The French Storage Podcast

By An Ancient Author. What is happening? Today there is a great silence over the earth, a great silence, and stillness, a great silence because the King sleeps; the earth was in terror and was still, because God slept in the flesh and raised up those who were sleeping from the ages. God has died in the flesh, and the underworld has trembled. Truly He goes to seek out our first parent like a lost sheep; He wishes to visit those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. He goes to free the prisoner Adam and his fellow-prisoner Eve from their pains, He who is God, and Adam's son. The Lord goes in to them holding his victorious weapon, His Cross. When Adam, the first created man, sees him, he strikes his breast in terror and calls out to all: "My Lord be with you all." And Christ in reply says to Adam: "And with your spirit. Amen!" And grasping his hand, He raises him up, saying: "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light." "I am your God, who for your sake became your son, who for you and your descendants now speak and command with authority those in prison: Come forth, and those in darkness: Have light, and those who sleep: Rise." "I command you: Awake, sleeper, I have not made you to be held a prisoner in the underworld. Arise from the dead; I am the life of the dead. Arise, O man, work of my hands, arise, you who were fashioned in my image. Rise, let us go hence; for you in me and I in you, together we are one undivided person." "For you, I your God became your son; for you, I the Master took on your form; that of slave; for you, I who am above the heavens came on earth and under the earth; for you, man, I became as a man without help, free among the dead; for you, who left a garden, I was handed over to Jews from a garden and crucified in a garden." "Look at the spittle on my face, which I received because of you, in order to restore you to that first divine inbreathing at creation. See the blows on my cheeks, which I accepted in order to refashion your distorted form to my own image." "See the scourging of my back, which I accepted in order to disperse the load of your sins which was laid upon your back. See my hands nailed to the tree for a good purpose, for you, who stretched out your hand to the tree for an evil one." "I slept on the Cross and a sword pierced my side, for you, who slept in paradise and brought forth Eve from your side. My side healed the pain of your side; my sleep will release you from your sleep in Hades; my sword has checked the sword which was turned against you." "But arise, let us go hence. The enemy brought you out of the land of paradise; I will reinstate you, no longer in paradise, but on the throne of Heaven. I denied you the tree of life, which was a figure, but now I myself am united to you, I who am life. I posted the cherubim to guard you as they would slaves; now I make the cherubim worship you as they would God." "The cherubim throne has been prepared, the bearers are ready and waiting, the bridal chamber is in order, the food is provided, the everlasting houses and rooms are in readiness; the treasures of good things have been opened; the kingdom of heaven has been prepared before the ages." A reading from an ancient homily for Holy Saturday Prayer Almighty, ever-living God, whose Only-begotten Son descended to the realm of the dead, and rose from there to glory, grant that your faithful people, who were buried with him in baptism, may, by his resurrection, obtain eternal life. (We make our prayer) through our Lord. (Through Christ our Lord.) Prepared by Pontifical University Saint Thomas Aquinas

Dr. Peter Klein explores whether AI can ever replace human entrepreneurs and central planners, arguing from Mises’ calculation problem that even “thinking machines” can only mimic, not originate, the real-world judgment and ownership that markets require.Recorded in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on February 21, 2026. Special thanks to Michael and Beverley Starkey and Gil Robinson for sponsoring this event. 

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A few weeks ago, a small of group key industry players joined together and unveiled The Open Flash Platform initiative aka OFP to address storage for AI challenges. The goal is to reach new capacity, density and performance level levering open standard and open source such as Linux, pNFS and DPU models. I summarized the initiative and added some remarks and comments as OFP approach is very interesting and more members should join in the coming months now. Enjoy the listening.

Natten mellem fredag og lørdag har Skads Skole fået stjålet en stor bronzefigur fra skolens område. Der er tale om en ca. 150 cm høj figur, der forestiller en gravid kvinde med et barn i hånden. Den fine skulptur, skabt af kunstner Hanne Varming, har stået på skolen siden 1977 - og den er allerede savnet. Derfor håber Teknisk Serviceleder, Peter Koch, at nogen har hørt eller set noget, der kan få den savnede skulptur på plads igen.

Fra i dag indtager European Street Marked Torvet i Esbjerg, til og med på lørdag 23. august skaber 18 boder fra forskellige dele af Europa liv og markedsstemning, som vi kun oplever fra de sydlige himmelstrøg. Brigitta Christensen Citychef i Esbjerg City fortæller her hvilke lande boderne kommer fra i år.

95 personer fra hele 16 forskellige lande blev budt velkommen og introduceret til oplevelser, kultur- og fritidstilbud i Esbjerg Kommune, da kommunen forleden holdt velkomstmøder i Esbjerg og Ribe for nye tilflyttere. Pia Enemark, bosætningskoordinator, Tilflytterservice, Esbjerg Kommune var en smut forbi studiet til en snak om hvordan de har oplevet deltagelsen i velkomstmøderne, og om de lever op til deres forventninger.

New edition of The Future of Memory and Storage conference aka FMS and the annual summer rendez-vous confirms its role and place in the industry. Several key vendors were present as exhibitors or not and tons of informations have been presented, unveiled and shared with new products, technologies, synergies, partnerships or just corporate directions. I tried to summarize what I saw there, enjoy the short recap and listening.

Twice a year, Coldago Research produces its long awaited Storage Unicorn in June and December. The last report was published in June 2025 and lists 18 companies: Acronis, Barracuda Networks, Cohesity, DataCore, DDN, Druva, Eon, ExaGrid, Infinidat, Kaseya, MinIO, Nasuni, NinjaOne, Qumulo, VAST Data, Veeam Software, Wasabi Technologies and WEKA. Enjoy the listening of this short episode.

The last session we had early June during the 62nd edition of The IT Press Tour with Phison presenting the Lonestar case study was a real trigger inviting me to think that I need to talk to the master of this project. And with the help of Phison, we secured the recording with Chris Stott, chairman, CEO and co-founder. We talked about the utopia this kind of project could represent in people's mind or let say the unrealistic idea it crystalizes. In fact, the reality is different they already did a mission so Chris shared lots of informations, what they develop, their partner ecosystem like Phison and why they chose Phison and the Pascari product line, what kind of services they offer, who need this and why they need it, the pricing and business model and of cours we conclude with the calendar of next phases. I hope you'll enjoy this episode, really unique approach. Merci Chris.

The 62nd edition of The IT Press Tour took place early June in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, California. The event was very good, dense with a very compelling program. We met 9 companies and organizations: Cohesity, DDN, Graid Technology, Hunch, Lucidity, Phison Electronics, PuppyGraph, Tabsdata and the Ultra Link Accelerator Consortium, all having something to say in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data and Storage Management, Big Data and Analytics and of course AI. It also means that we beat new records with 340 distinct companies and 586 sessions for more 26,000 generated articles since 2010 !!

We had the opportunity and privilege to meet again Phison during the recent 62nd edition of The IT Press Tour in California early June. Michael Wu, president, Phison US, and his team delivered a very good session with lots of informations. It gave me the idea to record a new episode this time with Phison's CTO Sebastien Jean to cover some technical aspects, strategy choices and of course technology and product elements about Pascari and we even spoke about Lonestar. A great episode I hope you will enjoy. Thank you Sebastien.

Following the sad news last week, I wrote this new episode based on the StorageNewsletter Top News we published July 2nd, 2025 with future directions and perspectives for the #1 Worldwide Data Storage Industry News website. The adventure continues, believe me.

Congressman Glenn Grothman Discusses Big Beautiful Bill, Immigration, IRS Issues, and More

Jean-Jacques Maleval, the man behind StorageNewsletter passed away February 3rd, 2025. This episode is the audio of the article I wrote on his publication July 1st, 2025 and officially marked the transition to a new phase led by me. RIP JJM.

With a fantastic session with DDN during the recent IT Press Tour in California early June with Paul Bloch, President and co-founder, and Sven Oehme, CTO, covering HPC Storage but above all AI Storage and all connected domains and challenges, I got the idea to extend this with a special talk with Sven. We spoke about the product strategy of course, ExaScaler and Infinia in details, new design requirements to deliver new performance levels, how their installed base and new customers adopt Infinia and of course spent some time on the directions and the future. A great episode I invite you to listen carefully. Enjoy, Thank you Sven.

Cohesity, I should say the NEW Cohesity, participated to The IT Press Tour for the 4th time and this moment was again key to learn about the current state of the union 6 months after the effective date last December. We had a dense meeting with Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President, and his executives team and based on that I decided to record a episode with Vasu Murthy, Cohesity's CPO. We spoke about the products convergence, roadmap, new features, synergies and what is coming... a very good and dense program that protects users' investment. This also confirms that Cohesity is now the market leader in terms of Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software based on revenue, market share and protected data volume. Enjoy the episode, a really good one with lots of info. Thank you Vasu.

Participating to the Storage Technology Showcase for a few years, I decided this time to record a special interview with Quinn Mitchell, creator and owner of the conference. We spoke about the genesis of the event, the mission, goals, objectives and future directions. A very interesting episode to learn more about a unique conference in the industry. Enjoy, Thank you Quinn.

Premios e concertos para 'Basal' A Pedreira, premio Martín Códax de canción de autora

I follow Lucidity since they wen tout of stealth and became visible on the market and I was intrigued by the mechanism they used behind. Lucidity decided to join the recent 62nd edition of The IT Press Tour in California to launch their new product Lumen, a block tiering solution in addition to AutoScaler, their current and first product. In this episode with Nitin Bhadauria, founder of Lucidity with Vatsal Rastogi, we cover the genesis of the project, what challenges the team wish to solve, how the 2 product work, where and how they're deployed, their go-to-market model and pricing philosophy and of course cover a bit of the future directions. A very interesting talk and I invite you to watch carefully Lucidity. Enjoy the listening, thank you Nitin.

Beyond classic annual Coldago Research End-Users Surveys I had the idea to collect, around the end of 2024, opinions and comments from the field asking only end-users about the most impacting data storage technologies in the first 25 years of the century. And we got amazing results, I let your discover the top 3 and if you insist I can even share the #4, #5 and #6. Enjoy.

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I discovered Quesma during The IT Press Tour we ran in Boston in October 2024 with the Hydrolix session explaining why Quesma is key for their solution adoption and integration and what they offer. I invited Jacek Migdal, CEO and founder of Quesma, for this last edition in Europe, this time in London, UK, as I wished to learn more and understand better how it works. With Jacek, we spoke about the genesis of the project, what pains they address, how they solve these, their GTM and pricing model and conclude with some future directions. Very good episode, hope you will enjoy it. Thank you Jacek.

The 4th edition of Huawei Technologies Innovative Data Infrastructure Forum 2025 took place in Munich, Germany, last week. With several announcements, news, updates and refreshes plus a good comprehensive expo zone, the Chinese giant continues its pressure on the markets with AI Storage, All Flash Data center products, High scalability and resiliency at a very attractive dense, cost effective and green dimensions. We understand that a new A600 is coming, the 122TB SSD will be shipped overseas, the Dorado v7 architecture penetrates the marketOceanProtect with impressive capacity plus DCS and DME. A great event where I had the privilege to deliver a keynote. Thank you.

The Huawei Innovative Data Infrastructure Forum 2025 in Munich, Germany, was the opportunity to talk with Michael Fan, Marketing Director of the Data Storage product line at Huawei. We spoke together about the Huawei strategy, innovation in cloud, flash, data protection, HPC and AI with the A, Pacific and Dorado Series. A very good exchange with Michael, hope you'd like it. Enjoy.

The 61st edition of The IT Press Tour took place early April at Battersea Power Station in London, UK. It was, once again, a very good event with 15 European IT journalists and reporters at a fantastic place, modernized, perfect to host our new edition. With that 61st edition, we beat new records with 335 distincts companies and 577 sessions for more 26,000 generated articles since 2010 !! For this edition we met 6 organizations covering IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data and Storage Management, Big Data and Analytics and of course AI. In the alpha order, they're AppsCode, Auwau, DAOS, FerretDB, Quesma and Storadera.

Second participation for Storadera, a company I, first, invited in Paris in September 2022, this time for the 61st edition of The IT Press Tour in London. We had the privilege to get a company and product update from Tommi Kannisto, CEO and founder. He joined us to present a deep update on what they did for last few months, how the product works, what are the key differentiators and what he plans for the company and the product in the coming quarters. Storadera is pretty unique with a very simple pricing model with just €6/TB/mon everything included. I hope you will enjoy tis episode. Thank you Tommi.

We got the scoop during the recent IT Press Tour when we learned that CloudFabrix renamed itself into Fabrix.AI to surf and take advantage of the coming AI Tsunami. With this new positioning and AI integration we saw lots of progress for their platform and I decided to talk with Raju Penmetsa, the CTO of the company. We spoke about the architecture, how they leverage AI, Deepseek and other famous technologies, some specific LLMs... and land on their value proposition around Data, AI and Automation Fabric. We concluded with some future product directions and many things are coming. A very good talk, I hope you will enjoy this episode. Thank you Raju.

Reference in Unstructured Data Management for on-premises and cloud open systems, Komprise continues to drive its product line at a rapid pace. Known for its modern file migration approach based on its Transparent Move Technology, aka TMT, Komprise invented a radical way to manage tiering without any stub files. The product supports a wide variety of NAS and S3 sources and targets, both deployed on-premises or in the cloud. As we met Komprise during the last IT Press Tour in January, I thought that it could be interesting to speak with its CTO, Mike Peercy to dig into a few technical aspects of their solution. And we did it, with Mike we spoke about the architecture of the product, how they leverage ElasticSearch, why and how the global File Index, aka GFI, works and its role, and we also covered the recent announcement related to AI and how the sensitive data protection is implemented. And we concluded with a bit of future directions. Komprise has been recognized, once again, as a leader in the Coldago Research Map 2024 for Unstructured Data Management. It was a pleasure to discuss and record tis episode, hope you will enjoy it.

We unveiled to the world Leil Storage in April 2024 for the 55th edition of The IT Press Tour in Roma, Italy. It was the opportunity to discover the Estonian company who develops a scalable high end secondary storage approach based on SaunaFS, their Google like File System, coupled with erasure coding and ICE - Infinite Cold Engine - to reduce and control power usage coupled with SMR HDDs. I recorded this episode this week at Leil HQ in Tallinn, Estonia, speaking with David Gerstein, CTO, and Piotr Modrzyk, Principal Architect. During this talk, we go deeper explaining how their SaunaFS works, their differentiators, how they coupled it with erasure coding and integrate power control to reduce energy consumption. They leverage SMR HDDs with high capacity, more dedicated to sequential workloads, and use some techniques to reduce power and thus at scale cut significantly electricity bill. We learn also more about their future directions. Enjoy this technical talk. Thank you David and Piotr.  

New meeting during The IT Press Tour with iXsystems, the company insisted on its TrueNAS brand wishing to be aligned with the success of its storage servers and as an effect from the sale of its server business to Amaara Networks. I spoke with Brett Davis, EVP, about the company strategy, the new direction around storage, new products especially the H30 model, next release TrueNAS 25.04 and several other successes as 2024 was a good year plus some future steps. Really a good episode with Brett. Thank you. Enjoy.

New exercice or at least at a different frequency, this episode covers the first 2 months of 2025 with some market news I selected. I spoke about VC funding and investments, IPOs, M&A, new product iterations, people's moves, architecture and technology. Enjoy.

The 60th edition of The IT Press Tour took place last week of January in Silicon Valley, California. It's a major milestone for our organization, if you put things in perspective with 60 editions, what other event has reached that number, I let you check... but it will be tough to find some... Success is about regularity, consistency coupled with unique value proposition and innovation it introduces, The IT Press Tour is all about that, a special club. And check the numbers with this 60th edition: 330 distincts companies and 571 sessions since 2010 !! For this edition we met 9 organizations covering IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data and Storage Management, Big Data and Analytics and of course AI. In the alpha order, they're Aquila Clouds, CloudFabrix now Fabrix.AI, Crystal DBA, Hammerspace, Komprise, MLCommons, Panzura, TrueNAS aka iXsystems and Volumez.

Classic exercice for a few years for Coldago Research, I share my predictions for 2025 covering AI and its impact, Cloud, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, Media and Connectivity and Energy. Enjoy this episode.

Coldago Research has unveiled its 6th edition of its annual Map for File Storage. The 2024 report analyzes 27 distinct companies over 3 Maps: Enterprise, High Performance and Cloud File Storage: AWS, CTERA, DDN, Dell, Egnyte, Fujitsu, Hammerspace, HPE, Huawei, IBM, iXsystems, LucidLink, Microsoft, Nasuni, NetApp, Panzura, Peer Software, Pure Storage, Quantum, Qumulo, Quobyte, SUSE, ThinkParQ, Tiger Technology, VAST Data, Vdura and WEKA and we elect leaders for each category. I let you listen to this episode to discover who are the winners. Enjoy.

Wasabi Technologies, the reference in cloud storage, alternative to hyperscalers' solutions with a very efficient and cost effective S3 API service, participated to the recent IT Press Tour in Boston in October. It was the perfect opportunity to meet company's executives and David Friend, co-founder and CEO, who shared his view on the market, genesis of the project and of course directions of the company. It gaves me the idea to record a dedicated episode with David to go deeper in some aspects and we did it recently, we spoke about his background and the trajectory of Wasabi with today a status of Centaur passing the $100M ARR, his partner in crime Jeff Flowers, CTO of Wasabi, some new services around the classic offering especially with the AI engine acquired based on Curio AI, business model with a pure indirect model powered by 16,000 partners and a very unique pricing model charging only the capacity used. We also covered the directions of the company with a potential IPO and for the storage service with some ideas around a on-premises instance and w few other things. A very interesting dialog with David, I hope you will like this episode. Thank you David.

SuperComputing 24 took place a few weeks ago in Atlanta, Georgia, and once again it was a very good edition with the best ever number of attendees with 18,000+, 4,000 more than last year, very impressive show. The topic was about Acceleration in various domains such a HPC, AI, Storage, Memory or Network. I insisted on key trends, some technologies and products I saw very present on the floor. Enjoy the listening.

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.

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.

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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.