TechONTAPPodcast

Episode 110: Automated Support with Elio and IBM Watson

25 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we invited Ross Ackerman in to discuss what Elio of SolidFire fame has been up to lately and how IBM Watson is using machine...

Episode 109: ONTAP 9.3 Security Enhancements

20 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we cover the new security enhancements in ONTAP 9.3 with the security super squad, Juan Mojica and Dan Tulledge. Join us as ...

Episode 108: NetApp Insight 2017: Las Vegas Recap

05 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we rounded up some of the NetApp A-Team members to discuss NetApp Insight 2017 in Las Vegas.

Episode 107: NetApp Insight, GPDR, & Data Fabric

29 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we get ready for Insight with a couple of interviews with some of the folks that will be attending the conference from NetAp...

Episode 106 - NetApp Insight 2017 Preview

22 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we preview NetApp Insight 2017 with one of the event’s track leads, Jake Thorne, as well as the mastermind of Insight Cent...

Episode 105 - Converged Systems Advisor

15 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we chat about converged systems like FlexPod, and how the NetApp acquisition of Immersive brought us Config Advisor for your...

Episode 104 – NetApp E-Series Overview

08 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we rounded up a bevy of NetApp E-Series experts to give us a high level overview on what many consider to be NetApp's drag r...

Episode 103 – vNAS using ONTAP Select

01 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we brought in the technical director for ONTAP Select, Peter Skovrup to discuss the latest improvements in ONTAP Select, inc...

Episode 102 – ONTAP Data Protection Overview

25 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we invited NetApp Data Protection Director of Product Management, Anand Nadathur and Data Protection TME Siddharth Agrawal ...

Episode 101 - NetApp at VMworld 2017 & VSC 7.0

18 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we bring in Dr. Desktop, Chris Gebhardt and Virtualization TME/NetApp A-Team member Steven Cortez to talk about what’s goi...

Episode 100 – XCP

11 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the 100th episode of the Tech ONTAP Podcast! To help us celebrate, we brought in the XCP team. Join XCP developer Bogdan Minciu and Product Ma...

Episode 99 – Databases as a Service: Containers

04 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we brought in NetApp’s Oracle expert, Jeff Steiner to talk about how he’s using Docker containers to deploy Oracle appli...

Episode 98: SnapCenter 3.0

27 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we check in with SnapCenter TME John Spinks to find out what’s in SnapCenter 3.0 – just in time for its release.

Episode 97: ONTAP Analytics and Telemetry Service (OATS)

21 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we’re talking ONTAP Analytics in the cloud and the new OATS product with a crew of performance folks including Greg Keller...

Episode 96: Death of the Specialized Admin

14 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we invite the Storage Janitor, Andy Banta and Developer Advocate, Josh Atwell to speak with us about the role of the storage...

Episode 95 – Quarterly Security Update: WannaCry and Petya

07 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we kick off a series of quarterly security update episodes to reflect the ever-changing security and vulnerability landscape...

Episode 94: FlexPod SF

27 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we discuss the latest NetApp converged offering, FlexPod with SolidFire, also known as FlexPod SF! Join us as we welcome Fle...

Episode 93: Women in Technology

22 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we chat with a few of NetApp’s Women in Tech about the Women in Tech program. In October, 2009, NetApp launched the Women ...

Episode 92: FabricPool Deep Dive

16 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we bring in the FabricPool lifeguard, John Lantz, to give us the nuts and bolts behind the new ONTAP 9.2 feature. Also joini...

Episode 91: Learning to Code with Ashley McNamara

09 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we invite chat with developer advocate, Ashley McNamara of Pivotal to talk about how storage administrators (and pretty much...

Episode 89 - NetApp HCI. Enterprise-Scale

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we invite Derek Leslie and Gabriel Chapman for the big reveal of NetApp’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution! Come fin...

Episode 88 – ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

26 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we invite Hadrian Baron of NetApp’s migration team to talk about NAS and SAN migrations, as well as how customers are find...

Episode 87 – NetApp A-Team Visits NetApp in RTP

19 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we recap the NetApp A-Team’s visit to NetApp RTP for their annual meeting called Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) where NetA...

Episode 86 – Veeam 9.5 Update 2

12 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we dub the week “Release Week” as we roll out a third episode of NetApp Tech ONTAP podcast goodness. We bring in the Tec...

Episode 85 – ONTAP 9.2 Overview with Jeff Baxter

11 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we dub the week “Release Week” as we roll out a second episode of NetApp Tech ONTAP podcast goodness. If you’re trave...

Episode 84 – StorageGRID Webscale 10.4

08 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we welcome Duncan Moore, Director of StorageGRID at NetApp, in to chat about the latest and greatest StorageGRID WebScale re...

Episode 83 – OnCommand Unified Manager 7.2

21 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we chat with Philip Bachman and Yossi Weihs about the new OnCommand Unified Manager update! Find out what’s new and why Un...

Episode 82 – DockerCon Preview Featuring nDVP and Trident

14 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, it’s just Justin and Andrew chatting about the upcoming Docker conference in Austin, TX, as well as updates to the NetApp ...

Episode 81 – NetApp Service Level Manager

07 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we invited the NetApp Service Level Manager team to talk to us about how they’re revolutionizing storage as a service and ...

Episode 80 – Active IQ (formerly MyAutosupport)

31 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we brought in Sudip Hore to talk about the new and improved MyAutosupport Dashboard. Join us as we discuss the new predicti...

Episode 79 – Databases and the Cloud with Jeff Steiner

24 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we amped up the brain power by inviting Jeff Steiner to discuss databases and the cloud as it pertains to ONTAP and SolidFir...

Episode 78 – NetApp Certifications NCIE Featuring the NetApp A-Team

17 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, several NetApp A-Team members were in RTP to help create the NetApp NCIE exams that are used to help officially certify stor...

Episode 77: 2017 CTO Predictions

10 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we welcome NetApp CTO Dr. Mark Bregman to the podcast to discuss his recent CTO predictions with us and elaborate a bit on where he sees th...

Episode 76 – Customer Chat with Yahoo’s Jeff Mohler

03 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we bring in a NetApp customer for a candid chat about how they use NetApp’s portfolio in their environment and what sort o...

Episode 75 - NetApp 101

24 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we brought in a couple of NetApp n00bz from SolidFire – Amy Lewis and Mike Turner to talk about NetApp basics, from our portfolio offerin...

Episode 74 – ONTAP Performance 101 with Tony Gaddis

17 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we invited Mr. Performance, Tony Gaddis, to discuss ONTAP performance and to give a high level overview of how to diagnose performance issu...

Episode 73: SNIA and Technology Trends

10 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we invite one of NetApp’s SNIA members, Alex McDonald, to discuss SNIA and technology trends in the storage industry. We get technical an...

Episode 72 - Demystifying NVMe

03 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we welcome in a gaggle of NetApp technology brain power to discuss the next evolution in Flash storage – NVMe. We discuss whether NVMe is...

Episode 71 - SPC-1 Results and the New A700s

31 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we talk about the brand spanking new AFF platform, as well as the insanely high results from the SPC-1 benchmark test! We bring in the perf...

Episode 70: SnapCenter 2.0

27 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, John Spinks gives us the lowdown on the latest SnapCenter release, SnapCenter 2.0. Join us as we talk about all the new chan...

Episode 69: SolidFire – First Year Review

20 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we invited Amy Lewis and Andy Banta to give us their thoughts on the past year after the SolidFire acquisition by NetApp. We...

Episode 68 - Big Data, Hadoop & NoSQL on NetApp

13 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we welcome NetApp Technical Marketing Engineer Karthikeyan Nagalingam to discuss Big Data solutions like Hadoop, Spark and N...

Episode 67 - Trident and Kubernetes

06 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

2017 has arrived! After a holiday hiatus, the Tech ONTAP podcast guys return with Technical Director Garrett Mueller to talk about the NetApp Pub and ...

Episode 66 - vMiss Gets Her VCDX On

02 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the Tech ONTAP Podcast team syncs up with NetApp's first VCDX - vMiss herself - Melissa Palmer! We talk about what VCDX is and what it mean...

NetApp Insight 2016 - Berlin: Day 4

17 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Insight Berlin is a wrap! I managed to track down a few people before everyone headed back home. Glenn, Chris Gebhardt and I did the podcast from the...

NetApp Insight 2016 - Berlin: Day 3

16 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Day 3 of NetApp Insight Berlin is wrapped up! We grabbed Pete Flecha from VMware, Michael Cade from Veeam and Ross Ackerman and Julia McClung from Ne...

NetApp Insight 2016 - Berlin: Day 2

15 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

We rounded up the NetApp A-Team to give their thoughts on Day 2 of NetApp Insight 2016 in Berlin. We also managed to get the Lab on Demand guys as wel...

NetApp Insight 2016 - Berlin: Day 1

14 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Day 1 of NetApp Insight Berlin is in the books! Listen as we sit down with the folks manning the Developer Cafe as we discuss the lessons learned fro...

Episode 65: DevOps with Gene Kim

11 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the Tech ONTAP Podcast team was very fortunate to corral the godfather of DevOps and author of the Phoenix Project, Gene Kim! We talk about...

Episode 64: VMworld & OpenStack Summit Recaps

04 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Barcelona had back to back tech conferences the past few weeks. First, VMworld, then OpenStack Summit. We talk with Keith Norbie (@KeithNorbie) and An...

Episode 63: What Is FabricPool?

28 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we welcome NetApp Product Manager Arun Raman to talk about FabricPool, the latest thread in the Data Fabric.

Episode 62: ONTAP 9.1 Hardware Refresh

21 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we learn tons of new information about the latest platform releases for ONTAP 9.1 and bring in Flash TME Skip Shapiro and PM...

Episode 61: Security and Storage

14 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we discuss security in storage systems with the new security TME Andrae Middleton and NetApp A-Team member Jarett Kulm of Hi...

Episode 60: NetApp Insight 2016 Recap – Las Vegas

07 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we recap NetApp Insight 2016 in Las Vegas! Join us as we discuss the keynotes, what we were up to and what we thought of the...

Insight 2016 Recap Las Vegas - Day 4

30 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

It's the last day of NetApp Insight Las Vegas 2016 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information fr...

Insight 2016 Recap Las Vegas - Day 3

29 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

It's day 3 of NetApp Insight Las Vegas 2016 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information from the ...

Insight 2016 Recap Las Vegas - Day 2

28 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Day 2 of NetApp Insight Las Vegas 2016 is in the books and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and informatio...

Insight 2016 Recap Las Vegas - Day 1

27 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

It's the first day of NetApp Insight Las Vegas 2016 and the guys from the Tech ONTAP Podcast have you covered on all the latest news and information f...

Episode 59 - NetApp Volume Encryption

26 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we welcome Juan Mojica (@Juan_M_Mojica), product manager for the new feature NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE). NVE is available in ONTAP 9.1,...

Episode 58: NetApp Insight 2016 Preview - Las Vegas

23 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we invite some of our NetApp Insight resources to discuss what’s going on this year at the event. We welcome the NetApp Co...

Episode 57 - Scale Out Networking in ONTAP

16 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we are joined by Juan Mojica (@juan_m_mojica), Product Manager at NetApp, for a technical discussion about scale out network...

Episode 56: VMworld 2016 Recap

09 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we invite Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja), Josh Atwell (@josh_atwell)and Chris Gebhardt (@chrisgeb) to discuss VMworld 2016 in Vegas and how NetApp...

Episode 55: Foreign LUN Import

02 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we talk Foreign LUN Import with the @NTAPFLIGuy himself, NetApp SAN TME Mike Peppers! Find out how you can easily migrate LUNs from competi...

Episode 54: VVols on SolidFire

26 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we bring in the Storage Janitor™ himself, Andy Banta to do a deep dive into VVols on SolidFire. Andy will also be at VMWorld to answer yo...

Episode 53: Developer Advocacy and Kubernetes

19 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we welcome a very special guest – developer advocate rockstar Kelsey Hightower from Google/Kubernetes! Kelsey gives us the run down on hi...

Episode 52: SolidFire's Position in NetApp's Portfolio

12 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we bring in NetApp/SolidFire’s Business Development Manager Keith Norbie and Product Marketing Manager Kelly Boeckman to talk about where...

Episode 51: Guided Problem Solving & Tech Support Chat

05 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we welcome Ross Ackerman, Technical Director of Supportability, into the studio to talk about some exciting innovations within the support ...

Episode 50: Cisco Live Recap

29 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, we unceremoniously celebrate our 50th episode with a chat with Glenn Sizemore on his Cisco Live experience and it...

Episode 49: Data Governance & Operational Point Objectives

22 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week we welcome NetApp IT to the show again to discuss data governance and how they’re applying security policies to data inside our own organi...

Episode 48: ONTAP 9 Manageability Tools

15 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

We wrap up ONTAP 9 Month here at the Tech ONTAP Podcast with Joel Kaufman, a Director of Technical Marketing here at NetApp. We discuss the new and im...

Episode 47: DockerCon 2016 Recap

08 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

We take a break from "ONTAP 9 Month" during the holiday week to recap DockerCon 2016 with John Griffith, Software Engineer at SolidFire, and Garrett M...

Episode 46: FlexGroups

01 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

It’s still "ONTAP 9 Month" on the podcast and this week we discuss the new enterprise scale-out NAS file system – FlexGroups. Learn how NetApp is ...

Episode 45: ONTAP Select & SAN Improvements in ONTAP 9

24 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

It’s still “ONTAP 9 Month” on the podcast and this week we’re talking about ONTAP Select and SAN improvements in ONTAP 9. We have two experts...

Episode 44: ONTAP 9 Flash Improvements

17 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

It’s still "ONTAP 9 Month" on the podcast and this week we’re talking about improvements with flash. We have two experts this week, Dan Isaacs, T...

Episode 43: ONTAP 9 Data Protection Features

10 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

ONTAP 9 Month continues with this week's episode on what new features are available for data protection. We invite Technical Marketing Engineers Siddh...

Episode 42: ONTAP 9 Overview

03 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we welcome Quinn Summers in to talk about the new ONTAP 9 release and deliver a technical deep dive on those new features. We discuss RAID ...

SolidFire Analyst Day MiniCast - #BringOnTheFuture

02 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This mini-podcast covers the June 2 SolidFire announcement at Analyst Day. We interview the SolidFire CTO Val Bercovici and chat about why this announ...

Episode 41: Why ONTAP 9?

31 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Tech ONTAP podcast, we introduce ONTAP 9 month by welcoming a special guest onto the podcast – Lee Caswell, Vice President, Product...

Episode 40 - Masters Of Puppet

27 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Puppet is a declarative configuration management tool which is used by many organizations around the world to implement “Infrastructure as Code”. ...

Episode 39: The NetApp A-Team Attend ETL

20 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The NetApp A-Team is NetApp’s social media advocacy equivalent to programs like Cisco Champions and VMware’s vExpert. Made up of customers and par...

Episode 38: Docker Volume Plugin & OpenStack Summit Recap

13 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Not too long ago NetApp announced a Docker volume plugin. The plugin enables Docker users to simply and easily connect to and consume clustered Data O...

Episode 37: DevOps on Windows

05 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

It’s official… DevOps is taking the IT industry by storm. As we’ve discussed previously on the show, this movement is different as it’s more a...

Episode 36: Storage Services Design: Object Storage

29 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

For our episode this week, we sit down with Evan Miller, Enterprise Architect for NetApp, Eduardo Rivera, Storage Architect for NetApp, and Stetson We...

Episode 35: Mesosphere DC/OS

22 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this week, Mesosphere announced the open source Datacenter Operating System, and NetApp is extremely excited to be a launch partner with them....

Episode 34: OpenStack Summit Austin Preview

15 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

OpenStack continues to become more and more popular for deploying private and hybrid cloud at many organizations. This week we welcome John Griffith, ...

Episode 33: The Return of Storage Service Design

08 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

QoS is more than just preventing bullies, and the NetApp IT team, commonly referred to as Customer 1, is living the proof of that. For our episode thi...

Episode 32: SnapCenter 1.1

25 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, John Spinks (@jbspinks), aka Mr. SnapCenter, joins us in the studio to discuss the new features in SnapCenter 1.1. We talk about backups, r...

Episode 31: FlexPod with Infrastructure Automation

18 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week we bring Wyatt Bennett onto the podcast to talk about the new FlexPod offering. Bennett talks about the automation behind the scenes, and w...

Episode 30: DevOps and NetApp Private Storage

11 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, we welcome NetApp A-Team member Glenn Dekhayser (@gdekhayser) of Red8 to talk about DevOps and NetApp Private Sto...

Customer Interview: Netech

07 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The hybrid cloud has changed the rules of data management. Data may still be the crown jewels, but it’s only useful when you can put it where it’s...

Episode 29: Virtual Volumes - VVols

04 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Virtual volumes, also known as VVols, are a VMware feature for providing VM granular, policy based storage management. What this means is that as a v...

Customer Interview: Red8

29 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

At NetApp Insight 2015, NetApp Cloud Czar Val Bercovici and Red8’s Glenn Dekhayser shared their thoughts on how cloud has changed the world of DevOp...

Episode 28: SolidFire Virtualization

26 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, we wrap up February, AKA SolidFire month, with Aaron Patten, virtualization architect for SolidFire. In today’s...

Episode 27: Infrastructure Automation with Josh Atwell

19 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week we welcome Josh Atwell, Developer Advocate for SolidFire, to the podcast to have a conversation about automation, APIs, PowerShell, and decl...

Customer Interview: ING Direct

17 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A crisis is an opportunity in disguise. ING DIRECT, Australia learned this firsthand when a competing bank Down Under beat them to market with an iPad...

Episode 26: SolidFire Deep Dive

12 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, we covered the SolidFire acquisition with NetApp’s Andy Grimes. This week, we are joined by SolidFire employees, Aaron Delp and Amy Lewis...

Customer Interview: The Denver Broncos & the Road to Super Bowl 50

06 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Super Bowl 50 is just around the corner, and that means the Denver Broncos, who are also NetApp customers, have the opportunity to once again hoist th...

Episode 25: NetApp Has Acquired SolidFire

05 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week NetApp finalized its acquisition of SolidFire, and we can’t wait to get started talking about it! To kick off our dive into SolidFire, we ...

Episode 24: OpenStack 101

29 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

OpenStack is one of those technologies that many people have heard of, but don’t perhaps fully understand. What is it intended for? Who uses it? Why...

Episode 23: StorageGRID WebScale 10.2

22 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

StorageGRID Webscale is NetApp’s object data storage system. Recently version 10.2 was released and added a number of new and interesting features....