The French Storage Podcast Ph. Nicolas

As a usual and classic note, twice a year, Coldago Research publishes its Storage Unicorn report which presents the club and its selection of storage unicorns. This June 2024 edition, the 15th one listed 17 companies with a few change with Rubrik now a public company, WEKA joining the club following its last round and Cohesity key events early this year. By alpha order, they're Acronis, Barracuda Networks, Cohesity, DataCore, DDN, Druva, Infinidat, Kaseya, MinIO, Nasuni, OwnBackup, Qumulo, VAST Data, Veeam Software, Veritas Technologies, Wasabi Technologies. and WEKA. Enjoy the listening, it's a very short episode that invites you to dig into the topic.

Viking Enterprise Solutions, aka VES, a product division of Sanmina, a reference in compute and storage server design and manufacturing, participated recently to The IT Press Tour. It was the perfect time to understand who is Sanmina and VES, what they do, how they work for other IT companies developing their hardware solutions such as DDN, Infinidat or VAST Data, coupled potentially with some open source software. We discuss with Rick Kumar, SVP of VES, about the mission of the company, their expertise, the various use cases with AI of course but also go-to-market and revenue models. We conclude with some future directions, always interesting with entities like VES. I hope you would like this episode, enjoy your listening. Thank you Rick.

MaxLinear, a leader and fast data processing player with advanced connectivity for data center with ethernet and storage dedicated products, participated recently to The IT Press Tour. It was a good time to get a company and product update before FMS early August. We learnt MaxLinear storage product strategy and all details around Panther III and its roadmap. With Vikas Choudhary, VP & GM of the Ethernet and Storage Business, we spoke about all that and get some future directions for the company and product developments. A very interesting talk I hope you would appreciate as well. Enjoy your listening. Thank you Vikas.

Index Engines, a pioneer in enterprise content indexing, joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and announced their 99.99% SLA in ransomware protection. It was the perfect opportunity to learn more about the company, founded in 2003, by CrosStor founders, previously known as Programmed Logic, and get the full product pitch and demo around ransomware protection. With Tim Williams, CEO and founder of the company, we spoke about all that trajectory and covered in details how the product works, the business model with key oems, the pricing philosophy and touched a bit of the future directions. Plenty of good things coming and we should see the product in several new places soon. A very good talk with Tim I hope you would like as well. Enjoy your listening. Thank you Tim.

Among this CTO talk series, I recorded this one with Trond Myklebust, CTO, Hammerspace, during the last MSST conference in Santa Clara, early June, a few days before The IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley.  It was the perfect opportunity to discuss the Hammerspace mission, GDE and HyperScale NAS, leveraging pNFS for multi-site, multi-client and multi-protocol file access and deliver an advanced data sharing service. We spoke about new features especially around pNFS Flex Files and services like erasure coding with RozoFS' Mojette Transform addition and the S3 client. S3-to-Tape is also covered as the team chose to partner with QStar, PoINT Software and Systems or Grau Data to offer a real end-to-end data management approach. A very good talk with Trond, I hope you will enjoy it. Thank you Trond.

A new talk, this time with Aron Brand, CTO at CTera, recorded a few weeks following the IT Press Tour early April in Rome where the company shared some exclusive news. Its was once again the opportunity to go deeper in their product and strategy especially around AI and how they will integrate it. We also spoke about their Data Services Platform and its role and how NAS and S3 are glued together. We have insisted on the security aspect of their product with recent additions around ransomware protection with vaulting technique, decoy and honeypot techniques. Good talk again with Aron, I really enjoy our discussion and hope you will enjoy it as well. Thank you Aron.