Check out the latest State of the Cloud interview featuring Gestalt It’s Stephen Foskett and Field Day delegate Matt Leib. They discuss the observations made at Cloud Field Day in November 2021 while talking about containerization and container orchestration as the next-generation platform for enterprise application.
Juniper Networks Is Simplifying Container Migration With Contrail
Juniper Networks presented a new approach to centralizing, automating, and ensuring security, load-balancing and migratability of architectures across cloud providers as well as within the corporate datacenter at this past Cloud Field Day! Writing for Gestalt IT, Matt Leib addresses the challenges presented by migrating containers, and the progress Juniper Networks has made in that direction through the release of Contrail software. Check out Matt’s thought here!
Converged Architecture Built for AI
Matt Lieb attended January’s Storage Field Day as a delegate, his experiences from which serving as the basis for this piece. He details how AI and ML are entering the field of storage and how converged architecture serves the needs of today’s IT practitioners. Read on for all of his experiences.
Voices in Innovation – a Roundtable Discussion on Persistent Memory
Enrico Signoretti, Jason Collier, and Matt Leib join the Voices in Innovation podcast on Gigaom to talk about Tech Field Day Extra at Intel Memory and Storage 2020. On the podcast, they dig into Intel’s presentations and discuss Intel Persistent Memory. Head over to the Gigaom website to check out the podcast, and head to our website to look at Intel’s presentations from the event!
Is Storageless Storage Just Someone Else’s Storage?
Is “Storageless storage” just a buzz word oxymoron or is there something there? To get to the bottom of it, Stephen Foskett and a panel of delegates from Storage Field Day talk through it on the latest episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast. Check out the lively conversation with Max Mortillaro, Matthew Leib, Jason Collier, and Paul Stringfellow! Be sure to check out the podcast as well as Storage Field Day where we’re sure to hear more about storageless storage!
MemVerge Presents at #TFD22
Writing for his blog, Tech Field Day delegate Matt Leib details his interactions with MemVerge including the most recent field day event and a great podcast recording. Matt writes that he’s excited about the direction that MemVerge is trailblazing and that they are successfully leveraging the recent developments with Intel’s PMEM storage system to find a unique place in the market. Like Matt, we’re excited about the Memory Machine and where MemVerge will take it! For more information, be sure to check out the MemVerge presentations from Tech Field Day on our website!
HPE Primera – More Than Just a Rock-Solid Storage Platform
At Tech Field Day Exclusive with HPE Storage 2019, Matt Leib got a deep dive into HPE Primera. This new storage platform offers something truly unique in storage. Rather than offering 5 or 6 9s of up time, HPE claims 100%. Matt digs into the detail of how HPE makes this possible.
#TFD Turns 10
Tech Field Day is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and we appreciate all the people letting us know what the event series has meant to them. In this piece Matt Leib talks about the value of bringing diverse delegates and companies together for meaningful technical conversations. We can’t wait to have Matt back at an event soon.
HPE’s Technology Event & Symposium: What I Heard
Matt Leib, Engineer and Presales Architect, shares his post-event thoughts about Tech Field Day Exclusive with HPE Storage 2019.
Pure Storage: How Do They Do This?
Matthew Leib was a delegate at Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019 in Austin, TX. In this post, he shares what he learned about Pure Storage and his thoughts following the big event.
HPE Storage at Nth Symposium 2019: What I Hope to See
Matt Leib has a long relationship with HPE, so he’s excited to be part of our special Tech Field Day Exclusive event with HPE Storage. Matt wants to learn more about Synergy, Cray, and the new Apollo computers for ML and AI. He also has questions about Multi-Cloud, Plexxi, Aruba, and much more besides. Being deeply into HPE, it will be interesting to see what he thinks of the new HPE Primera storage platform, cloud storage, and ML Ops. This special post at Gestalt IT is part of our Tech Talks series, which also features Becky Elliott.
Pure Accelerate 2019: What I’m Hoping to See
Matthew Leib is a delegate at Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019 in Austin, TX. In this post, he shares his thoughts about what he wants to see at the event. Follow Matthew’s series to learn more about Storage Field Day.
Pure Accelerate 2019: What I’m Hoping to See
Matthew Leib will be a delegate at Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019 in Austin, TX. In this post, he shares his thoughts as he anticipates the event. Follow Matthew’s series on Gestalt IT to learn more about Storage Field Day.
HyperConverged for Containers? Cool Concept!
While at Cisco Live US 2019, Matt Leib attended a few Tech Field Day Extra presentations. One was from Cisco, where they highlighted HyperFlex product using Kubernetes and the Anthos management platform. For Matt, the dream of true multi-cloud, with the ability to move actual containers from location to location, requires a proper management layer. This is what Anthos offers to users. He still has some questions about the approach, but HCI for containers certainly has a nice ring to it.
Cohesity: More on the Real Value of Data
For Matt Leib, backup is key to any business’s success, but only a part of it. Just as key for a business is the ability to recover data quickly and accurately. What’s caused secondary storage solutions, like Cohesity offers, to explode over the past few years is the ability to leverage backup data with analytics. At Storage Field Day, Cohesity showed a new wrinkle, now offering an App Store to easily link suites of applications together. This can greatly speed deployment across a variety of hardware. For Matt, it’s a sign of maturity for the secondary storage market, and a key differentiator for Cohesity.
Optane – the Coolest Thing Since Sliced Bread
Intel Optane finally came into its own when Intel introduced it in a memory DIMM format at their Data-Centric Innovation Day. Matt Leib was there as a delegate for Tech Field Day Exclusive at the event. The idea of putting 4.5Tb of NVRam per memory socket into a server opens up a whole new world of possibilities for the industry. Matt is really excited for the implications as this tech makes its way into the data center.
Tech Field Day Exclusive at Intel’s Data-Centric Innovation Day
Matt Leib is looking forward to hearing from Intel at their Data-Centric Innovation Day. Although the content will be a surprise, he expects that it will be quite interesting!
Weka.IO and My First Official Briefing
Before hearing WekaIO’s presentation at Storage Field Day last month, Matt Leib was well aware of the company. After hearing them on numerous podcasts and researching them independently, he’d been impressed. Parallel file systems can be perilous, but Matt found that WekaIO offers the resiliency, scalability, and ease of deployment that so many ersatz competitors lack. After seeing an architectural deep dive and demo at the event, Matt is now even more convinced about their solution.
Dual Actuator Drives: An Interesting Trend
Matt Leib had written off spinning disks as a storage media that didn’t have much of a future. That changed after seeing Western Digital present at Storage Field Day last month. They previewed a tech demo for a dual-actuator drive, which would offer double the read IOPS in a single drive. This could provide a new way to increase performance in a space that had previously only had more density to offer. Matt found it a really exciting possibility.
#SFD18 Introduces Us to VAST Data
Matt Leib digs into the public launch of VAST Data, which happened during their Storage Field Day presentation last month. The developed their Universal File System based on the belief that all data across storage tiers can be handled by their single architectural environment. Part of this is done by aggressively using Intel Optane as a write cache for metadata, complimented by JBOF NVMe connected by ethernet or Infiniband to server environments. By disaggregating storage from compute, the company also adds scale beyond the rack to the equation as well. For Matt, it was an impressive debut.
