Gregs Server Storageio Data Infrastructure Podcast

In our conversation we discuss challenges with metrics, understanding value vs. cost particular for software, Nicks perspective as both a CIO and CTO of the New York Times, importance of IT being involved and understanding the business vs. just being technology focused. We also discuss the bigger broader opportunity of serverless (aka microservices, containers) life beyond DevOps and how higher level business logic developers can benefit from the technology instead of just a DevOps for infrastructure focus. Buzzwords, buzzterms and themes include datacenter technologies, nytimes, data infrastructure, management, trends, metrics, digital transformation, devops, serverless. Ok, nuff said, for now...

@Kevinclosson Oracle and Database performance expert as well as create of Silly Little Oracle Benchmark (SLOB) joins me in a web conversation. Kevin has been involved in database performance (and porting) optimization for decades which means CPU server, memory, I/O and storage issues, resources and tuning. Part of server, storage I/O a tuning is understanding the workloads, also the demands of software such as databases along with how they use CPU and its impact on resources. We also discuss metrics, gaining insight to resources uses, what they mean including how CPU wait may be costing your lost productivity with overhead, as well as benchmarks, simulations, and related themes. Check out Kevins website ( https://kevinclosson.net/ ) to learn more about Oracle, Databases, SLOB, tools and other content. Also check out www.storageio.com/performance for additional performance, benchmark, workload simulation tools including SLOB. Ok, nuff said, for now...

Tom Becchetti (@tbecchetti and @mspcmg) joins me for a Friday afternoon conversation recorded live at Meisters Bar and Grill in Scandia Minnesota. Tom has been involved with IT, data center and data infrastructures spanning various servers, operating systems, storage, networks, hardware, software for many decades as a customer and vendor. In addition to performance, capacity planning (hence the Computer Measurement Group aka CMG connection), he is also involved in data protection (archiving, backup, BC/BR/DR) and related themes spanning legacy mainframe to open systems, cloud, virtual along with containers. Our conversation spans backup, big data, big data protection, CMG and more as we wrap up a week on a Friday afternoon to talk some tech. Check out Tom on Twitter @mspcmg and @tbecchetti as well as his new website www.storagegodfather.com. Ok, nuff said, for now...

@EMCcode (Part of EMC) developer advocate Kendrick Coleman (@KendrickColeman and www.kendrickcoleman.com) join me in a web conversation. EMCcode is a group within EMC that is involved with various open source activities both internal and external focused spanning Openstack to Pivotal Cloudfoundry along with existing EMC products as well as those of others including public and private cloud and object storage solutions. We get started by talking about springtime in Kentucky where Kendrick lives along with his new look that could allow him to dress up as @Captainobvious if needed, then exploring more about what EMCcode is about. From there we get into a discussion about cloud and object storage, buckets, containers, objects, docker and microservices, node.js as well as the need for a tool such as S3motion. S3motion is a tool available free (its open source) that I have been using myself for moving buckets and objects between different cloud and object storage solutions and services. Kendrick explains the motiva

Cashton (Cash) Coleman of ClearDB joins me. ClearDB is a provider of MySQL database software tools for cloud and physical environments. We talk about ClearDB, what they do and whom they do it with including deployments in cloud's as well as onsite. For example if you are using some of the Microsoft Azure cloud services using MySQL, you may already be using this technology. However, there is more to the story and discussion including how Cash got his name, how to speed up databases for little and big data among other topics.

SNIA Chairman Emeritus Wayne Adams and current Chairman David Dale join me in a conversation from the Data Storage Innovation (DSI) 2014 conference event. DSI is a new event produced by SNIA targeted for IT professionals involved with data storage related topics, themes, technologies and tools spanning hardware, software, cloud, virtual and physical. In this conversation, we talk about the new DSI event, the diversity of new attendees who are attending their first SNIA event, along with other updates. Some of these updates include what is new with the SNIA Cloud Data Management Initiative (CDMI), Non Volatile Memory (think flash and SSD), SMIS, education and more. Listen in to our conversation as we cover cloud, convergence, software defined and more pertaining to data storage.

Computex Rethink your Datacenter for 2017 advance planning and strategy event I am joined by Matt Vogt. Matt is a Principal Architect with Computex as well as being a certified VMware specialist and fellow vExpert. We talk about the role of automation for performance and capacity optimization along with how VMware vCop plays an important role. Listen in to learn more about how to gain insight and situational awarness to make informed decisions for your data infrastructure environment with Matt. Ok, nuff said.

SNW Spring 2013 in Orlando, I am joined by my co-host Bruce Rave aka Bruce Ravid of Ravid and Associates as we catch up with long time storage industry educator Dave Demming of Solution Technology. Our conversation covers learning and education, from instructor lead to self paced, now and the future. We also discuss learning, time management, industry trends, music to learn with and more. Ok, nuff said.

SNW Fall 2012 in Santa Clara, I am joined by my co-host Bruce Rave aka Bruce Ravid of Ravid and Associates as we catch up with long time storage industry veteran Claus Mikkelsen of HDS. Bruce and Claus meet for the first time having been around and probally passed each other in the halls at various events, hence, its a small world, however theres always oppourtunity to meet somebody new. We also chat about SNW past and present, data storage, technologies, networking with people, travel and of course with Claus, touch on wine. Note that Claus and me were apart of a consortium of people that colaborated and created the orignal book The Resilient Enterprise released in spring of 2012 published by Veritas. Ok, nuff said.

NAB 2013 in Las Vegas, I meet up with the Padcaster creator Josh Apter. The Padcaster is a mounting bracket for iPads (among other things) that enables you to safely attach lights, lenses, microphones, tripods among other things to create a production studio. Check out their website which is thepadcaster.com and see if they will give you the NAB show special price, tell them Greg from StorageIO sent you. Ok, nuff said.

SNW USA Spring 2013 in Orland Florida, while Im waiting for my flight home, Bruce Ravid catches up with Tony DiCenzo of Oracle and SNIA for a quick hallway conversation. Their conversation covers SNW spring 2013 and industry trends.

SNW USA Spring 2013 in Orland Florida, while Im waiting for my flight home, Bruce Ravid catches up with Marc Farely now with Microsoft after they bought storsimple, and before that HP after they bought 3PAR, after he left Dell when they acquired Equallogic among others. Bruce and Marc talk basketball, industry trends, Dell and SNW.

SNW USA Spring 2013 in Orland Florida, Bruce Ravid and our guest SNIA Chairman Wayne Adams join me. Wayne was one of our first podcast guests back in fall of 2012 and he returns to give us a SNIA spring 2013 update. Wayne updates us on what is new with SNIA including their new SPDEcon conference (check out the separate podcast for that), along with SMIS, Cloud, education tutorials, videos and more. Listen to our conversation and check out the snia.org website.

SNW USA Spring 2013 in Orland Florida, I am joined by Bruce Ravid and our guest Justin Stottlemyer, Shutterfly Fellow and Storage Architect. Our conversation centers on how Justin and Shutterfly maximize their return on innovation (the new ROI) by using object storage along with other technology and techniques to create a resilient, scalable flexible data infrastructure. Listen in to hear how Justin and Shutterfly are currently managing 80PB of storage with over 30PB of user data that continues to grow.

SNW USA Spring 2013 in Orland Florida, Im joined by Bruce Ravid and our guest SNIA Chairman Wayne Adams and from SNIA Education SW Worth. Our conversation centers around the new SNIA SPDEcon conference that will occur June 10th in Santa Clara California with a tag line of being for experts by experts and those who want to become storage experts. Listen to our conversation and check out the snia.org and snia.org/spdecon websites to signup and participate in this new event.

In this episode, we go virtual, both with the topic (virtualization) and communicating around the world via Skype. My guest is Alastair Cooke (@DemitasseNZ) who joins me from New Zealand to talk about VMware education, training and social networking. Some of the topics that we cover include vForums, vBrownbags, VMware VCDX certification, VDI, Autolab, Professional vBrownbag tech talks, coffee and more. If you are into server virtualization or virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI), or need to learn more, Alastair talks about some great resources. Check out Alastairs site www.demitasse.co.nz for more information about the AutoLab, training and education, along with the vBrownbag podcasts that are also available on iTunes.

Jim Handy of Objective Analysis at the LSI AIS (Accelerating Innovation Summit) 2012 in San Jose. Our conversation includes SSD past, present and future, market and industry trends, who are doing what and things to keep an eye and ear, open for along with server, storage and memory convergence.

Ceph day in Amsterdam Holland event at the Tobacco Theatre hosted by on42.com and inktank.com. My guest for this episode is Curtis (Mr. Backup) Preston of Backup School and Truth in IT fame where we discuss what is Ceph and object storage, cloud storage, file systems, backup and data protection along with dinner we had at an Indonesian restaurant. Also check out the companion to this podcast where I meet up with Ceph Creator Sage Weil while at Ceph Day. Note that this is a special episode in that while Im recording the podcast, Curtis is recording a video of our discussion for his truebit.tv site.

Ceph day in Amsterdam Holland event at the Tobacco Theatre. My guest for this episode is Ceph (Cephalanthera) creator Sage Weil who is also the founder of inktank.com that provides services and support for the open source based Ceph project. For those not familiar with Ceph, it is an open source distributed object scale out software platform that can be used for deploying cloud and managed services, general purpose storage for research, commercial, scientific, high performance computing (HPC) or high productivity computing (commercial) along with backup or data protection and archiving destinations. During our conversation Sage presents an overview of what Ceph is (e.g. Ceph for non Dummies), where and how it can be used, some history of the project and how it fits in with or provides an alternative to other solutions. Sage also talks about the business or commercial considerations for open source based projects, importance of community and having good business mentors and partners as well as staying busy wit

Frankfurt Germany with Ben Woo of Neuralytix.com. Our conversation includes cloud; big data and how buzzword bingo technology focused discussions can result in missed business benefits for both vendors and customers. We also reminisce about MTI where we worked together along with protecting home storage.