GreyBeards on Storage

GreyBeards on Storage


Latest Episodes

135: Greybeard(s) talk file and object challenges with Theresa Miller & David Jayanathan, Cohesity
July 29, 2022

Sponsored By: I’ve known Theresa Miller, Director of Technology Advocacy Group at Cohesity, for many years now and just met David Jayanathan (DJ), Cohesity Solutions Architect during the podcast. Ther

134: GreyBeards talk (storage) standards with Dr. J Metz, SNIA Chair & Technical Director AMD
July 07, 2022

We have known Dr. J Metz (@drjmetz, blog), Chair of SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) BoD, for over a decade now and he has always been an intelligent industry evangelist. DrJ was elected

133: GreyBeards talk trillion row databases/data lakes with Ocient CEO & Co-founder, Chris Gladwin
June 10, 2022

We saw a recent article in Blocks and Files (Storage facing trillion-row db apocalypse), about a couple of companies which were trying to deal with trillion row database queries without taking weeks t

132: GreyBeards talk fast embedded k-v stores with Speedb’s Co-Founder&CEO Adi Gelvan
May 06, 2022

We’ve been talking a lot about K8s of late so we thought it was time to get back down to earth and spend some time with Adi Gelvan (@speedb_io), Co-founder and CEO of Speedb, an embedded key-value sto

131: GreyBeards talk native K8s data protection using Veritas NetBackup with Reneé Carlisle
April 12, 2022

The GreyBeards have been discussing K8s storage services a lot over the last year or so and it was time to understand how container apps and data could be protected. Recently, we saw an article about

130: GreyBeards talk high-speed database access using Apache Arrow Flight, with James Duong and David Li
March 23, 2022

We had heard about Apache Arrow and Arrow Flight as being a hi-performing database with access speeds to match for a while now and finally got a chance to hear what it was all about with James Duong,

129: GreyBeards talk composable infrastructure with GigaIO’s, Matt Demas, Field CTO
February 08, 2022

We haven’t talked composable infrastructure in a while now but it’s been heating up lately. GigaIO has some interesting tech and I’ve been meaning to have them on the show but scheduling never seemed

128: GreyBeards talk containers, K8s, and object storage with AB Periasamy, Co-Founder&CEO MinIO
January 27, 2022

Sponsored by: Once again Keith and I are talking K8s storage, only this time it was object storage. Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, Co-founder and CEO of MinIO, has been on our show a couple of times now a

127: Annual year end wrap up podcast with Keith, Matt & Ray
January 06, 2022

[Ray’s sorry about his audio, it will be better next time he promises, The Eds] This was supposed to be the year where we killed off COVID for good. Alas, it was not to be and it’s going to be with us

126: GreyBeards talk k8s storage with Alex Chircop, CEO, Ondat
December 07, 2021

Keith and I had an interesting discussion with Alex Chircop (@chira001), CEO of Ondat, a kubernetes storage provider. They have a high performing system, laser focused on providing storage for k8s sta