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Latest Episodes

#233 – Introduction to the VAST Data Ceres Hardware Platform with Jeff Denworth (Sponsored)
June 03, 2022

In this episode, Chris is in conversation with VAST Data CMO, Jeff Denworth. The topic covers the recent announcement of Ceres, a new hardware platform combining ruler form-factor flash and BlueField

#232 – Building Power-Efficient Storage Systems with Justin Emerson from Pure Storage (Sponsored)
May 19, 2022

In this episode, Chris talks to Justin Emerson from Pure Storage about modern design considerations for power-efficient storage. The cost of powering data centres has increased massively over the las

#231 – Introducing Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II (Sponsored)
May 03, 2022

In this episode, Chris talks to Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat about the announcement of SSA II, the second generation all-flash InfiniBox platform. The first generation SSA (solid state array) was de

#230 - Seagate NVMe Hard Drives
April 26, 2022

In this episode, Chris and Martin talk to Tim Walker and Mohamad El-Batal about the development of NVMe Hard Drives.

#229 – Exploring the PCIe 6.0 Specification with Al Yanes
March 07, 2022

In this episode, Chris and Martin talk to Al Yanes, President and chair of the PCI Sig, on the announcement of the PCIe 6.0 specification.

#228 - Exploiting Data in the Third Wave of IT Agility with Murli Thirumale (Sponsored)
February 25, 2022

In this episode, Chris talks to Murli Thirumale VP & GM of the Cloud Native Business Unit at Pure Storage about data agility.

#227 – Infinidat InfiniGuard Enhancements with Eric Herzog (Sponsored)
February 14, 2022

Infinidat has announced significant improvements to InfiniGuard. In this podcast, Eric Herzog, CMO updates Chris with the details.

#226 – VAST Data Universal Storage for Data Protection (Sponsored)
February 09, 2022

In this episode, Chris and Martin discuss data protection on a "vast" scale, with VAST Data VP of Data Protection, George Axberg. VAST has just announced a partnership with Commvault that will integr

#225 - Accelerating Modern Databases with Speedb
February 04, 2022

Chris and Martin discuss the challenges of database sharding, scaling and performance with speedb CEO Adi Gelvan.

#224 – FinOps and Optimising Cloud Consumption
January 28, 2022

Chris and Martin discuss FinOps and the process of public cloud resource optimisation with Aran Khanna from Archera