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Storage Field Day 17

L-R: Arjan Timmerman, Jeffrey Powers, Jon Hudson, Howard Marks, Ben Gage, Enrico Signoretti, Dan Frith, Luigi Danakos, Max Mortillaro, Joe Houghes, Ray Lucchesi, Stephen Foskett, Mark Carlton, Aaron Strong

Storage Field Day 17

September 20–September 21, 2018

#SFD17

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.

Aaron Strong

@TheAaronStrong

Senior systems administrator with 10+ years of hands-on experience in application virtualization, server virtualization, storage management, data center monitoring, and automation.

Arjan Timmerman

@ArjanTim

Dutch analyst, world traveler and technology advisor

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

Jeffrey Powers

@Geekazine

Consumer, Enterprise, Music Technologist. Podcaster and Youtuber. Co-founder of Build Day Live.

Joe Houghes

@JHoughes

The Full Stack Geek with the big grin

Jon Hudson

@_Desmoden

Principal Engineer, Public Speaker & Futurist

Luigi Danakos

@NerdBlurt

Community driven Digital Marketing Expert, fascinated by community initiatives around virtualization, cloud computing, and DevOps.

Mark Carlton

@MCarlton1983

Mark is a DataCentre Consultant in Wakefield, England

Max Mortillaro

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

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.

Thursday, Sep 20 11:00-12:00
Komprise Presents at Storage Field Day 17
Presenters: Kumar Goswami, Mike Peercy
Thursday, Sep 20 13:00-15:00
StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 17
Presenters: Anton Kolomyeytsev, Max Kolomyeytsev, Taras Shved, Vlad Karaiev
Friday, Sep 21 9:30-11:30
Intel Optane Presents at Storage Field Day 17
Presenters: Andrey Kudryavtsev, Anu Rao, Jim Harris
Friday, Sep 21 13:00-15:00
NGD Systems Presents at Storage Field Day 17
Presenters: Nader Salessi, Scott Shadley, Vladimir Alves
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


32 Links with Tag #SFD17

  1. Coverage: Komprise Continues to Gain Momentum
    • Dan Frith
    • Komprise
  2. Coverage: Enable your Data: Komprise
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Komprise
  3. Coverage: EP11 – Data Management with Komprise: Transformation without Disruption – with Krishna Subramanian
    • Arjan Timmerman, Max Mortillaro
    • Komprise
  4. Coverage: Is Pure Play Storage good?
    • Storage Field Day 14, Storage Field Day 15
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • NetApp, Pure Storage
  5. Coverage: 72: GreyBeards talk Computational Storage with Scott Shadley, VP Marketing NGD Systems
    • Howard Marks, Ray Lucchesi
    • NGD Systems
  6. Coverage: What future for Intel Optane?
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Intel
  7. Coverage: From Storage to Data Virtualization
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Hammerspace
  8. Coverage: StarWind NVMeoF
    • Aaron Strong
    • StarWind
  9. Coverage: Secondary Data and Komprise with Krishna Subramanian by Data Driven Talk
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Komprise
  10. Coverage: Storage Field Day 17 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama
    • Dan Frith
  11. Coverage: StarWind Continues To Do It Their Way
    • Dan Frith
    • StarWind
  12. Coverage: Intel’s Form Factor Is A Factor
    • Dan Frith
    • Intel
  13. Coverage: EP10 – Computational Storage: A Paradigm Shift In The Storage Industry with Scott Shadley and NGD Systems
    • Arjan Timmerman, Max Mortillaro
    • NGD Systems
  14. Coverage: NGD Systems from #SFD17
    • Aaron Strong
    • NGD Systems
  15. Coverage: Komprise: Data Management Made Easy
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Komprise
  16. Coverage: NGD Systems Help Make Cat Searches Go Faster with Better Results at SFD17
    • Jeffrey Powers
    • NGD Systems
  17. Coverage: NGD Systems Are On The Edge Of Glory
    • Dan Frith
    • NGD Systems
  18. Coverage: The Rise of Computational Storage
    • Max Mortillaro
    • NGD Systems
  19. Coverage: Starwind NVMe Over Fabrics for SMB and ROBO at SFD17
    • Jeffrey Powers
    • StarWind
  20. Coverage: Tech Stand Up Episode 9 – SFD17 – Initial thoughts NGD Systems Podcast
    • Howard Marks, Joe Houghes, Luigi Danakos
    • NGD Systems
  21. Coverage: Komprise Transforming Data Management with Disruption at SFD17
    • Jeffrey Powers
    • Komprise
  22. Coverage: I Need Something Like Komprise For My Garage
    • Dan Frith
    • Komprise
  23. Coverage: Screaming IOP performance with StarWind’s new NVMeoF software & Optane SSDs
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • StarWind
  24. Coverage: The era of composable storage infrastructures is coming
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Intel, StarWind
  25. Coverage: Komprise Systems Overview from #SFD17
    • Aaron Strong
    • Komprise
  26. Coverage: Secondary storage is the new primary
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Komprise
  27. Coverage: Tech Stand UP Episode 8 – SFD17 – Initial Thoughts on Komprise Podcast
    • Aaron Strong, Joe Houghes, Luigi Danakos
    • Komprise
  28. Coverage: Storage Field Day 17 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
    • Dan Frith
  29. Coverage: Storage Field Day 17 – Day 0
    • Dan Frith
  30. Coverage: Au Revoir OpenIO and Welcome Back Juku!
    • Enrico Signoretti
  31. Coverage: Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At Storage Field Day 17
    • Dan Frith
  32. Coverage: I will be at Storage Field Day 17! Wait, what is a “Storage Field Day”?
    • Max Mortillaro

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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