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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 16–18, 2016
#SFD9
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.

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 a consultant and freelance journalist who enjoys coding in Python and words that are fun to say, like 'llama' and 'shenanigans'.

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 at some delegate and presenter web sites. 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

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett


Links with Tag #SFD9

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

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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