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Storage Field Day 10

Rick Schlander, Megan Robinette, Tom Hollingsworth, Arjan Timmerman, Gabe Maentz, Stephen Foskett, Chris Evans, Enrico Signoretti, Ray Lucchesi, Jon Klaus, Max Mortillaro, Marco Broeken, Josh De Jong, Dan Frith, Francesco Bonetti

Storage Field Day 10

May 25–May 27, 2016

#SFD10

Who: Storage

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

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Delegate Panel

Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.

Arjan Timmerman

@ArjanTim

Dutch analyst, world traveler and technology advisor

Chris M Evans

@ChrisMEvans

Chris is a UK-based consultant with an interest in all technologies, focusing on storage, virtualisation and cloud.

Dan Frith

@PenguinPunk

I like punk rock and storage arrays.

Enrico Signoretti

@ESignoretti

Independent analyst, blogger, event organizer, weekend sailor, gelato lover, always on a diet.

Francesco Bonetti

@FBonez

VMware vExpert | Virtualization and Storage Specialist | Senior System Engineer

Gabe Maentz

@GMaentz

Consultant, Dad of 4, Marquette alum, Life-Long Learner, vExpert, vBrisket Founder

Jon Klaus

@JonKlaus

Storage architect gone project manager, working for a MSP in the south of the Netherlands.

Josh De Jong

@EuroBrew

Storage and virtualization guy. Occasional blogger, twitter addict, taker of naps.

Marco Broeken

@MBroeken

Dutch Virtualization Admirer and DaaS Lover, Blogger at www.vClouds.nl

Max Mortillaro

Max Mortillaro is an independent data center consultant specializing in virtualization and storage technologies.

Ray Lucchesi

@RayLucchesi

Ray Lucchesi is president of Silverton Consulting, blogs at RayOnStorage.com, co-hosts GreyBeardsOnStorage.com podcast and has worked in data storage for over 30 years mostly in marketing and engineering new disk and tape automation products.

Rick Schlander

@VMRick

Virtualization Architect & vExpert, Minneapolis & Rochester VMUG Leader, NetAppEMC Storage & Cisco UCS Engineer-Blogger.

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, May 25 9:30 - 11:30 Kaminario Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Frederic Van Haren, Josh Epstein, Shachar Fienblit, Shai Maskit
Wednesday, May 25 12:30 - 14:30 Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: David Flynn, Kaycee Lai, Lance Smith
Wednesday, May 25 15:00 - 17:00 Cloudian Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Gary Ogasawara, Michael Tso, Paul Turner, Victor Salvacruz, Vikram Gupta
Wednesday, May 25 17:15 - 18:00 Gestalt IT Roundtable at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Stephen Foskett
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chris Evans, Dan Frith, Enrico Signoretti, Francesco Bonetti, Gabe Maentz, Jon Klaus, Josh De Jong, Marco Broeken, Max Mortillaro, Ray Lucchesi, Rick Schlander
Thursday, May 26 9:30 - 11:30 Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Brian Gold, Par Botes, Rob Lee
Thursday, May 26 13:00 - 15:00 Datera Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Bill Borsari, Marc Fleischmann, Raghu Krishnamurthy
Thursday, May 26 16:00 - 18:00 Tintri Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Brandon Salmon, Christopher Slater, Justin Lauer, Kieran Harty, Mark Dritter
Friday, May 27 8:00 - 10:00 Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: David Adamson, Gavin Cohen, Rochna Dhand, Rod Bagg, Stephan Joe, Tom McKnight
Friday, May 27 10:30 - 12:30 Hedvig Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Abhijith Shenoy, Avinash Lakshman, Bharat Naik, Chris Kranz, Guarav Yadav, Rob Whiteley
Friday, May 27 13:30 - 15:30 Exablox Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Doug Brockett, Sean Derrington
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Megan Robinette

@MegRobinette

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.


70 Links with Tag #SFD10

  1. Coverage: Celebrating 10 Years of Pure Storage and Tech Field Day
    • Cloud Field Day 5, Storage Field Day 1, Storage Field Day 6, Storage Field Day 8, Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017, Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019, Virtualization Field Day 3
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Pure Storage, Tech Field Day
  2. Coverage: Data Mobility – Global/Scale-out Data Platforms
    • Storage Field Day 12, Storage Field Day 8
    • Chris M Evans
    • Datera, Elastifile, Hedvig, Qumulo
  3. Coverage: Kaminario Goes Software-Defined
    • Storage Field Day 1
    • Chris M Evans
    • Kaminario
  4. Coverage: Data Mobility – Caching Technologies
    • Storage Field Day 11, Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017
    • Chris M Evans
    • Avere Systems, Primary Data, Velostrata
  5. Coverage: Cloudian Announces HyperFile, Makes Object Better
    • Storage Field Day 7
    • Dan Frith
    • Cloudian
  6. Coverage: Cloudian Announces HyperStore 4000 – Gets Super Dense
    • Storage Field Day 7
    • Dan Frith
    • Cloudian
  7. Coverage: Making life a whole lot easier with Tintri VM-aware storage
    • Jon Klaus
    • Tintri
  8. Coverage: Bringing hyperscale operations to the masses with Datera
    • Jon Klaus
    • Datera
  9. Coverage: Squashing assumptions with Data Science
    • Jon Klaus
    • Nimble Storage
  10. Coverage: Datera Announces Integration With Google’s Kubernetes
    • Dan Frith
    • Datera
  11. Coverage: Pure Storage Flashblade is now available!
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Pure Storage
  12. Coverage: Hedvig storage system, Docker support & data protection that spans data centers
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Hedvig
  13. Coverage: Datera: Elastic Data Fabric
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Datera
  14. Coverage: FlashBlade: custom hardware still makes sense
    • Jon Klaus
    • Pure Storage
  15. Coverage: Data Virtualisation is More Than Just Migration for Primary Data
    • Dan Frith
    • Primary Data
  16. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama
    • Dan Frith
  17. Coverage: It’s Hedvig, not Hedwig
    • Dan Frith
    • Hedvig
  18. Coverage: The Cool Thing About Datera Is Intent
    • Dan Frith
    • Datera
  19. Coverage: Exablox Isn’t Just Pretty Hardware
    • Dan Frith
    • Exablox
  20. Coverage: Exablox, bring your own disk storage
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Exablox
  21. Coverage: Cloudian Hyperstore: manage more PBs with less FTE
    • Jon Klaus
    • Cloudian
  22. Coverage: Pure Storage’s FlashBlade is great on paper. But it’s still only on paper
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Pure Storage
  23. Coverage: Nimble Storage are Relentless in their Pursuit of Support Excellence
    • Dan Frith
    • Nimble Storage
  24. Coverage: Cloudian Does Object Smart and at Scale
    • Dan Frith
    • Cloudian
  25. Coverage: Scale-out, flash, files and objects. How cool is Pure’s FlashBlade?
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Pure Storage
  26. Coverage: Pure Storage’s FlashBlade – Against The Grain
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Pure Storage
  27. Coverage: Pure Storage FlashBlade well positioned for next generation storage
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Pure Storage
  28. Coverage: Tintri Keep Doing What They Do, And Well
    • Dan Frith
    • Tintri
  29. Coverage: 33: GreyBeards talk HPC storage with Frederic Van Haren, founder HighFens & formerly Sr. Director of HPC at Nuance
    • Howard Marks, Ray Lucchesi
    • Kaminario
  30. Coverage: Metadata search helps to offload some DB-like operations to storage
    • Tech Field Day 10
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Caringo, Cloudian
  31. Coverage: EXABLOX – A different and smart approach to NAS for SMB
    • Francesco Bonetti
    • Exablox
  32. Coverage: Breaking down storage silos with Primary Data DataSphere
    • Jon Klaus
    • Primary Data
  33. Coverage: Pure Storage really aren’t a one-trick pony
    • Dan Frith
    • Pure Storage
  34. Coverage: Defining Software-defined Storage definition. Definitely. – Juku.it
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Cloudian, Datera, Primary Data
  35. Coverage: Has triple parity Raid time come?
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Nimble Storage
  36. Coverage: Simplicity with Kaminario Healthshield & QoS
    • Storage Field Day 7
    • Jon Klaus
    • Kaminario
  37. Coverage: Torus – Because We Need Another Distributed Storage Software Solution
    • Storage Field Day 9
    • Chris M Evans
    • Datera, Hedvig, SolidFire
  38. Coverage: Hedvig Overview
    • Rick Schlander
    • Hedvig
  39. Coverage: All-flash enterprise storage for today and tomorrow
    • Kaminario
  40. Coverage: Hedvig Deep Dive – Is software-defined the future of storage?
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Hedvig
  41. Coverage: Storage Administrators: an endangered species?
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Tintri
  42. Coverage: Flash Needs a Highway
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Pure Storage
  43. Coverage: Kaminario are doing some stuff we’ve seen before, but that’s okay
    • Dan Frith
    • Kaminario
  44. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 presentation, whiteboards, and demos
    • Hedvig
  45. Coverage: Surprises in flash storage IO distributions from 1 month of Nimble Storage customer base
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Nimble Storage
  46. Coverage: VM-aware storage, is it still a thing?
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Nimble Storage, Tintri
  47. Coverage: Object Storage: Validating S3 Compatibility
    • Chris M Evans
    • Cloudian
  48. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
    • Dan Frith
  49. Coverage: Primary Data: a true Software-defined Storage platform?
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Primary Data
  50. Coverage: We’re almost live…
    • Arjan Timmerman
  51. Coverage: Follow us live at Storage Field Day 10
    • Max Mortillaro
  52. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 – Day 0
    • Dan Frith
  53. Coverage: Storage Field Day – Live Stream & Ways to Engage
    • Gabe Maentz
  54. Coverage: Ready for Storage Field Day 10!
    • Jon Klaus
  55. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Hedvig
    • Chris M Evans
    • Hedvig
  56. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Primary Data
    • Chris M Evans
    • Primary Data
  57. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Exablox
    • Chris M Evans
    • Exablox
  58. Coverage: The B-side of storage containerization
    • Enrico Signoretti
  59. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Nimble Storage
    • Chris M Evans
    • Nimble Storage
  60. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Datera
    • Chris M Evans
    • Datera
  61. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Tintri
    • Chris M Evans
    • Tintri
  62. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Pure Storage
    • Chris M Evans
    • Pure Storage
  63. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Next Week
    • Rick Schlander
    • Cloudian, Datera, Exablox, Hedvig, Kaminario, Nimble Storage, Primary Data, Pure Storage, Tintri
  64. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Kaminario
    • Storage Field Day 1, Storage Field Day 7
    • Chris M Evans
    • Kaminario
  65. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Cloudian
    • Chris M Evans
    • Cloudian
  66. Coverage: Heading to Tech Field Day
    • Gabe Maentz
    • Tech Field Day
  67. Coverage: Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At SFD10
    • Dan Frith
  68. Coverage: Is Hedvig the solution to all our (storage) problems?
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Hedvig
  69. Coverage: If youre going to SFD10 be sure to wear microdrives in your hair
    • Max Mortillaro
  70. Coverage: I will be flying out to Storage Field Day 10!
    • Jon Klaus

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