This week Chris and Martin look at the definition placed on storage startups classified as having valuations over $1bn, so called storage unicorns.

In this episode, Chris and Martin talk to Phil Straw, CEO at Softiron about the adaptation of Open Source storage solutions for the enterprise market.

Chris, Martin and Chris talk to Eran Brown from Infinidat about elastic storage pricing models for both capex and opex consumption.

Chris discusses the challenges of backup across heterogeneous infrastructure and the HYCU approach to homogeneous data protection with Subbiah Sundaram.

Chris and Martin talk to George Crump from StorONE about the relase of the S1:AFAn, a hybrid storage array using Intel Optane and QLC technology.

Technology refreshes are a constant part of the IT landscape. Businesses need to frequently update and modernise their infrastructure. Typically, the inertia to move between vendors is strong, but inflection points do occur,

This week, Chris talks to Clay Ryder and Frank Shepherd from Tintri about the evolving role of storage administration and technology.

Chris and Martin dig into the Seagate dual actuator technology known as MACH.2 that looks to improve HDD performance and throughput.

This week, Chris catches up with Stan Stevens, Director of Software Product Marketing at Hitachi Vantara to learn about recent updates to Ops Center.

Chris and Martin get an introduction to MRAM (magneto-resistive RAM) in this conversation with Joe O'Hare from Everspin Technologies.