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.
Huawei Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Cohesity Presents at Storage Field Day 15
StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Datrium Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 15
NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Hedvig Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Dropbox Presents at Storage Field Day 15
IBM 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.