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Storage Field Day 7

Storage Field Day 7

March 11–March 13, 2015

#SFD7

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 M Evans

@ChrisMEvans

Chris is a UK-based consultant with an interest in all technologies, focusing on storage, virtualisation and cloud.

Christopher Kusek

@cxi

Technology Evangelist, vExpert, Veeam Vanguard, EMC Elect, BDA, CISSP, MCT, Cloud, Ninja, Vegan, Single, Father, Cat, Humorist, Author

Dan Frith

@PenguinPunk

I like punk rock and storage arrays.

Dave Henry

@DaveMHenry

Jack of all trades technologist, gadget guy, writer, job hunting.

Enrico Signoretti

@ESignoretti

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

Howard Marks

@DeepStorageNet

Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Jon Klaus

@JonKlaus

Storage architect gone project manager, working for a MSP in the south of the Netherlands.

Keith Townsend

@CTOAdvisor

Global Advisor at the Futurum Group

Mark May

@CincyStorage

Storage expert, unix curmudgeon, IT nerd, and sporadic blogger

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.

Vipin V.K.

@VipinVK111

Storage specialist, virtualization, cloud. Blogging and tech communities at times.

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, Mar 11 9:30-11:30 Catalogic Presents at Storage Field Day 7
Wednesday, Mar 11 12:30 - 14:30 Kaminario Presents at Storage Field Day 7
Wednesday, Mar 11 15:30-17:30 Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 7
Thursday, Mar 12 9:00-11:00 VMware Presents at Storage Field Day 7
Thursday, Mar 12 12:30-14:30 Connected Data Presents at Storage Field Day 7
Thursday, Mar 12 15:30-17:30 Springpath Presents at Storage Field Day 7
Friday, Mar 13 8:00-10:00 Cloudian Presents at Storage Field Day 7
Friday, Mar 13 10:30-12:30 Exablox Presents at Storage Field Day 7
Friday, Mar 13 13:30-15:30 Maxta Presents at Storage Field Day 7
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 is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud


87 Links with Tag #SFD7

  1. Coverage: Cloudian Announces HyperFile, Makes Object Better
    • Storage Field Day 10
    • Dan Frith
    • Cloudian
  2. Coverage: Cloudian Announces HyperStore 4000 – Gets Super Dense
    • Storage Field Day 10
    • Dan Frith
    • Cloudian
  3. Coverage: Geek Speak: Snapshots Aren’t Backups (But They Could Be A Big Part…)
    • Tech Field Day 11, Tech Field Day at NetApp Insight 2016
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Actifio, Catalogic Software, NetApp
  4. Coverage: Maxta Introduces “Freemium” Hyperconverged Solution
    • Dan Frith
    • Maxta
  5. Coverage: Simplicity with Kaminario Healthshield & QoS
    • Storage Field Day 10
    • Jon Klaus
    • Kaminario
  6. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Kaminario
    • Storage Field Day 1, Storage Field Day 10
    • Chris M Evans
    • Kaminario
  7. Coverage: Is Cisco All in on Hyper-converged?
    • Keith Townsend
    • Cisco, Springpath
  8. Coverage: Leader, in technology and in figures that matter – all in just 2 years
    • Storage Field Day 9
    • Vipin V.K.
    • VMware by Broadcom
  9. Coverage: Cisco HyperFlex: Break-thru Or Me-too?
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Cisco, Springpath
  10. Coverage: Cisco Enters Hyperconverged Market with HyperFlex
    • Dave Henry
    • Cisco, Springpath
  11. Coverage: The Evolution of Storage Virtualisation
    • Storage Field Day 8, Virtualization Field Day 6
    • Chris M Evans
    • FalconStor Software, Primary Data
  12. Coverage: Software defined? No no no, it’s poorly defined storage (and why Primary Data is different)
    • Storage Field Day 8
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Primary Data
  13. Coverage: Catalogic 6 months later
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Catalogic Software
  14. Coverage: 3 must-watch startups from VMware alum
    • Storage Field Day 5
    • Keith Townsend
    • PernixData, Platform9 Systems, Springpath
  15. Coverage: Cloudian HyperStore – S3-compliant, object storage for all your cloud needs
    • Vipin V.K.
    • Cloudian
  16. Coverage: Maxta at Storage Field Day 7
    • Mark May
    • Maxta
  17. Coverage: VMware VSAN 6.0 all-flash & hybrid IO performance at SFD7
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • VMware by Broadcom
  18. Coverage: Exablox OneBlox Scale-out NAS – an overview
    • Vipin V.K.
    • Exablox
  19. Coverage: Maxta Hyper-Convergence
    • Jon Klaus
    • Maxta
  20. Coverage: Hyper-converged solutions – The Maxta way…!
    • Vipin V.K.
    • Maxta
  21. Coverage: SDS from Springpath – hyper-convergence with greater flexibility
    • Vipin V.K.
    • Springpath
  22. Coverage: Springpath SDS springs forth
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Springpath
  23. Coverage: SFD7: Exablox – Scale-Out Object Storage for NAS
    • Chris M Evans
    • Exablox
  24. Coverage: The potential of microservices within the data center
    • Keith Townsend
    • Pluribus Networks, Springpath
  25. Coverage: Cloudian and Hadoop, with Amir Chaudry (head of system engineering at Cloudian)
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Cloudian
  26. Coverage: File Transporter: public cloud ease with private cloud control
    • Jon Klaus
    • Connected Data
  27. Coverage: TechTalk 9: Copy data solutions
    • Keith Townsend
    • Actifio, Catalogic Software
  28. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama
    • Dan Frith
  29. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Day 2 – VMware
    • Dan Frith
    • VMware by Broadcom
  30. Coverage: Primary Data and Data Virtualisation
    • Chris M Evans
    • Primary Data
  31. Coverage: Object store and hybrid clouds at Cloudian
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Cloudian
  32. Coverage: Hyperconverged vendor Maxta announces SDN partnership
    • Keith Townsend
    • Maxta
  33. Coverage: Rumors, strategies and facts about Hyper-converged
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Maxta, Springpath, VMware by Broadcom
  34. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Exablox OneBlox: scale-out NAS for SME
    • Jon Klaus
    • Exablox
  35. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Day 3 – Cloudian
    • Dan Frith
    • Cloudian
  36. Coverage: Transporter Revisited – Part 1 – Introduction
    • Dan Frith
    • Connected Data
  37. Coverage: Transporter Revisited – Part 2 – Testing and Final Thoughts
    • Dan Frith
    • Connected Data
  38. Coverage: Generation 3 drobo: Fall In Love All Over Again
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Connected Data, Drobo
  39. Coverage: Connected Data, Transporter and Private “Cloud” Storage
    • Chris M Evans
    • Connected Data
  40. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Day 3 – Maxta
    • Dan Frith
    • Maxta
  41. Coverage: Thinking different about storage
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Cloudian, Coho Data, DataGravity, Hedvig, Nimble Storage
  42. Coverage: Software Defined Dockerized Springpath HALO at #SFD7
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Springpath
  43. Coverage: Transporter, a private Dropbox in a tower
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Connected Data
  44. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Day 2 – Springpath
    • Dan Frith
    • Springpath
  45. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Catalogic ECX reducing copy data sprawl
    • Jon Klaus
    • Catalogic Software
  46. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Day 1 – Primary Data
    • Dan Frith
    • Primary Data
  47. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Primary Data
    • Mark May
    • Primary Data
  48. Coverage: Catalogic Software Addresses Data Copy Management
    • Chris M Evans
    • Catalogic Software
  49. Coverage: Is Data Virtualization the Future of Enterprise Storage?
    • Keith Townsend
    • Primary Data
  50. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Initial Thoughts
    • Chris M Evans
    • Catalogic Software, Cloudian, Connected Data, Exablox, Kaminario, Maxta, Primary Data, Springpath, VMware by Broadcom
  51. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Day 1 – Kaminario
    • Dan Frith
    • Kaminario
  52. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Day 1 – Catalogic Software
    • Dan Frith
    • Catalogic Software
  53. Coverage: File Transporter, private Sync&Share made easy
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Connected Data
  54. Coverage: Friday Shorts – Certs, Tools, Loads, VVOLs and #SFD7
    • Mike Preston
  55. Coverage: CopyData yeah… Long live Data Virtualization
    • Keith Townsend
    • Actifio, Catalogic Software
  56. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Day 3 – Exablox
    • Dan Frith
    • Exablox
  57. Coverage: What else has Kaminario got under its kimono?
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Kaminario
  58. Coverage: Video: VSAN From The Architect’s Perspective
    • VMware by Broadcom
  59. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Day 2 – Connected Data
    • Dan Frith
    • Connected Data
  60. Coverage: When looking good is no longer enough
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Kaminario
  61. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
    • Dan Frith
  62. Coverage: Goodbye to Storage Field Day 7
    • Mark May
  63. Coverage: [Video] Storage Field Day 7 Review
    • Keith Townsend
  64. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Day 0
    • Dan Frith
  65. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 is about to start!
    • Jon Klaus
  66. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7, links and live stream
    • Enrico Signoretti
  67. Coverage: Day 0 of SFD7. Yankee Gift Swap and Delegate dinner
    • Mark May
  68. Coverage: VMware – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
    • Keith Townsend
    • VMware by Broadcom
  69. Coverage: Transporter – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
    • Keith Townsend
    • Connected Data
  70. Coverage: Springpath – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
    • Keith Townsend
    • Springpath
  71. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – 11-13 March 2015
    • Chris M Evans
  72. Coverage: Primary Data – Storage Field Day 7
    • Keith Townsend
    • Primary Data
  73. Coverage: Maxta – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
    • Keith Townsend
    • Maxta
  74. Coverage: It’s Storage Field Day again…!
    • Vipin V.K.
  75. Coverage: Kaminario – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
    • Keith Townsend
    • Kaminario
  76. Coverage: It’s almost time! #SFD7 is next week! – Storage Field Day
    • Mark May
  77. Coverage: Exablox – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
    • Keith Townsend
    • Exablox
  78. Coverage: It’s storage showtime!
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Catalogic Software, Cloudian, Exablox, Kaminario, Maxta, Primary Data, Springpath
  79. Coverage: Cloudian – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
    • Keith Townsend
    • Cloudian
  80. Coverage: Catalogic Software – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
    • Keith Townsend
    • Catalogic Software
  81. Coverage: The Storage Field Day 7 Delegates
    • Arjan Timmerman
  82. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7, here I come!
    • Jon Klaus
  83. Coverage: I’ll be attending Storage Field Day 7 – Now with Clear Containers!
    • Christopher Kusek
  84. Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 — A Delegate is Me
    • Dave Henry
  85. Coverage: I’m going to Storage Field Day 7!
    • Mark May
  86. Coverage: Storage Field Day – I’ll be at SFD7
    • Dan Frith
  87. Coverage: Data virtualization surfaces
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Primary Data

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