Tintri Presents at Storage Field Day 21

Introduction to Tintri and DDN

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James Coomer, SVP Product Management, reintroduces DDN and Tintri at Storage Field Day 21. Although both names are familiar to many in the enterprise storage space, the companies have grown and evolved in many ways since Tintri was acquired by DDN in 2018. DDN is “the world’s largest privately-held storage company, with 20 years of industry leadership, 150+ patents in storage and data management, and over 1,000 employees around the world. Founded in 2001, DDN acquired Intel’s file system division and Tintri in 2018 as well as Nexenta and Western Digital’s all-flash array division in 2019. DDN with Tintri has moved into the AI and data market along with HPC, web and cloud, telco, research and academia, public sector, and enterprise. Tintri serves the enterprise with intelligent infrastructure products: IntelliFlash, VMstore, and NexentaStor.

Personnel: James Coomer

How Tintri Has Approached Intelligent Infrastructure

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Erwin Daria, Field CTO, presents Tintri’s storage solutions that use telemetry to self-optimize. Next-generation infrastructure is leveraging analytics and AI for predictive maintenance and proactive administration analogous to autonomous driving at the appliance, control plane, and cloud level. This presentation is a high-level review of Tintri VMstore and Global Center, using the analogy of SAE’s 6 levels of intelligence applied to IT infrastructure. Daria discusses the architecture and technology with the Storage Field Day delegates along with Rob Girard, Principal TME from Tintri.

Personnel: Erwin Daria, Rob Girard

Tintri Global Center Demonstration

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Rob Girard, Technical Marketing Engineer, demonstrates Tintri Global Center (TGC). Field CTOs Erwin Daria and Shawn Meyers and CTO and Head of Product Tomer Hagay join in to discuss how customers benefit from TGC with the Storage Field Day delegates.

Personnel: Erwin Daria, Rob Girard, Shawn Meyers, Tomer Hagay

Real World Benefits of Tintri’s Intelligent Infrastructure

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Erwin Daria, Tintri Field CTO, discusses the impact of intelligence on infrastructure in the real world. Tintri’s auto-support capability brings data from customers around the world, enabling the company to assist with installation, planning, provisioning, performance tuning, and identifying “ghost events” or outliers. After this, Daria briefly discusses how Tintri is expanding this Intelligent Infrastructure approach beyond virtual machines.

Personnel: Erwin Daria

Tintri SQL Integrated Storage Demo

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Shawn Meyers, Field CTO, demonstrates SQL integrated storage with Tintri. After a quick overview of SQL integrated storage, Meyers shows per-database granularity of storage management and performance. He then demonstrates data protection, including snapshots, replication, sizing, and a “bad update” use case. Finally he shows how Tintri can clone databases for production use. He is joined in the discussion of these features by Tomer Hagay, CTO and Head of Product, and the Storage Field Day delegates.

Personnel: Shawn Meyers, Tomer Hagay

Tintri Analytics Advisor Demonstration

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Rob Girard, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, demonstrates Tintri Analytics and discusses how the data from this system can be used for planning and support. He is joined in this discussion with the Storage Field Day delegates by Tomer Hagay, Tintri CTO and Head of Product. In addition to historical analytics, Tintri presents anomaly detection and an Advisor pane, which shows high-level information that is useful and actionable by customers. Field CTO Erwin Daria also joins the conversation, bringing the Tintri customer perspective on analytics and improving the storage experience.

Personnel: Erwin Daria, Rob Girard, Tomer Hagay

Tintri Anomaly Detection Demonstration

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Rob Girard, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, demonstrates Tintri’s anomaly detection capabilities. Although not a customer-facing tool, Tintri can detect alerts and anomalies on connected customer storage devices and can use these to provide proactive support to customers. After discussing the capability with the Storage Field Day delegates, Field CTO Erwin Daria joins the conversation to summarize the Tintri presentation at Storage Field Day 21.

Personnel: Erwin Daria, Rob Girard