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.

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.

WekaIO Presents at Storage Field Day 15

WekaIO Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Additional Resources WekaIO Overview Video WekaIO Distributed Data Protection White Paper WekaIO Matrix Architecture White Paper  WekaIO Matrix Datasheet

Dell EMC Discussion and Closing with Kevin Noreen

Kevin Noreen, Product Management, Enterprise Systems Management, closes out Dell EMC’s presentation with a discussion on how the company is shifting further into the software-defined data center. This includes iDRAC being operating system aware for management, as well vRealize integration. This leads into a general discussion of Dell EMC’s automation philosophy.

Dell EMC Automation Updates with Ray Hebert

Ray Hebert, OpenManage, Change Management, reviews how Dell EMC’s Repository Manager solves the traditional admin pain points of finding, managing, and deploying updates for firmware, BIOS, and drivers.

Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise with Brian Doty

Brian Doty, OpenManage, Systems Management, reviews OpenManage Enterprise, a new console that’s a follow on to their existing OpenManage Essentials. This is based around a simple HTML5-based UI, providing end-to-end automation via APIs and policy, and unified around centralized authentication.

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