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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, […]


Igneous Systems Administration Demo with Christian Smith

Christian Smith, VP of Product at Igneous Systems, demos how the Igneous storage solution is administered. Overall, the system is heavy on automation. Administration is handled through a standard web interface, and provides an overview of the current storage, performance and capacity burn. From this monitoring, Igneous can monitor for outages on the customer side, […]


Igneous Systems Hyperscale Management with Jeff Hughes

Jeff Hughes, CTO at Igneous, reviews how their solution took inspiration from hyperscale software efficiency. Igneous designed their solution to bring hyperscale fleet management techniques to their local storage IaaS offering, including auto-provisioning, automated granular upgrades within a SLA, and proactive failure management. From this, they can derive insights based on how different setup configurations […]


Igneous Systems Introduction with Kiran Bhagesphur

Kiran Bhagesphur, CEO at Igneous Systems, introduces their unique approach to Infrastructure as a Service. Their model is to bring the benefits of a cloud centric approach like IaaS to customers who aren’t willing or cannot move their data to the cloud. Kiran reviews the markets the company is targeting for their product, including financial […]


StorageOS Hyperconverged for Containers with Alex Chircop and Simon Croome

Alex Chircop, CTO of StorageOS, and VP of Engineering Simon Croome describe the topology and scaling of their Enterprise Container Platform including the global namespace for volumes.


StorageOS Live Use Case with Alex Chircop and Simon Croome

Alex Chircop, CTO of StorageOS, and VP of Engineering Simon Croome show a live use case of their product. They are focusing on deploying a containerized solution with both web systems and databases across a cluster.


StorageOS Product Overview with Chris Brandon, Alex Chircop, and Simon Croome

Chris Brandon, founder and CEO of StorageOS, is joined by CTO Alex Chircop and VP of Engineering Simon Croome to give a general product overview and real world demo of their container storage solution. The show the real world conversations happening in the enterprise, and demonstrate the tools StorageOS offers to manage storage across a […]


StorageOS Enabling Enterprise Storage with Chris Brandon

Chris Brandon, Founder and CEO of StorageOS, introduces their persistent storage container offering inside a 40MB container image. StorageOS offers automated storage provision within the datacenter, and offers a path to allow for container storage in the cloud.


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