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 Node Failure Handling Demo and Discussion with Shahar Frank
Shahar Frank, CTO & Founder, demonstrates how the Elastifile Architecture handles node failure. Shahar further discusses with the delegates how the solution effects overall performance, and some of the implications of their business model.
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, […]
StarWind Scale Out and Log Structured File System with Anton Kolomyeytsev
Anton Kolomyeytsev, CEO, Chief Architect & Co-Founder, goes into the technical details of the StarWind Log Structured File System. He covers how LSFS solves the challenges of I/O blender and how it works differently from more traditional offerings. He also touches on the system’s in-line deduplication implementation and how it integrates into the overall LSFS […]
StarWind Fault-Tolerant Storage Demo with Max Kolomyeytsev
Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product Management, demonstrates using StarWind for configuration of FT storage. He then compares local flash performance to using StarWind when mirroring flash, illustrating minimal performance loss with their synchronous replication approach.
StarWind Simple, Flexible, Scalable Storage with Max Kolomyeytsev and Anton Kolomyeytsev
Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product Management, introduces StarWind. He discusses the company’s background and current vision. Anton Kolomyeytsev, CEO, Chief Architect & Co-Founder, proceeds to give details on the StarWind Storage appliance. This includes an architectural overview, as well as a look at their roadmap. This includes Starwind SA serving not only as a SAN/NAS, […]
Ryussi MoSMB Architecture with Sunu Engineer
Sunu Engineer, CTO at Ryussi Technologies, reviews the architectural details of MoSMB, their proprietary SMB stack. This includes support for newer storage controllers, including NVMe. MoSMB allows you to have different types of storage layers with support for heterogeneous storage under the same SMB server.
Ryussi MoSMB: An Advanced SMB 3 Stack with Sandeep Bhambani
Sandeep Bhambani, the CEO of Ryussi Technologies, introduces the delegates to the company. From there, he begins to give an overview of MoSMB, their proprietary high performance and lightweight SMB solution that supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
Ryussi Technologies Presents at Storage Field Day 12
Cisco Fastlane Demo with Jerome Henry
Jerome Henry, Principal Engineer at Cisco, gives a demonstration of setting up Fastlane on a Cisco router. This is disabled by default, but once enabled, it allows for white listed apps to apply QoS profiles to traffic.
Fast-tracking the Mobile Enterprise with Cisco: Putting It All Together with Jerome Henry
Jerome Henry, Principal Engineer at Cisco, reiterates to the delegates that the Apple and Cisco partnership is an ongoing project, not simply a one-time partnership. They want to make Wi-Fi coverage on Apple devices as seamless on Wi-Fi as it currently is on cellular. If you can forget that you’re connected to the network, they’ve […]
Cisco Prioritizing Business Apps with Jerome Henry
Jerome Henry, Principal Engineer at Cisco, reviews how Cisco and Apple partnered to improve QoS between devices and access points. The challenge was to create a system that could prioritize business critical apps and data, be easy to implement, and give IT control over app priority. This resulted in Fast Lane QoS markings. This allows […]
Cisco Optimized Wi-Fi Connectivity with Jerome Henry
Jerome Henry, Principal Engineer at Cisco, reviews the developments with wi-fi roaming as part of Cisco’s partnership with Apple. He discusses how they have improved 802.11k/v/r are implemented to improve roaming performance, to allow for faster shifting between access points.
Cisco Fast-Tracking the Mobile Enterprise with Jerome Henry
Jerome Henry, Principal Engineer at Cisco, introduces the latest developments with Cisco’s partnership with Apple. He reviews what solutions have been developed in the first year. The areas of focus were improving roaming coverage and adding QoS information from device to the network.
Cisco IoT Application in Docker Demo with Samuel Pasquier
Samuel Pasquier, Director of Product Management at Cisco, demonstrates how to use Docker to package an application in a container. From there, they can be pushed out to IoT devices.