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Founding team, funding from Sequoia Capital, NEA, and Redpoint. Springpath software-defined data platform provides data management and storage services using commodity servers and offers pain-free provisioning, phased and predictable scaling, and the agility to innovate – empowering enterprises of all sizes to achieve an independent infrastructure.

Connected Data File Transporter Demo

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Connected Data Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Connected Data

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Personnel: Geoff Barrall, Jim Sherhart

Ready to see the Transporter in action for yourself? Connected Data will walk delegates through getting started, including claiming your new device, installing the desktop software, how to manage the appliance, and how to add and share files.

Connected Data File Transporter Private Cloud Appliance Overview

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Connected Data Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Connected Data

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Personnel: Geoff Barrall

Cloud storage companies invented a better way to manage files. Hundreds of millions of users have adopted these services, putting pressure on IT departments to find solutions that deliver the experience users want with the privacy their businesses demand. Public cloud companies like Box have struggled with both privacy concerns and profitability, making them a risky bet for IT professionals tasked with protecting critical data. Transporter solves these issues by delivering the modern cloud experience employees want on private appliances that companies own and control.

VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 Features and Metrics

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: VMware Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Christos Karamanolis

VMware Virtual SAN Technical Discussion

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: VMware Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Christos Karamanolis

In the VMware Virtual SAN Technical Discussion presented by Christos Karamanolis on March 12, 2015, Christos delves into the architectural decisions and goals behind VMware’s vSAN. He begins by explaining the primary objectives set out when vSAN was conceived about four and a half years prior. The main goal was to create a storage product tailored for VMware vSphere customers, focusing on providing a compelling product with a low total cost of ownership. This includes both capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operational expenditure (OPEX), emphasizing affordable performance and ease of management. Christos highlights the importance of integrating vSAN with existing VMware products and features to ensure a seamless operational experience for customers, facilitating easy adoption.

Christos then discusses the architectural principles applied in vSAN, starting with the decision to go with a hyper-converged infrastructure. This approach was chosen to streamline procurement, deployment, and operations, allowing customers to grow their compute and storage resources in tandem without disrupting existing data center network architectures. He explains that vSAN is a distributed software product running on every ESX hypervisor in a cluster, aggregating local storage resources and presenting them as a single virtual data store accessible by all hosts in the cluster. This design avoids bottlenecks by eliminating special roles such as gateways or metadata servers. Christos also emphasizes the integration of critical parts of the storage product into the ESX kernel, which optimizes properties like latency and minimizes CPU cycles per I/O operation, crucial for delivering cost-effective performance.

The presentation also covers the manageability and monitoring aspects of vSAN, which are crucial for its integration into existing VMware environments. Christos explains that vSAN is designed to be managed using the same workflows and tools familiar to vSphere administrators, such as maintenance mode and HA (High Availability). He highlights the importance of providing a seamless management experience, allowing administrators to manage storage as part of their existing vSphere clusters without needing additional management concepts or tools. The discussion also touches on the challenges of certifying hardware for vSAN, given the vast array of controllers, flash devices, and magnetic disks that need to be qualified. Despite these challenges, VMware is committed to offering a flexible, software-defined storage solution that can be tailored to meet the diverse needs of its customers.