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NexGen Presents at Storage Field Day 2



Storage Field Day 2


This Presentation date is November 9, 2012 at 08:00-10:00.


Cofounders Kelly Long and John Spiers introduce NexGen Storage


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Kelly Long and John Spiers discuss lessons learned from decades of storage system development and the idea behind NexGen Storage. Topics include customer challenges LeftHand Networks couldn’t address, technology opportunities, storage industry capability gaps, and NexGen Storage company history.

Personnel: John Spiers, Kelly Long

Overview of the NexGen n5 Storage System


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In this video, Chris McCall, Vice President of Marketing provides a quick overview of the NexGen n5 Storage System. Topics include target market, PCIe architecture, active-active, and read/write solid-state, storage QoS, and performance service levels.

Personnel: John Spiers, Kelly Long

Managing Shared Storage Performance with NexGen


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Chris McCall, Vice President of Marketing discusses how NexGen provides new capabilities that allow customers to isolate, control, automate, and guarantee performance in a shared storage environment. Topics include storage QoS, and performance service levels.

Personnel: John Spiers, Kelly Long

NexGen chose a hybrid design for long term architectural viability


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Storage QoS is more than just a way to isolate workloads on a shared storage system to guarantee performance levels, it is the key enabler for long-term hybrid architecture viability, John Spiers, Co-Founder and CEO and Kelly Long, Co-Founder and CTO describe why. Topics include hybrid, benefits of storage QoS, storage media proliferation, hybrid storage system challenges, QoS controlled tiering and caching, storage efficiency and affordability.

Personnel: John Spiers, Kelly Long

Solid-state considerations for scale-out architectures


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Personnel: John Spiers, Kelly Long


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