TechONTAPPodcast

This week on the podcast, Peter Skovrup, Senior Director of Product Management for ONTAP Select joins us to discuss what’s the latest and greatest for the software defined offering of ONTAP, as well as what’s going on at NetApp Insight 2018. We also cover the mobile datacenter and how you can check it out. Be sure to sign up for the following ONTAP Select sessions at NetApp Insight!

This week on the podcast, Sr. Product Manager Wyatt Bennett joins us to talk about the latest release of Converged Systems Advisor and how it can improve your overall converged infrastructure experience.

This week on the podcast, NetApp TME David Blackwell and Sr. Product and Program Manage Lawrence Bunka join us to discuss what NetApp will be up to at AnsibleFest.

This week on the podcast, we break down NetApp Insight 2018 with a plethora of special guests. Listen as we discuss what sessions you should check out, what's going on at Insight Central and what's new about this year's show.

This week on the podcast, we welcome Mr. Performance himself, Tony Gaddis to give us a tutorial on easily finding performance issues using OnCommand Unified Manager, as well as some common “rules of thumb” when it comes to how much latency and node utilization is too much.

This week on the podcast, the SnapCenter Wonder Twins - TMEs Steven Cortez (@mscproductions) and Jeanine Walter (@j9Walter) join us to give the lowdown on what’s new in the latest SnapCenter release.

This week on the podcast, we make Sully do work on his last day at NetApp, as we discuss what’s new in NetApp Trident 18.07. We also have some special guests - Jonathan Rippy and Garrett Mueller - stop by to wish Sully well as he heads off to RedHat. We’ll miss you, Sully!

This week on the podcast, ONTAP Virtualization TME Karl Konnerth (@konnerth) joins us to give us the latest in VMware best practices for ONTAP, as well as a primer on VVols and what the latest functionality is in vSphere 7.2!

This week on the podcast, VMworld 2018 is fast approaching! Join me and a group of NetApp’s finest virtualization experts to discuss what’s in store for NetApp at VMworld 2018, as well as what we can expect for NetApp HCI.

This week on the podcast, Honeycomb.io CEO Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) joins the Tech ONTAP podcast team (with special guest host Josh Atwell) to discuss Honeycomb.io, the concept of going serverless and testing in production!

This week on the podcast, we change it up a bit and bring in VMware Global Executive Content Strategist, Tech LevelUp founder, Sunnyvale VMUG leader, Tech Village podcaster and all around community all-star, Yadin Porter de Leon to talk about Tech Careers and how to advance. We also talk about combating imposter syndrome and overcoming your fears.

This week on the podcast, TME Chad Morgenstern joins us to discuss how performance looks in Cloud Volumes Service for Oracle Database workloads.

This week on the podcast, we invited Technical Director Eiki Hrafnsson and Solutions Marketing Manager Ingo Fuchs to give us the lowdown on what Cloud Volumes Service are and where people are expected to use them.

This week on the podcast, we find out how the new NetApp A800 system fared in the rigorous SPC-1 v3 storage benchmarks. Can the NVMe attached SSDs truly help reduce latency while maintaining a high number of IOPs? Performance TME Dan Isaacs and the workload engineering team of Scott Lane, Jim Laing and Joe Scott join us to discuss!

This week on the podcast, we bring in some of the NetApp OpenStack crew to discuss OpenStack Summit 2018 in Vancouver. Join Product Marketing Manager Pete Brey and TMEs Amit Borulkar and David Blackwell as we discuss all the happenings of the conferences, as well as Amit’s new OpenStack FlexPod Cisco Validated Design!

This week on the podcast, NetApp Senior Technical Director Santosh Rao joins us to talk about how NetApp and NVidia are partnering to enhance AI solutions with the DGX-1, ONTAP and FlexGroup volumes using NFS!

This week on the podcast, the NetApp A-Team descends upon NetApp HQ in Sunnyvale, CA to get briefings on upcoming roadmap information and to give feedback to product operations.

This week on the podcast, we’re joined by NetApp Service Level Manager Product Managers Yossi Weihs and Naga Anur to discuss the latest GA release of NetApp Service Level Manager and how it helps provisioning NetApp storage like a service provider oh-so-easy.

This week on the podcast, we dish out information on one of NetApp’s best kept secrets – the supportability team! Join us as we uncover the work Matt Mercer, Scott Morris, Kunal Raina and Matt Trudewind are doing in the trenches to improve the overall customer experience for support of NetApp products.

This week on the podcast, FabricPool Lifeguard/TME John Lantz discusses the latest enhancements to the cloud-connected feature in ONTAP 9.4, as well as the technical details behind how FabricPool works.

This week on the podcast, we bring in Security PM Juan Mojica and Security TMEs Andrae Middleton and Dan Tulledge to get ready for GDPR by discussing ONTAP 9.4’s newest security enhancements and what they mean for the new European regulation as the grace period ends. We also discuss best practices and how to best protect your storage systems from breaches.

This week on the podcast, we brought in an army of hardware and NVMe experts to discuss the newest NVMe features in ONTAP 9.4 and what new hardware platforms are coming soon. Join us as we welcome Dan Isaacs, Chris Lueth and Mike Peppers to the podcast!

This week on the podcast, ONTAP 9.4 is here! I managed to snag ONTAP Senior Vice President Octavian Tanase and ONTAP Chief Evangelist Jeff Baxter to discuss what went into some of the decisions we made regarding the new feature payload, the future vision for ONTAP and what new stuff you can expect in this release.

ONTAP 9.4 has been announced! Listen to this short 5 minute teaser to find out what's new at a high level and learn when new podcasts on ONTAP 9.4 will be coming out.

This week on the podcast, we talk Name Services in ONTAP and the introduction of the new global name services cache in ONTAP 9.3 with NAS TME, Chris Hurley!

This week on the podcast, we invited a couple of NetApp’s own dev and QA members – David Pressley and Mekka Williams – to discuss how NetApp is modernizing and streamlining their processes and how other businesses can take lessons from how NetApp is leveraging automation, dev/ops and the cloud to make development life fitter, happier and more productive!

This week on the podcast, NetApp Director of Technology and Strategy in EMEA, Matt Watts, joins us, to talk about his latest blog and how current technology is simply repeating the patterns in nature to better understand how people are using data and leveraging applications. For Matt’s latest blog titled “Pets, Cattle, Insects and the Fabric of life,” see: http://www.watts-innovating.com/pets-cattle-insects-and-the-fabric-of-life/

This week on the podcast, Active IQ Technical Director Shankar Pasupathy joins us and tells us how AutoSupport’s infrastructure and backend evolved into Active IQ’s multicloud data pipeline. Learn how NetApp is using big data analytics and machine learning on ONTAP to improve the overall customer experience.

This week on the podcast, we talk about what's new with the E-Series E5700 and the incredibly fast EF570, as well as where E-Series fits in the NetApp portfolio with Technical Marketing Engineer Todd Edwards and Product Manager Akash Gupta.

This week on the podcast, we find out just how resilient ONTAP can get when we talk to Vector Data, who specializes in customized ruggedized ONTAP deployments in some of the harshest environments you can imagine. Join us as we discuss the past, present and future of Vector Data with VP of Sales, Rebecca Pinheiro and head of engineering, Chris Brill!

This week on the podcast, we chat with the founder of Gestalt IT, Stephen Foskett and NetApp A-Team member/Storage Field Day 15 delegate, Glenn Dekhayser of Red8. We talk about what Tech Field Day is and how NetApp’s presentations were received.

This week on the podcast, we do a deep dive on WAFL with some of the folks that write the code.

NetApp Solutions Architect Niyaz Mohamed joins us to discuss Cloud Control and how it fits into the NetApp Data Fabric.

This week on the podcast, Yossi Weihs and Philip Bachman join us to talk about the latest OnCommand Unified Manager release and make a compelling case around why everyone should be installing it.

This week on the podcast, NetApp United is looking for new members! We bring the head of the program - Petya Stefanova - to give us a rundown, as well as some of the current NetApp United members to tell us about their experiences.

This week on the podcast, we bring in Komprise (@Komprise) CEO Kumar Goswami (@KumarKGoswami) to chat about data management and how their software helps get the most out of your NetApp storage systems!

This week on the podcast, we invited NetApp Sr. Technical Director Santosh Rao in to speak about deep learning, AI, big data and how these fast emerging technologies tie into the ONTAP story.

This week on the podcast, we break down the latest and greatest features available in SnapCenter 4.0 with SnapCenter Product Manager, Anand Ranganathan.

This week on the podcast, we bring in Tech ONTAP Podcast vet Duncan Moore to give us a rundown of StorageGRID 11, NetApp’s object storage solution!

This week on the podcast, we chat with a couple of NetApp’s cloud guys – Mark Beaupre and John Fullbright – about the latest way to consume ONTAP storage. Join us as we talk about Infrastructure as a Service in AWS and Azure and find out where it’s heading and when you can get access.

This week on the podcast, we invited RedHat OpenShift developer Clayton Coleman to chat about KubeCon 2017 and Kubernetes with NetApp Technical Director Garrett Mueller and software developer Jonathan Rippy.

This week on the podcast, we conduct our quarterly security update with Juan Mojica, Security Product Manager, and Mike Scanlin, Information Assurance Product Manager. We cover FIPS 140-2 validation in ONTAP, as well as what FIPS means and what the differences in levels pertain to.

This week on the podcast, I pass the NFS torch on to Chris Hurley as we talk about NFSv4.x in ONTAP and why you should be thinking of making the move from NFSv3 in the near future.

This week on the podcast, we cover everything you want to know about MetroCluster with Nabil Fares, MetroCluster TME, and Niels Reker, Solutions Architect, including the new MetroCluster over IP feature in ONTAP 9.3!

This week on the podcast, we invited the NTAPFLIGuy, Mike Peppers, to talk about QoS and Performance in ONTAP 9.3. Listen for a general overview of QoS maximums and minimums, as well as the new Adaptive QoS feature!

This week on the podcast, we say Auf Wiedersehen to Berlin for the last time as we recap NetApp Insight 2017 with the NetApp A-Team!

This week on the podcast, Brendan Wolfe and Douglas Fallstrom from NetApp partners Primary Data joined us to discuss what Primary Data does and how it ties into the NetApp Data Fabric. Be sure to check out their booth at NetApp Insight in Berlin!

This week on the podcast, we talk with Senior Vice President of the ONTAP group, Octavian Tanase and Chief ONTAP Evangelist Jeff Baxter about the latest innovations available in ONTAP 9.3.

This week on the podcast, we invited a couple of OpenStack experts to help us understand what it takes to go from novice to expert when deploying and installing. Chad Morgenstern, NetApp Technical Marketing Engineer, and Pete Brey, NetApp SolidFire Product Marketing Manager, walk us through what resources to use, how to approach OpenStack as a beginner and what to expect at the upcoming OpenStack summit in Sydney, Australia.

This week on the podcast, we brought in our resident converged infrastructure Melissa Palmer to talk about NFLEX, the latest converged infrastructure offering from NetApp and Fujitsu. Tune in to learn more about NFLEX and when you can start ordering yours!