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Storage Field Day 5

Storage Field Day 5

April 23–April 25, 2014

#SFD5

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

Bob Plankers

@Plankers

A hardcore IT generalist, virtualization expert, blogger, and vocal end user of technology.

Chris M Evans

@ChrisMEvans

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

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

Keith Townsend

@CTOAdvisor

Global Advisor at the Futurum Group

Lauren Malhoit

@Malhoit

I’m a post-sales engineer focusing mostly on VMware, EMC and Cisco.

Phoummala Schmitt

@ExchangeGoddess

Just trying to survive in IT as a (woman) Sr. Systems Engineer with a focus on Messaging , Virtualization, Storage.

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.

Rob Koper

@50mu

Storage is my middle name and I love cats, motorcycles, volleyball and traveling through Europe.

Robert Novak

@Gallifreyan

Citizen-analyst, writer, comedian, shopkeeper, retired system administrator, griller and smoker

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, Apr 23 09:30-11:30 X-IO Presents at Storage Field Day 5
Presenters: David Gustavsson, Gavin McLaughlin
Wednesday, Apr 23 13:00-15:00 PernixData Presents at Storage Field Day 5
Presenters: Satyam Vaghani
Wednesday, Apr 23 16:00-18:00 Scale Computing Presents at Storage Field Day 5
Presenters: Dave Demlow, Jason Collier, Phil White
Thursday, Apr 24 08:00-12:00 EMC Presents at Storage Field Day 5
Thursday, Apr 24 13:00-15:00 SolidFire Presents at Storage Field Day 5
Presenters: Adam Carter, Dave Wright
Thursday, Apr 24 16:00-18:00
SanDisk Presents at Storage Field Day 5
Friday, Apr 25 08:00-10:00 Veeam Presents at Storage Field Day 5
Friday, Apr 25 10:30-12:30 Diablo Technologies Presents at Storage Field Day 5
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Benjamin Freedman

@PrimeImageVideo

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

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.


84 Links with Tag #SFD5

  1. Coverage: I Didn’t Think I’d Be Able to Say This So Soon… (He’s Baaack at Tech Field Day!)
    • Tech Field Day 22
    • Robert Novak
  2. Coverage: Scale Computing on the Edge With HE150
    • Tech Field Day 20
    • Chris M Evans
    • Scale Computing
  3. Coverage: Goodbye X-IO, Hello Axellio and Violin 2.0!
    • Storage Field Day 13
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Violin Memory, X-IO
  4. Coverage: Techfield Day 15 Preview: Actifio
    • Tech Field Day 15
    • Keith Townsend
    • Actifio
  5. Coverage: Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Scale Computing
    • Tech Field Day 15
    • Keith Townsend
    • Scale Computing
  6. Coverage: Architecting IT | Scale Computing Moves Deeper Into the Enterprise With All-Flash HCI
    • Chris M Evans
    • Scale Computing
  7. Coverage: Dreaming of SCM but living with NVDIMMs…
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Diablo Technologies, SanDisk
  8. Coverage: Long Term Evaluation: Scale Computing
    • Chris M Evans
    • Scale Computing
  9. Coverage: Scale Computing Announces Support For Hybrid Storage and Other Good Things
    • Virtualization Field Day 5
    • Dan Frith
    • Scale Computing
  10. Coverage: Build or Buy – A Tale of Two All-Flash Strategies
    • Storage Field Day 9
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp, Pure Storage, SanDisk, Violin Memory
  11. Coverage: 3 must-watch startups from VMware alum
    • Storage Field Day 7
    • Keith Townsend
    • PernixData, Platform9 Systems, Springpath
  12. Coverage: #VFD4 Live – Scale Computing
    • Virtualization Field Day 4
    • James Green
    • Scale Computing
  13. Coverage: VFD4 Prep: Scale Computing
    • Virtualization Field Day 4
    • Justin Warren
    • Scale Computing
  14. Coverage: Diablo Technologies at SFD5 and Updates
    • Justin Warren
    • Diablo Technologies
  15. Coverage: SanDisk at SFD5
    • Justin Warren
    • SanDisk
  16. Coverage: VeeamOn, man ;-P
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Veeam Software
  17. Coverage: What’s in PernixData FVP’s secret sauce
    • Julian Wood
    • PernixData
  18. Coverage: Storage Vendors to check out at #VMworld 2014 (SFO)
    • X-IO
  19. Coverage: Episode 276 – PowerScripting Podcast
    • Josh Atwell
    • SolidFire
  20. Coverage: Hyper-converged systems: What you need to know about this hot virtualization topic
    • Keith Townsend
    • Nutanix, Scale Computing, SimpliVity, VMware by Broadcom
  21. Coverage: MCS, UltraDIMMs and memory IO, the new path ahead – part 2
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Fusion-io, SanDisk
  22. Coverage: SanDisk’s organic growth (and flash commoditization)
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • SanDisk
  23. Coverage: SanDisk Announces Acquisition of Fusion-io
    • Chris M Evans
    • SanDisk
  24. Coverage: Justin Warren on SolidFire
    • Justin Warren
    • SolidFire
  25. Coverage: Justin Warren on EMC XtremIO
    • Justin Warren
    • EMC
  26. Coverage: GreyBeards talk backup with Rick Vanover, Product Strategy Specialist for Veeam
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Veeam Software
  27. Coverage: What’s is Software Defined Storage – Techtalk 42
    • SDDC Symposium 2014
    • Keith Townsend
  28. Coverage: MCS, UltraDIMMs and memory IO, the new path ahead – part 1
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Diablo Technologies, SanDisk
  29. Coverage: Is Solidfire the Symmetrix of the cloud era?
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • SolidFire
  30. Coverage: Greybeards talk all-flash arrays with Dave Wright, CEO and founder of SolidFire
    • SDDC Symposium 2014
    • Howard Marks, Ray Lucchesi
    • SolidFire
  31. Coverage: X-IO makes hardware-defined storage exciting
    • Lauren Malhoit
    • X-IO
  32. Coverage: Hyper convergence for the rest of us? Scale Computing
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Scale Computing
  33. Coverage: Upcoming Veeam V8 Virtues
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Veeam Software
  34. Coverage: Flash Shipment Bragging Rights
    • Chris M Evans
    • EMC, Nimbus Data, Pure Storage, SolidFire
  35. Coverage: XtremIO Offers Xtrem Tradeoffs
    • Justin Warren
    • EMC, SolidFire
  36. Coverage: Why abstraction (software-defined) is important – TechTalk 40
    • SDDC Symposium 2014
    • Keith Townsend
  37. Coverage: Software-Define alternative to Hyper-Convergence
    • Keith Townsend
    • EMC, SolidFire, VMware by Broadcom, X-IO
  38. Coverage: SFD5: Full Disclosure
    • Justin Warren
  39. Coverage: These 3 hot new trends in storage will blow your mind! Okay, maybe not quite. (2/2)
    • Robert Novak
    • Diablo Technologies, SolidFire
  40. Coverage: Scale Computing In The Goldilocks Zone
    • Justin Warren
    • Scale Computing
  41. Coverage: RAM and Flash are the key for effective general purpose scale-out infrastructures
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Atlantis Computing, Diablo Technologies, PernixData, SanDisk
  42. Coverage: vSoup Single Glass of Pain #46
    • Chris Dearden, Christian Mohn, David Owen, Ed Czerwin
    • Tech Field Day
  43. Coverage: X-IO: Software-defined what?
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • X-IO
  44. Coverage: Nutanix and Scale: Two ends of the hyper-converged market
    • Keith Townsend
    • Nutanix, Scale Computing
  45. Coverage: The Good and the Bad of EMC at SFD5
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • EMC
  46. Coverage: X-IO and Hardware Defined Storage
    • Justin Warren
    • SanDisk, X-IO
  47. Coverage: PernixData FVP Introduces new features: In-Memory, NFS, Network compression and Topology awareness
    • Vladan Seget
    • PernixData
  48. Coverage: Is the software defined data center a VMware only concept?
    • SDDC Symposium 2014
    • Keith Townsend
    • EMC, SolidFire, VMware by Broadcom
  49. Coverage: Re: SFD5 event and negativity / respect
  50. Coverage: SFD5: Home Again
    • Justin Warren
  51. Coverage: Dispelling the FUD around iSCSI
    • Keith Townsend
    • SolidFire
  52. Coverage: Two Big Vendor Takeaways from Storage Field Day 5
    • Bob Plankers
    • Tech Field Day
  53. Coverage: News: New PernixData FVP Features: NFS, In-Memory Support
    • Bob Plankers
    • PernixData
  54. Coverage: How do you solve a problem like Invicta? PernixData and external high performance cache
    • Robert Novak
    • Cisco, PernixData
  55. Coverage: What just happened at Storage Field Day 5? An open letter to all
    • Eric Wright
    • EMC
  56. Coverage: The SolidFire Storage System: Reducing Complexity at Scale
    • Bob Plankers
    • SolidFire
  57. Coverage: PernixData feature announcements during Storage Field Day
    • PernixData
  58. Coverage: PernixData announced NFS support and adds RAM to FVP
    • Marco Broeken
    • PernixData
  59. Coverage: Get Your #SFD5 On! SanDisk Enterprise to Present at Storage Field Day
    • SanDisk
  60. Coverage: SolidFire Releases Element OS Version 6
    • Chris M Evans
    • SolidFire
  61. Coverage: Storage Field Day 5 – Scale Computing Present
    • Chris M Evans
    • Scale Computing
  62. Coverage: SFD5 Journey Begins
    • Justin Warren
  63. Coverage: Storage Field Day 5 – what’s happening?
    • SDDC Symposium 2014
    • Rob Koper
    • Diablo Technologies, EMC, PernixData, SanDisk, Scale Computing, SolidFire, Veeam Software, X-IO
  64. Coverage: SFD5 Prep Work: Veeam
    • Justin Warren
    • Veeam Software
  65. Coverage: SFD5 Prep Work: Scale Computing
    • Justin Warren
    • Scale Computing
  66. Coverage: EMC and VMware are disrupting Server SAN
    • Keith Townsend
    • EMC, Scale Computing
  67. Coverage: SFD5 Prep Work: X-IO Storage
    • Justin Warren
    • X-IO
  68. Coverage: SFD5 Prep Work: Diablo Technologies
    • Justin Warren
    • Diablo Technologies
  69. Coverage: SFD5 Prep-work: PernixData
    • Justin Warren
    • PernixData
  70. Coverage: SFD5 Prep Work: Sandisk
    • Justin Warren
    • SanDisk
  71. Coverage: SFD5 Prep Work: EMC
    • Justin Warren
    • EMC
  72. Coverage: Interop Las Vegas 2014 – Highlights, Lowlights, Footlights
    • Tech Field Day Extra at Interop Las Vegas 2014
    • Robert Novak
  73. Coverage: Wet your VMworld whistle with this SDDC symposium
    • SDDC Symposium 2014
    • Keith Townsend
  74. Coverage: Storage Field Day 5: What a storage show!
    • Enrico Signoretti
  75. Coverage: Wet your VMworld whistle with this SDDC symposium
    • SDDC Symposium 2014
    • Keith Townsend
  76. Coverage: Storage Field Day 5: Vendor Profiles Part 2
    • Chris M Evans
    • SanDisk, SolidFire, Veeam Software, X-IO
  77. Coverage: Hey! Join us at the SDDC Symposium
    • SDDC Symposium 2014
    • Enrico Signoretti
  78. Coverage: Storage Field Day 5 Vendor Preview
    • Chris M Evans
    • Diablo Technologies, EMC, PernixData
  79. Coverage: All-flash and Garbage
    • Nigel Poulton
    • EMC
  80. Coverage: Software-Defined Data Center Symposium 2014
    • SDDC Symposium 2014
    • Rob Koper
  81. Coverage: Labworks #1: Building a durable, performance-oriented ZFS box for Hyper-V, VMware
    • Virtualization Field Day 3
    • Jeff Wilson
    • Nexenta Systems
  82. Coverage: Announcement: I’m Going to Storage Field Day 5!
    • Justin Warren
  83. Coverage: Man Alive! PernixData Unleashes FVP 1.5
    • Storage Field Day 3
    • Chris Wahl
    • PernixData
  84. Coverage: Join the Tech Field Day family
    • Networking Field Day 7, Virtualization Field Day 3, Wireless Field Day 6
    • Arjan Timmerman

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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