With a fantastic session with DDN during the recent IT Press Tour in California early June with Paul Bloch, President and co-founder, and Sven Oehme, CTO, covering HPC Storage but above all AI Storage and all connected domains and challenges, I got the idea to extend this with a special talk with Sven. We spoke about the product strategy of course, ExaScaler and Infinia in details, new design requirements to deliver new performance levels, how their installed base and new customers adopt Infinia and of course spent some time on the directions and the future. A great episode I invite you to listen carefully. Enjoy, Thank you Sven.

Cohesity, I should say the NEW Cohesity, participated to The IT Press Tour for the 4th time and this moment was again key to learn about the current state of the union 6 months after the effective date last December. We had a dense meeting with Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President, and his executives team and based on that I decided to record a episode with Vasu Murthy, Cohesity's CPO. We spoke about the products convergence, roadmap, new features, synergies and what is coming... a very good and dense program that protects users' investment. This also confirms that Cohesity is now the market leader in terms of Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software based on revenue, market share and protected data volume. Enjoy the episode, a really good one with lots of info. Thank you Vasu.

Participating to the Storage Technology Showcase for a few years, I decided this time to record a special interview with Quinn Mitchell, creator and owner of the conference. We spoke about the genesis of the event, the mission, goals, objectives and future directions. A very interesting episode to learn more about a unique conference in the industry. Enjoy, Thank you Quinn.

I follow Lucidity since they wen tout of stealth and became visible on the market and I was intrigued by the mechanism they used behind. Lucidity decided to join the recent 62nd edition of The IT Press Tour in California to launch their new product Lumen, a block tiering solution in addition to AutoScaler, their current and first product. In this episode with Nitin Bhadauria, founder of Lucidity with Vatsal Rastogi, we cover the genesis of the project, what challenges the team wish to solve, how the 2 product work, where and how they're deployed, their go-to-market model and pricing philosophy and of course cover a bit of the future directions. A very interesting talk and I invite you to watch carefully Lucidity. Enjoy the listening, thank you Nitin.

The LTO Consortium has made a significant step with the LTO-10 and a few vendors have announced its availability with, again, some disappointments as it offers only 30TB raw. If you consider the original roadmap it represents a big drop. I discuss all these points in this episode as tape is today only considered for archive and deep archive with a key advantage, its cost associated with its nature being a passive media. Enjoy.

Beyond classic annual Coldago Research End-Users Surveys I had the idea to collect, around the end of 2024, opinions and comments from the field asking only end-users about the most impacting data storage technologies in the first 25 years of the century. And we got amazing results, I let your discover the top 3 and if you insist I can even share the #4, #5 and #6. Enjoy.

I discovered Quesma during The IT Press Tour we ran in Boston in October 2024 with the Hydrolix session explaining why Quesma is key for their solution adoption and integration and what they offer. I invited Jack Migdal, CEO and founder of Quesma, for this last edition in Europe, this time in London, UK, as I wished to learn more and understand better how it works. With Jacek, we spoke about the genesis of the project, what pains they address, how they solve these, their GTM and pricing model and conclude with some future directions. Very good episode, hope you will enjoy it. Thank you Jacek.

The 4th edition of Huawei Technologies Innovative Data Infrastructure Forum 2025 took place in Munich, Germany, last week. With several announcements, news, updates and refreshes plus a good comprehensive expo zone, the Chinese giant continues its pressure on the markets with AI Storage, All Flash Data center products, High scalability and resiliency at a very attractive dense, cost effective and green dimensions. We understand that a new A600 is coming, the 122TB SSD will be shipped overseas, the Dorado v7 architecture penetrates the marketOceanProtect with impressive capacity plus DCS and DME. A great event where I had the privilege to deliver a keynote. Thank you.