Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: StarWind

Video Links:

• Vimeo: StarWind Company Introduction with Anton Kolomyeytsev
• YouTube: StarWind Company Introduction with Anton Kolomyeytsev

Personnel: Anton Kolomyeytsev

Anton Kolomyeytsev, CEO of StarWind, introduces the company. Started in 2009 with a strict focus on SDS and HCI solutions for SMB and enterprise ROBO. Right now, StarWind is the leading provider of turnkey SMB and ROBO HCI solutions. Their second biggest focus is VTL-based backup storage systems with cloud and object storage connectivity.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Western Digital

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Western Digital ActiveScale Hadoop Use Case with Mike McWhorter
• YouTube: Western Digital ActiveScale Hadoop Use Case with Mike McWhorter

Personnel: Mike McWhorter

Mike McWhorter, Senior Technologist, DCS Field Applications Engineering, reviews the use case of using their ActiveScale object storage with Hadoop. Using the new S3A feature in Hadoop, you can connect S3-compatible object store in Hadoop as a second tier of storage. This is a response to the disk use of Hadoop’s HDFS, which triple replicates already massive datasets. ActiveScale can serve as the cold storage tier for Hadoop data.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Western Digital

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Western Digital ActiveScale Object Storage Systems with Roger Weeks
• YouTube: Western Digital ActiveScale Object Storage Systems with Roger Weeks

Personnel: Roger Weeks

Roger Weeks, Technologist, DCS Field Applications Engineering, overviews ActiveScale, their scale out object storage. The latest updates include erasure coding and replication, as well as support for multi-site availability zones.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Western Digital

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Western Digital IntelliFlash Architecture & Design with Shailendra Tripathi
• YouTube: Western Digital IntelliFlash Architecture & Design with Shailendra Tripathi

Personnel: Shailendra Tripathi

Shailendra Tripathi, Fellow, DCS Engineering, goes into a technical deep dive on IntelliFlash architecture and design. The software is engineered around a multi-tier system to provide workloads with low latency at the speed of persistent memory. Shailendra then reviews how the systems handles distribution to create a single logical flash pool with robust resiliency.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Western Digital

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Western Digital IntelliFlash All flash Storage Systems with Narayan Venkat
• YouTube: Western Digital IntelliFlash All flash Storage Systems with Narayan Venkat

Personnel: Narayan Venkat

Narayan Venkat, VP DCS Business Unit, gives an overview of Tegile’s IntelliFlash solution, dating back to its founding in 2010 and shipment of its first AFA in 2014. IntelliFlash is designed to provide a single flash platform that can be viable for any workload.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Western Digital

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Western Digital Introduction to Data Center Systems with Phil Bullinger
• YouTube: Western Digital Introduction to Data Center Systems with Phil Bullinger

Personnel: Phil Bullinger

Phil Bullinger, SVP DCS Business Unit, introduces Western Digital’s Data Center Systems portfolio to the delegates. This ranges from consumer facing SanDisk and WD brands, through enterprise offerings like HGST and Tegile. This lineup enables Western Digital to have a hand in the entire hardware pipeline from the transistor to the end-user experience.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: NetApp

Video Links:

• Vimeo: NetApp ONTAP Update: What’s New in ONTAP 9.3 with Jeff Baxter
• YouTube: NetApp ONTAP Update: What’s New in ONTAP 9.3 with Jeff Baxter

Personnel: Jeff Baxter

Jeff Baxter, Chief Evangelist, ONTAP, gives a quick overview of the updates to ONTAP in version 9.3. This is designed to optimize and simplify their overall data management. Features include adaptive QoS, 40% faster performance on AFF HA pairs, improved efficiency, and stronger compliance tools.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: NetApp

Video Links:

• Vimeo: NetApp Architecting and Edge to Core to Cloud Data Pipeline with Santosh Rao
• YouTube: NetApp Architecting and Edge to Core to Cloud Data Pipeline with Santosh Rao

Personnel: Santosh Rao

Santosh Rao, Senior Technical Director, Workloads and Ecosystem, gives an architectural overview of NetApp’s data pipeline. This begins with a look at legacy architectures, the problems those approaches have this analytics, and how NetApp is expanding the data pine line from the edge, to the core, and ultimately to the cloud.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: NetApp

Video Links:

• Vimeo: NetApp Vision for NVMe and Storage-Class Memory with Jeff Baxter
• YouTube: NetApp Vision for NVMe and Storage-Class Memory with Jeff Baxter

Personnel: Jeff Baxter

Jeff Baxter, Chief Evangelist, ONTAP, gives an overview of how NetApp is approaching and integrating NVMe and storage-class memory into forthcoming products.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Hedvig Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Hedvig

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Hedvig Veeam OST and Object Storage Gaurav Yadav and Shufan Ge
• YouTube: Hedvig Veeam OST and Object Storage Gaurav Yadav and Shufan Ge

Personnel: Gaurav Yadav, Shufan Ge

Gaurav Yadav, MTS, Hedvig, reviews how the Hedvig platform has been optimized to serve as a backup target. Then Shufan Ge, MTS, Hedvig reviews some of the object storage capabilities of Hedvig.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Hedvig Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Hedvig

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Hedvig Converged Backups with Srividhya Anantharamakrishnan
• YouTube: Hedvig Converged Backups with Srividhya Anantharamakrishnan

Personnel: Srividhya Anantharamakrishnan

Srividhya Anantharamakrishnan, MTS, Hedvig, shows how Hedvig can be thought of as both primary and secondard storage via converged backups. Hedvig does this via their scheduled snapshotting mechanism.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Hedvig Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Hedvig

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Hedvig Multi and Hybrid Cloud, Kubernetes with Suhani Gupta
• YouTube: Hedvig Multi and Hybrid Cloud, Kubernetes with Suhani Gupta

Personnel: Suhani Gupta

Suhani Gupta, MTS, Hedvig, demonstrates how Hedvig distributed storage integrates with containers, Kubernetes, and other distributed environments.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Hedvig Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Hedvig

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Hedvig Multi and Hybrid Cloud, Docker with Abhijith Shenoy
• YouTube: Hedvig Multi and Hybrid Cloud, Docker with Abhijith Shenoy

Personnel: Abhijith Shenoy

Abhijith Shenoy, MTS at Hedvig, gives an overview of how multi and hybrid cloud deployments look when using Hedvig’s platform. This showcases using the cloud as a stretch cluster, forming a single cluster between on-premises and cloud resources. Hedvig enables making all data actively available to apps, regardless of where they live.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Hedvig Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Hedvig

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Hedvig Company Overview with Avinash Lakshmar and Bharat Naik
• YouTube: Hedvig Company Overview with Avinash Lakshmar and Bharat Naik

Personnel: Avinash Lakshman, Bharat Naik

Avinash Lakshman, CEO of Hedvig gives an overview of the companies platform. The talk touches how Hedvig enables organizations to modernize, secure data, and reduce OpEx. Then Bharat Naik, MTS at Hedvig, provides a introduction of Hedvig’s distributed storage architecture.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Dropbox Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Dropbox

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Dropbox Competitive Advantages from Infrastructure with James Cowling
• YouTube: Dropbox Competitive Advantages from Infrastructure with James Cowling

Personnel: James Cowling

James Cowling, Principal Engineer at Dropbox, reviews how the company’s infrastructure provides a competitive advantage in the marketplace. This includes efficiencies in cost, performance, and overall agility.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Dropbox Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Dropbox

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Dropbox Network Infrastructure with Dzmitry Markovich
• YouTube: Dropbox Network Infrastructure with Dzmitry Markovich

Personnel: Dzmitry Markovich

Dzmitry Markovich, Head of Technical Infrastructure at Dropbox, reviews the company network infrastructure. This was designed to provide exceptional network performance without experiencing hight latency and packet loss. This originally used EC2 instances to get as close to the user as possible. Dzmitry then goes into what Dropbox is doing today with their network infrastructure.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Dropbox Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Dropbox

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Dropbox Background on Magic Pocket with James Cowling
• YouTube: Dropbox Background on Magic Pocket with James Cowling

Personnel: James Cowling

James Cowling, Principal Engineer at Dropbox, provides background on the development and technical details on their Magic Pocket, their custom built, internally hosted, software defined, cloud storage infrastructure.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: IBM Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: IBM

Video Links:

• Vimeo: IBM Storage Spectrum Protect Plus Demonstration with Christian Burns
• YouTube: IBM Storage Spectrum Protect Plus Demonstration with Christian Burns

Personnel: Christian Burns

Christian Burns, Technical Sales Team Lead, Spectrum Protect Plus, gives a demonstration of their data reuse platform. This includes a look at the dashboard, as well as some common use cases.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: IBM Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: IBM

Video Links:

• Vimeo: IBM Storage Spectrum Plus Technology Overview with Christian Burns
• YouTube: IBM Storage Spectrum Plus Technology Overview with Christian Burns

Personnel: Christian Burns

Christian Burns, Technical Sales Team Lead, Spectrum Protect Plus, reviews Spectrum Protect Plus: a data reuse solution for virtual environments and applications.

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: IBM Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: IBM

Video Links:

• Vimeo: IBM Storage Next Generation Data Protection with Steve Kenniston
• YouTube: IBM Storage Next Generation Data Protection with Steve Kenniston

Personnel: Steve Kenniston

Steve Kenniston, Business Development Executive, Spectrum Storage Software, reviews IBM’s efforts with next generation data protection. This includes a look at the Spectrum Protect solutions, as well as emphasizing IBM’s idea of data reuse.