The French Storage Podcast

New meeting during The IT Press Tour with iXsystems , the company insisted on its TrueNAS brand wishing to be aligned with the success of its storage servers and as an effect from the sale of its server business to Amaara Networks. I spoke with Brett Davis , EVP, about the company strategy, the new direction around storage, new products especially the H30 model, next release TrueNAS 25.04 and seve...

New exercice or at least at a different frequency, this episode covers the first 2 months of 2025 with some market news I selected. I spoke about VC funding and investments, IPOs, M&A, new product iterations, people's moves, architecture and technology. Enjoy.

The 60th edition of The IT Press Tour  took place last week of January in Silicon Valley, California. It's a major milestone for our organization, if you put things in perspective with 60 editions , what other event has reached that number, I let you check... but it will be tough to find some... Success is about regularity, consistency coupled with unique value proposition and innovation it introd...

2025 is well started and Coldago Research published a few days ago its Gem list 2025 with 5 key players to watch in the coming months: ExaGrid , Leil Storage , QStar Technologies , Volumez and Wasabi Technologies . Enjoy the listening of this new episode.

Classic exercice for a few years for Coldago Research , I share my predictions for 2025 covering AI and its impact, Cloud , Security , Platform , Infrastructure , Media and Connectivity and Energy . Enjoy this episode.

Regular exercice for the Coldago Research team publishing its bi-annual Storage Unicorn in June and December. The last report was published in December 2024 and lists 16 companies:  Acronis ,  Barracuda Networks ,  Cohesity ,  DataCore ,  DDN ,  Druva , ExaGrid , Infinidat ,  Kaseya ,  MinIO ,  Nasuni ,  Qumulo ,  Rubrik ,  VAST Data ,  Veeam Software and  Wasabi Technologies . Enjoy the listening...

Classic exercise I do every year, here is once again my choice for the key facts related to the data storage industry in 2024. I cover Funding aspects, IPOs , M&As , new Unicorns and Trends . All these elements are also key to follow for the coming year as they announce some real changes. A very interesting and promising year in perspective. And I should say it starts well with the Infinidat a...

Coldago Research has launched and released a brand new Map about Modern Data Protection aka MDP as we live in a fast changing world with pressure and challenges in all domains. This study analyzed 16 companies: Acronis , Arcserve , Atempo , Bacula , Cohesity , Commvault , Dell , Druva ,  HYCU ,  IBM ,  Kaseya ,  N-able ,  OpenText ,  Rubrik ,  Salesforce  and  Veeam and we elect 4 leaders: Cohesit...

New Map for  Coldago Research with the new annual  Map for Unstructured Data Management aka UDM. The 2024 report analyzes 17 companies: Arcitecta ,  Atempo ,  Congruity360 ,  Data Dynamics , Datadobi , Dell ,  Hammerspace , Hitachi Vantara , HPE , Huawei , IBM , iRODS ,  Komprise ,  NetApp ,  Spectra Logic ,  Starfish  and  Veritas  and we elect 4 leaders: Arcitecta , Data Dynamics , Hammerspace a...

Coldago Research has unveiled its 6th edition of its annual  Map for File Storage . The 2024 report analyzes 27 distinct companies over 3 Maps: Enterprise, High Performance and Cloud File Storage: AWS , CTERA , DDN ,  Dell , Egnyte , Fujitsu , Hammerspace ,  HPE , Huawei ,  IBM ,  iXsystems , LucidLink , Microsoft , Nasuni , NetApp , Panzura , Peer Software , Pure Storage , Quantum , Qumulo , Quob...

The 59th edition of The IT Press Tour  took place early December in Valletta, Malta. We continue our European stops and this time for the 59th edition we landed in beautiful Malta. It was once again a fantastic edition as we had the opportunity to meet 6 European companies: DigiFilm , EasyVirt , Indexima , Manticore Search , ProxySQL and Scalytics . I hope you will like the episode and we'll be in...

Wasabi Technologies , the reference in cloud storage, alternative to hyperscalers' solutions with a very efficient and cost effective S3 API service, participated to the recent IT Press Tour in Boston in October. It was the perfect opportunity to meet company's executives and David Friend , co-founder and CEO, who shared his view on the market, genesis of the project and of course directions of th...

SuperComputing 24 took place a few weeks ago in Atlanta, Georgia, and once again it was a very good edition with the best ever number of attendees with 18,000+, 4,000 more than last year, very impressive show. The topic was about Acceleration in various domains such a HPC, AI, Storage, Memory or Network. I insisted on key trends, some technologies and products I saw very present on the floor. Enjo...

Coldago Research has unveiled its 6th edition of its annual  Map for Object Storage . The 2024 report analyzes 13 companies:  Cloudian , DataCore , Dell , Hitachi Vantara , Huawei , IBM , MinIO , NetApp , Pure Storage , Quantum , Scality , VAST Data and WEKA and then elect 9 Leaders. I let you listen to this episode to discover who are the winners. Enjoy.

QStar Technologies exists since 1987 and embodies a real pioneer in its segment who continues to drive innovations and leads the market. The company is pretty small but agile and recognized for its expertise in this domain. It is illustrated by a strong footprint on the market with key end-users and installations for several decades. I decided to record this podcast with Max Finotti , its CTO, aft...

Congruity360 , a fast growing player in unstructured data management, recently participated to The IT Press Tour in Boston. It was the opportunity to learn more about its company and product strategies. With Mark Ward , COO, we spoke about the root of the company, its architecture, its benefits and values, how it works, how AI is used, of course some business info related to the business and prici...

ExaGrid , the pure player and market leader in secondary storage with dedicated backup appliance, joined the recent edition of The IT Press Tour in Boston. The session we had with Bill Andrews , CEO, at the company HQ invited me to record a specific interview to cover the pretty unique trajectory of ExaGrid and one of the longest CEO tenure with 20 years in our industry. We spoke about the product...

The 58th edition of The IT Press Tour  took place early October in Boston, MA. After several years on the west coast, it was clear that we must come back on the other side of the country and we did it. We met 8 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Analytics, Data Management, Storage and of course AI. By alpha order it was Congruity360 , ExaGrid , HYCU...

Hydrolix , a fast growing data analytics US company, participated to the recent edition of The IT Press Tour in Boston. With what I saw and understood, I decided to record this new episode with Marty Kagan , CEO and co-founder, to go beyond that session and cover multiple aspects. Among them, we spoke about the genesis of the company, why companies need such technology, a bit of product info, thei...

Swissbit , the European leader in Flash media and SSD, joined the recent edition of The IT Press Tour in Boston, MA. We had the opportunity to learn more about the company and its product strategy and then this podcast was a natural extension. With Silvio Muschter , CEO, we discussed about the genesis of the project, how did the company start, its mission of course that evolved over time, its prod...

Very interesting NetApp Insight 2024 user conference a few weeks ago in Las Vegas with a train of strategic and products announcements especially regarding AI and associated storage infrastructure. The product team unveiled new ASA A-Series block storage arrays, 2 new FAS, BlueXP extensions, new cloud services and security features plus some key AI services and architecture with disaggregated and...

Cleondris , a key partner for NetApp in the data security and protection domain, participated to the recent 57th edition of The IT Press Tour in Istanbul, Turkey. At the event, the company unveiled Cleondris ONE, an advanced ransomware protection, and officially launched it during the recent NetApp INSIGHT 2024 in Las Vegas. We spoke about the company, its genesis, the solution and how it works, t...

Amazing Huawei Connect 2024 conference and expo in Shanghai, China, a few days ago. It was the right moment to refresh users and partners on the various product lines and storage in particular. I recorded this episode as a recap of the conference and I insist on Pacific and Dorado with its brand new v7 architecture. Again, it was an impressive show with 20,000+ attendees that illustrated the rapid...

The 57th edition of The IT Press Tour  took place early September in Istanbul, Turkey. With this European format, we met 6 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Management, Storage and of course AI. By alpha order it was Cleondris , Datashelter , EU eArchiving Initiative , Hopsworks , MooseFS and ZeroPoint Technologies . Another very good edition...

MooseFS , one of the few pioneers in scalable distributed file system, joined recently The IT Press Tour . It was the opportunity for the team to launch Moose 4.0 Community Edition. With Jakub Ratajczak, CEO, we spoke, in this episode, about the genesis of the project following the Google File System paper in 2003, the various flavors and key features, how the revenue is generated and pricing phil...