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Docker Intro to Containers with Vivek Saraswat

Vivek Saraswat, Product Manager at Docker, gives a basic overview of containers and Docker’s roll in the enterprise. He further goes over the company’s core tenants of what they see for Containers as a Service.


Rubrik SQL Demo with Chris Wahl

Chris Wahl, Chief Technology Evangelist at Rubrik, shows their backup solution working on SQL. Chris kills a database, and demonstrates the power of Rubrik’s backup solution to easily proceed with recovery.


Rubrik Linux Demo with Kenny To

Kenny To, Founding Engineer at Rubrik, demos the Linux protection functionality of Rubrik. He shows how Rubrik has extended their policy based backup solution to physical Linux hosts.


Rubrik Demo with Chris Wahl

Chris Wahl, Chief Technology Evangelist at Rubrik, runs through a demo of the latest Rubrik release, 3.0 Firefly. Chris showcases the protection abilities for physical, virtual, and cloud resources.


Rubrik Atlas FIle System with Adam Gee and Rolland Miller

Adam Gee, Founding Engineer at Rubrik, and Director of Solutions Architecture Rolland Miller present the details of Rubrik’s Atlas file system. They look into the architectural decisions and technical details surrounding Atlas. They describe it as a next-generation file system, and it is the basis of their Rubrik Cloud Data Management fabric.


Rubrik Introduction with Chris Wahl

Chris Wahl, Chief Technology Evangelist for Rubrik, introduces the delegates to Rubrik. He goes on to give examples of what current customers are doing with their backup product in production.


DriveScale Market Observations with Gene Banman

Gene Banman, CEO of DriveScale, reviews where the company sees their place in the storage market. Their customer strategy revolves around uses of Hadoop analytics. This strategy leans heavily on early adopters, as mainstream organizations are only doing Hadoop POCs at this time.


DriveScale Hardware Deep Dive with Satya Nishtala

Satya Nishtala, CTO at DriveScale, give the delegates a deep dive in the adapter hardware the company is offering. He previews the additional functionality to add 10 NVMe drives for caching within the adapter. Then he goes through the hardware capabilities of their adapter to implement their storage architecture.


DriveScale Demo with Chris Unkel

Chris Unkel, Distinguished Engineer at DriveScale, gives a demo of how the DriveScale solution works in the rack. He runs down the individual drive management within their control interface and how to configure node templates.


DriveScale Architectural Deep Dive with Tom Lyon

Tom Lyon, Chief Scientist at DriveScale, give the Tech Field Day delegates a detailed look at their storage architecture. He runs through the problem with traditional scale-out systems, that most a essentially servers with storage. Tom compares this to a minivan, useful but not ideal for any one use case. The DriveScale adapter is their […]


DriveScale Introduction with Gene Banman

Gene Banman, CEO of DriveScale, reviews the state of his company. He further goes on to show the impressive pedigree of the founding team. Finally Gene addresses DriveScale’s vision: to disaggregate disk storage in the rack from compute.


Dell EMC Isilon Deployment with David Noy and John Hayden

David Noy, VP of Isilon Product Strategy for Dell EMC, and VP of Engineering John Hayden go over the Isilon advantages with Hadoop, with a native integration. David also reviews some of the analytics and provisioning features built into their software tools.


Dell EMC Isilon SmartFlash with David Noy and John Hayden

David Noy, VP of Isilon Product Strategy for Dell EMC, and VP of Engineering John Hayden run down the actual architecture of the Isilon SmartFlash platform, which is being used for caching. Then the delegates are treated to a whiteboard session as to how the cache levels are setup underneath an individual nodes, and the […]


Dell EMC Isilon Features with David Noy

David Noy, VP of Isilon Product Strategy for Dell EMC reviews the Isilon upgrade path. Isilon provides seamless upgrades, with the ability to keep uptime and availability while swapping out nodes. Their latest update allows for easy rollback of software across all nodes.


Dell EMC Isilon Scale-Out Architecture with David Noy and John Hayden

David Noy, VP of Isilon Product Strategy for Dell EMC, and VP of Engineering John Hayden review the scale out architecture designed into their Isilon solution. They review with the delegates how the architecture is setup under the hood, to provide for failure recovery, easy scaling, and operational flexibility. They specifically detail how the ethernet […]


Dell EMC Product Overview with David Noy

David Noy, VP of Isilon Product Strategy for Dell EMC, reviews the concept of a Data Lake as the Isilon operating model. He reviews how data is handled across various nodes and configuration options, and the versatility of the platform for various workflows. David also reviews the data management and protection feature available with Isilon.


Dell EMC Company Overview with David Noy

David Noy, the VP for Dell EMC’s Isilon Product Strategy, gives an overview of the history of Isilon. From there, he goes on to highlight the historic markets for Isilon and where they are seeing growth recently. David highlights the impact of the EMC acquisition of Isilon on the product’s marketshare.


Igneous Systems Datapath with Jeff Hughes

Jeff Hughes, CTO at Igneous Systems, reviews why Igneous decided to design their own Datapath. After a six month review of open source options, they took a lot of inspiration from the Ceph project. Igneous uses an algorithm similar to CRUSH as used by Ceph to deterministically layout data across a distributed system. The overall […]


Igneous Systems Continuous IaaS Delivery with Asif Daud

Asif Daud, VP of Engineering at Igneous Systems, goes into a deep dive on how updates with the Igneous solution works. The update process prioritizes shipping features quickly and responding to customer feedback. This is done by issuing frequent granular updates, rolled out progressively to make sure there are no overall issues for customers. All […]


Igneous Systems RatioPerfect Architecture with Jeff Hughes

Jeff Hughes, CTO at Igneous Systems, reviews the design decisions behind their system architecture, which they call RatioPerfect. They’ve designed a system to help alleviate the I/O bottlenecks and larger fault domains inherent in putting a number of drives behind a single CPU node. After reviewing their design history, they hit upon their current product, […]


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  • Jun 10-Jun 11 — Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2025
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