Around the Storage Block podcast -

Now that you can subscribe to my podcast on iTunes, I thought it might be useful to have an audio version of my blog posts. Today's podcast is focused on HP Storage integration with VMware. There are lots of links you can look at so check out the blog post: http://bit.ly/Ntazna

Today on the podcast my guest Karl Kovacs (@HPExpertOne) and I announce a new program called HP ExpertOne Fast Track for storage - that allows storage certified professionals to quickly earn ExpertOne certification.

At HP Discover, we held a Q&A session with SVP and GM of HP Storage David Scott and with HP Storage CTO Milan Shetti. The bloggers asked some great questions and this is worth the 34 minutes to hear what the discussion.

Autonomic failover is a unique feature of the HP StoreOnce B6200 - allowing a backup to continue through a hardware failure. In this podcast, I discuss this with product marketing manager Steve Johnson.

We have a new solution for the HP LeftHand family, LeftHand Recovery Manager. This is a wizard driven tool that lets you mount and recover files from a snapshot. In this podcast, I get a short overview of it from Tim Doering, HP LeftHand product expert.

While at HP Discover, I had a delightful time chatting with Shahin Pirooz from CenterBeam. CenterBeam is a cloud service provider who uses HP Converged Infrastructure and HP 3PAR in their environments. Shahin talk about CenterBeam and how they differentiate their offering.

Last week after we announced HP StoreOnce enhancements at HP Discover, EMC started crying foul about the performance comparison we made. I talk about that and address EMC's FUD.

I'm pulling out a conversation I had with Mark Lillibridge, Senior Research Scientist with HP Labs from June 2010. With our latest StoreOnce announcement, I thought it would be useful to hear Mark talk about HP Labs innovations in StoreOnce.

There's a lot to cover with our HP StoreOnce announcement from HP Discover and in this podcast with product marketing manager Steve Johnson we talk about what HP has done to improve on deduplication technology with StoreOnce.

I had the opportunity at HP Discover to do a podcast with ESG Sr Analyst Jason Buffington. Jason and I talked about backup and recover challenges and how HP StoreOnce Catalyst addresses those challenges.

At HP Discover, we announced HP Virtual Connect Direct-Attach FC for 3PAR with Flat SAN technology. In this podcast I talk to Alex Kramer from the Virtual Connect engineering team who gives a great overview of the solution.

Steve Johnson is a product marketing manager for HP StoreOnce and he spent some time to help me better understand the StoreOnce Catalyst software. StoreOnce Catalyst gives us blazing fast backup and recover speeds - and we talked about why and the other features it has.

This is a short podcast giving an overview of the HP StoreOnce B6200 and the new software StoreOnce Catalyst. This podcast was originally the audio track of a video I did - you can find it on my blog at http://www.hp.com/storage/blog

I love music and decided I'd step away from the topic of technology for a podcast and talk with Boise indie artist Naomi Psalm. Naomi's lyrics are contemplative and catchy melodies. Check it out.

While in Las Vegas at our Get Virtual Guarantee celebration, I got a few minutes with HP 3PAR strategist JR Richardson and get his insight into some of HP 3PAR's special sauce.