Hybrid Cloud Podcast

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Chris Evans

S02E03 – Hybrid Cloud Storage Choices – Rent or Buy?

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On the face of it, public cloud seems like a great place for long-term retention of unstructured data. However, as volumes of data stored rise, the cost of exiting the cloud cloud become prohibitively expensive. What’s the right strategy to follow? In this discussion, Chris chats to Matt Starr from Spectralogic on how to build out a model of public/private cloud storage and the pitfalls to avoid in the process.

Timeline

  • 00:00 – Intros
  • 01:40 – How do we choose between cloud or on-prem?
  • 03:00 – The initial attraction of public cloud is strong
  • 06:00 – Is AWS S3 a long-term solution for data archive?
  • 09:00 – What happens when you stop using Spotify?
  • 10:40 – Don’t Pay?  They’ll take your data away
  • 11:30 – What happens if cloud storage costs become excessive?
  • 13:48 – Where should the “root” copy of your data be?
  • 15:15 – Some vendors allow daily fractional downloads
  • 19:00 – Is the new world of architecture about building spreadsheets?
  • 23:30 – Tape customers are declining but using more capacity
  • 25:10 – Tapes will move to erasure code across multiple tape drives
  • 28:00 – What is the right approach to take in managing cloud data?
  • 30:00 – Wrap Up

Matt’s Bio

Matt Starr is the Chief Technology Officer at Spectra Logic. Matt brings more than 24 years of technology experience to his role. As CTO, Matt is responsible for helping to define Spectra’s technology roadmap and execute on Spectra’s technology strategy. As the company’s executive voice of the market, Matt leads Spectra’s efforts in high-performance computing, private cloud and other vertical markets, and currently directs Spectra’s Federal and APAC sales efforts.

His work experience includes management roles in service, hardware design, software development, operating systems and electronic design.

Matt previously served as the lead engineering architect for the design and production of Spectra’s family of enterprise-class tape libraries. Under Matt’s direction, Spectra Logic secured more than 50 patents, establishing the company as an innovative technology leader in the data storage industry.

Matt holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

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S02E02 – Hybrid Cloud Storage Adoption and Disruptive Business Models

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The public cloud offers new ways to consume IT resources, but what does it mean for the way in which businesses look at the cost of IT? On-premises vendors need to get more flexible and creative in the way they offer services to their customers. In this podcast episode, Chris talks to Eran Brown, EMEA CTO at Infinidat about the challenges of aligning on-premises and public cloud consumption from a financial, business and technical perspective.

Timeline

  • 00:00 – Intros
  • 02:00 – What does hybrid cloud storage mean?
  • 03:00 – Cloud storage looks different in public cloud
  • 05:00 – New features mean data mobility is required
  • 07:00 – Avoid egress charges by using cloud-adjacent storage
  • 08:00 – Standardise – or abstract?
  • 12:00 – Pricing and internal procurement affect cloud usage
  • 16:00 – Infinidat architecture allows flexibility to seed data centres
  • 20:00 – Fast cars don’t need a 5 litre engine
  • 24:00 – How do SMBs, mid-market and enterprises use hybrid?
  • 26:40 – Does the Innovator’s Dilemma impact cloud adoption?
  • 29:00 – Are MSPs at an advantage with hybrid cloud?
  • 35:00 – What will Enterprises do for hybrid adoption?
  • 38:00 – Wrap Up

Eran’s Bio

Eran Brown is CTO, EMEA, at INFINIDAT.  With over 15 years in the storage industry, Brown has an extensive technical background in networking, security, virtualisation, Big Data tools and other critical infrastructure components. Having gained broad experience as a Pre-Sales Engineer at NetApp to a Senior Product Manager at INFINIDAT, Brown has proven results in leading technical sales activities and delivering new products to market. In addition to this, he has familiarised himself with the multiple verticals throughout his career including the financial sector, oil & gas, telecoms and software industry – assisting in the planning, design and deployment of scalable infrastructure to support business applications.

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S02E01 – Codefresh and CI/CD Pipeline Management

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As developers move to a model of continuous integration and delivery, it’s easy for sprawl to occur and vulnerabilities introduced through poor management of CI/CD infrastructure. Codefresh offers a solution for efficient CI/CD pipeline management using containers. Chris talks to Dan Garfield, Chief Technology Evangelist at Codefresh to learn more about how the company helps organisations streamline and manage their CI/CD deployments.

Timeline

  • 00:00 – Intros
  • 02:00 – How has software deployment changed over time?
  • 05:05 – COBOL is seeing a resurgence!
  • 07:00 – Environment sprawl is a big problem
  • 08:40 – How is CodeFresh configured and installed?
  • 16:12 – What are customers doing with CodeFresh?
  • 22:20 – Waiting 5 seconds is too slow for some developers
  • 24:30 – Wrap Up

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S01E05 – Cohesity and Application Mobility

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Cohesity protects customer data through traditional backup, but also extends that model with file services and marketplace applications. In this episode, Chris talks to Rawlinson Rivera, Global Field CTO at Cohesity about what hybrid cloud really means and how customers are using the Cohesity technology to protect their data and deliver value-add services.

Timeline

  • 00:00 – intros
  • 01:00 – What is hybrid cloud?
  • 02:50 – Cohesity translates data protection to app mobility
  • 05:45 – How often to customers move data around?
  • 07:19 – Can analytics be run against protected data?
  • 08:52 – Owning the metadata for data is a critical requirement
  • 11:25 – What industry examples can we reference?
  • 13:20 – Don’t upgrade your phone while driving
  • 14:40 – Wrap Up

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S01E04 – Datrium and Cloud Mobility

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Datrium provides application and workload mobility through tools and solutions that protect and migrate data between public and private clouds. In this episode, Chris talks to CEO Tim Page and CTO Sazzala Reddy about the realities of implementing hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. Tim provides some details on customer use-cases and the potential cost savings that arise from simplifying primary storage, backup and DR into a single solution.

Timeline

  • 00:00 – Intros
  • 01:05 – How real are hybrid & multi-clouds?
  • 03:20 – It’s all about data, not infrastructure
  • 04:00 – Are workloads really dynamic?
  • 04:45 – Virtual machines are still the primary deployment model
  • 07:15 – What is the mix of containers and VMs in the real world?
  • 08:30 – Does operational process hamper container adoption?
  • 10:45 – Developers want speed to develop quickly – seconds or less!
  • 14:00 – Are customers worried about complexity of implementations?
  • 16:00 – Storage is stil hugely complex and cumbersome
  • 18:10 – SANs will shrink to a minimal footprint as systems transition
  • 20:30 – Applications & workloads need to look consistent across clouds
  • 23:15 – Datrium now offers full DR for the enterprise
  • 27:00 – If your entire IT department was wiped out, could DR still be done?
  • 28:45 – Datrium’s goal is converged Primary, Backup & DR in a single platform
  • 31:30 – Other benefits – workload migration & consolidation 36:00 – Wrap Up

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S01E03 – Sumo Logic and PAF

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Sumo Logic provides log management solutions based in the public cloud. PAF is a Finnish gaming company that uses Sumo Logic technology for log analysis. In this episode, Chris talks to Clive McDonald from Sumo Logic and Lars-Göran Hakamo from PAF about the choice to move to a cloud-based model for log management services.

Timeline

  • 00:00 – Intros
  • 01:36 – Who are PAF?
  • 02:10 – Why Sumo Logic?
  • 04:25 – What is log analysis?
  • 06:40 – Why use the cloud for log analysis?
  • 09:20 – How does a 53 year old company move to the cloud?
  • 12:15 – How do Sumo Logic work with customers?
  • 15:10 – Did Sumo Logic deliver anything unique as a service?
  • 18:33 – What didn’t work in moving to cloud?
  • 21:00 – The PoC experience can be different with cloud
  • 23:10 – Where is cloud technology headed?
  • 25:15 – Wrap Up

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S01E02 – Hybrid Cloud and Object Storage

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Object storage is a solution for managing large volumes of unstructured data. In the public cloud solutions such as AWS S3 and Azure Blob store provide massive scalability at predictable prices.

However, is the public cloud the right place to store all of our data? When costs, lock-in, compliance and other factors are taken into consideration, does it make sense to rent the cloud for compute and use an on-premises object store for our data? If we use this model, what are the challenges?

In this episode, Chris talks with Neil Stobart, VP Global Systems Engineering at Cloudian and Lee Biggenden, Co-founder and director at Nephos Technologies. The conversation covers real customer examples of using object storage on-premises with public cloud for compute, as well as the reverse – object storage as a golden repository and expanding to public cloud on-demand.

You can learn more about Cloudian at https://www.cloudian.com and follow Nephos on social media at @nephostech or check out their website at https://www.nephostechnologies.com.

Timeline

  • 00:00 – Introductions
  • 03:30 – What are the biggest challenges storing data today?
  • 06:00 – Tape is not scalable – data needs to be active
  • 08:15 – What real-world examples are there with object stores?
  • 13:30 – At petabyte scale, on-premises object store is more practical
  • 18:00 – Hybrid can mean placing data in the right place at the right time
  • 24:00 – Requirements can be driven by other factors, like M&A
  • 25:20 – What are the challenges in delivering a hybrid storage solution?
  • 30:20 – A Data Framework becomes critically important
  • 31:40 – You’re still responsible for your own data

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S01E01 – Solving Workload Automation with Morpheus Data

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This episode was recorded at Dell Technologies World in April 2019, held in Las Vegas, USA. Chris talks with Brad Parks, VP Marketing and Business Development at Morpheus Data.

Morpheus has created an automation and application deployment framework that allows customers to reduce the time and effort needed in managing Hybrid Cloud deployments. Rather than having processes that differ for each platform, Morpheus brings together a single standard for rolling out virtual machines across private and public infrastructure that includes VMware, Microsoft, AWS and more.

The benefits here are clearly defined in three areas:

  • Discovery – understanding and documenting the scope of existing infrastructure. This leads to reducing infrastructure spending
  • Efficiency – implementing streamlined processes that allow the business to do more and at greater speed
  • Avoiding risk – reducing the risk of running multiple disparate processes and standards.

You can find out more information at https://www.morpheusdata.com/ and follow Brad himself on Twitter at @morpheusdude.

Timeline

  • 00:00 – Introductions.
  • 01:36 – DTW background noise – and thunder storms.
  • 02:00 – Is hybrid cloud a reality?
  • 03:10 – Where did Morpheus Data evolve from?
  • 04:12 – What does workload automation actually mean?
  • 07:10 – Harmonising and standardising application deployment.
  • 08:30 – Why present at DTW?
  • 09:54 – Enterprises can’t simply move everything to public cloud.
  • 11:00 – How are cost savings quantified?
  • 13:00 – Good governance around process is super important.
  • 14:50 – The triple threat – cleanup, optimisation, risk.
  • 16:10 – How is TCO/ROI on using Morpheus Data calculated?
  • 17:30 – Where is the industry headed (in multi/hybrid terms)?
  • 19:57 – Wrap Up

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