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Western Digital has imagined a split of its business, between HDD and Flash/SSD, but it didn;t go through due to external stakeholder pressure. We analyze these facts, put things in perspective with Toshiba and Kioxia story, spoke about Elliott and obviously cover as well Seagate. It is a very interesting story that should land somewhere very soon. Enjoy the listing of this special Tech Talk.

DDN, known also as DDN Storage, presents itself now as The AI Data Company and we understand why. DDN joined the recent IT Press Tour in California and it was the right opportunity to get an update on their classic HPC business, their fast growing AI activity and also their enterprise entity with Tintri, IntelliFlash and Nexenta technologies. So being in Paris a few weeks ago I decided to interview Paul Bloch, founder of the company with Alex Bouzari in 1998. As president and founder, Paul has a special view of the market, understands perfectly what is currently developed and also knows the current business situation. So together we spoke about the market of course, competition, their HPC and AI businesses, their product line and development, an update on the go-to-market strategy and pricing model and we covered also some future directions. A very dense exchange with lots of informations from Paul. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Paul.

Who doesn’t love a good trilogy?  

Cue the John Williams music!

Mr. Shane Bradley, IVOXY’s resident VMware Master, returns for his third appearance on Data Center Therapy.  Your intrepid hosts, Matt “No!  I want Performant, Scalable AND Value-Conscious!” Yette joins his co-host Matt “Have I shown you this Docker setup?” Cozzolino to collectively welcome Shane back to the DCT virtual studios, and talk about the new Advanced vSphere class he’s been working studiously on for the past few months.  Along the way, the Matts and Shane discuss:

• What folks would learn in a more advanced class covering VMware and how it can help shops with just two hosts all the way up to monster Enterprise organizations.
• How VMware vVols converged on some of the same instrumentation and monitoring that Tintri brought to the market with their VMstore appliance.
• How Host Profiles can be used to reset root passwords when your hosts get locked out.

If you’re a fan of Letterkenny, the Red Green show, or Schitt’s Creek, you’ll appreciate the alternative North American velvety tones of our favorite Albertan DCT guest and VMware expert, Shane.  We look forward to seeing many of you at Shane’s next Advanced vSphere class, debuting sometime in June 2022.  If you enjoy the episode, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts like Data Center Therapy may be found.  We wish our customers and new-to-IVOXY students the best in their VMware journeys (and are here to help!) and appreciate all the IVOXY learning and technology partnerships we’ve made through the years.  Thanks for listening!