Top 5 #TechONTAP Podcast Episodes of 2019

Because EVERYONE LOVES END OF YEAR LISTS, I decided to make one of the top 5 most listened-to Tech ONTAP Podcast episodes of 2019. There’s no subjectivity here – just pure metrics. Because everyone also loves metrics…

For the year, the podcast hit 151,000 plays. May was our busiest month with 12,552. Usually, the most listened to episodes will be older episodes, since they have more time to accrue statistics.

#5. Episode 189 – ONTAP 9.6 Overview: May 2019

Each ONTAP release, we do an overview episode. The ONTAP 9.6 Overview episode hit 2,746 plays for the year.

#4. Episode 186: ONTAP Storage Efficiency Overview: April 2019

This episode hit 2,751 plays for the year, as we covered the basics of ONTAP storage efficiencies, as well as going a little deeper into how they work.

#3. Episode 181: ONTAP Networking Deep Dive and Tips: March 2019

In this episode, we brought networking expert Richard Scheffenegger in to discuss ONTAP networking and some best practices. This one had 2,785 plays.

#2. Episode 192: REST APIs in ONTAP 9.6: May 2019

One of the more antcipated ONTAP features in ONTAP 9.6 was REST API support, and the plays show it. This episode hit 2,846 plays.

#1: Episode 183: NetApp Kubernetes Services: March 2019

Our number 1 listened-to episode of 2019 was the NetApp Kubernetes Services episode, where we discuss NKS and when you’d want to use it. This one had 2,975 plays – just shy of 3,000.

Since the yearly listens will be skewed by older episodes, here’s the top episode per month of 2019 as well.

January 2019 (13.4K plays)

Episode 172: Scale-out Networking in ONTAP (1,658 plays)

February 2019 (13K plays):

Episode 177: Data Science (1,666 plays)

March 2019 (13K plays):

Episode 181: ONTAP Networking Deep Dive and Tips (1,821 plays)

April 2019 (13.3K plays):

Episode 186: ONTAP Storage Efficiency Overview (1,891 plays)

May 2019 (17K plays):

Episode 188: FlexGroup Update (1,941 plays)

June 2019 (14.1K plays):

Episode 194: Cloud Volumes ONTAP, FlexCache and ONTAP 9.6 (1,788 plays)

July 2019 (10.9K plays):

Episode 198: NetApp A-Team ETL 2019 (1,799 plays)

August 2019 (12.9K plays):

Episode 202: TCP Performance Enhancements (2,015 plays)

September 2019 (12.9K plays):

Episode 207: VMworld 2019 Recap (1,742 plays)

October 2019 (11.8K plays):

Episode 211: NetApp Insight 2019 Preview (1,785 plays)

November 2019 (10.6K plays):

Episode 215: NetApp Insight 2019 Recap (1,878 plays)

December 2019 (7.6K plays):

Episode 221: All-SAN Array (1,376 plays)

Behind the Scenes: Episode 207 – #VMworld 2019 Recap

Welcome to the Episode 207, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast, we bring in Chris Gebhardt (@chrisgeb), Keith Norbie (@keithnorbie) and Bryce Cracco (@brycecracco) to tell us all about what went down for NetApp at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco.

Finding the Podcast

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Behind the Scenes: Episode 206 – Intel, NetApp and AI with Remi el-Ouazzane

Welcome to the Episode 206, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast, we talk with Intel’s Vice President, Artificial Intelligence Products Group, Remi el-Ouazzane (https://www.linkedin.com/in/remi-el-ouazzane-6a1111/) and NetApp’s Hoseb Dermillian (@HosebDM) about AI trends and how NetApp and Intel products are enabling the AI data pipeline to become a reality.

Finding the Podcast

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Behind the Scenes: Episode 205 – #VMworld2019 Preview

Welcome to the Episode 205, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast, we invite a slew of people to talk about what will be going on from a NetApp perspective at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco. 

Join us and the following guests: 

• Dan Isaacs, Sr. TME at NetApp for NVMe (@danisaacs) 
• Chris Gebhardt, Principal TME at NetApp for MAX Data (@chrisgeb) 

• Karl Konnerth, TME for Virtualization in ONTAP (@konnerth) 
• Steven Cortéz Virtualization Technical Marketing Engineer (@mscproductions) 
• Yadin Porter de Leon, Global Executive Content Strategist at VMware (vTrail map, Tech Village podcast, @porterdeleon) 
• Andy Banta, Storage Janitor at NetApp (@andybanta) 
• Pete Flecha, TME at VMware (Virtually Speaking Podcast, @vPedroArrow) 

Finding the Podcast

You can find this week’s episode here:

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Behind the Scenes: Episode 204 – Chainkit with Val Bercovici

Welcome to the Episode 204, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast, an old friend joins us to talk about his newest venture into blockchain and security. Join us as we discuss Chainkit (@Chainkit) and PencilDATA (@pencil_DATA) with founder Val Bercovici (@valb00) and how you can use it to protect your enterprise environments. 

Finding the Podcast

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Behind the Scenes: Episode 203 – Edge to Core to Cloud to VMworld 2019 #vExpert

Welcome to the Episode 203, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast, we talk with Intel’s CTO Bill Giard (@billgiard) about what Intel’s been up to with hybrid cloud and VMware, as well as what they might be up to at VMworld 2019! 

Chris Gebhardt (@chrisgeb) also joins us. 

Finding the Podcast

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Behind the Scenes: Episode 202 – TCP Performance Enhancements in ONTAP 9.6

Welcome to the Episode 202, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast, we bring in networking guru Richard Scheffenegger (srichard@netapp.com) to discuss how networking performance over long distance WANs is crazy fast thanks to the implementation of CUBIC TCP in ONTAP 9.6. 

Dan Isaacs (@danisaacs) also joins us for a discussion with Richard about RDMA. 

Finding the Podcast

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Behind the Scenes: Episode 201 – Nvidia, NetApp and AI

Welcome to the Episode 201, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast, we welcome Tony Paikeday (@TonyPaikeday) from NVidia and NetApp Technical Director Santosh Rao (@santorao) to talk about AI and if it’s here to stay or a passing fad… 

You can find more information about NetApp AI here: 

https://www.netapp.com/ai/  

And Nvidia AI here: 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/ai-computing/ 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/deep-learning-ai/ 

Finding the Podcast

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Behind the Scenes: Episode 200 – Cloud, Mentorship, Comics!

Welcome to the Episode 200, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast,we celebrate our 200th episode by inviting some old friends back to talk about cloud, mentoring and comics!

Join us as we welcome:

• Kaslin Fields (@kaslinfields) – Cloud Advocate, Oracle kaslin.rocks

• Glenn Sizemore (@glnsize) – Technical Marketing for VMware’s Storage and Availability
• Jonathan Rippy (@jkrippy) – Trident Developer, NetApp

Finding the Podcast

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Behind the Scenes: Episode 198- NetApp A-Team ETL 2019

Welcome to the Episode 198, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast, the NetApp A-Team joins us to discuss their experiences at the annual ETL meeting at NetApp HQ. Find out what stuff stood out the most to them, what trends they’re seeing and who their favorite speakers were! 

The NetApp A-Team is a group of partners, customers and social media technology influencers that advocate for NetApp. To find out more or to connext with members, check out this link: 

https://community.netapp.com/t5/NetApp-A-Team/gp-p/netapp-a-team  

Featured in this episode… 

• Dan Isaacs, NetApp (@danisaacs) 

 

East Coast session: 

• Jason Benedicic, Independent Consultant (@jabenedicic) 
• Ruairi McBride, Arrow (@mcbride_ruairi) 

• Mike Palic, Sr. Storage Engineer, Meridian IT (@SpindleNinja) 

 

West Coast session: 

• Chris Olsen, Solutions Architect, Los Alamos National Labs (@colsenNM) 
• John Woodall, Integrated Archive Systems (@John_Woodall) 

• Ryan Beaty, Red8 (@RyanONTAP) 
• Becky Elliott, Ironbrick (@beckylelliott) 
• Sam Moulton, NetApp (@SamMoulton) 

Finding the Podcast

You can find this week’s episode here:

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