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OpenStack is one of those technologies that many people have heard of, but don’t perhaps fully understand. What is it intended for? Who uses it? Why do enterprise IT organizations value it so much? Is it as hard as some say? In the latest edition of the NetApp Tech ONTAP podcast, you’ll find the answers to these and other questions. This week, we are joined by two of the best and brightest technic...

StorageGRID Webscale is NetApp’s object data storage system. Recently version 10.2 was released and added a number of new and interesting features. To enlighten us, we asked none other than Duncan Moore, Director for StorageGRID at NetApp, to visit us and give us a breakdown. As always, Duncan does a great job extolling the benefits of object storage, so if you’re curious about object storage and...

With Glenn away, Justin and Andrew wanted to take the opportunity to playback some of their best interviews of Insight 2015. Tune in and listen as the guys sit down with Dave Hitz, NetApp's co-founder, Cynthia Stoddard, NetApp's CIO, and much more.

For the first episode of 2016 we talk about the year past: the good, the bad, and everything in-between. We reminisce about all the fun we’ve had so far, beg for some feedback from our listeners, and at least one of us refuses to make any predictions for 2016.

On the eve of this year’s holiday season, we received quite the stocking stuffer when the news broke that NetApp plans to acquire SolidFire. Tune into this week’s podcast for all the latest news! Also on this week’s show, we have some great interviews from NetApp Insight 2015. First, we sat down with Antonio Pittalis, IT Infrastructure Manager for Tiscali, to learn more about how Tiscali is benefi...

For our episode this week, we sit down with the group again, Evan Miller, Enterprise Architect for NetApp, Eduardo Rivera, Storage Architect for NetApp, and Stetson Webster, Storage Architect for NetApp. This week’s focus is on data protection being integrated with the storage services offerings. Protecting data is a critical function of any infrastructure, and working with the application adminis...

IT departments across all industries are trying to figure out how to become service providers to their own businesses, and storage is no exception to this. Designing storage services which are capable of meeting the needs of the applications which your organization uses is critical to ensuring success. For our episode this week we sit down with Evan Miller, Enterprise Architect for NetApp, Eduardo...

With SMB 3.0., Microsoft changed the game for how applications like SQL and Hyper-V could be deployed. Continuously available file shares allow organizations to deploy business critical workloads with all the performance and availability traditionally associated with block based storage (iSCSI/FCP), but with the ease of use of a file share. Microsoft and NetApp have been partnering for years to pr...

Docker remains one of the hot topics in the industry today, and last week was their second conference of the year: DockerCon EU 2015. NetApp was a Gold sponsor of the conference, and we proudly sent six people to meet, talk, geek, and fraternize with the attendees. We had several demos at our booth, including cloning containerized MongoDB utilizing FlexClones and the Snap Creator Framework, automa...

The Tech ONTAP Podcast crew spent this past week broadcasting from Berlin, Germany at NetApp Insight 2015, and while we were there, some major news was announced. Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.2 RC1 is now available for download! We sat down with our friend Jay Goldfinch, Technical Marketing Engineer for Data ONTAP, to discuss all the new features, which includes copy-free transition, new All Flash FAS...

It's the last day of NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from Germany. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

Day three of NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 is in the books and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from Germany. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

Day two of NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 is in the books and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from Germany. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

It's the first day of NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from Germany. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

NetApp Insight 2015 was a massive success, and certainly one of the many highlights was Dave Hitz, NetApp’s Founder and Executive Vice President, and Joe CaraDonna, Senior Technical Director, announcing that SnapMirror will now not only run in AltaVault, but will soon run across NetApp’s entire product line. This week, the gang is joined by data protection experts, Rachel Dines, John Spinks and Mi...

OpenStack is the choice of many organizations who want to provide private cloud services for their applications which follow the Amazon Web Services (AWS) model. This week we welcome Dave Cain to the Tech ONTAP Podcast. Dave and the guys discuss OpenStack’s Liberty release and the trip OpenStack Summit Tokyo. We also talk about the recently released FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat OpenStack, which...

Earlier this year, we sat down with members of our engineering group, also known as the Customer-0 program, to learn more about how they test and implement new products and solutions before they become publicly available. Now its time to introduce you to members of NetApp’s IT team, known as the Customer-1 program, that test and implement those products and solutions within NetApp’s IT infrastruct...

The public cloud is the future growth area for many organizations, enabling rapid development, prototyping, on-demand capacity, and many more features for building the next generation of applications. While cloud may be the future of applications, much of the data still resides in on premises resources. Bringing the data to the application is a complex problem that is being addressed head-on by Ne...

It's Insight 2015 and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here to give you all the latest news. Here is their recap of day 4 of Insight.

It's Insight 2015 and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here to give you all the latest news. Here is their recap of day 3 of Insight.

It's Insight 2015 and the Tech ONTAP Podcast is here to give you all the latest news. Here is their recap of day 2 of Insight.

The hyper-scale cloud providers, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Asure, and IBM SoftLayer, provide highly available, and highly durable, storage for a reasonable price. This means that many organizations are looking to, and adopting, public cloud providers as another tier of storage for their organization. NetApp’s AltaVault provides the ability for any organization to leverage their existing backup...

This week we sit down with NetApp’s John Spinks, Technical Marketing Engineer, to talk about SnapCenter. SnapCenter is the next generation of our SnapManager and SnapCreator technology, and is the first step in NetApp’s centralized data protection software vision. SnapCenter provides protection that works across the entire data fabric as applications move back and forth, in and out of the cloud.

Have you ever thought to yourself “I wonder if it’s possible to do this with NetApp?” Or, how about “I hear what my sales team is saying, but I’m not sure how it will behave with my application.” Well, we have the answer for you, and the answer is the Customer Proof-of-Concept (CPOC) lab. The CPOC team is dedicated to showing NetApp functionality and integration with customer applications, using r...

Flash has been the driving force behind significant change in the storage industry over the last 3-5 years, and that change continues to accelerate today. SSD drives are finally nearing the inflection point where the price per gigabyte is dropping below the price of traditional spinning hard drives and this will have another momentous impact to storage vendors and the devices being sold. This week...