DataCentric - Episodes Tagged with “Containers”

Cloud-Native Data Protection, Commvault Style

NAND Research — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:45:00 -0500

It's KubeCon week, which means that we're all thinking about containers! Containers require a different way of thinking about persistent data, which deeply influences how data protection operates in a cloud-native world. It's really all about intelligent data management. And nobody understands intelligent data management quite like CommVault.

CommVault's Global VP of Sales Engineering Don Foster joins hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell to talk about the intersection of data protection and container orchestration.

The guys touch on everything from how data protection for containers is differerent from more traditional architectures, to how you integrate containers into an end-to-end DP strategy, to cloud-native backup-as-a-service.

It's a great conversation for anyone charged with protecting data in an increasingly container-driven environment.
Special Guest: Don Foster.

Inside the latest IBM Storage Announcements - Live from IBM Tech U

NAND Research — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:00:00 -0400

It's all about cloud-native and containers as IBM announces a slew of new features and offerings at its annual IBM Tech U event. The announcements included:

Spectrum Protect Plus enhancements for containers in production.
Spectrum Scale container-native storage access for Red Hat OpenShift.
Spectrum Discover now has deeper integration with Red Hat Openshift Container Storage & IBMB Cloud Digest Storage File Access
Vmware vSphere 7 support for end-to-end NVMe
Increased capacity for SCM in the FlashSystem 7200 & 9200 series

IBM also announced a longer-term vision for container-native data management.

There's a lot to digest, and IBM's Eric Herzog and Sam Werner join host Steve McDowell to talk through what was announced, and how IBM sees the challenges in today's hybrid-multicloud world. Special Guests: Eric Herzog and Sam Werner.

HPE's Container Platform with HPE Cloud Strategist Robert Christiansen

NAND Research — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:00:00 -0500

As Hewlett Packard Enterprise launches its bare-metal container platform at KubeCon this week, Moor Insights & Strategy analysts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell have a conversation with HPE VP and Chief Cloud Strategist Robert Christiansen. The guys talk about how HPE views cloud workloads, and how the power of Kubernetes and containers might just be the right answer for both cloud and edge.

It's a great conversation with unexpected insight about the long-term impact of Kubernetes on IT architecture. HPE is helping to shape that future as it brings the power of MapR and BlueData into the fold. Listen in.

Thank you to Robert for taking the time to join us this week.

Special Guest: Robert Christiansen.

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HPE Unveils Container Platform

NetApp talks about Cloud Native, Containers, & HCI

NAND Research — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:00:00 -0500

NetApp is about more than just about on-prem enterprise storage. They are changing with the industry as it embraces HCI, Cloud Native, and Kubernetes as part of the Data Fabric. This is critical to the company's strategy.

We had the chance to sit separately with NetApp's SVP & GM of Cloud Native (which includes its Kubernetes/Containers activity) Anthony Lye to talk about how NetApp and its enterprise customers view that space, as well as how they are evolving from an "on-prem first" storage player into a multi-cloud and cloud-native solution.

We also had a great conversation with NetApp's Chief HCI Architect Adam Carter at the show who talked about the philosophy behind NetApp's untraditional approach to HCI.

This one is a great listen, and we owe a serious debt of graditude to both Anthony and Adam for making the time at a busy event, as well as the entire NetApp A/R and PR team who made it all happen.

00:00 - 05:15 Matt & Steve hit on some recent news & travel, including Micron 3D XPoint and FujiFilm's IT Summit
05:15 - 24:00 NetApp HCI with Adam Carter, as well as Matt & Steve's post-interview discussion & thoughts
24:00 - 34:50 NetApp's Cloud Native and Container Strategy with NetApp GM and SVP Anthony Lye
34:50 - 36:32 Wrapping Up

Special Guests: Adam Carter and Anthony Lye.

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April 2, 2019: NVIDIA in the DataCenter, Nutanix Everywhere, Open Compute, & more on Huawei

NAND Research — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:45:00 -0400

This week Matt & Steve talk through some of what they learned at recent industry events, including the moves that NVIDIA is making into the data center, some discussion of containers in the enterprise, a brief wrap-up from Nutanix's investor conference in New York, some light-thinking following Matt's first missed Open Compute Summit in a decade, and a bit of non-political discussion on Huawei.

If you follow Data Center technology, as well as the players behind the what's happening, you'll be in good company with Matt KImball and Steve McDowell from Moor Insights & Strategy and the DataCentric Podcast.

Timeline

00:30 - 08:00 NVIDIA GTC Wrap-Up: NVIDIA heads into the Enterprise
08:00 - 11:00 Impact of Containers on Data Center management frameworks
11:00 - 21:20 Nutanix Investor Day Wrap-Up: NTNX takes aim
21:20 - 30:00 Open Compute Summit: Why it still matters.
30:00 - 42:30 Huawei: A Serious Player, despite all the geopolitical noise around the company
42:30 - 44:44 Senseless Banter