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 Phil Bullinger introduces Western Digital |
This Presentation date is March 8, 2018 at 13:30-15:30.
Presenters: Mike McWhorter, Narayan Venkat, Phil Bullinger, Roger Weeks, Shailendra Tripathi
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chin-Fah Heoh, Dan Frith, Dukagjin Maloku, Glenn Dekhayser, Josh De Jong, Karen Lopez, Lino Telera, Mariusz Kaczorek, Max Mortillaro, Michael Stanclift, Rachel Traylor, Ray Lucchesi
Western Digital Introduction to Data Center Systems with Phil Bullinger
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Phil Bullinger, SVP DCS Business Unit, introduces Western Digital’s Data Center Systems portfolio to the delegates. This ranges from consumer facing SanDisk and WD brands, through enterprise offerings like HGST and Tegile. This lineup enables Western Digital to have a hand in the entire hardware pipeline from the transistor to the end-user experience.
Personnel: Phil Bullinger
Western Digital IntelliFlash All flash Storage Systems with Narayan Venkat
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Narayan Venkat, VP DCS Business Unit, gives an overview of Tegile’s IntelliFlash solution, dating back to its founding in 2010 and shipment of its first AFA in 2014. IntelliFlash is designed to provide a single flash platform that can be viable for any workload.
Personnel: Narayan Venkat
Western Digital IntelliFlash Architecture & Design with Shailendra Tripathi
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Shailendra Tripathi, Fellow, DCS Engineering, goes into a technical deep dive on IntelliFlash architecture and design. The software is engineered around a multi-tier system to provide workloads with low latency at the speed of persistent memory. Shailendra then reviews how the systems handles distribution to create a single logical flash pool with robust resiliency.
Personnel: Shailendra Tripathi
Western Digital ActiveScale Object Storage Systems with Roger Weeks
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Roger Weeks, Technologist, DCS Field Applications Engineering, overviews ActiveScale, their scale out object storage. The latest updates include erasure coding and replication, as well as support for multi-site availability zones.
Personnel: Roger Weeks
Western Digital ActiveScale Hadoop Use Case with Mike McWhorter
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Mike McWhorter, Senior Technologist, DCS Field Applications Engineering, reviews the use case of using their ActiveScale object storage with Hadoop. Using the new S3A feature in Hadoop, you can connect S3-compatible object store in Hadoop as a second tier of storage. This is a response to the disk use of Hadoop’s HDFS, which triple replicates already massive datasets. ActiveScale can serve as the cold storage tier for Hadoop data.
Personnel: Mike McWhorter