Unlocking the Potential of Unstructured Data with Dell EMC PowerScale

Event: Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio

Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents PowerScale at Tech Field Day PowerUp

Company: Dell Technologies

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Personnel: Kaushik Ghosh

Kaushik Ghosh, Director, Product Management, discusses the value of unstructured data. It is classified as IT workloads like home directories, file shares, and archives, production workloads like media, life sciences, and financial, and emerging workloads like IoT and automated driving. PowerScale OneFS can support all of these workloads with enterprise data services with simplicity, flexible access, and intelligent insights. Dell Technologies on Demand and the Future-Proof program give customers the ability to consume the latest PowerScale technologies in an cloud like, operating expense, model, with extra peace of mind that Dell Technologies stands behind its products.


Dell EMC PowerScale Intelligent Insights

Event: Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio

Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents PowerScale at Tech Field Day PowerUp

Company: Dell Technologies

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Personnel: Callan Fox

Callan Fox, Consultant, Product Management, discusses management and optimization of Dell EMC PowerScale. New to the offering are increased the software choices for users. CloudIQ for infrastructure insights and storage-level health status while DataIQ is for discovering, understanding, and acting on the data you have – to provide data insights.​ This includes answering questions about the type of data stored, storage costs, storage platforms, and visibility. DataIQ is designed to discover, understand, and act on data stored on PowerScale, ECS, and PowerStore platforms as well as third-party cloud storage services.


Dell EMC PowerScale: Any Data Anywhere

Event: Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio

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Personnel: Kaushik Ghosh

Kaushik Ghosh, Director, Product Management, discusses flexible file and object data access, software-defined architecture, and edge to cloud with Dell EMC PowerScale unstructured file storage. To handle any data, PowerScale offers flexible file and object access and support for 8 protocols including S3 access for cloud-native development. And it can run anywhere, from the datacenter to the cloud and can now reach into edge locations. The new PowerEdge-based all flash and NVMe nodes provide incredible power in a small 1U footprint. No matter the location, the system provides the same great experience and remains efficient, secure, and protected.

The PowerScale family includes the Isilon A for archive data, Isilon H hybrid appliances, and Isilon and PowerScale F all-flash devices. All of these can be combined in a single cluster with PowerScale OneFS. The new PowerScale F200 and F600 platforms offer all-flash storage, increased processor and memory options, and connectivity up to 100 Gb. With file data becoming integral to public cloud use cases, PowerScale is now also available in hybrid and multi-cloud deployment models, including a native version in Google Cloud.


Dell EMC PowerScale: Simplicity at Any Scale

Event: Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio

Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents PowerScale at Tech Field Day PowerUp

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Personnel: Callan Fox, Kaushik Ghosh

Callan Fox, Consultant, Product Management, discusses the transformation of the Isilon OneFS storage platform from dedicated appliances to a software-defined storage solution. The core strength of the PowerScale OneFS operating environment software is the migration-free design that allows new nodes to plug-into clusters in 60 seconds. PowerScale can start as small as 11TB and grow to massive scale in the petabytes with the same ease of use. It includes a scale-out filesystem with a single namespace, a storage operating system, and advanced data services. The goal was to create a system that automatically balanced access, was elastic for non-disruptive scaling, included inline data efficiency, was resilient even with multiple node failures, offered unlimited file and object access, and was simple to manage. Fox is joined by Kaushik Ghosh, Director, Product Management in his discussions with the Tech Field Day delegate panel.


Introducing Dell EMC PowerScale

Event: Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio

Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents PowerScale at Tech Field Day PowerUp

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Personnel: Kaushik Ghosh

Kaushik Ghosh, Director, Product Management, introduces Dell Technologies unstructured file storage platform, PowerScale. Ghosh begins with a discussion of unstructured data in IT environments, production workloads, and emerging workloads. Built on the Isilon OneFS base, the PowerScale family is an unstructured scale-out file solution that scales from 3 nodes to petabytes of storage. PowerScale OneFS continues to run on Isilon storage appliances but now also can run on generic server hardware. It is designed to be simple to manage and scale to any capacity in the datacenter or the cloud.


Dell Technologies Cloud Storage Data and Infrastructure Insights

Event: Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio

Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents Cloud Storage at Tech Field Day PowerUp

Company: Dell Technologies

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Personnel: Joe CaraDonna

Joe CaraDonna, VP, Storage Division Cloud CTO, presents Dell Technologies DataIQ to maximize the value of data. He also presents CloudIQ, a SaaS application for intelligent infrastructure monitoring and predictive analytics. He finishes this session with a refresh of the Dell Technologies cloud storage vision, enabling hybrid cloud use cases.


Dell Technologies Cloud Storage Use Cases

Event: Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio

Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents Cloud Storage at Tech Field Day PowerUp

Company: Dell Technologies

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Personnel: Geeta Vaghela, Joe CaraDonna

Geeta Vaghela, Director, Product Management, discusses customer requirements for cloud storage. Dell Technologies customers are moving data off-premises for DR, archiving, or shifting primary locations but are also performing cloud compute for analytics on-demand. She presents the automated disaster recovery as a service using VMware Cloud on AWS with native replication of Dell EMC storage. Next, she discusses a genome sequencing application which leverages GPU instances in the cloud. Another use case is autonomous vehicle design, which includes both on-premises and cloud processing of data from the edge, the datacenter, and the cloud. Media and entertainment customers use PowerScale in Google Cloud for collaborative video editing using virtual workstations and elastic compute and storage. Joe CaraDonna, VP, Storage Division Cloud CTO, joins in the discussion with the Tech Field Day delegate panel.


Dell Technologies PowerScale for Google Cloud Performance Overview and Demonstration

Event: Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio

Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents Cloud Storage at Tech Field Day PowerUp

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Personnel: Joe CaraDonna

Joe CaraDonna, VP, Storage Division Cloud CTO, discusses the performance of Dell Technologies PowerScale cloud storage in Google Cloud. He then discusses a use case with Scratch DNA sequencing throughput, showing that customers can have the same level of latency and performance in the cloud as on-premises. Under the hood, PowerScale is the same enterprise-class scale-out high-performance storage but managed for a cloud user experience. It is integrated with the Google Cloud portal and billing system. CaraDonna demonstrates the solution in action, before returning to a discussion of the future of the platform. CaraDonna announces that PowerScale for Google Cloud will soon support S3 protocol in addition to NFS, SMB, and HDFS. He finishes this section by presenting a multi-cloud solution using PowerMax, PowerStore, or PowerScale to provide storage in VMware on AWS, Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, or Microsoft Azure.


Dell Technologies PowerScale for Google Cloud

Event: Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio

Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents Cloud Storage at Tech Field Day PowerUp

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Personnel: Geeta Vaghela, Joe CaraDonna

Geeta Vaghela, Director, Product Management, presents Dell Technologies PowerScale for Google Cloud, detailing the company’s recent announcement. PowerScale gives a cloud experience, directly connected to Google Cloud, and enabling storage across multiple cloud vendors. It provides interoperability, scalable performance and capacity, with enterprise grade data features like snapshots and replication. Vaghela is joined by Joe CaraDonna, VP, Storage Division Cloud CTO, in this discussion with the Tech Field Day delegate panel.


Dell Technologies Cloud Storage Vision

Event: Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio

Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents Cloud Storage at Tech Field Day PowerUp

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Personnel: Geeta Vaghela, Joe CaraDonna

Joe CaraDonna, VP, Storage Division Cloud CTO, and Geeta Vaghela, Director, Product Management, present Dell Technologies cloud storage vision. Data is driving connected devices, and Dell Technologies envisions a data-centric hybrid cloud use case, enabling applications and data to move from one environment to another. Dell Technologies will leverage the “Power” product portfolio to deliver a unified strategy across the storage division. Dell has modularized and containerized the Unity filesystem and are delivering this in PowerStore, PowerMax, and PowerFlex, adding the SyncIQ replication engine from OneFS, and adding DataIQ for data orchestration and CloudIQ for infrastructure management.


Dell Technologies PowerProtect Data Manager Demonstration

Event: Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio

Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents PowerProtect at Tech Field Day PowerUp

Company: Dell Technologies

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Personnel: Darren Niller, Duncan Ramjass

Duncan Ramjass, Senior Advisor, Product Management, demonstrates Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager. The demonstration focuses on VM backup and recovery, showing the workflow to protect a virtual machine in VMware vSphere. Ramjass is joined by Darren Niller, Director, Product Management, in his discussion with the Tech Field Day delegate panel.


Dell Technologies PowerProtect Data Manager Overview

Event: Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio

Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents PowerProtect at Tech Field Day PowerUp

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Personnel: Darren Niller, Laura DuBois

Darren Niller, Director, Product Management, presents the details of the Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager platform. It is software-defined, provides self service and automation, is optimized for multiple clouds, includes SaaS-based management, and is built on a modern services based architecture. The goal is to create a complete software-defined solution across multiple clouds and deployment options, from the X400 appliance to VMware to AWS. PowerProtect Data Manager includes centralized management and data governance. Niller is joined by Laura DuBois, Vice President, Product Management in the discussion with the Tech Field Day delegates.


Introducing Dell Technologies PowerProtect Data Manager

Event: Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio

Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents PowerProtect at Tech Field Day PowerUp

Company: Dell Technologies

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Personnel: Darren Niller, Laura DuBois

Laura DuBois, Vice President, Product Management, introduces Dell Technologies PowerProtect Data Manager, part of Dell’s portfolio of data protection products. This suite combines proven and market-leading products with innovative and modern approaches to data protection. Darren Niller, Director, Product Management, joins the discussion with the Tech Field Day delegates.


Dell Technologies PowerFlex Technical Overview and Product Architecture

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Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents PowerFlex at Tech Field Day PowerUp

Company: Dell Technologies

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Personnel: Brian Dean, Jo Ann Varble

In this session, Dell Technologies exposes the inner workings of the new PowerFlex high-end software-defined storage offering. They discuss data layout in pools of abstracted storage resources, automatically allocating and balancing storage. PowerFlex has a “software-first” architecture, with a storage data server (SDS), storage data client (SDC), and metadata manager (MDM), enabling multiple deployment architectures, including hyper-converged architecture (HCI). PowerFlex achieves high I/O parallelism and resiliency thanks to this architecture while still offering enterprise-class storage features including replication and high availability.


Dell Technologies Introduces PowerFlex High-End Software-Defined Storage

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Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents PowerFlex at Tech Field Day PowerUp

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Personnel: Brian Dean, Sue Ulintz Mosovich, Vikram Belapurkar

PowerFlex is the newest member of Dell Technologies’ “powered-up” storage portfolio. This software-defined storage solution empowers enterprises to harness the power of software and embrace change while achieving consistent predictable outcomes. It offers massive performance, unprecedented flexibility, extreme scalability and enterprise performance while significantly simplifying IT operations.

In this session, Dell Technologies officially introduces the new PowerFlex high-end software-defined storage offering, focused on high performance, modularity, and simplicity. The product offers breakthrough performance in applications like SQL Server, Oracle RAC, Elastic Stack, Cassandra, and SAS, with millions of IOPs, sub-millisecond latency, unrestricted throughput, and no hotspots. It is scalable, starting with just 4 notes and scaling out linearly to thousands of nodes. It is also fluid, with data non-disruptively moved as nodes are added or removed. PowerFlex can be deployed flexibly, as traditional disaggregated storage and compute, hyper-converged, or in a mixed architecture. And it has broad platform support, including Linux, Windows Server and Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, OpenStack, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and more. Dell Technologies offers different consumption options for PowerFlex, including in PowerFlex Rack or as an appliance.


Dell Technologies PowerStore Deep Dive with Chief Architect Dan Cummins

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Appearance: Dell Technologies Presents PowerStore at Tech Field Day PowerUp

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Personnel: Dan Cummins, Jodey Hogeland

Dell Technologies PowerStore is a data-centric storage array with enhanced intelligence and extreme flexibility. In this session, Chief Architect Dan Cummins and Global Tech Evangelist Jodey Hogeland go deep into the PowerStore architecture and features with a panel of independent technologists during a special Tech Field Day event. They discuss the complete range of PowerStore X and PowerStore T models, from 32 to 112 CPU cores and 384 to 2560 GB of memory. They then dive into VMware integration with PowerStore X, running virtual machines at the edge. Next is a discussion of the scalability of the PowerStore 2-node appliance, including drive support and connectivity options. PowerStore can scale up and out, and the pair demonstrates integration and scalability in the session. Dan presents the PowerStore data engine, with data reduction, dynamic resiliency, programmability, and integration with containers. They finish with a discussion of data movement and the anytime upgrade program.


Dell Technologies Introduces PowerStore

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Personnel: Dan Cummins, Jodey Hogeland

In this session, Chief Architect Dan Cummins and Global Tech Evangelist Jodey Hogeland will review the technical aspects and advantages of PowerStore. PowerStore is a data-centric storage array with enhanced intelligence and extreme flexibility. Dan and Jodey will walk through these aspects from a technical perspective and detail information pertaining hardware specifications, data reduction and resiliency technologies, external and internalized intelligence, and industry changing deployment methods.


Travis Vigil and Caitlin Gordon Introduce the “Powered Up” Dell Technologies Storage and Data Protection Lineup

Event: Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio

Appearance: Dell Technologies Executive Kickoff at Tech Field Day PowerUp

Company: Dell Technologies

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Personnel: Caitlin Gordon, Stephen Foskett, Travis Vigil

Stephen Foskett hosts the introduction to our special Tech Field Day event, Power Up the Portfolio with Dell Technologies! This executive introduction features Travis Vigil, SVP responsible for Product Management and Portfolio planning for Dell EMC’s storage division, and Caitlin Gordon, VP responsible for marketing Dell Technologies’ storage and data protection portfolio.

Vigil and Gordon present the Dell Technologies storage and data protection lineup with special emphasis on key “powered up” products: PowerStore, PowerFlex, PowerScale, PowerProtect, and cloud storage. During this introduction, Vigil announces the new PowerFlex product line, announced for the first time at this special Field Day event. Following this introduction, Foskett presents some questions to set the stage for two days of presentations focused on these five product lines.


Meraki Health and Adaptive Policy

Event: Tech Field Day Virtual Cisco Live Experience

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Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Alex Burger, Jayanthi Srinivasan, Nikitha Shashidhar, Sunmeel Bhumkar

In this session, Meraki introduces incredible new innovations from rolling out simple, scalable policies with adaptive policy to network and application assurance all the way from the client to the applications


Cisco NCS-5700 Router Technical Overview

Event: Tech Field Day Virtual Cisco Live Experience

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Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Vincent Ng

This session Introduces the new generation of two NCS-5700 Line Cards to the current NCS-5500 routing platform and the new Broadcom Jericho2 NPU is introduced with compatibility and native modes. You’ll see the newest capabilities with 400G optics, and the different combinations of optics speeds and breakout modes.