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DriveScale Presents at Tech Field Day 12



Tech Field Day 12


This Presentation date is November 16, 2016 at 11:00 - 13:00.

DriveScale Corporate Fact Sheet

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IDC Report: DriveScale: Disposable/Disaggregated Storage for Big Data

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DriveScale Introduction with Gene Banman


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Gene Banman, CEO of DriveScale, reviews the state of his company. He further goes on to show the impressive pedigree of the founding team. Finally Gene addresses DriveScale’s vision: to disaggregate disk storage in the rack from compute.

Personnel: Gene Banman

DriveScale Architectural Deep Dive with Tom Lyon


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Tom Lyon, Chief Scientist at DriveScale, give the Tech Field Day delegates a detailed look at their storage architecture. He runs through the problem with traditional scale-out systems, that most a essentially servers with storage. Tom compares this to a minivan, useful but not ideal for any one use case. The DriveScale adapter is their vision for a new architecture, to allow you to use a JBOD utilized over an ethernet switch to separate storage from compute.

Personnel: Tom Lyon

DriveScale Demo with Chris Unkel


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Chris Unkel, Distinguished Engineer at DriveScale, gives a demo of how the DriveScale solution works in the rack. He runs down the individual drive management within their control interface and how to configure node templates.

Personnel: Chris Unkel

DriveScale Hardware Deep Dive with Satya Nishtala


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Satya Nishtala, CTO at DriveScale, give the delegates a deep dive in the adapter hardware the company is offering. He previews the additional functionality to add 10 NVMe drives for caching within the adapter. Then he goes through the hardware capabilities of their adapter to implement their storage architecture.

Personnel: Satya Nishtala

DriveScale Futures with Tom Lyon


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DriveScale Market Observations with Gene Banman


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Gene Banman, CEO of DriveScale, reviews where the company sees their place in the storage market. Their customer strategy revolves around uses of Hadoop analytics. This strategy leans heavily on early adopters, as mainstream organizations are only doing Hadoop POCs at this time.

Personnel: Gene Banman


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