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Storage Field Day 18

Storage Field Day 18
February 27–1, 2019
#SFD18
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.

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.

Dan Frith

@PenguinPunk

I like punk rock and storage arrays.

Enrico Signoretti

@ESignoretti

Independent analyst, blogger, event organizer, weekend sailor, gelato lover, always on a diet.

Erik Ableson

@EAbleson

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

Jon Klaus

@JonKlaus

Dutch storage, back-up and server virtualization specialist.

Josh De Jong

@EuroBrew

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

Matthew Leib

@MBLeib

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

Max Mortillaro

@MaxMortillaro

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

Paul L. Woodward Jr

@ExploreVM

I am a Systems Engineer with a focus on data center technologies. My passion is virtualization and performing amazing feats of technology!

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, Feb 27 09:30-11:30
WekaIO Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Andy Watson, Barbara Murphy, Liran Zvibel, Shimon Ben-David
Wednesday, Feb 27 13:00-15:00
VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Howard Marks, Jeff Denworth, Mike Wing, Renen Hallak
Wednesday, Feb 27 15:30-17:30
StorPool Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Boyan Ivanov, Boyan Krosnov
Thursday, Feb 28 09:00-12:00
Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Clint Ludeman, Luca Fasoli, Narayan Venkat, Scott Hamilton, Shailendra Tripathi
Delegate Panel: Becky Elliott, Chin-Fah Heoh, Chris Evans, Dan Frith, Enrico Signoretti, Erik Ableson, Jim Handy, Jon Klaus, Josh De Jong, Matthew Leib, Max Mortillaro, Paul Woodward, Ray Lucchesi, Tom Coughlin
Thursday, Feb 28 13:00-15:00
NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Charlotte Brooks, Craig Schultz, Dave Hitz, Joe Ammirato
Thursday, Feb 28 16:30-18:00
IBM Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Jim Smith, Prashant Jagannathan
Friday, Mar 1 10:00-12:00
Cohesity Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Anand Nadathur, Apurv Gupta, Chris Colotti, Jon Hildebrand, Sidharth Mishra
Friday, Mar 1 13:30-14:30
Datera Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Bill Borsari, Shailesh Mittal
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 #SFD18

  1. StorPool Review – Part 1 – Installation & Configuration
    • Chris M Evans
    • StorPool
  2. Kubernetes Persistent Storage Managed Well
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • StorPool
  3. Pure Storage FlashRecover Brings Cohesity to FlashBlade
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Cohesity, Pure Storage
  4. Western Digital’s Data Vision at SFD18
    • Western Digital
  5. Moving to Unstructured Data Stores
    • Chris M Evans
    • VAST Data
  6. One Tier to Replace Them All
    • VAST Data
  7. Hybrid Cloud Might Be the Right Solution for Data Analytics
    • NetApp
  8. The Definition of Secondary Storage Is Evolving – as Is Cohesity
    • Cohesity
  9. Cohesity at Tech Field Day in 2019
    • Cloud Field Day 5
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Cohesity
  10. Meeting the Storage Performance Requirements of AI and ML Workloads With WekaIO
    • Stephen Foskett
    • WEKA
  11. Why You Should Consider Software-Defined Storage in Your Data Center
    • Tech Field Day 18 Austin
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Datera
  12. IBM’s New Class of Data Protection: Upcycling of the IT World?
    • Stephen Foskett
    • IBM
  13. StorPool’s Strategy Rose to the Cloud—and Beyond!
    • Stephen Foskett
    • StorPool
  14. Cohesity Looks to Exploit Secondary Data Value With MarketPlace
    • Chris M Evans
    • Cohesity
  15. EP27 – VAST Data – a Revolutionary Storage Platform for the Next Decade – With Howard Marks
    • Arjan Timmerman, Howard Marks, Max Mortillaro
    • VAST Data
  16. Cloud-Native Data Protection
    • Cloud Field Day 3
    • Chris M Evans
    • Druva, NetApp
  17. The Hidden Gem That Is StorPool
    • Chris M Evans
    • StorPool
  18. Put All Your Data on Flash With VAST Data
    • Jon Klaus
    • VAST Data
  19. Datera and the Move Towards Software Defined Storage in the Enterprise
    • Ken Nalbone
    • Datera
  20. Cohesity: More on the Real Value of Data
    • Matthew Leib
    • Cohesity
  21. 96-Layer NAND in Perspective: WDC Video
    • Jim Handy
    • Western Digital
  22. Voices in Data Storage – Episode 13: A Conversation With Liran Zvibel
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • WEKA
  23. EP21 – Discovering Weka.io, the World’s Fastest Filesystem With Barbara Murphy
    • Arjan Timmerman, Max Mortillaro
    • WEKA
  24. Vast Data at Storage Field Day 18
    • Erik Ableson
    • VAST Data
  25. The Fast WekaIO File System Saves You Money!
    • Jon Klaus
    • WEKA
  26. Western Digital : Innovation in 3D NAND and Low Latency Flash NAND
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Western Digital
  27. Voices in Data Storage – Episode 12: A Conversation With Bill Borsari
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Datera
  28. Modernizing Data Protection for a Digitally Driven World
    • Alicia Blessing
    • IBM
  29. A VAST-ly Different Storage Story
    • Becky Elliott
    • VAST Data
  30. Storage Field Day 18 – Wrap-Up and Link-O-Rama
    • Dan Frith
  31. Developing Data Protection Solutions in the Era of Data Management
    • Max Mortillaro
    • IBM
  32. Datera and the Rise of Enterprise Software-Defined Storage
    • Dan Frith
    • Datera
  33. Voices in Data Storage – Episode 11: A Conversation With Renen Hallak
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • VAST Data
  34. WekaIO Continues to Evolve
    • Dan Frith
    • WEKA
  35. VAST Data – No More Tiers Means No More Tears?
    • Dan Frith
    • VAST Data
  36. How To: Clone Windows 10 From SATA SSD to M.2 SSD (& Fix Inaccessible Boot Device)
    • Jon Klaus
    • Western Digital
  37. Can the WekaIO Matrix File System Be Faster Than DAS?
    • Chris M Evans
    • WEKA
  38. The Full Force of Western Digital
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Western Digital
  39. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus – More Than Meets the Eye
    • Dan Frith
    • IBM
  40. Western Digital Are Keeping Composed
    • Dan Frith
    • Western Digital
  41. NetApp, Cloudier Than Ever
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • NetApp
  42. Weka.IO and My First Official Briefing
    • Matthew Leib
    • WEKA
  43. WekaIO Controls Their Performance Destiny
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • WEKA
  44. #91 – Storage Field Day 18 in Review
    • Chris M Evans, Martin Glassborow
    • Cohesity, Datera, IBM, NetApp, StorPool, VAST Data, WEKA, Western Digital
  45. Western Digital Develops Low-Latency Flash to Compete With Intel Optane
    • Western Digital
  46. WD Keeps Fast Flash Optane Substitute in the Wings
    • Western Digital
  47. Bridges to the Clouds and More – NetApp NDAS
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • NetApp
  48. VAST Data Launches With New Scale-Out Storage Platform
    • Chris M Evans
    • VAST Data
  49. EP17 – Storpool: Being the Best in Block Based Storage – With Boyan Ivanov
    • Arjan Timmerman, Max Mortillaro
    • StorPool
  50. StorPool – Block Storage Managed Well
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • StorPool
  51. Voices in Data Storage – Episode 10: A Conversation With Boyan Ivanov
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • StorPool
  52. How IBM Is Rethinking Its Data Protection Line-Up
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • IBM
  53. Democratizing Data Management
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Cohesity, NetApp
  54. Cohesity – The Gold Standard in Data Management
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Cohesity
  55. StorPool, Fast Storage for Fast Times
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • StorPool
  56. StorPool and the Death of Hardware-Defined Storage
    • Dan Frith
    • StorPool
  57. Clever Cohesity
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Cohesity
  58. Dual Actuator Drives: An Interesting Trend
    • Matthew Leib
    • Western Digital
  59. Western Digital to Demo Dual-Actuator HDDs Next Week: Double the Actuators for Double the Perf
    • Western Digital
  60. NetApp and the Space in Between
    • Dan Frith
    • NetApp
  61. StorPool Presents at Storage Field Day 18
    • StorPool
  62. Democratizing Data Management
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Cohesity, NetApp
  63. Faster and Bigger SSDs Enable Us to Talk About Something Else Than IOps
    • Storage Field Day 16
    • J Michel Metz, Jon Klaus
    • SNIA, VAST Data, Western Digital
  64. Exploiting Secondary Data With NDAS From NetApp
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp
  65. #SFD18 Introduces Us to VAST Data
    • Matthew Leib
    • VAST Data
  66. SFD18-Western Digital
    • Erik Ableson
    • Western Digital
  67. Are CIO’s Missing the Metadata Bus?
    • Keith Townsend
    • NetApp
  68. Cohesity Is (Data)Locked In
    • Dan Frith
    • Cohesity
  69. Storage Field Day 18 – Fifty Shades of Disclosure
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Cohesity, Western Digital
  70. Leveraging Backup to Advance Your Decision Making
    • Keith Townsend
    • Cohesity
  71. Catch Up (Fast) – IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
    • Storage Field Day 15
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • IBM
  72. VAST Data Must Be Something Special
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • VAST Data
  73. Voices in Data Storage – Episode 9: A Conversation With Stephen Foskett
    • Enrico Signoretti, Stephen Foskett
  74. Storage Field Day 18 – Day 0
    • Dan Frith
  75. Podcast #3 – Chris & Matt Review the SFD18 Presenters
    • Chris M Evans, Matthew Leib
    • Cohesity, Datera, IBM, NetApp, StorPool, VAST Data, WEKA, Western Digital
  76. Join Western Digital for Storage Field Day 18 on Feb 28th
    • Western Digital
  77. Storage Field Day 18, Here I Come!
    • Paul L. Woodward Jr
  78. A Packed Field Day
    • Enrico Signoretti
  79. California Dreamin’ My Way to Storage Field Day 18
    • Becky Elliott
  80. A Storage Field 18 I Will Go – for the Fun of It
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
  81. Storage Field Day 18 – It’s as Intense as Storage Field Day Gets
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Cohesity, Datera, NetApp, StorPool, WEKA, Western Digital
  82. I Am So Looking Forward to #SFD18
    • Matthew Leib
  83. Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At Storage Field Day 18
    • Dan Frith
  84. My brain will be melting at Storage Field Day 18!
    • Jon Klaus

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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