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.

A special episode today with some statistics with some notes and comments about the recent HYCU SaaS Backup Survey Report and my recent talk with Simon Taylor, CEO of HYCU, and the acquisitions of Own announced yesterday by Salesforce. A short episode but these 2 elements deserve to be covered. Enjoy.

Large drives is a need and a reality for the industry but they have introduced some new needs to protect data and manage them at scale. I covered all these aspects in this episode and much more explaining some historical key points and then iterate of logical volumes, erasure coding and green with 3 key technologies to leverage to maximize a green effect. Enjoy your listenig.