Cisco IOS-XE Evolution with Dave Zacks

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Programmable Infrastructure Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Dave Zacks

Dave Zacks, Distinguished Systems Engineer at Cisco, looks at the IOS-XE Evolution, which has changed from a monolithic OS, to a modularized IOS built on top of Linux. Its latest change is to deliver containerized application along side IOS, and to focus on programmability via APIs.


Cisco Flexible Switching Silicon – Unified Access Data Plane with Peter Jones

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Programmable Infrastructure Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Peter Jones

Peter Jones, Principal Engineer at Cisco, reviews the updates on UADP, but shows that even with the advances in ASICs, new features are rolling out to existing Catalyst 3850 devices. Peter then looks at the flexible ASIC processing pipeline, and how it can be configured to meet an organization’s needs.


Cisco Programmable ASICs and The Importance of Flexible Silicon with Dave Zacks

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Programmable Infrastructure Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Dave Zacks

Dave Zacks, Distinguished Systems Engineer at Cisco, discusses why flexibility in networking has never been more important.  The way network engineers design, build, and operate networks is changing rapidly.  Traditional network silicon hardware – the network ASICs that form the heart of networking gear – lack the flexibility to handle the rapidly changing networking needs of today – and tomorrow.  Cisco saw this trend coming, and has created Flexible Silicon – networking ASICs that can be reprogrammed to handle new encapsulations, new protocols, and new capabilities as they arise. 


Cisco DNA Enterprise Network Architectures with Mark Montanez

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Mark Montanez

Mark Montanez, Distinguished Consulting Engineer at Cisco, discusses how enterprise network architectures are being challenged by the rapid adoption of mobile, cloud, video, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. The emergence of Big Data, Analytics, and Machine Learning is enabling better real-time decision making, and driving the need for automation and efficiencies to enable these digital transformations. This presentation provides insights into the utilization of SDN (Software-define Networking…or Controller-led Networking) in the enterprise context. It will outline an evolutionary vision of DNA, including an outlook into the role of analytics and telemetry in combination with policy based automation to realize a ‘self-driving’ network. Mark further discusses industry trends driving Enterprise IT to embrace digitalization and enabling digital business transformation.


Dell EMC Isilon F800 Performance with Anton Rang

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Dell EMC Isilon Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: Anton Rang

Anton Rang, Software Engineer with Dell EMC Isilon, reviews the performance their new F800 all-flash platform can achieve. This includes 15.4GB per second reads and almost 8GB per second writes, per chassis.


Dell EMC Isilon OneFS 8.1 for Flash with Anton Rang

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Dell EMC Isilon Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: Anton Rang

Anton Rang, Software Engineer at Dell EMC Isilon, discusses their OneFS software. This powers Isilon, and is based on a FreeBSD kernel. Anton goes in-depth how the system had to be adjusted to make the most out of its new all-flash environment.


Dell EMC Isilon F800 Architecture with Steve Soumpholphakdy

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Dell EMC Isilon Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: Steve Soumpholphakdy

Steve Soumpholphakdy, Software Senior Engineer with Dell EMC Isilon, gives the delegates an architectural overview of their new F800 platform. This is Isilon’s new all-flash scale out NAS. F800 was designed to increase density, better resiliency, and transition to an Ethernet backend, replacing InfiniBand.


Introduction to Dell EMC Isilon with John Har

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Dell EMC Isilon Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: John Har

John Har, Isilon Product Manager for Dell EMC, gives an introduction to the product line. The company recently launched the F800 line, an all-flash version of the platform. John reviews conceptually how Isilon is designed, and what the typical use cases are for their scale out NAS platform.


Dell EMC Unity Unisphere and CloudIQ Demo with Wei Chen

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Dell EMC Unity Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: Wei Chen

Wei Chen, Principal Engineer, Product Technologist with Dell EMC Unity, gives an overview of their Unity Unisphere, which features a simplified UI and dashboard, to allow you to immediately get information without getting bogged down in specifics. He also gives a demo of CloudIQ, their SaaS cloud-based storage analytics application.


Dell EMC Unity Product Overview and Architecture with Kaushik Ghosh

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Dell EMC Unity Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: Kaushik Ghosh

Kaushik Ghosh, Senior Management, Product Development with Dell EMC Unity, gives a product overview of their line. This includes their all-flash arrays, converged appliances, and new VMware-based virtual appliance. For their purpose built solutions, Dell EMC has designed Unity from the ground up to be all-flash native, with multi-core optimizations, automatic wear balancing, and inline compression.


Addressing Edge Computing with X-IO Axellio, with David Gustavsson

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: X-IO Technologies Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: X-IO

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Personnel: David Gustavsson

David Gustavsson, CTO at X-IO Technologies, gives an in-depth walk-through of the Axellio platform, starting with the development methodology. He covers the rapidly evolving world of NVMe storage and some of the challenges it brings.


Improving Deduplication via Mathematics with Richard Lary

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: X-IO Technologies Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: X-IO

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Personnel: Richard Lary

In his presentation at Storage Field Day 13, Richard Lary, Chief Scientist at X-IO Technologies, delves into the complexities and innovations in deduplication technology, emphasizing the significant role of mathematics in enhancing performance. Lary begins by highlighting the resource-intensive nature of deduplication, which involves substantial memory, CPU cycles, and disk accesses. He explains that deduplication typically relies on computationally intensive signature techniques to compare incoming data with existing data, necessitating a robust and persistent database of signatures. This database must handle petascale systems with billions of entries, survive power and controller failures, and maintain high write throughput despite the challenges posed by the random nature of hash-based signatures. Lary critiques the inefficiency of traditional caching methods in this context and underscores the need for a high-throughput, persistent mapping database to manage the dynamic nature of deduplication.

Lary then introduces the concept of using non-crypto signatures, specifically MetroHash, to improve deduplication performance. He explains that while traditional crypto hashes like SHA-1 and SHA-256 are secure, they are slow and CPU-bound, making them less suitable for high-performance storage systems. In contrast, non-crypto hashes like MetroHash are significantly faster and can handle the high throughput demands of modern storage systems. Lary also discusses the innovative use of a “bouquet filter,” a variation of the bloom filter, to efficiently manage the deduplication process. This approach involves using multiple small bloom filters to reduce the computational overhead and improve performance. Lary hints at a proprietary method developed by X-IO to further optimize deduplication by treating unique data differently, thereby reducing wasted resources and enhancing overall system efficiency. This method, still under patent consideration, promises to significantly improve deduplication performance while maintaining data integrity.


Edge Computing with X-IO with Bill Miller

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: X-IO Technologies Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: X-IO

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Personnel: Bill Miller

Bill Miller, Chairman and CEO at X-IO Technologies, goes over the rise of Edge Computing and the challenges this fast-growing market represents not only to storage, but computing as a whole.


X-IO Introduction and Catch-Up with Gavin McLaughlin

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: X-IO Technologies Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: X-IO

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Personnel: Gavin McLaughlin

Gavin McLaughlin, Strategy & Communication at X-IO Technologies, kicks off their presentation by reviewing X-IO’s history in the enterprise. He then expands into reviewing their historic market position, their recent restructuring, and where the company is headed in the future.


Primary Data DataSphere 2.0 Demo with Douglas Fallstrom

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Primary Data

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Personnel: Douglas Fallstrom

Douglas Fallstrom, VP Products at Primary Data, gives the delegates a demo of DataSphere 2.0 Early Access. This includes an overview of their UI, and includes showing how data is ingested via REST APIs and policy.


Primary Data DataSphere 2.0 Early Access with Douglas Fallstrom

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Primary Data

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Personnel: Douglas Fallstrom

Douglas Fallstrom, VP Products at Primary Data, gives an overview of their new release, DataSphere 2.0. This includes SMB support, uninterrupted recovery, VLAN, and resiliency improvements. He also reviews the cloud migration tools built into the new version.


Primary Data Markets and Industries with Lance Smith

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Primary Data

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Personnel: Lance Smith

Lance Smith, CEO of Primary Data, reviews the pain points that necessitate a solution like DataSphere. He then gives an overview of what verticals they see their solution being particularly applicable to, and reviews their use cases.


Primary Data DataSphere Overview and Product Update with Douglas Fallstrom

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Primary Data

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Personnel: Douglas Fallstrom

Douglas Fallstrom, VP Products at Primary Data, gives an in-depth overview of their DataSphere solution. This is a metadata engine designed to automate the movement of data across on-site or cloud infrastructure to meet changing application needs. This is designed to be vendor agnostic, and solve traditional enterprise inefficiencies.


Primary Data Introduction and Update with Lance Smith

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Primary Data

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Personnel: Lance Smith

Lance Smith, CEO of Primary Data, gives the delegates an update on the company. Their solution just went into GA late in 2016. Their solution is built around making storage application aware, which causes bottlenecks, over-provisioning and potentially vendor lock-in. Lance then introduces the key to their solution to bring intelligence into infrastructure, the DataSphere metadata engine.


Reel It In: SNIA Swordfish with Richelle Ahlvers

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: SNIA Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: SNIA

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Personnel: Richelle Ahlvers

Richelle Ahlvers, Chair, SNIA Scalable Storage Management Technical Working Group, and Principal Storage Management Architect with Broadcom, gives an introduction to Swordfish. This was designed out of a need to improve storage management APIs in terms of efficiency, with the goal of making them applicable to hyperconverged and hyperscale users. This is a client-oriented, built on the DMTF Redfish specification.


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