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Storage Field Day 11

Storage Field Day 11

October 5–October 7, 2016

#SFD11

Who: Storage

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

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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.

Alastair Cooke

@DemitasseNZ

Alastair is a Tech Field Day event lead at the Futurum group, specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and Edge.

Chris M Evans

@ChrisMEvans

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

Dave Henry

@DaveMHenry

Jack of all trades technologist, gadget guy, writer, job hunting.

Dukagjin Maloku

@DugiDM

Senior Cloud Engineer with strong focus on Cloud stuff

Ed Morgan

@mo6020

Former British soldier turned technologist. Need more ‘dev’ in my ‘ops’. #vExpert x2, #CiscoChampion x2, #NetAppATeam

James Green

@JDGreen

James is Partner & Content Czar at ActualTech Media where he is responsible for developing unique content offerings that help enterprise IT vendors accomplish their most critical content marketing objectives.

Jon Klaus

@JonKlaus

Storage architect gone project manager, working for a MSP in the south of the Netherlands.

Marc Farley

@GoFarley

Marc is a storage industry expert who has written books and blogs and recorded many podcast episodes and videos about storage technologies and companies.

Max Mortillaro

Max Mortillaro is an independent data center consultant specializing in virtualization and storage technologies.

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.

Sean Thulin

@SThulin

Advanced Virtualization Consultant based in New England.

W. Curtis Preston

@WCPreston

O’Reilly Author, Backup Expert, Founder of Truth in IT

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.

Wednesday, Oct 5 9:30 - 11:30 Intel Presents at Storage Field Day 11
Wednesday, Oct 5 13:30 - 15:30 HGST Presents at Storage Field Day 11
Presenters: Gary Lyng, Phil Sciuto, Roark Hilomen
Wednesday, Oct 5 16:00 - 17:00 Samba Team Presentation at Storage Field Day 11
Presenters: Jeremy Allison
Thursday, Oct 6 10:30 - 12:30 Scality Presents at Storage Field Day 11
Presenters: Giorgio Regni, Marc Villemade
Thursday, Oct 6 13:30 - 15:30 Avere Systems Presents at Storage Field Day 11
Thursday, Oct 6 16:00 - 17:00 Storage Field Day 11 Podcast Recording
Presenters: Stephen Foskett
Delegate Panel: Alastair Cooke, Chris Evans, Dave Henry, Ed Morgan, James Green, Jon Klaus, Marc Farley, Max Mortillaro, Scott D. Lowe, Sean Thulin, W. Curtis Preston
Friday, Oct 7 8:00 - 10:00 Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 11
Presenters: David Flynn, Douglas Fallstrom, Kaycee Lai, Lance Smith
Friday, Oct 7 11:00 - 12:00 Keybase.io Presents at Storage Field Day 11
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.


36 Links with Tag #SFD11

  1. Coverage: Microsoft Buys Storage Optimizer Avere Systems
    • James Green
    • Avere Systems, Microsoft
  2. Coverage: Data Mobility – Caching Technologies
    • Storage Field Day 10, Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017
    • Chris M Evans
    • Avere Systems, Primary Data, Velostrata
  3. Coverage: Avere Systems is Acquired by Microsoft
    • Chris M Evans
    • Avere Systems
  4. Coverage: Avere Systems’ Latest Edge Filer Handles the Most Demanding Hybrid Cloud Workloads
    • James Green
    • Avere Systems
  5. Coverage: I Like Big Files and I Cannot Lie
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Dell EMC
  6. Coverage: Building Data Storage With Containers
    • Tech Field Day 12
    • Chris M Evans
    • Docker, Ondat, Portworx, Scality
  7. Coverage: Future Storage, Flash, and Cloud?
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Avere Systems, ClearSky Data
  8. Coverage: Is a Cloud Gateway Enough?
    • W. Curtis Preston
    • Avere Systems
  9. Coverage: Getting Object Storage Ready for the Enterprise – Scality Briefing Note
    • W. Curtis Preston
    • Scality
  10. Coverage: Building a hybrid cloud with Avere
    • Jon Klaus
    • Avere Systems
  11. Coverage: Avere Systems – is it a cache, is it a tier, does it even matter?
    • Ed Morgan
    • Avere Systems
  12. Coverage: Creating Private Cloud Storage that you can Actually use
    • W. Curtis Preston
    • Avere Systems
  13. Coverage: What’s The Deal With Containers, Anyway?
    • Cloud Field Day 1
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Docker
  14. News: Storage Field Day Events in 2017
    • Storage Field Day 10, Storage Field Day 12, Storage Field Day 13, Storage Field Day 14, Storage Field Day 9
    • Cohesity, EMC, Intel, NetApp, Nimble Storage, Nutanix, Primary Data, Pure Storage, Rubrik, Tech Field Day, Zerto
  15. Coverage: Hardware has set the pace for latency, time for software to catch up
    • Storage Field Day 8
    • Jon Klaus
    • Coho Data, Intel
  16. Coverage: Intel SPDK – A foundation block for new generation storage
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Intel
  17. Coverage: Primary Data adds NFS services to VSAN
    • W. Curtis Preston
    • Primary Data
  18. Coverage: The Future of NAS is Object Storage
    • Sean Thulin
    • Scality
  19. Coverage: Open-Source Hardware Designs – One step beyond commodity?
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Intel, Pure Storage
  20. Coverage: Scality RING – Object Storage? Yes, but Software-Defined please!
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Scality
  21. Coverage: Can a Deep Archive in the Cloud be Useful?
    • W. Curtis Preston
    • Avere Systems
  22. Coverage: #SFD11 – Scality – One Ring To Rule Them All?
    • Ed Morgan
    • Scality
  23. Coverage: Focus on High Performance NAS
    • Chris M Evans
    • Avere Systems, Primary Data
  24. Coverage: Have We Really Outgrown RAID?
    • James Green
    • HGST, Western Digital
  25. Coverage: Greasing the Skids on Object Storage
    • James Green
    • Avere Systems, HGST, Scality, Western Digital
  26. Coverage: 10 on Tech Episode 013: J Metz on NVMe and NVMe-oF
    • J Michel Metz, James Green
    • Intel
  27. Coverage: Cache or Tier – Does it Matter?
    • Chris M Evans
    • Avere Systems
  28. Coverage: Is Media & Entertainment the golden goose of Object Storage vendors?
    • Max Mortillaro
    • HGST, Primary Data, Scality, Western Digital
  29. Coverage: Do you Always Need to Backup?
    • W. Curtis Preston
    • HGST, Western Digital
  30. Coverage: Vendor Briefing – Scality
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2016
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Docker, Scality
  31. Coverage: Storage Field Day 11 Previews: Intel, HGST
    • Storage Field Day 9
    • Chris M Evans
    • HGST, Intel, SanDisk, Western Digital
  32. Coverage: I’m headed to Storage Field Day 11!
    • Sean Thulin
  33. Coverage: Storage Field Day 11 Previews: Avere, Primary Data, Scality
    • Chris M Evans
    • Avere Systems, Primary Data, Scality
  34. Coverage: Storage Field Day 11, here I come!
    • Jon Klaus
  35. Coverage: I’m Going to Storage Field Day 11
    • Dave Henry
  36. Coverage: Flying soon towards Storage Field Day 11!
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Avere Systems, HGST, Intel, Primary Data, Scality, Western Digital

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