What’s New with NetApp Data Fabric with Arthur Lent

Arthur Lent, VP, Chief Architect, reviews updates to NetApp’s Data Fabric. He puts the updates into the context of the problems of the modern enterprise, primarily the issue of data silos. Arthur reviews how over the last two years, the capabilities and versatility of Data Fabric has exploded.

Nimble Storage Achieving Six-Nines Availability with Rod Bagg

Rod Bagg, Vice President, Analytics & Customer Support, reviews the reliability of their product. They’ve achieved six-nine availability, even as their customer base grew to over 10,000. They see InfoSight as being key to maintaining this. Rod further reviews the methodology behind these figures, which is based on real world observed performance.

Nimble Storage InfoSight Demo with David Adamson

David Adamson, Principal Data Scientist, demonstrates the Nimble Storage InfoSight platform. The system can be used to suggest hardware upgrades, as well as ways to modify workloads to optimize for performance. This allows for greater environmental transparency and empowerment, and relying less on a sales and support model.

Nimble Storage Cloud Volumes Demo with Sandeep Karmarkar

Sandeep Karmarkar, Sr. Product Manager, demonstrates using Nimble Storage Cloud Volumes. This allows you to easily manage volumes across a variety of cloud providers in the same interface. He walks through creating and managing these volumes using both the GUI and APIs.

Nimble Storage Cloud Volumes Overview with Gavin Cohen

Gavin Cohen, Vice President, Product & Solutions Marketing, reviews the primary challenges facing the current state of cloud block storage. He then reviews Nimble Storage’s Cloud Volumes as a solution. This provides a durable cloud storage option which has robust data protection features, and avoids a single cloud provider lock-in.

Nimble Storage Overview and Cloud Platform with Gavin Cohen

Gavin Cohen, Vice President, Product & Solutions Marketing, gives a quick company overview for Nimble Storage, including the growth of their unified flash configurations. He then introduces their Cloud Platform. This replies on a Multicloud Flash Fabric, which combines multicloud storage across providers, all flash storage arrays, and converged infrastructure. Gavin shows how this can […]

Open19 Overview with Yuval Bachar

Yuval Bachar, Principal Engineer of Architecture and Strategy at LinkedIn, discusses the Open19 project started by the company to create an that can fit server, storage, and networking into a 19″ rack, that is applicable to environments and organizations of all sizes. He reviews the hardware building block principals of this standard. Excelero is involved […]

Excelero Demo with Josh Goldenhar

Josh Goldenhar, VP Products, demonstrates their NVMesh solution in action. They’ve tested this with the major NVMe vendors, and allows you to mix and match drives as you see fit. The overall solution adds a mere 5 microseconds to reads and writes. Using relatively low-end Intel Xeon processors, Josh demonstrates getting remote IO response time […]

Excelero NVMesh Architecture and Software Components with Yaniv Romem

Yaniv Romem, CTO & Co-Founder, reviews the architecture and software component of their NVMesh solution. Their solution uses the client CPU to avoid hindering application performance inherent in using the target CPU. Instead, the target RDMA NIC writes directly into the NVMe drive, making the data path effectively direct from the application to the target […]

Excelero Use Cases with Josh Goldenhar

Josh Goldenhar, VP Products, goes over some of the use cases for Excelero’s NVMesh. This solution is unique in that it doesn’t use any CPU on the target device, and is capable of millions of IOPS. Josh outlines how this can be used to bring hardware homogeneity to the cloud by standardizing on hardware, and […]

Excelero NVMesh Server SAN Vision with Yaniv Romem

After an introduction by CEO and Co-Founder Lior Gal, Yaniv Romem, CTO and Co-Founder, lays out Excelero’s vision: to enable businesses to build an efficient, high performance, scale-out storage infrastructure. They built their solution predicting that applications increasingly expect NVMe capabilities from storage, while enterprises increasingly deploy 25/50/100G and with it RDMA. Their product, NVMesh […]

Elastifile Architecture: Clustering with Ezra Hoch

Ezra Hoch, Chief Architect, reviews the clustering configuration, which allows for their high availability and fault tolerant configuration database within the file system. The system uses a clustering officer and clustering agent on each node to provide for a consensus driven methodology. Each node monitors and reports on any inconsistencies within the others. He reviews […]

Elastifile Architecture – Metadata with Ezra Hoch

Ezra Hoch, Chief Architect, reviews how Elastifile handles metadata within their file system solution. Instead of making metadata a bottleneck of overall performance, especially for numerous smaller file sizes, Elastifile uses a consistency layering approach to get reliable performance at scale. At the lowest level this is governed by a configuration database, which is built […]

Elastifile Architecture – Overview, Data Path with Ezra Hoch

Ezra Hoch, Chief Architect, gives an overview of the Elastifile file system data path. They have built a dynamic data path as part of their solution that can choose where specifically to write data, with the ability to cancel and re-choose write location in the event of errors or performance issues. Notably, this is done […]

Elastifile Hyperconverged Scaling in the Cloud Demo with Shahar Frank

Shahar Frank, CTO & Founder, demonstrates Elastifile’s hyperconverged scale out solution in Google Cloud. They provide file system services to applications within a simulated load within each node. This can be deployed as a container within a VM, as a VM itself, or on bare metal as an exposed file system, which can be mounted […]

Elastifile Company, Product, and Design Overview with Shahar Frank

Shahar Frank, CTO & Founder, reviews the company’s history and product vision. They are implementing a new data platform for the modern enterprise. Their software-only focus is to support hundreds of thousands of nodes, provide scalable management containers, and focus on data, not on legacy storage.

StarWind and Veeam VTL and Cloud Replication Demo with Max Kolomyeytsev

Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product Management, demonstrates using the StarWind Virtual Tape Library with existing backup environments and implements a Disk-to-Disk-to-Cloud backup approach. With StarWind, this can be done without changing the existing backup software or DR strategy.

StarWind and AcloudA: Stairway to Cloud with Anton Kolomyeytsev and Max Kolomyeytsev

Anton Kolomyeytsev, CEO, Chief Architect & Co-Founder, shows the hardware for StarWind’s cloud gateway, developed together with AcloudA. He demonstrates the hardware, and gives an overview of the implementation. It essentially provides a fully transparent gateway which would be compatible and interoperable with all OS’s, Hypervisors, and SDS stacks. Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product Management, […]

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