Behind the Scenes Episode 382: Electronic Design Automation 101 w/ Michael Johnson

Welcome to the Episode 382, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” Ever wonder how the chips in your phones, TVs, cars and appliances are made? Well, a lot goes into those and in this episode, NetApp's resident Electronic Design Automation expert Michael Johnson tells us about the processes, …

Behind the Scenes Episode 381: What’s New in NetApp ONTAP 9.14.1

Welcome to the Episode 381, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” Another fall brings another new ONTAP release here at NetApp and this one is chock full of new features to better improve your NetApp experience. Keith Aasen joins us to break it all down and explain what's …

Behind the Scenes Episode 380: NetApp in the Gaming Industry with Justin Monast (former Naughty Dog)

Welcome to the Episode 380, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” NetApp ONTAP offers a wide range of features for enterprise workloads that boost performance, disaster protection, resiliency and much more. Many industries rely on that broad feature set for their most important business use cases, including the …

Behind the Scenes Episode 354: NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup Volumes and BlueXP Cloud Backup

Welcome to the Episode 354, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, Semion Mazor (semion@netapp.com) and Cecile Kellam (cecilek@netapp.com) join us to discuss the new addition to BlueXP Cloud Backup - FlexGroup volumes! Now you can backup, index and restore your high file count environments at a …

Behind the Scenes – Episode 261: How DreamWorks Animation Creates New Worlds on NetApp ONTAP

This week, I was lucky enough to snag a long-time NetApp customer and engineering partner DreamWorks Animation to talk about how the studio leverages NetApp ONTAP to build some of the most creative and effects intensive CG animated films on the planet.

Behind the Scenes: Episode 228 – FlexPod for Industry Verticals – Healthcare

Welcome to the Episode 228, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we discuss FlexPod and the new initiative to create validated designs for industry verticals. First up - Healthcare and Epic software with NetApp Sr. Product Manager for Converged Infrastructure, Ketan Mota (ketan.mota@netapp.com) …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 227 – Pacific Biosciences, ONTAP and Unstructured NAS

Welcome to the Episode 227, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, Adam Knight (@damknight) of Pacific Biosciences joins us to discuss how PacBio uses ONTAP for all of its unstructured NAS workload requirements, with a focus on FlexGroup volumes! Also, check out these …

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 …

Using XCP to delete files en masse: A race against rm

XCP has traditionally been thought of as a way to rapidly migrate large amounts of data, or to scan data and generate reports. And those ideas still hold up today.... But what if i told you that you could use XCP to delete millions of files 5-6x faster than running rm on an NFS client? …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 189 – ONTAP 9.6 Overview

Welcome to the Episode 189, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we give you the lowdown on the latest ONTAP 9.6 release with ONTAP Systems Group Vice President Octavian Tanase (@octav), Senior Director of Product Management Jeff Baxter (@baxontap), and Technical Product Marketing Manager Skip Shapiro …