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Storage Field Day 12

L-R: Rich Stroffolino, Glenn Dekhayser, Dave Henry, Matthew Leib, Ray Lucchesi, Jon Klaus, Dan Frith, Stephen Foskett, Kat Kitzmiller, Howard Marks, Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chin-Fah Heoh, Adam Bergh

Storage Field Day 12

March 8–March 10, 2017

#SFD12

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.

Adam Bergh

@AJBergh

Data Center Practice Lead at Presidio.

Arjan Timmerman

@ArjanTim

Dutch analyst, world traveler and technology advisor

Chan Ekanayake

@ChanEk81

Technology Practice Manager – DC & AWS

Chin-Fah Heoh

@StorageGaga

Passionate storage technology enthusiast who enjoys the learning as much as the sharing.

Dan Frith

@PenguinPunk

I like punk rock and storage arrays.

Dave Henry

@DaveMHenry

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

Glenn Dekhayser

@GDekhayser

Technologist with 30+ years working with Enterprise Storage and Data Management, more recently working with global organizations on AI Infrastructure as well. Author of the Authoritative Core architectural design pattern.

Howard Marks

@DeepStorageNet

Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Jon Klaus

@JonKlaus

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

Mark May

@CincyStorage

Storage expert, unix curmudgeon, IT nerd, and sporadic blogger

Matthew Leib

@MBLeib

Long time engineer, and presales architect specializing in Storage, VIrtualization and Orchestrations in the cloud.

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.

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, Mar 8 09:00-09:30 Ryussi Technologies Presents at Storage Field Day 12
Wednesday, Mar 8 10:00-12:00
StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 12
Wednesday, Mar 8 13:00-15:00
Elastifile Presents at Storage Field Day 12
Wednesday, Mar 8 16:00-18:00
Excelero Presents at Storage Field Day 12
Thursday, Mar 9 08:00-10:00
Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 12
Thursday, Mar 9 11:00-13:00
NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 12
Thursday, Mar 9 14:00-16:00
Datera Presents at Storage Field Day 12
Presenters: Ashok Rajagopalan, Bill Borsari, Marc Fleischmann, Nic Bellinger
Friday, Mar 10 09:00-10:00
SNIA Presents at Storage Field Day 12
Friday, Mar 10 10:30-12:30
Intel Presents at Storage Field Day 12
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Kat Kitzmiller

@KatKitzmiller

Rich Stroffolino

Rich Stroffolino

@MrAnthropology

Rich Stroffolino is Señor Editor for Gestalt IT

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


63 Links with Tag #SFD12

  1. Coverage: Elastifile Cloud File Service Now Available on Google Cloud
    • Chris M Evans
    • Elastifile
  2. Coverage: NVMesh 2 – A Compelling Sequel From Excelero
    • Dan Frith
    • Excelero
  3. Coverage: Why Deterministic Storage Performance is Important
    • Chris M Evans
    • SNIA
  4. Coverage: Starwind software: SFD15 preview
    • Storage Field Day 15
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • StarWind
  5. Coverage: Data Mobility – Global/Scale-out Data Platforms
    • Storage Field Day 10, Storage Field Day 8
    • Chris M Evans
    • Datera, Elastifile, Hedvig, Qumulo
  6. Coverage: My dilemma of stateful storage marriage
    • Storage Field Day 14, Storage Field Day 15
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Datera, Elastifile, Hedvig, Scality, WEKA
  7. Coverage: Elastifile Add More Elasticity To Their Offering
    • Dan Frith
    • Elastifile
  8. Coverage: HPE Brings Nimble Skynet to 3PAR Arrays
    • Chris M Evans
    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  9. Coverage: MoSMB, Less Problems
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Ryussi Technologies
  10. Coverage: SNIA Hops on DePop with Hyperscalers
    • Tech Field Day Roundtable at Storage Developer Conference 2012
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • SNIA
  11. Coverage: What the heck is tail latency?
    • Mark May
    • SNIA
  12. Coverage: Excelero NVMesh: lightning fast software-defined storage using commodity servers & NVMe drives
    • Jon Klaus
    • Excelero
  13. Coverage: The Year of Cloud Extension
    • Storage Field Day 13, Tech Field Day 14
    • Stephen Foskett
    • ClearSky Data, Datrium, NetApp, Primary Data, StarWind
  14. Coverage: Excelero’s NVMesh Magic
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Excelero
  15. Coverage: Datera Elastic Data Fabric
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Datera
  16. Coverage: Back to the Storage Future with Intel’s SPDK
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Intel
  17. Coverage: Moving to and between clouds made simple with Elastifile Cloud File System – FastStorage
    • Jon Klaus
    • Elastifile
  18. Coverage: The Future of On-Prem in a Cloud World
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • NetApp
  19. Coverage: Open19 Brings a new build paradigm to HyperScale Buildouts
    • Matthew Leib
    • Excelero
  20. Coverage: Excelero achieves amazing stats at #SFD12
    • Matthew Leib
    • Excelero
  21. Coverage: SNIA: Avoiding tail latency by failing IO operations on purpose
    • Jon Klaus
    • SNIA
  22. Coverage: There’s a new cluster filesystem on the block, Elastifile
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Elastifile
  23. Coverage: Nimble’s InfoSight – An #SFD12 Follow-up
    • Matthew Leib
    • Nimble Storage
  24. Coverage: Impact from Public Cloud on the storage industry – An insight from SNIA at #SFD12
    • Chan Ekanayake
    • SNIA
  25. Coverage: Elastifile launches cross-cloud data fabric
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Elastifile
  26. Coverage: What Next for the new Tier 0 Storage?
    • Chris M Evans
    • E8 Storage, Excelero
  27. Coverage: Visiting Intel with SFD 12
    • Howard Marks
    • Intel
  28. Coverage: Storage Field Day 12 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama
    • Dan Frith
  29. Coverage: Netapp – an #SFD12 Update
    • Storage Field Day 9
    • Matthew Leib
    • NetApp, SolidFire
  30. Coverage: SNIA Know What Time It Is
    • Dan Frith
    • SNIA
  31. Coverage: Datera – Hybrid Is The New Black
    • Dan Frith
    • Datera
  32. Coverage: There’s A Whole Lot More To StarWind Than Free Stuff
    • Dan Frith
    • StarWind
  33. Coverage: StarWind Gives You a Gateway to the Cloud
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • StarWind
  34. Coverage: Storage Field Day 12 – Day 3 Recap | The Partly Cloudy Blog
    • Adam Bergh
    • Intel, SNIA
  35. Coverage: Storage Field Day 12 – Day 2 Recap
    • Adam Bergh
    • Datera, NetApp, Nimble Storage
  36. Coverage: Intel Optane Enters the Market
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Diablo Technologies, Intel, Plexistor
  37. Coverage: Intel SPDK and NVMe-oF will accelerate NVMe adoption rates
    • Jon Klaus
    • Intel
  38. Coverage: Intel Are Putting Technology To Good Use
    • Dan Frith
    • Intel
  39. Coverage: The Datera Company overview
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Datera
  40. Coverage: Excelero NVMesh 1.1
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Excelero
  41. Coverage: Intel Storage Futures From #SFD12
    • Chan Ekanayake
    • Intel
  42. Coverage: NetApp’s Dave Hitz on the Cloud
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • NetApp
  43. Coverage: Can NetApp do it a bit better?
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • NetApp
  44. Coverage: NetApp Aren’t Just a Pretty FAS
    • Dan Frith
    • NetApp
  45. Coverage: In Search of the Perfect Data Management Machine
    • Glenn Dekhayser
    • Intel
  46. Coverage: Hardware vs. software innovation – round 4
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Dell EMC, E8 Storage, Excelero
  47. Coverage: Excelero – The Latest Software Defined Storage Startup
    • Chan Ekanayake
    • Excelero
  48. Coverage: Nimble Storage Gets Cloudy
    • Dan Frith
    • Nimble Storage
  49. Coverage: Excelero are doing what? For how much?
    • Dan Frith
    • Excelero
  50. Coverage: Storage Field Day 12 Day 1 Recap and Day 2 Preview
    • Adam Bergh
    • Elastifile, Excelero, Ryussi Technologies, StarWind
  51. Coverage: Ryussi – Or Why Another SMB Stack Is Handy
    • Dan Frith
    • Ryussi Technologies
  52. Coverage: Storage Field Day 12 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
    • Dan Frith
  53. Coverage: 4.5M IO/sec@227µsec 4KB Read on 100GBE with 24 NVMe cards
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Excelero
  54. Coverage: Storage Field Day 12!
    • Adam Bergh
  55. Coverage: The Engineering of Elastifile
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Elastifile
  56. Coverage: Ryussi MoSMB – High performance SMB
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Ryussi Technologies
  57. Coverage: Storage Field Day (#SFD12) – Presenting Companies
    • Chan Ekanayake
  58. Coverage: Storage Field Day 12 – Day 0
    • Dan Frith
  59. Coverage: Confirmed: I’ll be a Delegate at Storage Field Day 12
    • Dave Henry
  60. Coverage: Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At Storage Field Day 12
    • Dan Frith
  61. Coverage: Storage Field Day 12: storage drop bears reunited!
    • Jon Klaus
  62. Coverage: Storage Field Day (#SFD12) – A quick intro!
    • Chan Ekanayake
  63. News: Storage Field Day Events in 2017
    • Storage Field Day 10, Storage Field Day 11, 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

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, [email protected].


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