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#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

#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.