TechONTAPPodcast

This week on the podcast, we bring in Mr. Veeam, Michael Cade (https://vzilla.co.uk/) to talk about the latest Veeam release, as well as the blossoming partnership between Veeam and NetApp.

This week on the podcast, we invited Ross Ackerman in to discuss what Elio of SolidFire fame has been up to lately and how IBM Watson is using machine learning to automate some of the low hanging fruit support cases.

This week on the podcast, we cover the new security enhancements in ONTAP 9.3 with the security super squad, Juan Mojica and Dan Tulledge. Join us as we discuss Multifactor Authentication and NetApp Volume Encryption enhancements.

This week on the podcast, we rounded up some of the NetApp A-Team members to discuss NetApp Insight 2017 in Las Vegas.

This week on the podcast, we get ready for Insight with a couple of interviews with some of the folks that will be attending the conference from NetApp and answering questions at Insight Central. Join us as we chat with Justine Ma, Professional Services Product Manager, and David Mancusi, Global Architect about NetApp Insight, GDPR and the Data Fabric!

This week on the podcast, we preview NetApp Insight 2017 with one of the event’s track leads, Jake Thorne, as well as the mastermind of Insight Central, Melissa Hara! Join us as we discuss what is where at the event, as well as some tips on how you can best navigate the sessions at NetApp Insight 2017.

This week on the podcast, we chat about converged systems like FlexPod, and how the NetApp acquisition of Immersive brought us Config Advisor for your Converged Infrastructure, Converged Systems Advisor (CSA)! Join us and Keith Barto, Director of Product Management for Converged Infrastructure Management for everything you need to know about CSA!

This week on the podcast, we rounded up a bevy of NetApp E-Series experts to give us a high level overview on what many consider to be NetApp's drag racer storage platform.

This week on the podcast, we brought in the technical director for ONTAP Select, Peter Skovrup to discuss the latest improvements in ONTAP Select, including the ability to use ONTAP Select on VMware vSAN platforms!

This week on the podcast, we invited NetApp Data Protection Director of Product Management, Anand Nadathur and Data Protection TME Siddharth Agrawal to give us an overview of some of the data protection options available in ONTAP. This is the first episode in a series of episodes that cover a variety of data protection topics. Stay tuned for more data protection themed episodes in the near future!

This week on the podcast, we bring in Dr. Desktop, Chris Gebhardt and Virtualization TME/NetApp A-Team member Steven Cortez to talk about what’s going on at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, what sessions to attend and what’s new in Virtual Storage Console (VSC) 7.0.

It’s the 100th episode of the Tech ONTAP Podcast! To help us celebrate, we brought in the XCP team. Join XCP developer Bogdan Minciu and Product Manager Joshey Lazer as we discuss the super-fast migration/reporting tool and to give us a preview of CIFS/SMB support with XCP, as well as coming up with some creative new uses for the tool – even to fill the gaps left by discontinued products like OSSV and File SRM. You can find XCP and use it for free at: http://xcp.netapp.com

This week on the podcast, we brought in NetApp’s Oracle expert, Jeff Steiner to talk about how he’s using Docker containers to deploy Oracle applications and implementing Databases as a Service.

This week on the podcast, we check in with SnapCenter TME John Spinks to find out what’s in SnapCenter 3.0 – just in time for its release.

This week on the podcast, we’re talking ONTAP Analytics in the cloud and the new OATS product with a crew of performance folks including Greg Keller, Sr. Director, Performance Engineering, Matt Hambrick, Director of Performance Engineering, and Fred Peiffer, Performance Characterization Engineer/Architect. Find out how OATS is using existing performance data and machine learning to teach a system how to analyze and resolve performance issues, as well as how you can use OATS for your environment.

This week on the podcast, we invite the Storage Janitor, Andy Banta and Developer Advocate, Josh Atwell to speak with us about the role of the storage and server admin in today’s next generation data centers. We also touch on VVols and where they stand in the hierarchy of storage management.

This week on the podcast, we kick off a series of quarterly security update episodes to reflect the ever-changing security and vulnerability landscape. We cover WannaCry, Petya/NotPetya and basic security best practices you can follow to help protect against threats. We join some of the NetApp security team, including Kevin Ryan from PSIRT at NetApp and Security TME Andrae Middleton, as well as esteemed NetApp A-Team member, Paul Stringfellow. Paul is the technical director at Gardner Systems in the UK. You can find his blog and podcast at https://techstringy.wordpress.com/.

This week on the podcast, we discuss the latest NetApp converged offering, FlexPod with SolidFire, also known as FlexPod SF! Join us as we welcome FlexPod TME Melissa Palmer and NetApp SolidFire Product Manager Brett Siclair to talk about what FlexPod SF is and what it means for your next generation datacenter.

This week on the podcast, we chat with a few of NetApp’s Women in Tech about the Women in Tech program. In October, 2009, NetApp launched the Women in Technology group. Their mission is to support and foster the development of NetApp’s women by providing a forum for mentoring, networking, communication, and professional development. WIT is active in volunteer activities supporting women in our community, encouraging girls to study STEM, and helping those in need. There are currently over 900 members of WIT worldwide.

This week on the podcast, we bring in the FabricPool lifeguard, John Lantz, to give us the nuts and bolts behind the new ONTAP 9.2 feature. Also joining us this week is the Senior Vice President of the ONTAP Systems Group, Octavian Tanase, as well as ONTAP Chief Architect, Ravi Kavuri. If you have any questions about FabricPool, reach out to the DL at [email protected].

This week on the podcast, we invite chat with developer advocate, Ashley McNamara of Pivotal to talk about how storage administrators (and pretty much anyone) should be learning to code. Ashley also gives us places to look for resources for aspiring developers and scripters to be successful.

This week on the podcast, we invite Derek Leslie and Gabriel Chapman for the big reveal of NetApp’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution! Come find out what hyperconverged means for NetApp and its customers, as well as how NetApp’s HCI solution ticks.

This week on the podcast, we invite Hadrian Baron of NetApp’s migration team to talk about NAS and SAN migrations, as well as how customers are finding migrations to be simpler with NetApp vetted processes. We also touch on how customers are moving to NetApp FlexGroup volumes.

This week on the podcast, we recap the NetApp A-Team’s visit to NetApp RTP for their annual meeting called Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) where NetApp leadership and product managers listen to feedback from the A-Teamers. This episode is chock full of interviews with A-Team leaders and members and we discuss what everyone’s opinion of the ETL was.

This week on the podcast, we dub the week “Release Week” as we roll out a third episode of NetApp Tech ONTAP podcast goodness. We bring in the Tech Evangelist for Veeam and NetApp A-Team Member, Michael Cade to discuss the newest Veeam release, which has added support for ONTAP 9.1! If you’re traveling back from NetApp Converge, be sure to download episodes for the plane ride back home!

This week on the podcast, we dub the week “Release Week” as we roll out a second episode of NetApp Tech ONTAP podcast goodness. If you’re travelling back from NetApp Converge, be sure to download episodes for the plane ride back home! We bring in the Chief Evangelist here at NetApp, Jeff Baxter to discuss Fabric Pools, Aggregate Inline Dedupe and more!

This week on the podcast, we welcome Duncan Moore, Director of StorageGRID at NetApp, in to chat about the latest and greatest StorageGRID WebScale release, which comes out today! As a bonus, we also discuss StorageGRID 10.3, which we somehow overlooked on the podcast. Tune in to find out what’s new in the world of S3!

This week on the podcast, we chat with Philip Bachman and Yossi Weihs about the new OnCommand Unified Manager update! Find out what’s new and why Unified Manager can truly claim to be a Unified Manager!

This week on the podcast, it’s just Justin and Andrew chatting about the upcoming Docker conference in Austin, TX, as well as updates to the NetApp Docker Volume Plugin and Trident. We get a bit rambuncuous on this one and in honor of Easter, we leave plenty of Easter eggs!

This week on the podcast, we invited the NetApp Service Level Manager team to talk to us about how they’re revolutionizing storage as a service and automating day to day storage administration tasks. Join Executive Architect Evan Miller, Product Manager Nagananda.Anur and Technical Director Ameet.Deulgaonkar as they detail the benefits of NetApp Service Level Manager!

This week on the podcast, we brought in Sudip Hore to talk about the new and improved MyAutosupport Dashboard. Join us as we discuss the new predictive and proactive features and what’s coming in the future.

This week on the podcast, we amped up the brain power by inviting Jeff Steiner to discuss databases and the cloud as it pertains to ONTAP and SolidFire. We go over a wide array of things as Jeff tells us exactly how he feels about marketing and NVMe. Jeff pulls no punches.

This week on the podcast, several NetApp A-Team members were in RTP to help create the NetApp NCIE exams that are used to help officially certify storage administrators for ONTAP. We rounded up Ruari McBride, Scott Gelb and Steven Cortez to discuss how a NetApp certification exam gets created and why you’d want to take one.

This week, we welcome NetApp CTO Dr. Mark Bregman to the podcast to discuss his recent CTO predictions with us and elaborate a bit on where he sees the IT industry shifting. Below is the short list of the predictions. Tune in for the details!

This week on the podcast, we bring in a NetApp customer for a candid chat about how they use NetApp’s portfolio in their environment and what sort of challenges they face in day to day operations. Join us as we talk with Jeff Mohler, a principal Global Storage Architect at Yahoo and get a feel for how an enterprise customer manages thousands of NetApp systems.

This week, we brought in a couple of NetApp n00bz from SolidFire – Amy Lewis and Mike Turner to talk about NetApp basics, from our portfolio offerings to our culture. Mike plays the role of interviewer, while Glenn, Andrew and Justin play the role of podcast guests.

This week, we invited Mr. Performance, Tony Gaddis, to discuss ONTAP performance and to give a high level overview of how to diagnose performance issues in ONTAP. Be sure to send in your performance questions to [email protected] and we’ll get Tony to answer them on the podcast at a later date!

This week, we invite one of NetApp’s SNIA members, Alex McDonald, to discuss SNIA and technology trends in the storage industry. We get technical and discuss NVMe in some more detail as well. Justin also drops a timely Spaceballs reference.

This week, we welcome in a gaggle of NetApp technology brain power to discuss the next evolution in Flash storage – NVMe. We discuss whether NVMe is the future or a passing trend and where NVMe fits within the NetApp product portfolio.

This week, we talk about the brand spanking new AFF platform, as well as the insanely high results from the SPC-1 benchmark test! We bring in the performance team, featuring Chad Morgenstern and Jim Laing, to talk numbers. Then, we invite Mr. Flash to give us the lowdown on the new compact beast, the A700s.

This week on the podcast, John Spinks gives us the lowdown on the latest SnapCenter release, SnapCenter 2.0. Join us as we talk about all the new changes and feature additions!

This week on the podcast, we invited Amy Lewis and Andy Banta to give us their thoughts on the past year after the SolidFire acquisition by NetApp. We also discuss the new Element OS, Fluorine.

This week on the podcast, we welcome NetApp Technical Marketing Engineer Karthikeyan Nagalingam to discuss Big Data solutions like Hadoop, Spark and NoSQL and how they fit into the NetApp portfolio. We also talk Big Data 101 – what it is, how it’s used and how it’s best implemented.

2017 has arrived! After a holiday hiatus, the Tech ONTAP podcast guys return with Technical Director Garrett Mueller to talk about the NetApp Pub and the new storage orchestration tool that works with Kubernetes, Trident!

This week, the Tech ONTAP Podcast team syncs up with NetApp's first VCDX - vMiss herself - Melissa Palmer! We talk about what VCDX is and what it means to be one.

Insight Berlin is a wrap! I managed to track down a few people before everyone headed back home. Glenn, Chris Gebhardt and I did the podcast from the hotel, and we were also able to chat with the Professional Services Cloud Transformation team yesterday.

Day 3 of NetApp Insight Berlin is wrapped up! We grabbed Pete Flecha from VMware, Michael Cade from Veeam and Ross Ackerman and Julia McClung from NetApp Customer Support to discuss their day. Plus, you get to hear Justin's horrible attempt at a British accent.

We rounded up the NetApp A-Team to give their thoughts on Day 2 of NetApp Insight 2016 in Berlin. We also managed to get the Lab on Demand guys as well as NetApp customer Michael Bergman.

Day 1 of NetApp Insight Berlin is in the books! Listen as we sit down with the folks manning the Developer Cafe as we discuss the lessons learned from the first day of the show, as well as how Andrew got lost on the train ride to Insight.

This week, the Tech ONTAP Podcast team was very fortunate to corral the godfather of DevOps and author of the Phoenix Project, Gene Kim! We talk about all things DevOps, as well as Gene’s new book, The DevOps Handbook