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Storage Field Day 20

Top L-R: Dan Frith, Stephen Foskett, Chris Maki
Second L-R: Jason Benedicic, Becky Elliott, Ray Lucchesi
Third L-R: Enrico Signoretti, Arjan Timmerman, Keiran Shelden
Fourth L-R: David Chapa, Vuong Pham, Keith Townsend
Bottom L-R: Paul Stringfellow, Ben Gage

Storage Field Day 20

August 5–August 7, 2020

#SFD20

Who: Storage

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Virtual

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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

Chris Maki

@ChrisMaki

Principal Solutions Architect, CDW Canada

Dan Frith

@PenguinPunk

I like punk rock and storage arrays.

David Chapa

@DavidChapa

Advisor to CxOs, Technology Exec, Market & Product Strategist, World-Class Speaker, Business-Centric IT, #MrRecovery, #Musician

Enrico Signoretti

@ESignoretti

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

Jason Benedicic

@JABenedicic

Independent Consultant with a passion for all things technical, currently focusing on Cloud, Automation and DevOps. Member of NetApp A-Team, Cisco Champions and vExpert.

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.

Keith Townsend

@CTOAdvisor

Global Advisor at the Futurum Group

Paul Stringfellow

@TechStringy

Technical Director of UK data management consultancy Gardner Systems. Host of the Tech Interviews podcast. Part of the NetApp A-Team and Veeam Vanguards as well as included on the CRN UK A-List.

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.

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, Aug 5 8:00-10:00
Pensando Presents at Storage Field Day 20
Presenters: Francis Matus, Naresh Patel
Delegate Panel: Becky Elliott, David Chapa, Enrico Signoretti, Gina Rosenthal, Ian Sanderson, Jason Benedicic, Max Mortillaro, Paul Stringfellow
Wednesday, Aug 5 11:00-12:00
Cisco Presents NVMe Transport at Storage Field Day 20
Presenters: Chris O'Brien, Kamal Bakshi, Mark Allen, Paresh Gupta
Wednesday, Aug 5 12:00-13:00
Cisco Presents HyperFlex at Storage Field Day 20
Presenters: Joost Van der Made, Ronnie Chan
Thursday, Aug 6 8:00-9:00
Qumulo Presents at Storage Field Day 20
Presenters: Jason Sturgeon, Keith Nargi, Molly Presley
Thursday, Aug 6 10:00-12:00
Nebulon Presents at Storage Field Day 20
Presenters: Andy Roberts, Clint Wyckoff, Craig Nunes, Josh Price, Michael Heyeck, Siamak Nazari
Thursday, Aug 6 13:00-14:00
Intel Presents at Storage Field Day 20
Presenters: Andrey Kudryavtsev, Christopher Tobias, Frank Ober, Kelsey Prantis, Kristie Mann
Friday, Aug 7 8:00-10:00
VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 20
Presenters: Howard Marks, Jeff Denworth, Renen Hallak
Friday, Aug 7 11:00-13:00
Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 20
Presenters: Cody Hosterman, Jon Owings, Mike Kieran, Pete Kirkpatrick
All dates and times listed are local time in Virtual, 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


38 Links with Tag #SFD20

  1. Coverage: Latency? What Latency: Intel Optane Lightning-Fast Storage and Memory
    • Intel
  2. Coverage: A VAST-ly Different Unicorn
    • Georgina Ford
    • VAST Data
  3. Coverage: Pure Storage Delivers High-Capacity Storage With FlashArray//C With QLC
    • Pure Storage
  4. Coverage: Intel Bridges the Gap Between Memory and Storage
    • Intel
  5. Coverage: Cisco’s HyperFlex Gets a Boost
    • Georgina Ford
    • Cisco
  6. Coverage: Data Access Everywhere, All the Time?
    • Georgina Ford
    • Qumulo
  7. Coverage: Nebulon Takes on SAN Arrays and HCI – Differently
    • Georgina Ford
    • Nebulon
  8. Coverage: Cisco Introduces HyperFlex 4.5
    • Dan Frith
    • Cisco
  9. Coverage: Tomversations: Episode 11 – Data Processing Units (DPUs)
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Intel, Pensando
  10. Coverage: Pensando’s Role in the NetApp Portfolio
    • Georgina Ford
    • NetApp, Pensando
  11. Coverage: Cisco Sets Sights on Converged Infrastructure
    • Georgina Ford
    • Cisco
  12. Coverage: Pensando Changing the Game One Card at a Time
    • Steven Cortez
    • NetApp, Pensando
  13. Coverage: Storage Field Day and the Direction of Travel
    • Paul Stringfellow
    • Cisco, Intel, Nebulon, Qumulo
  14. Coverage: Your Occasional Storage Digest With Toshiba Drives, Excelero and More
    • NetApp, Pensando
  15. Coverage: NetApp and Pensando Present at Storage Field Day 20
    • NetApp, Pensando
  16. Coverage: Will the DPU Kill the Storage Array?
    • Keith Townsend
    • Nebulon
  17. Coverage: Nebulon Shadow Storage
    • Jason Benedicic
    • Nebulon
  18. Coverage: Is Scale-Out File Storage the New Black?
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • VAST Data
  19. Coverage: Storage Field Day 20 – Wrap-Up and Link-O-Rama
    • Dan Frith
  20. Coverage: Intel Optane and the DAOS Storage Engine
    • Dan Frith
    • Intel
  21. Coverage: 106: Greybeards Talk Intel’s New HPC File System With Kelsey Prantis, Senior Software Eng. Manager, Intel
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Intel
  22. Coverage: VAST Data – the Best Is Yet to Come
    • Dan Frith
    • VAST Data
  23. Coverage: Nebulon – It’s Server Storage Jim, but Not as We Know It
    • Dan Frith
    • Nebulon
  24. Coverage: Qumulo – Storage Your Way
    • Dan Frith
    • Qumulo
  25. Coverage: An Intriguing Approach to Modern Data Center Infrastructure
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Nebulon
  26. Coverage: Pure Storage Announces Second Generation FlashArray//C With QLC
    • Dan Frith
    • Pure Storage
  27. Coverage: Intel Regains IO500 HPC Bragging Rights From WekaIO
    • Intel
  28. Coverage: Storage That Provides 100% Performance at 99% Full
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Qumulo
  29. Coverage: Cisco MDS, NVMe, and Flexibility
    • Dan Frith
    • Cisco
  30. Coverage: Intel Is Still a Formidable Force
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Intel
  31. Coverage: Storage Field Day 20 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
    • Dan Frith
  32. Coverage: At Storage Field Day, Industry Analysts Applaud Innovation Set in Motion by Intel® Optane™ Technology
    • Intel
  33. Coverage: “High Optane” Fuel for Performance
    • David Chapa
    • Intel
  34. Coverage: Making Our Inaugural Appearance at Storage Field Day 20!
    • Nebulon
  35. Coverage: Guess Who’s Attending Storage Field Day 20?
    • Becky Elliott
  36. Coverage: Let’s Zoom to SFD20
    • Keiran Shelden
  37. Coverage: Storage Field Day 20 – I’ll Be at Storage Field Day 20
    • Dan Frith
  38. Coverage: Storage Field Day 20.. Oh Yeah!!
    • Vuong Pham

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