Episodes

  • Storage Unpacked 263 – The HYCU State of SaaS Data Resilience Report 2024
    Nov 4 2024
    In this recording, Chris talks to Subbiah Sundaram, SVP of Products at HYCU, Inc. about the 2024 edition of the HYCU State of SaaS Resilence Report. The report surveys customers to understand the gaps in perceived and actual data protection for SaaS platforms and the results are quite surprising.
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    40 mins
  • Storage Unpacked 262 – The Ethics and Regulation of AI
    Oct 18 2024
    In this podcast episode, Chris is in conversation with Jeffries Briginshaw (Head of EMEA Government Relations at NetApp) and Adam Gale (CTO for AI & Cyber Security, NetApp) discussing the EU AI Act and the regulation of artificial intelligence across the world. The EU AI Act is an early introduction into the regulation of the use of AI by businesses within their engagements and interactions with customers. As explained in this conversation, there are classifications of AI types and within that, restrictions on what businesses are permitted to implement based on those categorisations. Some AI usage will be banned, while others will require human intervention and close monitoring. How should your business engage with AI and ensure compliance with the act? Listen to the discussion for more details. As mentioned in the recording, for details on what NetApp can offer, point your favourite browser to https://www.netapp.com/artificial-intelligence/ to learn more. Elapsed Time: 00:52:17 Timeline 00:00:00 - Intros 00:01:19 - Why should we be regulating AI? 00:02:30 - What will the impacts of AI be on personal and work life? 00:03:55 - What if we get regulation wrong? 00:05:30 - What happens if AI goes wrong, such as data poisoning? 00:09:04 - Existing EU/UK law has been successful at regulation (GDPR) 00:10:25 - What is the EU AI Act? 00:11:46 - “Prohibited Practices” will be banned from 2025 00:14:00 - How will the use of business in AI be regulated? 00:18:05 - The EU AI Act appears to focus on protection for individuals 00:20:56 - EU citizens are broadly positive to AI - if it is successfully regulated 00:21:52 - Compliance has an overhead - in terms of hard costs (developers) 00:25:20 - What are the penalties for not complying with the EU AI Act? 00:29:50 - What about the rest of the world - the US and elsewhere? 00:35:10 - Could we see “cross-border” complexity? 00:37:40 - What are the technology implications for AI regulation? 00:40:07 - Should businesses be demonstrating their AI compliance? 00:44:03 - What does NetApp offer customers to help AI compliance? 00:47:38 - AI will require a “big red stop button” 00:50:00 - Wrap Up Copyright (c) 2016-2024 Unpacked Network. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #dfsx
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    52 mins
  • Storage Unpacked 261 – Pure Storage Platform Announcements at Accelerate 2024 (Sponsored)
    Jun 19 2024
    In this podcast episode, Chris discusses the platform update announcements from Pure Accelerate 2024 with Prakash Darji, VP and GM of the Digital Experience BU at Pure Storage.
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    39 mins
  • Storage Unpacked 260 – Hitachi VSP One Updates with Dan McConnell
    Jun 14 2024
    In this podcast episode, Chris catches up with Dan McConnell, Senior VP for Product Management at Hitachi Vantara. The company recently announced VSP One Block, a new mid-range appliance for block storage.
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    15 mins
  • Storage Unpacked 259 – Sustainable Storage in the World of AI with Shawn Rosemarin (Sponsored)
    May 31 2024
    In this episode, Chris discusses the topic of building sustainable storage solutions with Shawn Rosemarin, Global VP of Customer Engineering at Pure Storage.
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    52 mins
  • Storage Unpacked 258 – Introducing Infinidat G4, InfuzeOS 8 and InfiniSafe ACP (Sponsored)
    May 22 2024
    In this episode, Chris talks to Infinidat CMO, Eric Herzog. Infinidat has announced one of the biggest upgrades in eight years, with the release of InfiniBox and InfiniBox SSA G4, the fourth generation of enterprise-class storage.
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    47 mins
  • Storage Unpacked 257 – The Future of Data Storage in the Enterprise (Sponsored)
    Apr 26 2024
    In this sponsored episode, Chris talks to Fred Lherault and Larry Touchette from Pure Storage on the evolution of storage in the enterprise and the impacts on storage administration.
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    50 mins
  • Storage Unpacked 256 – Hyper-scalers and SAS with Rick Kutcipal
    Feb 23 2024
    In this episode, Chris chats to Rick Kutcipal, "At-Large Director" with the SCSI Trade Association. The topic of conversation is the adoption of SAS media (both HDDs and SSDs) by hyper-scale customers that include public cloud vendors and companies such as Meta.
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    33 mins