Event: Storage Field Day 13

Appearance: StorageCraft Presents at Storage Field Day 13

Company: StorageCraft

Video Links:

• Vimeo: StorageCraft Introduction with Martin Merrell
• YouTube: StorageCraft Introduction with Martin Merrell

Personnel: Martin Merrell

Martin Merrell, Sales Engineer at StorageCraft, introduces the company to the delegates, starting with a history of their disaster recovery solutions. With their core solution, StorageCraft is able not only save and restore, but have an image that can restore in a single process. He also gives an overview of their StorageCraft Cloud, which allows you to set up back up VMs on their private cloud to be able to recover after a disaster quickly.

Event: Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017

Appearance: Pure Storage FlashBlade Presentation at Pure Accelerate 2017

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Object Storage in Pure Storage FlashBlade with Brian Gold
• YouTube: Object Storage in Pure Storage FlashBlade with Brian Gold

Personnel: Brian Gold

Brian Gold, Director of Engineering at Pure Storage, discusses the state of object storage on FlashBlade via their Purity Operating Environment. This is part of how Pure Storage sees FlashBlade serving cloud-native applications with rich metadata databases. Brian gives a detailed walkthrough of how it would serve an IO from an object store, highlighting the object read path and potential implications with machine learning.

Event: Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017

Appearance: Pure Storage FlashBlade Presentation at Pure Accelerate 2017

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Scaling Pure Storage FlashBlade with Robert Lee
• YouTube: Scaling Pure Storage FlashBlade with Robert Lee

Personnel: Robert Lee

Robert Lee, the Chief Architect with FlashBlade, takes the stage to get into a technical deep dive on how FlashBlade is designed to grow above fifteen blades. In the discussion, he reviews how FlashBlade is focusing on linear scaling, allowing for a single namespace into the petabyte range, while at the same time growing IOPS performance at the same scale. This includes an architectural breakdown of how this is feasible.

Event: Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017

Appearance: Pure Storage FlashArray Presentation at Pure Accelerate 2017

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Pure Storage FlashArray VMware Virtual Volume Support with Cody Hosterman
• YouTube: Pure Storage FlashArray VMware Virtual Volume Support with Cody Hosterman

Personnel: Cody Hosterman

Cody Hosterman, Technical Director at Pure Storage, gives an overview of virtual volume support on FlashArray //X. Their emphasis on this was to make virtual volume set up as simple as possible across all aspects. This includes an architectural overview showing what exactly happens with a virtual volume is created. He then goes through a brief demonstration.

Event: Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017

Appearance: Pure Storage FlashArray Presentation at Pure Accelerate 2017

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Pure Storage FlashArray //X – How It Works with Pete Kirkpatrick
• YouTube: Pure Storage FlashArray //X – How It Works with Pete Kirkpatrick

Personnel: Pete Kirkpatrick

Pete Kirkpatrick, Chief Hardware Architect at Pure Storage, reviews the inner workings of the FlashArray //X, their 100% NVMe all-flash array. This includes a review of the physical array appliance, which includes NVRAM to avoid bottlenecks and DirectFlash modules for NVMe. He then gets into the architectural overview of how the system works.

Event: Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017

Appearance: Pure Storage FlashArray Presentation at Pure Accelerate 2017

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Pure Storage Purity ActiveCluster Demo with Larry Touchette
• YouTube: Pure Storage Purity ActiveCluster Demo with Larry Touchette

Personnel: Larry Touchette

Larry Touchette, Director, Technical Product Management at Pure Storage, gives a demonstration of Purity ActiveCluster in action. He reviews the Purity 5.0 UI, while showing the entire process of getting ActiveCluster initiated within an existing environment.

Event: Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017

Appearance: Pure Storage FlashArray Presentation at Pure Accelerate 2017

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Pure Storage Purity ActiveCluster with Tabriz Holtz
• YouTube: Pure Storage Purity ActiveCluster with Tabriz Holtz

Personnel: Tabriz Holtz

Tabriz Holtz, Engineering Lead at Pure Storage, reviews the company’s newly announced Purity Flash Array ActiveCluster solution, their entry into the synchronous replication market. This was designed to specifically resolve customer pain points, including disaster protection, consistent performance, and transparent failover, all in a solution that’s easy to manage. ActiveCluster is designed to read, write and modify on both sides of the cluster, with no RTO, RPO, additional licensing, or additional hardware.

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Turbonomic Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Turbonomic

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Turbonomic 5.9: Cloud Economics and Migration with Mor Cohen-Tal
• YouTube: Turbonomic 5.9: Cloud Economics and Migration with Mor Cohen-Tal

Personnel: Eric Wright, Mor Cohen

Mor Cohen-Tal, Product Manager at Turbonomic, and Technology Evangelist Eric Wright give an overview of Turbonomic 5.9. This update give you visibility across cloud provider services. This includes showing costs for each point in time for each services, and projects costs and performance going forward. 5.9 also has public cloud migration tools, allowing you to compare shifting workloads or clusters to different providers. Customers can then choose when to execute the migration. This is all driven with Turbonomic’s application assurance engine to show the full implications of moving to the public cloud.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Appearance: Paessler Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Company: Paessler

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Paessler PRTG Uncommon Sensors and Q&A with Greg Ross
• YouTube: Paessler PRTG Uncommon Sensors and Q&A with Greg Ross

Personnel: Greg Ross

Greg Ross, Senior Systems Engineer at Paessler, reviews how PRTG can be used to monitor uncommon devices that might not be considered part of infrastructure, but are just as critical. These include everything from dishwaters at a hospital to slot machines at a casino. PRTG is able to do this because of the customizable nature of the sensors. These can capture MIBs from anything writing in SNMP, which can be customized to fit an organizations needs.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Appearance: Paessler Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Company: Paessler

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Monitoring Devices with Paessler PRTG with Greg Ross
• YouTube: Monitoring Devices with Paessler PRTG with Greg Ross

Personnel: Greg Ross

Greg Ross, Senior Systems Engineer at Paessler, gives a demonstration of PRTG monitoring devices in production. He shows how PRTG can be deployed across a wide range of use cases, using their idea of sensors as metrics unique to a device. He reviews how PRTG can be setup for specialized notifications in certain monitoring situations. In VMware environments, this can be drilled down into the vCenter level, and help with provisioning, performance, and reliability.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Appearance: Paessler Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Company: Paessler

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Paessler PRTG Architecture and Basic Monitoring with Greg Ross
• YouTube: Paessler PRTG Architecture and Basic Monitoring with Greg Ross

Personnel: Greg Ross

Greg Ross, Senior Systems Engineer at Paessler, goes over the architectural underpinning of PRTG. This includes a built in web server and NoSQL database, and is setup for monitoring within minutes. For distributed networks, PRTG allows for deploying remote probe polling agents. These polling agents tap into various protocols as needed for devices and applications across the infrastructure. PRTG uses the idea of sensors to monitor infrastructure, which are disparate metrics that when pooled for 20-40 sensors, give a full picture of the state.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Appearance: Paessler Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Company: Paessler

Video Links:

• Vimeo: A New Era of Network Monitoring with Paessler PRTG with Greg Ross
• YouTube: A New Era of Network Monitoring with Paessler PRTG with Greg Ross

Personnel: Greg Ross

Greg Ross, Senior Systems Engineer at Paessler, gives an overview of their IT infrastructure monitoring solution. This includes an introduction to the company’s history and mission. He gives a quick introduction into their new beta for PRTG on-demand cloud service. This allows for PRTG to be used on a subscription bases in the cloud.

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: ClearSky Data Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: ClearSky Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Considering Managed Storage, Past, Present, and Future with ClearSky Data CTO Lazarus Vekiarides
• YouTube: Considering Managed Storage, Past, Present, and Future with ClearSky Data CTO Lazarus Vekiarides

Personnel: Lazarus Vekiarides

Lazarus Vekiarides, CTO and Co-Founder at ClearSky Data, engages with the delegates on the history around managed storage, and how ClearSky is uniquely situated in the space to avoid a lot of the category’s past failings.

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: ClearSky Data Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: ClearSky Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: ClearSky Data with Containers and Orchestration with Lazarus Vekiarides
• YouTube: ClearSky Data with Containers and Orchestration with Lazarus Vekiarides

Personnel: Lazarus Vekiarides

Lazarus Vekiarides, CTO and Co-Founder at ClearSky Data, reviews the company’s plans for allowing for storage integrations with containers and container orchestration platforms. This includes working with Docker on the solution.

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Datrium

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Datrium Replication and Protection Demo with Mike McLaughlin
• YouTube: Datrium Replication and Protection Demo with Mike McLaughlin

Personnel: Mike McLaughlin

Mike McLaughlin, Director of Technical Marketing with Datrium, demonstrates search and dynamic policy binding with Protection Groups. He also reviews granular vDisk recovery, as well as how to set up and manage replication.

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Datrium

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Extending Datrium Data Cloud Across Cloud Data Centers with Boris Weissman
• YouTube: Extending Datrium Data Cloud Across Cloud Data Centers with Boris Weissman

Personnel: Boris Weissman

Boris Weissman, Founder at Datrium, reviews their first application of Data Cloud spanning private cloud data centers with Elastic Replication. This is designed to scale performance and provider resiliency. Boris also discusses the future directions of Data Cloud, including public cloud support.

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Datrium

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Datrium Converging Primary Workloads and Cloud Data Management with Sazzala Reddy
• YouTube: Datrium Converging Primary Workloads and Cloud Data Management with Sazzala Reddy

Personnel: Sazzala Reddy

Sazzala Reddy, Founder at Datrium, reviews the company’s approach to converging primary workloads with cloud data management via Data Cloud. He further reviews how scale and granularity have both played roles in the policy management and catalog design of fundamental data cloud components, including Protection Groups, Snapshots, and its related catalog, Snapstore.

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Datrium

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Datrium End-to-End Encryption with Data Reduction with Windsor Hsu
• YouTube: Datrium End-to-End Encryption with Data Reduction with Windsor Hsu

Personnel: Windsor Hsu

Windsor Hsu, Senior Director of Engineering, reviews how Datrium is able to offer end-to-end encryption, both at-travel and at-rest, without losing an data reduction services like deduplication. He also reviews how Datrium’s DVX solution is able to do this with minimal performance penalty.

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Datrium

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Datrium DVX Demonstration with Mike McLaughlin
• YouTube: Datrium DVX Demonstration with Mike McLaughlin

Personnel: Mike McLaughlin

Mike McLaughlin, Director of Technical Marketing with Datrium, introduces the delegates to their VM-centric management, monitoring, and analytics that support DVX Rackscale systems. This includes a demonstration of the systems “insane” mode.

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Datrium

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Datrium DVX Rackscale Systems with Hugo Patterson
• YouTube: Datrium DVX Rackscale Systems with Hugo Patterson

Personnel: Hugo Patterson

Hugo Patterson, CTO and Founder at Datrium, shares the vision and technology behind DVX Rackscale systems, touching on open convergence and their “matrix” architecture. This splits elastic performance from durable capacity in discreet nodes. This allows for mixing and matching of existing hardware with Datrium DVX nodes.