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Storage Field Day 4

L-R: Enrico Signoretti, Lauren Malhoit, Ray Lucchesi, Scott D. Lowe, Joep Piscaer, Hans De Leenheer, Luca Dell'Oca, Stephen Foskett, Claire Chaplais, Tom Hollingsworth, Howard Marks, Arjan Timmerman, Ed Grigson, Rick Schlander, Chris Wahl

Storage Field Day 4
November 13–15, 2013
#SFD4
Who: Storage
What: Field Day
When: Past
Location: 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.

Arjan Timmerman

@ArjanTim

Dutch analyst, world traveler and technology advisor

Chris Wahl

@ChrisWahl

Social media adventurer, virtualization whisperer, and global event speaker. Author of Networking for VMware Administrators.

Ed Grigson

@EGrigson

I’m an infrastructure professional with a keen interest in cloud, virtualisation and storage.

Enrico Signoretti

@ESignoretti

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

Hans De Leenheer

@HansDeLeenheer

Rental Evangelist & Enterprise Clown. Sometimes referred to as Technical Marketer.

Howard Marks

@DeepStorageNet

Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Joep Piscaer

@JPiscaer

Founder of TLA Tech, a tech marketing firm focusing on cloud-native. Co-hosts TheCUBE sometimes. Blogs at VirtualLifestyle.nl

Lauren Malhoit

@Malhoit

I’m a post-sales engineer focusing mostly on VMware, EMC and Cisco.

Luca Dell’Oca

@dellock6

Virtualization Architect, vExpert, Data Protection preacher, Geek to the core. Blogger at www.virtualtothecore.com

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.

Rick Schlander

@VMRick

Virtualization Architect & vExpert, Minneapolis & Rochester VMUG Leader, NetAppEMC Storage & Cisco UCS Engineer-Blogger.

Scott D. Lowe

@OtherScottLowe

Scott D. Lowe is an independent consultant, blogger, and author focusing on issues that affect the CIO and on the virtualization and storage markets.

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, Nov 13 09:30 CloudByte Presents at Storage Field Day 4
Wednesday, Nov 13 13:00 Gridstore Presents at Storage Field Day 4
Thursday, Nov 14 08:00 Coho Data Presents at Storage Field Day 4
Thursday, Nov 14 10:30 Virident HGST Presents at Storage Field Day 4
Thursday, Nov 14 13:30 Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 4
Thursday, Nov 14 16:00 Overland Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 4
Friday, Nov 15 08:00 Avere Systems Presents at Storage Field Day 4
Presenters: Ron Bianchini
Friday, Nov 15 10:30 Proximal Data Presents at Storage Field Day 4
Presenters: Rory Bolt
Friday, Nov 15 13:30 Cleversafe Presents at Storage Field Day 4
Presenters: Rob McCammon
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Claire Chaplais

@CChaplais

Claire Chaplais has over 20 years experience in business operations, marketing communication programs, and event management for the high tech industry. She worked for great companies like Wind River Systems, StorageTek, Common Sense Media, and Harris B …

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen Foskett is a writer and speaker on enterprise IT topics and organizes the popular Tech Field Day event series.

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.


Links with Tag #SFD4

  1. Coho Data: SDS and SDN working as one
    • Storage Field Day 6
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Coho Data
  2. Coho Data, one year later
    • Storage Field Day 6
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Coho Data
  3. Hands On With Coho Data’s DataStream Storage Architecture
    • Chris Wahl
    • Coho Data
  4. CloudByte’s multi-tenancy enables vMotion-like storage flexibility
    • Joep Piscaer
    • CloudByte
  5. Gridbusters Made Me a YouTube Star
    • Howard Marks
    • Gridstore
  6. Nimble Storage’s New CS700 Adaptive Flash Array Gets Moar Power
    • Chris Wahl
    • Nimble Storage
  7. Time for Next-Gen Data Protection?
    • Luca Dell’Oca
    • Nimble Storage
  8. you startups challenge my basic knowledge
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Coho Data, Diablo Technologies, Scale Computing
  9. Throw More Storage At It
    • Howard Marks, Tom Hollingsworth
  10. Securing sync & share data-at-rest
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Oxygen Cloud
  11. AdaptingIT : Women With O Drive
    • Lauren Malhoit
    • Oxygen Cloud
  12. Storage Glory at 30,000 IOPS
    • Nimble Storage
  13. Boot storms and VDI storage
    • Ray Lucchesi
  14. The Dropbox for SMB is here!
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Oxygen Cloud
  15. The technology behind Oxygen Cloud’s odrive file sharing solution
    • Lauren Malhoit
    • Oxygen Cloud
  16. CIOs Should Require Analytics As Part Of Vendor Infrastructure Support
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • Nimble Storage
  17. Business Needs Dictate The Importance Of Scale Up Vs Scale Out Storage
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • Nimble Storage
  18. Storage – Why I love Coho data
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Coho Data
  19. Where is the EXIT route? My thoughts on Nimble Storage & PHDvirtual
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Nimble Storage
  20. Time files when you’re having fun
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Oxygen Cloud
  21. Why Nimble should open up InfoSight to the community (like vOpenData)
    • Joep Piscaer
    • Nimble Storage
  22. Proximal Data, server SSD caching software
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Proximal Data
  23. Storage Field Day 4: Avere Systems
    • Luca Dell’Oca
    • Avere Systems
  24. Add a Flash storage in an existing environment
    • Storage Field Day 3
    • Luca Dell’Oca
    • Nutanix, PernixData, Proximal Data, SanDisk, SimpliVity
  25. Cloudbyte Solution Overview: ElastiStor & ElastiCenter Components
    • Lauren Malhoit
    • CloudByte
  26. SDN and Appeal of Abstraction
    • Tom Hollingsworth
  27. Oxygen Cloud’s oDrive Seeks To Empower User Controlled File Sync
    • Chris Wahl
    • Oxygen Cloud
  28. Storage – QoS, the next feature you’ll be asking for
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • CloudByte, Gridstore
  29. Scale-Out Storage For Hyper-V
    • Howard Marks
    • Gridstore
  30. GridStore, a storage dedicated to Windows
    • Luca Dell’Oca
    • Gridstore
  31. Nimble’s scale-out looks a lot like EqualLogic’s, and that’s a good thing!
    • Joep Piscaer
    • Nimble Storage
  32. Storage – Served-side caching: Holy grail or mere feature?
    • Storage Field Day 3
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • PernixData, Proximal Data, SanDisk, Virident
  33. Coho Data Brings Software Defined Networking to SDS
    • Chris Wahl
    • Coho Data
  34. Overland Storage SnapScale Scales Out But Falls Short
    • Howard Marks
    • Overland Storage
  35. How To Not Suck at Technical Presentations
    • Chris Wahl
    • Coho Data, Tech Field Day
  36. Scaling Storage At The Client
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Cleversafe, Gridstore, Oxygen Cloud
  37. Product to watch: DataStream 1000 scale-out storage
    • Lauren Malhoit
    • Coho Data
  38. Avere’s Edge-Core Architecture Beefs Up Tired, Hoopty NAS Storage
    • Chris Wahl
    • Avere Systems
  39. Coho Data Deep Dive: the future of storage, now
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Coho Data
  40. Avere your Cloud
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Avere Systems, Cleversafe
  41. Storage specifically designed for Hyper-V? It does exist!
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Gridstore
  42. Storage Field Day 4: CloudByte
    • Luca Dell’Oca
    • CloudByte
  43. Scaling Storage In Conventional Arrays
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Avere Systems, Cleversafe, CloudByte, Nimble Storage, Overland Storage
  44. What I learned at Storage Field Day
    • Coho Data
  45. #SFD4 – Vendor 10: Cleversafe
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Cleversafe
  46. Scale-Out Storage Field Day?
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Avere Systems, Cleversafe, CloudByte, Coho Data, Gridstore, Nimble Storage, Overland Storage, Oxygen Cloud
  47. Why you need to be watching Tech Field Day
    • Tech Field Day 9
    • Eric Wright
    • Infinio
  48. Storage – Beyond NAS (again)
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Oxygen Cloud
  49. #SFD4 – Vendor 8: Avere
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Avere Systems
  50. #SFD4 – Vendor 9: Proximal Data
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Proximal Data
  51. Determining Storage Performance Needs is Part Science and Part Art
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • CloudByte
  52. Nimble Storage’s Scale To Fit and Proactive Wellness Features Simplify IT
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • Nimble Storage
  53. #SFD4 – Vendor 7: Overland Storage
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Overland Storage
  54. #SFD4 – Vendor 6: Nimble Storage
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Nimble Storage
  55. Hybrid Flash Array From Nimble Storage Makes iSCSI Sexy Again
    • Storage Field Day 2
    • Chris Wahl
    • Nimble Storage
  56. #SFD4 – Vendor 3: Oxygen Cloud
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Oxygen Cloud
  57. #SFD4 – Vendor 4: COHO Data
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Coho Data
  58. #SFD4 – Vendor 5: Virident (HGST)
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Virident
  59. #SFD4 – Vendor 2: GridStore
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Gridstore
  60. #SFD4 – Vendor 1: CloudByte
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • CloudByte
  61. Live stream and Agenda for SFD4
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • CloudByte
  62. Storage Field Day 4 – Overland Storage Preview
    • Rick Schlander
    • Overland Storage
  63. Storage Field Day 4 – More Storage Talk Than You Can Shake a Rake At
    • Chris Wahl
    • Coho Data, Nimble Storage, Proximal Data
  64. I Guess I am A Big Shot – Storage Field Day Edition
    • Howard Marks
    • Coho Data
  65. Reality check – Storage Field Day agenda and live streaming
    • Enrico Signoretti
  66. Proximal Data to Present at Storage Field Day 4, a Tech Field Day Event
    • Proximal Data
  67. Storage Field Day 4: a quick preview of the vendors I will meet
    • Luca Dell’Oca
    • Avere Systems, Cleversafe, CloudByte, Coho Data, Gridstore, Nimble Storage, Overland Storage, Oxygen Cloud, Proximal Data, Virident
  68. Storage Field Day 4: It’s going to be a storage blast!
    • Enrico Signoretti
  69. Coho Applies SDN To Scale-Out Storage
    • Howard Marks
    • Coho Data
  70. Object-defined storage (it’s not about object storage)
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Coho Data, Exablox
  71. Storage Field Day 4 Delegate
    • Rick Schlander
  72. VMware-Integrated Caching? Not So Fast!
    • Storage Field Day 3, Tech Field Day 9
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Infinio, Marvell, PernixData, Proximal Data, SanDisk
  73. Storage Field Day #4 – who will you see?
    • Ed Grigson
    • Avere Systems, Cleversafe, CloudByte, Coho Data, Gridstore, Nimble Storage, Overland Storage, Oxygen Cloud, Proximal Data, Virident
  74. To all vendors sponsoring the influencers
    • Storage Field Day 1, Tech Field Day Extra at Interop New York 2013
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Kaminario
  75. My VMWorld CEO Tour
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Avere Systems, CloudByte
  76. You CAN be a SFD4 delegate
    • Storage Field Day 3
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Tech Field Day

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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