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The French Storage Podcast podcast

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The French Storage Podcast

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  Ph. Nicolas  

" [The French Storage Podcast] (https://tfsp.fr/) " (aka TFSP) is about Data, Data Management and Storage. Hosted on Podcastics, the dedicated web site is  [TFSP.fr] (https://tfsp.fr/) . It is owned, hosted and driven by [Philippe Nicolas] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/phnicolas/) , observer of the storage industry for more than 30 years. As an international podcast, TFSP has the mission to cover the industry as a whole with interviews, debates, round tables and technical talks, and the wish to keep some french aspects and episodes when needed. TFSP publishes a new episode every Friday at 12pm Paris time. You can find all statistics on the TFSP site [here] (https://TFSP.fr/stat) . You can contact me on Twitter via  [@CDP_FST] (https://twitter.com/CDP_FST) .

" [The French Storage Podcast] (https://tfsp.fr/) " (aka TFSP) is about Data, Data Management and Storage. Hosted on Podcastics, the dedicated web site is  [TFSP.fr] (https://tfsp.fr/) . It is owned, hosted and driven by [Philippe Nicolas] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/phnicolas/) , observer of the storage industry for more than 30 years. As an international podcast, TFSP has the mission to cover the industry as a whole with interviews, debates, round tables and technical talks, and the wish to keep some french aspects and episodes when needed. TFSP publishes a new episode every Friday at 12pm Paris time. You can find all statistics on the TFSP site [here] (https://TFSP.fr/stat) . You can contact me on Twitter via  [@CDP_FST] (https://twitter.com/CDP_FST) .

 

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#230

230 - Interview with Christian Plattner, CEO, Cleondris

[Cleondris] (https://cleondris.com/) , a key partner for NetApp in the data security and protection domain, participated to the recent 57th edition of [The IT Press Tour] (http://www.itpresstour.net/) in Istanbul, Turkey. At the event, the company unveiled Cleondris ONE, an advanced ransomware protection, and officially launched it during the recent [NetApp INSIGHT 2024] (https://insight.netapp.com/) in Las Vegas. We spoke about the company, its genesis, the solution and how it works, the go-to-market model and pricing philosophy and we conclude with a few future elements related to the company and products. I think you would like this episode, enjoy your listening. Thank you Christian. ... Read more

04 Oct 2024

11 MINS

11:00

04 Oct 2024

#229

229 - Recap of Huawei Connect 2024

Amazing Huawei Connect 2024 conference and expo in Shanghai, China, a few days ago. It was the right moment to refresh users and partners on the various product lines and storage in particular. I recorded this episode as a recap of the conference and I insist on Pacific and Dorado with its brand new v7 architecture. Again, it was an impressive show with 20,000+ attendees that illustrated the rapid progress Huawei made in various domains. Enjoy. ... Read more

27 Sep 2024

06 MINS

06:55

27 Sep 2024

#228

228 - Recap of the 57th IT Press Tour

The 57th edition of [The IT Press Tour] (http://www.itpresstour.net/)  took place early September in Istanbul, Turkey. With this European format, we met 6 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Management, Storage and of course AI. By alpha order it was [Cleondris] (https://cleondris.com/) , [Datashelter] (https://datashelter.tech/) , [EU eArchiving Initiative] (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/activities/earchiving) , [Hopsworks] (https://www.hopsworks.ai/) , [MooseFS] (https://moosefs.com/) and [ZeroPoint Technologies] (https://www.zeropoint-tech.com/) . Another very good edition in the beautiful city of Istanbul, I hope you will really enjoy listening to it. ... Read more

20 Sep 2024

19 MINS

19:08

20 Sep 2024

#227

227 - Interview with Jakub Ratajczak, CEO, MooseFS

[MooseFS] (https://moosefs.com/) , one of the few pioneers in scalable distributed file system, joined recently [The IT Press Tour] (http://www.itpresstour.net/) . It was the opportunity for the team to launch Moose 4.0 Community Edition. With Jakub Ratajczak, CEO, we spoke, in this episode, about the genesis of the project following the Google File System paper in 2003, the various flavors and key features, how the revenue is generated and pricing philosophy with business model. We conclude with future directions and next steps for MooseFS. I hope you would like this episode, enjoy your listening. Thank you Jakub. ... Read more

13 Sep 2024

33 MINS

33:38

13 Sep 2024

#226

226 - HYCU SaaS Backup Survey Report and Own acquisition by Salesforce

A special episode today with some statistics with some notes and comments about the recent [HYCU SaaS Backup Survey Report] (https://www.hycu.com/download/report-state-of-saas-data-protection) and my recent talk with [Simon Taylor] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonjonathantaylor/) , CEO of [HYCU] (https://hycu.com/) , and the acquisitions of [Own] (https://www.owndata.com/) announced yesterday by [Salesforce] (http://www.salesforce.com/) . A short episode but these 2 elements deserve to be covered. Enjoy. ... Read more

06 Sep 2024

07 MINS

07:30

06 Sep 2024

#225

225 - Impact of Large Disk Drives

Large drives is a need and a reality for the industry but they have introduced some new needs to protect data and manage them at scale. I covered all these aspects in this episode and much more explaining some historical key points and then iterate of logical volumes, erasure coding and green with 3 key technologies to leverage to maximize a green effect. Enjoy your listenig. ... Read more

30 Aug 2024

11 MINS

11:05

30 Aug 2024

#224

224 - Recap of FMS 2024

New name for an established industry conference, the "Flash Memory Summit" has morphed into The " [Future of Memory and Storage] (https://futurememorystorage.com/) " which is definitely a good name with the acronym. Once again this year it was the rendez-vous of semi-conductor professionals plus a few other adjacent profiles. Plenty of new things, awards of course but also new products, technology directions and trends confirmed by vendors products iterations. A good show as usual, I hope you will enjoy this short recap. ... Read more

23 Aug 2024

10 MINS

10:46

23 Aug 2024

#223

223 - Talk with Harriet Coverston, CTO and cofounder, Versity Software

The last [FMS 2024 conference] (https://futurememorystorage.com/) was the opportunity to celebrate [Harriet Coverston] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/harriet-coverston-a4a693/) , a real pioneer in the storage domain and especially in the data archiving space. Harriet just received the [SuperWomen of FMS Leadership Award] (https://futurememorystorage.com/program/events-awards/superwomen-of-fms-leadership-award) that rewards a brilliant carrier and strong industry contributions. After some times at Lawrence Livermore and Control Data Corp., she founded LSC in 1986 with famous SAM-FS and QFS, later acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2001 where she stayed 10 years. In 2011, she founded [Versity Software] (https://www.versity.com/) as CTO with Bruce Gilpin, CEO, to address new data archiving challenges developing a modern data archiving platform. A great talk and a real honor to exchange with [Harriet] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Coverston) , a reference in storage, I hope you will enjoy the listening. Thank you Harriet. ... Read more

16 Aug 2024

25 MINS

25:30

16 Aug 2024

#222

222 - Talk with Mark Moran and Pinaki Chanda from MaxLinear

Following the recent [IT Press Tour] (http://www.itpresstour.net/) and the very interesting session we had at [MaxLinear] (https://www.maxlinear.com/) , I decided to meet again the company and go more in details on Panther III, the storage accelerator card, well adopted by the market and recognized as one of the fastest in the industry. I talked with [Mark Moran] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-a-moran/) , Executive Director, and [Pinaki Chanda] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pinaki-chanda/) , Director Software Engineering, during FMS, the famous conference now operating under a new name " [The Future of Memory and Storage] (https://futurememorystorage.com/) " and still with the same acronym. We discussed about the strategy of the company but go deeper into the product, its features, its performance and values delivered to users but also key partners. A very interesting exchange about this advanced technology paramount in this fast growing AI era. I hope you will enjoy listening to it. Thank you Mark and Pinaki. ... Read more

09 Aug 2024

20 MINS

20:12

09 Aug 2024

#221

221 - Talk with James Coomer, SVP Products, DDN

Following ISC and the recent [IT Press Tour] (https://www.itpresstour.net/) with the 8th participation of [DDN] (https://ddn.com/) , not counting ones with Nexenta, Tegile or Tintri, before their respective acquisitions, I decided to record a new technical episode with the product leader at DDN, [James Coomer] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescoomer/) . We spoke about the company of course but we insisted on ExaScaler and Infinia, their last high performance storage platform, and their approach of the HPC and AI with some differences but also many similarities. And many more things I hope you will enjoy. Thank you James. ... Read more

02 Aug 2024

33 MINS

33:48

02 Aug 2024

#220

220 - The first 6 months of 2024

Our data storage industry moves fast and I decided to record this recap of the first 6 months of 2024. It's a short episode but I covered multiples aspects with VC fundings, IPOs and Unicorns effects, M&As, some failures and surprising news, a few trends, technologies and products, some people moves and new companies. I hope you will enjoy it, it is a pretty good one during holidays. ... Read more

26 Jul 2024

06 MINS

06:28

26 Jul 2024

#219

219 - 15th report about Storage Unicorn from Coldago Research

As a usual and classic note, twice a year, Coldago Research publishes its Storage Unicorn report which presents the club and its selection of storage unicorns. This June 2024 edition, the 15th one listed 17 companies with a few change with Rubrik now a public company, WEKA joining the club following its last round and Cohesity key events early this year. By alpha order, they're Acronis, Barracuda Networks, Cohesity, DataCore, DDN, Druva, Infinidat, Kaseya, MinIO, Nasuni, OwnBackup, Qumulo, VAST Data, Veeam Software, Veritas Technologies, Wasabi Technologies. and WEKA. Enjoy the listening, it's a very short episode that invites you to dig into the topic. ... Read more

19 Jul 2024

04 MINS

04:26

19 Jul 2024

#218

218 - Interview with Rick Kumar, SVP, Viking Enterprise Solutions, a division of Sanmina

Viking Enterprise Solutions, aka [VES] (https://www.vikingenterprisesolutions.com/) , a product division of [Sanmina] (https://www.sanmina.com/) , a reference in compute and storage server design and manufacturing, participated recently to [The IT Press Tour] (http://www.itpresstour.net/) . It was the perfect time to understand who is Sanmina and VES, what they do, how they work for other IT companies developing their hardware solutions such as DDN, Infinidat or VAST Data, coupled potentially with some open source software. We discuss with [Rick Kumar] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-kumar-6ba4607) , SVP of VES, about the mission of the company, their expertise, the various use cases with AI of course but also go-to-market and revenue models. We conclude with some future directions, always interesting with entities like VES. I hope you would like this episode, enjoy your listening. Thank you Rick. ... Read more

12 Jul 2024

13 MINS

13:20

12 Jul 2024

#217

217 - Recap of the 56th IT Press Tour

The 56th edition of [The IT Press Tour] (https://itpresstour.com/)  took place in June in Silicon Valley, California. We met 9 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Management, Storage and I added AI. By alpha order it was [Arc Compute] (https://www.arccompute.io/) , [DDN] (https://ddn.com/) , [Hammerspace] (https://hammerspace.com/) , [Index Engines] (https://indexengines.com/) , [Juicedata] (https://juicefs.com/) , [MaxLinear] (https://www.maxlinear.com/) , [Oxide Computer] (https://oxide.computer/) , [Tobiko Data] (https://tobikodata.com/) and [Viking Enterprise Solutions] (https://www.vikingenterprisesolutions.com/) , a division of Sanmina. A very good edition again and I hope you will really enjoy listening to it. ... Read more

05 Jul 2024

29 MINS

29:26

05 Jul 2024

#216

216 - Interview with Vikas Choudhary, VP & GM Ethernet & Storage Business, MaxLinear

[MaxLinear] (https://www.maxlinear.com/) , a leader and fast data processing player with advanced connectivity for data center with ethernet and storage dedicated products, participated recently to [The IT Press Tour] (http://www.itpresstour.net/) . It was a good time to get a company and product update before FMS early August. We learnt MaxLinear storage product strategy and all details around Panther III and its roadmap. With [Vikas Choudhary] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikas-choudhary1/) , VP & GM of the Ethernet and Storage Business, we spoke about all that and get some future directions for the company and product developments. A very interesting talk I hope you would appreciate as well. Enjoy your listening. Thank you Vikas. ... Read more

28 Jun 2024

15 MINS

15:05

28 Jun 2024

#215

215 - Interview with Tim Williams, CEO, Index Engines

[Index Engines] (https://indexengines.com/) , a pioneer in enterprise content indexing, joined the recent [IT Press Tour] (https://www.itpresstour.net/) in California and announced their 99.99% SLA in ransomware protection. It was the perfect opportunity to learn more about the company, founded in 2003, by CrosStor founders, previously known as Programmed Logic, and get the full product pitch and demo around ransomware protection. With [Tim Williams] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thetimwilliams/) , CEO and founder of the company, we spoke about all that trajectory and covered in details how the product works, the business model with key oems, the pricing philosophy and touched a bit of the future directions. Plenty of good things coming and we should see the product in several new places soon. A very good talk with Tim I hope you would like as well. Enjoy your listening. Thank you Tim. ... Read more

21 Jun 2024

20 MINS

20:36

21 Jun 2024

#214

214 - Talk with Trond Myklebust, CTO, Hammerspace

Among this CTO talk series, I recorded this one with [Trond Myklebust] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/trond-myklebust-9a81791/) , CTO, [Hammerspace] (https://hammerspace.com/) , during the last MSST conference in Santa Clara, early June, a few days before [The IT Press Tour] (https://www.itpresstour.net/) in Silicon Valley.  It was the perfect opportunity to discuss the Hammerspace mission, GDE and HyperScale NAS, leveraging pNFS for multi-site, multi-client and multi-protocol file access and deliver an advanced data sharing service. We spoke about new features especially around pNFS Flex Files and services like erasure coding with RozoFS' Mojette Transform addition and the S3 client. S3-to-Tape is also covered as the team chose to partner with QStar, PoINT Software and Systems or Grau Data to offer a real end-to-end data management approach. A very good talk with Trond, I hope you will enjoy it. Thank you Trond. ... Read more

14 Jun 2024

27 MINS

27:22

14 Jun 2024

#213

213 - Dell Project Lightning

The recent Dell Technologies World, in Las Vegas, was the moment chosen by the management team to unveil a new project named Project Lightning. It is related to PowerScale, AI Storage and their need to redesign a parallel file storage approach to sustain performance requirements by such environments. I detail this news and put this in perspective in the PowerScale line and also with some market developments. A very interesting initiative by Dell. Enjoy. ... Read more

07 Jun 2024

00 MINS

00:51

07 Jun 2024

#212

212 - Talk with Aron Brand, CTO, CTera

A new talk, this time with [Aron Brand] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aronbrand/) , CTO at [CTera] (https://www.ctera.com/) , recorded a few weeks following the  [IT Press Tour] (https://www.itpresstour.net/)  early April in Rome where the company shared some exclusive news. Its was once again the opportunity to go deeper in their product and strategy especially around AI and how they will integrate it. We also spoke about their Data Services Platform and its role and how NAS and S3 are glued together. We have insisted on the security aspect of their product with recent additions around ransomware protection with vaulting technique, decoy and honeypot techniques. Good talk again with Aron, I really enjoy our discussion and hope you will enjoy it as well. Thank you Aron. ... Read more

31 May 2024

18 MINS

18:09

31 May 2024

#211

211 - Object Storage Evolution

Object Storage is a long story almost 20 years if you consider the AWS S3 launch in 2006 but it has started before with the CAS wave. I invite you to read carefully the [Coldago Research] (https://www.coldago.net/) Timeline on the subject, it is available [here] (https://www.coldago.net/timeline) . I discuss several of this evolution and especially insisted on the current 4 flavors: Capacity Oriented, High Performance, Single Node and S3-to-Tape. Enjoy your listening. ... Read more

24 May 2024

08 MINS

08:41

24 May 2024

#210

210 - Recap of ISC 2024

[ISC 2024] (https://www.isc-hpc.com/) took place in Hamburg, Germany, this week and it was the opportunity to meet vendors, discuss with various people, attend sessions and see some sort of convergence between HPC and AI as they some similarities or at least some constraints at sale. We saw several parallel file system vendors, flash at many places, a few HDD resistance, tape as well, of curse GPU and alterantives... in a nutshell a good show. Enjoy the listening. ... Read more

17 May 2024

07 MINS

07:25

17 May 2024

#209

209 - Recap of Huawei Innovative Data Infrastructure Forum 2024

[Huawei Technologies] (https://www.huawei.com/en/)  organized its last [Innovative Data Infrastructure Forum 2024] (https://e.huawei.com/topic/eu-event-storage-idi-forum/eu/) in Berlin, Germany, this week. It was the opportunity to meet company's executives. The Chinese giant announced a series of new product such as the 128TB NVMe SSD, again the A800 and a few others hardware and software solutions targeting high demanding environments such as AI. We learnt a lot again on the strategy in data storage from the company that innovates at a rapid pace. Enjoy the listening. ... Read more

10 May 2024

06 MINS

06:45

10 May 2024

#208

208 - Recap of the 55th IT Press Tour

The 55th edition of [The IT Press Tour] (https://itpresstour.com/)  took place early April in Rome, Italy. We met 6 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Management, Storage and I added AI. By alpha order it was [CTERA] (https://www.ctera.com/) , [Fujifilm Recording Media] (https://www.fujifilm.com/uk/en/business/data-management) , [Know and Decide] (https://k-and-decide.com/) , [Leil Storage] (https://leil.io/) , [QStar Technologies] (https://www.qstar.com/) and [Quickwit] (https://quickwit.io/) . A very good edition again and I hope you will really enjoy listening to it. ... Read more

03 May 2024

24 MINS

24:43

03 May 2024

#207

207 - Interview with Emmanuel Moreau, CEO, Know and Decide

## Episode in French ## [Know and Decide] (http://k-and-decide.com) , a fast growing IT Asset Management company, joined [The IT Press Tour] (https://www.itpresstour.net/) organized recently in Rome. [Emmanuel Moreau] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-moreau-582b1635/) , CEO and founder, introduced the company and its solution to address IT resource management challenges representing a big issue especially within large enterprises and corporations. The product took advantage of deep CIO connection Emmanuel has to define and specify the product according large IT environments. We spoke about the genesis of the company, why he launched the project, how the product works, the key use cases, the go-to-market and pricing model of course. Emmanuel also insisted on the fact that he's actively looking for partners to distribute its solution even oems. A very interesting talk episode with lots of information. Enjoy your listening. Thank you Emmanuel. ... Read more

26 Apr 2024

31 MINS

31:09

26 Apr 2024

#206

206 - Interview with Riccardo Finotti, CEO, QStar Technologies

[QStar Technologies] (https://www.qstar.com/) , a pioneer in the data archiving space, participated recently to  [The IT Press Tour] (http://www.itpresstour.net/) organized in the beautiful city of Rome. The management team took advantage of their participation to launch their new product - Global ArchiveSpace - a scalable multi-node solution able to support very large volumes of data but also very large archived datasets and tape libraries. We also spoke with [Riccardo Finotti] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/riccardo-finotti-8aa5a235/) about the genesis of the company, its evolution, QStar's product line, a bit how it works and the philosophy of archive, the go-to-market and pricing model of course. A very good episode, very interactive with tons of information on QStar. Enjoy your listening. Thank you Riccardo. ... Read more

19 Apr 2024

26 MINS

26:07

19 Apr 2024

#205

205 - Interview with Aleksandr Ragel, CEO, Leil Storage

[Leil Storage] (http://leil.io) , an Estonian company joined [The IT Press Tour] (https://www.itpresstour.net/) , this week in Rome, to introduce their storage approach with Powered control storage system as a evolution of MAID coupled with erasure coding and SaunaFS, a distributed file system, inspired by the famous Google File System. With [Aleksandr Ragel] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexragel/) , founder and CEO, we spoke about the genesis of the company, their products and how they approach the market. I let you discover the interview with a very interesting solution. I think you will appreciate it. Thank you Sasha. ... Read more

12 Apr 2024

15 MINS

15:32

12 Apr 2024

#204

204 - Recap of the 54th IT Press Tour

The 54th edition of [The IT Press Tour] (http://www.itpresstour.net/)  took place early March in Denver, Colorado, and the bay area in California. We visited and met 9 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Management, Storage and I added AI. By alpha order it was [Arcitecta] (http://www.arcitecta.com/) , [BMC] (https://www.bmc.com/) , [Cohesity] (http://www.cohesity.com/) , [Hammerspace] (https://hammerspace.com/) , [Quantum] (http://quantum.com/) , [Qumulo] (https://qumulo.com/) , [Solix] (https://solix.com/) , [StoneFly] (https://stonefly.com) and [WEKA] (https://weka.io/) . A very good edition again and I hope you will really enjoy listening to it. ... Read more

05 Apr 2024

41 MINS

41:53

05 Apr 2024

#203

203 - Interview with Sanjay Poonen, CEO, Cohesity

[Cohesity] (https://www.cohesity.com/) shook the storage industry with the M&A announcement with [Veritas Technologies] (https://www.veritas.com/) a few weeks ago, nobody has really anticipated that move. We met [Sanjay Poonen] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjaypoonen/) , CEO, and his executive team, during the recent [IT Press Tour] (http://www.itpresstour.net/) and it appeared natural and logic for me to record this interview and we did a few days after our visit. With Sanjay we spoke about the genesis of the deal, the Cohesity business situation and business climate, the rationale behind the deal, the financial aspect of it, what it means for NetBackup users, also for DataProtect, the recent announcement about GAIA, the Cohesity RAG AI approach, and of course the future with some projections of the coming months. Super interview, I really hope you will love it as well. Thank you Sanjay.   ... Read more

29 Mar 2024

26 MINS

26:14

29 Mar 2024

#202

202 - Talk with Shimon Ben David, CTO, WEKA

  A new talk with [Shimon Ben David] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shimonbd/) , CTO of [WEKA] (https://weka.io/) , recorded during the Nvidia GTC following the recent [IT Press Tour] (http://www.itpresstour.net/) in California. Beyond a refresh about WEKA, the parallel file system background and the Modern Data Platform approach, we spoke about the recent performance public benchmarks available on SPEC web site where WEKA clearly takes the lead in various domains, the certification of the WEKApod, a hardware flavor of the WEKA solution offered as an appliance, with the NVidia SuperPOD reference architecture and program and we covered a bit the future. Good exchange again with Shimon as always, a real pleasure to discuss with one of the hot gems in the storage industry, so I hope you will enjoy it. Thank you Shimon. ... Read more

22 Mar 2024

19 MINS

19:52

22 Mar 2024

#201

201 - Impact of Google File System, Colossus, Facebook and Hadoop on the industry

During the last 2 decades, Google File System had a huge impact of the storage industry inviting several companies to imagine and design pretty similar distributed file system solutions clearly inspired by GFS. We had also Facebook with f4 and Haystack, of course Hadoop and HDFS, plus a myriad of several open source projects and products. I tried in this episode to rapidly cover each of them, I count more than 10 file system instances. I'm sure you know some of them and at the same time I'm also pretty sure you will discover some new names. Enjoy your listening. ... Read more

15 Mar 2024

07 MINS

07:21

15 Mar 2024