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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
Where: Silicon Valley, 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

@DarkkAvenger

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 at some delegate and presenter web sites. 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 Silicon Valley, US/Pacific..

Event Staff

Ben Gage

@BenTGage

Matt Garvin

@MrMattGarvin

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett


Links with Tag #SFD21

  1. Pliops: Re-Imagining Storage, Crushing Bottlenecks and a Bright Future in the Cloud
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Pliops
  2. Data Science Storage With NetApp’s Python Toolkit
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • NetApp
  3. The Role of AI in Data Storage
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Tintri
  4. Intel Optane – Challenges and Triumphs
    • Dan Frith
    • Intel
  5. Hammerspace, Storageless Data, and One Tough Problem
    • Dan Frith
    • Hammerspace
  6. Back to the Future With Tintri
    • Dan Frith
    • Tintri
  7. Storage Options for the Distributed Enterprise
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Hammerspace, Nasuni
  8. Presenters React to the Storage Field Day 21 Experience
    • Hammerspace, Intel, MinIO, Nasuni, NetApp, Pliops, Tintri
  9. Storage Field Day 21 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
    • Dan Frith
  10. Object Storage Is Heating Up
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • MinIO, Nasuni
  11. Why MinIO Wins the Private Cloud
    • MinIO
  12. Storage Field Day Session Four: The Hybrid Cloud and MinIO
    • MinIO
  13. The Rise of MinIO Object Storage
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • MinIO
  14. Storage Field Day Session Three: Innovation at MinIO
    • MinIO
  15. Looking Ahead With Storage Field Day 21 – Barry Coombs, Jason Collier, Max Mortillaro – Ep 149
    • Barry Coombs, Jason Collier, Max Mortillaro, Paul Stringfellow
  16. Storage Field Day Session Two: Kubernetes and MinIO
    • MinIO
  17. Storage Field Day Session One: All Things MinIO
    • MinIO
  18. Delegates Win the Day at Storage Field Day 21
    • Georgina Ford
    • Hammerspace, Intel, MinIO, Nasuni, NetApp, Pliops, Tintri
  19. Unions – Taxes & UBI – Philanthropy – Microsoft Goes Full Black Mirror – Universal Chat App – Helicopter on Mars
    • Keiran Shelden
  20. Storageless Data, Cloud Native Und Kubernetes: Storage Field Day 21
    • Hammerspace, Intel, MinIO, Nasuni, NetApp, Pliops, Tintri
  21. NetApp Data Science Toolkit
    • Keith Townsend
    • NetApp
  22. Storage Field Day 21 – Hammerspace
    • Barry Coombs
    • Hammerspace
  23. Storage Field Day 21 – The TECHunplugged Take on Nasuni
    • Arjan Timmerman, Max Mortillaro
    • Nasuni
  24. Nasuni – Cloud-Scale NAS Without Cloud Worries
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Nasuni
  25. Storage Field Day 21 – Intel
    • Barry Coombs
    • Intel
  26. Storage Field Day 21 – Pliops
    • Barry Coombs
    • Pliops
  27. Storage Field Day 21 – MinIO Session
    • Barry Coombs
    • MinIO
  28. Storage Field Day 21 – Nasuni
    • Barry Coombs
    • Nasuni
  29. Storage Field Day 21 – Tintri
    • Barry Coombs
    • Tintri
  30. Storage Field Day 21 – NetApp
    • Barry Coombs
    • NetApp
  31. Taking a Deep Dive Into Modern Storage Solutions With Storage Field Day 21
    • Stephen Foskett
  32. Is Storageless Storage Just Someone Else’s Storage?
    • Jason Collier, Matthew Leib, Max Mortillaro, Paul Stringfellow, Stephen Foskett
  33. Storage Field Day 21 – Streaming to You Live
    • Keiran Shelden
  34. Storage Field Day 2021: A Sneak Peek Into What Tintri Will Be Talking About
    • Tintri
  35. 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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