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Storage Field Day 19

Storage Field Day 19

January 22–January 24, 2020

#SFD19

Who: Storage

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

Storage Field Day 19

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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

Dutch analyst, world traveler and technology advisor

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.

Gina Rosenthal

Product Marketing leader who knows how to turn complex technology into stories that inspire and connect.

Joey D’Antoni

@JDAnton

Native New Orleanian, Database Professional, Lover of food and wine, cyclist. Microsoft SQL Server MVP

Keiran Shelden

@Keiran_Shelden

Keiran is a System Engineer who loves to working with the full stack from compute to storage and all things between.

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.

Ruairi McBride

@McBride_Ruairi

Technical Account Manager – Team Leader at Arrow ECS

Vuong Pham

@Digital_KungFu

Senior Solutions Architect at Nth Generation Computing

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, Jan 22 8:00-9:30
Tiger Technology Presents at Storage Field Day 19
Presenters: Alexander Lefterov, Lance Kelson
Wednesday, Jan 22 10:30-12:30
NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 19
Presenters: Aditya Kalyanakrishnan, Marty Mayer, Rip Wilson, Shankar Pasupathy
Wednesday, Jan 22 14:00-18:00
Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 19
Presenters: Carl Che, Eric Spanneut, Huibert Verhoeven, Leah Schoeb, Luca Fasoli, Phil Bullinger, Richard New, Scott Hamilton, Stefaan Vervaet, Swapna Yasarapu, Tom Coughlin, Yusuf Jamal
Thursday, Jan 23 9:30-10:30
Infrascale Presents at Storage Field Day 19
Presenters: Alain Bertrand, Chris Bayne, Russ Reeder
Thursday, Jan 23 11:00-13:00
Dell EMC Presents Isilon at Storage Field Day 19
Presenters: Callan Fox, Kaushik Ghosh, Ted Schachter
Thursday, Jan 23 13:30-15:30
Dell EMC Presents DevOps at Storage Field Day 19
Presenters: Audrius Stripeikis, Paul Martin
Thursday, Jan 23 16:00-18:00
Dell EMC Presents PowerOne at Storage Field Day 19
Presenters: David Iovino, Richard Burrows, Trey Layton
Friday, Jan 24 8:00-10:00
Komprise Presents at Storage Field Day 19
Presenters: Krishna Subramanian, Kumar Goswami, Mike Peercy, Mohit Dhawan
Friday, Jan 24 10:30-12:30
WekaIO Presents at Storage Field Day 19
Presenters: Barbara Murphy, Liran Zvibel, Shimon Ben-David
Friday, Jan 24 14:00-16:00
MinIO Presents at Storage Field Day 19
Presenters: AB Periasamy, Eco Willson, Jonathan Symonds
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 is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud


68 Links with Tag #SFD19

  1. Coverage: Celebrating MinIO
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • MinIO
  2. Coverage: Dell Technologies Simplifies Storage Automation With PowerTools
    • Dell EMC
  3. Coverage: Managing Data Migration Challenges
    • Chris M Evans
    • Hammerspace, Komprise
  4. Coverage: Infrascale Provides Cloud-Based IT Resilience to the Masses
    • Infrascale
  5. Coverage: Voices in Data Storage – Episode 39: A Conversation With Russell Reeder
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Infrascale
  6. Coverage: Managing Massive Media
    • Chris M Evans
    • Western Digital
  7. Coverage: Voices in Data Storage – Episode 36: A Conversation With Anand Babu Periasamy and Jonathon Symonds on MinIO
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • MinIO
  8. Coverage: Dell EMC Isilon Is an Emmy Winner!
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Dell EMC
  9. Coverage: NetApp Fabric Orchestrator and Hybrid Cloud
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp
  10. Coverage: StorageGRID Gets Gritty
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • NetApp
  11. Coverage: Voices in Data Storage – Episode 35: A Conversation With Krishna Subramanian of Komprise
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Komprise
  12. Coverage: SFD19: DellEMC Does DevOps
    • Becky Elliott
    • Dell EMC
  13. Coverage: Can Infrascale Compete in the Enterprise Backup Market?
    • Chris M Evans
    • Infrascale
  14. Coverage: Paradigm Shift of Dev to Storage Ops
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • MinIO, VMware by Broadcom
  15. Coverage: Storage Field Day 19 MinIO
    • Joey D’Antoni
    • MinIO
  16. Coverage: DellEMC Project Nautilus Re-Imagine Storage for Streams
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Dell EMC
  17. Coverage: Project Nautilus Emerged as Dell’s Streaming Data Platform
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Dell EMC
  18. Coverage: Taming Unstructured Data With Dell EMC Isilon
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Dell EMC
  19. Coverage: WekaIO and a Fresh Approach
    • Dan Frith
    • WEKA
  20. Coverage: Storage Field Day 19 – Wrap-Up and Link-O-Rama
    • Dan Frith
  21. Coverage: Dell EMC PowerOne – Not V(x)block 2.0
    • Dan Frith
    • Dell EMC
  22. Coverage: Komprise – Non-Disruptive Data Management
    • Dan Frith
    • Komprise
  23. Coverage: NetApp and the StorageGRID Evolution
    • Dan Frith
    • NetApp
  24. Coverage: 097: GreyBeards Talk Open Source S3 Object Store With AB Periasamy, CEO MinIO
    • Keith R. Parsons, Ray Lucchesi
    • MinIO
  25. Coverage: Western Digital, Composable Infrastructure, Hyperscalers, and You
    • Dan Frith
    • Western Digital
  26. Coverage: Storage Field Day 19–Western Digital
    • Joey D’Antoni
    • Western Digital
  27. Coverage: Stellus Is Doing Something With All That Machine Data
    • Dan Frith
    • Stellus Technologies
  28. Coverage: Stellus Delivers Scale-Out Storage With NVMe & KV Tech
    • Chris M Evans
    • Stellus Technologies
  29. Coverage: Dell EMC Isilon – Cloudy With a Chance of Scale Out
    • Dan Frith
    • Dell EMC
  30. Coverage: Dell Technologies PowerOne – Dell’s Private Cloud?
    • Keith Townsend
    • Dell EMC
  31. Coverage: MinIO – Not Your Father’s Object Storage Platform
    • Dan Frith
    • MinIO
  32. Coverage: Gaming Is Driving Storage Innovation at WDC
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • AMD, Western Digital
  33. Coverage: Rebooting Infrascale
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Infrascale
  34. Coverage: Dell EMC PowerOne Is Next-Gen Converged Infrastructure
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Dell EMC
  35. Coverage: Open Source and Open Standards Open the Future
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Western Digital
  36. Coverage: Storage Management and DevOps
    • Chris M Evans
    • Dell EMC
  37. Coverage: Tiger Technology Brings the Cloud to You
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Tiger Technology
  38. Coverage: Infrascale Protects Your Infrastructure at Scale
    • Dan Frith
    • Infrascale
  39. Coverage: SFD19: No Komprise on Knowing Thy Data
    • Becky Elliott
    • Komprise
  40. Coverage: Komprise Is a Winner
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Komprise
  41. Coverage: TECHunplugged Videocast – Cisco Live Barcelona – No Love for Single Panes of Glass
    • Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020
    • Arjan Timmerman, Max Mortillaro
    • Cisco
  42. Coverage: Is Storage Still Relevant?
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Western Digital
  43. Coverage: The Hard Disk Is Dead! (But Only in Your Datacenter)
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Western Digital
  44. Coverage: Western Digital Presents at SFD19
    • Keiran Shelden
    • Western Digital
  45. Coverage: Storage Field Day 19–Current State of the Storage Industry
    • Joey D’Antoni
    • Western Digital
  46. Coverage: Come to MAMR! Western Digital Unfurls HDD Tech Roadmap
    • Western Digital
  47. Coverage: Preview Storage Field Day 19 – Day 1
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • NetApp, Tiger Technology, Western Digital
  48. Coverage: TECHunplugged VideoCast SFD19 Part 1
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Dell EMC, Komprise, NetApp
  49. Coverage: Tiger Technology Is Bridging the Gap
    • Dan Frith
    • Tiger Technology
  50. Coverage: Tiers, Tiers, and More Storage Tiers
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Komprise, Tiger Technology, WEKA, Western Digital
  51. Coverage: Storage Announcements at Western Digital’s Storage Field Day
    • Tom Coughlin
    • Western Digital
  52. Coverage: Tiger Bridge Extending NTFS to the Cloud
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Tiger Technology
  53. Coverage: Storage Field Day 19 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
    • Dan Frith
  54. Coverage: First Steps to Tackling My Anxiety
    • Keiran Shelden
    • On-Premise IT
  55. Coverage: Hadoop Is Truly Dead – LOTR Version
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Cloudera, NetApp, On-Premise IT, Pure Storage
  56. Coverage: TECHunplugged at Storage Field Day 19
    • Arjan Timmerman
  57. Coverage: Preview for SFD19 – Day 1
    • Arjan Timmerman
  58. Coverage: Top 5 Takeaways From #SFD19 Day 1
    • Jason Benedicic
    • AMD, NetApp, Tiger Technology, Western Digital
  59. Coverage: On the Road Again: #SFD19 Bound
    • Becky Elliott
  60. Coverage: Meet Field Day Delegate – Ruairi McBride
    • Mel Zura, Ruairi McBride
  61. Coverage: Meet Field Day Delegate – Vuong Pham
    • Alissa Nivens, Vuong Pham
  62. Coverage: Zoned Technologies With Western Digital
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Western Digital
  63. Coverage: Storage Field Day 19 RoundUp
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Dell EMC, Infrascale, Komprise, MinIO, NetApp, Tiger Technology, WEKA, Western Digital
  64. Coverage: Storage Field Day 19 – Vendor Previews
    • Chris M Evans
    • Dell EMC, Infrascale, Komprise, MinIO, NetApp, Tiger Technology, WEKA, Western Digital
  65. Coverage: Storage Field Day 19: Getting Back to My Roots
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Dell EMC, Infrascale, Komprise, MinIO, NetApp, Tiger Technology, WEKA, Western Digital
  66. Coverage: California, Rescue Me… Storage Field Day 19
    • Keiran Shelden
  67. Coverage: Is General Purpose Object Storage Disenfranchised?
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • MinIO
  68. Coverage: Storage Field Day – I’ll Be at Storage Field Day 19
    • Dan Frith

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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