Infosmack

This episode of the podcast is our monthly review of the tech world. Future monthly reviews will also include a wider scope of data centre and enterprise tech topics.  This month we discuss - How to innovate and keep driving technology at big tech companies (R&D vs Spin-off/Spin-in vs acquisition….) Do small MS Exchange customers care about performance or just ease of use and reliability Kaminario’s recent destruction of just about all previous SPC-1 results EMC finally rev’d...

In this podcast Nigel and Rick are joined by Larry Freeman a.k.a Dr Dedupe from NetApp. This show follows up on the recent

This weeks show sees Hans Deleenheer joins Nigel as co-host, as they quiz Alex Kramer from the HP Virtual Connect Engineering team. This show gets under the hood with the HP Virtual Connect technology as well as discussing the recently announced Direct Connect to 3PAR configuration, which is being referred to by many as flattening the SAN. Topics covered include - Description of Vir...

In todays podcast Nigel is joined again by Ray Lucchesi of Silverton Consulting to review Rays monthly Storage News Letter. The main focus of the show is NetApp’s Data ONTAP 8.1.1, with a focus on what this brings for the much hyped but slow to mature Cluster Mode (c-mode). Other topics include - Dell Being a blogger vs being an analyst (Ray i...

In this show Nigel is joined by Ray Lucchesi of Silverton Consulting. Ray has spent his life in storage and is a real grey beard when it comes to storage technology. Ray puts out a monthly newsletter covering interesting things that have happened in the world of storage, as well as a roundup of some of the latest benchmark and performance news.  In this show, Nigel and...

On this weeks show, Rick and Nigel are joined by Mark Twomey, aka Storagezilla, as they get the opinions of an EMC insider on the biggest announcements of EMC World. While Mark set’s a new record for word count on the podcast, he brings quality as well as quantity, and gives honest opinions. Major topics from th...

In this weeks show Rick and Nigel discuss the recent EMC World event with industry veteran Howard Marks. The discussion covers things such as - Does EMC go overboard with marketing VMAX Federated Tiered Storage (FTS) Isilon VNX Data Domain EMC building their own servers The impact of XtremiO within EMC and the wider enterprise technology market

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,

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 Enjoy the show

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 Wha...