In this podcast Brian talks with Steve Searles, CTO of Zimcom, a public cloud service provider. Steve launched an effort to move to an all-flash datacenter a few years back and as of last year, successfully made that transition. Zimcom is also a big believer in OpenStack as a cloud management platform, they’ve managed to

David Tuhy, amongst other things, is the GM – Data Center Optane Storage Division, at Intel. In this podcast Brian and David discuss the modern data center and the impact of Optane SSDs on these architectures. Some of the new use cases include traditional architectures like Dell EMC PowerStore, which is using dual-ported Optane NVMe

Caitlin Gordon joins Brian on this podcast to talk all things Dell EMC PowerStore with a little Brady/Gronk mixed in. PowerStore is an entirely new platform for Dell EMC that is intended to take over as the lead product in the all-flash midmarket space. The clean sheet design allowed Dell EMC to take the best

In this week’s podcast Brian talks with Alex Kantrowitz, author of the new book Always Day One. In his book, Alex profiles a number of the tech giants we all know and maybe love, including Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook. The book highlights what these companies are doing culturally to encourage innovation.

In this week’s podcast Brian sits down with Geoffrey Cain, author of an amazing book, Samsung Rising.  Geoffrey details in amazing clarity the origins of Samsung – documenting the scandals, success and failures along the way. The book covers off on the rise of the semiconductor business as well, which includes details on how that

In this week’s podcast Brian sits down with Jeff Kennedy from Eaton. Brian and Jeff discuss Eaton’s new line of racks designed for edge use cases. Incidentally, StorageReview just had the Eaton MiniRaQ come into the lab, YouTube video coming very soon. The edge racks are designed to be wall-mounted and can fit a full-length

In this week’s podcast Brian sits down with Howard Lo, Vice President of Sales and Marketing of DataON. DataON provides an extensive set of products and services around Microsoft solutions. In our experience with DataON, that’s meant Azure Stack HCI primarily. Howard walks through the latest developments in their business, what customers are doing with

On this week’s podcast Brian talks with Simon Taylor, CEO of HYCU. HYCU is a backup and recovery provider who started out not long ago as a dedicated backup application for Nutanix HCI systems. Simon talks through the origins of HYCU and what they’re doing today to enable newly supported Azure cloud backup. For those

In the podcast this week Brian interviews Dakota Calvert from SanDisk. The guys discuss what it means for SanDisk to be reliable for content creators, and emerging tech to support creators, like memory cards capable of 1700MB/s reads. Additionally the team covers off on all things Corona, including events being pushed back, Dell Tech World