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Infosmack Episode 28 - The Inside Scoop on Acadia - Part 2

infosmack — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:46:39 +0000

Infosmack Episode 28 - The Inside Scoop on Acadia - Part 2. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests Chad Sakac, VP, VMware Technology Alliance at EMC and Greg Schulz of StorageIO. This week’s topics include EvoStor, LeftHand Networks, STEC, Quantum, Data Domain, Dell, Intel’s lawsuit, Gartner’s lawsuit and more discussion on disclosures and analyst ethics.

Infosmack Episode 27 - The Inside Scoop on Acadia - Part 1

infosmack — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:49:27 +0000

Infosmack Episode 27 - The Inside Scoop on Acadia - Part 1. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests Chad Sakac, VP, VMware Technology Alliance at EMC and Greg Schulz of StorageIO. This week’s topics include details on Acadia including it’s consumption-based business model, vendor lockout and how it’s sold and supported with a revealing discussion on VMware, Brocade, Dell, HP and David Donatelli.

Infosmack Episode 26 - Tiering Storage for the Cloud

infosmack — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:36:56 +0000

Infosmack Episode 26 - Tiering Storage for the Cloud. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests Kirby Wadsworth of F5 and Ed Saipetch of Network Storage. This week’s topics include the lack of blooger disclosure in the storage industry, the end of Mac ZFS, competitive research is leaked by NetApp and Kirby does a deep dive on tiering storage for the cloud.

Infosmack Episode 25 - Tech Down Under

infosmack — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:15:33 +0000

Infosmack Episode 25 - Tech Down Under. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guest Simon Sharwood, Editor of TechTarget Australia. This week’s topics include the Windows 7 launch, Mac Mini Server announced, EMC’s latest earnings report, Dell’s relationship with EMC, more Slootman vs. CommVault and the state of IT in Australia.

Infosmack Episode 24 - Zilla Kills Farley

infosmack — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:05:44 +0000

Infosmack Episode 24 - Zilla Kills Farley. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with special co-host Storagezilla with guests W. Curtis Preston of TruthInIT.com and Greg Schulz of StorageIO. This week’s topics include more discussion about how the new FTC rules might impact storage bloggers, The Sidekick/Microsoft data loss fiasco and SNIA’s lack of a response, Frank Slootman’s recent interview, potential suitors for Brocade and discussion around the future of trade shows.

Infosmack Episode 23 - Beyond RAID

infosmack — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:05:26 +0000

Infosmack Episode 23 - Beyond RAID. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests Geoff Barrall, CEO and Founder of Data Robotics, and Chris Fricke, Senior IT Administrator at Clacamus County. This week’s topics include a discussion about the Data Robotics Drobo, how the new FTC rules might impact storage bloggers, speculation about NetApp and the upcoming Storage Networking World.

Podcast Alley Feed

infosmack — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:40:38 +0000

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Infosmack Episode 22 - HP Tech Day Wrap Up

infosmack — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:18:19 +0000

Infosmack Episode 22 - Oracle, and VMware. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par with special guest co-host, Stephen Foskett of Nirvanix and GestaltIT.com with guests Andrew Manners, John Spiers, Roger Javens, George Wagner and Calvin Zito of HP Storageworks, Halley Bass of Ivy Worldwide, Frank Owen of TechVirtuoso.com, John Oberto of Logikworx, Devang Panchigar of CDS and StorageNerve.com and Ray Lucchesi of Silverton Consulting. This is a special episode recorded at the conclusion of HP’s Tech Day on 9/29/2009.

Infosmack Episode 21 - Oracle and VMware

infosmack — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:12:55 +0000

Infosmack Episode 21 - Oracle, and VMware. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with Steve Kenniston of EMC and Ed Saipetch of Network Storage and BreathingData.com. This week’s topics include Oracle and VMware, Dell acquires Perot and Carbonite gets ready for an IPO.

Infosmack Episode 20 - Oracle, Sun and Pillar

infosmack — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:50:34 +0000

Infosmack Episode 20 - Oracle, Sun and Pillar. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with ”Guest Emeritus” Storagezilla and Greg Schulz of StorageIO. This week’s topics include Oracle, Sun and Pillar, the future for Oracle, the state of SSD’s and the decline of storage news coverage.

Infosmack Episode 19 - Booth Babes

infosmack — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:03:08 +0000

Infosmack Episode 19 - Booth Babes. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with special guest host Stephen Foskett of Nirvanix with guests Kirby Wadsworth of F5 and Sunshine Mugrabi. This week’s topics include more VMware wrap up, booth babes, buzz around EvoStor, Cloudy storage, Byte & Switch bites the dust and the noise around BackBlaze.

Infosmack Episode 18 - VMworld wrap up

infosmack — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:42:59 +0000

Infosmack Episode 18 - VMworld wrap up. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests Devang Panchigar of CDS and StorageNerve.com and Ed Saipetch of Network Storage and BreathingData.com. This week’s topics include a VMware wrap up, buzz around Cisco and EMC’s “Alpine”, speculation around EvoStor, Cloud strategies around VMware and Marc Farley buttons at VMworld.

Infosmack Episode 17 - Storagezilla’s Revenge

infosmack — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:51:56 +0000

Infosmack Episode 17 - Storagezilla’s revenge. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guest “Emeritus” Storagezilla. This week’s topics include remembering EMC cofounder Dick Egan, Mozy woes, Mainframe VTL’s, “Apple, Macs and iPhones”, hacker gets the book thrown at him and Storagezilla dreams of becoming the King of France.

Infosmack Episode 16 - Cha… cha… changes

infosmack — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:53:14 +0000

Infosmack Episode 16 - Cha… cha… changes. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guest Chris Fricke, Sr. IT Admininistrator for Clackamas County. This week’s topics include changes at NetApp, the value of thin provisioning, EMC-Atmos, the data center of the future, changes at Copan and the value proposition for MAID disk technology.

Infosmack Episode 15 - VMworld, VMware and storage stories from the dark side

infosmack — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:49:44 +0000

Infosmack Episode 15 - VMworld, VMware and storage stories from the dark side. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests Stephen Foskett of Nirvanix and John Troyer of VMware. This week’s topics include discussion about the upcoming VMworld, VMware’s acquisition of SpringSource, Symantec says you don’t have to buy storage anymore and more media reports claim that tape is dead.

Infosmack Episode 14 - The Focus on DeDuplication

infosmack — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:16:58 +0000

Infosmack Episode 14 - The focus on DeDuplication. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests W. Curtis Preston of BackupCentral.com and Joe Kovar, Senior Editor at CRN and Channel Web. This week’s topics include CommVault’s focus on DeDuplication, NetApp’s performance after losing Data Domain, NetApp vs. EMC in the blog wars as well as a new deduplication product announcement from Nexsan and FalconStor.

Infosmack Episode 13 - Data Storage Trends

infosmack — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:13:48 +0000

Infosmack Episode 13 - Data Storage Trends. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests Brad O’Neill, CEO and Co-Founder of Tech Validate and Martin Glassborow, aka Storagebod. This week’s topics include discussion around industry trends, has the cloud ‘jumped the shark’, triple parity and variable parity RAID technologies as well as what makes a good or bad analyst.

Infosmack Episode 12 - The future of deduplication and encryption

infosmack — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:11:02 +0000

Infosmack Episode 12 - The future of deduplication and encryption. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guest John Matze, VP Storage System Products at Exar Corporation (Hifn) and co-author of the iSCSI standard. Marc Farley is back from Vegas this week and we discuss the future of deduplication and encryption.

Infosmack Episode 11 - Storagezilla Uncensored

infosmack — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:16:00 +0000

Infosmack Episode 11 - Storagezilla Uncensored. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guest Storagezilla (Mark Twomey). Marc Farley is AWOL in Vegas this week while Knieriemen and Storagezilla talk about Dell, Data Domain, EMC, Ibrix, HP, Sun, Oracle… and time share pitches in Las Vegas.

Infosmack Episode 10 - EMC wins Data Domain… now what?

infosmack — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:22:41 +0000

Infosmack Episode 10 - EMC wins Data Domain… now what? Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guest Steve Duplessie, founder and Senior Analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). This week’s topics include discussion of what happens now that EMC has won the bidding for Data Domain and what is the fallout for the rest of the storage industry.