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Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 13



Storage Field Day 13

Primary Data CEO Lance Smith introduces the company at SFD13

This Presentation date is June 15, 2017 at 15:00-17:00.


Primary Data Introduction and Update with Lance Smith


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Lance Smith, CEO of Primary Data, gives the delegates an update on the company. Their solution just went into GA late in 2016. Their solution is built around making storage application aware, which causes bottlenecks, over-provisioning and potentially vendor lock-in. Lance then introduces the key to their solution to bring intelligence into infrastructure, the DataSphere metadata engine.

Personnel: Lance Smith

Primary Data DataSphere Overview and Product Update with Douglas Fallstrom


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Douglas Fallstrom, VP Products at Primary Data, gives an in-depth overview of their DataSphere solution. This is a metadata engine designed to automate the movement of data across on-site or cloud infrastructure to meet changing application needs. This is designed to be vendor agnostic, and solve traditional enterprise inefficiencies.

Personnel: Douglas Fallstrom

Primary Data Markets and Industries with Lance Smith


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Lance Smith, CEO of Primary Data, reviews the pain points that necessitate a solution like DataSphere. He then gives an overview of what verticals they see their solution being particularly applicable to, and reviews their use cases.

Personnel: Lance Smith

Primary Data DataSphere 2.0 Early Access with Douglas Fallstrom


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Douglas Fallstrom, VP Products at Primary Data, gives an overview of their new release, DataSphere 2.0. This includes SMB support, uninterrupted recovery, VLAN, and resiliency improvements. He also reviews the cloud migration tools built into the new version.

Personnel: Douglas Fallstrom

Primary Data DataSphere 2.0 Demo with Douglas Fallstrom


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Douglas Fallstrom, VP Products at Primary Data, gives the delegates a demo of DataSphere 2.0 Early Access. This includes an overview of their UI, and includes showing how data is ingested via REST APIs and policy.

Personnel: Douglas Fallstrom

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