Around The Storage Block Podcast -

Jerome Wendt is the founder of DCIG. DCIG produces buyers guides for different product categories and in this podcast I talked to Jerome about the process for the DCIG buyer's guides and specifically about the Enterprise Deduplication Backup Target Appliance buyer's guide. HPE StoreOnce earned the recommended rating and Simon Watkins from the Data Protection team joined us to discuss it.

Dave Russell is the VP of Enterprise Strategy at Veeam. With World Backup Day on March 31, I thought it would be a good time to get an update on what is going on with HPE and Veeam. In this podcast, Dave and I talk about customer challenges with data protection and what HPE and Veeam are doing to address that.

The Adventures of Mike and John is a video blog by John Bennett and Mike Meyer, a couple of HPE Storage guys out of Kentucky. They have a twitter account - @2StorageGuy - and we'd been talking about doing something together. Take two HPE storage guys and throw me in the mix and what do you get? No, not the three stooges. Three HPE storage guys! In this podcast version of their video blog we talked about how we each got started, what are some of the trends in storage, wild cows and a lot more. A fun discussion!

Sandeep Singh has rejoined HPE Storage as the VP of Product Marketing. Sandeep had been part of the 3PAR team for 11 years and led product management and strategy. He took a detour and spent 4 years at Pure Storage where he headed up product and solutions marketing. In the podcast we talk about his impressions of HPE Storage and what his priorities will be.

In this podcast, we look at what HPE Storage is doing around Big Data Analytics and focus in on the acquisition of BlueData. I am joined by Patrick Osborne, the VP and GM of Big Data and Secondary Storage at HPE Storage. For the last couple of minutes, Patrick and I also discuss the day-after-Christmas bowl game between our two colleges, Boise State and Boston College. This is a 17 minute podcast.

At HPE Discover in Madrid, HPE announced a deepening relationship with Cohesity. In this podcast, I talk with Sanjeev Desai, Sr Director of Solutions Marketing at Cohesity about the basics of Cohesity and the relationship that HPE has with them.

At Discover Madrid, we always have "coffee talks" with our independent bloggers. This podcast is an audio recording of the storage coffee talk. With the storage news (see podcast #249), there were a lot of questions about it. Here's roughly what was discussed: 0-5:00 Intro and overview of announcement 5:00 - 8:45 InfoSight update 8:45 - 12:15 Cloud Volumes update 12:15 - 15:45 Storage Class Memory and 3PAR updates 15:45 - 17:30 SCM and Sync replication with HPE Nimble Storage 17:30 - 56:00 Q & A

HPE 3PAR Performance Insights is a new on-premises solution that prevents performance bottlenecks in real time. In the podcast I have 3PAR product manager Phill Gilbert diving into the details of this new solution.

Get an overview of the storage announcements from HPE Discover. Also read http://www.hpe.com/storage/bog to dive into more details.

Are NVMe and SCM evolutionary or revolutionary technologies and what could the future of storage look like beyond that? Phill Gilbert from the 3PAR product management team talks about them and what else the future might hold for memory driven storage.

Are NVMe and SCM evolutionary or revolutionary technologies and what could the future of storage look like beyond that? Phill Gilbert from the 3PAR product management team talks about them and what else the future might hold for memory driven storage.

Omer Asad is the VP and GM of HPE Nimble Storage. He recently spoke to bloggers at our storage Tech Day. As I listened to this session again, I think this is loaded with a lot of directional statements about what we are doing about intelligent storage. A very informative and intriguing conversation.

In this edition of the ATSB podcast, Pete Flecha, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect from VMware talks about why VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) are simpler, smarter, and faster. Pete gives an overview of VVols and compares them to the old approach of using LUNS and VMFS.

Ivan Iannaccone has worked with the 3PAR team since 2009. He left HPE to work at a competitor in late 2016 and has now rejoined HPE as the VP and GM of the 3PAR business. In the podcast, I talked to Ivan about his journey with 3PAR and his vision for the future. This podcast is 27 minutes.

At HPE Discover, I was able to talk to three VPs to get strategy updates. In this podcast, I have those three conversations that look at the over HPE focus, where are we going with InfoSight beyond storage, and what does HPE Storage want to be famous for. This is a great series of conversations in this episode.

BJ Miller was part the US Olympic team in 2000 and was part of the Gold Medal 4 x 100 women's medley relay. She spoke about her personal transformation and I thought this was worth sharing even though it's not a technical discussion.

HPE Cloud Volumes is a public block based cloud storage offering and in this podcast I get the details from Doug Ko. Doug joined me on podcast #237 to talk about Cloud Ready and this is a natural follow-on to that.

At VeeamON, I talked to Andrew Dickerson - who manages the Data Protection portfolio marketing team - about a very relevant topic, Ransomware. Andrew gives some tips on how to protection your data.

At VeeamON, I sat down for a discussion with Rick Vanover. At the event, Veeam focused on their strategy and vision but didn't share many product details. In the podcast, Rick discusses why and other changes at Veeam.

On May 7th we had news that focused on new HPE Nimble Storage hardware. In this podcast, I talk you through a summary of the news which also included the HPE Store More Guarantee.