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It’s still "ONTAP 9 Month" on the podcast and this week we’re talking about improvements with flash. We have two experts this week, Dan Isaacs, Technical Marketing Engineer for NetApp, and Skip Shapiro, Technical Marketing Engineer for NetApp, who give us all the details about performance improvements for flash in ONTAP 9, including some impressive numbers for latency and IOPS. But, all the improv...

ONTAP 9 Month continues with this week's episode on what new features are available for data protection. We invite Technical Marketing Engineers Siddharth Agrawal and Mike Worthen to discuss MetroCluster, SnapMirror Enhancements and the addition of SnapLock support to ONTAP 9! Mike and Sid dive into the details of data protection and why ONTAP 9 is so much better.

This week, we welcome Quinn Summers in to talk about the new ONTAP 9 release and deliver a technical deep dive on those new features. We discuss RAID triple erasure coding, compaction and lots more! Additionally, we discuss the new SolidFire announcements in depth.

This mini-podcast covers the June 2 SolidFire announcement at Analyst Day. We interview the SolidFire CTO Val Bercovici and chat about why this announcement is going to change the storage industry.

This week on the Tech ONTAP podcast, we introduce ONTAP 9 month by welcoming a special guest onto the podcast – Lee Caswell, Vice President, Product and Solutions Marketing. We talk to Lee about the thinking behind why NetApp went with ONTAP 9 as a release name, as well as an overview of some of the new features in the release. We also discuss how NetApp is changing the way they release software....

Puppet is a declarative configuration management tool which is used by many organizations around the world to implement “Infrastructure as Code”. Puppet is also an automation tool, allowing administrators, and others, to define the configuration they want for the infrastructure and rely on Puppet to implement it. This abstracts the administrator or developer who is requesting infrastructure resour...

The NetApp A-Team is NetApp’s social media advocacy equivalent to programs like Cisco Champions and VMware’s vExpert. Made up of customers and partners, the A-Team are NetApp fans that blog, tweet and evangelize NetApp. They are an asset to NetApp because they also provide feedback to the company on what they’re doing right and what they could be doing better. That feedback is invaluable. Each yea...

Not too long ago NetApp announced a Docker volume plugin. The plugin enables Docker users to simply and easily connect to and consume clustered Data ONTAP iSCSI and NFS storage with their containerized applications. During this episode we sit down with none other than our very own Andrew Sullivan. That’s right, one of our co-hosts is the Technical Marketing Engineer for containers at NetApp and we...

It’s official… DevOps is taking the IT industry by storm. As we’ve discussed previously on the show, this movement is different as it’s more a shift in how we work. On this week’s show we bring in Michael Greene from Microsoft and Steve Murawski from Chef to discuss DevOps and their recent whitepaper on the Release Pipeline model for a practical look at managing infrastructure as code.

For our episode this week, we sit down with Evan Miller, Enterprise Architect for NetApp, Eduardo Rivera, Storage Architect for NetApp, and Stetson Webster, Storage Architect for NetApp to talk about object storage.  Eduardo and Stetson are the storage architects for NetApp IT, also known as Customer 1, and they recently went through a Storage Services Design Workshop with Evan and his team. The r...

Earlier this week, Mesosphere announced the open source Datacenter Operating System, and NetApp is extremely excited to be a launch partner with them. Built on Mesos, the DC/OS uses open source technology fostered by Mesosphere to provide an environment for running containerized applications with ease. It provides a platform which current and next-generation applications can take advantage of—whet...

OpenStack continues to become more and more popular for deploying private and hybrid cloud at many organizations. This week we welcome John Griffith, Principle Software Engineer for NetApp, Rob Esker, Product Manager for NetApp, Kelly Boeckman, Product Marketing Manager for NetApp, and Brendan Wolfe, Senior Marketing Manager for NetApp. These four represent the portfolio investment that NetApp, in...

QoS is more than just preventing bullies, and the NetApp IT team, commonly referred to as Customer 1, is living the proof of that. For our episode this week we bring back Evan Miller, Enterprise Architect for NetApp, Eduardo Rivera, Storage Architect for NetApp, and Stetson Webster, Storage Architect for NetApp, to talk about the result of their storage service implementation.

This week, John Spinks (@jbspinks), aka Mr. SnapCenter, joins us in the studio to discuss the new features in SnapCenter 1.1. We talk about backups, restores, and Oracle, as well as Justin’s visit to Storage Field Day at NetApp headquarters.

This week we bring Wyatt Bennett onto the podcast to talk about the new FlexPod offering. Bennett talks about the automation behind the scenes, and why this solution should be compelling for anyone considering a ROBO (Remote Office/Branch Office) deployment. He also shares his palpable excitement for reducing the complexity associated with converged infrastructure deployments and his not-so-lofty...

This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, we welcome NetApp A-Team member Glenn Dekhayser (@gdekhayser) of Red8 to talk about DevOps and NetApp Private Storage as a Service. In this week’s episode we discuss what DevOps is, where it’s going, and if storage administrators will be left behind. We also talk about the use cases for NetApp Private Storage and what the future may hold for NPS.

The hybrid cloud has changed the rules of data management. Data may still be the crown jewels, but it’s only useful when you can put it where it’s needed—and safely. That’s according to Adam Bergh of Netech Corporation and NetApp’s Kelly Hemphill, who talked about the changing face of data management in a hybrid cloud world during NetApp Insight 2015 with the Tech ONTAP Podcast.

Virtual volumes, also known as VVols, are a VMware feature for providing VM granular, policy based storage management. What this means is that as a virtualization administrator you no longer have to track and juggle datastore features and capabilities. You can simply create a policy of the features you want to take advantage of, then rely on the storage provider to ensure that the requested capabi...

At NetApp Insight 2015, NetApp Cloud Czar Val Bercovici and Red8’s Glenn Dekhayser shared their thoughts on how cloud has changed the world of DevOps, including what Bercovici calls the “Lean Cloud.” Dekhayser is practice lead in the Office of the CTO at Red8, a leader in designing software-defined data centers and a longtime NetApp partner. Bercovici and Dekhayser cover everything from the basics...

This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, we wrap up February, AKA SolidFire month, with Aaron Patten, virtualization architect for SolidFire. In today’s show, we discuss virtualization, where SolidFire fits into our customer’s environments, and a variety of other things while the third member of our podcast, Andrew Sullivan, travels across the Great White North.

This week we welcome Josh Atwell, Developer Advocate for SolidFire, to the podcast to have a conversation about automation, APIs, PowerShell, and declarative state management. We also talk about how SolidFire’s full-featured API enables administrators, developers, orchestrators, applications, and everyone in-between to quickly and easily provision and manage storage for their needs.

A crisis is an opportunity in disguise. ING DIRECT, Australia learned this firsthand when a competing bank Down Under beat them to market with an iPad app. But instead of rolling over, ING DIRECT regrouped, evaluated their options and transformed their IT infrastructure, essentially putting their whole bank in the cloud. At NetApp Insight 2015, Ben Issa—ING DIRECT, Australia’s head of IT Strategy—...

Last week, we covered the SolidFire acquisition with NetApp’s Andy Grimes. This week, we are joined by SolidFire employees, Aaron Delp and Amy Lewis, to get their take on the acquisition, as well as Jeremiah Dooley and Andy Banta for a technical deep dive into everything SolidFire. This episode goes into overtime, but is certainly worth the extended listen.

Super Bowl 50 is just around the corner, and that means the Denver Broncos, who are also NetApp customers, have the opportunity to once again hoist the Vince Lombardi trophy. Earlier this year, we had the opportunity to sit down with Russ Trainor, VP of IT for the Denver Broncos, Val Bercovici, and Cynthia Stoddard to discuss how NetApp has helped the team overcome their IT challenges and once aga...

This week NetApp finalized its acquisition of SolidFire, and we can’t wait to get started talking about it! To kick off our dive into SolidFire, we welcome longtime NetApp employee Andy Grimes, Principle Architect for Flash, who has been working closely with SolidFire since NetApp announced its intent to acquire the company. Andy brings his knowledge of SolidFire’s technology and business to the p...