The French Storage Podcast
The French Storage Podcast
Ph. Nicolas
"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.
140 -  Interview with Philipp Reisner, CEO and founder, Linbit
Linbit, a reference in Linux HA and data replication, has participated to the recent IT Press Tour in Lisbon, Portugal, and it was the perfect opportunity to learn more about the standard in data protection for production data. So I decided to make this interview with Philipp Reisner, CEO and founder of the company, a story he started more than 20 years ago when he was a student working in the domain. So I let you imagine the expertise Philipp has developed during that period. We spoke about all, the genesis of the project, the strategy of the company, how product work, Kubernetes of course, go to market and pricing and we conclude by a bit of future directions. A very interesting episode I invite you to discover and listen carefully. Enjoy. Thank you Philipp.
Jan 13
25 min
139 - Predictions for 2023
First episode of 2023 and first episode of the 4th season. This time with My Predictions, some of them are a bit provocative and others are more classics and follow the market directions. We'll expect a better year, we'll see, on the technology side, it will be interesting but it will be impacted by the general business, energy and diplomatic climate.
Jan 6
8 min
138 - Recap of 2022
Last episode of the year and it is a tradition to recap the year. I've selected some elements to cover M&As, IPOs, Investment Rounds, Technology, Trends and Products and companies who has made some real progresses during last 12 months with also some new ones. I wish you all the best for 2023.
Dec 30, 2022
5 min
137 - Coldago Maps 2022
We approach the end of the year and it's the right moment to summarize the last 3 Coldago Maps 2022 related to Unstructured Data Management, File and Object Storage. This year a few new things with a NEW Map, the one about Unstructured Data Management, I follow this domain for 30 years so it deserves a Map, and the second is about the File Storage Map with a split into Enterprise, High Performance and Cloud File Storage. As you can listen, we study lots of companies, probably more than 50. For more information on these reports, please to check Coldago.com or .net. Happy listening.
Dec 23, 2022
4 min
136 - Recap of the 47th IT Press Tour
The IT Press Tour organized its second European edition in Lisbon, Portugal, early December. It was globally the 47th edition just to put things in perspective. We met 6 hot European companies: Atempo from France, Cleondris from Switzerland, LINBIT from Austria, NGX Storage from Turkey, Nuclia from Spain and Tiger Technology from Bulgaria. I invite you to listen to this recap and summary of this Lisbon edition, Enjoy.
Dec 16, 2022
25 min
135 - Recap of SC22
A few weeks after a great SC22 conference in Dallas, TX, I wrote this recap with of course lots of HPC, AI, ML and Analysis but also CXL, NVMe, composability. Enjoy.
Dec 9, 2022
7 min
134 - Recap of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022
This episode is a recap of the recent North America KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022 organized in Detroit, MI, last October. Storage is a bit ignored by this community speaking a different language, interesting. Enjoy.
Dec 2, 2022
8 min
133 - Recap of the OCP Global Summit 2022
This episode is about the recent OCP Global Summit 2022 that took place mid-October in San Jose, California. The main topic was Empowering Open with optics, CXL (Compute Express Link) and networking fueled by keynotes, sessions, workshops, forum and symposium. Enjoy.
Nov 25, 2022
7 min
132 - Recap of the 46th IT Press Tour
The IT Press Tour delivered a new edition, the number 46, in California last October to meet 10 companies I should 9 as Pavilion Data exploded the same week 2 days before our meeting with them. The others are AuriStor, Data Dynamics, GRAID Technology, HYCU, N-able, Panzura, Protocol Labs, ScaleFlux and Smart IOPS. I invite you to listen to this recap and summary of this 46th edition, Enjoy.
Nov 18, 2022
28 min
131 - Interview with Jeffrey Altman, CEO and founder, AuriStor
Existing for a few decades this DFS, AFS and more recent OpenAFS and well promoted by AuriStor, a software company based in New-York, dedicated to this domain. We met again AuriStor during the recent  IT Press Tour and it was the perfect opportunity to record this podcast and discuss with Jeffrey Altman, CEO and founder of AuriStor, the only active ISV in the area. With Jeffrey, we spoke about the history part of AFS with university aspect with Carnegie Mellon, and companies Transarc, IBM or Coda instance. We discussed about the philosophy of the product, how it works, why users adopt AFS-based solutions, use cases and deployments examples, also the go-to-market and pricing model and of course some future directions. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Jeffrey.
Nov 11, 2022
23 min
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