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Dell EMC Data Protection Central with Rich Fomin

Rich Fomin, Consultant Product Manager, Dell EMC, introduces the new Data Protection Central interface, a modern HTML5 offering backed by a MongoDB backend. This gives a single point of control for enterprises to manage their data protection.

Dell EMC Why Architecture Matters in Data Protection with Mark Sanders

Mark Sander, Global Technology Office, Dell EMC, discusses the importance of architecture when it comes to data protection. Dell EMC designed their data protection solutions around policy management, data movement, robust networking, and with storage protection in mind. All this allows organizations to meet unchanging SLA requirements, even as data consumption grows.

Scality Next Generation File Systems – Scale out File System with Brad King

Brad King, Chief Architect at Scality, takes a deep dive into the Scality Scale Out File System (SOFS). This includes a look at how it works, benefits of SOFS, and their work on next generation scale-out filesystems.

Scality Appliance like operations – software & hardware unified with Yannick Guillerm

Yannick Guillerm, Director of Technical Solutions and ISV Integrations at Scality, looks at how software-defined storage can drive significantly lower cost but can be more difficult to implement and operate.

Scality Multi-Cloud and the Zenko Multicloud Data Controller with Paul Speciale

Paul Speciale, VP of Product Management at Scality, looks at managing data across multiple cloud services with a single API interface and central control. He provides a rationale, product background, customer use cases and key features of Zenko.

Scality Multi Cloud Storage for Petabyte Scale with Paul Turner

Paul Turner, Chief Marketing Officer at Scality, asks how do you build a secure enterprise cloud and integration with public cloud? In this session, he provides an overview of Scality, their products, market, and customers.

Dell EMC XtremIO X2 Write Boost with Zvi Schneider

Zvi Schneider, Chief Architect, XtremIO, Dell EMC, looks at Write Boost, one of the major differentiators in XtremIO X2 to reduce latency and improve application performance. This is based on their observation to optimize for small IOPS. Dell EMC found that over 65% of IOPS were under 8k.

Dell EMC XtremIO X2 Copy Data Management with Todd Toles

Todd Toles, Field CTO, Modern Infrastructure, Dell EMC, looks at how XtremIO X2 handles copy data management. This includes a look at how their virtual copies reduce overall IO workload. He then reviews the automation and orchestration features built into the platform.

Dell EMC XtremIO X2 Next Generation Hardware Platform with Todd Toles

Todd Toles, Field CTO, Modern Infrastructure, Dell EMC, delves into the hardware models offered by XtremIO X2. These include the X2-S with typical effective storage of 103.9TB in clusters up to 4 bricks, and the X2-R which scales up to 8 bricks offering 493.6TB effective capacity. The X2 as a platform offers 50% more cores […]

Introducing Dell EMC XtremIO X2 with Todd Toles

Todd Toles, Field CTO, Modern Infrastructure, Dell EMC, introduces XtremIO X2 to the delegates. This next generation offers modernization without losing the consistent performance or their legacy of inline data services. XtremIO X2 now offers metadata-aware native replication, an HTML5 UI, and software driven efficiency improvements.

Dell EMC NVMe Strategy with Adnan Sahin

Adnan Sahin, CTO and Distinguished Engineer for Dell EMC VMAX All Flash, gives the delegates an overview of the company’s overall NVMe strategy, and specifically with VMAX. This includes a review of the previous storage technology transitions. Adnan looks at how that informs the media disruption brought by NVMe.

Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Data Services with Vince Westin

Dell EMC’s Technical Evangelist for VMAX, Vince Westin, reviews the data services available on VMAX arrays. This includes SnapVX for local replication with automation deletion on expiration. Non-disruptive migrations and remote replication are also supported.

Dell EMC VMAX Architectural Deep Dive with Vince Westin

Dell EMC’s Technical Evangelist for VMAX, Vince Westin, goes intro an architectural deep dive into VMAX. This offers true non-disruptive upgrades within ten seconds per array, with no component downtime or server disruption. The discussion then goes into VMAX’s RAID protection scheme and cache management.

Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Overview with Vince Westin

Dell EMC’s Technical Evangelist for VMAX, Vince Westin, digs into available VMAX family of hardware, the 250F and 950F. The 250F represents roughly half of existing VMAX business, providing resiliency and some scalability while moving VMAX to a larger market. The 950F is designed for customers who need the highest IOPS per GB, while provides […]

Dell EMC VMAX Introduction with Vince Westin

Dell EMC’s Technical Evangelist for VMAX, Vince Westin, gives an overview of their VMAX All Flash Solution. VMAX is designed to support apps with the highest mission-critical, scaled, and availability needs. VMAX does this with 6x9s availability, 6 million+ IOPS, with support for thousands of workloads within a massive cache.

Commvault Cloud and Virtualization Demo with Deepak Verma

Commvault’s Director of Product Marketing, Deepak Verma, goes into a demo of the Commvault global dashboard. This gives an overview of their overall platform, with drill down dashboards to get into the specifics. Deepak then shows how to add cloud storage targets easily to their storage dashboard.

Commvault HyperScale Appliance Overview with Don Foster

Commvault’s Sr. Director of Solutions Marketing, Don Foster, show the initial set up process for their HyperScale Appliance, which can be backup ready within 30 minutes of powering up. Their 3U appliance provides between 32-80TB of usable capacity, including erasure coding. Don then provides a full architectural overview for the delegates.

Commvault ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS Data Protection with Don Foster

Commvault’s Sr. Director of Solutions Marketing, Don Foster, introduces ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS Data Protection. This allows for a 3 node setup with up to 436TB of usable storage across those nodes with full fault tolerance. What Commvault offers is scale out storage for UCS Servers, providing a global view into data while offering full […]

Commvault HyperScale Software and Appliance with Don Foster

Commvault’s Sr. Director of Solutions Marketing, Don Foster gives an overview of their HyperScale Software and Appliance, which provides an open platform with full API support that allows customers to easily deploy scale-out secondary storage. By design, HyperScale can be installed and implemented in a manner of minutes, with automated deployment based on a simple […]

The Commvault Story with Don Foster

Commvault’s Sr. Director of Solutions Marketing, Don Foster, reviews how Commvault approaches data management. This is centered around an approach of meeting the increasing complexity and volume of data with a simplified management portfolio. Don gives a high-level overview of their architectural backbone to give organizations tools to manage, secure, govern, and recover data.

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