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Episodes
Thursday May 14, 2015
Thursday May 14, 2015
Last week's show
- Patch Tuesday discussion with Chris Evans
- Microsoft already running Azure on Nano servers since 2003
This week's Tech News
- Rick's Top 3 items from MS Ignite
- Azure in your own datacenter
- Windows NEXT (2016?) with nested Hyper-V
- Surface 3
- VMware patch reclaimed
- Venom major security breach?
- VMware ENZO vs Citrix Workspace Cloud
- Nutanix's LeadGen Community Edition is public
This week's Bizz News
- Nebula people are picked up by Oracle
Thursday May 07, 2015
Thursday May 07, 2015
Introductions
- events: EMC World & Microsoft Ignite (Rick)
- last week was Microsoft Build, next week IBM Edge US
- next week also first 'Data Field Day'
This week's Tech News
- Openstack Kilo released
- EMC World
- VxBLOCK (2 flavors: ScaleIO / EVO:RACK)
- non-destructive upgrades for XtremIO in v4.0
- opensourcing ViPR (and more to come)
- vVNX & ScaleIO now FREE ?
- DSSD tech preview
- Microsoft removes Patch Tuesday
- Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) runs on Azure now
- Atlantis announces HyperConverged platform 'dirt-cheap'
- HP Whitebox servers now officially called Apollo series
This week's Bizz News
- Cisco hires new CEO from within (Chuck Robbins)
Thursday Apr 30, 2015
Thursday Apr 30, 2015
In our introduction of this week we celebrate Gabriel joining the "murderer's row" squad at SolidFire. And while Rick had a great week at a Security Conference, Marc as usual can only talk about beers.
Last Week's show
- VMware's container news - photon, lightwave, lattice
This week's Tech News
- Hitachi announces a Hyper-ScaleOut Platform
- Infinidad out of 'stealth'
- Microsoft releases Visual Studio 'light' for Linux & Mac OSX
This week's Biz News
- Amazon released 'some' AWS numbers
- NetApp CTO Jay Kidd to retire from the industry
Thursday Apr 23, 2015
Thursday Apr 23, 2015
Hans and Nigel are in London for Tech.Unplugged and the London VMUG. Over there they find a whole pack of great guests to record this week's episode. We have Enrico Signoretti, Julian Wood, Ed Grigson and Stephen Foskett.
Last week's show
- NetApp discussion on LinkedIN
- Hans comes back on CohoData + Docker news
This Week's Tech News
- VMware adds a DRaaS for Databases in vCloud Air
- VMware webinar on Containers & MicroServices + GITHUB!
This week's Biz News
- 30% of servers go to cloud with a whopping market share for ODMs
- EMC Acquires CloudLink, small Canadian security startup
- Amazon to come out with their real AWS numbers?
ADDON WITH EXTRA SPECIAL GUEST !!!
Joe Baguley - EMEA CTO, VMware
Thursday Apr 16, 2015
Thursday Apr 16, 2015
Tech News
AWS announces Elastic File System - SSD backed, scalable, durable NFSv4 network storage for EC2 instances. Is this bad news for NetApp! Also on the topic of NetApp.... check out Robin Harris's article on how doomed NetApp are... unless you're a NetApp fanboy...
Back in the day.... this was Google's entire infrastructure
What are Coho Data up to with containers and storage
Biz News
Docker nets $96M of Series D funding that apparently they don't even need
Thursday Apr 09, 2015
Thursday Apr 09, 2015
Last Week's Episode
This week's Tech News
- Maxta to partner with Cumulus
- Riverbed SteelFusion to become Hyperconverged platform
- CoreOS + Kubernetes = TecTonic
- Microsoft announces Nano Server and Hyper-V containers
- Windows "Redstone" rumours: bi-anual OS updates
- VMware & Nutanix shenanigans
Biz News of the Week
- Cisco to acquire Embrane
- CoreOS release was with $12mln funding lead by Google
- Rumours of Pure going IPO
- NetApp preparing a Reduction-In-Force?
Thursday Apr 02, 2015
Thursday Apr 02, 2015
Introductions
- Hans at StorageExpo Brussels, Gabriel sick as hell and the news of Nebula closing shop comes in LIVE
This Week's News
- Is PayPal ripping and replacing VMware for OpenStack? Is VMware the platform for legacy application?
- Samsung wins Google as customer of 3D NAND
- Micron & Intel ready for production on 3D NAND
- Kaminario testing 3D NAND in K2 models
Bizz News
- Tintri Exec trio leaves for new unknown startup adventure
- David Donatelli leaves HP to Oracle, to serve under Hurd again
Closing Notes
- The top 25 vBlogs results are out. congrats #vBrownbag for Best Podcast, Chris Wahl for Best Indipendent Blog and Melissa Palmer for Best New Blog
- Don't forget to come to Tech.Unplugged if you are in London on the 22nd of April.
Thursday Mar 26, 2015
Thursday Mar 26, 2015
Topics covered include:
Catch up from Previous week
How much will VMware be hurting following the cancellation of the RFP from the US Defence Information Security Agency that looked like it was gonna be 1.6BN over 5 years! [Link]
This Week's Tech News
The EMC Federation announces the Federation Business Data Lake (FBDL). A SW+HW offering wrapped in services that's all about helping customers get value out of their "Big Data". Generally speaking we think this is yet more evidence of an exciting and evolving EMC. [Link]
Would a Nutanix hypervisor be a game changer. It would certainly allow for higher margins as well as potentially differentiate Nutanix from the competition. [Link]
Joyent seem to be differentiating with their announcmeent of Triton - native containers in the cloud. And all apparently thanks to the use of a custom (open source) OS called SmartOS. [Link]
Are Huawei hamstrung in US and western market due to the fact they are Chinese?
Bizz News
New backup and recovery startup Rubrick are promising to end the supposed 10 year drought of innovation in the backup space. [Link]
Brian Pawlowski - Mr Flashray - quits NetApp for Pure Storage. Is NetApp in a mess.... and are Pure up to something that we don't know about! [Link]
Thursday Mar 19, 2015
Thursday Mar 19, 2015
This week's Tech News
- vSphere6 is now GA [link]
- new VCE products with both ACI & NSX [link]
- yet another AFA box, this time from Fujitsu [link]
- EMC unveils DSSD plans - going full frontal on Oracle [link]
- Microsoft killing of the IE brand i favour of project Spartan [link]
- Qumulo - ScaleOut NAS + Analytics - out of stealth [link]
- StorReduce - dedupe in the cloud - out of stealth [link]
- Google Nearline Storage public cloud storage at the price of Amazon Glacier but shorter latency [link]
Bizz News
Thursday Mar 12, 2015
Thursday Mar 12, 2015
On this weeks show Gabriel, Hans and Nigel discuss all the interesting news from the previous week in the infrastructure tech world.
Topics include -
The first 20 minutes are taken up with intros and discussing feedback from the recent survey we asked listeners to fill in.
If you wanna get straight to the tech..... skip ahead to the 20 minute mark!
@20:00 VMware being taken to court for allegedly trampling all over the GPLv2 license. Is protection of the GPL and other open-source licenses valuable?
@28:00 Intel fights back against the Raspberry Pi invasion of the data center by announcing the new Xeon D family for high density single-socket servers.
@35:00 HP continues its foray into white-box terrioty with its HP Cloudline of servers aimed at hyperscale customers.
@43:00 Big Switch Open Network Linux gets accepted by Open Compute Project as a reference NOS for white-box Ethernet switches.
@46:00 X-IO announces ISE 800 series of AFA's based on 3rd gen architecture. Boasting record-breaking $/SPC-1 IO and 100% performance at 100% capacity.
@52:00 Going, going, GigaGone. This week saw the closure of Gigaom due to an inability to pay creditors.
@54:00 After less than 2 years of production worthy product, SimpliVity raises further $175M in series D round of funding with a valuation of over $1BN.
@64:00 Docker acquires Socketplane (SDN for Docker containers) in what Nigel genuinely feel might be *the* acquisition of 2015. For more information check out Episode 178 of the Cloudcast where Aaron and Brian interview John Willis from Socketplane - http://www.thecloudcast.net/2015/01/the-cloudcast-178-devops-defined.html
And one last thing..... check out Gabriels hair from when he was a teenager!
