Brian recently sat down with Max Manekia, CEO of ServerPartDeals, at the company’s facility in Sanford, Florida, on the same trip that produced our ServerPartDeals facility tour. We’ve been a ServerPartDeals customer for years. Brian put them on our drive leaderboard not long after they opened their doors in 2010, and our 2025 look at

Brian recently caught up with Tim Shedd, an expert in thermal management and a pioneer in liquid cooling technologies. The podcast covers some of the historical aspects of data center liquid cooling, from Tim’s time working with Cray and spraying liquid across tubes to his more recent engagement with Dell’s PowerEdge XE9680.  Tim Shedd

Brian connected with HPE’s Dan Gardner to follow up on HPE Discover and go into more detail on the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.  Dan is the Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and considers himself a security nerd. Dan joined HP in 2017 in hardware technical support, then moved into a

The Storage Review team visited the Dell campus in Hopkinton to go hands-on with the latest advancements in enterprise storage. This podcast takes place in one of our favorite places, the Hopkinton Dell Lab. Brian connects with Scott Delandy, an Engineering Technologist at Dell, for this interaction to go in-depth on the PowerStore Elite. This

StorageReview has published several review pieces and a podcast based on research conducted at Oregon State University. You can find links to those articles at the bottom of this transcript. The articles have generated significant interest not only in research but also across the vendor community. The conversation then expanded to how educators use and

In this week’s podcast, Brian journeyed to Raleigh to visit with HPE’s Chad Bowninger. Chad is Principal Product Manager for Solutions focused on HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 and the new data protection accelerator node (DPAN). This is a casual conversation despite the technical topic. Chad even brought in a sofa to make it even

If you follow StorageReview regularly, you might have seen the piece on the OSU Ocean Study in real time. We spoke with Chris Sullivan, Director of Research and Academic Computing at Oregon State University, to better understand how technology helps researchers study ocean life and how that impacts the global environment. Brian met up with

At the SC25 event in St. Louis, Brian caught up with his long-time friend Mark Klarzynski, founder and acting CTO at PEAK:AIO. If you have been following StorageReview, then you may be familiar with our coverage of PEAK:AIO, from regular news coverage to medical AI to animal conservation.  As Mark explains, he has “spent

KIOXIA’s Maulik Sompura joins Brian for an in-depth, informative discussion about all things flash and other industry events. The topic is timely and relevant, given the massive expansion of AI and modern workloads.  Maulik Sompura is the Senior Staff Director—Product Planning and Management at KIOXIA, with over 13 years of experience in NAND, memory,