The Independent IT Influencer Event
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Scale Computing Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Scale Computing
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Personnel: Mike Lyon
Mike Lyon, Service Delivery Manager of Scale Computing, demonstrates the cloning and replication capabilities of the system.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Scale Computing Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Scale Computing
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Personnel: Jason Collier
Jason Collier, Co-founder and CTO of Scale Computing, introduces the company and gives a demo of the initial setup and configuration process for the product.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Dell Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Dell
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Personnel: Carol Pflueger
Carol Pflueger, Servers Product Manager at Dell, introduced the Dell PowerEdge FX architecture, which integrates Dell’s networking, servers, and storage into a modular 2U chassis. The FX architecture, where FX stands for flexible, aims to maximize workloads, simplify operations, and enhance efficiency. The FX2 chassis, a key component, can house various compute and storage nodes, such as the FC630, FM120, FC430, FD332, FC830, and IOAggregator. Pflueger emphasized that Dell is not moving away from traditional racks, blades, or towers but is instead enhancing functionality by merging the best features of these systems into the FX architecture.
The FX2 chassis is designed to be highly flexible, allowing for different configurations of compute and storage nodes. For instance, the FC630 compute node is essentially a blade server adapted to fit into the FX2 chassis. The FD332 storage node can be paired with compute nodes to provide direct-attached storage, with flexible PCIe mapping allowing compute nodes to own specific storage nodes and PCI slots. This modular approach enables various configurations, such as having two FC630s and two FD332s in a single chassis, with each compute node owning half of the storage node’s drives. The architecture also supports advanced management through Dell’s CMC (Chassis Management Controller), which can manage the FX2 as either a standard rack or a blade system.
The FX architecture also includes innovative features like the FM120 microserver, which houses multiple low-power Avoton processors, making it suitable for hosting and caching applications. The FC430, another compute node, offers high density with up to eight nodes in a 2U chassis, each supporting E5-2600 V3 processors and up to eight DIMMs. The architecture’s flexibility extends to networking, with options for 1 gig, 10 gig, and future 40 gig connections, as well as the ability to bypass the PCI switch for low-latency applications using InfiniBand. The FX2 chassis also supports advanced cooling and power management, with options for 1100W, 1600W, and upcoming 2000W power supplies, ensuring efficient operation even in dense configurations.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Dell Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
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Personnel: Mervin Nalletamby
Mervin Nalletamby, Field Engineer for Intel, presents the company’s vision of a data services economy. He presents the rise of a digital service economy and how Intel-based servers like Dell PowerEdge are disrupting the data center with software-defined infrastructure.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Dell Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Dell
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Personnel: John Shirley
John Shirley, Sr. Manager, Planning & Strategy, outlines Dell’s flash storage strategy and outlook.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Dell Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Dell
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Personnel: Kishore Gagrani
Kishore Gagrani, Global Product Director, PowerEdge Caching, presents Dell’s NVMe solution, Fluid Cache.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Dell Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Dell
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Personnel: Scott DesBles
Scott DesBles, Storage Product Manager, discusses the history and future of enterprise storage at Dell. He begins with a review of the company’s acquisitions and discusses how they have been integrated into the Dell product line. He then covers the Dell storage portfolio and Dell’s position on software-defined storage.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Dell Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Dell
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Personnel: Kiran Ranabhor
Kiran Ranabhor, Sr. PM, demonstrates Dell Foglight for virtualization and takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Dell Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Dell
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Personnel: John Maxwell, Kiran Ranabhor
John Maxwell, VP PM, and Kiran Ranabhor, Sr. PM, introduce Dell Foglight for virtualization.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Dell Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Dell
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Personnel: Matt Baker
Matt Baker, Executive Director of Enterprise Strategy, introduces Dell at Virtualization Field Day 4. He discusses the Dell approach to IT products and services in the enterprise and the status of the newly-private company.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Commvault Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Commvault
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Personnel: Don Foster
Don Foster, Sr. Director of Product Management, presents and demonstrates cloud orchestration with CommVault.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Commvault Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Commvault
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Personnel: Don Foster
Don Foster, Sr. Director of Product Management, demonstrates live virtual machine data recovery with CommVault.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Commvault Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Commvault
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Personnel: Don Foster
Don Foster, Sr. Director of Product Management, demonstrates virtual machine data protection with CommVault’s VADP implementation.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Commvault Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Commvault
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Personnel: Don Foster
Don Foster, Sr. Director of Product Management, demonstrates the CommVault Data Services Platform and talks about the virtual server lifecycle.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Commvault Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Commvault
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Personnel: Don Foster
Don Foster, Sr. Director of Product Management, introduces CommVault, the Data Services Platform, and how it fits into the big picture of enterprise IT.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: SolarWinds
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Personnel: Kevin Miele
Kevin Miele, Sales Engineering Director, demonstrates the SolarWinds AppStack, including QoE AppStack troubleshooting and AppInsight IIS AppStack troubleshooting.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: SolarWinds
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Personnel: Joel Dolisy, Nikki Jennings
Nikki Jennings, Group VP at SolarWinds, introduces the company to the Virtualization Field Day 4 audience before Joel Dolisy, CTO and CIO, diagrams the Orion architecture in the company’s applications stack.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: StorMagic
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Personnel: Luke Pruen
Luke Pruen, Director of Technical Services, demonstrates a host failure with StorMagic SvSAN.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: StorMagic
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Personnel: Luke Pruen
Luke Pruen, Director of Technical Services, demonstrates a StorMagic SvSAN deployment.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: StorMagic
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Personnel: Luke Pruen
Luke Pruen, Director of Technical Services, gives an overview of the architecture of StorMagic SvSAN.
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