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Storage Field Day 15

L-R: Glenn Dekhayser, Dukagjin Maloku, Chin-Fah Heoh, Michael Stanclift, Mel Zura, Dan Frith, Stephen Foskett, Ray Lucchesi, Chan Ekanayake, Arjan Timmerman, Rachel Traylor, Ben Gage, Josh De Jong, Mariusz Kaczorek, Lino Telera

Storage Field Day 15
March 7–9, 2018
#SFD15
Who: Storage
What: Field Day
When: Past
Where: 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.

Arjan Timmerman

@ArjanTim

Architect and Advisor for ATvisement focused on the Software Defined and Cloud and Partner and Analyst at TECHunplugged

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.

Dr. Rachel Traylor

@Mathpocalypse

Founder of The Math Citadel, freelance mathematician with research interests in probability theory and reliability theory. Former data scientist.

Dukagjin Maloku

@DugiDM

System Engineer from Kosovo

Glenn Dekhayser

@GDekhayser

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

Josh De Jong

@EuroBrew

Storage and virtualization guy. Occasional blogger, twitter addict, taker of naps.

Karen Lopez

@DataChick

Data Evangelist and Architect

Lino Telera

@LinoTelera

Data Center and Cloud Specialist focused on Infrastructure Automation and working in InfoCert S.p.A. in the Service Design staff.

Mariusz Kaczorek

@Settlersoman

IT Architect with passion for Virtualization and Storage Solutions.

Max Mortillaro

@DarkkAvenger

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

Michael Stanclift

@VMStan

Recognized for continued leadership and engagement with the virtualization community, Michael has been honored as a VMware vExpert since 2013, a Cisco Champion for Data Center in 2015, and as a Dell EMC Elect in 2017.

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 at some delegate and presenter web sites. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, Mar 7 09:30-11:30
WekaIO Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Presenters: Barbara Murphy, Liran Zvibel, Shimon Ben-David
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chin-Fah Heoh, Dan Frith, Dukagjin Maloku, Glenn Dekhayser, Josh De Jong, Lino Telera, Mariusz Kaczorek, Michael Stanclift, Rachel Traylor, Ray Lucchesi
Wednesday, Mar 7 13:00-15:00
IBM Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Presenters: Christian Burns, Steve Kenniston
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chin-Fah Heoh, Dan Frith, Dukagjin Maloku, Glenn Dekhayser, Josh De Jong, Lino Telera, Mariusz Kaczorek, Michael Stanclift, Rachel Traylor, Ray Lucchesi
Wednesday, Mar 7 16:00-18:00
Dropbox Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Presenters: Dzmitry Markovich, James Cowling, Victor Li
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chin-Fah Heoh, Dan Frith, Dukagjin Maloku, Glenn Dekhayser, Josh De Jong, Lino Telera, Mariusz Kaczorek, Michael Stanclift, Rachel Traylor, Ray Lucchesi
Thursday, Mar 8 08:00-10:00
Hedvig Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Presenters: Abhijith Shenoy, Avinash Lakshman, Bharat Naik, Gaurav Yadav, Shufan Ge, Srividhya Anantharamakrishnan, Suhani Gupta
Thursday, Mar 8 10:30-12:30
NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Presenters: Jeff Baxter, Santosh Rao
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chin-Fah Heoh, Dan Frith, Dukagjin Maloku, Glenn Dekhayser, Josh De Jong, Lino Telera, Mariusz Kaczorek, Michael Stanclift, Rachel Traylor, Ray Lucchesi
Thursday, Mar 8 13:30-15:30
Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Presenters: Mike McWhorter, Narayan Venkat, Phil Bullinger, Roger Weeks, Shailendra Tripathi
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chin-Fah Heoh, Dan Frith, Dukagjin Maloku, Glenn Dekhayser, Josh De Jong, Karen Lopez, Lino Telera, Mariusz Kaczorek, Max Mortillaro, Michael Stanclift, Rachel Traylor, Ray Lucchesi
Thursday, Mar 8 16:00-18:00
Datrium Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Presenters: John Cho, Rex Walters, Sazzala Reddy, Tushar Agrawal
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chin-Fah Heoh, Dan Frith, Dukagjin Maloku, Glenn Dekhayser, Josh De Jong, Lino Telera, Mariusz Kaczorek, Michael Stanclift, Rachel Traylor, Ray Lucchesi
Friday, Mar 9 08:00-10:00
StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Presenters: Anton Kolomyeytsev, Max Kolomyeytsev, Scott Alan Miller
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chin-Fah Heoh, Dan Frith, Dukagjin Maloku, Glenn Dekhayser, Josh De Jong, Karen Lopez, Lino Telera, Mariusz Kaczorek, Max Mortillaro, Michael Stanclift, Rachel Traylor, Ray Lucchesi
Friday, Mar 9 11:00-13:00
Cohesity Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Presenters: Mohit Aron, TBD
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chin-Fah Heoh, Dan Frith, Dukagjin Maloku, Glenn Dekhayser, Josh De Jong, Karen Lopez, Lino Telera, Mariusz Kaczorek, Max Mortillaro, Michael Stanclift, Rachel Traylor, Ray Lucchesi
Friday, Mar 9 14:00-16:00 Huawei Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Presenters: Chun Liu, Joey Chiang, Robert Simmons
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chin-Fah Heoh, Dan Frith, Dukagjin Maloku, Glenn Dekhayser, Josh De Jong, Karen Lopez, Lino Telera, Mariusz Kaczorek, Max Mortillaro, Michael Stanclift, Rachel Traylor, Ray Lucchesi
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific..

Event Staff

Ben Gage

@BenTGage

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett


Links with Tag #SFD15

  1. Monday Hot Take: VMware Acquires Datrium
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Datrium, VMware
  2. Commvault Big Bet
    • Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Commvault, Hedvig
  3. Catch Up (Fast) – IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
    • Storage Field Day 18
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • IBM
  4. Is Pure Play Storage good?
    • Storage Field Day 14, Storage Field Day 17
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • NetApp, Pure Storage
  5. HDD Capacity Threshold Reaches 15TB
    • Chris M Evans
    • Dropbox
  6. Storage Field Day 15: The open convergence by Datrium
    • Lino Telera
    • Datrium
  7. Huawei presents OceanStor architecture at SFD15
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Huawei
  8. 3D XPoint Is At A Crossroads – Can Intel and Micron Deliver?
    • Networking Field Day Exclusive with VMware, Storage Field Day 16
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Dell EMC, Intel, NetApp
  9. Storage Field Day 15: Weka.io
    • Lino Telera
    • WekaIO
  10. IBM Spectrum Protect and Modern Data Protection
    • Paul Stringfellow
    • IBM
  11. Storage Field Day 15: Cohesity the solution for secondary data
    • Lino Telera
    • Cohesity
  12. Western Digital at SFD15: ActiveScale object storage
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Western Digital
  13. NetApp’s & Next Generation Storage Technologies
    • Chan Ekanayake
    • NetApp
  14. Convergence Without Compromise
    • Josh De Jong
    • Datrium
  15. Little’s Law: For Estimation Only
    • Dr. Rachel Traylor
    • Datrium
  16. Huawei Dorado – All about Speed
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Huawei
  17. Storage Field Day 15 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama
    • Dan Frith
  18. Own the Data Pipeline
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Hitachi Vantara, NetApp
  19. Hedvig’s Evolution
    • Dan Frith
    • Hedvig
  20. Datrium Cloud DVX – Not Your Father’s Cloud Data Protection Solution
    • Dan Frith
    • Datrium
  21. Dialogue: What do We Mean by Predictive Analytics?
    • Dr. Rachel Traylor
    • StarWind
  22. Huawei – Probably Not What You Expected
    • Dan Frith
    • Huawei
  23. Come And Splash Around In NetApp’s Data Lake
    • Dan Frith
    • NetApp
  24. Western Digital – The A Is For Active, The S Is For Scale
    • Dan Frith
    • Western Digital
  25. Cohesity Understands The Value Of What Lies Beneath
    • Dan Frith
    • Cohesity
  26. WekaIO – Not The Matrix You’re Thinking Of
    • Dan Frith
    • WekaIO
  27. Storage Field Day 15: Dropbox the high availability in a “pocket”
    • Lino Telera
    • Dropbox
  28. Cohesity: A secondary storage solution for the Hybrid Cloud?
    • Chan Ekanayake
    • Cohesity
  29. Tech ONTAP Podcast: NetApp at Storage Field Day 15
    • Glenn Dekhayser, Stephen Foskett
    • NetApp
  30. Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: NetApp
    • Cloud Field Day 3, Tech Field Day 16
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp
  31. StarWind VTL? What? Yes, And It’s Great!
    • Dan Frith
    • StarWind
  32. The Challenge of Scale
    • Josh De Jong
    • Dropbox
  33. Cohesity Basics – Auto Protect
    • Dan Frith
    • Cohesity
  34. Datrium @ Storage TechFieldDay
    • Datrium
  35. The Risk of Shared Service Level Agreements
    • Chris M Evans
    • IBM
  36. Dropbox – It’s Scale Jim, But Not As We Know It
    • Dan Frith
    • Dropbox
  37. #SFD15: Datrium impresses
    • Glenn Dekhayser
    • Datrium
  38. Commentary: White Papers Don’t Impress Me Much
    • Dr. Rachel Traylor
    • Tech Field Day
  39. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Has A Nice Focus On Modern Data Protection
    • Dan Frith
    • IBM
  40. NetApp and IBM gotta take risks
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • IBM, NetApp
  41. Storage Field Day 15 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
    • Dan Frith
  42. A look at the Hedvig distributed Hybrid Cloud storage solution
    • Chan Ekanayake
    • Hedvig
  43. Cohesity SpanFS – a foundational shift
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Cohesity
  44. Magic happening
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Dropbox
  45. Dropbox’s Magic Pocket: Power of Software Defined Storage
    • Chan Ekanayake
    • Dropbox
  46. Storage Field Day 15 – Day 0
    • Dan Frith
  47. Storage dinosaurs evolving too
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Dropbox, Hitachi Vantara, SNIA
  48. Storage Field Day 15 – Watch Live Here
    • Chan Ekanayake
  49. Starwind software: SFD15 preview
    • Storage Field Day 12
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • StarWind
  50. Back to Silicon Valley for Storage Field Day 15
    • Lino Telera
    • Cohesity, WekaIO
  51. Storage Field Day 15
    • Dukagjin Maloku
  52. Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At Storage Field Day 15
    • Dan Frith
  53. My dilemma of stateful storage marriage
    • Storage Field Day 12, Storage Field Day 14
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Datera, Elastifile, Hedvig, Scality, WekaIO
  54. Storage Field Day 15 – Introduction
    • Chan Ekanayake
  55. Always serendipitous Storage Field Days
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Elastifile

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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