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Storage Field Day 9

Dave Henry, Scott D. Lowe, Alex Galbraith, Howard Marks, Matthew Leib, Claire Chaplais, Mark May, Justin Warren, Stephen Foskett, W. Curtis Preston, Richard Arnold, Vipin V.K., Chris Evans, Enrico Signoretti

Storage Field Day 9

March 16–March 18, 2016

#SFD9

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.

Chris M Evans

@ChrisMEvans

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

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

Justin Warren

@JPWarren

Justin is the founder and chief analyst at PivotNine

Mark May

@CincyStorage

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

Matthew Leib

@MBLeib

Long time engineer, and presales architect specializing in Storage, VIrtualization and Orchestrations in the cloud.

Richard Arnold

@3ParDude

Storage and virtualization guy trying to make complicated stuff simple

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.

W. Curtis Preston

@WCPreston

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

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 16 10:00-12:00 NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 9
Presenters: Dave Hitz, Dave Wright
Wednesday, Mar 16 14:00-16:00 Plexistor Presents at Storage Field Day 9
Presenters: Amit Golander, Sharon Azulai
Wednesday, Mar 16 16:30-18:00 Storage Field Day 9 Delegate Roundtables
Presenters: Alex Galbraith, Chris Evans, Dave Henry, Enrico Signoretti, Howard Marks, Justin Warren, Mark May, Matthew Leib, Richard Arnold, Scott D. Lowe, Stephen Foskett, Vipin V.K., W. Curtis Preston
Thursday, Mar 17 8:00-10:00 Violin Memory Presents at Storage Field Day 9
Thursday, Mar 17 10:30-12:30 Intel Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 9
Thursday, Mar 17 14:00-16:00 Cohesity Presents at Storage Field Day 9
Friday, Mar 18 9:00-11:00 VMware Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 9
Presenters: Christos Karamanolis, Rawlinson Rivera, Yanbing Li
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


71 Links with Tag #SFD9

  1. Coverage: The Rise, Fall and End of Violin Memory
    • Chris M Evans
    • Violin Memory
  2. Coverage: Pure Storage Announces FlashRecover
    • Storage Field Day 8
    • Chris M Evans
    • Cohesity, Pure Storage
  3. Coverage: What Next for Violin Systems?
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
    • Chris M Evans
    • Violin Memory
  4. Coverage: Is NetApp Becoming A Service Provider?
    • Tech Field Day at NetApp Insight 2016
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp
  5. Coverage: Accelerating Workloads with NetApp Plexistor
    • Tech Field Day 11, Tech Field Day at NetApp Insight 2016
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp, Plexistor
  6. Coverage: Can Violin Systems Successfully Rise from the Ashes of Violin Memory?
    • Chris M Evans
    • Violin Memory
  7. Coverage: Netapp – an #SFD12 Update
    • Storage Field Day 12
    • Matthew Leib
    • NetApp, SolidFire
  8. News: Storage Field Day Events in 2017
    • Storage Field Day 10, Storage Field Day 11, Storage Field Day 12, Storage Field Day 13, Storage Field Day 14
    • Cohesity, EMC, Intel, NetApp, Nimble Storage, Nutanix, Primary Data, Pure Storage, Rubrik, Tech Field Day, Zerto
  9. Coverage: Storage Field Day 11 Previews: Intel, HGST
    • Storage Field Day 11
    • Chris M Evans
    • HGST, Intel, SanDisk, Western Digital
  10. Coverage: NetApp, Storage Class Memory and Hyperconvergence
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp
  11. Coverage: Nutanix Acquires PernixData and Calm.io
    • Chris M Evans
    • Nutanix, PernixData, VMware by Broadcom
  12. Coverage: VulcanCast Follow Up – A few thoughts on 60TB SSDs
    • Alex Galbraith
  13. Coverage: Why Primary Deduplication Is A Different Animal From Backup Dedupe
    • Howard Marks
    • Violin Memory, VMware by Broadcom
  14. Coverage: Data Corruption – The Silent Killer
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Intel
  15. Coverage: TFD11 Introduction Plexistor
    • Tech Field Day 11
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Plexistor
  16. Coverage: Torus – Because We Need Another Distributed Storage Software Solution
    • Storage Field Day 10
    • Chris M Evans
    • Datera, Hedvig, SolidFire
  17. Coverage: Cloud integration with Cohesity storage platform
    • Vipin V.K.
    • Cohesity
  18. Coverage: Databases vSphere and vSAN
    • Matthew Leib
    • VMware by Broadcom
  19. Coverage: Cohesity Announces Hybrid Cloud Strategy
    • Storage Field Day 8
    • Dan Frith
    • Cohesity
  20. Coverage: Cohesity Announces Cloud Integration Services
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Cohesity
  21. Coverage: Cohesity Announces Cloud Integration for Their Storage Platform
    • Dave Henry
    • Cohesity
  22. Coverage: Cohesity is embracing the cloud power
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Cohesity
  23. Coverage: Tiering Isn’t Dead
    • Richard Arnold
    • Cohesity, Plexistor
  24. Coverage: Not all “Inline” Dedupe is actually Inline – and it matters
    • W. Curtis Preston
    • NetApp, VMware by Broadcom
  25. Coverage: NetApp’s approach to Data as Fabric
    • Matthew Leib
    • NetApp
  26. Coverage: Moving Data Between Clouds w/AltaVault & OnCloud
    • W. Curtis Preston
    • NetApp
  27. Coverage: NetApp Finally Pivots
    • W. Curtis Preston
    • NetApp
  28. Coverage: Leader, in technology and in figures that matter – all in just 2 years
    • Storage Field Day 7
    • Vipin V.K.
    • VMware by Broadcom
  29. Coverage: Memory-based storage? Yes, please!
    • Tech Field Day 10
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Diablo Technologies, Intel, Plexistor
  30. Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 – The High-Level #SFD9 Experience
    • Dave Henry
  31. Coverage: What is the best storage architecture?
    • Richard Arnold
  32. Coverage: Hybrid Cloud and Data Mobility
    • Chris M Evans
    • Avere Systems, NetApp
  33. Coverage: vSphere tackles the Hyperconverged Infrastructure World: VMware VSAN 6.2
    • W. Curtis Preston
    • VMware by Broadcom
  34. Coverage: NetApp – Is This The Dawn Of A New Day?
    • Alex Galbraith
    • NetApp
  35. Coverage: Intel, Storage, Bitrot, and Cosmic Rays
    • Matthew Leib
    • Intel
  36. Coverage: VMware VSAN, When good enough becomes very good
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • VMware by Broadcom
  37. Coverage: Words Mean Things, Apparently – Deduplication Myths Explored
    • Alex Galbraith
    • VMware by Broadcom
  38. Coverage: Build or Buy – A Tale of Two All-Flash Strategies
    • Storage Field Day 5
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp, Pure Storage, SanDisk, Violin Memory
  39. Coverage: 3 Reasons Why Storage Field Day 9 Was the Best One Yet!
    • VMware by Broadcom
  40. Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 – Behind the Curtain
    • Alex Galbraith
  41. Coverage: Disclosure Post, Pure Accelerate and SFD9 Edition
    • Justin Warren
  42. Coverage: The NetApp future looks bright when embracing cloud
    • Mark May
    • NetApp
  43. Coverage: Want to hear all about VSAN 6.2? Watch the #SFD9 recordings!
    • VMware by Broadcom
  44. Coverage: You Had Me At Tiered Non-Volatile Memory!
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Plexistor
  45. Coverage: Latency: The King of Storage Performance Metrics
    • Scott D. Lowe
  46. Coverage: SFD 9 Preview – NetApp Too Many Shoes?
    • Richard Arnold
    • NetApp
  47. Coverage: SFD9 Preview Intel – X Marks the spot
    • Richard Arnold
    • Intel
  48. Coverage: SFD9 Preview – Will VSAN be THE SAN?
    • Richard Arnold
    • VMware by Broadcom
  49. Coverage: NetApp is deONTAPifying itself, and this is good!
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • NetApp
  50. Coverage: Plexistor – More hope on the horizon for Large In-Memory databases
    • Matthew Leib
    • Plexistor
  51. Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 Tracking Page
    • Chris M Evans
  52. Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 at NetApp! – Live Blog | Why Is The Internet Broken?
    • NetApp, SolidFire
  53. Coverage: Violin Memory Have Cool Technology, But Do They Have A Future? I Hope So!
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Violin Memory
  54. Coverage: Secondary Can Be Just As Important As Primary
    • Storage Field Day 8
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Cohesity
  55. Coverage: SFD9 Prep: Intel
    • Justin Warren
    • Intel
  56. Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 Preview: VMware
    • Chris M Evans
    • VMware by Broadcom
  57. Coverage: SFD9 Prep: Cohesity
    • Justin Warren
    • Cohesity
  58. Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 – presenting companies
    • Vipin V.K.
    • Cohesity, Intel, NetApp, Plexistor, Violin Memory, VMware by Broadcom
  59. Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 Preview: Intel
    • Chris M Evans
    • Intel
  60. Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 Preview: Violin Memory
    • Chris M Evans
    • Violin Memory
  61. Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 Preview: NetApp
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp
  62. Coverage: Storage Field Day9 Preview and How to Follow Along From Home
    • Dave Henry
  63. Coverage: SFD9 Prep: Plexistor
    • Justin Warren
    • Plexistor
  64. Coverage: SFD9 Prep: VMware
    • Justin Warren
    • VMware by Broadcom
  65. Coverage: SFD9 Prep: NetApp
    • Justin Warren
    • NetApp
  66. Coverage: SFD9 Prep: Violin Memory
    • Justin Warren
    • Violin Memory
  67. Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 – Let’s do this thang
    • Richard Arnold
  68. Coverage: To Silicon Valley again – Storage Field Day 9
    • Vipin V.K.
  69. Coverage: A story of two “different” storage start-ups
    • Tech Field Day 10
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Cohesity, Rubrik
  70. Coverage: Looking Forward to Storage Field Day 9
    • Alex Galbraith
  71. Coverage: Confirmed for Storage Day 9
    • Dave Henry

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