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Dropbox Presents at Storage Field Day 15



Storage Field Day 15

James Cowling and Dzmitry Markovich introduce Dropbox at Storage Field Day

This Presentation date is March 7, 2018 at 16:00-18:00.

Presenters: Dzmitry Markovich, James Cowling, Victor Li
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chin-Fah Heoh, Dan Frith, Dukagjin Maloku, Glenn Dekhayser, Josh De Jong, Lino Telera, Mariusz Kaczorek, Michael Stanclift, Rachel Traylor, Ray Lucchesi


Dropbox Background on Magic Pocket with James Cowling


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James Cowling, Principal Engineer at Dropbox, provides background on the development and technical details on their Magic Pocket, their custom built, internally hosted, software defined, cloud storage infrastructure.

Personnel: James Cowling

Dropbox Network Infrastructure with Dzmitry Markovich


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Dzmitry Markovich, Head of Technical Infrastructure at Dropbox, reviews the company network infrastructure. This was designed to provide exceptional network performance without experiencing hight latency and packet loss. This originally used EC2 instances to get as close to the user as possible. Dzmitry then goes into what Dropbox is doing today with their network infrastructure.

Personnel: Dzmitry Markovich

Dropbox Competitive Advantages from Infrastructure with James Cowling


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James Cowling, Principal Engineer at Dropbox, reviews how the company’s infrastructure provides a competitive advantage in the marketplace. This includes efficiencies in cost, performance, and overall agility.

Personnel: James Cowling


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