Event: Storage Field Day 13

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

Company: X-IO

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Edge Computing with X-IO with Bill Miller
• YouTube: Edge Computing with X-IO with Bill Miller

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.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

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

Company: X-IO

Video Links:

• Vimeo: X-IO Introduction and Catch-Up with Gavin McLaughlin
• YouTube: X-IO Introduction and Catch-Up with Gavin McLaughlin

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.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Primary Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Primary Data DataSphere 2.0 Demo with Douglas Fallstrom
• YouTube: Primary Data DataSphere 2.0 Demo with Douglas Fallstrom

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.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Primary Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Primary Data DataSphere 2.0 Early Access with Douglas Fallstrom
• YouTube: Primary Data DataSphere 2.0 Early Access with Douglas Fallstrom

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.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Primary Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Primary Data Markets and Industries with Lance Smith
• YouTube: Primary Data Markets and Industries with Lance Smith

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.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Primary Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Primary Data DataSphere Overview and Product Update with Douglas Fallstrom
• YouTube: Primary Data DataSphere Overview and Product Update with Douglas Fallstrom

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.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Primary Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Primary Data Introduction and Update with Lance Smith
• YouTube: Primary Data Introduction and Update with Lance Smith

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.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: SNIA Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: SNIA

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Reel It In: SNIA Swordfish with Richelle Ahlvers
• YouTube: Reel It In: SNIA Swordfish with Richelle Ahlvers

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.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: SNIA Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: SNIA

Video Links:

• Vimeo: SNIA NVDIMMs with with Rob Peglar
• YouTube: SNIA NVDIMMs with with Rob Peglar

Personnel: Rob Peglar

Rob Peglar, SNIA Board Member and SVP at Symbolic IO, reviews the specifications for different NVDIMM modules that SNIA has developed. These are vendor agnostic, and use a memory controller to manage data over the fast memory interface to either NAND flash, or a combination of flash and DRAM.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: SNIA Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: SNIA

Video Links:

• Vimeo: SNIA NVM Programming Model with Rob Peglar
• YouTube: SNIA NVM Programming Model with Rob Peglar

Personnel: Rob Peglar

Rob Peglar, SNIA Board Member and SVP at Symbolic IO, reviews the non-volatile memory programming model. This was developed to give a standard around which to programmatically address this emergent storage medium. Rob also takes time to answer delegate questions surrounding how this software model in implemented in hardware.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: SNIA Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: SNIA

Video Links:

• Vimeo: SNIA Persistent Memory Introduction with Rob Peglar
• YouTube: SNIA Persistent Memory Introduction with Rob Peglar

Personnel: Rob Peglar

Rob Peglar, SNIA Board Member and SVP at Symbolic IO, gives an overview on what the organization is developing and promoting with persistent memory. Rob frames this simply as having persistent storage living within a memory slot.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Dell EMC ScaleIO Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Dell EMC

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Dell EMC ScaleIO Performance with Dan Aharoni
• YouTube: Dell EMC ScaleIO Performance with Dan Aharoni

Personnel: Dan Aharoni

Dan Aharoni, Senior Director of Engineer with Dell EMC ScaleIO, reviews some of the performance of their SDS and SDC components, which handle drive and application performance with storage, respectively. This includes two different profiles, which includes default and performance modes. This allows for configuration of performance requirements, based on utilization of additional RAM and CPU resources.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Dell EMC ScaleIO Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Dell EMC

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Dell EMC ScaleIO Demo with Joel Sprouse
• YouTube: Dell EMC ScaleIO Demo with Joel Sprouse

Personnel: Joel Sprouse

Joel Sprouse, Senior Systems Engineer with Dell EMC ScaleIO, gives a demonstration of ScaleIO to the delegates. This demonstrates both their SDS drive management component, but also SDC, their application management, and metadata manager component. He walks the delegates through their UI, and shows how policy and provisioning are handled in the system.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Dell EMC ScaleIO Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Dell EMC

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Dell EMC ScaleIO Vision and Architecture with Erez Webman
• YouTube: Dell EMC ScaleIO Vision and Architecture with Erez Webman

Personnel: Erez Webman

Erez Webman, CTO at Dell EMC ScaleIO, gives the delegates a review of ScaleIO’s architectural fundamentals. This design is highly scalable, supporting well into thousands of nodes. Erez shows how ScaleIO gains performance with each added node, and goes into detail on it’s designed residency, with fault sets and distributed mirroring.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: Dell EMC ScaleIO Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: Dell EMC

Video Links:

• Vimeo: A Quick Overview of Dell EMC ScaleIO with Tamir Segal
• YouTube: A Quick Overview of Dell EMC ScaleIO with Tamir Segal

Personnel: Tamir Segal

Tamir Segal, Director of Product Marketing, gives a brief overview of Dell EMC’s ScaleIO software-defined storage solution. This was acquired by EMC in 2013, and has expanded to over 400 customers, and 450PB deployed. He reviews the operational advantages of ScaleIO’s approach, and how flexible it is in terms of deployment, from pure software to a HCI VxRack System FLEX.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: SNIA

Video Links:

• Vimeo: vSphere Virtual Volumes with NetApp SolidFire QoS with Andy Banta
• YouTube: vSphere Virtual Volumes with NetApp SolidFire QoS with Andy Banta

Personnel: Andy Banta

Andy Banta, Storage Janitor at NetApp, gives a specific overview of how SolidFire can apply QoS policies in Virtual Volumes via vSphere. He quickly demonstrates a few use cases to the delegates.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: NetApp

Video Links:

• Vimeo: vSphere Virtual Volumes with NetApp SolidFire with Andy Banta
• YouTube: vSphere Virtual Volumes with NetApp SolidFire with Andy Banta

Personnel: Andy Banta

Andy Banta, Storage Janitor at NetApp, reviews how vSphere Virtual Volumes integrates with NetApp SolidFire. Virtual Volumes allow for great visibility and policy based management, as opposed to VMFS. NetApp’s overall focus was on maintaining the ability to implement guaranteed QoS, while maintaining scale out and not requiring additional VMs to add capabilities.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: NetApp

Video Links:

• Vimeo: The Death of the Specialized Admin with Andy Banta
• YouTube: The Death of the Specialized Admin with Andy Banta

Personnel: Andy Banta

Andy Banta, Storage Janitor at NetApp, discusses the death of the dedicated storage admins. Andy sees them going the way of the database and server admins, as data centers are increasing looking for admins with broad skill sets, with depth in one particular field. Andy reviews the business benefits of this transition, and how policy based management and automation are able to achieve delivery of self-service storage.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: StorageCraft Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: StorageCraft

Video Links:

• Vimeo: StorageCraft On-Premises Demo with Martin Merrell
• YouTube: StorageCraft On-Premises Demo with Martin Merrell

Personnel: Martin Merrell

Martin Merrell, Sales Engineer at StorageCraft, reviews the company core product, ShadowProtect SPX. This is their on-premises image based backup solution. These images are created at the sector level, and saved in StorageCraft’s proprietary format. Martin reviews the UI, and walks through a typical backup and recovery scenario.

Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: StorageCraft Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: StorageCraft

Video Links:

• Vimeo: StorageCraft Cloud Demo with Martin Merrell
• YouTube: StorageCraft Cloud Demo with Martin Merrell

Personnel: Martin Merrell

Martin Merrell, Sales Engineer at StorageCraft, gives a demonstration of their StorageCraft Cloud. He gives an overview of their UI, and shows how data can be recovered both wholesale, or on a much more granular level. The main emphasis with StorageCraft Cloud is to provide complete data recovery with as little down time as possible.