Intel started showing off persistent memory in 2018, before launching formally in April of 2019. PMem was initially targeted toward high-performance database use cases. Here the massive expansion of memory within a server was beneficial for those workloads, but the persistence was icing on the cake, removing the need to rehydrate a large RAM footprint
On this week’s podcast Brian talks in person with Dave Demlow. Dave is the VP of Product Strategy for Scale Computing, which is code for getting to do the fun visionary work. Scale has been in the HCI business for about as long as HCI has been a thing. Historically Scale has sold HCI like
This week on the podcast Brian sits down with Rob Hunsaker, from Dell Technologies. Rob talks about the Dell EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance, which may be one of the least known components available to Unity/Unity XT storage arrays. In fact, CTA goes way back, some VNX arrays out in the wild are still using the
In this week’s podcast Brian chats with Preetham Mukhatira, Director of Product Management at Dell EMC. On the podcast Preetham dives into the overall Dell EMC HCI portfolio, with an emphasis on the Azure-based offerings. While most know of vSAN Ready Nodes, VxRail and the larger converged solutions, Dell Technologies has been pioneering Azure-based solutions
In this week’s podcast Brian talks with Shawn Meyers, Field CTO at Tintri. The podcast starts off with Field of Dreams talk and winning an Eric Davis autographed baseball. Shawn talks about his years as a customer, and reminisces about Fusion-io edge cards. Eventually the topic of Tintri comes up, which has been around about
In this week’s podcast, Brian sits down live, in person, with Richard Kennedy, an SE with Qumulo. We recently posted a review of the Qumulo software and before we tear down the cluster, wanted to create a few more pieces of content. Richard and Brian did a live stream on YouTube, with Q&A, for those
In this week’s podcast Brian and Patrick Kennedy from STH go to war, as two enemy tech websites collide in the squared circle. Actually not quite, we’re friends and spend ten minutes talking smoking meats. From there we get into tech; Patrick talks Intel and AMD server CPUs (of course, massive nerd alert). The guys
In this week’s podcast Brian interviews Lee Caswell, aka The vSAN guy. Lee covers a lot of ground, starting with a conversation about the momentum of VCF. Of those customers, 80% are net new to vSAN. On the vSAN front, adoption remains strong as VMware is adding 100 customers a week on vSAN. This is
In this week’s podcast Brian talks with Tom Butler from Lenovo. Tom starts out by giving an update on Lenovo’s latest ThinkPads and talks about the evolution of end user computing in the modern era. The guys then turn to the importance of a good display then dive into tower workstations and the value that
If Intel’s diminutive PCs weren’t big enough already, today’s conditions have driven even more interest in Intel NUCs. In fact, our recent piece on installing ESXi on an Intel NUC 9 was a top 10 article for May. To help satiate your hunger for more info on Intel NUCs, this podcast with Kristin Brown covers a
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