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Grey Beards on Systems
by Ray Lucchesi and others
Greybeards on storage are two gentlemen that have been around the industry to many years to count and have a good, in-depth understanding of today’s storage, server and networking trends and developments. In our podcasts we interview leading technology executives and get them to talk about their products, the industry and where the IT world is going.
Episodes
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176: GreyBeards talk recent news at Future of Memory & Storage Conference with Jim Handy, Objective Analysis
At the FMS 2026 Conference, discussions centered on the AI supercycle and its impact on the IT industry, particularly through HBM and DRAM shortages. Innovations like KV cache offload and MRAM advancements were also highlighted. Despite rising prices, demand for memory remains high, especially…
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175: GreyBeards talk Accelerated Object with SNIA TWG CoChairs, Jason Goldschmidt, DELL Distinguished Eng. & Nick Connolly, ARM Principal Eng.
Jason Goldschmidt and Nick Connolly, co-chairs of SNIA's Accelerated Object TWG, discussed the importance of S3 over RDMA for AI processing. SNIAs work addresses industries need for faster data transfer to improve GPU utilization during model training and inferencing.
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174: GreyBeards talk SDN chips with Ted Weatherford, VP Bus. Dev. & John Carney. Dist. Eng. at Xsight Labs
Xsight Labs talks their latest SDN X2 network switch and E1 DPU chips with the GreyBeards
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173: GreyBeards Year End 2025 podcast
Once again in 2025, AI was all the news. We are seeing some cracks in the NVIDIA moat but it's early yet. Broadcom VMware moves and DRAM sky-high pricing sort of round out the year for us. Listen to our YE podcast to learn more.
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172: Greybeards talk domain specific AI with Dr. Arun Subramaniyan, Founder & CEO, Articul8 AI
At AIFD7, Articul8 AI presented a unique non-GenAI solution for industry-specific challenges. On our podcast, Dr. Arun Subramaniyan, Founder and CEO, Articul8 discussed how they deploy domain-specific models across verticals. Their technology ingests and maps corporate data plus business…
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171: GreyBeards talk Storage.AI with Dr. J Metz, SNIA Chair and Technical Director, AMD
SNIA's Storage.AI community is focused on addressing AI data challenges through industry standards. Dr. J discussed some of the current SNIA work going on to address AI IO challenges and identified more to come. The standards process is not the only way forward but often it can help industry...
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170: FMS25 wrap-up with Jim Handy, Objective Analysis
At FMS25 there was lots of discussion on HBM, QLC&SCM SSDs, UAlink/UEC, UCIe for SSDs and liquid cooled m.2 SSDs, listen to the podcast to learn more.
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169: GreyBeards talk AgenticAI with Luke Norris, CEO&Co-founder, Kamiwaza AI
GreyBeards talk Agentic AI with Kamiwaza's CEO, Luke Norris. The world of large enterprise IT is about to undergo another revolution and Kamiwaza AI seems to be leading the charge.
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168: GreyBeards Year End 2024 podcast
Our YE GreyBeards podcast is often one of our most popular. In this edition. we discuss the impacts AI is having on IT infrastructure and how we see it playing out over the next year.
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167: GreyBeards talk Distributed S3 storage with Enrico Signoretti, VP Product & Partnerships, Cubbit
Cubbit is a Geo-distributed/Geo-fenced S3 compatible object storage where the customer supplies the hardware and Cubbit the software. Presently avalilable in Europe only, it will be coming to the USA in 2025.
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166: Greybeard talks MLperf Storage benchmark with Michael Kade, Sr. Solutions Architect, Hammerspace
Sponsored By: This is the first time we have talked with Hammerspace and Michael Kade (Hammerspace on X), Senior Solutions Architect. We have known about Hammerspace for years now and over the last couple of years, as large AI clusters have come into use, Hammerspace’s popularity has gone through...
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165: GreyBeard talks VMware Explore’24 wrap-up with Gina Rosenthal, Founder&CEO Digital Sunshine Solutions
Gina and I were at VMware Explore and we discuss some of the changes we saw there and what's the latest functionality coming out that matters to the enterprise.
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164: GreyBeards talk FMS24 Wrap-up with Jim Handy, General Dir., Objective Analysis
Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis, is our long, time goto guy on SSD and Memory Technologies and we were both at FMS (Future of Memory and Storage – new name/broader focus) 2024 conference last week in Santa Clara, CA. Lots of new SSD technology both on and off the show floor as…
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163: GreyBeards talk Ultra Ethernet with Dr J Metz, Chair of UEC steering committee, Chair of SNIA BoD, & Tech. Dir. AMD
Dr J Metz, (@drjmetz, blog) has been on our podcast before mostly in his role as SNIA spokesperson and BoD Chair, but this time he’s here discussing some of his latest work on the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) (LinkedIN: @ultraethernet, X: @ultraethernet) The UEC is a full stack re-think of…
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162: GreyBeards talk cold storage with Steffen Hellmold, Dir. Cerabyte Inc.
Steffen Hellmold, Director, Cerabyte Inc. is extremely knowledgeable about the storage device business. He has worked for WDC in storage technology and possesses an in-depth understanding of tape and disk storage technology trends. Cerabyte, a German startup, is developing cold storage. Steffen...
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161: Greybeards talk AWS S3 storage with Andy Warfield, VP Distinguished Engineer, Amazon
We talked with Andy Warfield (@AndyWarfield), VP Distinguished Engineer, Amazon, about 10 years ago, when at Coho Data (see our (005:) Greybeards talk scale out storage … podcast). Andy has been a good friend for a long time and he’s been with Amazon S3 for over 5 years now. Since the recent S3...
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160: GreyBeard talks data security with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder & CTO, RackTop Systems
Sponsored By: This is the last in this year’s, GreyBeards-RackTop Systems podcast series and once again we are talking with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop Systems. This time we discuss why traditional security practices can’t cut it alone, anymore. Listen to the podcast…
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159: GreyBeards Year End 2023 Wrap Up
Jason and Keith joined Ray for our annual year end wrap up and look ahead to 2024. I planned to discuss infrastructure technical topics but was overruled. Once we started talking AI, we couldn’t stop. It’s hard to realize that Generative AI and ChatGPT in particular, haven’t been around that…
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158: GreyBeards talk software defined storage with Brian Dean, Tech. Mkt., Dell PowerFlex
Sponsored By: This is the 2nd time Brian Dean, Technical Marketing, Dell PowerFlex Storage has been on our show discussing their storage. Since last time there’s been a new release with significant functional enhancements to file services, Dell CloudIQ integration and other services. We discussed...
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157: GreyBeards talk commercial cloud computer with Bryan Cantrill, CTO, Oxide Computer
Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill), CTO, Oxide Computer was a hard man to interrupt once started but the GreyBeards did their best to have a conversation. Nonetheless, this is a long podcast. Oxide are making a huge bet on rack scale computing and have done everything they can to make their rack easy to...
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156: GreyBeards talk data security with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop Systems
Sponsored By: This is another repeat appearance of Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop Systems on our podcast. This time he was here to discuss whether storage admins need to become security subject matter experts (SMEs) or not. Short answer, no but these days, security is everybody’s...
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155: GreyBeards SDC23 wrap up podcast with Dr. J Metz, Technical Dir. of Systems Design AMD and Chair of SNIA BoD
Dr. J Metz (@drjmetz, blog), Technical Director of Systems Design at AMD and Chair of SNIA BoD, has been on our show before discussing SNIA research directions. We decided this year to add an annual podcast to discuss highlights from their Storage Developers Conference 2023 (SDC23). Dr, J is...
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154: GreyBeards annual VMware Explore wrap-up podcast
Thanks, once again to The CTO Advisor|Keith Townsend, (@CTOadvisor) for letting us record the podcast in his studio. VMware Explore this year was better than last year. The show seemed larger. the show floor busier, the Hub better and the Hands-On Lab much larger than I ever remember before. The...
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153: GreyBeards annual FMS2023 wrapup with Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis
Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis and I were at the FMS 2023 conference in Santa Clara last week and there were a number of interesting discussions at the show. I was particularly struck with the progress being made on the CXL front. I was just a participant but Jim moderated and…
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152: GreyBeards talk agent-less data security with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder & CTO, RackTop Systems
Sponsored By: Once again we return to our ongoing series with RackTop Systems, and their Co-Founder & CTO, Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT). This time we discuss how agent-less, storage based, security works and how it can help secure many organizations with (IoT) end points they may not control or…
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151: GreyBeards talk AI (ML) performance benchmarks with David Kanter, Exec. Dir. MLCommons
Ray’s known David Kanter (@TheKanter), Executive Director, MLCommons, for quite awhile now and has been reporting on MLCommons Mlperf AI benchmark results for even longer. MLCommons releases new benchmark results each quarter and this last week they released new Data Center Training (v3.0) and…
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150: GreyBeard talks Zero Trust with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-founder & CTO, RackTop Systems
Sponsored By: This is another in our series of sponsored podcasts with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), Co-Founder and CTO of RackTop Systems. You can hear more in Episode #147 on RansomWare protection and Episode #145 on proactive NAS security. Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) has been touted as the…
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149: GreyBeards talk HPC storage with Dustin Leverman, Group Leader, HPC storage at ORNL
Ran across an article discussing ORION, ORNL’s new storage system which had 100s of PB of file storage and supported TB/sec of bandwidth, so naturally I thought the GreyBeards need to talk to these people. I reached out and Dustin Leverman, Group Leader HPC storage at Oak Ridge National Labs...
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148: GreyBeards talk software defined infrastructure with Anthony Cinelli and Brian Dean, Dell PowerFlex
Sponsored By: This is one of a series of podcasts the GreyBeards are doing with Dell PowerFlex software defined infrastructure. Today, we talked with Anthony Cinelli, Sr. Director Dell Technologies and Brian Dean, Technical Marketing for PowerFlex. We have talked with Brian before but this is the...
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147: GreyBeards talk ransomware protection with Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder and CTO, RackTop Systems
Sponsored By: This is another in our series of sponsored podcasts with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), Co-Founder and CTO of RackTop Systems. You can hear more in Episode 145. We asked Jonathan what was wrong with ransomware protection today. Jonathan started by mentioning that bad actors had been...
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146: GreyBeards talk K8s cloud storage with Brian Carmody, Field CTO, Volumez
We’ve known Brian Carmody (@initzero), Field CTO, Volumez for over a decade now and he’s always been very technically astute. He moved to Volumez earlier this year and has once again joined a storage startup. Volumez is a cloud K8s storage provider with a new twist, K8s persistent volumes hosted…
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145: GreyBeards talk proactive NAS security with Jonathan Halstuch, CTO & Co-Founder, RackTop Systems
Sponsored By: We’ve known about RackTop Systems. since episode 84, and have been watching them ever since. On this episode we, once again, talk with Jonathan Halstuch (@JAHGT), CTO and Co-Founder, RackTop Systems. RackTop was always very security oriented but lately they have taken this to the…
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144: Greybeard talks AI IO with Subramanian Kartik & Howard Marks of VAST Data
Sponsored by Today we talked with VAST Data’s Subramanian Kartik (@phyzzycyst), Global Systems Engineering Lead and Howard Marks (@[email protected], @deepstoragenet) former GreyBeards co-host and now Technologist Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary at VAST. Howard needs no introduction to...
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143: GreyBeards talk Chia cypto with Jonmichael Hands, VP Storage at Chia Project
Today we interview Jonmichael Hands (@LebanonJon, LinkedIn), VP Storage at Chia Project , who has been in and around the storage business forever, mostly with Intel and their SSD team, before it was sold. He was technical marketing for NVMe. He also ran the security and crypto track at FMS2022.…
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142: GreyBeards talk scale-out, software defined storage with Bjorn Kolbeck, Co-Founder & CEO, Quobyte
Software defined storage is a pretty full segment of the market these days. So, it’s surprising when a new entrant comes along. We saw a story on Quobyte in Blocks and Files and thought it would be great to talk with Bjorn Kolbeck (LinkedIn), Co-Founder & CEO, Quobyte. Bjorn got his PhD in scale...
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141: GreyBeards annual 2022 wrap-up podcast
Well it has been another year and time for our annual year end wrap up. Since Covid hit, every year has certainly been interesting. This year we have seen the start of back in person conferences which was a welcome change from the covid lockdown. We are very glad to start seeing everybody again....
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140: Greybeards talk data orchestration with Matt Leib, Product Marketing Manager for IBM Spectrum Fusion
As our listeners should know, Matt Leib (@MBleib) was a GreyBeards co-host But since then, Matt has joined IBM to become Product Marketing Manager on IBM Spectrum Fusion, a data orchestration solution for Red Hat OpenShift environments. Matt’s been in and around the storage and data management...
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139: GreyBeards talk HPC file systems with Marc-André Vef and Alberto Miranda of GekkoFS
In honor of SC22 conference this month in Dallas, we thought it time to check in with our HPC brethren to find out what’s new in storage for their world. We happened to see that IO500 had some recent (ISC22) results using a relative new comer, GekkoFS (@GekkoFS). So we reached out to the team …...
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138: GreyBeards talk big data orchestration with Adit Madan, Dir. of Product, Alluxio
We have never talked with Alluxio before but after coming back last week from Cloud Field Day 15 (CFD15) it seemed a good time to talk with other solution providers attempting to make hybrid cloud easier to use. Adit Madan (@madanadit) , Director of Product Management, Alluxio, which is a data...
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137: GreyBeards talk VMware Explore 2022 Wrap-up
Jason Collier Principle Member of Technical Staff, AMD (@bocanuts), a current GreyBeardsOnStorage co-host and I both attended VMware Explore 2022 this past week and we recorded a podcast discussing VMware’s announcements on the show floor. It turns out that Keith Townsend, TheCTOAdvisor...
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136: Flash Memory Summit 2022 wrap-up with Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Assoc.
We have known Tom Coughlin (@thomascoughlin), President, Coughlin Associates for a very long time now. He’s been an industry heavyweight almost as long as Ray (maybe even longer). Tom has always been very active in storage media, storage drives, storage systems and memory as well as active in the...
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135: Greybeard(s) talk file and object challenges with Theresa Miller & David Jayanathan, Cohesity
Sponsored By: I’ve known Theresa Miller, Director of Technology Advocacy Group at Cohesity, for many years now and just met David Jayanathan (DJ), Cohesity Solutions Architect during the podcast. Theresa could easily qualify as an old timer, if she wished and DJ was very knowledgeable about...
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134: GreyBeards talk (storage) standards with Dr. J Metz, SNIA Chair & Technical Director AMD
We have known Dr. J Metz (@drjmetz, blog), Chair of SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) BoD, for over a decade now and he has always been an intelligent industry evangelist. DrJ was elected Chair of SNIA BoD in 2020. SNIA has been instrumental in the evolution of storage over the years...
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133: GreyBeards talk trillion row databases/data lakes with Ocient CEO & Co-founder, Chris Gladwin
We saw a recent article in Blocks and Files (Storage facing trillion-row db apocalypse), about a couple of companies which were trying to deal with trillion row database queries without taking weeks to respond. One of those companies was Ocient (@Ocient), a Chicago startup, whose CEO and...
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132: GreyBeards talk fast embedded k-v stores with Speedb’s Co-Founder&CEO Adi Gelvan
We’ve been talking a lot about K8s of late so we thought it was time to get back down to earth and spend some time with Adi Gelvan (@speedb_io), Co-founder and CEO of Speedb, an embedded key-value store, drop-in/replacement for RocksDB, that significantly improves on its IO performance for large...
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131: GreyBeards talk native K8s data protection using Veritas NetBackup with Reneé Carlisle
The GreyBeards have been discussing K8s storage services a lot over the last year or so and it was time to understand how container apps and data could be protected. Recently, we saw an article about a Veritas funded survey, discussing the need for data protection in K8s. As such, it seemed a…
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130: GreyBeards talk high-speed database access using Apache Arrow Flight, with James Duong and David Li
We had heard about Apache Arrow and Arrow Flight as being a hi-performing database with access speeds to match for a while now and finally got a chance to hear what it was all about with James Duong, Co-Fourder of Bit Quill Technologies/Senior Staff Developer at Dremio and David Li (@lidavidm),...
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129: GreyBeards talk composable infrastructure with GigaIO’s, Matt Demas, Field CTO
We haven’t talked composable infrastructure in a while now but it’s been heating up lately. GigaIO has some interesting tech and I’ve been meaning to have them on the show but scheduling never seemed to work out. Finally, we managed to sync schedules and have Matt Demas, field CTO at GigaIO...
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128: GreyBeards talk containers, K8s, and object storage with AB Periasamy, Co-Founder&CEO MinIO
Sponsored by: Once again Keith and I are talking K8s storage, only this time it was object storage. Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, Co-founder and CEO of MinIO, has been on our show a couple of times now and its always an insightful discussion. He’s got an uncommon perspective on IT today and what…
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127: Annual year end wrap up podcast with Keith, Matt & Ray
[Ray’s sorry about his audio, it will be better next time he promises, The Eds] This was supposed to be the year where we killed off COVID for good. Alas, it was not to be and it’s going to be with us for some time to come. However, this didn’t stop that technical juggernaut we … Continue reading...
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Greybeards on storage are two gentlemen that have been around the industry to many years to count and have a good, in-depth understanding of today’s storage, server and networking trends and developments. In our podcasts we interview leading technology executives and get them to talk about their products, the industry and where the IT world is going.
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