The French Storage Podcast

Congruity360, a fast growing player in unstructured data management, recently participated to The IT Press Tour in Boston. It was the opportunity to learn more about its company and product strategies. With Mark Ward, COO, we spoke about the root of the company, its architecture, its benefits and values, how it works, how AI is used, of course some business info related to the business and pricing models and conclude on the future with some new things coming soon. A very interesting dialog with Mark, I hope you will like this episode. Thank you Mark.

ExaGrid, the pure player and market leader in secondary storage with dedicated backup appliance, joined the recent edition of The IT Press Tour in Boston. The session we had with Bill Andrews, CEO, at the company HQ invited me to record a specific interview to cover the pretty unique trajectory of ExaGrid and one of the longest CEO tenure with 20 years in our industry. We spoke about the product and its special characteristics and of course benefits versus classic dedupe backup appliances, some key developments and backup software integrations with Veeam, Veritas and Commvault, the go-to-market and pricing model and of course some futures directions for the company and the product. Once again, an episode I like very much to record and I'm sure you will like this episode. Thank you Bill.

The 58th edition of The IT Press Tour took place early October in Boston, MA. After several years on the west coast, it was clear that we must come back on the other side of the country and we did it. We met 8 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Analytics, Data Management, Storage and of course AI. By alpha order it was Congruity360, ExaGrid, HYCU, Hydrolix, iRODS, Swissbit, Sync Computing and Wasabi Technologies. Another very good edition in the great place of Boston, I hope you will really enjoy listening to it.

Hydrolix, a fast growing data analytics US company, participated to the recent edition of The IT Press Tour in Boston. With what I saw and understood, I decided to record this new episode with Marty Kagan, CEO and co-founder, to go beyond that session and cover multiple aspects. Among them, we spoke about the genesis of the company, why companies need such technology, a bit of product info, their go-to-market model and pricing philosophy, of course some references and use cases plus competition and we conclude with the future around company and products. Very good episode once again with a simple direct exchange. I hope you will like this episode, I'm pretty sure it will be the case. Thank you Marty.

Swissbit, the European leader in Flash media and SSD, joined the recent edition of The IT Press Tour in Boston, MA. We had the opportunity to learn more about the company and its product strategy and then this podcast was a natural extension. With Silvio Muschter, CEO, we discussed about the genesis of the project, how did the company start, its mission of course that evolved over time, its product line, its M&A trajectory with Hyperstone and Burlywood Technology assets acquisitions and insisted also on their security products plus the go-to-market strategy and pricing model and we conclude with some future directions for the company and products. A very interesting episode with lots of informations, I hope you would like this episode, enjoy your listening. Thank you Silvio.

Very interesting NetApp Insight 2024 user conference a few weeks ago in Las Vegas with a train of strategic and products announcements especially regarding AI and associated storage infrastructure. The product team unveiled new ASA A-Series block storage arrays, 2 new FAS, BlueXP extensions, new cloud services and security features plus some key AI services and architecture with disaggregated and composable block storage architecture and pNFS for file access layer. NetApp understood that some new developments and new steps are needed as AI radically shakes enterprises and globally the IT industry. Enjoy.

Cleondris, a key partner for NetApp in the data security and protection domain, participated to the recent 57th edition of The IT Press Tour in Istanbul, Turkey. At the event, the company unveiled Cleondris ONE, an advanced ransomware protection, and officially launched it during the recent NetApp INSIGHT 2024 in Las Vegas. We spoke about the company, its genesis, the solution and how it works, the go-to-market model and pricing philosophy and we conclude with a few future elements related to the company and products. I think you would like this episode, enjoy your listening. Thank you Christian.

Amazing Huawei Connect 2024 conference and expo in Shanghai, China, a few days ago. It was the right moment to refresh users and partners on the various product lines and storage in particular. I recorded this episode as a recap of the conference and I insist on Pacific and Dorado with its brand new v7 architecture. Again, it was an impressive show with 20,000+ attendees that illustrated the rapid progress Huawei made in various domains. Enjoy.

The 57th edition of The IT Press Tour took place early September in Istanbul, Turkey. With this European format, we met 6 innovative companies all playing in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Management, Storage and of course AI. By alpha order it was Cleondris, Datashelter, EU eArchiving Initiative, Hopsworks, MooseFS and ZeroPoint Technologies. Another very good edition in the beautiful city of Istanbul, I hope you will really enjoy listening to it.

MooseFS, one of the few pioneers in scalable distributed file system, joined recently The IT Press Tour. It was the opportunity for the team to launch Moose 4.0 Community Edition. With Jakub Ratajczak, CEO, we spoke, in this episode, about the genesis of the project following the Google File System paper in 2003, the various flavors and key features, how the revenue is generated and pricing philosophy with business model. We conclude with future directions and next steps for MooseFS. I hope you would like this episode, enjoy your listening. Thank you Jakub.