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 […]
The Evolution of Storage Architecture with VAST Data
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 […]
Data Management and Real-Time Analytics Demonstration with Qumulo
Qumulo Field CTO Keith Nargi demonstrates their storage system user interface. Nargi focuses on the ways that the interface gives real-time information about the Qumulo cluster as well as a historical view of data. He then shows how to identify throughput and IOPS hot spots at the directory level, down to the individual file, helping […]
Advantages of a Flash-First Design with Qumulo
Jason Sturgeon, Sr. Product Manager, discusses the Qumulo storage architecture, built on flash from the start. Sturgeon discusses the use cases for the Qumulo platform, along with Keith Nargi, Field CTO, and Molly Presley, Global Product Marketing, and takes questions from the Storage Field Day delegates. Qumulo can leverage flash through traditional SSD or hybrid […]
File Data Management Across On-Prem and the Cloud with Qumulo
Molly Presley, Global Product Marketing, discusses the diversity of storage options for data-driven projects and workloads. After presenting cloud storage at Cloud Field Day 8, Qumulo focuses this time on datacenter-resident storage. Presley begins with a review of a recent survey they conducted, highlighting the top pain points for storage administrators and the key workloads […]
Enabling NVMe-IP with Cisco Nexus 9000
Kamal Bakshi, Principal Engineer, presents IP fabric in the Cisco Nexus 9000. He focuses on some key challenges to NVMe/IP adoption: End point security, low latency, visibility, and automation. Cisco’s switches provide visibility into storage traffic, smart buffers improve latency performance, NXOS and ACI enable automation, and ACI also provides endpoint security.
Accelerating NVMeOF Adoption with Cisco Solutions and Intersight
Chris O’Brien, Technical Marketing Director, presents Cisco’s Data Center Modernization solutions in converged infrastructure. Cisco is working to accelerate adoption of converged infrastructure by configuring a base platform of Nexus, UCS, MDS, and partner storage technology for SAP, Oracle, AI/ML, VDI, and other applications. He focuses on Cisco’s FlexPod offering in partnership with NetApp, which […]
NVMe-FC Analytics with Cisco SAN Insights
Paresh Gupta, Technical Marketing Engineer, discusses how Cisco can collect and present SAN analytics for NVMe-FC. He follows a NVMe-FC write operation from the initiator to the Cisco MDS switch to the target, recording storage access latency and exchange completion time. The Cisco MDS switch includes traffic inspection, metric calculation, and metric export. Gupta then […]
Cisco NVMe Storage Transport Solutions
Kamal Bakshi, Principal Engineer, introduces Cisco’s NVMe storage transport solutions. He begins with a review of the history of storage transport, from FC-SCSI to iSCSI to FCoE, and discusses how flash storage is affected by these protocols. NVMe gives greater performance than SAS, and next-generation SANs will consist of an NVMe fabric using FC, InfiniBand, […]
Ventev Taking the Telecom Closet Outdoors
New workforce models and changes in teh way people are doing business require us to rethink the way we do our power requirements and infrastructure design. Learn how Ventev is enabling you to place your telecom closet anywhere you want.
Ventev Antenna Innovation with Dennis Burrell
Have you ever seen a wireless antenna and wondered how they made it fit into that space? Or how you can cover crazy configurations with ease? Dennis Burrell of Ventev shows off some of the custom antenna designs that Ventev can do for your project.