Cloud Commute is your weekly 25-30 minutes podcast, talking about all things cloud, technology, storage, security, Kubernetes, and more. Joined by veteran guests from the industry, host Chris Engelbert explores new tools, ecosystem developments and upcoming releases. If you’re a tech enthusiast, working in DevOps, SecOps, DevSecOps, or engineering, this is the podcast for you. Make your commute worthwhile and join us on the journey of technology.
📔 Chapters:
00:00 - Episode Preview
00:58 - Michael Schmidt introduces himself
03:44 - The Creation of Simplyblock
06:32 - Challenges with Traditional SAN Systems
13:26 - What makes Simplyblock special?
21:08 - The Question: Build or Buy?
24:50 - How can you start with Simplyblock?
26:43 - The Next Big Thing for Michael?
28:18 - Conclusion
📋 Shownotes:
Guest links & episode links:
► Michael's LinkedIn: /michael-schmidt-7268a89
► Why simplyblock: https://www.simplyblock.io/why-simplyblock
► NVMe Storage: https://www.simplyblock.io/post/what-is-nvme-storage
► Simplyblock for AWS (Environments with gp3 volumes): https://www.simplyblock.io/post/aws-environments-with-many-ebs-volumes
Follow us on:
🐦 simplyblock Twitter/X: https://x.com/simplyblock_io
👨💻 simplyblock LinkedIn: / simplyblock-io
📹 simplyblock Youtube: / @simplyblock
Know more about us:
🌍 simplyblock Website: https://simplyblock.io/
Simplyblock is an intelligent database storage orchestrator for IO-intensive workloads in Kubernetes, including databases and analytics solutions. A single system connects local NVMe disks, GP3 volumes, and S3 making it easier to handle storage capacity and performance. With the benefits of thin provisioning, storage tiering, and volume pooling, your database workloads get better performance at lower cost without changes to existing AWS infrastructure.
👉 Get started with simplyblock: https://www.simplyblock.io/buy-now
🏪 simplyblock AWS Marketplace: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/se...
Key features of simplyblock:
⭐ Smart local NVMe caching to eliminate read I/O latency and speed up database queries
⭐ Intelligent data tiering between high-speed NVMe, flexible Amazon EBS, and cost-effective Amazon S3
⭐ Maximum IOPS and lowest latency on read
⭐ Benefits of thin provisioning, instant copy-on-write clone, compression, deduplication & encryption