Datrium DVX UI Demonstration with Sazzala Reddy
Sazzala Reddy, CTO and Co-Founder, gives a UI demo of their DVX platform. This can stand alone or plug into vCenter. This provides an overview of general system performance, as well as offering fine grained analytics.
Datrium Tier 1 HCI with Rex Walters
Rex Walters, VP of Product, provides a high level overview of Datrium’s DVX platform. This provides virtualized compute, primary data management, secondary data protection, and off-site DR in a single package.
StarWind ProActive Support Overview and Demo with Max Kolomyeytsev
Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product, dicsusses the company vision of ProActive support and how it’s implemented.
StarWind VTL as part of StarWind Ecosystem with Max Kolomyeytsev
Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product, shows how VTL plays in the overall StarWind ecosystem. He discusses the most common use cases for VTL and how it works with other StarWind products to deliver customers the required data protection functionality.
StarWind Demonstration VTL for B2 and Veeam with Max Kolomyeytsev
Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product, demonstrates how StarWind VTL helps Veeam Backup and Replication infrastructure to non-disruptively add backup to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage to the Data Protection plan.
StarWind VTL Overview (From Dusk till Dawn) with Scott Alan Miller
Scott Alan Miller, Ideology Inspirer, looks back at StarWind VTL, which started back in the day when organizations started to need fast disk-based storage to replace tape in tape-centric backup infrastructures. He talks about why virtual tape has become relevant today. In particular, he discusses the new use cases it gets with the trend for […]
StarWind Company Introduction with Anton Kolomyeytsev
Anton Kolomyeytsev, CEO of StarWind, introduces the company. Started in 2009 with a strict focus on SDS and HCI solutions for SMB and enterprise ROBO. Right now, StarWind is the leading provider of turnkey SMB and ROBO HCI solutions. Their second biggest focus is VTL-based backup storage systems with cloud and object storage connectivity.
Western Digital ActiveScale Hadoop Use Case with Mike McWhorter
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 […]
Western Digital ActiveScale Object Storage Systems with Roger Weeks
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.
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.