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Storage Field Day 18

Storage Field Day 18

February 27–March 1, 2019

#SFD18

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.

Becky Elliott

@BeckyLElliott

Technologist and Blogger

Chin-Fah Heoh

@StorageGaga

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

Chris M Evans

@ChrisMEvans

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

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.

Erik Ableson

@EAbleson

An IT generalist with over 20 years of experience spanning multiple technology generations at different layers in the IT organisation.

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.

Matthew Leib

@MBLeib

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

Max Mortillaro

Max Mortillaro is an independent data center consultant specializing in virtualization and storage technologies.

Paul L. Woodward Jr

@ExploreVM

I am a Systems Engineer with a focus on data center technologies. My passion is virtualization and performing amazing feats of technology!

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.

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, Feb 27 09:30-11:30
WekaIO Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Andy Watson, Barbara Murphy, Liran Zvibel, Shimon Ben-David
Wednesday, Feb 27 13:00-15:00
VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Howard Marks, Jeff Denworth, Mike Wing, Renen Hallak
Wednesday, Feb 27 15:30-17:30
StorPool Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Boyan Ivanov, Boyan Krosnov
Thursday, Feb 28 09:00-12:00
Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Clint Ludeman, Luca Fasoli, Narayan Venkat, Scott Hamilton, Shailendra Tripathi
Delegate Panel: Becky Elliott, Chin-Fah Heoh, Chris Evans, Dan Frith, Enrico Signoretti, Erik Ableson, Jim Handy, Jon Klaus, Josh De Jong, Matthew Leib, Max Mortillaro, Paul Woodward, Ray Lucchesi, Tom Coughlin
Thursday, Feb 28 13:00-15:00
NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Charlotte Brooks, Craig Schultz, Dave Hitz, Joe Ammirato
Thursday, Feb 28 16:30-18:00
IBM Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Jim Smith, Prashant Jagannathan
Friday, Mar 1 10:00-12:00
Cohesity Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Anand Nadathur, Apurv Gupta, Chris Colotti, Jon Hildebrand, Sidharth Mishra
Friday, Mar 1 13:30-14:30
Datera Presents at Storage Field Day 18
Presenters: Bill Borsari, Shailesh Mittal
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Ben Gage

@BenTGage

Ben Gage has a professional background which started in logistics and supply chain for manufacturing and agriculture. To subsidize the methodical nature of these fields he started and performs with an original Americana band. With a penchant for the ra …

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


85 Links with Tag #SFD18

  1. Coverage: StorPool Introduces NVMe/TCP and Public Cloud Support With Release 20
    • Cloud Field Day 14
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp, StorPool
  2. Coverage: StorPool Review – Part 1 – Installation & Configuration
    • Chris M Evans
    • StorPool
  3. Coverage: Kubernetes Persistent Storage Managed Well
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • StorPool
  4. Coverage: Pure Storage FlashRecover Brings Cohesity to FlashBlade
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Cohesity, Pure Storage
  5. Coverage: Western Digital’s Data Vision at SFD18
    • Western Digital
  6. Coverage: Moving to Unstructured Data Stores
    • Chris M Evans
    • VAST Data
  7. Coverage: One Tier to Replace Them All
    • VAST Data
  8. Coverage: Hybrid Cloud Might Be the Right Solution for Data Analytics
    • NetApp
  9. Coverage: The Definition of Secondary Storage Is Evolving – as Is Cohesity
    • Cohesity
  10. Coverage: Cohesity at Tech Field Day in 2019
    • Cloud Field Day 5
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Cohesity
  11. Coverage: Meeting the Storage Performance Requirements of AI and ML Workloads With WekaIO
    • Stephen Foskett
    • WEKA
  12. Coverage: Why You Should Consider Software-Defined Storage in Your Data Center
    • Tech Field Day 18 Austin
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Datera
  13. Coverage: IBM’s New Class of Data Protection: Upcycling of the IT World?
    • Stephen Foskett
    • IBM
  14. Coverage: StorPool’s Strategy Rose to the Cloud—and Beyond!
    • Stephen Foskett
    • StorPool
  15. Coverage: Cohesity Looks to Exploit Secondary Data Value With MarketPlace
    • Chris M Evans
    • Cohesity
  16. Coverage: EP27 – VAST Data – a Revolutionary Storage Platform for the Next Decade – With Howard Marks
    • Arjan Timmerman, Howard Marks, Max Mortillaro
    • VAST Data
  17. Coverage: Cloud-Native Data Protection
    • Cloud Field Day 3
    • Chris M Evans
    • Druva, NetApp
  18. Coverage: The Hidden Gem That Is StorPool
    • Chris M Evans
    • StorPool
  19. Coverage: Put All Your Data on Flash With VAST Data
    • Jon Klaus
    • VAST Data
  20. Coverage: Datera and the Move Towards Software Defined Storage in the Enterprise
    • Ken Nalbone
    • Datera
  21. Coverage: Cohesity: More on the Real Value of Data
    • Matthew Leib
    • Cohesity
  22. Coverage: 96-Layer NAND in Perspective: WDC Video
    • Jim Handy
    • Western Digital
  23. Coverage: Voices in Data Storage – Episode 13: A Conversation With Liran Zvibel
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • WEKA
  24. Coverage: EP21 – Discovering Weka.io, the World’s Fastest Filesystem With Barbara Murphy
    • Arjan Timmerman, Max Mortillaro
    • WEKA
  25. Coverage: Vast Data at Storage Field Day 18
    • Erik Ableson
    • VAST Data
  26. Coverage: The Fast WekaIO File System Saves You Money!
    • Jon Klaus
    • WEKA
  27. Coverage: Western Digital : Innovation in 3D NAND and Low Latency Flash NAND
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Western Digital
  28. Coverage: Voices in Data Storage – Episode 12: A Conversation With Bill Borsari
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Datera
  29. Coverage: Modernizing Data Protection for a Digitally Driven World
    • Alicia Blessing
    • IBM
  30. Coverage: A VAST-ly Different Storage Story
    • Becky Elliott
    • VAST Data
  31. Coverage: Storage Field Day 18 – Wrap-Up and Link-O-Rama
    • Dan Frith
  32. Coverage: Developing Data Protection Solutions in the Era of Data Management
    • Max Mortillaro
    • IBM
  33. Coverage: Datera and the Rise of Enterprise Software-Defined Storage
    • Dan Frith
    • Datera
  34. Coverage: Voices in Data Storage – Episode 11: A Conversation With Renen Hallak
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • VAST Data
  35. Coverage: WekaIO Continues to Evolve
    • Dan Frith
    • WEKA
  36. Coverage: VAST Data – No More Tiers Means No More Tears?
    • Dan Frith
    • VAST Data
  37. Coverage: How To: Clone Windows 10 From SATA SSD to M.2 SSD (& Fix Inaccessible Boot Device)
    • Jon Klaus
    • Western Digital
  38. Coverage: Can the WekaIO Matrix File System Be Faster Than DAS?
    • Chris M Evans
    • WEKA
  39. Coverage: The Full Force of Western Digital
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Western Digital
  40. Coverage: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus – More Than Meets the Eye
    • Dan Frith
    • IBM
  41. Coverage: Western Digital Are Keeping Composed
    • Dan Frith
    • Western Digital
  42. Coverage: NetApp, Cloudier Than Ever
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • NetApp
  43. Coverage: Weka.IO and My First Official Briefing
    • Matthew Leib
    • WEKA
  44. Coverage: WekaIO Controls Their Performance Destiny
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • WEKA
  45. Coverage: #91 – Storage Field Day 18 in Review
    • Chris M Evans, Martin Glassborow
    • Cohesity, Datera, IBM, NetApp, StorPool, VAST Data, WEKA, Western Digital
  46. Coverage: Western Digital Develops Low-Latency Flash to Compete With Intel Optane
    • Western Digital
  47. Coverage: WD Keeps Fast Flash Optane Substitute in the Wings
    • Western Digital
  48. Coverage: Bridges to the Clouds and More – NetApp NDAS
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • NetApp
  49. Coverage: VAST Data Launches With New Scale-Out Storage Platform
    • Chris M Evans
    • VAST Data
  50. Coverage: EP17 – Storpool: Being the Best in Block Based Storage – With Boyan Ivanov
    • Arjan Timmerman, Max Mortillaro
    • StorPool
  51. Coverage: StorPool – Block Storage Managed Well
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • StorPool
  52. Coverage: Voices in Data Storage – Episode 10: A Conversation With Boyan Ivanov
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • StorPool
  53. Coverage: How IBM Is Rethinking Its Data Protection Line-Up
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • IBM
  54. Coverage: Democratizing Data Management
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Cohesity, NetApp
  55. Coverage: Cohesity – The Gold Standard in Data Management
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Cohesity
  56. Coverage: StorPool, Fast Storage for Fast Times
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • StorPool
  57. Coverage: StorPool and the Death of Hardware-Defined Storage
    • Dan Frith
    • StorPool
  58. Coverage: Clever Cohesity
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Cohesity
  59. Coverage: Dual Actuator Drives: An Interesting Trend
    • Matthew Leib
    • Western Digital
  60. Coverage: Western Digital to Demo Dual-Actuator HDDs Next Week: Double the Actuators for Double the Perf
    • Western Digital
  61. Coverage: NetApp and the Space in Between
    • Dan Frith
    • NetApp
  62. Coverage: StorPool Presents at Storage Field Day 18
    • StorPool
  63. Coverage: Democratizing Data Management
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Cohesity, NetApp
  64. Coverage: Faster and Bigger SSDs Enable Us to Talk About Something Else Than IOps
    • Storage Field Day 16
    • J Michel Metz, Jon Klaus
    • SNIA, VAST Data, Western Digital
  65. Coverage: Exploiting Secondary Data With NDAS From NetApp
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp
  66. Coverage: #SFD18 Introduces Us to VAST Data
    • Matthew Leib
    • VAST Data
  67. Coverage: SFD18-Western Digital
    • Erik Ableson
    • Western Digital
  68. Coverage: Are CIO’s Missing the Metadata Bus?
    • Keith Townsend
    • NetApp
  69. Coverage: Cohesity Is (Data)Locked In
    • Dan Frith
    • Cohesity
  70. Coverage: Storage Field Day 18 – Fifty Shades of Disclosure
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Cohesity, Western Digital
  71. Coverage: Leveraging Backup to Advance Your Decision Making
    • Keith Townsend
    • Cohesity
  72. Coverage: Catch Up (Fast) – IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
    • Storage Field Day 15
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • IBM
  73. Coverage: VAST Data Must Be Something Special
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • VAST Data
  74. Coverage: Voices in Data Storage – Episode 9: A Conversation With Stephen Foskett
    • Enrico Signoretti, Stephen Foskett
  75. Coverage: Storage Field Day 18 – Day 0
    • Dan Frith
  76. Coverage: Podcast #3 – Chris & Matt Review the SFD18 Presenters
    • Chris M Evans, Matthew Leib
    • Cohesity, Datera, IBM, NetApp, StorPool, VAST Data, WEKA, Western Digital
  77. Coverage: Join Western Digital for Storage Field Day 18 on Feb 28th
    • Western Digital
  78. Coverage: Storage Field Day 18, Here I Come!
    • Paul L. Woodward Jr
  79. Coverage: A Packed Field Day
    • Enrico Signoretti
  80. Coverage: California Dreamin’ My Way to Storage Field Day 18
    • Becky Elliott
  81. Coverage: A Storage Field 18 I Will Go – for the Fun of It
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
  82. Coverage: Storage Field Day 18 – It’s as Intense as Storage Field Day Gets
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Cohesity, Datera, NetApp, StorPool, WEKA, Western Digital
  83. Coverage: I Am So Looking Forward to #SFD18
    • Matthew Leib
  84. Coverage: Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At Storage Field Day 18
    • Dan Frith
  85. Coverage: My brain will be melting at Storage Field Day 18!
    • Jon Klaus

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