Around the Storage Block podcast -

Mark Peters, Sr Analyst with ESG, joined me and Sandeep Singh (Director of Product Management) to talk about a new paper Mark wrote about Tier-1 storage criteria.

All flash array - what exactly does that mean and what constitutes an "AFA". I sat down with industry bloggers Chris Evans and Chris Wahl at HP Discover in Barcelona to discuss it.

I got the chance to talk to Jerome Wendt, President, Founder, and Sr. Analyst at DCIG about their latest buyer's guide that named HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 as best in class.

I really liked what Chris Evans and Martin Glassborow had to say about EMC's recent VNX2 announcement - this is a podcast version of a blog post I wrote.

Dennis Martin is the founder and President of Demartek and did testing comparing 16Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel. I discussed that testing wtih Dennis.

At VMworld, my fellow vExpert at HP Eric Sierbert and I had a conversation about his session at VMworld. This was a live webcast we did and I have the audio for you as a podcast. Good stuff with Eric!

At VMworld, I had the chance to talk to Chris Cavanna from Silgan Containers who talked to me about how they utilize HP StoreVirtual Storage across some 22 sites.

I caught up with Steve Bishop, CTO of HP partner VeriStor. I met Steve at VMworld where I learned they are the HP 3PAR partner of the year and were involved with getting HoneyBaked Ham their first 3PAR.

I have the video of Meg's Nth Symposium keynote on my blog but wanted to give you the option of listening to it. She gave what some called her best keynote ever. Meg is a very engaging speaker.

I'll be doing a live ATSB podcast with members of our HP StoreVirtual team (HP LeftHand) so join live and come with your questions!

At Nth Symposium, David Scott had a keynote where he talked about flash architecture and compared what legacy array vendors are doing and how HP 3PAR is very different.

This is a continuation of ATSB #146; in the conclusion of the webcast I did with Sr. VP and GM of HP Storage David Scott, David and I discuss software defined storage and the new StoreOnce VSA.

I recently hosted a webcast with David Scott, Sr VP and GM of HP Storage talking about flash-optimized storage and software defined storage. This is part 1 of that 2 part discussion, focused on flash-optimized storage.

Nth Generation is a partner in Southern California and they have a great event that I've attended for the last couple of years, Nth Symposium. I talked to CTO of Nth Dan Molina to get a preview and announce that we'll host an HP Tech Day at Nth Symposium.

This is a continuation of the HP Discover "coffee talk" with the attending bloggers. Sr VP and GM of HP Storage David Scott and Siamak Nazari, an HP Fellow and 3PAR architect answer questions about the all-flash based HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450.