Datanauts 126: Stephen Foskett On Storage, Containers & Cloud

Today the Datanauts have beamed aboard a smart and insightful guide to help us navigate the swirling maelstroms of cloud, containers, and storage. That guide is Stephen Foskett, founder of Tech Field Day and Gestalt IT, and long-time consultant and writer covering storage, networking, mobility and pretty much everything else in tech. We explore the current state of storage and what’s new and interesting in the industry, including NVME; Stephen’s love of ZFS; and why we’ll always have spinning disk. We also look at Rook, an open-source storage project that’s been adopted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation; Kubernetes and storage; and how far down you can go with abstractions. The Datanauts and Stephen also discuss careers, professional development, and how the tech industry is evolving and changing. Show Links: Stephen Foskett on Twitter GestaltIT Tech Field Day On Premise IT Podcast – Gestalt IT Datanauts 118: The Whitebox & Enterprise Networks – Packet Pushers ZFS Is the Best Filesystem (For Now…)  – Stephen Foskett Add a Mirror to an Existing ZFS Drive – Stephen Foskett Rook.io – Cloud Native Computing Foundation And yet another: Rook voted in as a CNCF project – Diversity.net 7 Ways Kubernetes Avoids an OpenStack-Like Hype Cycle – The New Stack You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — Kelsey Hightower – A Cloud Guru An Explanation of the Meltdown/Spectre Bugs for a Non-Technical Audience – CloudFlare