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Storage Field Day 26

Left to Right: Andrew Blackburn, Andrea Mauro, Wolfgang Stief, Glenn Dekhayser, Stephen Foskett, Andy Banta, Jim Jones, W. Curtis Preston, Erik Ableson, Ray Lucchesi, Vuong Pham
Inset: Michael Paul

Storage Field Day 26

September 20–September 21, 2023

#SFD26

Who: Storage

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Hybrid, 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.

Andrea Mauro

@Andrea_Mauro

IT Architect with focus on virtualization, cloud and storage

Andy Banta

@AndyBanta

Storage Janitor – seasoned technology professional

Erik Ableson

@EAbleson

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

Glenn Dekhayser

@GDekhayser

Technologist with 30+ years working with Enterprise Storage and Data Management, more recently working with global organizations on AI Infrastructure as well. Author of the Authoritative Core architectural design pattern.

Jim Jones

@K00laidIT

Product Architect doing backup and disaster recovery things at 11:11 Systems

Michael Paul

@MicoolPaul

Data Protection Consultant, lover of all things infrastructure & cloud. Learning & sharing via blogs & webinars.

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

W. Curtis Preston

@WCPreston

O’Reilly Author, Backup Expert, Founder of Truth in IT

Wolfgang Stief

@SpeicherStief

Open minded geek and engineer, technology scout, all things storage and some vintage 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, Sep 20 8:30-10:00
CTERA Presents at Storage Field Day 26
Presenters: Aron Brand, Oded Nagel, Saimon Michelson
Wednesday, Sep 20 11:00-12:30
Solidigm Presents at Storage Field Day 26
Presenters: Kapil Karkra, Ratnesh Muchhal, Roger Corell
Wednesday, Sep 20 14:00-15:00
Storage Field Day 26 Delegate Roundtable Discussions
Moderator: Stephen Foskett
Thursday, Sep 21 8:30-9:30
SNIA Presents at Storage Field Day 26
Presenters: Daniel Chadash, Dave Landsman, J Metz, Shyam Iyer
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Andrew Blackburn

Video Editor at Tech Field Day

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


14 Links with Tag #SFD26

  1. Coverage: Spinning Disk Use Cases Are Getting Smaller
    • Jim Jones
    • SNIA, Solidigm
  2. Coverage: Computational (DNA) Storage – End of Evolution Part 4
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • SNIA
  3. Coverage: Thinking About… Storage in 2023
    • Jim Jones
    • SNIA, Solidigm
  4. Coverage: Solidigm Presents Optane Replacement
    • W. Curtis Preston
    • Solidigm
  5. Coverage: CTERA’s Proactive Solution to Ransomware
    • W. Curtis Preston
    • CTERA
  6. Coverage: The Truth Behind SaaS Data Recovery With W Curtis Preston
    • Stephen Foskett, W. Curtis Preston
  7. Coverage: Why Tech Companies Are Faltering to Keep Their Sustainability Commitments
    • Sulagna Saha
  8. Coverage: Preserving Data Through Centuries Without Hard Drives – Meet DNA Data Storage
    • Sulagna Saha
    • SNIA
  9. Coverage: Storage Short Take #69
    • J Michel Metz
    • SNIA
  10. Coverage: 155: GreyBeards SDC23 Wrap Up Podcast With Dr. J Metz, Technical Dir. Of Systems Design AMD and Chair of SNIA BoD
    • J Michel Metz, Keith Townsend, Ray Lucchesi
    • SNIA
  11. Coverage: Solidigm Right-Sizes SSDs for Write-Intensive Workloads With the New D7-P5810
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Solidigm
  12. News: The Present and Future of Edge at Edge Field Day 2
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NodeWeaver, Solidigm, StorMagic, Tech Field Day
  13. Coverage: Storage Field Day 26 Is Headed to SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference
    • Stephen Foskett
    • CTERA, SNIA, Solidigm
  14. News: Storage Field Day 26 is Headed to SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference
    • Stephen Foskett
    • CTERA, SNIA, Solidigm, Tech Field Day

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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