I decided to publish another Talkshow podcast and point you to the new home for ATITB on hpe.com. You can find it at www.hpe.com/dmn/ATITB. You can subscribe to it there on your favorite podcast network!

Around the IT Block is moving to a new hosting service (yeah, no ads inserted) and I explain the details why in this farewell to TalkShoe podcast. Here's where you can now subscribe to the "new" Around the IT Block podcast. * Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2Fyb3VuZC10aGUtaXQtYmxvY2s= * Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9849d4ca-19ee-4243-8d74-e7116efac1e6 * Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=656289 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0h38zPQLVss8EoqDxpqO4K * Podcast Addict: https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3648405 * Transistor (RSS feed from hosting service): https://feeds.transistor.fm/around-the-it-block

I was joined by MSA expert and Tech Marketing Engineer lead Ben Smith. Ben is one of my go-to-people when I need help with MSA and decided it was time to have him on the podcast. We talked about the MSA in general, what's new with MSA Gen6, and a bonus discussion talking about the J2000 "Just a bunch of Flash" enclosures.

In this podcast, I have two HPE GreenLake Lighthouse experts to help explain it and how it fits into HPE GreenLake. I was joined by Chris Eidler and John Gromala, both from the Lighthouse team. In the podcast, here's what we covered (note - times do NOT include the 15 second commercial that TalkShoe added to the podcast): 00:00 Intros 04:40 What is HPE GreenLake Lighthouse and why was it developed? 07:40 Where does HPE GreenLake Lighthouse fit into HPE GreenLake Cloud Services? 09:25 How do we simplify the customer experience with HPE GreenLake Lighthouse? 14:20 HPE GreenLake is either on-premises or in a colo - how does it compare to hyperscalers? 15:40 How does a customer get HPE GreenLake Lighthouse? 21:40 What does HPE GreenLake Lighthouse actually do? 24:00 Compare composbility with HPE Synergy to HPE GreenLake Lighthouse 25:30 What does HPE GreenLake Lighthouse support now and where is it going? 27:30 Summing up HPE GreenLake Lighthouse and HPE GreenLake 31:00 Wrap-up

In this podcast, I talk to Chris Coletti and Jon Hildebrand to talk about Cohesity, the relationship with HPE, and how the partnership is making data management and recovery easier. There's also an abbreviated version of this podcast on YouTube at https://youtu.be/b3fsC-SiWPU. Here's what we covered (however note that TalkShoe adds a 30 second commercial up front): * 0-2:25 Intros * 2:25-5:50 The importance and benefits of the tech community * 5:50-9:00 Intro to Cohesity * 9:00-14:20 HPE/Cohesity relationship * 14:25-19:35 Legacy backup and where are we now * 19:35-25:10 Nimble snapshot integration * 25:10-29:50 Cohesity architecture and why it's important * 29:50-35:05 Ransomware and how Cohesity helps * 35:05-36:40 Jon and Chris' podcasts and videos * 36:40-38:15 More info and wrap-up

Back in late April, Scality partnering with HPE announced ARTESCA. I'm joined by our partner OEM partner Scality and have a podcast looking at ARTESCA, cloud native object based storage. Joining me on the podcast is Wally MacDermid, VP of Strategic Alliances and Business Development at Scality and Candida Valois, Americas Field CTO for Scality. 

This is the last of three podcasts that I originally recorded as one but decided to chop them up into three. My guest in this podcast is Chris Kinzler, a Solution Product Manager in HPE Storage. Chris is responsible for SAP HANA and Oracle; in this podcast we talked Oracle and mixed workloads and in #7 we talked SAP HANA workloads. He discussed industry trends and some testing done with the new HPE Alletra data infrastructure that was announced on May 4th.

In this second of three podcasts talking about application workloads, Mike Harding, Solution Product Manager for HPE Storage joined me to talk about Microsoft SQL Server and what he is seeing both from an industry standpoint and specifically with workload testing that HPE has done with HPE Alletra, the new data infrastructure that was announced on May 4th.

This is the first of three podcasts that I originally recorded as one but decided to chop them up into three. My guest in this podcast is Chris Kinzler, a Solution Product Manager in HPE Storage. Chris is responsible for SAP HANA and Oracle; in this podcast we talked SAP HANA and in #9 we talked Oracle and mixed workloads. He discussed industry trends and some testing done with the new HPE Alletra data infrastructure that was announced on May 4th.

Ok - so let's move away from storage for this episode and look at HPE Compute. I caught up with Krista Satterthwaite, the VP and GM of HPE Mainstream Compute. In this podcast, we recapped what is the latest in HPE's mainstream compute portfolio. We talked about compute and transformation, updates to the ProLiant Gen10 Plus portfolio, security, workload-optimized compute, compute as-a-Service, and how HPE Financial Services is also helping. Learn more at www.hpe.com/solutions/compute.

In this podcast, I talked about the HPE Storage strategy and shared about the May 4th webcast that will include HPE CEO Antonio Neri. I also discussed VMware vVols and the leadership position HPE has with over 55% of all vVols on HPE Storage. It's a short podcast (10 minutes) and I titled it setting the record straight because each of the two topics had industry people misrepresenting HPE - and my sense of justice had to set the record straight! You can get an email reminder for the May 4th webcast here: http://www.hpe.com/dmn/unleashdata