In this episode, Chris chats to Anurag Gupta, co-founder at Calyptia about the requirements for system observability, specifically using Fluentd and Fluent Bit. Fluentd is a data collection tool, written in Ruby and C and used to collect data from multiple system types. Fluent Bit is a log collection tool written in C with an emphasis on efficiently collecting data from embedded Linux systems, including the IoT market. In this discussion Anurag explains the background to observability versus monitoring and how modern SaaS applications also need data to be collected and analysed. Data collection needs to be secure, filtered and obfuscated where necessary, to ensure PII or other sensitive data isn't leaked inadvertently. Calyptia manages Fluentd and Fluent Bit deployments, providing a SaaS portal to establish rules and policies on data sources, filtering and storage.



For more information, check out https://calyptia.com/ and https://www.fluentd.org/.



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Timeline




00:00:00 - Intros



00:02:40 - Microsoft loves Linux! (Now)



00:04:13 - What is Fluentd and Fluent Bit?



00:06:23 - Modern app complexity requires a greater depth - observability



00:08:30 - A filter system is required to highlight important metrics



00:09:16 - What data are customers typically collecting?



00:11:30 - SaaS applications also have observability requirements



00:13:58 - Why Fluentd and Fluent Bit?



00:16:08 - How much overhead does observability add?



00:19:12 - Fluentd/Fluent Bit are light touch solutions



00:19:40 - How are policies applied to data collection?



00:22:00 - Calyptia adds on enterprise-class management functionality



00:25:15 - Log data needs to be treated securely and safely, with “zero trust”



00:28:45 - Are there any gaps in log data collection?



00:32:15 - Calyptia supports Lua rules



00:33:30 - How is collected data visualised?



00:39:00 - Wrap Up








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In this podcast recording, Chris talks to Manjusha Gangadharan (VP of Customer Engagement) and Kshitish Soman (Head of Product and Operations), both from the Lyve Cloud division of Seagate.

In this Hybrid Cloud episode, Chris talks to Andrew Moloney, CMO at SoftIron. SoftIron recently announced HyperCloud, a bespoke hardware and software package for building scalable private clouds.

This week, Chris chats with marketing expert Gina Minks to discuss whether superclouds really exist or are just another marketing term.

On the face of it, public cloud seems like a great place for long-term retention of unstructured data. However, as volumes of data stored rise, the cost of exiting the cloud cloud become prohibitively expensive. What's the right strategy to follow? In this discussion, Chris chats to Matt Starr from Spectralogic on how to build out a model of public/private cloud storage and the pitfalls to avoid in the process.

The public cloud offers new ways to consume IT resources, but what does it mean for the way in which businesses look at the cost of IT? On-premises vendors need to get more flexible and creative in the way they offer services to their customers. In this podcast episode, Chris talks to Eran Brown, EMEA CTO at Infinidat about the challenges of aligning on-premises and public cloud consumption from a financial, business and technical perspective.



Timeline



00:00 - Intros 02:00 - What does hybrid cloud storage mean? 03:00 - Cloud storage looks different in public cloud 05:00 - New features mean data mobility is required 07:00 - Avoid egress charges by using cloud-adjacent storage 08:00 - Standardise - or abstract? 12:00 - Pricing and internal procurement affect cloud usage 16:00 - Infinidat architecture allows flexibility to seed data centres 20:00 - Fast cars don’t need a 5 litre engine 24:00 - How do SMBs, mid-market and enterprises use hybrid? 26:40 - Does the Innovator’s Dilemma impact cloud adoption? 29:00 - Are MSPs at an advantage with hybrid cloud? 35:00 - What will Enterprises do for hybrid adoption? 38:00 - Wrap Up



Eran's Bio







Eran Brown is CTO, EMEA, at INFINIDAT.  With over 15 years in the storage industry, Brown has an extensive technical background in networking, security, virtualisation, Big Data tools and other critical infrastructure components. Having gained broad experience as a Pre-Sales Engineer at NetApp to a Senior Product Manager at INFINIDAT, Brown has proven results in leading technical sales activities and delivering new products to market. In addition to this, he has familiarised himself with the multiple verticals throughout his career including the financial sector, oil & gas, telecoms and software industry – assisting in the planning, design and deployment of scalable infrastructure to support business applications.







Copyright (c) 2020 Brookend Limited, no reproduction in part or whole without permission. Episode S02E02.

As developers move to a model of continuous integration and delivery, it's easy for sprawl to occur and vulnerabilities introduced through poor management of CI/CD infrastructure. Codefresh offers a solution for efficient CI/CD pipeline management using containers. Chris talks to Dan Garfield, Chief Technology Evangelist at Codefresh to learn more about how the company helps organisations streamline and manage their CI/CD deployments.



Timeline



00:00 - Intros 02:00 - How has software deployment changed over time? 05:05 - COBOL is seeing a resurgence! 07:00 - Environment sprawl is a big problem 08:40 - How is CodeFresh configured and installed? 16:12 - What are customers doing with CodeFresh? 22:20 - Waiting 5 seconds is too slow for some developers 24:30 - Wrap Up



Copyright (c) 2020 Brookend Limited, no reproduction in part or whole without permission. Episode S02E01.

Cohesity protects customer data through traditional backup, but also extends that model with file services and marketplace applications. In this episode, Chris talks to Rawlinson Rivera, Global Field CTO at Cohesity about what hybrid cloud really means and how customers are using the Cohesity technology to protect their data and deliver value-add services.



Timeline



00:00 - intros01:00 - What is hybrid cloud?02:50 - Cohesity translates data protection to app mobility05:45 - How often to customers move data around?07:19 - Can analytics be run against protected data?08:52 - Owning the metadata for data is a critical requirement11:25 - What industry examples can we reference?13:20 - Don’t upgrade your phone while driving 14:40 - Wrap Up



Copyright (c) 2020 Brookend Limited, no reproduction in part or whole without permission. Episode S01E05.

Datrium provides application and workload mobility through tools and solutions that protect and migrate data between public and private clouds. In this episode, Chris talks to CEO Tim Page and CTO Sazzala Reddy about the realities of implementing hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. Tim provides some details on customer use-cases and the potential cost savings that arise from simplifying primary storage, backup and DR into a single solution.



Timeline



00:00 - Intros 01:05 - How real are hybrid & multi-clouds? 03:20 - It’s all about data, not infrastructure 04:00 - Are workloads really dynamic? 04:45 - Virtual machines are still the primary deployment model 07:15 - What is the mix of containers and VMs in the real world? 08:30 - Does operational process hamper container adoption? 10:45 - Developers want speed to develop quickly - seconds or less! 14:00 - Are customers worried about complexity of implementations? 16:00 - Storage is stil hugely complex and cumbersome 18:10 - SANs will shrink to a minimal footprint as systems transition 20:30 - Applications & workloads need to look consistent across clouds 23:15 - Datrium now offers full DR for the enterprise 27:00 - If your entire IT department was wiped out, could DR still be done? 28:45 - Datrium’s goal is converged Primary, Backup & DR in a single platform 31:30 - Other benefits - workload migration & consolidation 36:00 - Wrap Up



Copyright (c) 2019 Brookend Limited, no reproduction in part or whole without permission. Episode S01E04.

Sumo Logic provides log management solutions based in the public cloud. PAF is a Finnish gaming company that uses Sumo Logic technology for log analysis. In this episode, Chris talks to Clive McDonald from Sumo Logic and Lars-Göran Hakamo from PAF about the choice to move to a cloud-based model for log management services.



Timeline



00:00 - Intros01:36 - Who are PAF?02:10 - Why Sumo Logic?04:25 - What is log analysis?06:40 - Why use the cloud for log analysis?09:20 - How does a 53 year old company move to the cloud?12:15 - How do Sumo Logic work with customers?15:10 - Did Sumo Logic deliver anything unique as a service?18:33 - What didn’t work in moving to cloud?21:00 - The PoC experience can be different with cloud23:10 - Where is cloud technology headed?25:15 - Wrap Up



Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Brookend Limited, no reproduction in part or whole without permission. Episode S01E03.