Dr. Doug Milburn President and founder of 45 Drives joins the Ask Noah Show to talk storage with their lead storage architect Mitch Hall!

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03:50 45 Drives Interview

• Dr. Doug Milburn - President and Founder
• Mitch Hall - Lead Storage Architech
• What is 45 Drives, why did you start 45 Drives?
  • Protocase
  • Backblaze & Netflix
• Who is your target market?
  • High performance clustering
  • Video production/post production
  • Government
  • General file storage
• What is your value prop?
  • Typically 1/5 the price
  • Best performance
  • No vendor lock-in
  • Flexibility
  • Expertise - source of knowledge
• Cloud vs On Prem Storage
  • Cloud works for small data sets with a good "pipe"
  • On Prem is cheaper and more practical for large data sets
• Why Commit to Open Source?
  • Better model
  • Only right to give back
  • Huston UI
• Cockpit Modules
  • Benchmark
  • Navigator
  • File sharing
  • Identity
  • ZFS
  • Ceph deploy
• 45 Drives GitHub
• [45 Drives Repo](ttps://repo.45drives.com/)
• Huston UI
  • Terminal works
  • GUI works
• How does 45 Drives Scale?
  • 4 nodes minimum for Ceph
  • Single server Linux & ZFS
  • Can migrate from single server to ceph cluster
  • Look forward
• Clustering vs Single Server
• How do you handle data integrity?
  • Get rid of data zoo
  • Harden root
  • Raid - drive failure
  • Off site back up - disaster recovery
  • Snapshots - ransomware
  • ZFS Send/Receive
• Company Culture
  • I want to create a company I want to work at
  • People are happy when they can contribute/help/serve people
  • Business is a conduit for money
  • Tackle anything but be upfront about capabilities/experience
  • Provide excellent experience and service
  • Customer decides success
• 45 Drives Cool or Wow Projects
  • CA Wild Fire Project
  • Brain Scanning
  • High Performance Projects
  • Changing the life of small projects

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