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Around the IT Block is moving to a new hosting service (yeah, no ads inserted) and I explain the details why in this farewell to TalkShoe podcast. Here's where you can now subscribe to the "new" Aroun... Read more

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#231 - Beginner's Guide to Object Storage with Scality and HPE

#231 - Beginner's Guide to Object Storage with Scality and HPE

I'm joined by 3 guests who help me understand object storage, it's use cases, and a bit about Scality and HPE collaborat... Read more

12 Oct 2017

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#252 HPE and Cohesity: a newbie's guide

#252 HPE and Cohesity: a newbie's guide

At HPE Discover in Madrid, HPE announced a deepening relationship with Cohesity. In this podcast, I talk with Sanjeev De... Read more

4 Dec 2018

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#238 - Choosing between all-flash arrays and hyperconverged

#238 - Choosing between all-flash arrays and hyperconverged

I often hear customers who need more storage or want to update old arrays asking this question: Should I continue to use... Read more

5 May 2018

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#235 - Predictive analytics and HPE InfoSight

#235 - Predictive analytics and HPE InfoSight

One of the pillars of the HPE Storage Point of View is "Predictive". In this episode I'm joined by Rod Bagg, VP of Analy... Read more

21 Feb 2018

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#245 HPE 3PAR update with VP & GM Ivan Iannaccone

#245 HPE 3PAR update with VP & GM Ivan Iannaccone

Ivan Iannaccone has worked with the 3PAR team since 2009. He left HPE to work at a competitor in late 2016 and has now r... Read more

23 Jul 2018

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#255 Three (HPE) Storage Guys talking about industry trends

#255 Three (HPE) Storage Guys talking about industry trends

The Adventures of Mike and John is a video blog by John Bennett and Mike Meyer, a couple of HPE Storage guys out of Kent... Read more

25 Mar 2019

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#265 HPE Primera designed for simplicity

#265 HPE Primera designed for simplicity

I grabbed HPE Primera product manager Phill Gilbert again to do a bit of a deep dive around what makes HPE Primera simpl... Read more

21 Aug 2019

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#260 - How iLand delivers secure cloud hosting and uses HPE Nimble Storage

#260 - How iLand delivers secure cloud hosting and uses HPE Nimble Storage

Dante Orsini joined me to discuss iLand, a cloud hosting service that uses HPE Nimble Storage as their backbone. Dante d... Read more

23 May 2019

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#264 - AI, Big Data, and MapR

#264 - AI, Big Data, and MapR

On August 5th, HPE announced the acquisition of MapR business assets. In this podcast, I talk to Patrick Osborne, VP and... Read more

8 Aug 2019

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#258 What's the latest with HPE MSA Storage?

#258 What's the latest with HPE MSA Storage?

With the focus on HPE Nimble Storage and 3PAR, I haven't talked about the MSA in a while. And with a few updates to the ... Read more

29 Apr 2019

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#239 - New HPE Nimble Storage announcement overview

#239 - New HPE Nimble Storage announcement overview

On May 7th we had news that focused on new HPE Nimble Storage hardware. In this podcast, I talk you through a summary of... Read more

8 May 2018

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#256 Update on Veeam and HPE partnership with Dave Russell

#256 Update on Veeam and HPE partnership with Dave Russell

Dave Russell is the VP of Enterprise Strategy at Veeam. With World Backup Day on March 31, I thought it would be a good ... Read more

29 Mar 2019

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#253 Big Data Analytics at HPE and the acquisition of Blue Data

#253 Big Data Analytics at HPE and the acquisition of Blue Data

In this podcast, we look at what HPE Storage is doing around Big Data Analytics and focus in on the acquisition of BlueD... Read more

19 Dec 2018

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#257 DCIG Buyer's Guide for Enterprise Deduplication Backup Target

#257 DCIG Buyer's Guide for Enterprise Deduplication Backup Target

Jerome Wendt is the founder of DCIG. DCIG produces buyers guides for different product categories and in this podcast I ... Read more

16 Apr 2019

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#262 - HPE Primera architecture for SCM, NVMe, and SSDs

#262 - HPE Primera architecture for SCM, NVMe, and SSDs

In my first podcast looking at the new tier-0 mission critical storage array, HPE Primera, I am joined by Phill Gilbert ... Read more

4 Jul 2019

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#246 VMware VVols are simpler, smarter, and faster

#246 VMware VVols are simpler, smarter, and faster

In this edition of the ATSB podcast, Pete Flecha, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect from VMware talks about why VMware V... Read more

7 Sep 2018

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#259 - City of Hamilton dramatically reduces their backup window

#259 - City of Hamilton dramatically reduces their backup window

The City of Hamilton was having issues with the backup window and moved to Cohesity running on HPE ProLiant and Nimble S... Read more

22 May 2019

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#237 - What is Cloud Ready Data Protection

#237 - What is Cloud Ready Data Protection

In this podcast, I'm joined by longtime data protection expert Simon Watkins to talk about how customers are taking adva... Read more

17 Apr 2018

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#260 - How iLand delivers secure cloud hosting and uses HPE Nimble Storage

#260 - How iLand delivers secure cloud hosting and uses HPE Nimble Storage

Dante Orsini joined me to discuss iLand, a cloud hosting service that uses HPE Nimble Storage as their backbone. Dante d... Read more

23 May 2019

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#244 - Strategy Trifecta from HPE Discover

#244 - Strategy Trifecta from HPE Discover

At HPE Discover, I was able to talk to three VPs to get strategy updates. In this podcast, I have those three conversati... Read more

2 Jul 2018

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