

Dec 07 2023 22 mins  
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: Gre

157: GreyBeards talk commercial cloud computer with Bryan Cantrill, CTO, Oxide Computer

Nov 21 2023 56 mins  
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