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Today's questions comes from Chris, who wonders how to combine Nutanix (and thus hyper converged infrastructures) with end user computing. The question is answered by Kees Baggerman, who works for Nutanix as a Senior Performance and Solution Engineer.

AE003: How To Combine Hyper Converged Infrastructures With End User Computing

NetApp Insight 2015 was a massive success, and certainly one of the many highlights was Dave Hitz, NetApp’s Founder and Executive Vice President, and Joe CaraDonna, Senior Technical Director, announcing that SnapMirror will now not only run in AltaVault, but will soon run across NetApp’s entire product line.

This week, the gang is joined by data protection experts, Rachel Dines, John Spinks and Michael Cade, to discuss what “SnapMirror to Everything” means for the future of data protection and how it impacts NetApp’s vision of a Data Fabric. Also Pete Flecha has a major announcement you won’t want to miss!

Episode 14: Protecting Your Data with SnapMirror to Everything

It's the first day of NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from Germany. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 - Day 1 Recap

Day two of NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 is in the books and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from Germany. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 - Day 2 Recap

Day three of NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 is in the books and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from Germany. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 - Day 3 Recap

It's the last day of NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from Germany. Tune in for daily recaps, interviews, and more.

NetApp Insight Berlin 2015 - Day 4 Recap

The Tech ONTAP Podcast crew spent this past week broadcasting from Berlin, Germany at NetApp Insight 2015, and while we were there, some major news was announced. Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.2 RC1 is now available for download! We sat down with our friend Jay Goldfinch, Technical Marketing Engineer for Data ONTAP, to discuss all the new features, which includes copy-free transition, new All Flash FAS performance features, and much, much more.

Episode 15: Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.2 RC1

Nutanix Community Podcast Episode 31 with your host Angelo Luciani and Dwayne Lessner. This week we chat with Sudarshan Srinivasan about Nutanix Acropolis and Prism - solutions that will power the next generation of enterprise computing. 

Reasons to Make Acropolis your infrastructure platform of choice

Docker remains one of the hot topics in the industry today, and last week was their second conference of the year: DockerCon EU 2015.  NetApp was a Gold sponsor of the conference, and we proudly sent six people to meet, talk, geek, and fraternize with the attendees.  We had several demos at our booth, including cloning containerized MongoDB utilizing FlexClones and the Snap Creator Framework, automatic registration of containerized applications with Snap Creator, the NetApp Native Driver for ClusterHQ’s Flocker, and deploying a scale-out Docker Registry using NetApp and SnapMirror. This week we have Garrett Mueller, Technical Director for NetApp, and Jonathan Rippy, Software Engineer for NetApp, on the podcast.  Garrett and Rippy were two of NetApp’s representatives at DockerCon Europe and they share with us their experiences at the conference, as well as some of the things they learned from the sessions.

Episode 16: DockerCon & DevOps

With SMB 3.0., Microsoft changed the game for how applications like SQL and Hyper-V could be deployed. Continuously available file shares allow organizations to deploy business critical workloads with all the performance and availability traditionally associated with block based storage (iSCSI/FCP), but with the ease of use of a file share. Microsoft and NetApp have been partnering for years to provide enterprise class file storage. Clustered Data ONTAP’s implementation of SMB is the best iteration yet.
 
On this week’s pre-recorded episode, the guys hop into a time bubble with Marc Waldrop to discuss all things SMB – starting with answering the age old, often debated question “CIFS or SMB?”.  The guys leave no stone unturned. If you work in or around Microsoft products in any way, then you should check out this episode!

Episode 17: SMB in Clustered Data ONTAP

IT departments across all industries are trying to figure out how to become service providers to their own businesses, and storage is no exception to this. Designing storage services which are capable of meeting the needs of the applications which your organization uses is critical to ensuring success. For our episode this week we sit down with Evan Miller, Enterprise Architect for NetApp, Eduardo Rivera, Storage Architect for NetApp, and we welcome back Stetson Webster (@stetsonwebster), Storage Architect for NetApp.  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.  

Episode 18: Storage Service Design

For our episode this week, we sit down with the group again, Evan Miller, Enterprise Architect for NetApp, Eduardo Rivera, Storage Architect for NetApp, and Stetson Webster, Storage Architect for NetApp.  This week’s focus is on data protection being integrated with the storage services offerings.  Protecting data is a critical function of any infrastructure, and working with the application administrators to clearly define a set of requirements early is key to ensuring success.  The NetApp IT team talks to us about their experience with evaluating the needs of our applications and how they can more effectively provide protection while also keeping cost controlled.

Episode 19: Storage Service Design – Data Protection

On the eve of this year’s holiday season, we received quite the stocking stuffer when the news broke that NetApp plans to acquire SolidFire. Tune into this week’s podcast for all the latest news!
 
Also on this week’s show, we have some great interviews from NetApp Insight 2015. First, we sat down with Antonio Pittalis, IT Infrastructure Manager for Tiscali, to learn more about how Tiscali is benefiting from its adoption of the hybrid cloud. Then later, we talk hyper-converged with Craig Chadwell, Product Manager for NetApp, and Mike Laverick, VMware.

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Eric Railine