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.

New name for an established industry conference, the "Flash Memory Summit" has morphed into The "Future of Memory and Storage" which is definitely a good name with the acronym. Once again this year it was the rendez-vous of semi-conductor professionals plus a few other adjacent profiles. Plenty of new things, awards of course but also new products, technology directions and trends confirmed by vendors products iterations. A good show as usual, I hope you will enjoy this short recap.

The last FMS 2024 conference was the opportunity to celebrate Harriet Coverston, a real pioneer in the storage domain and especially in the data archiving space. Harriet just received the SuperWomen of FMS Leadership Award that rewards a brilliant carrier and strong industry contributions. After some times at Lawrence Livermore and Control Data Corp., she founded LSC in 1986 with famous SAM-FS and QFS, later acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2001 where she stayed 10 years. In 2011, she founded Versity Software as CTO with Bruce Gilpin, CEO, to address new data archiving challenges developing a modern data archiving platform. A great talk and a real honor to exchange with Harriet, a reference in storage, I hope you will enjoy the listening. Thank you Harriet.

Following the recent IT Press Tour and the very interesting session we had at MaxLinear, I decided to meet again the company and go more in details on Panther III, the storage accelerator card, well adopted by the market and recognized as one of the fastest in the industry. I talked with Mark Moran, Executive Director, and Pinaki Chanda, Director Software Engineering, during FMS, the famous conference now operating under a new name "The Future of Memory and Storage" and still with the same acronym. We discussed about the strategy of the company but go deeper into the product, its features, its performance and values delivered to users but also key partners. A very interesting exchange about this advanced technology paramount in this fast growing AI era. I hope you will enjoy listening to it. Thank you Mark and Pinaki.

Following ISC and the recent IT Press Tour with the 8th participation of DDN, not counting ones with Nexenta, Tegile or Tintri, before their respective acquisitions, I decided to record a new technical episode with the product leader at DDN, James Coomer. We spoke about the company of course but we insisted on ExaScaler and Infinia, their last high performance storage platform, and their approach of the HPC and AI with some differences but also many similarities. And many more things I hope you will enjoy. Thank you James.

Our data storage industry moves fast and I decided to record this recap of the first 6 months of 2024. It's a short episode but I covered multiples aspects with VC fundings, IPOs and Unicorns effects, M&As, some failures and surprising news, a few trends, technologies and products, some people moves and new companies. I hope you will enjoy it, it is a pretty good one during holidays.