Who Is Nimble Storage? And What Is Adaptive Flash?

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Nimble Storage

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Personnel: Radhika Krishnan

Radhika Krishnan, VP of Product Marketing and Alliances, introduces Nimble Storage and talks about their product line, including their Adaptive Flash technology.


Nimble Storage Sizing Tool Demo

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Nimble Storage

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Personnel: David Adamson

David Adamson, Data Scientist, gives an overview of the Nimble Storage Sizing Tool that is used to ensure customers have the right amount of storage for a given use case.


InfoSight Update: A Year Later

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Nimble Storage

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Personnel: Rod Bagg

Rod Bagg, VP of Customer Support, discusses what has changed with InfoSight and provides data on how much information Nimble Storage receives from it’s customers.


Nimble Storage OpenStack Integration Demo

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Nimble Storage

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Personnel: Wen Yu

Wen Yu, Product Management Senior Manager, introduces Nimble Storage integration with OpenStack and demonstrates the capabilities.


Nimble Storage Cloud Solutions

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Nimble Storage

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Personnel: Gavin Cohen

Gavin Cohen, Head of Strategy and Market Development, introduces the new rental model for Nimble Storage customers and discusses the business cases for its use.


Nimble Storage Performance Correlation Analysis Demo

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Nimble Storage

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Personnel: Gim Mahasintunan

Gim Mahasintunan, Principal Engineer at Nimble Storage, presented a demonstration of Nimble Storage’s Performance Correlation Analysis on November 7, 2014, during a Tech Field Day event. The focus of the presentation was on the capabilities of InfoSight, Nimble Storage’s comprehensive monitoring and analytics platform. InfoSight is designed to provide proactive wellness, performance troubleshooting, and an extensive ecosystem that feeds back into the company. The goal is to extend the power of InfoSight from physical storage environments to virtual environments, enabling per-VM virtual monitoring without requiring any modifications to the virtual infrastructure. This is achieved by running an agent on the Nimble array, which gathers topology and performance metrics from the virtual machines and hosts.

During the demo, Mahasintunan showcased how InfoSight can be used to troubleshoot common issues such as the “noisy neighbor” problem, where one virtual machine (VM) negatively impacts the performance of others. By searching for a specific VM, users can analyze its latency and correlate it with host activities, breaking down the latency into categories like host, network, and storage. This is done without needing to install any additional software on the ESX hosts or VMs, as the Nimble array communicates directly with the vCenter environment to gather necessary statistics. The demo also highlighted the ability to drill down into data store latency, IOPS, and throughput at a minutely level, providing detailed insights into the performance of individual virtual disks within a VM.

The presentation also touched on the future direction of InfoSight, including potential support for other hypervisors beyond VMware, such as Hyper-V and Xen. Mahasintunan emphasized that the current demo was a pre-release version, giving attendees a preview of features that were expected to be available in the coming year. The demonstration illustrated how InfoSight’s advanced analytics could quickly identify performance issues and their root causes, thereby enhancing the management and optimization of virtual environments. This expansion of InfoSight aims to provide the same level of detailed monitoring and proactive management for virtual environments as it does for physical storage environments.


NexentaStor – Software Defined Unified Storage Using Industry Standard Hardware

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Nexenta Systems Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Nexenta

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Personnel: Oscar Wahlberg

In this session, we will discuss the high level architecture of NexentaStor, a Software-Defined solution for unified file and block storage. We’ll provide a high level overview of how Nexenta helps solve customers’ pain points by delivering flexible, scalable, and cost-efficient software-defined storage solutions, and share some of our upcoming play for all-SSD configurations.


Software Defined Storage for VSAN and VDI

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Nexenta Systems Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Nexenta

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Personnel: Murat Karslioglu

In this session we will talk about the NexentaConnect product family focusing on the upcoming release of Nexentaconnect for VMware Virtual SAN and Nextena’s vision of simplifying storage for everyone. Session includes a deep dive into architecture of NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN, automations, and ZFS fine-tuning.


Why Eventually Consistent Object Storage Should Not Use Consistent Hashing

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Nexenta Systems Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Nexenta

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Personnel: Robert Novak

In this session we will introduce Nexenta’s next generation object storage solution, NexentaEdge, and provide an architectural overview of the integration with OpenStack before diving deeper into the technical details in a “chalk talk”. During the chalk talk we will cover the architecture of the NexentaEdge Object Cluster that supports a unified global namespace across clusters of clusters and performs distributed deduplication, leveraging off a new form of hashing, Flexhash (TM) and Replicast, a reliable form of Multicast UDP.


Introducing Nexenta & the Benefit of Software-Defined

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Nexenta Systems Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Nexenta

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Personnel: Jill Orhun

In this industry perspective we will introduce Nexenta, our Software-Defined Storage solution portfolio, business model, and market position; we will also discuss the definitions of “true” Software-Defined Storage, how differentiated technical capabilities map to tangible business benefits, the observed results that demonstrate this, and additional statistics on the state of the industry around SDS.


Pure Storage: FlashArray and Purity OE Architecture Whiteboard Session

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Neil Vachharajani

Neil Vachharajani, Principal Architect, covers the architecture behind the Pure Storage FlashArray and Purity Operating Environment with a deep-dive whiteboard session.


Pure Storage: Asking The Right All-Flash Array Questions

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart, Chief Evangelist, brings up the right questions to be asking when looking at all-flash arrays and comparing them to other options. Also demonstrated is Pure Storage integration with VMware vVols.


Pure Storage: Five Years Driving the Flash Revolution

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Matt Kixmoeller

Matt Kixmoeller, VP of Products, introduces Pure Storage and discusses the philosophy behind their all-flash arrays.


Your Storage Datapath is a Network Datapath

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Coho Data Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Coho Data

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Personnel: Andrew Warfield

Andy Warfield, co-founder and CTO at Coho Data discusses hardware trends in datacenter computing, and describes the specific performance challenges facing storage system designs. As nonvolatile memories become denser sources of both performance and capacity, storage systems must increasingly learn from packet processing architectures. Andy discusses how Coho is taking advantage of a converged approach that integrates tightly with software defined networking (SDN), and how Coho is using software tools such as Intel’s Data Path Development Kit (DPDK) in the design of its storage system.


The Inevitability of Hierarchical Storage

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Coho Data Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Coho Data

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Personnel: Andrew Warfield

Andy Warfield, co-founder and CTO at Coho Data discusses the challenges faced in designing a high performance and cost effective storage system using a diverse range of emerging storage media. The presentation describes how even without spinning disks, sensible storage system design will incorporate multiple types of nonvolatile memory, including SATA/SAS flash, PCIe/NVMe, and NVDIMM. Combining these diverse types of media presents a connectivity and analytics problem in system architecture, and the presentation provides a high-level overview of some advanced techniques that Coho has developed for understanding and adapting to application workloads.


Careful, Calculating Convergence

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Coho Data Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Coho Data

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Personnel: Andrew Warfield

Andy Warfield, co-founder and CTO at Coho Data discusses recent (and early!) work at Coho Data to incorporate data analytics engines, such as Cloudera’s CDH5 within Coho’s storage system. He describes two real customer use cases for converging storage and analytics toolchains, and then broadens to explore how Coho is taking advantage of container technologies like Docker to build a scalable and efficiency-oriented platform for datacenter workloads.


Coho Data DataStream Overview

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Coho Data Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Coho Data

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Personnel: Andrew Warfield

Andy Warfield, discusses some of the background behind Coho Data, the problems that the company is solving, and overviews Coho’s product architecture. During this segment, Andy demonstrates the DataStream UI, and discusses programmability and API exposure for integration with Coho’s software stack.


Tegile Technology Introduction

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Tegile Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Tegile

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Personnel: Narayan Venkat

Narayan Venkat, Chief Marketing Officer, introduces Tegile and discusses their hybrid storage technology.


Tegile IntelliFlash Architecture Review

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Tegile Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Tegile

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Personnel: Rajesh Nair

Rajesh Nair, Chief Technology Officer, discusses the technology and architecture behind Tegile’s IntelliFlash product.


Tegile Technology Partner Integration

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Tegile Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Tegile

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Personnel: Rajiev Rajavasireddy

Rajiev Rajavasireddy, VP of Product Management, discusses Tegile’s integration with technology partners and answers questions from the delegates.