Episode 46 - StorPool

In this episode I talk with Boyan Krosnov Chief Product Officer and co-founder at StorPool. StorPool a market leading Software defined storage vendor, offering reliable and speedy storage platforms with a focus on low latency throughput... covering Public and private clouds platforms, servicing managed cloud and Service providers as well as enterprises, and SaaS vendors. Boyan an myself talk about how StorPool leverages an agnostic approach to hardware to allow StorPool to run across multiple hardware platforms and configurations while still maintaining reliable and speedy storage and how they have ridden the alternative new age IT stacks to success. 

StorPool was founded in 2011 and is Head Quartered out of the Sofia, Bulgaria.

☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Block Storage, Storage, NVMe, Object Storage, Kubernetes, VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, OpenStack, Cloudstack, Software Defined Storage

☑️  Raw Talking Points:

• MSP Angle
• Cloud Platforms
• SDS 2.0
• Hows it designed and architected
• Filesystem? Object Storage Based?
• Pooling of capacity and performance
• Standard storage, storage and compute
• PERFORMANCE methodology
• IOPS/Latency/Storage Consumption
• Decreasing latency
• Proper Benchmarking
• Resiliency
• Failure domains/resolution
• Differential?
• Storage Protocols
• Distributed Storage?
• Running on any hardware
• Future of storage with public cloud and more managed data platforms
• Continuous Improvement process
• New-Age IT Stacks

☑️  Web: https://storpool.com/

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