Data storage is changing, with solid-state technologies presenting a unique challenge to spinning disks. But not all solid-state storage is equivalent, and new architectures will be needed to apply solid-state enterprise use cases.
On April 25, 2012 the industry will come together at the Solid State Storage Symposium! This all-day in-person event features panelists from key enterprise storage companies and will be moderated by independent experts, including Stephen Foskett, Robin Harris, Chris Evans, Howard Marks, and Nigel Poulton.
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The Solid State Storage Symposium will be held in San Jose immediately preceding Storage Field Day. It will be streamed live from the Tech Field Day site and will include many of the Field Day delegates.
Free tickets are available now if you would like to attend in person!
When: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, from 9 AM to 4 PM
Where: DoubleTree Hotel, San Jose, CA
Who: Anyone with an interest in solid-state storage (end users, press/analysts, and vendor employees welcome!)
How: Claim your free ticket at our EventBrite page!
Order of the Day
09:00-12:15 – Morning Session
| 09:00 – Welcome: Stephen Foskett | |
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Stephen Foskett Pack Rat |
| 09:15 – Vision Presentations | |
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Dave Wright SolidFire |
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Suresh Vasudevan Nimble Storage |
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Tom Isakovich Nimbus Data |
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Jonathan Goldick Violin Memory |
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Vijay Karamcheti Virident |
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Peter Velikin Velobit |
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Jered Floyd Permabit |
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Scott Stetzer STEC |
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Brian Sorby EMC |
| 11:45 – Keynote: Robin Harris | |
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Robin Harris StorageMojo |
| A look ahead 10 years: reinventing storage architectures using new technologies. | |
| Solid-state storage is here to stay, but flash isn’t. Nor is RAID. Will commoditization win in the enterprise or will a dozen niches bloom? The current architectures are broken, but what will take their place? | |
- 12:15 – Morning session close
12:15-13:30 – Break/Lunch – Provided
13:30-16:00 – Technology Deep-Dive Sessions
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| Chris M Evans The Storage Architect |
Brian Sorby EMC |
Dan Leary Nimble Storage |
Dave Wright SolidFire |
Keith Brown STEC |
Peter Velikin Velobit |
Vijay Karamcheti Virident |
| Solid State – Simply a big cache or a real storage tier? | ||||||
| Solid state disks blur the boundary between cache and storage, with a foot in both camps. Can solid state drives really be treated as a new tier of storage or simply as a way to add more performance enhancing cache to existing arrays? This panel will discuss whether data should permanently reside on solid state media or whether the optimum and most cost effective solution is to simply use SSD to hold the working set of data in the array. | ||||||
| 14:15 – Panel 2: Array Architecture | ||||||
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| Nigel Poulton InfoSmack Podcast NigelPoulton.com |
Umesh Maheshwari Nimble Storage |
Tom Isakovich Nimbus Data |
Dave Wright SolidFire |
Narayan Venkat Violin Memory |
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| What’s the best solid-state storage array architecture? | ||||||
| The 20+ year old array architectures that are served up, day-in day-out, by the traditional vendors are struggling to cope with todays I/O demands. How they will cope with tomorrow’s is anyone’s guess. Looking to plug the hole and steal their business is an increasing crop of solid-state array vendors. Yet they’re all going about it entirely differently. This panel will get to the bottom of how to design great SSD arrays and why they’re architected like that. | ||||||
| 15:00 – Panel 3: Future Architecture | ||||||
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| Howard Marks DeepStorage Network Computing |
Tom Isakovich Nimbus Data |
Dave Wright SolidFire |
Narayan Venkat Violin Memory |
Vijay Karamcheti Virident |
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| The Future of Solid State Storage | ||||||
| Today we use flash and SSDs everywhere from notebooks to PCIe cards in servers and enterprise arrays. In this session our panel will consider the future of solid state storage systems and answer some interesting questions. Will SSDs kill spinning disk? Do 2.5” SAS or SATA disks have a place in the data center of the future? What does the next generation of flash bring to the market? What about PCM, Memristors and other new SSD technologies? | ||||||
Join Us!
Join us at the DoubleTree San Jose Hotel on Wednesday for the Solid State Storage Symposium
Tickets for live attendance at the Solid State Storage Symposium are available now, and we will be streaming the entire event live over the Internet. Watch this page for the embedded video!
About the Organisers
Packet Pushers is a podcast and website focussed on data networking. The weekly podcast reaches a highly technical audience of 3500 network engineers and architects.
Tech Field Day is a regular event that brings together vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format. Independent bloggers, freelance writers, and podcasters have a public presence that has immense influence on the ways that products and companies are perceived and by the general public.
Good tech and strategy discussions – I learnt lots.
Thanks to everyone for a great symposium – it is appreciated.