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Storage Field Day 13

Scott D. Lowe, Brandon Graves, Erik Ableson, Max Mortillaro, Jason Nash, Ray Lucchesi, Matthew Leib, Claire Chaplais, Dan Frith, Stephen Foskett, Alex Galbraith, Mike Preston

Storage Field Day 13

June 14–June 16, 2017

#SFD13

Who: Storage

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Denver

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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.

Alex Galbraith

@AlexGalbraith

Solutions Architect in the UK, podcaster and independent blogger at www.tekhead.it. At 6’7″ tall, obviously a ‘massive’ geek.

Brandon Graves

@BrandonGraves08

Brandon Graves is a Storage and Virtualization Engineer with over 10 years in enterprise experience.

Dan Frith

@PenguinPunk

I like punk rock and storage arrays.

Erik Ableson

@EAbleson

An IT generalist with over 20 years of experience spanning multiple technology generations at different layers in the IT organisation.

Jason Nash

@TheJasonNash

Solution Principle and Evangelist at AHEAD

Matthew Leib

@MBLeib

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

Max Mortillaro

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

Mike Preston

@MWPreston

3 x vExpert, blogger @ mwpreston.net and a typical Canadian eh!

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.

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.

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

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, Jun 14 09:30-10:30
StorageCraft Presents at Storage Field Day 13
Wednesday, Jun 14 15:30-16:30 NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 13
Thursday, Jun 15 08:00-10:00
Dell EMC ScaleIO Presents at Storage Field Day 13
Thursday, Jun 15 10:00-11:00 Dell EMC Unity Presents at Storage Field Day 13
Thursday, Jun 15 11:00-12:00 Dell EMC Isilon Presents at Storage Field Day 13
Thursday, Jun 15 13:00-14:00 SNIA Presents at Storage Field Day 13
Thursday, Jun 15 15:00-17:00
Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 13
Friday, Jun 16 10:30-12:30
X-IO Technologies Presents at Storage Field Day 13
All dates and times listed are local time in Denver, US/Mountain.

Event Staff

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 …

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


49 Links with Tag #SFD13

  1. Coverage: Goodbye X-IO, Hello Axellio and Violin 2.0!
    • Storage Field Day 5
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Violin Memory, X-IO
  2. Coverage: NetApp Insight 2018 – Hello Stranger, We Meet Again
    • Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight 2018
    • Max Mortillaro
    • NetApp
  3. Coverage: ScaleIO Becomes Software Defined on Hardware
    • Chris M Evans
    • Dell EMC
  4. Coverage: Swordfish – A Standard by Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet
    • Alex Galbraith
    • SNIA
  5. Coverage: Has NVMe Killed off NVDIMM?
    • Tech Field Day 10
    • Chris M Evans
    • Diablo Technologies
  6. Coverage: Primary Data – Seeing the Future
    • Dan Frith
    • Primary Data
  7. Coverage: X-IO Announces ISE 900 Series G4
    • Dan Frith
    • X-IO
  8. Coverage: Have Axellio Edge, Will Travel
    • Dan Frith
    • X-IO
  9. Coverage: #SFD13 and X-IO
    • Matthew Leib
    • X-IO
  10. Coverage: X-IO Axellio and Edge Computing: an NVMe-enabled emerging architecture model?
    • Max Mortillaro
    • X-IO
  11. Coverage: Cloudified Snapshots done two ways
    • Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017
    • Mark May
    • Dell EMC, Pure Storage
  12. Coverage: The concept of “Scale In” for high volume data
    • Mike Preston
    • X-IO
  13. Coverage: Is there still a need for specialized administrators?
    • Mike Preston
    • NetApp, SolidFire
  14. Coverage: X-IO Technologies Axellio At SFD13
    • Brandon Graves
    • X-IO
  15. Coverage: Long Term Data Retention – What do I do?
    • Alex Galbraith
    • StorageCraft
  16. Coverage: Does Cloud Provide Infinite Storage Capacity and Retention?
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Dell EMC
  17. Coverage: Primary Data Attacks Application Ignorance
    • Dan Frith
    • Primary Data
  18. Coverage: Storage Field Day 13 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama
    • Dan Frith
  19. Coverage: StorageCraft Are In Your Data Centre And In The Cloud
    • Dan Frith
    • StorageCraft
  20. Coverage: SNIA’s Swordfish Is Better Than The Film
    • Dan Frith
    • SNIA
  21. Coverage: ScaleIO Is Not Your Father’s SDS
    • Dan Frith
    • Dell EMC
  22. Coverage: Dell EMC’s Isilon All-Flash Is Starting To Make Sense
    • Dan Frith
    • Dell EMC
  23. Coverage: X-IO Technologies Are Living On The Edge
    • Dan Frith
    • X-IO
  24. Coverage: Axellio, next gen, IO intensive server for RT analytics by X-IO Technologies
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • X-IO
  25. Coverage: Dell EMC’s in the Midst of a Midrange Resurrection
    • Dan Frith
    • Dell EMC
  26. Coverage: Storage is Getting Cloudier!
    • Stephen Foskett
    • NetApp, Primary Data
  27. Coverage: The Year of Cloud Extension
    • Storage Field Day 12, Tech Field Day 14
    • Stephen Foskett
    • ClearSky Data, Datrium, NetApp, Primary Data, StarWind
  28. Coverage: NetApp Doesn’t Want You To Be Special (This Is A Good Thing)
    • Dan Frith
    • NetApp
  29. Coverage: The Purity of Hyperconverged Infrastructure: What’s in a Name?
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • Datrium, Dell EMC, NetApp
  30. Coverage: Storage Field Day Is Almost Here
    • Brandon Graves
    • NetApp
  31. Coverage: Storage Field Day 13 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
    • Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017
    • Dan Frith
  32. Coverage: Backup and Recovery in the Cloud: Simplification is Actually Really Hard
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • StorageCraft
  33. Coverage: SNIA Highlights Persistent Memory and Scalable Storage Management at Storage Field Day 13
    • SNIA
  34. Coverage: Storage Field Day 13 – Day 0
    • Dan Frith
  35. Coverage: Pure Storage Accelerate/Storage Field Day 13 – PreFlight
    • Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017
    • Matthew Leib
    • Pure Storage
  36. Coverage: SFD13 Primer – Dell EMC
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Dell EMC
  37. Coverage: SFD13 Primer – SNIA
    • Max Mortillaro
    • SNIA
  38. Coverage: Storage Field Day 13 (SFD13) – Preview
    • Alex Galbraith
  39. Coverage: SFD13 Primer – X-IO Axellio Edge Computing Platform
    • Max Mortillaro
    • X-IO
  40. Coverage: Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At Storage Field Day 13 and Pure Accelerate
    • Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017
    • Dan Frith
  41. Coverage: SNIA comes back for another Storage Field Day
    • Mike Preston
    • SNIA
  42. Coverage: Storage Field Day 13 Primer
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Exablox, StorageCraft
  43. Coverage: X-IO Technologies – A #SFD13 preview
    • Mike Preston
    • X-IO
  44. Coverage: Hear more from Exablox at Storage Field Day 13
    • Mike Preston
    • Exablox, StorageCraft
  45. Coverage: Primary Data set to make their 5th appearance at Storage Field Day
    • Mike Preston
    • Primary Data
  46. Coverage: Delegate For Storage Field Day 13
    • Brandon Graves
  47. Coverage: A field day of Storage lies ahead!
    • Mike Preston
  48. Coverage: See you at Storage Field Day 13 and Pure Accelerate!
    • Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017
    • Max Mortillaro
  49. News: Storage Field Day Events in 2017
    • Storage Field Day 10, Storage Field Day 11, Storage Field Day 12, Storage Field Day 14, Storage Field Day 9
    • Cohesity, EMC, Intel, NetApp, Nimble Storage, Nutanix, Primary Data, Pure Storage, Rubrik, Tech Field Day, Zerto

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