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Storage Field Day 6

Storage Field Day 6
November 5–7, 2014
#SFD6
Who: Storage
What: Field Day
When: Past
Where: 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

Architect and Advisor for ATvisement focused on the Software Defined and Cloud and Partner and Analyst at TECHunplugged

Chin-Fah Heoh

@StorageGaga

Passionate storage technology enthusiast who enjoys the learning as much as the sharing.

Dan Frith

@PenguinPunk

I like punk rock and storage arrays.

Dennis Martin

@Demartek

Dennis Martin is the founder and President of Demartek, a computer industry analyst organization with its own ISO 17025 accredited test lab.

Enrico Signoretti

@ESignoretti

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

Eric Shanks

@Eric_Shanks

Consultant and blogger for theITHollow.com focused on Automation

Jarett Kulm

@JK47TheWeapon

Principal Technologist with High Availability Inc, IT generalist with over 25 years of experience, and crazy love of storage, security, and machine learning!

John Obeto

@2Obeto

I like SMBs and Windows

Jon Klaus

@JonKlaus

Dutch storage, back-up and server virtualization specialist.

Nigel Poulton

@NigelPoulton

Nigel is a self-confessed tech-addict who works, creates IT training vids, hosts a podcast, writes a blog, and writes books.

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.

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 at some delegate and presenter web sites. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, Nov 5 10:00-12:00 Avere Systems Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Wednesday, Nov 5 13:00-15:00 StorMagic Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Wednesday, Nov 5 16:00-18:00 Tegile Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Delegate Panel: N/A
Thursday, Nov 6 8:00-10:00 Coho Data Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Delegate Panel: N/A
Thursday, Nov 6 10:30-12:30 Nexenta Systems Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Delegate Panel: N/A
Thursday, Nov 6 14:00-16:00 Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Delegate Panel: N/A
Friday, Nov 7 8:00-10:00 Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Delegate Panel: N/A
Friday, Nov 7 10:30-12:30 NEC Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Delegate Panel: N/A
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific..

Event Staff

Claire Chaplais

@CChaplais

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd


Links with Tag #SFD6

  1. Celebrating 10 Years of Pure Storage and Tech Field Day
    • Cloud Field Day 5, Storage Field Day 1, Storage Field Day 10, Storage Field Day 8, Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017, Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019, Virtualization Field Day 3
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Pure Storage, Tech Field Day
  2. Pure Storage Announces FlashBlade, FlashArray//m10 and FlashStack CI Enhancements
    • Storage Field Day 8
    • Dan Frith
    • Pure Storage
  3. Nimble Storage – InfoSight VMVision
    • Storage Field Day 8
    • Jon Klaus
    • Nimble Storage
  4. Pure Storage Announces FlashArray//m, Evergreen Storage and Pure1
    • Storage Field Day 8
    • Dan Frith
    • Pure Storage
  5. The reverse wars – DAS vs NAS vs SAN
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Avere Systems
  6. Why demote archived data access?
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Avere Systems
  7. VMware and StorMagic – Happy Days at the Edge
    • Dan Frith
    • StorMagic
  8. VMware Endorses StorMagic for ROBO Server SAN
    • Howard Marks
    • StorMagic
  9. Could StorMagic SvSAN replace VSA?
    • Virtualization Field Day 4
    • Andrea Mauro
    • StorMagic
  10. ROBO virtualization with StorMagic SvSAN
    • Jon Klaus
    • StorMagic
  11. What’s next for Nexenta
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Nexenta Systems
  12. Hyper-convergence, divergence and micro-convergence
    • Data Field Day 1
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Coho Data
  13. Coho Data: SDS and SDN working as one
    • Storage Field Day 4
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Coho Data
  14. Coho Data, hyperloglog and the quest for IO performance
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Coho Data
  15. StorMagic: Know thy Customer
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • StorMagic
  16. Recapping Storage Field Day 6
    • StorMagic
  17. NEC, the classic Japanese IT company
    • Enrico Signoretti
  18. The magic of StorMagic comes from its simplicity
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • StorMagic
  19. Nimble Storage – Heir to the Throne of the SME?
    • Nigel Poulton
    • Nimble Storage
  20. Flipping the Cloud Paradigm – part II
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Avere Systems
  21. Avere: to the edge and beyond
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Avere Systems
  22. It’s not just PURE Storage
    • Eric Shanks
    • Pure Storage
  23. Storage Field Day 6 Day 3 – Nimble Storage and NEC
    • Jon Klaus
    • NEC Storage, Nimble Storage
  24. Tegile: good product, good execution
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Tegile, Western Digital
  25. Sorry Nimble Storage – I Don’t Believe You!
    • Nigel Poulton
    • Nimble Storage
  26. Pure Storage – “Architecture Matters”
    • Dan Frith
    • Pure Storage
  27. Highly Available Enterprise Edge Storage from StorMagic
    • Eric Shanks
    • StorMagic
  28. Great analytics makes for better storage!
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • DataGravity, Nimble Storage
  29. Hail Hydra!
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • NEC Storage
  30. The wizardry of StorMagic
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • StorMagic
  31. Key Bloggers Converge on Silicon Valley for Storage Field Day
    • Nimble Storage
  32. Storage Field Day 6 visits Pure Storage
    • Pure Storage
  33. Go Ahead – Update Your Storage Operating System in the Middle of the Day
    • Nimble Storage
  34. Will All New Storage Arrays be Hybrid?
    • Eric Shanks
    • CloudPhysics, Coho Data
  35. MASSive, Impressive, Agile, TEGILE
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Tegile, Western Digital
  36. Day 2 at Storage Field Day 6: Nexenta Systems
    • Nexenta Systems
  37. Storage Field Day 6 Day 1 – Avere, StorMagic, Tegile
    • Jon Klaus
    • Avere Systems, StorMagic, Tegile, Western Digital
  38. Storage Field Day 6 Day 2 – Coho, Nexenta and Pure Storage
    • Jon Klaus
    • Coho Data, Nexenta Systems, Pure Storage
  39. Sorry Nexenta, but I don’t get it… and questions arise.
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Nexenta Systems
  40. Day 2 at Storage Field Day 6: Coho Data
    • Coho Data
  41. Pure Storage, next generation storage for the real world
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Pure Storage
  42. Nexenta – Back in da house…
    • Nigel Poulton
    • Nexenta Systems
  43. Storage Field Day 6 visits Pure Storage
    • Pure Storage
  44. Storage Field Day 6 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama
    • Dan Frith
  45. Storage Field Day 6 – Day 2 – Coho Data
    • Dan Frith
    • Coho Data
  46. Storage Field Day 6 – Day 3 – NEC
    • Dan Frith
    • NEC Storage
  47. Storage Field Day #6: Livin La Pure’a Vida
    • Jarett Kulm
    • Pure Storage
  48. Coho Data, one year later
    • Storage Field Day 4
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Coho Data
  49. Storage Field Day 6 – Day 1 – Tegile
    • Dan Frith
    • Tegile, Western Digital
  50. Storage Field Day 6 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
    • Dan Frith
    • Tech Field Day
  51. Storage Field Day 6 – Day 3 – Nimble Storage
    • Dan Frith
    • Nimble Storage
  52. Storage Field Day 6 – Day 2 – Nexenta
    • Dan Frith
    • Nexenta Systems
  53. Nimble Storage Data Analytics – InfoSight
    • Eric Shanks
    • Nimble Storage
  54. Storage Field Day 6 – Videos now available
    • Amit Panchal
  55. Storage Field Day 6 – Day 1 – StorMagic
    • Dan Frith
    • StorMagic
  56. Storage Field Day 6 – Day 2 – Pure Storage
    • Dan Frith
    • Pure Storage
  57. Avere Systems, great technology but…
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Avere Systems
  58. Crowd-sourced Metrics and Automated Support Should Be Key Features In Your Next Storage Array – It’s Good For The Business
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • Nimble Storage, Tegile, Western Digital
  59. Storage Field Day 6 – Day 1 – Avere
    • Dan Frith
    • Avere Systems
  60. Storage Traffic Magic with OpenFlow
    • Matt Oswalt
    • Coho Data
  61. The New Data Center: Serious Simplicity Masks Crazy Complexity
    • Nimble Storage, Pure Storage, StorMagic, Tegile, Western Digital
  62. Gestalt IT Storage Field Day 6
  63. Storage Field Day – Day 0
    • Dan Frith
  64. Storage Field Day 6 Day 0 – Sightseeing and Yankee swap
    • Jon Klaus
  65. Storage Field Day 6 starts today :D
    • Arjan Timmerman
  66. Storage Field Day 6 Live! (links and stuff)
    • Enrico Signoretti
  67. Avere Announces Software Updates, Adds Virtual FXT Filer
    • Dave Henry
    • Avere Systems
  68. Today at Storage Field Day 6
    • Avere Systems, StorMagic, Tegile, Western Digital
  69. Local Premises Storage for EC2 Provided by Avere Systems
    • Eric Shanks
    • Avere Systems
  70. Storage Field Day 6
    • Eric Shanks
    • Tech Field Day
  71. Storage Field Day 6 is around the corner!
    • Jon Klaus
    • Tech Field Day
  72. Storage Field Day – I’ll be at SFD6
    • Dan Frith
    • Tech Field Day
  73. Two weeks, two (great) events
    • Enrico Signoretti

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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