Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> This week, Chris chats with Andy Watson, CTO at WekaIO in another episode recorded live at Flash Memory Summit 2019. <br> <br> <br> <br> With the recent acquisition of E8 Storage and Elastifile by hyper-scale cloud companies, is this move an attempt to plug the gap in existing cloud storage offerings?<br> <br> <br> <br> Andy provides his opinion on the two acquisitions and how they might fit into the existing ecosystem. Even 1GB/s may not be enough throughput as we see more focus on ML/AI applications and using cloud-based GPUs and TPUs. Some applications expect data in both NFS and SMB format. That could be a challenge for some solutions. <br> <br> <br> <br> These purchases could be opportunistic and we may need to keep watching to see how cloud providers will move to the next level of storage performance.<br> <br> <br> <br> You can find out more about <a href="https://www.weka.io/">WekaIO</a> at and follow Andy on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/the_andywatson">https://twitter.com/the_andywatson</a>.<br> <br> <br> <br> Elapsed Time: 00:22:54<br> <br> <br> <br> Timeline<br> <br> <br> <br> * 00:00:00 – Intros* 00:01:00 – Quick overview of WekaIO* 00:05:00 – E8 Storage & Elastifile acquisitions by public cloud providers* 00:07:10 – Object storage isn’t good for performance, block is not scalable* 00:08:20 – AWS SMB support was implemented via a separate feature* 00:10:39 – Some applications are inherently multi-protocol* 00:12:20 – 1GB/s isn’t enough performance to keep a GPU busy* 00:15:30 – Could latest purchases be opportunistic?* 00:18:00 – The public cloud will have greater file demands in the future* 00:21:55 – Wrap Up <br> <br> <br> <br> Related Podcasts & Blogs<br> <br> <br> <br> * <a href="https://storageunpacked.com/2018/06/52-an-introduction-to-wekaio-matrix-with-liran-zvibel-sponsored/">#52 – An Introduction to WekaIO Matrix with Liran Zvibel</a>* <a href="https://www.architecting.it/blog/wekaio-matrix-performance-das/">Can the WekaIO Matrix file system be faster than DAS?</a>* <a href="https://techfieldday.com/appearance/wekaio-presents-at-storage-field-day-18/">WekaIO Presents at Storage Field Day 18</a>* <a href="https://storageunpacked.com/2019/03/92-introduction-to-elastifile/">#92 – Introduction to Elastifile with Jerome McFarland</a>* <a href="https://storageunpacked.com/2017/11/disaggregated-storage-part-ii-with-zivan-ori-from-e8-storage/">Disaggregated Storage Part II with Zivan Ori from E8 Storage</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Copyright (c) 2016-2019 Storage Unpacked. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #8818.<br>
