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Introduction to SNIA with Michael Oros

Michael Oros, Executive Director at SNIA, gives an overview of the entire organization, including their technical focus for the foreseeable future. They are the leading body advancing industry storage standards, best practices, and testing.

Datera Ecosystem Demo: Kubernetes with Bill Borsari

Bill Borsari, Head of Systems Engineering, demonstrates Datera working with Kubernetes. With it, you can set a block storage volume for the container instances to use, which can be added to if additional workloads are created by Kubernetes.

Datera Ecosystem Demo: OpenStack with Bill Borsari

Bill Borsari, Head of Systems Engineering, demonstrates using Datera with OpenStack. He shows created volumes in OpenStack being reflected in their GUI. This also allows for viewing tenancy, as well as volumes.

Datera Elastic Data Fabric Demo with Bill Borsari

Bill Borsari, Head of Systems Engineering, gives a preliminary demonstration of the Datera user interface. The system obscures the carefully constructed architecture behind an easy to consumer UI. He walks through the various views available to administrators, including active nodes, and overall system performance. Finally, he digs into how the system handle application performance on […]

How We Built Datera with Nic Bellinger, CTO and Co-Founder

Nic Bellinger, CTO and Co-Founder, goes to the whiteboard to review their distributed placement implementation within Datera’s solution. He reviews how Datera designed their solution around application requirements at a very high level. This makes the entire system built around constant change, allowing you to easily verify your placement map without disrupting IO.

Datera Elastic Data Fabric with Ashok Rajagopalan

Ashok Rajagopalan, Head of Products, introduces their Elastic Data Fabric, which is designed to defragment the data center and improve utilization. This solution is flexible enough for any application, allows for mixed nodes within a on-premises cloud, provides for true scale-out, and allows for any orchestration stack.

Datera Update with CEO and Founder, Marc Fleischmann

Marc Fleischmann, CEO and Founder, introduces Datera to the delegates. He overviews their Elastic Data Storage, which is targeted toward on-premises clouds. Their overall mission is to bring data simplicity, agility and performance to on-prem clouds, and to allow for better data management across a hybrid cloud.

Top of Mind Discussion with NetApp Founder Dave Hitz

Dave Hitz, Executive VP and Founder of NetApp, further discusses the history of Data Fabric, and their overall cloud vision. He further reviews how the state of the company changed over the last two years, including the massive growth in their all-flash storage array.

NetApp Object Storage and StorageGRID with Duncan Moore

Duncan Moore, Director, StorageGRID software, reviews the recent trend in object storage. He then uses this to pivot into a discussion of the ongoing gaps within object storage, particularly with unstructured data. He then reviews how StorageGRID can serve to extend NetApp’s Data Fabric through S3. Finally, Duncan reviews how StorageGRID scales to Webscale storage […]

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 […]

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