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Storage Field Day 14

L-R: Glenn Dekhayser, Mark Carlton, Barry Coombs, Jon Klaus, Arjan Timmerman, Erik Ableson, Max Mortillaro, Chris M Evans, Becky Elliott, Chin-Fah Heoh, Stephen Foskett, Howard Marks, Ben Gage

Storage Field Day 14
November 8–10, 2017
#SFD14
Who: Storage
What: Field Day
When: Past
Location: Silicon Valley



Presenting Sponsors

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

Barry Coombs

@VirtualisedReal

Barry is a passionate and energetic IT infrastructure and strategy specialist and evangelist turned business leader, as well as achieving many industry qualifications has been awarded the VMware vExpert title every year since 2010, alongside a wide number of over accolades.

Becky Elliott

@BeckyLElliott

Technologist and Blogger

Chin-Fah Heoh

@StorageGaga

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

Chris M Evans

@ChrisMEvans

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

Erik Ableson

@EAbleson

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

Glenn Dekhayser

@GDekhayser

20+ year IT/Storage/Network/Security Veteran.

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 Carlton

@MCarlton1983

Mark is a DataCentre Consultant in Wakefield, England

Max Mortillaro

@MaxMortillaro

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

René van den Bedem

@VCDX133

I have worked in the IT and Telecommunications industries for more than 24 years. The past twelve years have been as an Enterprise Architect/Strategist and C-Level Advisor.

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, Nov 8 10:00-14:30
Dell EMC Presents High-End Systems at Storage Field Day 14
Wednesday, Nov 8 16:00-18:00
Scality Presents at Storage Field Day 14
Thursday, Nov 9 08:00-12:30
Dell EMC Presents Data Protection at Storage Field Day 14
Thursday, Nov 9 13:00-15:00
Dell EMC Presents Midrange Systems at Storage Field Day 14
Friday, Nov 10 08:30-09:30
Congruity360 Presents at Storage Field Day 14
Friday, Nov 10 10:00-12:00
E8 Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 14
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Ben Gage

@BenTGage

Ben Gage has a professional background which started in logistics and supply chain for manufacturing and agriculture. To subsidize the methodical nature of these fields he started and performs with an original Americana band. With a penchant for the ra …

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 #SFD14

  1. Thoughts on Transitioning to Dell EMC Midrange.NEXT
    • Chris M Evans
    • Dell EMC
  2. Is Pure Play Storage good?
    • Storage Field Day 15, Storage Field Day 17
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • NetApp, Pure Storage
  3. Scality Zenko Product Brief
    • Cloud Field Day 2
    • Chris M Evans
    • Scality
  4. #SFD16 – Dell-EMC PowerMax and CloudIQ
    • Storage Field Day 16
    • René van den Bedem
    • Dell EMC
  5. PowerMax, VMAX, XtremIO – the Agony of Choice
    • Networking Field Day Exclusive with VMware
    • Chris M Evans
    • Dell EMC
  6. My dilemma of stateful storage marriage
    • Storage Field Day 12, Storage Field Day 15
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Datera, Elastifile, Hedvig, Scality, WEKA
  7. E8 Storage Announces Software-only Offering
    • Dan Frith
    • E8 Storage
  8. What Next for XtremIO?
    • Chris M Evans
    • Dell EMC
  9. Object Storage Critical Capabilities #3 – Searching, Indexing and Metadata
    • Chris M Evans
    • Scality
  10. Why move to one cloud, if you can move to a multi cloud?
    • Jon Klaus
    • Scality
  11. Performance Analysis of SAS/SATA and NVMe SSDs
    • Chris M Evans
    • E8 Storage, Excelero, Scale Computing, X-IO
  12. Dell EMC VMAX All-Flash: A proven solution for mission-critical systems
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Dell EMC
  13. XtremIO X2: easier scaling, fewer cables and metadata aware replication
    • Jon Klaus
    • Dell EMC
  14. VMAX All Flash: Enterprise reliability and SRDF at <1ms latency
    • Jon Klaus
    • Dell EMC
  15. Four Platforms When One Will Do?
    • Chris M Evans
    • Dell EMC
  16. Storage Field Day 14
    • Barry Coombs
    • Congruity360, Dell EMC, E8 Storage, Scality
  17. vMax to the Max
    • Erik Ableson
    • Dell EMC
  18. E8 Storage: The Mercedes-Maybach 6 of NVMe Flash Arrays
    • Max Mortillaro
    • E8 Storage
  19. Of Object Storage, Filesystems and Multi-Cloud
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Scality
  20. The power of E8
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • E8 Storage
  21. VMAX – The Mainframe of Storage
    • Chris M Evans
    • Dell EMC
  22. A Conversation with Congruity360 COO Mark Shirman
    • Rich Stroffolino, Stephen Foskett
    • Congruity360
  23. Dell-EMC VMAX All Flash Review
    • René van den Bedem
    • Dell EMC
  24. DellEMC SC progressing well
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Dell EMC
  25. Storage Field Day 14 Preview: E8 Storage
    • Chris M Evans
    • E8 Storage
  26. Storage Field Day 14 Preview: Scality
    • Chris M Evans
    • Scality
  27. Storage Field Day 14 coming up
    • Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2017
    • Erik Ableson
    • Commvault, Dell EMC, E8 Storage, Scality
  28. TFDx and SFD14 Delegate Thoughts: Pre-Attendance
    • Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2017
    • Becky Elliott
    • Commvault
  29. Attending #SFD14 next week
    • René van den Bedem
  30. Dell EMC XtremIO At Storage Field Day 2017
    • Dell EMC
  31. Storage Field Day 14 Preview: EMC
    • Chris M Evans
    • Dell EMC
  32. Back to SFO for Storage Field Day 14! – FastStorage
    • Jon Klaus
    • Dell EMC, E8 Storage, INFINIDAT, Scality
  33. I will be at Commvault Go and Storage Field Day 14!
    • Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2017
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Commvault, Dell EMC, E8 Storage, INFINIDAT, Scality
  34. It’s Time for Hard Drives to Join Tape In The Archive Tier
    • 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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