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Latest Episodes

Data Unpacked 003 – Protecting the Cloud for Free with HYCU Protégé
December 16, 2022

In this episode of Data Unpacked, we talk to Subbiah Sundaram (Senior VP of Products) and Andy Fernandez (Director of Product Marketing) from HYCU. The company recently announced a free tier of the H

Hybrid Cloud 010 – Engineering the Private Cloud with SoftIron HyperCloud
December 09, 2022

In this Hybrid Cloud episode, Chris talks to Andrew Moloney, CMO at SoftIron. SoftIron recently announced HyperCloud, a bespoke hardware and software package for building scalable private clouds.

Storage Unpacked 240 – Predicting the HDD to SSD Transition Timeline
November 04, 2022

In this episode, Chris is joined by Phison CTO Sebastien Jean to discuss the transition from HDD to SSD. As pricing for the two media types comes close to reaching parity, this conversation looks at

Data Unpacked 002 – Data Management in the Hybrid Cloud
October 28, 2022

With data dispersed across many locations that today could include on-premises, the public cloud, edge and co-location facilities, how can businesses ensure that data is in the right place at the righ

#239 – Unpacking the details of PCI Express 7.0 with Al Yanes
September 30, 2022

The PCI-SIG recently announced the next generation of PCI Express – 7.0 – will be released in 2025. We’ve only just heard about PCIe 6.0 (see this recent podcast), so it’s interesting to see that the

#238 - SAS 24GB+ Updates with Rick Kutcipal
September 16, 2022

Once again Chris is joined by Rick Kutcipal, board member with the SCSI Trade Association. It’s been four years since episode #74 when Rick provided an update on SAS 24Gb. This time, Rick has details

#237 – Flash Memory Summit 2022 in Review with Chris Mellor
August 16, 2022

In this episode, Chris chats to friend of the show Chris Mellor from Blocks and Files. Both Chris's attended Flash Memory Summit this year, held annually in San Jose and in person for the first time

#236 – A FlashCore Module Primer with IBM Fellow & Storage CTO Andy Walls
August 10, 2022

In this episode, recorded life at FMS 2022, Chris chats to IBM Fellow, Storage CTO and FlashSystem Architect, Andy Walls.

#235 – FlashCore Futures with IBM CMO Scott Baker
August 04, 2022

In this episode, Chris is joined by IBM Storage CMO Scott Baker. The discussion takes place at Flash Memory Summit 2022 (FMS), being held in person in Santa Clara, USA. FlashCore Modules are IBM's c

#234 – Introducing Pure Storage FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex with CTO Rob Lee (Sponsored)
June 08, 2022

In this episode, Chris talks to Rob Lee, CTO at Pure Storage about today’s announcement covering FlashBlade//S and Evergreen//Flex. FlashBlade//S is a new hardware platform that evolves the solution i