DriveScale Architectural Deep Dive with Tom Lyon

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: DriveScale Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: DriveScale

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Personnel: Tom Lyon

Tom Lyon, Chief Scientist at DriveScale, give the Tech Field Day delegates a detailed look at their storage architecture. He runs through the problem with traditional scale-out systems, that most a essentially servers with storage. Tom compares this to a minivan, useful but not ideal for any one use case. The DriveScale adapter is their vision for a new architecture, to allow you to use a JBOD utilized over an ethernet switch to separate storage from compute.


DriveScale Introduction with Gene Banman

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: DriveScale Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: DriveScale

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Personnel: Gene Banman

Gene Banman, CEO of DriveScale, reviews the state of his company. He further goes on to show the impressive pedigree of the founding team. Finally Gene addresses DriveScale’s vision: to disaggregate disk storage in the rack from compute.


Dell EMC Isilon Deployment with David Noy and John Hayden

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: Dell EMC Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: David Noy, John Hayden

David Noy, VP of Isilon Product Strategy for Dell EMC, and VP of Engineering John Hayden go over the Isilon advantages with Hadoop, with a native integration. David also reviews some of the analytics and provisioning features built into their software tools.


Dell EMC Enterprise Data Protection with David Noy and John Hayden

Event: Tech Field Day 12

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Dell EMC Isilon SmartFlash with David Noy and John Hayden

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: Dell EMC Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: David Noy, John Hayden

David Noy, VP of Isilon Product Strategy for Dell EMC, and VP of Engineering John Hayden run down the actual architecture of the Isilon SmartFlash platform, which is being used for caching. Then the delegates are treated to a whiteboard session as to how the cache levels are setup underneath an individual nodes, and the effect this has on application performance.


Dell EMC Isilon Features with David Noy

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: Dell EMC Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: David Noy

David Noy, VP of Isilon Product Strategy for Dell EMC reviews the Isilon upgrade path. Isilon provides seamless upgrades, with the ability to keep uptime and availability while swapping out nodes. Their latest update allows for easy rollback of software across all nodes.


Dell EMC Isilon Scale-Out Architecture with David Noy and John Hayden

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: Dell EMC Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: David Noy

David Noy, VP of Isilon Product Strategy for Dell EMC, and VP of Engineering John Hayden review the scale out architecture designed into their Isilon solution. They review with the delegates how the architecture is setup under the hood, to provide for failure recovery, easy scaling, and operational flexibility. They specifically detail how the ethernet backplane works to provide effective transport across the nodes.


Dell EMC Product Overview with David Noy

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: Dell EMC Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: David Noy

David Noy, VP of Isilon Product Strategy for Dell EMC, reviews the concept of a Data Lake as the Isilon operating model. He reviews how data is handled across various nodes and configuration options, and the versatility of the platform for various workflows. David also reviews the data management and protection feature available with Isilon.


Dell EMC Company Overview with David Noy

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: Dell EMC Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: David Noy

David Noy, the VP for Dell EMC’s Isilon Product Strategy, gives an overview of the history of Isilon. From there, he goes on to highlight the historic markets for Isilon and where they are seeing growth recently. David highlights the impact of the EMC acquisition of Isilon on the product’s marketshare.


Igneous Systems Datapath with Jeff Hughes

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: Igneous Systems Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: Igneous

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Personnel: Jeff Hughes

Jeff Hughes, CTO at Igneous Systems, reviews why Igneous decided to design their own Datapath. After a six month review of open source options, they took a lot of inspiration from the Ceph project. Igneous uses an algorithm similar to CRUSH as used by Ceph to deterministically layout data across a distributed system. The overall built from scratch design prioritizes capacity and performance. To that effect, the system is designed to handle 4-8 concurrent failures.


Igneous Systems Continuous IaaS Delivery with Asif Daud

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: Igneous Systems Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: Igneous

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Personnel: Asif Daud

Asif Daud, VP of Engineering at Igneous Systems, goes into a deep dive on how updates with the Igneous solution works. The update process prioritizes shipping features quickly and responding to customer feedback. This is done by issuing frequent granular updates, rolled out progressively to make sure there are no overall issues for customers. All updates are non-destructive, and can be easily rolled back by design to make sure customers are not disrupted.


Igneous Systems RatioPerfect Architecture with Jeff Hughes

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: Igneous Systems Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: Igneous

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Personnel: Jeff Hughes

Jeff Hughes, CTO at Igneous Systems, reviews the design decisions behind their system architecture, which they call RatioPerfect. They’ve designed a system to help alleviate the I/O bottlenecks and larger fault domains inherent in putting a number of drives behind a single CPU node. After reviewing their design history, they hit upon their current product, a system around an array of nanoservers. Each hard drive in the array has a ARM CPU, so that a failure of any drive or CPU does not bring down anything else in the system. Their RatioPerfect architecture solution is to go 1:1.


Igneous Systems Administration Demo with Christian Smith

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: Igneous Systems Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: Igneous

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Personnel: Christian Smith

Christian Smith, VP of Product at Igneous Systems, demos how the Igneous storage solution is administered. Overall, the system is heavy on automation. Administration is handled through a standard web interface, and provides an overview of the current storage, performance and capacity burn. From this monitoring, Igneous can monitor for outages on the customer side, as well as reach out when more capacity is needed. It also features full provisioning capabilities, with the ability to assign roles to manage provisioning without allowing access to underlying data.


Igneous Systems Hyperscale Management with Jeff Hughes

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: Igneous Systems Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: Igneous

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Personnel: Jeff Hughes

Jeff Hughes, CTO at Igneous, reviews how their solution took inspiration from hyperscale software efficiency. Igneous designed their solution to bring hyperscale fleet management techniques to their local storage IaaS offering, including auto-provisioning, automated granular upgrades within a SLA, and proactive failure management. From this, they can derive insights based on how different setup configurations impact performance and reliability for their entire customer base. They’ve combined this with a consumer inspired hardware install, with a simple “out of the box” setup.


Igneous Systems Introduction with Kiran Bhagesphur

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: Igneous Systems Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: Igneous

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Personnel: Kiran Bhagesphur

Kiran Bhagesphur, CEO at Igneous Systems, introduces their unique approach to Infrastructure as a Service. Their model is to bring the benefits of a cloud centric approach like IaaS to customers who aren’t willing or cannot move their data to the cloud. Kiran reviews the markets the company is targeting for their product, including financial services, machine generated automotive data, and biotech. Finally, he introduces the idea of their zero-touch infrastructure approach Igneous has designed from the ground up to meet the market need.


StorageOS Hyperconverged for Containers with Alex Chircop and Simon Croome

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: StorageOS Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: StorageOS

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Personnel: Alex Chircop, Simon Croome

Alex Chircop, CTO of StorageOS, and VP of Engineering Simon Croome describe the topology and scaling of their Enterprise Container Platform including the global namespace for volumes.


StorageOS Live Use Case with Alex Chircop and Simon Croome

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: StorageOS Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: StorageOS

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Personnel: Alex Chircop, Simon Croome

Alex Chircop, CTO of StorageOS, and VP of Engineering Simon Croome show a live use case of their product. They are focusing on deploying a containerized solution with both web systems and databases across a cluster.


StorageOS Product Overview with Chris Brandon, Alex Chircop, and Simon Croome

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: StorageOS Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: StorageOS

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Personnel: Alex Chircop, Chris Brandon

Chris Brandon, founder and CEO of StorageOS, is joined by CTO Alex Chircop and VP of Engineering Simon Croome to give a general product overview and real world demo of their container storage solution. The show the real world conversations happening in the enterprise, and demonstrate the tools StorageOS offers to manage storage across a variety of container environments.


StorageOS Enabling Enterprise Storage with Chris Brandon

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: StorageOS Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: StorageOS

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Personnel: Chris Brandon

Chris Brandon, Founder and CEO of StorageOS, introduces their persistent storage container offering inside a 40MB container image. StorageOS offers automated storage provision within the datacenter, and offers a path to allow for container storage in the cloud.


Cohesity SQL Point-in-Time Recovery & Cloning with Drew McCumiskey

Event: Tech Field Day 12

Appearance: Cohesity Presents at Tech Field Day 12

Company: Cohesity

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Personnel: Drew McCumiskey

Drew McCumiskey, Lead of Tech Marketing Efforts at Cohesity, demos some of the SQL specific features of their platform, focusing on recovery and cloning. He walks through setting up the ephemeral agent Cohesity uses for monitoring. Finally Drew kills the sample database to walk through the complete restore process in a matter of minutes.


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