Nimble Storage InfoSight Predictive Analytics Overview with Rod Bagg

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Nimble Storage

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Personnel: Rod Bagg

Rod Bagg, Vice President, Analytics & Customer Support, reviews their InfoSight solution. This is a predictive analytics platform designed to reduce the “app data gap”, and utilizing Nimble Storage’s flash storage arrays, remove performance as a business concern.


Nimble Storage Cloud Volumes Demo with Sandeep Karmarkar

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Nimble Storage

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Personnel: Sandeep Karmarkar

Sandeep Karmarkar, Sr. Product Manager, demonstrates using Nimble Storage Cloud Volumes. This allows you to easily manage volumes across a variety of cloud providers in the same interface. He walks through creating and managing these volumes using both the GUI and APIs.


Nimble Storage Cloud Volumes Overview with Gavin Cohen

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Nimble Storage

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Personnel: Gavin Cohen

Gavin Cohen, Vice President, Product & Solutions Marketing, reviews the primary challenges facing the current state of cloud block storage. He then reviews Nimble Storage’s Cloud Volumes as a solution. This provides a durable cloud storage option which has robust data protection features, and avoids a single cloud provider lock-in.


Nimble Storage Overview and Cloud Platform with Gavin Cohen

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Nimble Storage

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Personnel: Gavin Cohen

Gavin Cohen, Vice President, Product & Solutions Marketing, gives a quick company overview for Nimble Storage, including the growth of their unified flash configurations. He then introduces their Cloud Platform. This replies on a Multicloud Flash Fabric, which combines multicloud storage across providers, all flash storage arrays, and converged infrastructure. Gavin shows how this can be used to easily move between clouds, allowing organizations maximum agility.


Open19 Overview with Yuval Bachar

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Excelero Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Excelero

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Personnel: Yuval Bachar

Yuval Bachar, Principal Engineer of Architecture and Strategy at LinkedIn, discusses the Open19 project started by the company to create an that can fit server, storage, and networking into a 19″ rack, that is applicable to environments and organizations of all sizes. He reviews the hardware building block principals of this standard. Excelero is involved and supporting the solution.


Excelero Demo with Josh Goldenhar

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Excelero Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Excelero

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Personnel: Josh Goldenhar

Josh Goldenhar, VP Products, demonstrates their NVMesh solution in action. They’ve tested this with the major NVMe vendors, and allows you to mix and match drives as you see fit. The overall solution adds a mere 5 microseconds to reads and writes. Using relatively low-end Intel Xeon processors, Josh demonstrates getting remote IO response time of 94 microseconds vs 88 microseconds locally, and 4.5 million random read 4k IOPS, on a server with $13,000 worth of hardware.


Excelero NVMesh Architecture and Software Components with Yaniv Romem

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Excelero Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Excelero

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Personnel: Yaniv Romem

Yaniv Romem, CTO & Co-Founder, reviews the architecture and software component of their NVMesh solution. Their solution uses the client CPU to avoid hindering application performance inherent in using the target CPU. Instead, the target RDMA NIC writes directly into the NVMe drive, making the data path effectively direct from the application to the target drive. This is all managed by an independent control layer. All of this is done with standard RDMA NICs running on Linux.


Excelero Use Cases with Josh Goldenhar

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Excelero Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Excelero

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Personnel: Josh Goldenhar

Josh Goldenhar, VP Products, goes over some of the use cases for Excelero’s NVMesh. This solution is unique in that it doesn’t use any CPU on the target device, and is capable of millions of IOPS. Josh outlines how this can be used to bring hardware homogeneity to the cloud by standardizing on hardware, and giving the flexibility to actually move storage to compute. This is ideally served for applications from real-time analytics, to databases, and container orchestration.


Excelero NVMesh Server SAN Vision with Yaniv Romem

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Excelero Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Excelero

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Personnel: Lior Gal, Yaniv Romem

After an introduction by CEO and Co-Founder Lior Gal, Yaniv Romem, CTO and Co-Founder, lays out Excelero’s vision: to enable businesses to build an efficient, high performance, scale-out storage infrastructure. They built their solution predicting that applications increasingly expect NVMe capabilities from storage, while enterprises increasingly deploy 25/50/100G and with it RDMA. Their product, NVMesh just launched. It’s a software layer wherein NVMe devices are pooled and logical volumes are created on top of that.


Elastifile Node Failure Handling Demo and Discussion with Shahar Frank

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Elastifile Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Elastifile

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Personnel: Shahar Frank

Shahar Frank, CTO & Founder, demonstrates how the Elastifile Architecture handles node failure. Shahar further discusses with the delegates how the solution effects overall performance, and some of the implications of their business model.


Elastifile Architecture: Clustering with Ezra Hoch

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Elastifile Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Elastifile

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Personnel: Ezra Hoch

Ezra Hoch, Chief Architect, reviews the clustering configuration, which allows for their high availability and fault tolerant configuration database within the file system. The system uses a clustering officer and clustering agent on each node to provide for a consensus driven methodology. Each node monitors and reports on any inconsistencies within the others. He reviews how this system can intelligently handle node failure.


Elastifile Architecture – Metadata with Ezra Hoch

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Elastifile Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Elastifile

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Personnel: Ezra Hoch

Ezra Hoch, Chief Architect, reviews how Elastifile handles metadata within their file system solution. Instead of making metadata a bottleneck of overall performance, especially for numerous smaller file sizes, Elastifile uses a consistency layering approach to get reliable performance at scale. At the lowest level this is governed by a configuration database, which is built on by an in-memory ownership repository, and the actual metadata handling. Any errors in the top most layer has failover to the one below it, which allows for consistent operations and at the base level, is resilient to substantial node and power failures.


Elastifile Architecture – Overview, Data Path with Ezra Hoch

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Elastifile Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Elastifile

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Personnel: Ezra Hoch

Ezra Hoch, Chief Architect, gives an overview of the Elastifile file system data path. They have built a dynamic data path as part of their solution that can choose where specifically to write data, with the ability to cancel and re-choose write location in the event of errors or performance issues. Notably, this is done without any overall data caching, which with NVMe doesn’t provide any performance advantage. Instead, they leverage metadata caching.


Elastifile Hyperconverged Scaling in the Cloud Demo with Shahar Frank

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Elastifile Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Elastifile

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Personnel: Shahar Frank

Shahar Frank, CTO & Founder, demonstrates Elastifile’s hyperconverged scale out solution in Google Cloud. They provide file system services to applications within a simulated load within each node. This can be deployed as a container within a VM, as a VM itself, or on bare metal as an exposed file system, which can be mounted to an individual workload.


Elastifile Company, Product, and Design Overview with Shahar Frank

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: Elastifile Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: Elastifile

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Personnel: Shahar Frank

Shahar Frank, CTO & Founder, reviews the company’s history and product vision. They are implementing a new data platform for the modern enterprise. Their software-only focus is to support hundreds of thousands of nodes, provide scalable management containers, and focus on data, not on legacy storage.


StarWind and Veeam VTL and Cloud Replication Demo with Max Kolomyeytsev

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: StarWind

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Personnel: Max Kolomyeytsev

Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product Management, demonstrates using the StarWind Virtual Tape Library with existing backup environments and implements a Disk-to-Disk-to-Cloud backup approach. With StarWind, this can be done without changing the existing backup software or DR strategy.


StarWind and AcloudA: Stairway to Cloud with Anton Kolomyeytsev and Max Kolomyeytsev

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: StarWind

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Personnel: Anton Kolomyeytsev, Max Kolomyeytsev

Anton Kolomyeytsev, CEO, Chief Architect & Co-Founder, shows the hardware for StarWind’s cloud gateway, developed together with AcloudA. He demonstrates the hardware, and gives an overview of the implementation. It essentially provides a fully transparent gateway which would be compatible and interoperable with all OS’s, Hypervisors, and SDS stacks.

Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product Management, gives a demonstration of the cloud gateway, using a Microsoft S2D-based cluster. He shows how users can build a S2D cluster with local flash used as a performance tier, with the AcloudA cloud gateway connected to external cloud storage to serve as a scalable capacity layer.


StarWind Scale Out and Log Structured File System with Anton Kolomyeytsev

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: StarWind

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Personnel: Anton Kolomyeytsev

Anton Kolomyeytsev, CEO, Chief Architect & Co-Founder, goes into the technical details of the StarWind Log Structured File System. He covers how LSFS solves the challenges of I/O blender and how it works differently from more traditional offerings. He also touches on the system’s in-line deduplication implementation and how it integrates into the overall LSFS architecture.


StarWind Fault-Tolerant Storage Demo with Max Kolomyeytsev

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: StarWind

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Personnel: Max Kolomyeytsev

Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product Management, demonstrates using StarWind for configuration of FT storage. He then compares local flash performance to using StarWind when mirroring flash, illustrating minimal performance loss with their synchronous replication approach.


StarWind Simple, Flexible, Scalable Storage with Max Kolomyeytsev and Anton Kolomyeytsev

Event: Storage Field Day 12

Appearance: StarWind Presents at Storage Field Day 12

Company: StarWind

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Personnel: Anton Kolomyeytsev, Max Kolomyeytsev

Max Kolomyeytsev, Director of Product Management, introduces StarWind. He discusses the company’s background and current vision.

Anton Kolomyeytsev, CEO, Chief Architect & Co-Founder, proceeds to give details on the StarWind Storage appliance. This includes an architectural overview, as well as a look at their roadmap. This includes Starwind SA serving not only as a SAN/NAS, but also as control nodes in a massive scale-out storage cluster, aggregating NVMf, Lustre, and Ceph, while delivering it to storage consumers using a unified storage fabric.


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