Almost two years ago exactly, Lenovo and NetApp signed a collaboration agreement that had two core components. One was to form a joint venture specifically to sell into China. The other was for Lenovo to be able to offer its own line of storage systems. We’ve been working with the DM Series, which runs ONTAP,

HP has been in the remote office game since the Mars rover program in 2004. While today’s remote work needs are a little more domestic by comparison, there is a new set of challenges. We all know about VDI which has been most effective for managing large groups of task workers. COVID has caused new

This week two Brians collide in a storage podcast showdown! Brian Carpenter, the self-described bridge between customers and engineers at Pure Storage, joins me on the podcast this week. After some hot Brian name spelling talk and ratting on my son for skipping school to ride zip lines in Texas, we get down to business

On this week’s podcast, Brian sits down with Bill Andrews, the CEO of ExaGrid. ExaGrid provides hardware solutions for the enterprise backup and recovery market. ExaGrid has 2700 customers and is growing quickly, largely by displacing legacy backup target providers. On the podcast Bill pulls no punches, providing his take on the backup landscape, breaking

On this week’s podcast, Brian talks with Erick Oliveros, Marketing Manager, and Dhaval Panara, Product Manager, of QNAP Systems, Inc. QNAP Systems was spun off into its own company 16 years ago and has been a friend of StorageReview, sharing its equipment for us to review for several year. Today we talk about several topics

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