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Storage Field Day 1

Storage Field Day 1
April 26–27, 2012
#SFD1
Who: Storage
What: Field Day
When: Past
Location: Silicon Valley

For the first time, Gestalt IT will host a special IT storage-focused Field Day event in April 2012! This unique event brings together innovative enterprise storage vendors and independent thought leaders, allowing them to get to know one another and discuss key technology issues. It is a forum for engagement, education, hands-on experience, and feedback. This is Gestalt IT’s third year of Tech Field Day events – learn more at the Tech Field Day site!

Storage Field Day 1 will be held in Silicon Valley on April 25-27, 2012!

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Delegate Panel

Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.

Arjan Timmerman

@ArjanTim

Dutch analyst, world traveler and technology advisor

Chris M Evans

@ChrisMEvans

Chris is a UK-based consultant with an interest in all technologies, focusing on storage, virtualisation and cloud.

Derek Schauland

@WebJunkie

Dwayne Lessner

@dlink7

Fabio Rapposelli

@FabioRapposelli

Hans De Leenheer

@HansDeLeenheer

Rental Evangelist & Enterprise Clown. Sometimes referred to as Technical Marketer.

Howard Marks

@DeepStorageNet

Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Nigel Poulton

@NigelPoulton

Nigel is a self-confessed tech-addict who works, creates IT training vids, hosts a podcast, writes a blog, and writes books.

Ray Lucchesi

@RayLucchesi

Ray Lucchesi is president of Silverton Consulting, blogs at RayOnStorage.com, co-hosts GreyBeardsOnStorage.com podcast and has worked in data storage for over 30 years mostly in marketing and engineering new disk and tape automation products.

Robert Novak

@Gallifreyan

Citizen-analyst, writer, comedian, shopkeeper, retired system administrator, griller and smoker

Robin Harris

@StorageMojo

Scott D. Lowe

@OtherScottLowe

Scott D. Lowe is an independent consultant, blogger, and author focusing on issues that affect the CIO and on the virtualization and storage markets.

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Thursday, Apr 26 08:00-10:00 Kaminario Presents at Storage Field Day 1
Thursday, Apr 26 10:30-12:30 Nimbus Data Presents at Storage Field Day 1
Thursday, Apr 26 13:30-15:30 Drobo Presents at Storage Field Day 1
Thursday, Apr 26 16:00-18:00 Coraid Presents at Storage Field Day 1
Thursday, Apr 26 18:30-19:15 Quest Software Presents at Storage Field Day 1
Friday, Apr 27 08:00-10:00 Dell Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 1
Friday, Apr 27 10:30-12:30 Brocade Presents at Storage Field Day 1
Friday, Apr 27 13:30-15:30 Tintri Presents at Storage Field Day 1
Friday, Apr 27 16:00-18:00 Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 1
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Benjamin Freedman

@PrimeImageVideo

Claire Chaplais

@CChaplais

Claire Chaplais has over 20 years experience in business operations, marketing communication programs, and event management for the high tech industry. She worked for great companies like Wind River Systems, StorageTek, Common Sense Media, and Harris B …

Scott Sexauer

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen Foskett is a writer and speaker on enterprise IT topics and organizes the popular Tech Field Day event series.


Links with Tag #SFD1

  1. Celebrating 10 Years of Pure Storage and Tech Field Day
    • Cloud Field Day 5, Storage Field Day 10, Storage Field Day 6, Storage Field Day 8, Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017, Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019, Virtualization Field Day 3
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Pure Storage, Tech Field Day
  2. Dude, Here’s Your 100TB Flash Drive!
    • Chris M Evans
    • Nimbus Data
  3. Kaminario Goes Software-Defined
    • Storage Field Day 10
    • Chris M Evans
    • Kaminario
  4. Flash Diversity: High Capacity Drives from Nimbus and Micron
    • Chris M Evans
    • Nimbus Data
  5. Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Kaminario
    • Storage Field Day 10, Storage Field Day 7
    • Chris M Evans
    • Kaminario
  6. Pure Storage: Show Me the Money!!
    • Nigel Poulton
    • Pure Storage
  7. To all vendors sponsoring the influencers
    • Storage Field Day 4, Tech Field Day Extra at Interop New York 2013
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Kaminario
  8. Storage IPO Season – Violin Memory and Pure Storage
    • Tech Field Day 8
    • Chris M Evans
    • Pure Storage
  9. NimbusData at VMworld 2013 in SFO
    • Storage Field Day 2
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Nimbus Data
  10. Travel in April: Storage Field Day
    • Chris M Evans
  11. Coraid, first thoughts…
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Coraid
  12. Simplicity and transparency are becoming standard features in storage
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • Coraid, Drobo, Tintri
  13. Kaminario – a Solid State startup worth following
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Kaminario
  14. Using Pure Flash or Cache for VDI
    • Solid-State Storage Symposium
    • Dwayne Lessner
    • Kaminario, Nimble Storage, Nimbus Data, Pure Storage, Tintri, Violin Memory
  15. Does Backup and Recovery work with SLA? Maybe it should.
    • Derek Schauland
    • Quest Software, VKernel
  16. How Drobo brings big storage to Small and Medium Business
    • Derek Schauland
    • Drobo
  17. All-Flash solutions ready for commercial value?
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Nimbus Data
  18. Pure Storage FlashArray: Ooooooh yeh!
    • Nigel Poulton
    • Pure Storage
  19. Storage Old, New and Past Due? (Updated)
    • Chris M Evans
    • Pure Storage
  20. Sustainable Storage made by Nimbus Data Systems
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Nimbus Data
  21. Pure Storage goes GA with All Flash Array
    • Derek Schauland
    • Pure Storage
  22. Drobo, Veeam and the SMB
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Drobo, Veeam Software
  23. Dell Allegedly Bid for Fusion-IO
    • Chris M Evans
    • Compellent, Dell, Fusion-io, Ocarina Networks
  24. My first impression of the Drobo B800i
    • Derek Schauland
    • Drobo
  25. Coraid’s scale-out architecture
    • Robin Harris
    • Coraid
  26. Coraid’s scale-out architecture
    • Robin Harris
    • Coraid
  27. Real storage for a virtual world
    • Robin Harris
    • Tintri
  28. Small is the new Big [drobo announcement]
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Drobo
  29. The Thunder of Drobo!
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Drobo
  30. We had a field day and it was great!
    • Drobo
  31. G’s view of the world
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Compellent, Dell, Ocarina Networks
  32. Kaminario’s Dani Golan Speaks at Tech Field Day
    • Kaminario
  33. Array Rumble at Storage Tech Field Day
    • Solid-State Storage Symposium
    • Kaminario
  34. It’s just about time for a Field Day
    • Solid-State Storage Symposium
    • Derek Schauland
  35. Silicon Valley VMUG UC, and Storage Field Day
    • Robert Novak
  36. Storage Field Day 1 – Silicon Valley
    • Stephen Foskett
  37. Storage Field Day #1 – Tech Field Day Event – YES & YES
    • Dwayne Lessner
  38. Storage Field Day – 26th & 27th April 2012
    • Chris M Evans
  39. 2013 – the year of FLASH in BeNeLux
    • Storage Field Day 2
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Nimble Storage, Nimbus Data, Nutanix, Pure Storage, SolidFire
  40. One Year of Tech Field Day Video: 90,000 Views!
    • Networking Field Day 3, Networking Field Day 4, Storage Field Day 2, Wireless Field Day 2, Wireless Field Day 3
    • Stephen Foskett
  41. 2012 was Squirrels and Bacon
    • Hans De Leenheer
  42. PureStorage arrives in EMEA
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Pure Storage
  43. August Storage Announcements – Pure Storage
    • Tech Field Day 8
    • Chris M Evans

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Stephen Foskett, Gestalt IT Community Organizer, at [email protected] or call +1(508)451-9532.


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