Around the Storage Block podcast -

At Discover, at sat down with experts from HPE and Nimble Storage to talk about the storage requirements for containers and considerations for DevOps who need persistent storage for cloud native applications.

In this podcast, companion to a YouTube demo video, I talk to Doug Hascall, the iLO 5 Firmware Engineering Manager about the security features in the new iLO 5 for ProLiant Gen10. Find the video demo on YouTube at https://youtu.be/_rRdEekFgVA.

On May 24, HPE announced new flash solutions including a new midrange 3PAR, new fifth generation of the MSA, and Nimble Storage for HPE. In this short podcast, I give an overview of the news.

The HPE StoreVirtual 3200 is a dual controller array that leverages the StoreVirtual OS that is also used as a VSA. In this podcast, I talked with tech marketing expert Chuck Roman to discusses what the StoreVirtual 3200 has in common with the VSA and what is different.

Phill Gilbert from the 3PAR product management team joins me to discuss 3PAR Adaptive Data Reduction, announced with the 3PAR OS 3.3.1. Adaptive Data Reduction includes Zero Detect, Deduplication, new Compression, and new Data Packing.

HPE has made the biggest 3PAR announcement since announcing the midrange 3PAR 7000 four years ago. In this Around the Storage Block podcast, HPEStorageGuy Calvin Zito gives an overview of the announcement and all the new software features now available with 3PAR.

In this Around the Storage Block podcast, we talk about the joint technology from HPE and Mesosphere to power customer transformation to Hybrid IT.

The first coffee talk we did with the bloggers at HPE Discover was to level set on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise strategy. There has been a lot of changes over the last year including the separation from HP Inc and announced "spin-merger" of Enterprise Services and Software. This session focused on the strategy going forward of HPE and had a very active Q&A with the blogger.

At Discover London, one of the discussions the bloggers had was with Hewlett Packard Labs. This is that session where the bloggers got an update on the Machine and had a highly interactive discussion with Labs.

At HPE Discover in London, the guest bloggers were treated to a Q&A session with the DS Virgin Racing Formula E team. Attending were driver Sam Bird, CTO Sylvian Filippi, CTO, and Cameron Maultby, CMO. They discussed the format and technology by Formula E Racing.

I co-presented a session at SpiceWorld in early November looking at what is hyperconverged infrastructure and the deployment options. This is audio of that session. I'll also have a video version of this with slides on YouTube but I think this really doesn't need the slides to follow along.

At HPE Discover in London, HPE announced an expanded relationship with Veeam. In this podcast, I talk to Doug Hazelman from Veeam and Patrick Osborne from HPE Storage about the news.

HPE Smart SAN is a solution for HPE 3PAR arrays that simplifies the SAN zoning process. I talked with Rupin Mohan about Smart SAN, what problem it solves, and the vision for the product.

HPE has refreshed our StoreFabric portfolio to the latest Gen 6 32Gb Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure. I talked with Brocade Solutioneer AJ Casamento about why it's a significant step forward.

At Nth Symposium, I hosted a panel discussion with colleagues from Nth Generation (our host), Brocade, Qlogic, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In the podcast we discussed the storage medium (SSD and HDD), storage networks (SAN, NAS, and DAS), and storage protection. There was over 150 years of IT experience between the 5 panelists and it's definitely worth a listen.