Grey Beards on Systems

Ray’s known David Kanter (@TheKanter), Executive Director, MLCommons, for quite awhile now and has been reporting on MLCommons Mlperf AI benchmark results for even longer. MLCommons releases new benchmark results each quarter and this last week they released new Data Center Training (v3.0) and new Tiny Inferencing (v1.1) results. So, the GreyBeards thought it was … Continue reading "151: GreyBeards talk AI (ML) performance benchmarks with David Kanter, Exec. Dir. MLCommons"

Sponsored By: This is another in our series of sponsored podcasts with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), Co-Founder and CTO of RackTop Systems. You can hear more in Episode #147 on RansomWare protection and Episode #145 on proactive NAS security. Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) has been touted as the next level of security for a while now. … Continue reading "150: GreyBeard talks Zero Trust with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-founder & CTO, RackTop Systems"

Ran across an article discussing ORION, ORNL’s new storage system which had 100s of PB of file storage and supported TB/sec of bandwidth, so naturally I thought the GreyBeards need to talk to these people. I reached out and Dustin Leverman, Group Leader HPC storage at Oak Ridge National Labs (ORNL)answered the call. Dustin has … Continue reading "149: GreyBeards talk HPC storage with Dustin Leverman, Group Leader, HPC storage at ORNL"

Sponsored By: This is one of a series of podcasts the GreyBeards are doing with Dell PowerFlex software defined infrastructure. Today, we talked with Anthony Cinelli, Sr. Director Dell Technologies and Brian Dean, Technical Marketing for PowerFlex. We have talked with Brian before but this is the first time we’ve met Anthony. They were both … Continue reading "148: GreyBeards talk software defined infrastructure with Anthony Cinelli and Brian Dean, Dell PowerFlex"

Sponsored By: This is another in our series of sponsored podcasts with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), Co-Founder and CTO of RackTop Systems. You can hear more in Episode 145. We asked Jonathan what was wrong with ransomware protection today. Jonathan started by mentioning that bad actors had been present, on average, 277 days in an environment … Continue reading "147: GreyBeards talk ransomware protection with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop Systems"

We’ve known Brian Carmody (@initzero), Field CTO, Volumez for over a decade now and he’s always been very technically astute. He moved to Volumez earlier this year and has once again joined a storage startup. Volumez is a cloud K8s storage provider with a new twist, K8s persistent volumes hosted on ephemeral storage. Volumes currently … Continue reading "146: GreyBeards talk K8s cloud storage with Brian Carmody, Field CTO, Volumez"

Sponsored By: We’ve known about RackTop Systems. since episode 84, and have been watching them ever since. On this episode we, once again, talk with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), CTO and Co-Founder, RackTop Systems. RackTop was always very security oriented but lately they have taken this to the next level. As Jonathan says on the podcast, … Continue reading "145: GreyBeards talk proactive NAS security with Jonathan Halstuch, CTO & Co-Founder, RackTop Systems"

Sponsored by Today we talked with VAST Data’s Subramanian Kartik (@phyzzycyst), Global Systems Engineering Lead and Howard Marks (@DeepStorage@mastodon.social, @deepstoragenet) former GreyBeards co-host and now Technologist Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary at VAST. Howard needs no introduction to our listeners but Kartik does. Kartik has supported a number of customers implementing AI apps at VAST and prior … Continue reading "144: Greybeard talks AI IO with Subramanian Kartik & Howard Marks of VAST Data"

Today we interview Jonmichael Hands (@LebanonJon, LinkedIn), VP Storage at Chia Project , who has been in and around the storage business forever, mostly with Intel and their SSD team, before it was sold. He was technical marketing for NVMe. He also ran the security and crypto track at FMS2022. He recently worked on sustainability, … Continue reading "143: GreyBeards talk Chia cypto with Jonmichael Hands, VP Storage at Chia Project"

Software defined storage is a pretty full segment of the market these days. So, it’s surprising when a new entrant comes along. We saw a story on Quobyte in Blocks and Files and thought it would be great to talk with Bjorn Kolbeck (LinkedIn), Co-Founder & CEO, Quobyte. Bjorn got his PhD in scale out … Continue reading "142: GreyBeards talk scale-out, software defined storage with Bjorn Kolbeck, Co-Founder & CEO, Quobyte"