The Independent IT Influencer Event
Event: Tech Field Day 12
Appearance: Rubrik Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Company: Rubrik
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Personnel: Chris Wahl
Chris Wahl, Chief Technology Evangelist for Rubrik, introduces the delegates to Rubrik. He goes on to give examples of what current customers are doing with their backup product in production.
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 where the company sees their place in the storage market. Their customer strategy revolves around uses of Hadoop analytics. This strategy leans heavily on early adopters, as mainstream organizations are only doing Hadoop POCs at this time.
Event: Tech Field Day 12
Appearance: DriveScale Presents at Tech Field Day 12
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Event: Tech Field Day 12
Appearance: DriveScale Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Company: DriveScale
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Personnel: Satya Nishtala
Satya Nishtala, CTO at DriveScale, give the delegates a deep dive in the adapter hardware the company is offering. He previews the additional functionality to add 10 NVMe drives for caching within the adapter. Then he goes through the hardware capabilities of their adapter to implement their storage architecture.
Event: Tech Field Day 12
Appearance: DriveScale Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Company: DriveScale
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Personnel: Chris Unkel
Chris Unkel, Distinguished Engineer at DriveScale, gives a demo of how the DriveScale solution works in the rack. He runs down the individual drive management within their control interface and how to configure node templates.
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.
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.
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.
Event: Tech Field Day 12
Appearance: Dell EMC Presents at Tech Field Day 12
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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