Western Digital The Future of the Data Center – Data Center Systems

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: Western Digital

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Personnel: Narayan Venkat

DCS momentum and NVMe leadership driving transformational systems, platforms, and architectures for high-performance, data-centric IT infrastructures.

Presented by Narayan Venkat, Vice President, DCS Business Unit


Western Digital The Future of the Data Center – Technologies to Deliver Storage Innovation

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: Western Digital

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Personnel: Clint Ludeman

In-depth look at new HDDs and NVMe SSDs and the science and innovations behind the products that are shaping the future of the data center storage.

Presented by Clint Ludeman, Product Marketing, Data Center Devices


Western Digital Creating Market Value Through Technology Leadership

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: Western Digital

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Personnel: Luca G. Fasoli

Innovations and strength in NAND Flash technology from development to manufacturing for Western Digital solid state products.

Presented by Luca G. Fasoli, Ph.D, Vice President, Memory Product Solutions


Western Digital Creating Environments for Data to Thrive

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: Western Digital

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Personnel: Narayan Venkat

Western Digital’s leadership, history of innovation and unique silicon-to-systems capabilities fueling storage innovation and data center transformation with NVMe.

Presented by Narayan Venkat, Vice President, DCS Business Unit


StorPool Case Studies

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: StorPool Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: StorPool

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Personnel: Boyan Ivanov

In this video Boyan Ivanov goes through real world uses where the application of their technology has provided benefit.

High-end NVMe-powered VDI

MMO Game with 40 million users

Presented by Boyan Ivanov, Chief Executive, Co-Founder


StorPool Performance Demo

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: StorPool Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: StorPool

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Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

Boyan Krosnov discusses StorPool performance and scalability, as demonstrated at Intel Builders Construction Zone. They measure and show more than 1M IOPS per node delivered to VMs on cost/density optimized hardware. The session finishes with a discussion of the performance envelope and hardware speed limits.

Presented by Boyan Krosnov, Chief of Product, Co-Founder


StorPool Architecture and Demonstration

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: StorPool Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: StorPool

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Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

Boyan Krosnov discusses the StorPool architecture and demonstrates the features of the platform. He begins with an architecture deep dive before demonstrating the platform, including private cloud use-cases, API/CLI, volume management and analytics.

Presented by Boyan Krosnov, Chief of Product, Co-Founder


StorPool You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: StorPool Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: StorPool

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Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

Traditionally Performance, Scalability and Data Management features are found in separate storage products, resulting in a “pick two” trade-off. Now StorPool changes this dogma.

They explore why each of the characteristics of a storage system matter to the user and how they combine all 3 in 1 product.

Presented by Boyan Krosnov, Chief of Product, Co-Founder


StorPool Company Introduction

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: StorPool Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: StorPool

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Personnel: Boyan Ivanov

Not your typical Silicon Valley company, re-engineering block-storage from scratch. Delivering high-end SAN functionality through software, with the performance characteristics of local SSD storage.

Presented by Boyan Invanov, Chief Executive, Co-Founder


VAST Data Universal Storage Use Cases

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: VAST Data

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Personnel: Jeff Denworth

  • Deployment models
  • Example Universal Storage Use Cases
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Life sciences and genomics
    • Financial services analytics
    • Data protection and secondary storage

Presented by Jeff Denworth, VP Products and Marketing


VAST Data Architecture

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: VAST Data

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Personnel: Renen Hallak

  • Storage has required tradeoffs and Universal Storage breaks those tradeoffs
    • Empowered by new technologies NVMe-oF, 3DXpoint, QLC Flash
  • Disaggregated Shared-Everything architecture
  • Redefining storage economics

Presented by Renen Hallak, CEO


VAST Data Company Introduction

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: VAST Data

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Personnel: Mike Wing

Mike Wing, President of VAST Data introduces their company, giving a high level overviewing their structure and goals. Touching on some of the technology that they are working towards improving, he sets the stage for future growth. They also introduce one of the newest members of their team, ready to help breath life into their vision.

Presented by Mike Wing, President


WekaIO Case Study

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: WekaIO Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: WEKA

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Personnel: Liran Zvibel

Deep dive on machine learning at scale, Matrix performance on NVIDIA DGX for machine learning cases, and a real world case study.

Presented by Liran Zvibel, Co-Founder and CEO


WekaIO Product Overview

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: WekaIO Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: WEKA

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Personnel: Andy Watson

A day in the life of an IO, a technical deep dive, and an illustration of the unique product architecture that differentiates Matrix from other file systems.

Presented by Andy Watson, CTO


WekaIO Product Demonstration

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: WekaIO Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: WEKA

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Personnel: Shimon Ben-David

Live demonstration of the world’s fastest parallel file system for technical compute workloads.

Presented by Shimon Den-David, Director of Sales Engineering


WekaIO Company Introduction

Event: Storage Field Day 18

Appearance: WekaIO Presents at Storage Field Day 18

Company: WEKA

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Personnel: Barbara Murphy

WekaIO overview: products, markets they serve, partner ecosystem, industry benchmarks, and what storage challenges their product solves.

Presented by Barbara Murphy, VP of Marketing


VMware NSX-T Security Update

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: VMware Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Ganapathi Bhat

VMware’s Ganapathi Bhat explains how VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4 delivers consistent security policy across all workloads, on-premises and in public clouds such as AWS and Azure. This session also covers advanced NSX-T 2.4 security features like context-aware firewalling (Layer 7 App-ID & User Session based), FQDN whitelisting, service insertion capabilities & simplified user interface.


VMware NSX-T 2.4 Demo: Simplified Network Operations & Management

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: VMware Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Dimitri Desmidt

VMware’s Dimitri Desmidt demos the new user interface for Network admins new to SDDC and declarative API model that simplifies network automation. The demo shows how NSX-T enables organizations to provision new networks and services in a few clicks or with a single API call.


VMware NSX-T 2.4: Advancing NSX Everywhere for Everyone

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: VMware Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Pooja Patel

VMware’s Pooja Patel debuts NSX-T Data Center 2.4, outlining new advancements that extend the value of an automated, programmable, and secure software-defined network to everyone involved in the new application-first world. VMware NSX-T 2.4 delivers operational simplicity for network operators with a new user interface (UI) built on HTML5; network infrastructure as code for developers and DevOps teams with a new declarative API model that simplifies network automation using human-readable JSON configuration; advanced cloud scale and carrier-grade capabilities for cloud and network architects; and intrinsic security, including context-aware firewalling, for security operators and architects.


128 Technology Next Steps

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: 128 Technology Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: 128 Technology

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Personnel: Ritesh Mukherjee

This discussion between the presenters and delegates highlight the direction that 128 Technology platform will take in the future and provide additional value to their customers as well as networking professionals.

Presented by Ritesh Mukherjee, VP of Product Management