Cohesity Multiprotocol Access with Gaurav Garg

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Cohesity Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Cohesity

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Personnel: Gaurav Garg

Gaurav Garg, Staff Engineer, overviews SpanFS’s unique file and object capabilities. This includes a look at global deduplication, simultaneous multiprotocol access, and instant provisioning of test/dev environments through clones at the bucket level.


Cohesity Under the Hood with SpanFS with Ganesh Shanmuganathan

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Cohesity Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Cohesity

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Personnel: Ganesh Shanmuganathan

Ganesh Shanmuganathan, Senior Staff Engineer, provides a deep dive into SpanFS, Cohesity’s web-scale distributed file system for secondary workloads.


Cohesity Company Overview with Mohit Aron

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Cohesity Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Cohesity

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Personnel: Mohit Aron

Mohit Aron, CEO and Founder of Cohesity, overviews the company, including an update on growth, the opportunity for disruption in the secondary storage market, and unique differentiators in the Cohesity platform.


Datrium Cloud DVX Demonstration with John Cho and Tushar Agrawal

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Datrium

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Personnel: John Cho, Tushar Agrawal

John Cho, MTS and Cloud Architect, and Tushar Agrawal, Director of Product Management, demonstrate the capabilities of Cloud DVX, which provides the same DVX abilities to converge virtualization, compute, storage and backup, while natively running in AWS.


Datrium Cloud DVX with Tushar Agrawal

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Datrium

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Personnel: Tushar Agrawal

Tushar Agrawal, Director of Product Management, introduces Datrium’s new Cloud DVX product. This allows for the same DVX virtualization, compute, storage and backup for on premise workloads, now running natively in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Datrium Cloud DVX delivers the the same always-on data reduction (global dedupe and compression) efficiencies and scaling flexibility of its on-prem sibling.


Datrium Converging Primary and Backup with Sazzala Reddy

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Datrium

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Personnel: Sazzala Reddy

Sazzala Reddy, CTO and Co-Founder, reviews the technological innovations behind Datrium’s approach to convergence. This is designed to meet the asks of modern data lifecycle management.


Datrium DVX UI Demonstration with Sazzala Reddy

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Datrium

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Personnel: Sazzala Reddy

Sazzala Reddy, CTO and Co-Founder, gives a UI demo of their DVX platform. This can stand alone or plug into vCenter. This provides an overview of general system performance, as well as offering fine grained analytics.


Datrium Tier 1 HCI with Rex Walters

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Datrium

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Personnel: Rex Walters

Rex Walters, VP of Product, provides a high level overview of Datrium’s DVX platform. This provides virtualized compute, primary data management, secondary data protection, and off-site DR in a single package.


StarWind ProActive Support Overview and Demo with Max Kolomyeytsev

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: StarWind

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Personnel: Max Kolomyeytsev

Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product, dicsusses the company vision of ProActive support and how it’s implemented.


StarWind VTL as part of StarWind Ecosystem with Max Kolomyeytsev

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: StarWind

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Personnel: Max Kolomyeytsev

Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product, shows how VTL plays in the overall StarWind ecosystem. He discusses the most common use cases for VTL and how it works with other StarWind products to deliver customers the required data protection functionality.


StarWind Demonstration VTL for B2 and Veeam with Max Kolomyeytsev

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: StarWind

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Personnel: Max Kolomyeytsev

Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product, demonstrates how StarWind VTL helps Veeam Backup and Replication infrastructure to non-disruptively add backup to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage to the Data Protection plan.


StarWind VTL Overview (From Dusk till Dawn) with Scott Alan Miller

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: StarWind

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Personnel: Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller, Ideology Inspirer, looks back at StarWind VTL, which started back in the day when organizations started to need fast disk-based storage to replace tape in tape-centric backup infrastructures. He talks about why virtual tape has become relevant today. In particular, he discusses the new use cases it gets with the trend for use with object storage and public cloud as a backup, as well as for long term archival storage.


StarWind Company Introduction with Anton Kolomyeytsev

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: StarWind

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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.


Western Digital ActiveScale Hadoop Use Case with Mike McWhorter

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Western Digital

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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.


Western Digital ActiveScale Object Storage Systems with Roger Weeks

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Western Digital

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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.


Western Digital IntelliFlash Architecture & Design with Shailendra Tripathi

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Western Digital

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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.


Western Digital IntelliFlash All flash Storage Systems with Narayan Venkat

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Western Digital

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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.


Western Digital Introduction to Data Center Systems with Phil Bullinger

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Western Digital Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Western Digital

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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.


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

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Jeff Baxter

Jeff Baxter, Chief Evangelist for ONTAP, presented the latest updates in ONTAP version 9.3. The update is designed to optimize and simplify data management with features such as adaptive QoS, 40% faster performance on AFF HA pairs, improved efficiency, and stronger compliance tools. The updates reflect NetApp’s ongoing commitment to enhancing the software aspect of ONTAP, focusing on making it suitable for modern, scale-out infrastructures and providing predictable upgrade cycles for users.

During the presentation, Baxter highlighted NetApp’s strategy of a six-month cadence for software releases, ensuring regular updates, and keeping functionality predictable and reliable for both partners and customers. He detailed the significant software optimizations that have led to substantial performance improvements, exemplified by the 40% performance boost on certain workloads using the same hardware. Another focal point was the update to adaptive QoS, a feature that now allows for real-time adjustment of workload performance based on IOPS per terabyte, enabling consistent performance as workloads scale.

Moreover, Baxter emphasized the role of ONTAP in the data fabric architecture, crucial for linking multiple clouds and modernizing traditional data centers. ONTAP’s flexibility allows it to operate across a variety of environments, including in the cloud as a software-defined solution. Security enhancements in version 9.3, such as enhanced encryption and compliance tools, were also presented as key improvements, empowering users to better protect their data and comply with regulatory requirements. The updated ONTAP facilitates adaptive, simplified provisioning and greater storage efficiency by incorporating advanced deduplication processes.


NetApp Architecting and Edge to Core to Cloud Data Pipeline with Santosh Rao

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Santosh Rao

Santosh Rao, Senior Technical Director of Workloads and Ecosystem at NetApp, provides a comprehensive architectural overview of NetApp’s data pipeline strategy during Storage Field Day 15. The discussion begins with a recognition of the challenges faced by legacy data architectures, particularly their inefficiencies and limitations in handling modern analytics workloads. NetApp is actively extending its data pipeline capabilities to operate effectively from the edge to the core and up to the cloud. This transition aims to address the data dynamics in legacy systems by accommodating new-age applications like NoSQL databases and big data solutions, while also considering the implications of cloud-facing architectures, and the fluctuating cost implications of cloud storage.

Rao highlights the shifting landscape regarding enterprise installations, noting a departure from traditional architectures, such as those built around VMware, towards leaner systems utilizing Linux and KVM. This shift acknowledges the growing influence of cloud computing and the emergence of the edge as critical data sources. However, challenges remain, particularly the prohibitive costs and administrative burdens of maintaining multiple copies of data across different systems, which is often unsustainable as data volumes grow. NetApp identifies a significant opportunity to step in as an intermediary player that ensures data fluidity and resource efficiency, enabling enterprises to leverage cloud advantages without being locked into a single vendor or facing exorbitant data management costs.

In his presentation, Rao also discusses the evolving needs of data systems at the edge, showcasing innovations and partnerships pivotal for enhancing NetApp’s presence in this domain. For instance, NetApp’s engagement with vector data and solutions like ONTAP Select demonstrates the company’s strategy to empower edge computing while synchronizing it with core and cloud resources. This approach not only signifies NetApp’s strategic neutrality across different platform ecosystems but underscores its commitment to optimizing data handling across diverse operational landscapes. Through AI and machine learning capabilities, particularly in real-time analytics and low-latency applications, NetApp aims to deliver a robust architecture that supports modern data-driven requirements, thus resonating with both enterprise needs and industry trends.


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