The French Storage Podcast

Taking advantage of being at the N-able Empower conference in Las Vegas this week, I recorded a new episode with John Pagliuca , CEO of the company. We spoke about the genesis of the company being a spin-off of SolarWinds, its mission for MSPs, its Cove Data Protection solution, a pretty comprehensive endpoint and server backup software specifically developed for MSPs, but also about the competiti...

Well established and recognized worldwide, The IT Press Tour has extended its coverage to Europe beyond its classic US and Israeli editions. This very first European edition, globally the 45th tour, took place in Paris, France early September and it was the perfect opportunity to meet 6 companies, 5 from Europe and 1 from US. I invited Biomemory Labs from France, DataCore from US, Nodeum from Belg...

PoINT Software & Systems joined the recent 45th edition of The IT Press Tour early September in Paris, France. Thomas Thalmann , CEO of the company, updated the group on the company and the product line with Storage Manager, Archival Gateway and Data Replicator. Thomas also announced a new product, I should say an extension, to Archival Gateway with Unified Object Storage. It couples disk and...

For the first time, Nodeum joined The IT Press Tour , it was a few days ago in Paris for the 45th edition. With Valery Guilleaume , CEO of Nodeum, we covered the market trend, the mission of Nodeum, the 3 key pillars of the company, what the company develops in term of data mover, various uses cases and success stories, the ransomware threat, the go-to-market strategy with key partners such DataCo...

DataCore and its CEO Dave Zabrowski joined the recent 45th edition of The IT Press Tour in Paris. In fact it was the European press launch for DataCore new vision DataCore NEXT, Edge Computing strategy, Perifery, as a new Swarm object storage iteration dedicated to that domain and new partnership with Symply for Media archiving announced at IBC today, Friday September 9th. So as you can imagine it...

I visited Liqid at his HQ on Broomfield, CO, last June for the 44th IT Press Tour and clearly I realized that something is happening. This team is shaking the server and infrastructure established positions. So this interview became obvious and we decided with Sumit Puri , CEO of Liqid, to record it during VMware Explore. We covered the genesis of the company, the business and IT need of composabi...

The recent Fujifilm Summit last June in San Diego was the perfect opportunity to share and discuss various industry directions regarding technologies, use cases and state of the art for long term data preservation. I had the privilege to attend this conference, deliver a keynote and meet other colleagues all involved in this key secondary storage domain. And what we learnt deserves an episode and...

I met SpeeDB during the recent 43rd edition of The IT Press Tour in Israel and realized that this team is working on something big, a new storage engine that replaces RocksDB, the open source one invented by Facebook. It is used by hundreds of thousands of database worldwide and they all suffer sooner or later by performance and scalability limitations and therefore see the associated cost increas...

Pleasure and honor for me to have this very interesting talk with Fred Moore , President of Horison . We had a very open discussion around multiple topics, of course the market, its climate and trends, some technologies, the famous disappointing LTO roadmap, the Fujifilm - IBM project with a 580TB tape cartridge, HDD and even Flash in archive, his famous storage pyramid, Hyperscalers needs and pre...

Kalista is a young player founded by Albert Chen dedicated to optimize storage and especially SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) based storage infrastructure. We met Albert inJanuary during the 41st edition of The IT Press Tour and I found this approach super interesting wishing to dig more. I also realized that doing with interview with him would be a good idea. So we did it a few days ago and her...

*** Episode in French *** Suite à l'épisode sur le stockage dans Kubernetes , il était naturel de couvrir la protection de données dans de tels clusters applicatifs. D'où cette table-ronde sur l'autre sujet chaud de Kubernetes avec bien sûr un peu de technologie, les différentes approches, les bonnes pratiques, le rôle de la CNCF, l'apport de l'open source et quelques directions fonctionnelles. No...

*** Episode in French *** Une nouvelle table-ronde sur un sujet chaud le stockage pour Kubernetes  avec bien sûr la partie persistence des données au travers des PVs ou de stockage "externe". Nous parlons aussi de CSI, des travaux de la CNCF, d'open source et des offres commerciales et nous terminons par le futur. Je couvre tout ça avec: Vincent Jamois , Architecte Cloud EMEA chez Pure Storage , Y...

We visited Infinidat last April in Herzliya, Israel, for the 43rd IT Press Tour and I really wished to interview Phil Bullinger , CEO of Infinidat, as the company is really different from other usual suspects. So we took time together to talk and as you'll see we spoke about why he joined the company, the financial state of Infinidat, the current offering and differentiators an da bit of future. A...

Quantum participated to the recent 44th IT Press Tour and we had the privilege to meet and visit the company at its EBC in Englewood in Colorado. It was the opportunity to have a great session with plenty of details about the company and product strategy with the top management. But we also had the opportunity to visit the manufacturing and saw hyperscalers' tape libraries. We spoke about all this...

The 12th annual Fujifilm Summit happened last week in San Diego and it was a good moment to re-connect with many top participants in the storage industry with vendors, end-users, experts and analysts. Hypersaclers were invited and we understood some very interesting inputs from them and also from Quantum. Spectra Logic also covered its story about Ransonware and how they recovered from it. So the...

The last IT Press Tour , Edition 44, was an amazing edition, meeting and visiting 9 hot companies like iXsystems , Lightbits Labs , Liqid , Nasuni , Quantum , Spectra Logic , VAST Data , Veritas and WEKA . It was the opportunity to get an update directly from top executives introducing new products, launching a new initiative or just updating their solutions. Again it was fantastic, beyond Califor...

WEKA joined the 44th IT Press Tour a few days ago and it was the perfect opportunity to discuss with Liran Zvibel and record an interview. WEKA is hot and its trajectory is impressive so we needed to get an update. At the same time the company announced a major release - WEKA 4 - with key new features and capabilities. We spoke about the genesis of the company, the product philosophy and how it is...

With the current IT Press Tour , the 44th, we conclude a series of editions that confirm if needed that File Storage is super hot. We have met this week iX , Nasuni , Quantum , Spectra Logic , VAST Data , Veritas and WEKA and in April CTera Networks , Data Dynamics and in January DDN , Hammerspace and Tiger Technology . I can even add Pure Storage with their announcement this week. Enjoy the recap...

Discovered a few months ago,  Nexustorage develops an interesting data management solution that optimizes data placement whatever the size and the nature of the storage entity and environment. Working at a sub-file level, it then places file data chunks to the right place I mean on the right storage level. We speak about all this with Glen Olsen , founder and CEO of Nexustorage, how and why he lau...

*** Episode in French *** Nouvel épisode pour ce tech talk qui m'a permis de discuter avec Johann Lombardi , Senior Principal Engineer chez Intel , qui se consacre au projet DAOS (Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage). Un échange qui nous permet de rentrer dans le détail du produit, sa philosophie, ses mécanismes de protection, ses performances et à qui il se destine. Une belle discussion pour...

*** Episode in French *** La MDP ou Modern Data Protection mérite bien une table ronde vue les tendances actuelles avec toujours plus de technologies pour couvrir toujours plus de besoins. On parle avec nos invités de modernité pour un sujet bien établie, des nouveaux défis et menaces, bien sûr de Ransomware, et d'autres thèmes et développements avec, vous le verrez, une vraie convergence entre 3...

Following CTera Networks for years, our recent visit in Israel during the 43rd IT Press Tour was the perfect opportunity for a company and product update but also to understand the directions of the product development. We spoke about all this with Liran Eshel , CEO and founder of the company, but also how the company started, its roots, what challenges they solve, how the product works, their GTM...

Following the recent visit in Israel during the 43rd IT Press Tour and an impressive session we did at Pliops , having a podcast with Uri Beitler , CEO and co-founder, was a natural next step. We talked about the genesis of the project, the challenges in I/O at large scale Pliops solve again with NVMe, SSDs and PCIe today, the product itself, use cases, go-to-market, pricing and a bit of future. A...

Real exclusivity and exceptional moment with Chris Gladwin at Ocient HQ in Chicago for the recording of the interview for The French Storage Podcast. We started to speak about of course the leader and one of the pioneer of object storage Cleversafe that landed finally at IBM for $1.3B in 2015, the only big acquisition in that space that triggered some dreams at others' mind but no one did this. We...

Met recently in Israel during the 43rd IT Press Tour , the idea of an interview with Gil Peleg , CEO and founder of Model9 , was a natural next step. You'll discover with this interview a real good data management idea sustained by a compelling business opportunity. Listen to this episode to discover Model9 Manager, Gravity and Shield, the go-to-market strategy and a bit of future. Enjoy your list...