Dell EMC Isilon OneFS 8.1 for Flash with Anton Rang
Anton Rang, Software Engineer at Dell EMC Isilon, discusses their OneFS software. This powers Isilon, and is based on a FreeBSD kernel. Anton goes in-depth how the system had to be adjusted to make the most out of its new all-flash environment.
Dell EMC Isilon F800 Architecture with Steve Soumpholphakdy
Steve Soumpholphakdy, Software Senior Engineer with Dell EMC Isilon, gives the delegates an architectural overview of their new F800 platform. This is Isilon’s new all-flash scale out NAS. F800 was designed to increase density, better resiliency, and transition to an Ethernet backend, replacing InfiniBand.
Introduction to Dell EMC Isilon with John Har
John Har, Isilon Product Manager for Dell EMC, gives an introduction to the product line. The company recently launched the F800 line, an all-flash version of the platform. John reviews conceptually how Isilon is designed, and what the typical use cases are for their scale out NAS platform.
Dell EMC Unity Unisphere and CloudIQ Demo with Wei Chen
Wei Chen, Principal Engineer, Product Technologist with Dell EMC Unity, gives an overview of their Unity Unisphere, which features a simplified UI and dashboard, to allow you to immediately get information without getting bogged down in specifics. He also gives a demo of CloudIQ, their SaaS cloud-based storage analytics application.
Dell EMC Unity Product Overview and Architecture with Kaushik Ghosh
Kaushik Ghosh, Senior Management, Product Development with Dell EMC Unity, gives a product overview of their line. This includes their all-flash arrays, converged appliances, and new VMware-based virtual appliance. For their purpose built solutions, Dell EMC has designed Unity from the ground up to be all-flash native, with multi-core optimizations, automatic wear balancing, and inline […]
Addressing Edge Computing with X-IO Axellio, with David Gustavsson
David Gustavsson, CTO at X-IO Technologies, gives an in-depth walk-through of the Axellio platform, starting with the development methodology. He covers the rapidly evolving world of NVMe storage and some of the challenges it brings.
Improving Deduplication via Mathematics with Richard Lary
In his presentation at Storage Field Day 13, Richard Lary, Chief Scientist at X-IO Technologies, delves into the complexities and innovations in deduplication technology, emphasizing the significant role of mathematics in enhancing performance. Lary begins by highlighting the resource-intensive nature of deduplication, which involves substantial memory, CPU cycles, and disk accesses. He explains that deduplication […]
Edge Computing with X-IO with Bill Miller
Bill Miller, Chairman and CEO at X-IO Technologies, goes over the rise of Edge Computing and the challenges this fast-growing market represents not only to storage, but computing as a whole.
X-IO Introduction and Catch-Up with Gavin McLaughlin
Gavin McLaughlin, Strategy & Communication at X-IO Technologies, kicks off their presentation by reviewing X-IO’s history in the enterprise. He then expands into reviewing their historic market position, their recent restructuring, and where the company is headed in the future.
Primary Data DataSphere 2.0 Demo with Douglas Fallstrom
Douglas Fallstrom, VP Products at Primary Data, gives the delegates a demo of DataSphere 2.0 Early Access. This includes an overview of their UI, and includes showing how data is ingested via REST APIs and policy.
Primary Data DataSphere 2.0 Early Access with Douglas Fallstrom
Douglas Fallstrom, VP Products at Primary Data, gives an overview of their new release, DataSphere 2.0. This includes SMB support, uninterrupted recovery, VLAN, and resiliency improvements. He also reviews the cloud migration tools built into the new version.
Primary Data Markets and Industries with Lance Smith
Lance Smith, CEO of Primary Data, reviews the pain points that necessitate a solution like DataSphere. He then gives an overview of what verticals they see their solution being particularly applicable to, and reviews their use cases.
Primary Data DataSphere Overview and Product Update with Douglas Fallstrom
Douglas Fallstrom, VP Products at Primary Data, gives an in-depth overview of their DataSphere solution. This is a metadata engine designed to automate the movement of data across on-site or cloud infrastructure to meet changing application needs. This is designed to be vendor agnostic, and solve traditional enterprise inefficiencies.
Primary Data Introduction and Update with Lance Smith
Lance Smith, CEO of Primary Data, gives the delegates an update on the company. Their solution just went into GA late in 2016. Their solution is built around making storage application aware, which causes bottlenecks, over-provisioning and potentially vendor lock-in. Lance then introduces the key to their solution to bring intelligence into infrastructure, the DataSphere […]
Reel It In: SNIA Swordfish with Richelle Ahlvers
Richelle Ahlvers, Chair, SNIA Scalable Storage Management Technical Working Group, and Principal Storage Management Architect with Broadcom, gives an introduction to Swordfish. This was designed out of a need to improve storage management APIs in terms of efficiency, with the goal of making them applicable to hyperconverged and hyperscale users. This is a client-oriented, built […]
SNIA NVDIMMs with with Rob Peglar
Rob Peglar, SNIA Board Member and SVP at Symbolic IO, reviews the specifications for different NVDIMM modules that SNIA has developed. These are vendor agnostic, and use a memory controller to manage data over the fast memory interface to either NAND flash, or a combination of flash and DRAM.
SNIA NVM Programming Model with Rob Peglar
Rob Peglar, SNIA Board Member and SVP at Symbolic IO, reviews the non-volatile memory programming model. This was developed to give a standard around which to programmatically address this emergent storage medium. Rob also takes time to answer delegate questions surrounding how this software model in implemented in hardware.
SNIA Persistent Memory Introduction with Rob Peglar
Rob Peglar, SNIA Board Member and SVP at Symbolic IO, gives an overview on what the organization is developing and promoting with persistent memory. Rob frames this simply as having persistent storage living within a memory slot.
Dell EMC ScaleIO Performance with Dan Aharoni
Dan Aharoni, Senior Director of Engineer with Dell EMC ScaleIO, reviews some of the performance of their SDS and SDC components, which handle drive and application performance with storage, respectively. This includes two different profiles, which includes default and performance modes. This allows for configuration of performance requirements, based on utilization of additional RAM and […]
Dell EMC ScaleIO Demo with Joel Sprouse
Joel Sprouse, Senior Systems Engineer with Dell EMC ScaleIO, gives a demonstration of ScaleIO to the delegates. This demonstrates both their SDS drive management component, but also SDC, their application management, and metadata manager component. He walks the delegates through their UI, and shows how policy and provisioning are handled in the system.
Dell EMC ScaleIO Vision and Architecture with Erez Webman
Erez Webman, CTO at Dell EMC ScaleIO, gives the delegates a review of ScaleIO’s architectural fundamentals. This design is highly scalable, supporting well into thousands of nodes. Erez shows how ScaleIO gains performance with each added node, and goes into detail on it’s designed residency, with fault sets and distributed mirroring.