Behind the Scenes Episode 311: Introducing the NetApp AFF A900

Welcome to the Episode 311, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, Cheryl George and Chris Lueth join us to discuss the latest addition to the NetApp ONTAP platform portfolio, the AFF A900! Joining us: Cheryl George, NetApp Outbound PM (cheryl.george@netapp.com) Chris Lueth, NetApp Principal TME - Hardware …

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Behind the Scenes: Episode 219 – FlexVol to FlexGroup Conversion

Welcome to the Episode 219, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we invite the NetApp FlexGroup Technical Director, Dan Tennant, and FlexGroup developer Jessica Peters, to talk to us about the ins and outs of converting a FlexVol to a FlexGroup in-place, with …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 218 – NetApp E-Series Updates – Fall 2019

Welcome to the Episode 218, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, E-Series PM Younes Ben-Brahim and TME Todd Edwards join us to discuss the latest in E-Series, including the new BeeGFS platform offering. Podcast Transcriptions We also are piloting a new transcription service, …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 217 – ONTAP 9.7

Welcome to the Episode 217, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we talk about the latest release of ONTAP, as well as the new All-SAN array! Featured in this week's podcast: NetApp SVP Octavian Tanase NetApp Director Jeff Baxter NetApp Product Marketing Manager …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 216 – NetApp StorageGrid 11.3 and New Platforms

Welcome to the Episode 216, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we cover the latest release of NetApp StorageGrid 11.3, as well as the new all-flash platform, which is first of its kind in the object storage industry! Join Sr. Director, StorageGRID Software Group …

ONTAP 9.5 is now GA!

ONTAP 9 is on a new cadence model, which brings a new release every 6 months. Today, ONTAP 9.5GA is available here! http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/ontap/9.5 Also, check out the documentation center: docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp I wrote up a larger overview blog here: ONTAP 9.5RC1 is available! Here's the podcast list: Episode 163: ONTAP 9.5 Episode 164 - NetApp Data …

ONTAP 9.4 is now GA!

ONTAP 9 is on a new cadence model, which brings a new release every 6 months. Today, ONTAP 9.4GA is available here! http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/ontap/9.4 Also, check out the documentation center: docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp NetApp published a general overview blog on NVMe with Joel Reich here: https://blog.netapp.com/the-future-is-here-ai-ready-cloud-connected-all-flash-storage-with-nvme/ Jeff Baxter's blog is here: https://blog.netapp.com/netapp-ontap-9-4-is-ga-modernize-your-it-architecture-with-cloud-connected-flash/ We also did an overview podcast: …

NVMe… so hot right now.

Recently, our good friends* at The Register wrote an article about NetApp's NVMe strategy and how ONTAP will eventually work the technology into its architecture over time, rather than force-feeding customers NVMe. * Good friends because they're currently being nice to us. 😛 From the article: Faster fabric interconnects such as 25/50/100Gbit Ethernet, 32Gbit/s Fibre …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 72 – Demystifying NVMe

Welcome to the Episode 72, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, we invited a gaggle of NetApp's flash brain trust to discuss the emerging technology NVMe and its place within the storage landscape and attempt to demystify it. Is NVMe the future or a passing trend? …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 71 – SPC-1 benchmark and the A700s

Welcome to the Episode 71, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” We decided to do a mid-week release of the podcast to talk about the brand new AFF platform, as well as the insanely high results from the SPC-1 benchmark test! We bring in the performance team, featuring …