The French Storage Podcast

Hosted by Ph. Nicolas

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Aug 2025

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" The French Storage Podcast " (aka TFSP) is about Data, Data Management and Storage. Hosted on Podcastics, the dedicated web site is TFSP.fr . It is owned, hosted and driven by Philippe Nicolas , observer of the storage industry for more than 30 years. Since July 1st, 2025, the podcast is also listed and referenced on StorageNewsletter as I officially own the publication. As an international podcast, TFSP has the mission to cover the industry as a whole with interviews, debates, round tables and technical talks, and the wish to keep some french aspects and episodes when needed. TFSP publishes a new episode every Friday at 12pm Paris time . You can find all statistics on the TFSP site here . You can contact me on Twitter via @CDP_FST .

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August 22, 2025Episode 2768 min

276 - The Open Flash Platform initiative

A few weeks ago, a small of group key industry players joined together and unveiled The Open Flash Platform initiative aka OFP to address storage for AI challenges. The goal is to reach new capacity, density and performance level levering open standard and open source such as Linux, pNFS and DPU models. I summarized the initiative and added some remarks and comments as OFP approach is very interesting and more members should join in the coming months now. Enjoy the listening.

August 15, 2025Episode 2759 min

275 - Recap of FMS 2025

New edition of The Future of Memory and Storage conference aka FMS and the annual summer rendez-vous confirms its role and place in the industry. Several key vendors were present as exhibitors or not and tons of informations have been presented, unveiled and shared with new products, technologies, synergies, partnerships or just corporate directions. I tried to summarize what I saw there, enjoy the short recap and listening.

August 8, 2025Episode 2743 min

274 - Storage Unicorn from Coldago Research

Twice a year, Coldago Research produces its long awaited Storage Unicorn in June and December. The last report was published in June 2025 and lists 18 companies: Acronis, Barracuda Networks, Cohesity, DataCore, DDN, Druva, Eon, ExaGrid, Infinidat, Kaseya, MinIO, Nasuni, NinjaOne, Qumulo, VAST Data, Veeam Software, Wasabi Technologies and WEKA. Enjoy the listening of this short episode.

August 1, 2025Episode 27344 min

273 - Interview with Chris Stott, CEO, Lonestar Data Holdings

The last session we had early June during the 62nd edition of The IT Press Tour with Phison presenting the Lonestar case study was a real trigger inviting me to think that I need to talk to the master of this project. And with the help of Phison, we secured the recording with Chris Stott, chairman, CEO and co-founder. We talked about the utopia this kind of project could represent in people's mind or let say the unrealistic idea it crystalizes. In fact, the reality is different they already did a mission so Chris shared lots of informations, what they develop, their partner ecosystem like Phison and why they chose Phison and the Pascari product line, what kind of services they offer, who need this and why they need it, the pricing and business model and of cours we conclude with the calendar of next phases. I hope you'll enjoy this episode, really unique approach. Merci Chris.

July 25, 2025Episode 27229 min

272 - Recap of the 62nd IT Press Tour

The 62nd edition of The IT Press Tour took place early June in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, California. The event was very good, dense with a very compelling program. We met 9 companies and organizations: Cohesity, DDN, Graid Technology, Hunch, Lucidity, Phison Electronics, PuppyGraph, Tabsdata and the Ultra Link Accelerator Consortium, all having something to say in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data and Storage Management, Big Data and Analytics and of course AI. It also means that we beat new records with 340 distinct companies and 586 sessions for more 26,000 generated articles since 2010 !!

July 18, 2025Episode 27137 min

271 - Talk with Sebastien Jean, CTO, Phison

We had the opportunity and privilege to meet again Phison during the recent 62nd edition of The IT Press Tour in California early June. Michael Wu, president, Phison US, and his team delivered a very good session with lots of informations. It gave me the idea to record a new episode this time with Phison's CTO Sebastien Jean to cover some technical aspects, strategy choices and of course technology and product elements about Pascari and we even spoke about Lonestar. A great episode I hope you will enjoy. Thank you Sebastien.

July 11, 2025Episode 2704 min

270 - New Era for StorageNewsletter

Following the sad news last week, I wrote this new episode based on the StorageNewsletter Top News we published July 2nd, 2025 with future directions and perspectives for the #1 Worldwide Data Storage Industry News website. The adventure continues, believe me.

July 4, 2025Episode 2695 min

269 - In Memorial of Jean-Jacques Maleval

Jean-Jacques Maleval, the man behind StorageNewsletter passed away February 3rd, 2025. This episode is the audio of the article I wrote on his publication July 1st, 2025 and officially marked the transition to a new phase led by me. RIP JJM.

June 27, 2025Episode 26835 min

268 - Talk with Sven Oehme, CTO, DDN

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.

June 20, 2025Episode 26725 min

267 - Talk with Vasu Murthy, CPO, Cohesity

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.