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NGINX Demos with Tech Field Day from Sprint 2020

Day two of NGINX Sprint 2020 features interactive demos with the Tech Field Day delegate panel. We’ll wrap up with another Field Day discussion. Note: Register for NGINX Sprint 2020 to see live streaming video of this session! Recoded video will be posted here on Friday, September 18.

Hybrid Cloud Kubernetes with vSphere and Pure Storage

Cody Hosterman, Director VMware Solutions Engineering, and Jon Owings, Principal Solution Architect, discuss Pure Storage’s Hybrid Cloud Kubernetes offering with vSphere. Although Pure Storage supports Kubernetes without VMware, many of their customers are looking for a supported, integrated offering with vSphere through Tanzu and a cloud-native storage (CSI) driver. Pure Storage offers two options: VMFS […]

Pure Storage FlashArray//C with QLC

Pete Kirkpatrick, VP Engineering, Chief Hardware Architect, gives a deep dive into the Pure Storage FlashArray//C with all-QLC flash. Pure Storage announced an all-QLC version of the FlashArray//C previously, but this array is now shipping, bringing a new price point for the all-flash storage array market with availability, reliability, and enormous capacity. Kirkpatrick gives some […]

Pure Storage FlashArray//C in the Marketplace

Mike Kieran, FlashArray Product Marketing, gives a review of Pure Storage’s innovation over the last decade, including the market dynamics of flash storage. FlashArray and FlashBlade give Pure Storage a complete set of offerings across the entire data storage market, with FlashArray//C, FlashArray//X, and FlashBlade. Pure Storage is announcing the shipment of the first all-QLC […]

Nebulon Cloud-Defined Storage Demo

Clint Wyckoff, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, demonstrates the Nebulon solution. He begins with an overview of the demo infrastructure, which consists of an nPod on four servers equipped with Nebulon SPUs and local SSDs. The first demo focuses on a VMware vSphere environment with SSDs in each server. Next, Andy Roberts, Solutions Architect, shows how […]

The Cloud Based Control Plane – Nebulon ON

Michael Heyeck, Cloud Architect, presents Nebulon’s cloud-based control plane, Nebulon ON. Because the management stack comprises three quarters of the traditional storage operating system, Nebulon ON allows all Nebulon users to have an up to date management solution at all times. The SPUs, installed in each application server, run a lightweight storage operating system called […]

The Endpoint – Nebulon Services Processing Unit (SPU)

Josh Price, Hardware Architect, details the Nebulon Services Processing Unit. The SPU replaces the RAID card of FC HBA in the application server, connecting server SSDs and presenting local or shared volumes. A group of SPU-equipped servers is called an nPod by Nebulon, scaling out to 32 servers. The SPU includes all the attributes of […]

Introduction to Nebulon Cloud-Defined Storage

Siamak Nazari, CEO, introduces Nebulon’s cloud-defined storage solution at Storage Field Day 20. Founded in 2018, Nebulon includes many of the original 3PAR team, including CEO David Scott (now Executive Chairman), Chief Software Architect Nazari (now CEO), Platform Director Sean Etaati (now CTO), and CMO Craig Nunes (now COO). Nebulon cloud-defined storage (CDS) is an […]

Intel Optane Technology in the Cloud

Frank Ober, Principal Engineer, Intel Optane Solutions, presents the use cases for Intel’s Optane™ technology in cloud computing. He presents the case of VKontakte, which leverages Intel Optane SSDs and persistent memory, as well as Intel FPGAs to accelerate their cloud solution and reduce compute cost 40%. The session closes with a summary from Kristie […]

Intel Optane Persistent Memory Usages

Kristie Mann, General Manager, Intel Optane Persistent Memory Division, discusses the use case for Intel’s Optane™ technology as persistent memory. Intel launched the first generation Optane Persistent Memory (PMem) product in 2019 and recently introduced the second-generation 200 series. Optane PMem DIMMs are compatible with DDR but include a protocol to allow asynchronous communication between […]

Intel Optane SSD Usages

Christopher Tobias, General Manager, Optane Software Solutions Division, presents the use case for Intel’s Optane™ technology in SSDs. He begins with a discussion of the Ceph project, to which Intel is a major contributor. Optane SSD for RocksDB/WAL delivers consistently low latency to speed up workloads on Ceph. Next Tobias discusses how Intel Optane SSD […]

Intel Optane Technology Primer

Christopher Tobias, General Manager, Optane Software Solutions Division, introduces Intel’s Optane™ technology. Tobias begins with a general overview of memory technology, including DRAM, Intel Optane Technology, and 3D NAND, along a spectrum of cost, capacity, and performance. He then presents the unique properties of Intel Optane technology: It is persistent, allows write in place, is […]

VAST Data Use Case Update – AI at Lightspeed

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 […]

VAST Data 18 Months Later – Learnings Since Launch

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 […]

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