The French Storage Podcast

*** Episode in French *** Vraie découverte d'une jeune pousse française, Inspeere , qui développe une solution de protection de données distribuée avec les données réparties et dispersées sur les autres systèmes déployés dans un mode privé ou public. L'appliance de sauvegarde, baptisé DatisBox, qui tourne un Linux Debian, s'appuie sur ZFS, ses snapshots et Reed-Solomon pour éclater les blocs de do...

New episode and a new angle for the podcast with today a summary of the last 3 IT Press Tour editions we had in January, March and April in California and Israel meeting in total 29 companies playing in IT Infrastructure, data and storage management, business and IT applications. Here is the list of companies we met during each of these 3 tours: January 2022 in California: Atempo , DDN , Filebase...

A new interview, this time with Simon Taylor , Founder and CEO of HYCU , a Modern Data Protection vendor that addresses the recent IT challenges and needs aligned with the cloud and new workloads. In this interview we covered the genesis of the company, even if Simon didn't mention pedigree and background of the origins of the company, the surprising new meaning of the HYCU acronym, it is not the...

A real pleasure to talk to Piyush Mehta , CEO of Data Dynamics , about the company Data Management strategy in a very dynamic market climate. The company leverages a largely deployed product named StorageX and added more recently other key modules such as ControlX and Insight AnalytiX to provide a holistic unified data platform dedicated to orchestrate unstructured data within the enterprise resid...

Really glad I have the chance to discuss again a few days ago with Boyan Ivanov , CEO and co-founder of StorPool Storage , a Bulgarian storage software company. I identified this company many many years ago in 2014 when I unveiled the product to the world with a famous blog post. StorPool is one of the rare pure block Software-Defined Storage on the market proposing a radical new approach for high...

The volume of data explodes for everyone, from large corporations to individual users, especially pro-consumers with strict requirements such performance and resiliency. Iodyne rethinks this approach with the Pro Data, a 15" 12 or 24TB block storage array fully equipped with M.2 SSDs directly connected to Mac machines. I recorded this episode a few days ago at Iodyne HQ in Mill Valley, CA with Jef...

Distributed enterprise is a reality and Covid period has demonstrated a new iteration of strong need for such approach. I had the privilege to speak to a technologist I respect a lot, Andres Rodriguez , founder and now CTO of Nasuni . For some of you who follow me and the industry, Andres was the founder in 2003 of Archivas, a distributed, CAS/object storage software, acquired in 2007 by Hitachi a...

<< SPECIAL ATEMPO - EPISODE SPONSORISE >> *** Episode in French *** Episode sponsorisé avec un entretien exclusif avec 2 membres clés d'Atempo, je devrais dire du nouveau Atempo Luc d'Urso , CEO Louis-Frédéric Laszlo , Dir. Product Management J'ai eu l'opportunité et le plaisir d'échanger avec Luc et Louis à propos d'Atempo, son histoire et sa trajectoire depuis plusieurs années, le no...

File Storage is definitely a hot topic and today I speak with David Flynn , founder and CEO of Hammerspace , the data management company who designs, builds and develops a global file services named GDE for Global Data Environment. If you follow me for quite some time, you should see that I already wrote many times on Hammerspace, Primary Data, Tonian Systems, parallel file system and pNFS being o...

Very good opportunity to listen to Alexander Lefterov , founder and CEO of Tiger Technology , a company a bit confidential who developed for many years a very interesting solution for hybrid cloud file storage. I had the chance to record this interview during the recent IT Press Tour in California where all the team had the time to learn and understand the "On-Premises First" hybrid cloud strategy...

<< SPECIAL PURE STORAGE - SPONSORED EPISODE >> Special episode with an interview with 2 key members of the FlashBlade Business Unit at Pure Storage : Amy Fowler , Vice President, Strategy and Solutions Brian Gold , Senior Director for Engineering I had the opportunity to discuss recently with Amy and Brian to understand the genesis of the project, internally named Iridium at the beginn...

What a pleasure to interview AB Periasamy , founder and CEO of MinIO . We first met in 2015 a few months following the launch of the company. MinIO joined 7 times The IT Press Tour so I have measured all the milestones of the company. The Tsunami I mentioned a few years ago about MinIO impact on the industry continues to be real. And Coldago listed MinIO as a leader for the 3 Object Storage Maps....

  New interview this time with Joshua Noble , CEO of Filebase , developer of a decentralized cloud storage offering. Filebase operates as a universal S3 gateway in the cloud to connect to back-end decentralized object stores such Sia, Storj or Skynet. Very interesting discussion with Joshua that invites the audience to discover a young storage player in the cloud storage space, alternative to othe...

Wow I finally decided to unveil the Gems 2022 and record a short episode about them. Discover the 5 companies I invite you to watch in 2022. For more information on these reports, please to check Coldago.com. Happy listening.

First episode for 2022 and real start of the 3rd season of The French Storage Podcast now confirming its unique role in the observation of the storage industry. This episode is very simple as it list my predictions for the coming year with several strong trends started a few years ago and some others that started to confirm their place and need on the market. Happy listening.

New episode but also the last of 2021 representing the 86th globally. What a year for The French Storage Podcast and also in the Storage Industry as a whole. This episode covers facts, news, trends I consider significant in 2021 and I added also at the end the very last information related to the 10th Storage Unicorn Report published a few days ago. You can always check Coldago.com for more inform...

*** Episode in French *** Une table ronde avec 3 leaders du marché - Pure Storage, Dell Technologies et HPE - pour évoquer le stockage et l'infrastructure à la demande qui semblent mettre tout le monde d'accord. Ou comment les acteurs de stockage on-premises ont fait évoluer leur offre pour proposer une expérience héritée des grands acteurs du cloud pour leurs offres "locales". Une discussion dyna...

Un nouvel épisode cette fois-ci avec un entretien avec Bruno Buffenoir, patron pour la France et l'Europe du Nord Ouest chez Nutanix. Une discussion qui nous permet de mieux comprendre les forces de l'éditeur, son mode logiciel disponible en mode SaaS, les derniers développements relatif à AHV et autour des services notamment DBaaS et les accords stratégiques avec Red Hat et Citrix qui permettent...

It's my pleasure to introduce the 2021 Coldago Map about File Storage and Object Storage. Like every year for a few years at the same period, I publish these 2 Maps that study, analyse and rank established players in their respective domain. I let you discover the Leaders, the BlitzScalers and the vendors to watch in 2022. For more information on these reports, please to check Coldago.com . Happy...

New interview with Krishna Subramanian, COO of Komprise, a software company she cofounded in 2014 with Ku mar Goswami, CEO, and Michael Peercy, CTO. Komprise solves the unstructured data deluge delivering an intelligent data management approach leveraging data movement across storage entities, a total visibility of the data for enterprises and thus a compelling ROI. Very interesting dialog with Kr...

Entretien Exclusif avec Erfane Arwani, CEO de fondateur de Biomemory, enregistrée Mardi 23 Novembre 2 heures avant l'archivage sur capsule DNA Drive des textes des droits de l'homme et de la femme aux archives nationales. Un belle surprise que m'a réservée Erfane et un dialogue ouvert pour découvrir et mieux comprendre le stockage sur ADN et le projet Biomemory soutenu par le CNRS et Sorbonne Univ...

Real pleasure to interview Eran Kirzner, CEO and founder of Lightbits Labs, being a pioneer of NVMe/TCP and the original believer, designer and developer of the TCP transport for NVMe. The momentum is now visible with some validations and adoptions by several giant vendors to initiate a tsunami. A good example is the recent validation of NVMe/TCP by VMware under the last iteration of ESXi. We lear...

Une nouvelle table ronde pour évoquer NVMe et bien sûr sa déclinaison réseau avec les différentes méthodes de transport et notamment TCP. Cela va nous permettre de comprendre la technologie, son intérêt, les cas d'usages et pourquoi l'industrie a introduit NVMe aujourd'hui sur PCIe Gen 4, très prochainement sur Gen5 en attendant CXL. On a discuté de tout ça avec 3 invités qui partagent certaines i...

Un nouveau Tech Talk pour une clarification nécessaire visiblement où même les analystes comme Gartner entretiennent une confusion entre stockage primaire et stockage en mode bloc.  Je voulais revenir sur ces notions, rappeler aussi le stockage secondaire, le stockage de production et de protection. Un exposé qui frôle le coup de gueule . J'espère que vous apprécierez.

Great honor to interview Renen Hallak, CEO and founder of VAST Data, a recent storage player who disrupts the market with an innovative high performance and high resilient unstructured data platform. This episode tells us more about the genesis of the company, the design goals and how they succeeded to deliver such advanced product. Plenty of good information shared by Renen, so I invite you to li...