Unpacked Network

Unpacked Network


Latest Episodes

Storage Unpacked 256 – Hyper-scalers and SAS with Rick Kutcipal
February 23, 2024

In this episode, Chris chats to Rick Kutcipal, "At-Large Director" with the SCSI Trade Association. The topic of conversation is the adoption of SAS media (both HDDs and SSDs) by hyper-scale customer

Storage Unpacked 254 – Announcing VSP One and Hitachi Vantara Reorganisation with Gary Lyng
November 10, 2023

In this live episode, recorded at Hitachi Exchange in Paris, Chris chats to Gary Lyng, VP of Products and Solutions at Hitachi Vantara. The company recently announced the VSP One platform, plus some

Storage Unpacked 255 – Data Management in a Hybrid Cloud World with Qumulo
November 10, 2023

In this episode, Chris is in conversation with Ryan Farris (VP Product and Product Marketing) and Brandon Whitelaw (VP Cloud and Strategic Partnerships) at Qumulo. As the IT world becomes ever more f

Storage Unpacked 253 – Building Virtual SANs in the Cloud (Revisited)
November 03, 2023

In this episode, Chris chats with Abel Gordon, Chief System Architect at Lightbits Labs, discussing the challenges and benefits of building a virtual storage area network (SAN) on public cloud infrast

Storage Unpacked 252 – A Vision of Storage Future with Coz from Pure Storage
October 25, 2023

In this episode, Chris meets with Pure Storage co-founder John Colgrove (aka Coz) to discuss where the future of data storage lies in the enterprise.

Storage Unpacked 251 – Modernising Storage as a Service with Prakash Darji from Pure Storage (Sponsored)
October 10, 2023

In this episode, Chris is in conversation with Prakash Darji, VP and GM at Pure Storage. The company has just announced a new Paid Power & Rack Space offering, new SLAs for service delivery and Pure

Storage Unpacked 250 – Infinidat announces SSA Express and higher capacity SSA II (Sponsored)
September 19, 2023

In this episode Chris gets an update on new announcements from Infinidat, including SSA Express and higher-capacity SSA II systems. SSA Express is a new feature of the InfiniBox "classic" platform th

Storage Unpacked 249 – Introduction to Nyriad and the UltraIO Storage Platform
September 15, 2023

In this episode, Chris talks to Derek Dicker, CEO at Nyriad about the UltraIO storage array. Nyriad has developed a new storage architecture using GPUs that accelerate the calculations needed to stor

Storage Unpacked 248 – FlashArray R4 Announcements from Pure Accelerate 2023 (Sponsored)
June 14, 2023

In this episode, Chris talks to Dan Kogan from Pure Storage about the upgraded FlashArray R4 systems and new FlashArray//E platform.

Storage Unpacked 247 – Infinidat announces InfuzeOS Cloud Edition and InfiniSafe Cyber Detection (Sponsored)
May 24, 2023

In this episode, Chris discusses the latest announcements from Infinidat with CMO Eric Herzog, including a cloud version of the Infinidat platform and new cyber detection capabilities.