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"The French Storage Podcast" (aka TFSP) is about Data, Data Management and Storage. It is owned, hosted and driven by Philippe Nicolas, 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. You can contact me on Twitter via @CDP_FST. On TFSP, in addition to new episodes, you can also find all past episodes produced during the USP ("Unleash your storage passion") podcast period between April 2020 and July 2021. As a reminder USP was launched in April 2020 by Yoann Castillo and Philippe Nicolas during the Covid-19 with the idea to unify, discuss and boost the French data storage community.

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"The French Storage Podcast" (aka TFSP) is about Data, Data Management and Storage. It is owned, hosted and driven by Philippe Nicolas, 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. You can contact me on Twitter via @CDP_FST. On TFSP, in addition to new episodes, you can also find all past episodes produced during the USP ("Unleash your storage passion") podcast period between April 2020 and July 2021. As a reminder USP was launched in April 2020 by Yoann Castillo and Philippe Nicolas during the Covid-19 with the idea to unify, discuss and boost the French data storage community.

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Episodes

160 - Interview with Gal Naor, CEO and founder, StorONE

6/2/2023
StorONE joined the recent 49th edition of The IT Press Tour in Israel and this time I decided to record an interview with Gal Naor, CEO and founder of the company. We spoke about the genesis of the company, why he launched the project, the value proposition, of course the product and some recent developments around VSC - Virtual Storage Containers - , the market, their use cases and customers, the go to market and pricing model and we conclude with the future. Gal told us that he wishes to do an IPO., we'll see. I hope you will enjoy this new interview. Thank you Gal.

Duration:00:36:16

159 - File System Clarification

5/26/2023
Reading various sources with press articles, vendor messaging and other materials invite me to consider a special episode on this file system confusion that requires a real clarification. This episode defines what is a parallel file system, what do you need to qualify a file system but we also cover the various extensions added to NFS to boost transfer. And we finish by the list of products and vendors in each category. I hope you'll enjoy that episode, happy listening.

Duration:00:18:01

158 - Gartner maintains confusion on primary storage

5/19/2023
Gartner, the famous analyst firm, has published recently, April 26, 2023, a bizarre report entitled "Voice of the Customer for Primary Storage" reference G00752726 that clearly introduces a wrong definition of primary storage. The problem is that readers and subscribers to Gartner believe what is written but again this is not accurate. So when I read this document, I decided to record this podcast to participate to the right definition of primary storage. This is incredible, I let you read this report and then listen to this episode. Enjoy.

Duration:00:07:45

157 - Recap of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023

5/12/2023
This episode is a recap of the recent European KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023 organized in Amsterdam in The Netherlands in March. Storage was not really visible at the show, the topic is ignored by this community speaking a different language with DataStore... Enjoy.

Duration:00:07:15

156 - Interview with Gavin Griffiths, Managing Director, Insurgo

5/5/2023
I met Insurgo and Gavin Griffiths at the recent STS Conference in Tucson, Arizona. It was an interesting talk that is really different from others classic tape pitch. It invites me to think about an interview and we recently did it to dig into the different tape services offered by his company. We spoke about all this, the market, drivers and the future. Tape is here to last long, no doubt about it. I hope you will enjoy this episode, a bit different from ones I used to produce. Enjoy. Thank you Gavin.

Duration:00:11:55

155 - Recap of the 49th IT Press Tour

4/28/2023
The IT Press Tour was recently in Israel for the 4th time and globally for the 49th edition. It was, once again, a fantastic trip. We met 8 companies playing in IT Infrastructure, Data Management, Storage and a few key other areas. By alpha order it was CTERA, Equalum, Finout, Pliops, Rookout, StorONE, Treeverse and UnifabriX. We met very interesting people, real innovators developing key technologies. Enjoy.

Duration:00:25:36

154 - Interview with Oded Nagel, CEO, CTERA

4/21/2023
We met CTERA recently during the 49th edition of The IT Press Tour in Israel and we got great exclusive news with the new executive team as Oded Nagel was promoted CEO, Liran Eshel, moving to Executive Chairman and a few other moves and promotions. We spoke about these changes with Oded and covered some recent product news around ransomware, cloud routing, CTERA Direct or unified file and object storage. And we also discussed about the future directions both in terms of products but also in terms of company. It was a very good talk, I hope you'll enjoy this episode. Thank you Oded.

Duration:00:25:10

153 - Interview with Ronen Hyatt, CEO and founder, UnifabriX

4/14/2023
UnifabriX just joined the 49th edition of The IT Press Tour in Israel and it was the perfect opportunity to learn more about the team and what they do. They clearly belong and participate to the coming disruptive wave based on CXL - the Compute Express Link - that will change drastically how the data center resources are connected. So the idea to interview Ronen Hyatt, CEO and founder of UnifabriX, was the natural step moving forward. We did it and I took a great pleasure to speak with Ronen, I hope it will be the case for all of you as we understand the role of the company, what they develop, already sell and what they prepare. Enjoy this episode. Thank you Ronen.

Duration:00:31:17

152 - Quantum Myriad and HPE GreenLake Storage Services

4/7/2023
Two recents news invites me to think about this episode, first Quantum who introduces a modern file and object storage solution based on share-everything model, full NVMe and disaggregated architecture. A very good news for the champion of secondary storage. And the second HPE for its GreenLake storage services that recognizes once again its incapacity to develop file and object storage product by themselves. They're completely naked on this. They pick VAST Data, this is a fantastic news for VAST Data and a disaster for Qumulo. I hope you'll enjoy this episode.

Duration:00:07:47

151 - RAID evolution & Erasure Coding at scale

3/31/2023
RAID is well known and mastered for all IT people especially infrastructure ones. But with the growing capacity of the HDD, the arrival of flash and SSDs, of course NVMe and the explosion of volume of data, RAID was and is under pressure. I see several new implementation, discovery of drawbacks and the confirmation of Erasure Coding we saw 2 decades ago with Isilon and more recently with large scale storage software like object storage. It's also the case for P2P, dispersed or decentralized storage that push the concept further. I met several players with new approach based on PCIe card, some implements GPU on it, it is the case for GRAID Technology, Nyriad or Pliops. As a technology component it plays a key role especially at scale. I hope you will enjoy the listening.

Duration:00:07:59

150 - Tape & Tape Libraries Technologies and Developments

3/24/2023
Tape was dead for some people but guess what tape is still there and even more present than ever with cyberattacks and ransomware pressure. LTO continues to flood the market and hyperscalers adopted tape libraries and use them at a new scale and pace. Vendors design new models specifically for them, it is the case for Quantum and IBM and we wait some offerings from Spectra Logic. LTO roadmap is published up to LTO-14 without any date of course. We even heard that some hyperscalers plan to develop their own tape library. We'll see as there is plenty of new things in the domain. Great. Enjoy your listening.

Duration:00:07:05

149 - Recap of the Storage Technology Showcase conference

3/17/2023
The Storage Technology Showcase restarted a few days ago in Tucson, AZ and it was for me the opportunity to visit La Mecqua, the IBM Storage Labs. It was good to meet peers and speak about key storage challenges at scale. The topic of the year was about "Engaging the Rising Generation of Storage Professionals" and we also learned plenty of things, one of these being the Vertical Market Failure. I made this recap, I hope you'll enjoy listening to it.

Duration:00:10:02

148 - SaaS Applications Backup, a need for harmonization and comprehensive approaches

3/10/2023
Two companies launched recently their SaaS applications backup service, HYCU and Asigra. HYCU chose The IT Press Tour end of January in California to unveil R-Cloud, a comprehensive solution to protect any SaaS applications and for Asigra SAASBackup it was more recent. Their products represent the market need for a new approach, it won't be acceptable to have point products protecting data for each SaaS service in addition to bare metal, VM, container ad other cloud-based services. The industry creates its own complexity and at the same time, it is a real opportunity for some new or existing players. I detail the requirement in this episode, introduce HYCU R-Cloud and Asigra SAASBackup and present their similarities and differences. I hope you will enjoy it, it's pretty short and right to the point.

Duration:00:05:25

147 - Secondary Storage Landscape and New Developments

3/3/2023
Secondary Storage is hot, nothing new here, and new offerings appear, new players and some old technologies got modernized like optical and recent tape developments are interesting. Flash is coming to secondary storage to offer more than Active but Instant recovery or archive. Hyperscalers put pressure on tape library vendors to release special models for them. Energy is even more important today coupled with data reduction techniques and erasure coding to deliver high durability level. Object storage also is present in different flavors, S3 is the king of course, and appear with 8 vendors S3-to-tape, a sort fo modern VTL. I have to mention also projects around P2P, Decentralized, Dispersed, Blockchain, DNA, glass or holographic or even Piql with 35mm microfilm. I tried to cover all these in this episode, a dense one but I'm sure you will love it. Enjoy.

Duration:00:08:13

146 - Storage Giants Develop Essentially Block Storage

2/24/2023
I wish to do this episode for quite some time, it is about the pattern I detected on the market several years ago and it has been confirmed over the years. This is about Storage Giants essentially developing Block storage products. These storage giants are DDN, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Infinidat, Lenovo, NetApp and Pure Storage covering for me here the mid to high-end on-premises storage segment. And I found that 81% of them - 9 on 11 - confirm that statement. Enjoy the listening of this special tech talk.

Duration:00:11:30

145 - Winners & Losers 2022

2/17/2023
Like every year I started an exercise to list Winners and Losers, in other words, who in terms of companies or product or technology made a positive impact on the industry and on the other side negative one. I tried to cover block, file and object storage, primary and secondary storage, Kubernetes, Cloud and SaaS, tape, optical, RAID, DPU... but also M&A, investments or bankruptcy. It's an interesting list and I'm sure you will enjoy it. Have fun.

Duration:00:09:22

144 - Recap of the 48th IT Press Tour

2/10/2023
The IT Press Tour came back end of January to California for the 48th edition. What a ride. We met 8 companies playing in DevOps and Kubernetes and more globally very active in Multi-Cloud environments. By alpha order it was Amberflo, CloudFabrix, HYCU, Pulumi, Robin.io now Rakuten Symphony, Solo.io, Sysdig and project Velero. It was once again a very informative tour, I hope you'll enjoy its listening. Enjoy.

Duration:00:13:07

143 - Coldago Research Gems 2023

2/3/2023
New year so new Gem list from Coldago Research with 5 companies that should have a serious impact on the market in the coming quarters. We select GRAID Technology, LINBIT, Pliops, PoINT Software & Systems and UnifabriX. Enjoy the listening of this short episode.

Duration:00:04:34

142 - Interview with Partha Seetala, President, Rakuten Symphony Cloud BU (formerly Robin.io)

1/27/2023
Rakuten Symphony acquired Robin.io, fast growing player in Kubernetes, in 2022. Robin.io was a pioneer of Cloud Native Storage and Platform. The company just participated to the recent 48th edition of The IT Press Tour dedicated to Kubernetes and DevOps in California. It was the opportunity to discuss with Partha Seetala, founder of Robin.io, a company we met a few times during the pandemic but online, to learn more about the product line but also the new strategy now within Rakuten. We spoke about the genesis of the project, the "new" strategy of the company, how product work, Kubernetes of course, go to market and pricing and we conclude with a thing key element about the future. Enjoy this episode. Thank you Partha.

Duration:00:28:26

141 - Storage Unicorn from Coldago Research

1/20/2023
Classic episode with the bi-annual Coldago Research Report about Storage Unicorn. The last report was published in December 2022 and lists 17 companies: Acronis, Barracuda Networks, Cohesity, DataCore, DDN, Druva, Infinidat, Kaseya, MinIO, Nasuni, OwnBackup, Qumulo, Rubrik, VAST Data, Veeam Software, Veritas Technologies and Wasabi Technologies. Enjoy the listening of this short episode.

Duration:00:02:39

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