The French Storage Podcast

A special episode today with some statistics with some notes and comments about the recent HYCU SaaS Backup Survey Report and my recent talk with Simon Taylor , CEO of HYCU , and the acquisitions of Own announced yesterday by Salesforce . A short episode but these 2 elements deserve to be covered. Enjoy.

Large drives is a need and a reality for the industry but they have introduced some new needs to protect data and manage them at scale. I covered all these aspects in this episode and much more explaining some historical key points and then iterate of logical volumes, erasure coding and green with 3 key technologies to leverage to maximize a green effect. Enjoy your listenig.

New name for an established industry conference, the "Flash Memory Summit" has morphed into The " Future of Memory and Storage " which is definitely a good name with the acronym. Once again this year it was the rendez-vous of semi-conductor professionals plus a few other adjacent profiles. Plenty of new things, awards of course but also new products, technology directions and trends confirmed by v...

The last FMS 2024 conference was the opportunity to celebrate Harriet Coverston , a real pioneer in the storage domain and especially in the data archiving space. Harriet just received the SuperWomen of FMS Leadership Award that rewards a brilliant carrier and strong industry contributions. After some times at Lawrence Livermore and Control Data Corp., she founded LSC in 1986 with famous SAM-FS an...

Following the recent IT Press Tour and the very interesting session we had at MaxLinear , I decided to meet again the company and go more in details on Panther III, the storage accelerator card, well adopted by the market and recognized as one of the fastest in the industry. I talked with Mark Moran , Executive Director, and Pinaki Chanda , Director Software Engineering, during FMS, the famous con...

Following ISC and the recent IT Press Tour with the 8th participation of DDN , not counting ones with Nexenta, Tegile or Tintri, before their respective acquisitions, I decided to record a new technical episode with the product leader at DDN, James Coomer . We spoke about the company of course but we insisted on ExaScaler and Infinia, their last high performance storage platform, and their approac...

Our data storage industry moves fast and I decided to record this recap of the first 6 months of 2024. It's a short episode but I covered multiples aspects with VC fundings, IPOs and Unicorns effects, M&As, some failures and surprising news, a few trends, technologies and products, some people moves and new companies. I hope you will enjoy it, it is a pretty good one during holidays.

As a usual and classic note, twice a year, Coldago Research publishes its Storage Unicorn report which presents the club and its selection of storage unicorns. This June 2024 edition, the 15th one listed 17 companies with a few change with Rubrik now a public company, WEKA joining the club following its last round and Cohesity key events early this year. By alpha order, they're Acronis , Barracuda...

Viking Enterprise Solutions, aka VES , a product division of Sanmina , a reference in compute and storage server design and manufacturing, participated recently to The IT Press Tour . It was the perfect time to understand who is Sanmina and VES, what they do, how they work for other IT companies developing their hardware solutions such as DDN, Infinidat or VAST Data, coupled potentially with some...

The 56th edition of The IT Press Tour  took place in June in Silicon Valley, California. We met 9 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Management, Storage and I added AI. By alpha order it was Arc Compute , DDN , Hammerspace , Index Engines , Juicedata , MaxLinear , Oxide Computer , Tobiko Data and Viking Enterprise Solutions , a division of Sanm...

MaxLinear , a leader and fast data processing player with advanced connectivity for data center with ethernet and storage dedicated products, participated recently to The IT Press Tour . It was a good time to get a company and product update before FMS early August. We learnt MaxLinear storage product strategy and all details around Panther III and its roadmap. With Vikas Choudhary , VP & GM o...

Index Engines , a pioneer in enterprise content indexing, joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and announced their 99.99% SLA in ransomware protection. It was the perfect opportunity to learn more about the company, founded in 2003, by CrosStor founders, previously known as Programmed Logic, and get the full product pitch and demo around ransomware protection. With Tim Williams , CEO and...

Among this CTO talk series, I recorded this one with Trond Myklebust , CTO, Hammerspace , during the last MSST conference in Santa Clara, early June, a few days before The IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley.  It was the perfect opportunity to discuss the Hammerspace mission, GDE and HyperScale NAS, leveraging pNFS for multi-site, multi-client and multi-protocol file access and deliver an advanced dat...

The recent Dell Technologies World, in Las Vegas, was the moment chosen by the management team to unveil a new project named Project Lightning. It is related to PowerScale, AI Storage and their need to redesign a parallel file storage approach to sustain performance requirements by such environments. I detail this news and put this in perspective in the PowerScale line and also with some market de...

A new talk, this time with Aron Brand , CTO at CTera , recorded a few weeks following the  IT Press Tour  early April in Rome where the company shared some exclusive news. Its was once again the opportunity to go deeper in their product and strategy especially around AI and how they will integrate it. We also spoke about their Data Services Platform and its role and how NAS and S3 are glued togeth...

Object Storage is a long story almost 20 years if you consider the AWS S3 launch in 2006 but it has started before with the CAS wave. I invite you to read carefully the Coldago Research Timeline on the subject, it is available here . I discuss several of this evolution and especially insisted on the current 4 flavors: Capacity Oriented, High Performance, Single Node and S3-to-Tape. Enjoy your list...

ISC 2024 took place in Hamburg, Germany, this week and it was the opportunity to meet vendors, discuss with various people, attend sessions and see some sort of convergence between HPC and AI as they some similarities or at least some constraints at sale. We saw several parallel file system vendors, flash at many places, a few HDD resistance, tape as well, of curse GPU and alterantives... in a nut...

Huawei Technologies  organized its last Innovative Data Infrastructure Forum 2024 in Berlin, Germany, this week. It was the opportunity to meet company's executives. The Chinese giant announced a series of new product such as the 128TB NVMe SSD, again the A800 and a few others hardware and software solutions targeting high demanding environments such as AI. We learnt a lot again on the strategy in...

The 55th edition of The IT Press Tour  took place early April in Rome, Italy. We met 6 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Management, Storage and I added AI. By alpha order it was CTERA , Fujifilm Recording Media , Know and Decide , Leil Storage , QStar Technologies and Quickwit . A very good edition again and I hope you will really enjoy liste...

## Episode in French ## Know and Decide , a fast growing IT Asset Management company, joined The IT Press Tour organized recently in Rome. Emmanuel Moreau , CEO and founder, introduced the company and its solution to address IT resource management challenges representing a big issue especially within large enterprises and corporations. The product took advantage of deep CIO connection Emmanuel has...

QStar Technologies , a pioneer in the data archiving space, participated recently to  The IT Press Tour organized in the beautiful city of Rome. The management team took advantage of their participation to launch their new product - Global ArchiveSpace - a scalable multi-node solution able to support very large volumes of data but also very large archived datasets and tape libraries. We also spoke...

Leil Storage , an Estonian company joined The IT Press Tour , this week in Rome, to introduce their storage approach with Powered control storage system as a evolution of MAID coupled with erasure coding and SaunaFS, a distributed file system, inspired by the famous Google File System. With Aleksandr Ragel , founder and CEO, we spoke about the genesis of the company, their products and how they ap...

The 54th edition of The IT Press Tour  took place early March in Denver, Colorado, and the bay area in California. We visited and met 9 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Management, Storage and I added AI. By alpha order it was Arcitecta , BMC , Cohesity , Hammerspace , Quantum , Qumulo , Solix , StoneFly and WEKA . A very good edition again a...

Cohesity shook the storage industry with the M&A announcement with Veritas Technologies a few weeks ago, nobody has really anticipated that move. We met Sanjay Poonen , CEO, and his executive team, during the recent IT Press Tour and it appeared natural and logic for me to record this interview and we did a few days after our visit. With Sanjay we spoke about the genesis of the deal, the Cohes...

  A new talk with Shimon Ben David , CTO of WEKA , recorded during the Nvidia GTC following the recent IT Press Tour in California. Beyond a refresh about WEKA, the parallel file system background and the Modern Data Platform approach, we spoke about the recent performance public benchmarks available on SPEC web site where WEKA clearly takes the lead in various domains, the certification of the WE...