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Storage Field Day 21

Row 1 (L-R): Stephen Foskett, Frederic Van Haren, Barry Coombs
Row 2 (L-R): Dan Frith, Paul Stringfellow, Keiran Shelden
Row 3 (L-R): Enrico Signoretti, Matt Leib, Ben Gage, Ray Lucchesi
Row 4 (L_R): Andrea Mauro, Becky Elliot, Jason Collier, Max Mortillaro

Storage Field Day 21
January 20–22, 2021
#SFD21
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.

Andrea Mauro

@Andrea_Mauro

IT Architect with focus on virtualization, cloud and storage

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

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.

Frederic Van Haren

@FredericVHaren

Frederic is the CTO at HighFens Inc (active in the HPC & AI market). He spent more than a decade building large HPC & AI environments from the ground up and is frequently invited to speak at events to provide his vision on AI, Big Data and HPC.

Jason Collier

@BocaNuts

Jason Collier has over 20 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur in the technology industry. Jason was the Founder and Chief Evangelist at Scale Computing, one of the early pioneers in the hyperconvergence space.

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.

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 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.

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 20 9:30-11:00
MinIO Presents at Storage Field Day 21
Presenters: AB Periasamy, Daniel Valdivia, Jonathan Symonds
Wednesday, Jan 20 12:00-15:30
Tintri Presents at Storage Field Day 21
Presenters: Erwin Daria, James Coomer, Rob Girard, Shawn Meyers, Tomer Hagay
Thursday, Jan 21 8:00-10:00
NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 21
Presenters: Arun Raman, Dave Arnette, Jeffrey Steiner, Mike Oglesby, Sunitha Rao
Thursday, Jan 21 11:00-13:00
Nasuni Presents at Storage Field Day 21
Presenters: Andres Rodriguez, Anne Blanchard, Barrie Kuza, Russ Kennedy, Russ Neufeld, Tom Rose
Friday, Jan 22 8:00-9:30
Hammerspace Presents at Storage Field Day 21
Presenters: David Flynn, Douglas Fallstrom
Friday, Jan 22 10:30-11:30
Pliops Presents at Storage Field Day 21
Presenters: Ofer Frishman, Steve Fingerhut
Friday, Jan 22 12:30-14:30
Intel Presents at Storage Field Day 21
Presenters: Allison Goodman, David Lundell, Ginger Gilsdorf, Howard Marks, Krishna Yalamanchi, Kristie Mann, Sridhar Kayathi, Stuart Midgley, Tim Faulkes, Vishal Sanghvi
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 …

Matt Garvin

@MrMattGarvin

Matt Garvin is an Event Manager and brings nine years of event support and logistics experience to Tech Field Day for Gestalt IT

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 #SFD21

  1. Converged Architecture Built for AI
    • Tech Field Day Exclusive with Intel Memory and Storage
    • Matthew Leib
    • Intel, NetApp, Pure Storage
  2. MinIO Delivers Hybrid Cloud Object Storage to the Enterprise
    • MinIO
  3. Intel Customers Share Their Optane Experience Stories at Storage Field Day
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, VMware
  4. Tintri VMstore Delivers Self-Optimizing and Intelligent Infrastructure for Virtual Workloads
    • Tintri
  5. Hammerspace Unlocks Scale and Performance With Hybrid Cloud Storageless Data
    • Hammerspace
  6. How Nasuni Made Their Name in a Cloud-Washed Space
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • Nasuni
  7. Pliops Brings Performance, Endurance, and Cost Savings to Flash-Based Storage
    • Pliops
  8. NetApp Delivers AI Data Management Solutions to Enterprise IT
    • NetApp
  9. Storageless Data, Really? – Doug Fallstrom
    • Paul Stringfellow
    • Hammerspace
  10. Storage Field Day 21 – Wrap-Up and Link-O-Rama
    • Dan Frith
  11. MinIO – Cloud, Edge, Everywhere …
    • Dan Frith
    • MinIO
  12. 115-GreyBeards Talk Database Acceleration With Moshe Twitto, CTO&Co-founder, Pliops
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Pliops
  13. So Long, and Thanks for All the Memory – Micron Ceases 3D XPoint Development, Sells Lehi Fab
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Intel
  14. Nasuni Puts Your Data Where You Need It
    • Dan Frith
    • Nasuni
  15. Pliops – Can We Take Fast and Make It Faster?
    • Dan Frith
    • Pliops
  16. Storageless Data!?
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Hammerspace
  17. NetApp Keystone – How Do You Want It?
    • Dan Frith
    • NetApp
  18. Pliops: Re-Imagining Storage, Crushing Bottlenecks and a Bright Future in the Cloud
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Pliops
  19. Data Science Storage With NetApp’s Python Toolkit
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • NetApp
  20. The Role of AI in Data Storage
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Tintri
  21. Intel Optane – Challenges and Triumphs
    • Dan Frith
    • Intel
  22. Hammerspace, Storageless Data, and One Tough Problem
    • Dan Frith
    • Hammerspace
  23. Back to the Future With Tintri
    • Dan Frith
    • Tintri
  24. Storage Options for the Distributed Enterprise
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Hammerspace, Nasuni
  25. Presenters React to the Storage Field Day 21 Experience
    • Hammerspace, Intel, MinIO, Nasuni, NetApp, Pliops, Tintri
  26. Storage Field Day 21 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
    • Dan Frith
  27. Object Storage Is Heating Up
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • MinIO, Nasuni
  28. Why MinIO Wins the Private Cloud
    • MinIO
  29. Storage Field Day Session Four: The Hybrid Cloud and MinIO
    • MinIO
  30. The Rise of MinIO Object Storage
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • MinIO
  31. Storage Field Day Session Three: Innovation at MinIO
    • MinIO
  32. Looking Ahead With Storage Field Day 21 – Barry Coombs, Jason Collier, Max Mortillaro – Ep 149
    • Barry Coombs, Jason Collier, Max Mortillaro, Paul Stringfellow
  33. Storage Field Day Session Two: Kubernetes and MinIO
    • MinIO
  34. Storage Field Day Session One: All Things MinIO
    • MinIO
  35. Delegates Win the Day at Storage Field Day 21
    • Georgina Ford
    • Hammerspace, Intel, MinIO, Nasuni, NetApp, Pliops, Tintri
  36. Unions – Taxes & UBI – Philanthropy – Microsoft Goes Full Black Mirror – Universal Chat App – Helicopter on Mars
    • Keiran Shelden
  37. Storageless Data, Cloud Native Und Kubernetes: Storage Field Day 21
    • Wolfgang Stief
    • Hammerspace, Intel, MinIO, Nasuni, NetApp, Pliops, Tintri
  38. NetApp Data Science Toolkit
    • Keith Townsend
    • NetApp
  39. Storage Field Day 21 – Hammerspace
    • Barry Coombs
    • Hammerspace
  40. Storage Field Day 21 – The TECHunplugged Take on Nasuni
    • Arjan Timmerman, Max Mortillaro
    • Nasuni
  41. Nasuni – Cloud-Scale NAS Without Cloud Worries
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Nasuni
  42. Storage Field Day 21 – Intel
    • Barry Coombs
    • Intel
  43. Storage Field Day 21 – Pliops
    • Barry Coombs
    • Pliops
  44. Storage Field Day 21 – MinIO Session
    • Barry Coombs
    • MinIO
  45. Storage Field Day 21 – Nasuni
    • Barry Coombs
    • Nasuni
  46. Storage Field Day 21 – Tintri
    • Barry Coombs
    • Tintri
  47. Storage Field Day 21 – NetApp
    • Barry Coombs
    • NetApp
  48. Taking a Deep Dive Into Modern Storage Solutions With Storage Field Day 21
    • Stephen Foskett
  49. Is Storageless Storage Just Someone Else’s Storage?
    • Jason Collier, Matthew Leib, Max Mortillaro, Paul Stringfellow, Stephen Foskett
  50. Storage Field Day 21 – Streaming to You Live
    • Keiran Shelden
  51. Storage Field Day 2021: A Sneak Peek Into What Tintri Will Be Talking About
    • Tintri
  52. I’ll Be at Storage Field Day 21
    • Dan Frith

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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