Western Digital IntelliFlash Architecture & Design with Shailendra Tripathi
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.
Western Digital IntelliFlash All flash Storage Systems with Narayan Venkat
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.
Western Digital Introduction to Data Center Systems with Phil Bullinger
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.
NetApp ONTAP Update: What’s New in ONTAP 9.3 with Jeff Baxter
Jeff Baxter, Chief Evangelist for ONTAP, presented the latest updates in ONTAP version 9.3. The update is designed to optimize and simplify data management with features such as adaptive QoS, 40% faster performance on AFF HA pairs, improved efficiency, and stronger compliance tools. The updates reflect NetApp’s ongoing commitment to enhancing the software aspect of […]
NetApp Architecting and Edge to Core to Cloud Data Pipeline with Santosh Rao
Santosh Rao, Senior Technical Director of Workloads and Ecosystem at NetApp, provides a comprehensive architectural overview of NetApp’s data pipeline strategy during Storage Field Day 15. The discussion begins with a recognition of the challenges faced by legacy data architectures, particularly their inefficiencies and limitations in handling modern analytics workloads. NetApp is actively extending its […]
NetApp Vision for NVMe and Storage-Class Memory with Jeff Baxter
Jeff Baxter, Chief Evangelist for ONTAP at NetApp, outlined NetApp’s strategic vision for the integration of NVMe and storage-class memory into its products, emphasizing the company’s commitment to innovation in the storage industry. The approach was presented against the backdrop of broader industry changes, including the shift toward data-driven environments and the increasing importance of […]
Hedvig Veeam OST and Object Storage Gaurav Yadav and Shufan Ge
Gaurav Yadav, MTS, Hedvig, reviews how the Hedvig platform has been optimized to serve as a backup target. Then Shufan Ge, MTS, Hedvig reviews some of the object storage capabilities of Hedvig.
Hedvig Converged Backups with Srividhya Anantharamakrishnan
Srividhya Anantharamakrishnan, MTS, Hedvig, shows how Hedvig can be thought of as both primary and secondard storage via converged backups. Hedvig does this via their scheduled snapshotting mechanism.
Hedvig Multi and Hybrid Cloud, Kubernetes with Suhani Gupta
Suhani Gupta, MTS, Hedvig, demonstrates how Hedvig distributed storage integrates with containers, Kubernetes, and other distributed environments.
Hedvig Multi and Hybrid Cloud, Docker with Abhijith Shenoy
Abhijith Shenoy, MTS at Hedvig, gives an overview of how multi and hybrid cloud deployments look when using Hedvig’s platform. This showcases using the cloud as a stretch cluster, forming a single cluster between on-premises and cloud resources. Hedvig enables making all data actively available to apps, regardless of where they live.
Hedvig Company Overview with Avinash Lakshmar and Bharat Naik
Avinash Lakshman, CEO of Hedvig gives an overview of the companies platform. The talk touches how Hedvig enables organizations to modernize, secure data, and reduce OpEx. Then Bharat Naik, MTS at Hedvig, provides a introduction of Hedvig’s distributed storage architecture.
Dropbox Competitive Advantages from Infrastructure with James Cowling
James Cowling, Principal Engineer at Dropbox, reviews how the company’s infrastructure provides a competitive advantage in the marketplace. This includes efficiencies in cost, performance, and overall agility.
Dropbox Network Infrastructure with Dzmitry Markovich
Dzmitry Markovich, Head of Technical Infrastructure at Dropbox, reviews the company network infrastructure. This was designed to provide exceptional network performance without experiencing hight latency and packet loss. This originally used EC2 instances to get as close to the user as possible. Dzmitry then goes into what Dropbox is doing today with their network infrastructure.
Dropbox Background on Magic Pocket with James Cowling
James Cowling, Principal Engineer at Dropbox, provides background on the development and technical details on their Magic Pocket, their custom built, internally hosted, software defined, cloud storage infrastructure.
IBM Storage Spectrum Protect Plus Demonstration with Christian Burns
Christian Burns, Technical Sales Team Lead, Spectrum Protect Plus, gives a demonstration of their data reuse platform. This includes a look at the dashboard, as well as some common use cases.
IBM Storage Spectrum Plus Technology Overview with Christian Burns
Christian Burns, Technical Sales Team Lead, Spectrum Protect Plus, reviews Spectrum Protect Plus: a data reuse solution for virtual environments and applications.
IBM Storage Next Generation Data Protection with Steve Kenniston
Steve Kenniston, Business Development Executive, Spectrum Storage Software, reviews IBM’s efforts with next generation data protection. This includes a look at the Spectrum Protect solutions, as well as emphasizing IBM’s idea of data reuse.
WekaIO Product Demonstration with Shimon Ben-David
WekaIO Product Overview & Chalk Talk with Liran Zvibel
Liran Zvibel, Co-Founder and CEO at WekaIO, gives an overview of the company’s core intellectual property, built over two decades to recreate storage in software only. This includes an architectural overview, and how their solution makes data locality irrelevant.
WekaIO Introduction with Barbara Murphy
Barbara Murphy, VP of Marketing, give an overview of the company, introducing WekaIO Matrix. This is a parallel NVMe over Fabric file system designed so that applications never have to wait for data.