The French Storage Podcast

RAID is well known and mastered for all IT people especially infrastructure ones. But with the growing capacity of the HDD, the arrival of flash and SSDs, of course NVMe and the explosion of volume of data, RAID was and is under pressure. I see several new implementation, discovery of drawbacks and the confirmation of Erasure Coding we saw 2 decades ago with Isilon and more recently with large sca...

Tape was dead for some people but guess what tape is still there and even more present than ever with cyberattacks and ransomware pressure. LTO continues to flood the market and hyperscalers adopted tape libraries and use them at a new scale and pace. Vendors design new models specifically for them, it is the case for Quantum and IBM and we wait some offerings from Spectra Logic. LTO roadmap is pu...

The Storage Technology Showcase restarted a few days ago in Tucson, AZ and it was for me the opportunity to visit La Mecqua, the IBM Storage Labs. It was good to meet peers and speak about key storage challenges at scale. The topic of the year was about "Engaging the Rising Generation of Storage Professionals" and we also learned plenty of things, one of these being the Vertical Market Failure. I...

Two companies launched recently their SaaS applications backup service, HYCU and Asigra . HYCU chose The IT Press Tour end of January in California to unveil R-Cloud, a comprehensive solution to protect any SaaS applications and for Asigra SAASBackup it was more recent. Their products represent the market need for a new approach, it won't be acceptable to have point products protecting data for ea...

Secondary Storage is hot, nothing new here, and new offerings appear, new players and some old technologies got modernized like optical and recent tape developments are interesting. Flash is coming to secondary storage to offer more than Active but Instant recovery or archive. Hyperscalers put pressure on tape library vendors to release special models for them. Energy is even more important today...

I wish to do this episode for quite some time, it is about the pattern I detected on the market several years ago and it has been confirmed over the years. This is about Storage Giants essentially developing Block storage products. These storage giants are DDN, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Infinidat, Lenovo, NetApp and Pure Storage covering for me here the mid to high-end on-p...

Like every year I started an exercise to list Winners and Losers, in other words, who in terms of companies or product or technology made a positive impact on the industry and on the other side negative one. I tried to cover block, file and object storage, primary and secondary storage, Kubernetes, Cloud and SaaS, tape, optical, RAID, DPU... but also M&A, investments or bankruptcy. It's an int...

The IT Press Tour came back end of January to California for the 48th edition. What a ride. We met 8 companies playing in DevOps and Kubernetes and more globally very active in Multi-Cloud environments. By alpha order it was Amberflo , CloudFabrix , HYCU , Pulumi , Robin.io now Rakuten Symphony , Solo.io , Sysdig and project Velero . It was once again a very informative tour, I hope you'll enjoy i...

New year so new Gem list from Coldago Research  with 5 companies that should have a serious impact on the market in the coming quarters. We select GRAID Technology, LINBIT, Pliops, PoINT Software & Systems and UnifabriX. Enjoy the listening of this short episode.

Rakuten Symphony acquired Robin.io, fast growing player in Kubernetes, in 2022. Robin.io was a pioneer of Cloud Native Storage and Platform. The company just participated to the recent 48th edition of The IT Press Tour dedicated to Kubernetes and DevOps in California. It was the opportunity to discuss with Partha Seetala , founder of Robin.io, a company we met a few times during the pandemic but o...

Classic episode with the bi-annual Coldago Research Report about Storage Unicorn. The last report was published in December 2022 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 this short episode.

Linbit , a reference in Linux HA and data replication, has participated to the recent IT Press Tour in Lisbon, Portugal, and it was the perfect opportunity to learn more about the standard in data protection for production data. So I decided to make this interview with Philipp Reisner , CEO and founder of the company, a story he started more than 20 years ago when he was a student working in the d...

First episode of 2023 and first episode of the 4th season. This time with My Predictions, some of them are a bit provocative and others are more classics and follow the market directions. We'll expect a better year, we'll see, on the technology side, it will be interesting but it will be impacted by the general business, energy and diplomatic climate.

Last episode of the year and it is a tradition to recap the year. I've selected some elements to cover M&As, IPOs, Investment Rounds, Technology, Trends and Products and companies who has made some real progresses during last 12 months with also some new ones. I wish you all the best for 2023.

We approach the end of the year and it's the right moment to summarize the last 3 Coldago Maps 2022 related to Unstructured Data Management , File and Object Storage . This year a few new things with a NEW Map, the one about Unstructured Data Management, I follow this domain for 30 years so it deserves a Map, and the second is about the File Storage Map with a split into Enterprise , High Performa...

The IT Press Tour organized its second European edition in Lisbon, Portugal, early December. It was globally the 47th edition just to put things in perspective. We met 6 hot European companies: Atempo from France, Cleondris from Switzerland, LINBIT from Austria, NGX Storage from Turkey, Nuclia from Spain and Tiger Technology from Bulgaria. I invite you to listen to this recap and summary of this L...

A few weeks after a great SC22 conference in Dallas, TX, I wrote this recap with of course lots of HPC, AI, ML and Analysis but also CXL, NVMe, composability. Enjoy.

This episode is a recap of the recent North America KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022 organized in Detroit, MI, last October. Storage is a bit ignored by this community speaking a different language, interesting. Enjoy.

This episode is about the recent  OCP Global Summit 2022 that took place mid-October in San Jose, California. The main topic was Empowering Open with optics, CXL (Compute Express Link) and networking fueled by keynotes, sessions, workshops, forum and symposium. Enjoy.

The IT Press Tour delivered a new edition, the number 46, in California last October to meet 10 companies I should 9 as Pavilion Data exploded the same week 2 days before our meeting with them. The others are AuriStor , Data Dynamics , GRAID Technology , HYCU , N-able , Panzura , Protocol Labs , ScaleFlux and Smart IOPS . I invite you to listen to this recap and summary of this 46th edition, Enjoy...

Existing for a few decades this DFS, AFS and more recent OpenAFS and well promoted by AuriStor , a software company based in New-York, dedicated to this domain. We met again AuriStor during the recent   IT Press Tour and it was the perfect opportunity to record this podcast and discuss with Jeffrey Altman , CEO and founder of AuriStor, the only active ISV in the area. With Jeffrey, we spoke about...

Recorded during the recent Open Compute Project Summit in San Jose, ScaleFlux also joined the  IT Press Tour the week before also in the valley. It was the perfect opportunity to discuss with Hao Zhong , CEO and co-founder of ScaleFlux , a emerging leader in Computational Storage. We talked about the roots of the projet, what challenges Hao wished to address, details on the SSD product line as wel...

Smart IOPS joined the recent IT Press Tour in California, it was the right moment as the company started to accelerate on the sales side and also plan to release some new stuff. So I recorded a new interview with Ashutosh Das , CEO and co-founder of Smart IOPS, a pretty confidential SSD vendor that deserves a stop as they develop some interesting products. We spoke about the genesis of the company...

Panzura recently participated to the 46th edition of The IT Press Tour in California and I took advantage of the visit to record a podcast episode with Jill Stelfox , CEO of the company for two and alf years now. It is really the episode 5 of Panzura as the company has several lives with a strong technology since the origin and more recently a better focus to precise use cases and execution. We sp...

GRAID Technology joined the 46th edition of The IT Press Tour in California this week and it was the perfect opportunity to record a new podcast episode with Leander Yu , CEO and founder of the company. The company designs, develops and builds a GPU-based RAID PCIe card to protect NVMe SSDs. We spoke about the roots of the project, its financial profile, the product, how does it work, the use case...