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 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.

Cohesity SQL Point-in-Time Recovery & Cloning with Drew McCumiskey

Drew McCumiskey, Lead of Tech Marketing Efforts at Cohesity, demos some of the SQL specific features of their platform, focusing on recovery and cloning. He walks through setting up the ephemeral agent Cohesity uses for monitoring. Finally Drew kills the sample database to walk through the complete restore process in a matter of minutes.

Cohesity DataPlatform Cloud Edition Demo with Sai Mukundan

Sai Mukundan, Product Manager for Cohesity, gives the first demo of their new DataPlatform Cloud Edition, running Cohesity in Azure for this instance. Cohesity developed this to help customers with testing/development, distaster recovery, and analytics. Sai walks through how to pair the Cohesity platform with Azure through their Cloud Replicate system. This replication actually translates […]

Cohesity Physical Volume Protection & Recovery Demo with Chinmaya Manjunath

Chinmaya Manjunath, MTS at Cohesity, walks the delegates through a demo of how their product works for physical volumes. In the Cohesity Dashboard, it’s a simple task to register your servers, with full support for a variety of operating and file systems. Chinmaya reviews creating new backup jobs and how to change these with their […]

Cohesity vRealize Policy Management Demo with Sai Mukundan

Sai Mukundan, Product Manager for Cohesity, shows how their product integrates with VMware vRealize. He first walks through deployment of a virtual machine in the Cohesity Dashboard via blueprints. Cohesity is focused on making the deployment of the protection protocols simple, as well as easy to automate. Sai further shows how to update existing protection […]

Cohesity VMware Protection & Recovery Demo with Damien Philip

Damien Philip, Solutions Architect for Cohesity, gives a demo showing how their platform can protect a VMware environment. He starts by showing the Cohesity Dashboard view, which gives a simple GUI for viewing all protected data. From there, Damien walks the delegates through registering their VMware server with the system. Other items highlighted include recovery […]

Cohesity Distributed File System with Apurv Gupta

Apurv Gupta, Head of Engineering reviews the details of the Cohesity File System. This distributed file system was built from the ground up to help address the particular issues surrounding secondary storage. The File system includes writable snapshots, distributed NFS/SMB, and removes dedupe and compression redundancy. Apurv runs down the key features of the architecture, […]

Cohesity Strategy & VIsion with Mohit Aron

Mohit Aron, CEO of Cohesity, gives an update on the company’s latest update and their mission to redefine secondary storage. He gave the delegates a better sense of the composition of the company and who are their customers. Mohit outlined the issue of the “Storage Iceberg”, where minority of data is the highly visible primary […]

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