The French Storage Podcast

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 [https://openflashplatform.org/] 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.

275 - Recap of FMS 2025

New edition of The Future of Memory and Storage [https://futurememorystorage.com/] 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.

274 - Storage Unicorn from Coldago Research

Twice a year, Coldago Research [https://www.coldago.net/] produces its long awaited Storage Unicorn [https://www.coldago.net/stunicorn] 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.

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 [http://www.itpresstour.net/] with Phison [https://www.phison.com/en/] presenting the Lonestar [https://www.lonestarlunar.com/] 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 [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-stott-aa0820/], 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.

272 - Recap of the 62nd IT Press Tour

The 62nd edition of The IT Press Tour [http://www.itpresstour.net/] 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 [http://www.cohesity.com/], DDN [https://www.ddn.com/], Graid Technology [https://www.graidtech.com/], Hunch [https://hunch.tools/], Lucidity [https://lucidity.cloud/], Phison Electronics [https://www.phison.com/en/], PuppyGraph [https://www.puppygraph.com/], Tabsdata [https://tabsdata.com/] and the Ultra Link Accelerator Consortium [https://ualinkconsortium.org/], 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 !!