Grey Beards on Systems

We have never talked with Alluxio before but after coming back last week from Cloud Field Day 15 (CFD15) it seemed a good time to talk with other solution providers attempting to make hybrid cloud easier to use. Adit Madan (@madanadit) , Director of Product Management, Alluxio, which is a data orchestration solution that’s available … Continue reading "138: GreyBeards talk big data orchestration with Adit Madan, Dir. of Product, Alluxio"

We have known Tom Coughlin (@thomascoughlin), President, Coughlin Associates for a very long time now. He’s been an industry heavyweight almost as long as Ray (maybe even longer). Tom has always been very active in storage media, storage drives, storage systems and memory as well as active in the semiconductor space. All this made him … Continue reading "136: Flash Memory Summit 2022 wrap-up with Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Assoc."

Sponsored By: I’ve known Theresa Miller, Director of Technology Advocacy Group at Cohesity, for many years now and just met David Jayanathan (DJ), Cohesity Solutions Architect during the podcast. Theresa could easily qualify as an old timer, if she wished and DJ was very knowledgeable about traditional file and object storage. We had a wide … Continue reading "135: Greybeard(s) talk file and object challenges with Theresa Miller & David Jayanathan, Cohesity"

We have known Dr. J Metz (@drjmetz, blog), Chair of SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) BoD, for over a decade now and he has always been an intelligent industry evangelist. DrJ was elected Chair of SNIA BoD in 2020. SNIA has been instrumental in the evolution of storage over the years working to help define … Continue reading "134: GreyBeards talk (storage) standards with Dr. J Metz, SNIA Chair & Technical Director AMD"

We saw a recent article in Blocks and Files (Storage facing trillion-row db apocalypse), about a couple of companies which were trying to deal with trillion row database queries without taking weeks to respond. One of those companies was Ocient (@Ocient), a Chicago startup, whose CEO and Co-Founder, Chris Gladwin, was an old friend from … Continue reading "133: GreyBeards talk trillion row databases/data lakes with Ocient CEO & Co-founder, Chris Gladwin"

We’ve been talking a lot about K8s of late so we thought it was time to get back down to earth and spend some time with Adi Gelvan (@speedb_io), Co-founder and CEO of Speedb, an embedded key-value store, drop-in/replacement for RocksDB, that significantly improves on its IO performance for large metadata databases. At Adi’s last … Continue reading "132: GreyBeards talk fast embedded k-v stores with Speedb’s Co-Founder&CEO Adi Gelvan"

The GreyBeards have been discussing K8s storage services a lot over the last year or so and it was time to understand how container apps and data could be protected. Recently, we saw an article about a Veritas funded survey, discussing the need for data protection in K8s. As such, it seemed a good time … Continue reading "131: GreyBeards talk native K8s data protection using Veritas NetBackup with Reneé Carlisle"

We had heard about Apache Arrow and Arrow Flight as being a hi-performing database with access speeds to match for a while now and finally got a chance to hear what it was all about with James Duong, Co-Fourder of Bit Quill Technologies/Senior Staff Developer at Dremio and David Li (@lidavidm), Apache PMC and software … Continue reading "130: GreyBeards talk high-speed database access using Apache Arrow Flight, with James Duong and David Li"

We haven’t talked composable infrastructure in a while now but it’s been heating up lately. GigaIO has some interesting tech and I’ve been meaning to have them on the show but scheduling never seemed to work out. Finally, we managed to sync schedules and have Matt Demas, field CTO at GigaIO (@giga_io) on our show. … Continue reading "129: GreyBeards talk composable infrastructure with GigaIO’s, Matt Demas, Field CTO"

Sponsored by: Once again Keith and I are talking K8s storage, only this time it was object storage. Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, Co-founder and CEO of MinIO, has been on our show a couple of times now and its always an insightful discussion. He’s got an uncommon perspective on IT today and what needs to … Continue reading "128: GreyBeards talk containers, K8s, and object storage with AB Periasamy, Co-Founder&CEO MinIO"