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Intel Optane Technology Use Case: Aerospike at PayPal

PayPal, the world’s largest online money transfer, billing, and payments system, wanted instant response to detect fraud among hundreds of reads and writes per transaction, 325 million customer profiles, and 32% annual data growth. They partnered with Aerospike to deploy Intel Optane Persistent Memory in an optimized database with higher performance than SSDs, lower cost […]


Intel Optane Technology Use Case: HPE VMware vSphere and vSAN at Cerner

Cerner, a US-based provider of health IT services, devices, and hardware, wanted to improve the client experience to allow doctors and nurses to provide better care to their patients, while reducing TCO, increasing performance, and improving scalability. The company partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and VMware to deliver vSphere with Intel Optane Persistent Memory and […]


Intel Optane History and Business Update

Kristie Mann, Sr. Director Optane DC Persistent Memory Products, updates the Storage Field Day 21 delegates on the history of Intel’s Optane technology and discusses recent developments. Mann begins with a look back at the timeline of Optane technology: The start of 3D XPoint development in 2012, the announcement in 2015, first SSD products in […]


Flash Storage Unleashed: Pliops Storage Processors for the Data Centric Era

Steve Fingerhut, President, introduces Pliops at Storage Field Day 21. The Pliops Storage Processor accelerates storage and reduces cost for nearly any flash workload, increasing performance, expanding capacity beyond in-system drives, adding data protection, and increasing endurance. The company is backed by SoftBank, Intel, Nvidia, Western Digital, and Xilinx. With data continuing to increase, companies […]


Hammerspace Automatic Deployment in AWS

Douglas Fallstrom, VP Products, discusses deployment of Hammerspace in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Hammerspace can easily be deployed in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in the cloud with full automation. In this demonstration, Hammerspace is deployed using Amazon Cloud Formation in 15 minutes across three locations. He then demonstrates the Hammerspace dashboard, […]


Storageless Data with Hammerspace

David Flynn, Founder and CEO of Hammerspace, presents the “storageless data” concept at Storage Field Day 21. He discusses data gravity, serverless compute, and how these relate to the storageless data concept. Data today exists in corporate datacenters, public clouds, and edge sites, and modern data cannot be bound to specific hardware, protocols, or locations. […]


Nasuni Analytics Connector Demonstration

In this session, Russ Neufeld demonstrates the Nasuni Analytics Connector (NAC) in action. Learn why top Nasuni customers attribute NAC for helping them turn unstructured data into big data. Key highlights of this session include enterprise search service using AWS Kendra, CCPA & PII data verification using AWS Macie, and image recognition and tagging using […]


Nasuni Core Technology

Join Nasuni’s product management leaders Russ Kennedy and Barrie Kuza as they provide an in-depth technical education on key Nasuni features including unlimited scalability, local NAS performance, centralized management for optimal efficiency, orchestration center for multi-location file sharing, NOC active/active global lock architecture.


Cloud-Wash vs. Cloud-Native with Nasuni

Nasuni VP of Technical Marketing Tom Rose discusses the trend of “cloud washing” products that aren’t cloud-native. Large infrastructure vendors, are trying to stay relevant in the cloud era. They are acquiring cloud companies to offer new cloud services, but in the file storage category, the challenge they face is that their technologies were not […]


Nasuni Cloud-Only Deployment Options

Join Nasuni founder and CTO, Andres Rodriguez as he steps viewers through key use cases and customer stories for Nasuni including NAS and file server consolidation, remote work, file backup & recovery, cloud modernization, file collaboration, and disaster recovery & ransomware mitigation. Learn what it means to be truly built-in-the-cloud.


Nasuni Business Overview

Anne Blanchard, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, introduces Nasuni at Storage Field Day 21. Enterprise file storage is complex, expensive, and rigid. Infrastructure is moving to the cloud, so why not file storage (NetApp, Dell, Windows)? Nasuni helps enterprises move file storage and backup to the cloud with a simpler and lower cost approach. Our […]


Tintri Anomaly Detection Demonstration

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 […]


Tintri Analytics Advisor Demonstration

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 […]


Tintri SQL Integrated Storage Demo

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 […]


Real World Benefits of Tintri’s Intelligent Infrastructure

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 […]


Tintri Global Center Demonstration

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.


How Tintri Has Approached Intelligent Infrastructure

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 […]


Introduction to Tintri and DDN

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 […]


NetApp Keystone Service Engine Demonstration

Arun Raman, Product Manager, demonstrates NetApp Keystone for storage as a service. The NetApp Service Engine (NSE) is a management platform for NetApp Flex Subscription customers, and Raman shows data collection at the edge, replication to a unified data lake, and backup to the AWS cloud.


NetApp Keystone Flex Subscription: Onramp to the Cloud

NetApp Keystone is the bridge that connects the pillars of our customer’s hybrid cloud strategy -delivering agility, financial flexibility, and reduced financial risk that helps them meet their cash flow and business needs. NetApp Keystone Flex Subscription is a pay-as-you-grow subscription-based service that delivers a seamless hybrid cloud experience, on our customer’s terms. Rapid service adoption […]


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