Grey Beards on Systems

In this podcast we discuss some of the more interesting storage announcements to come out of EMCWorld2015 last week with Chad Sakac, (@sakacc on twitter and VirtualGeek blogger) President, EMC Global Systems Engineering. Chad’s was up on the “big stage” at EMCWorld helping to introduce much of the news we found thought provoking. Chad said he was growing … Continue reading "GreyBeards talk EMCWorld2015 news with Chad Sakac, Pres. EMC System Eng."

In this podcast we discuss data-aware storage with Paula Long, CEO/Co-Founder and Dave Siles, CTO of DataGravity. Paula comes from EqualLogic and Dave from Veeam so they both have a lot of history in and around the storage industry, almost qualifying them as grey hairs :/ Data-aware storage is a new paradigm in storage that combines … Continue reading "GreyBeards talk data-aware storage with Paula Long & Dave Siles, CEO&CTO DataGravity"

In this podcast we discuss NAND and other NVM technology with Jim Handy, noted blogger (at theMemoryGuy.com, TheSSDGuy.com) and Director of Objective Analysis. Howard, Jim and I were all at Micron in mid-February to discuss their latest focus on 3D NAND and enterprise storage and we thought it would be a good time to discuss what’s … Continue reading "Graybeards talk NAND & future memory technologies with Jim Handy, Director at Objective Analysis"

In this podcast we discuss VMware VVOLs with Satyam Vaghani, Co-Founder and CTO PernixData. In Satyam’s previous job, he was VMware’s Principal Engineer and Storage CTO   and worked extensively on VVOLs and other VMware storage enhancements. He also happens to be the GreyBeards second repeat guest. With vSphere 6 coming out by the end  of this … Continue reading "GreyBeards talk VVOLs with “Father of VVOLs”, Satyam Vaghani, CTO PernixData"

In this our end of year video podcast Howard and I discuss some of the trends impacting the storage industry today.  Which include Cloud, SSD/Flash, software defined storage and converged server-storage systems and object storage. The video comes in at a little more than 43 minutes and is available to be streamed, from Vimeo or … Continue reading "Greybeards talk about Storage Trends in our 2014 Yearend Podcast-part 3"

In this our end of year video podcast Howard and I discuss some of the trends impacting the storage industry today.  Which include Cloud, SSD/Flash, software defined storage and converged server-storage systems and object storage. The video comes in at a little more than 43 minutes and is available to be streamed, from Vimeo or … Continue reading "Greybeards talk about Storage Trends in our 2014 Yearend Podcast-part 2"

In this our end of year video podcast Howard and I discuss some of the trends impacting the storage industry today.  Which include Cloud, SSD/Flash, software defined storage and converged server-storage systems and object storage. The video comes in at a little more than 43 minutes and is available to be streamed, from Vimeo or … Continue reading "Graybeards talk about storage trends in our 2014 yearend podcast-part 1"

In our 15th podcast we talk object storage with Russ Kennedy Senior V.P. Product Strategy and Customer Solutions, Cleversafe. Cleversafe is a 10 year old  company sellinge scale out, object storage solutions with a number of interesting characteristics. Howard and I had the chance to talk with Cleversafe at SFD4 (we suggest you view the video if … Continue reading "Graybeards talk object storage with Russ Kennedy, Sr. VP Prod. Strategy & Cust. Solutions Cleversafe"

This is our first GBoS video interview, sorry about the quality of the video but the audio came through just fine. Quaddra Software provides a file analytics solution which supplies information and analytical data about massive file stores.This allows customers to get a better handle on just what’s in their file stores. Please see https://quaddra-sw.com or https://greybeardsonstorage.com/ for more … Continue reading "Greybeards video interview with Marc Farley, Marketing Quaddra Software"

In our 14th podcast we return to hyper converged systems and talk with Kelly Murphy, Founder and CTO of  GridStore. Gridstore is a startup supplying hyper-coverged systems for Microsoft (Hyper-V) virtualization environments. Howard and I had a chance to talk with Gridstore at SFD4, just about a year ago. Gridstore has recently added an all-flash version of their … Continue reading "Graybeards talk hyper-convergence with Kelly Murphy, Founder & CTO, Gridstore"