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Datera Presents at Tech Field Day 18



Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Nick Bellinger presents for Datera at Tech Field Day


This Presentation date is February 7, 2019 at 9:30 - 11:30.

Presenters: Bill Borsari, Hal Woods, Nic Bellinger, Shailesh Mittal



Datera Introduction to Enterprise Sofware-Defined Storage


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Datera introduces the evolution to the Software Defined Data Center and their value proposition. Hal Woods, CTO, discusses the following:

  • Evolution of the Software Defined Data Center
  • Datera value proposition
  • Use cases (database acceleration, DBaaS, digital-first enterprises, cloud service providers, SaaS)
  • Hardware partnerships are important: HPE, Intel, Fujitsu, Lenovo

Personnel: Hal Woods

Datera: How it is Built


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How Datera delivers continuous availability and perpetual operation. Presented by Hal Woods, CTO, Datera.

Personnel: Hal Woods

Data Infrastructure Optimized for Constant Change with Datera


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This session covers how Datera is built for always-on transparent data-movement and how Datera works to be distributed, lockless and application intent driven. Presented by Nic Bellinger, Chief Architect and Co-Founder, Datera.

  • How Datera is built: Always-on transparent data movement for reduced complexity in planning and operation with no vendor lock-in and rapid hardware technology adoption
  • How Datera works: Distributed, lockless, application intent driven
  • Datera architecture trade offs and benefits
  • Datera Analytics: Understanding performance and infrastructure
  • Policy-based data automation: Changes on the fly
  • What’s new: Eliminating manual data migrations and forklift upgrades and upfront capacity and performance planning

Personnel: Nic Bellinger

Datera Modern Data Center Awareness


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This presentation explores failure domains, layer 3 networking, and why policy-based operations is so critical. Presented by Bill Borsari, Head of Field Systems Engineering.

  • The modern data center
  • Availability vs. agility
  • Policy-based operations
  • L3 networking and BGP peering
  • Key workloads

Personnel: Bill Borsari

Datera Containers, VMs & Bare Metal: Let’s Talk About Containers


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This presentation focuses on application portability, eliminating infrastructure lock-in, and graduating applications from QA/Test-dev to production without resource overload. Presented by Shailesh Mittal, Sr. Engineering Architect.

  • Why containers?
  • Application portability from on-premises to cloud
  • Eliminating infrastructure lock-in from hardware dependent to software dependent
  • What is a pod?
  • Application intent driven, built for today and tomorrow
  • Cloud-like self-service on-premises
  • Graduating applications from QA/test-dev to production without resource overhead
  • Datera is built to keep containers world contained
  • Enterprise features as they apply to containers and other environments

Personnel: Shailesh Mittal


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