NetApp Insight Special

This episode Ruairi McBride @mcbride_ruairi is joined by Alun Griffiths @WelshMatador Matthew Kershaw @mkershaw1985 and Paul Stillitano all from Arrow ECS UK where they review this year’s NetApp Insight EMEA from Barcelona. We give our impression on the conference overall and what we did and didn’t like (which there isn’t much). We discuss the Key Notes including Gerd Leonhard @gleonhard Chief Future officer from the futures agency and the forward looking talk he gave. Kate Swanborg @KateSwanborg of Dreamworks Animation and the WuXi NextCODE Genome Sequence who are both now huge users of data; parts of the general session were also discussed. We also talked about MAX Data and the blazing speed at which is accelerating access to data. We discussed NFLEX MetroCluster over IP and improvements on the FlexPod technology. We delved into the importance of community and those that meet at insight including the NetApp A-Team and NetApp United. We chat about the Stackpoint acquisition NetApp Kubernetes Service and the launch of Cloud Insights.