The French Storage Podcast

Huawei Connect 2023 in Shanghai was an exceptional opportunity to feel what China has become especially in the IT space with Huawei presence in various domain leading some segments. During the show, it was the perfect moment to capture Huawei leader's mind about data storage strategy and product line, AI storage for sure and other connected topics such cloud and container/Kubernetes domains. I spo...

Meeting again Jim Handy during the recent FMS show gave me the idea to interview him to get his opinion and view on the current trends and business climate we see in the NAND, Flash and controllers market segment. We covered all these points with Jim and much more as we extended the talk to some adjacent topics. Very interesting exchange with Jim, one of the most prolific analyst in this domain. E...

New episode about the bi-annual Coldago Research Report about Storage Unicorn . The last report, which is the thirteenth edition, was published in June 2023 and lists 17 companies: Acronis, Barracuda Networks, Cohesity, DataCore, DDN, Druva, Infinidat, Kaseya, MinIO, Nasuni, OwnBackup, Qumulo, Rubrik, VAST Data, Veeam Software, Veritas Technologies and Wasabi Technologies. Enjoy the listening of t...

This episode is a recap of the recent Flash Memory Summit 2023 that took place in Santa Clara, CA, early August. Lots of announcements, lots of players, some missing... but still the annual industry rendez-vous not yet to be replaced. Enjoy.

In parallel of the recent Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara early August, I decided to visit the new Pure Storage HQ in Santa Clara, CA, and record an exclusive interview with Charles Giancarlo , CEO of the company. It was a very good moment, super frank and direct and we both enjoyed the recording. Together, we covered its role within the company, his goals, objectives and achievements, technolo...

Phison Electronics joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and it gave me the idea to record this podcast episode with KS Pua , CEO, during the recent Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara early August. We spoke about the financials of the company, its products lines with SSD controllers, embedded and flash modules marketed and promoted by Kingston or Seagate among others, its use cases and com...

Tuxera participated to the recent IT Press Tour  in Berlin, Germany, and we got a perfect snapshot fo the company, its history, its product lines and strategy. It was the good opportunity to speak with is CEO, Tuukka Ahoniemi , and go beyond the session with a dedicated interview. Together we covered different aspects in details like the strategy of the company especially being strong in embedded...

The 51st edition of The IT Press Tour  took place end of June in the beautiful city of Berlin in Germany. In 2 days, we met 6 companies playing in IT Infrastructure, Data Management, Storage and a few key other areas. By alpha order it was Croit , CunoFS , Insurgo , Simplyblock , Tuxera and Yuzuy . Some are already known and others really new and young and it is in our mission to promote such inno...

Qumulo joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and it was the perfect opportunity to get a company and product update. It gave me the idea to record a podcast with Bill Richter , CEO of the company. Together with Bill, we spoke about the evolution and trajectory of the company, its business with a clear shift to multi-cloud and product line with a special angle of the various covered workloa...

Versity Software , who protects today probably the largest data sets over long time, joined the recent 50th edition of The IT Press Tour in California. We got a deep company and product update and the primer of a product announcement. With Bruce Gilpin , CEO of the company, we spoke about the genesis of the project, how he reached the point to collaborate with Harriet Coverston , a real legend in...

DDN , known also as DDN Storage, presents itself now as The AI Data Company and we understand why. DDN joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and it was the right opportunity to get an update on their classic HPC business, their fast growing AI activity and also their enterprise entity with Tintri, IntelliFlash and Nexenta technologies. So being in Paris a few weeks ago I decided to intervi...

Arcitecta , a leading data management player founded in 1998 in Australia, participated recently to The IT Press Tour in Colorado and beyond an interesting session and talk with the team, I got the idea to interview Jason Lohrey , the founder, CEO and CTO, in other words, the brain behind Mediaflux. W e spoke about the root of the project, how did the adventure start and why, how does the product...

Volumez , new comer in the storage galaxy, joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and it was the perfect opportunity to learn more about what they do with the idea to share this with the world. The team has developed a radical new storage approach leveraging the cloud, NVMe, Kubernetes and other key elements to provide a very easy way to build high performant and high resilient block storag...

Nyriad , promoter of a fast, resilient and cost effective block storage for high capacity use cases, participated recently to the 50th edition of The IT Press Tour . As the content is very interesting, I mean Nyriad develops a very compelling solution, I decided to record an interview with Derek Dicker , CEO of the company. We spoke about the roots of the company, I could say the 2 lives of Nyriad...

The 50th edition of The IT Press Tour  visited Colorado and California and, once again, the trip was dense and very good. We met 9 companies playing in IT Infrastructure, Data Management, Storage and a few key other areas. By alpha order it was Arcitecta , DDN , MinIO , Nyriad , Phison Electronics , Qumulo , Spectra Logic , Versity and Volumez . We met very interesting leaders with real disruptive...

With the 50th edition of The IT Press Tour , clearly we thought and wished to make a pause to record a special episode to share some numbers to measure the impact of The IT Press Tour on the industry. Started in June 2010, it continues to exist because it delivers value for vendors, press and organizers. Just a few of them 283 distinct companies met, 497 sessions, more than 1000 CxO, more than 22,...

StorONE joined the recent 49th edition of The IT Press Tour in Israel and this time I decided to record an interview with Gal Naor , CEO and founder of the company. We spoke about the genesis of the company, why he launched the project, the value proposition, of course the product and some recent developments around VSC - Virtual Storage Containers - , the market, their use cases and customers, th...

Reading various sources with press articles, vendor messaging and other materials invite me to consider a special episode on this file system confusion that requires a real clarification. This episode defines what is a parallel file system, what do you need to qualify  a file system but we also cover the various extensions added to NFS to boost transfer. And we finish by the list of products and v...

Gartner, the famous analyst firm, has published recently, April 26, 2023, a bizarre report entitled "Voice of the Customer for Primary Storage" reference G00752726 that clearly introduces a wrong definition of primary storage. The problem is that readers and subscribers to Gartner believe what is written but again this is not accurate. So when I read this document, I decided to record this podcast...

This episode is a recap of the recent European KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023 organized in Amsterdam in The Netherlands in March. Storage was not really visible at the show, the topic is ignored by this community speaking a different language with DataStore... Enjoy.

I met Insurgo and Gavin Griffiths at the recent STS Conference in Tucson, Arizona. It was an interesting talk that is really different from others classic tape pitch. It invites me to think about an interview and we recently did it to dig into the different tape services offered by his company. We spoke about all this, the market, drivers and the future. Tape is here to last long, no doubt about i...

The IT Press Tour  was recently in Israel for the 4th time and globally for the 49th edition. It was, once again, a fantastic trip. We met 8 companies playing in IT Infrastructure, Data Management, Storage and a few key other areas. By alpha order it was CTERA , Equalum , Finout , Pliops , Rookout , StorONE , Treeverse and UnifabriX . We met very interesting people, real innovators developing key...

We met CTERA recently during the 49th edition of  The IT Press Tour  in Israel and we got great exclusive news with the new executive team as Oded Nagel was promoted CEO, Liran Eshel, moving to Executive Chairman and a few other moves and promotions. We spoke about these changes with Oded and covered some recent product news around ransomware, cloud routing, CTERA Direct or unified file and object...

UnifabriX just joined the 49th edition of The IT Press Tour in Israel and it was the perfect opportunity to learn more about the team and what they do. They clearly belong and participate to the coming disruptive wave based on CXL - the Compute Express Link - that will change drastically how the data center resources are connected. So the idea to interview Ronen Hyatt , CEO and founder of Unifabri...

Two recents news invites me to think about this episode, first Quantum who introduces a modern file and object storage solution based on share-everything model, full NVMe and disaggregated architecture. A very good news for the champion of secondary storage. And the second HPE for its GreenLake storage services that recognizes once again its incapacity to develop file and object storage product by...