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This Deep Dive episode of the podcast is lined up with the release of the Pure Storage FlashArray.

In this episode, Nigel and Rick put the Pure Storage FlashArray under the microscope with the aid of Stephen Foskett (Gestalt IT, TechFieldDay and organiser of the Solid State Storage Symposium) and Matt Kixmoeller (VP of Products at Pure Storage).

This is a great episode that gets under the hood of the recently announced FlashArray, as well as explaining why flash memory is revolutionizing the storage world, literally leaving legacy array architectures in the dust. If you want to know why flash is changing all the rules and may be want to impress the girls with your knowledge of how inline deduplication really does work with flash then you need to listen!

Some of the topics discussed include -

• How inline deduplication is possible because of flash memory
• How flash memory changes most of the accepted rules of storage array design
• Scale out architectures vs dual controller architectures
• Why consumer grade MLC and TLC flash will win
• Differences between Tier 0 and Tier 1 markets

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This weeks show sees the return of Marc Farley.

Marc returns as a guest to the show he co-founded.

Marc talks about -

His addiction to start-ups How he got in to tech and not rock music How much he loves the storage industry What he's doing at storsimple How they hook in to the cloud What storsimple are all about What life was like at HP, 3PAR and Equaligoc What motivates startups

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This weeks show is a cracker.

In the show, Nigel and Rick chill out on the luxurious couches at Infosmack towers with technology legend Barry Whyte (IBM) and talk all things technology. It’s a really laid back show with the guys just picking Barry’s brains.

Some topics o converstaion include -

• What got the guys in to technology Classical computers such as - Commodore 64 Commodore VIC-20 Sinclair ZX Spectrum BBC Micro Is it really all that cool working in high tech What are cool technologies of the future going to be What its like working at IBM

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In this episode of the Infosmack Deep Dive podcast Rick and Nigel sit down with Michael Hay, VP o Product Planning at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS).  Michael is an American living and working in Japan and as such has a unique perspective on Japanese culture and the role of the tech industry in Japan.

Some topics of dicussion incldue -

Content Delivery Networks

Metro distance storage tiering

Solid State Storage, including EMC VFCache

Combining Intel and FPGAs

As well as the technical stuff, other topics include -

What do you carry in your laptop bag

Seeing the future and seeing the past

Shinkansen (The Japanese Bullet Train)

The uniquely Japanese ATM experience

Getting drugs in Japan

Japanese Toilets

Wasabi

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In this show, Nigel Poulton and Rick Vanover host Camden (Cam) Ford of Xsigo (pronounced zee-go, or see-go). Camden is the director of product management at Xsigo Systems and a bit of a nutty professor when it comes to networking .

Xsigo are makers of data center fabric solutions to consolidate I/O. This is analogous to consolidation of servers with x86 virtualization, and Xsigo wants to do that with your I/O. Some points discussed:

· Port consolidation strategies

· Core infrastructure lifecycles

· Virtualization and utilization

· Connectivity options for port consolidation

Nigel and Rick put Cam on the hot seat for tough questions such as cost and competition as well as realistically who converged I/O fits in today’s datacenters. Is their future bright and do you see a fit for your port reduction strategies? Tune in to see.

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This show is a cracker! Just the right level of technical detail and a topic that could be a game changer in the future of storage…

Hosts Nigel Poulton and Rick Vanover are joined by a couple of real techies –

• Joe Foster, Distinguished Technologist at HP
• Tim Symons, Principal Engineer from PMC Sierra

The topic of discussion is SCSI Express and the wider picture of unleashing the power o solid state storage. Taking off the shackles that exist in todays servers and storage arrays that currently hold it back.

Some of the topics discussed include –

• Bringing SCSI further in to the 21st century
• Bringing RAID controllers in to the 21st century
• Bringing hot plug capability to PCIe
• Placing SSD closer to the CPU in storage arrays (no more hanging of legacy back end loops and stacks)
• Does $/IOP cut the mustard
• SCSI Express versus NVM Express (with an obvious bias to SCSI Express)
• Some but kissing of the T10 standards bodies
• Rant about PCI Special Interest Group

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In this weeks Christmas Cracker, Nigel and Rick are joined by Dr Garth Gibson, a true legend of the computing world!

Dr Gibson is best known as one of the co-inventors of RAID technology - a technology known to all in the computing industry and still an key foundational technology of the modern computing world.  Among many other contributions to the industry, Garth is the founder and CTO of Panasas, a leading high performance parallel storage company.  And now, he can add to his already impressive resume that he has been a guest on Infosmack!

During the show the following topics were covered -

Future of RAID

What the "I" in RAID stands for

Future of Solid State Storage

Future of magnetic recording media

Sub-LUN Tiering

Commodity HW with smarts in Software

The rise of less and less reliable technology

Parallel NFS (pNFS)

Panasas

Technology predictions for 2012 Tons of other cool stuff

We recommend that listeners buckle themselves up before listening to this show as Dr Gibson has a brain the size of a planet and Nigel and Rick attempted to raid his brain (pun intended) in under an hour!

Nigel and Rick would like to thank Garth for not embarrassing them with his clearly superior knowledge and brain power.

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Last week Nigel hooked up with former podcasting washup deadbeat ass kissing loser old friend and Infosmack legend Greg Knieriemen at HP Discover in Vienna.

Nigel and Greg hooked up with Senior VP of HP Storage David Scott to shoot a joint Infosmack/Nekkid Tech podcast.  On the show they talk all things storage and all things HP.

Among the questions, was whether or not if David were to bump in to his peers, from the likes of EMC and NetApp, whether he'd like smack them in the teeth and then when they're on the ground put the boot in.  If you want to know the answer you'll have to listen......

We think you'll like the intro.

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Windows Server 8 is right around the corner, is it for real? That is the question. In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts Jeffrey Snover, a Distinguished Engineer from Microsoft and David Davis from TrainSignal. This show scratches the surface of Windows Server 8, there are so many new features with the next release of this server operating system. But, are all of them good? Some recommendations may have system administrators turning their heads. And why is there so much PowerShell involved with Windows Server 8? Are you ready for Windows Server Core? We’ll see.

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In this weeks show Nigel goes solo, without regualr co-host Rick Vanover, at the HDS Influencer Summit in San Jose CA.  Rick is out of vacation time at work and couldn't make the event where the show was recorded from.

Joining Nigel are Stu Miniman from Wikibon and Ray Lucchesi of Silverton Consulting.

HDS invited what felt like the entire analyst community as well as a handful of bloggers to a one-day event in San Jose California where they broadcast the message that they are more than just a big iron storage company.  There was lots of talk about cloud, services, strategies and integrated vertical stacks.

This show is a bit freestyle with the guys covering random topics in enterprise storage.  Things discussed include -

Vertically integrated stacks (HDS UCP, Vblock...) SSD Commodity vs custom Blade servers Technology vs Marketing

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