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VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 20



Storage Field Day 20

Renen Hallak presented at Storage Field Day 20

This Presentation date is August 7, 2020 at 8:00-10:00.

Presenters: Howard Marks, Jeff Denworth, Renen Hallak

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    • Video: Two-Minute Overview
    • Solution brief: Universal Storage Overview
    • Solution brief: Deep Learning
  • White Paper: Universal Storage Explained
  • Success story: Leading Hedge Fund


The Evolution of Storage Architecture with VAST Data


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Renen Hallak, CEO, introduces VAST Data at Storage Field Day 20. VAST has made a lot of news since our last visit to Storage Field Day from our investors funding us into the unicorn class to becoming the fastest growing startup in the history of IT infrastructure. In this session, Renen will bring the delegates up to speed on all of our latest news and will also dive into how VAST’s DASE (Disaggregated Shared Everything) architecture represents a new generation of scale-out storage systems.

Personnel: Renen Hallak

VAST Data 18 Months Later – Learnings Since Launch


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Howard Marks, Technologist Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, outlines the progress VAST Data has made since their last trip to Storage Field day. He’ll cover new features, like SMB support, and how DASE makes adding and supporting new features easier. Marks is joined by Jeff Denworth, VP, Products as he takes questions from the Storage Field Day delegates.

Personnel: Howard Marks, Jeff Denworth

VAST Data Use Case Update – AI at Lightspeed


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Jeff Denworth, VP, Products, presents a key use case for VAST Data. Companies all over the world are applying machine and deep learning techniques to problems from self-driving cars to rendering the latest family film’s star field. The GPU servers running those neural networks are voracious, consuming many GB/s of random small file I/O. In this session Jeff will introduce Lightspeed, an even faster VAST Enclosure, and how Lightspeed let VAST set records with NVIDIA’s GPU Direct Storage.

Personnel: Howard Marks, Jeff Denworth


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