TechONTAPPodcast

Barcelona had back to back tech conferences the past few weeks. First, VMworld, then OpenStack Summit. We talk with Keith Norbie (@KeithNorbie) and Andrew Sullivan, who were able to attend both events.

This week on the podcast, we welcome NetApp Product Manager Arun Raman to talk about FabricPool, the latest thread in the Data Fabric.

This week on the podcast, we learn tons of new information about the latest platform releases for ONTAP 9.1 and bring in Flash TME Skip Shapiro and PM Mukesh Nigam to discuss all the bells and whistles.

This week on the podcast, we discuss security in storage systems with the new security TME Andrae Middleton and NetApp A-Team member Jarett Kulm of High Availability, Inc. We cover security at rest, in-flight, methodologies, ransomware and much more!

This week on the podcast, we recap NetApp Insight 2016 in Las Vegas! Join us as we discuss the keynotes, what we were up to and what we thought of the event. In addition, we were able to sit down with Fujitsu to talk about their keynote and their cloud-as-a-service play, K5.

It's the last day of NetApp Insight Las Vegas 2016 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from the show. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

It's day 3 of NetApp Insight Las Vegas 2016 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from the show. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

Day 2 of NetApp Insight Las Vegas 2016 is in the books and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from the show. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

It's the first day of NetApp Insight Las Vegas 2016 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from the show. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

This week, we welcome Juan Mojica (@Juan_M_Mojica), product manager for the new feature NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE). NVE is available in ONTAP 9.1, which is being announced today at NetApp Insight!

This week on the podcast, we invite some of our NetApp Insight resources to discuss what’s going on this year at the event. We welcome the NetApp Community team and Global Insight Central Program Manager Melissa Magrin to talk about all the fun stuff you can get involved with at NetApp Insight in Las Vegas. If you’re on Twitter, track the hashtags #NetAppInsight for lots of updates!

This week on the podcast, we are joined by Juan Mojica (@juan_m_mojica), Product Manager at NetApp, for a technical discussion about scale out networking in ONTAP. We cover IP Spaces, broadcast domains and subnets, as well as some other tidbits to help you understand how the network stack works in your cluster.

This week, we invite Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja), Josh Atwell (@josh_atwell)and Chris Gebhardt (@chrisgeb) to discuss VMworld 2016 in Vegas and how NetApp fared.

This week, we talk Foreign LUN Import with the @NTAPFLIGuy himself, NetApp SAN TME Mike Peppers! Find out how you can easily migrate LUNs from competitor storage systems to ONTAP with minimal disruption.

This week, we bring in the Storage Janitor™ himself, Andy Banta to do a deep dive into VVols on SolidFire. Andy will also be at VMWorld to answer your VVol questions, so be sure to visit him at the NetApp booth!

This week, we welcome a very special guest – developer advocate rockstar Kelsey Hightower from Google/Kubernetes! Kelsey gives us the run down on his views on advocacy vs. evangelism and where Kubernetes fits in with a changing IT landscape.

This week, we bring in NetApp/SolidFire’s Business Development Manager Keith Norbie and Product Marketing Manager Kelly Boeckman to talk about where SolidFire stands six months after the acquisition. They also further clarify how SolidFire is differentiated in the NetApp portfolio, and in what workloads it fits best.

This week, we welcome Ross Ackerman, Technical Director of Supportability, into the studio to talk about some exciting innovations within the support organization with regards to how customers and partners find solutions to problems. Guided Problem Solving is a new feature on the NetApp support site that does exactly what its name suggests – it guides people to solutions to solve problems based on workflow. In addition, we talk about the new live chat functionality and how these additions are already starting to see gains in the support center.

This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, we unceremoniously celebrate our 50th episode with a chat with Glenn Sizemore on his Cisco Live experience and it turns into a FlexPod episode!

This week we welcome NetApp IT to the show again to discuss data governance and how they’re applying security policies to data inside our own organization. Ensuring that your data is not just protected, but also secure, is an important, but often overlooked, aspect of any deployment. But, Operational Point Objectives (OPO) take things a step further by defining the business impact associated with data. The methodology used helps IT to quickly assess the needs of the infrastructure for backup and recovery by categorizing the data according to its impact. Not only that, but the OPO data significantly improves the recovery plan in the event of a disaster by providing a clearly defined priority for services.

We wrap up ONTAP 9 Month here at the Tech ONTAP Podcast with Joel Kaufman, a Director of Technical Marketing here at NetApp. We discuss the new and improved manageability tools in ONTAP 9 – OnCommand System Manager and Performance Manager, as well as some of the other new features available in this robust release.

We take a break from "ONTAP 9 Month" during the holiday week to recap DockerCon 2016 with John Griffith, Software Engineer at SolidFire, and Garrett Mueller, Technical Director at NetApp. Join us as we discuss containers, Docker announcements and t-shirt snafus.

It’s still "ONTAP 9 Month" on the podcast and this week we discuss the new enterprise scale-out NAS file system – FlexGroups. Learn how NetApp is evolving how we deal with high file count and large capacity workloads with Senior Product Manager Sunitha Rao, Product Manager Shriya Paramkusam and Richard Jernigan, Principal Engineer for FlexGroups.

It’s still “ONTAP 9 Month” on the podcast and this week we’re talking about ONTAP Select and SAN improvements in ONTAP 9. We have two experts this week, Peter Skovrup, Director of Product Management for NetApp, and Mike Peppers, Technical Marketing Engineer for NetApp. Peter gives us the lowdown on ONTAP Select, including technical details and use cases. Mike Peppers runs down the list of SAN improvements in ONTAP 9, including the SAN optimization templates!

It’s still "ONTAP 9 Month" on the podcast and this week we’re talking about improvements with flash. We have two experts this week, Dan Isaacs, Technical Marketing Engineer for NetApp, and Skip Shapiro, Technical Marketing Engineer for NetApp, who give us all the details about performance improvements for flash in ONTAP 9, including some impressive numbers for latency and IOPS. But, all the improvements are just all-flash related. If you’re using a hybrid, or even all HDD, system there’s lots of great info in this episode!

ONTAP 9 Month continues with this week's episode on what new features are available for data protection. We invite Technical Marketing Engineers Siddharth Agrawal and Mike Worthen to discuss MetroCluster, SnapMirror Enhancements and the addition of SnapLock support to ONTAP 9! Mike and Sid dive into the details of data protection and why ONTAP 9 is so much better.

This week, we welcome Quinn Summers in to talk about the new ONTAP 9 release and deliver a technical deep dive on those new features. We discuss RAID triple erasure coding, compaction and lots more! Additionally, we discuss the new SolidFire announcements in depth.

This mini-podcast covers the June 2 SolidFire announcement at Analyst Day. We interview the SolidFire CTO Val Bercovici and chat about why this announcement is going to change the storage industry.

This week on the Tech ONTAP podcast, we introduce ONTAP 9 month by welcoming a special guest onto the podcast – Lee Caswell, Vice President, Product and Solutions Marketing. We talk to Lee about the thinking behind why NetApp went with ONTAP 9 as a release name, as well as an overview of some of the new features in the release. We also discuss how NetApp is changing the way they release software. Stay tuned for more ONTAP 9 goodness the rest of June 2016!

Puppet is a declarative configuration management tool which is used by many organizations around the world to implement “Infrastructure as Code”. Puppet is also an automation tool, allowing administrators, and others, to define the configuration they want for the infrastructure and rely on Puppet to implement it. This abstracts the administrator or developer who is requesting infrastructure resources from the implementation, allowing for standardization, simplicity, and ultimately maintainability. Today we welcome David Cain (@thedavecain), Technical Marketing Engineer for NetApp, back to the show and welcome Amit Borulkar (@amit_borulkar), Technical Marketing Engineer for NetApp. Dave and Amit discuss using Puppet to apply configuration to FlexPod using Puppet modules for NetApp, Cisco Nexus, and VMware vCenter, allowing anyone to quickly, efficiently, and effectively configure their hardware for the needs of the applications. If you’ve never heard of Puppet before, but are curious about automation and Infrastructure as Code, or if you simply want a better understanding of Puppet and how NetApp is using it to facilitate simplicity for customers, then be sure to give this episode a listen!

The NetApp A-Team is NetApp’s social media advocacy equivalent to programs like Cisco Champions and VMware’s vExpert. Made up of customers and partners, the A-Team are NetApp fans that blog, tweet and evangelize NetApp. They are an asset to NetApp because they also provide feedback to the company on what they’re doing right and what they could be doing better. That feedback is invaluable. Each year, the NetApp A-Team gathers in Sunnyvale, CA to attend the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) event, which is akin to the Tech Field Days held by Stephen Foskett. NetApp leaders present on the present and future of NetApp and take feedback on what needs to change for the company to be successful. The Tech ONTAP Podcast team was fortunate enough to be invited to this event and talk with the NetApp A-Team to get their take on the event.

Not too long ago NetApp announced a Docker volume plugin. The plugin enables Docker users to simply and easily connect to and consume clustered Data ONTAP iSCSI and NFS storage with their containerized applications. During this episode we sit down with none other than our very own Andrew Sullivan. That’s right, one of our co-hosts is the Technical Marketing Engineer for containers at NetApp and we discuss amongst ourselves Docker, containers, microservices, and next generation applications. Also Andrew was able to sit down with Rob Esker, Product Manager at NetApp, and Brendan Wolfe, Senior Marketing Manager at NetApp to discuss OpenStack Summit Austin.

It’s official… DevOps is taking the IT industry by storm. As we’ve discussed previously on the show, this movement is different as it’s more a shift in how we work. On this week’s show we bring in Michael Greene from Microsoft and Steve Murawski from Chef to discuss DevOps and their recent whitepaper on the Release Pipeline model for a practical look at managing infrastructure as code.

For our episode this week, we sit down with Evan Miller, Enterprise Architect for NetApp, Eduardo Rivera, Storage Architect for NetApp, and Stetson Webster, Storage Architect for NetApp to talk about object storage. Eduardo and Stetson are the storage architects for NetApp IT, also known as Customer 1, and they recently went through a Storage Services Design Workshop with Evan and his team. The result has been nothing less than phenomenal, resulting in appropriately sized storage systems which deliver improved services, balancing capacity and performance, and reduced overall cost for storage services.

Earlier this week, Mesosphere announced the open source Datacenter Operating System, and NetApp is extremely excited to be a launch partner with them. Built on Mesos, the DC/OS uses open source technology fostered by Mesosphere to provide an environment for running containerized applications with ease. It provides a platform which current and next-generation applications can take advantage of—whether the application is built with microservices through and through, or uses big data analytics. This week we welcome a large crowd to the podcast to talk about the DC/OS launch.

OpenStack continues to become more and more popular for deploying private and hybrid cloud at many organizations. This week we welcome John Griffith, Principle Software Engineer for NetApp, Rob Esker, Product Manager for NetApp, Kelly Boeckman, Product Marketing Manager for NetApp, and Brendan Wolfe, Senior Marketing Manager for NetApp. These four represent the portfolio investment that NetApp, including SolidFire, Data ONTAP, and E-Series, has made in the OpenStack community and are with us to discuss the presence at OpenStack Summit. NetApp’s largest OpenStack Summit presence to date includes multiple sessions, a demo theater presentation, and some fun activities scheduled for the festival Tuesday night on Rainey Street.

QoS is more than just preventing bullies, and the NetApp IT team, commonly referred to as Customer 1, is living the proof of that. For our episode this week we bring back Evan Miller, Enterprise Architect for NetApp, Eduardo Rivera, Storage Architect for NetApp, and Stetson Webster, Storage Architect for NetApp, to talk about the result of their storage service implementation.

This week, John Spinks (@jbspinks), aka Mr. SnapCenter, joins us in the studio to discuss the new features in SnapCenter 1.1. We talk about backups, restores, and Oracle, as well as Justin’s visit to Storage Field Day at NetApp headquarters.

This week we bring Wyatt Bennett onto the podcast to talk about the new FlexPod offering. Bennett talks about the automation behind the scenes, and why this solution should be compelling for anyone considering a ROBO (Remote Office/Branch Office) deployment. He also shares his palpable excitement for reducing the complexity associated with converged infrastructure deployments and his not-so-lofty aspirations to make all converged infrastructure deployments deployable by anyone.

This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, we welcome NetApp A-Team member Glenn Dekhayser (@gdekhayser) of Red8 to talk about DevOps and NetApp Private Storage as a Service. In this week’s episode we discuss what DevOps is, where it’s going, and if storage administrators will be left behind. We also talk about the use cases for NetApp Private Storage and what the future may hold for NPS.

The hybrid cloud has changed the rules of data management. Data may still be the crown jewels, but it’s only useful when you can put it where it’s needed—and safely. That’s according to Adam Bergh of Netech Corporation and NetApp’s Kelly Hemphill, who talked about the changing face of data management in a hybrid cloud world during NetApp Insight 2015 with the Tech ONTAP Podcast.

Virtual volumes, also known as VVols, are a VMware feature for providing VM granular, policy based storage management. What this means is that as a virtualization administrator you no longer have to track and juggle datastore features and capabilities. You can simply create a policy of the features you want to take advantage of, then rely on the storage provider to ensure that the requested capabilities are used for your virtual machine. This week on the podcast we have a bit of a homecoming, with our former host, Pete Flecha (@vPedroArrow) joining us. Pete is the Technical Marketing Engineer responsible for VVols integration at VMware, and he does a great job of explaining and elaborating on the value of VVols for everyone.

At NetApp Insight 2015, NetApp Cloud Czar Val Bercovici and Red8’s Glenn Dekhayser shared their thoughts on how cloud has changed the world of DevOps, including what Bercovici calls the “Lean Cloud.” Dekhayser is practice lead in the Office of the CTO at Red8, a leader in designing software-defined data centers and a longtime NetApp partner. Bercovici and Dekhayser cover everything from the basics (What is DevOps?) to cloud economics to workload and data agility.

This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, we wrap up February, AKA SolidFire month, with Aaron Patten, virtualization architect for SolidFire. In today’s show, we discuss virtualization, where SolidFire fits into our customer’s environments, and a variety of other things while the third member of our podcast, Andrew Sullivan, travels across the Great White North.

This week we welcome Josh Atwell, Developer Advocate for SolidFire, to the podcast to have a conversation about automation, APIs, PowerShell, and declarative state management. We also talk about how SolidFire’s full-featured API enables administrators, developers, orchestrators, applications, and everyone in-between to quickly and easily provision and manage storage for their needs.

A crisis is an opportunity in disguise. ING DIRECT, Australia learned this firsthand when a competing bank Down Under beat them to market with an iPad app. But instead of rolling over, ING DIRECT regrouped, evaluated their options and transformed their IT infrastructure, essentially putting their whole bank in the cloud. At NetApp Insight 2015, Ben Issa—ING DIRECT, Australia’s head of IT Strategy—tells the dramatic story of the 15-year-old bank’s rapid reinvention, and how partnerships with NetApp, Cisco and Microsoft made possible the project known as “Zero Touch.” By streamlining the development/test-to-production environment using NetApp’s FlexPod and clustered Data ONTAP, ING DIRECT reduced time to market for their products and services by 50 percent. Tune into this special edition of the Tech ONTAP Podcast to hear more about ING Direct's solution.

Last week, we covered the SolidFire acquisition with NetApp’s Andy Grimes. This week, we are joined by SolidFire employees, Aaron Delp and Amy Lewis, to get their take on the acquisition, as well as Jeremiah Dooley and Andy Banta for a technical deep dive into everything SolidFire. This episode goes into overtime, but is certainly worth the extended listen.

Super Bowl 50 is just around the corner, and that means the Denver Broncos, who are also NetApp customers, have the opportunity to once again hoist the Vince Lombardi trophy. Earlier this year, we had the opportunity to sit down with Russ Trainor, VP of IT for the Denver Broncos, Val Bercovici, and Cynthia Stoddard to discuss how NetApp has helped the team overcome their IT challenges and once again, make it to the big game.

This week NetApp finalized its acquisition of SolidFire, and we can’t wait to get started talking about it! To kick off our dive into SolidFire, we welcome longtime NetApp employee Andy Grimes, Principle Architect for Flash, who has been working closely with SolidFire since NetApp announced its intent to acquire the company. Andy brings his knowledge of SolidFire’s technology and business to the podcast to discuss how the two technologies differ, their similarities, and how the new acquisition fits within NetApp’s flash portfolio. Whether you’re a customer, partner, or NetApp employee, this episode of the podcast will give you an overview of the all the latest news and a preview of everything to come.

OpenStack is one of those technologies that many people have heard of, but don’t perhaps fully understand. What is it intended for? Who uses it? Why do enterprise IT organizations value it so much? Is it as hard as some say? In the latest edition of the NetApp Tech ONTAP podcast, you’ll find the answers to these and other questions. This week, we are joined by two of the best and brightest technical marketing engineers from NetApp's OpenStack team, Jeff Applewhite and Akshai Parthasarathy, for a frank discussion about OpenStack, clouds (private and otherwise), orchestration and everything in between.