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Storage Field Day 8

Storage Field Day 8

October 21–October 23, 2015

#SFD8

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.

Alex Galbraith

@AlexGalbraith

Solutions Architect in the UK, podcaster and independent blogger at www.tekhead.it. At 6’7″ tall, obviously a ‘massive’ geek.

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.

Howard Marks

@DeepStorageNet

Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

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!

Jon Klaus

@JonKlaus

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

Josh De Jong

@EuroBrew

Storage and virtualization guy. Occasional blogger, twitter addict, taker of naps.

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.

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.

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, Oct 21 9:30 - 11:30 Coho Data Presents at Storage Field Day 8
Wednesday, Oct 21 12:30 - 14:30 Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 8
Wednesday, Oct 21 16:00 - 18:00 Cohesity Presents at Storage Field Day 8
Presenters: Abhijit Chakankar, Johnny Chen, Mark Thomas, Mohit Aron, Nick Howell
Thursday, Oct 22 8:00 - 10:00 Qumulo Presents at Storage Field Day 8
Presenters: Aaron Passey, Peter Godman
Thursday, Oct 22 10:30 - 12:30 Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 8
Thursday, Oct 22 13:30 - 15:30 INFINIDAT Presents at Storage Field Day 8
Thursday, Oct 22 16:00 - 18:00 NexGen Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 8
Friday, Oct 23 8:00 - 10:00 Violin Memory Presents at Storage Field Day 8
Friday, Oct 23 11:00 - 13:00 Intel Presents at Storage Field Day 8
Friday, Oct 23 14:00 - 16:00 Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 8
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


90 Links with Tag #SFD8

  1. Coverage: Pure Storage Announces FlashRecover
    • Storage Field Day 9
    • Chris M Evans
    • Cohesity, Pure Storage
  2. Coverage: The Wisdom of the (Storage) Crowd
    • Chris M Evans
    • Pure Storage
  3. Coverage: 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 6, 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
  4. News: Celebrating 10 Years of Pure Storage and Tech Field Day
    • Cloud Field Day 5, Networking Field Day Exclusive with Nokia, Storage Field Day 1, Storage Field Day 10, Storage Field Day 6, Tech Field Day 8, Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025, Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2025, Tech Field Day Extra at SHARE Kansas City 2024, Virtualization Field Day 3
    • Pure Storage
  5. Coverage: Data Mobility – Global/Scale-out Data Platforms
    • Storage Field Day 10, Storage Field Day 12
    • Chris M Evans
    • Datera, Elastifile, Hedvig, Qumulo
  6. Coverage: Hardware has set the pace for latency, time for software to catch up
    • Storage Field Day 11
    • Jon Klaus
    • Coho Data, Intel
  7. Coverage: Cohesity Continues to Evolve
    • Dan Frith
    • Cohesity
  8. Coverage: Cohesity Announces Hybrid Cloud Strategy
    • Storage Field Day 9
    • Dan Frith
    • Cohesity
  9. Coverage: Pure //Accelerate 2016 – FlashBlade
    • Chris M Evans
    • Pure Storage
  10. Coverage: Secondary Can Be Just As Important As Primary
    • Storage Field Day 9
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Cohesity
  11. Coverage: Pure Storage Announces FlashBlade, FlashArray//m10 and FlashStack CI Enhancements
    • Storage Field Day 6
    • Dan Frith
    • Pure Storage
  12. Coverage: Nimble Storage announced their Predictive All Flash Arrays
    • Vipin V.K.
    • Nimble Storage
  13. Coverage: With FLASH, things are changing ‘in a flash’ !?
    • Vipin V.K.
    • Intel
  14. Coverage: Nimble Storage – InfoSight VMVision
    • Storage Field Day 6
    • Jon Klaus
    • Nimble Storage
  15. Coverage: Bimodal IT needs bimodal infrastructures
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Coho Data
  16. Coverage: Cohesity Announces Cohesity Data Platform 2.0
    • Dan Frith
    • Cohesity
  17. Coverage: NexGen Storage: All-Flash Arrays can be hybrids too!
    • Jon Klaus
    • NexGen Storage
  18. Coverage: Infinidat: Enterprise reliability and performance
    • Jon Klaus
    • INFINIDAT
  19. Coverage: Are you going All-Flash? Nah, the future is hybrid
    • Tech Field Day 10
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Diablo Technologies, Intel
  20. Coverage: Cohesity – Scale-Out Secondary Storage
    • Josh De Jong
    • Cohesity
  21. Coverage: Cohesity – Secondary storage consolidation
    • Vipin V.K.
    • Cohesity
  22. Coverage: Qumulo: data-aware scale-out NAS
    • Jon Klaus
    • Qumulo
  23. Coverage: Juku.beats 28 – Infinidat storage: multiple nine resiliency, high performance, $1/GB
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • INFINIDAT
  24. Coverage: Cohesity is changing the definition of secondary storage
    • Jon Klaus
    • Cohesity
  25. Coverage: Pure Storage – Enterprise Ready, Pure and Simple
    • Josh De Jong
    • Pure Storage
  26. Coverage: The Evolution of Storage Virtualisation
    • Storage Field Day 7, Virtualization Field Day 6
    • Chris M Evans
    • FalconStor Software, Primary Data
  27. Coverage: Why are storage snapshots so painful?
    • Alex Galbraith
    • INFINIDAT
  28. Coverage: Software defined? No no no, it’s poorly defined storage (and why Primary Data is different)
    • Storage Field Day 7
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Primary Data
  29. Coverage: Juku.beats 27: NexGen Storage, QoS made easy
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • NexGen Storage
  30. Coverage: Mobile devices as a cache for cloud data
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • INFINIDAT
  31. Coverage: Violin Memory Announces Additions To FSP Range
    • Dan Frith
    • Violin Memory
  32. Coverage: Understanding NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express)
    • Vipin V.K.
    • Intel
  33. Coverage: Pure Storage: Non Disruptive Everything
    • Jon Klaus
    • Pure Storage
  34. Coverage: NexGen Storage – The Future is Hybrid
    • Josh De Jong
    • NexGen Storage
  35. Coverage: Where and why is my data growing?…
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Qumulo
  36. Coverage: Coho Data: storage transformation without disruption
    • Jon Klaus
    • Coho Data
  37. Coverage: All-Flash symphony from Violin Memory
    • Vipin V.K.
    • Violin Memory
  38. Coverage: Infinibox – Enterprise storage solution from Infinidat
    • Vipin V.K.
    • INFINIDAT
  39. Coverage: Has the next generation of monolithic storage arrived?
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • INFINIDAT
  40. Coverage: Juku.beats 25: Qumulo, data-aware scale-out NAS
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Qumulo
  41. Coverage: PB are the new TB, GreyBeards talk with Brian Carmody, CTO Inifinidat
    • Howard Marks, Ray Lucchesi
    • INFINIDAT
  42. Coverage: NexGen Storage – Storage QoS and other good things
    • Dan Frith
    • NexGen Storage
  43. Coverage: Infinidat: awesome tech, great execution
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • INFINIDAT
  44. Coverage: Storage Field Day 8 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama
    • Dan Frith
  45. Coverage: Intel – They really are “Inside”
    • Dan Frith
    • Intel
  46. Coverage: Cohesity Wants All Of Your Data
    • Dwayne Lessner
    • Cohesity
  47. Coverage: Intel 3D XPoint and NVM Express – Data Locality Matters For Hyper-Coverged Systems
    • Dwayne Lessner
    • Intel
  48. Coverage: Betting Against Intel and Moore’s Law for Storage
    • Dwayne Lessner
    • Intel
  49. Coverage: Software Defined Storage Virtualisation – How useful is that then?
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Primary Data
  50. Coverage: Qumulo – Storage for people who care about their data
    • Dan Frith
    • Qumulo
  51. Coverage: INFINIDAT – What exactly is a “Moshe v3.0”?
    • Dan Frith
    • INFINIDAT
  52. Coverage: Coho Data – It’s numerology, but not as we know it
    • Dan Frith
    • Coho Data
  53. Coverage: Primary data’s path to better data storage presented at SFD8
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Primary Data
  54. Coverage: Nimble Storage – InfoSight is still awesome
    • Dan Frith
    • Nimble Storage
  55. Coverage: Primary Data – Because we all want our storage to do well
    • Dan Frith
    • Primary Data
  56. Coverage: How often do you upgrade your storage array software?
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Pure Storage
  57. Coverage: Pure Storage – Orange is the new black, now what?
    • Dan Frith
    • Pure Storage
  58. Coverage: We are entering the Data-aware infrastructure era
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Cohesity, Coho Data
  59. Coverage: Violin Memory – Sounds a lot better than it used to
    • Dan Frith
    • Violin Memory
  60. Coverage: Without good Analytics you dont have a competitive storage product
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Nimble Storage
  61. Coverage: Cohesity – There’s more to this than just “Secondary Storage”
    • Dan Frith
    • Cohesity
  62. Coverage: Storage Field Day 8 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
    • Dan Frith
  63. Coverage: Live Streaming Video Adds to the Tech Field Day Experience
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Tech Field Day
  64. Coverage: Coho Data, the packet processing squeeze and working set exploits
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Coho Data
  65. Coverage: Cohesity at Storage Field Day 8!
    • Cohesity
  66. Coverage: Can Violin Step back From the Brink?
    • Mark May
    • Violin Memory
  67. Coverage: IT as a Change Agent: It’s Time to Look Inward, Starting with Storage
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • Coho Data
  68. Coverage: Overcoming “New Vendor Risk”: Pure Storage’s Techniques
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • Pure Storage
  69. Coverage: So, What is Secondary Storage Cohesity-Style?
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • Cohesity
  70. Coverage: Data Awareness Is Increasingly Popular in the Storage Biz
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • DataGravity, Qumulo
  71. Coverage: Storage software can change enterprise workflow
    • Mark May
    • Coho Data
  72. Coverage: Redefining Secondary Storage
    • Mark May
    • Cohesity
  73. Coverage: Storage Field Day 8 – Day 0
    • Dan Frith
  74. Coverage: Wow it’s early – Traveling to Storage Field Day 8
    • Jon Klaus
  75. Coverage: Cohesity Data Platform is now GA
    • Dan Frith
    • Cohesity
  76. Coverage: Thoughts in the Airport
    • Josh De Jong
  77. Coverage: Storage Field Day 8 Brings the Enterprise Storage Industry Together
    • Stephen Foskett
  78. Coverage: it’s storage prime time!
    • Enrico Signoretti
  79. Coverage: Tech Field Day Calling…!
    • Vipin V.K.
  80. Coverage: Storage Field Day Here I Come!
    • Josh De Jong
  81. Coverage: Analytics, the key to (storage) happiness
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • DataGravity, Nimble Storage
  82. Coverage: Storage Field Day – I will be attending SFD8!
    • Jon Klaus
    • Intel, Nimble Storage, Violin Memory
  83. Coverage: Looking Forward to Storage Field Day 8
    • Alex Galbraith
  84. Coverage: Storage Field Day 8 – Here I come!
    • Jarett Kulm
  85. Coverage: Infinidat’s Solution For the I/O Blender: Math
    • Stephen Foskett
    • INFINIDAT
  86. Coverage: Storage Field Day – I’ll be at SFD8
    • Dan Frith
  87. Coverage: Pure Storage FlashArray//m
    • Justin Warren
    • Pure Storage
  88. Coverage: Pure Storage Announces New Hardware Platform – FlashArray//m
    • Chris M Evans
    • Pure Storage
  89. Coverage: Pure Storage Announces FlashArray//m, Evergreen Storage and Pure1
    • Storage Field Day 6
    • Dan Frith
    • Pure Storage
  90. Coverage: Pure Storage Announces New Program, New Hardware, New Software Services
    • Dave Henry
    • Pure Storage

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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