The Independent IT Influencer Event
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: VMTurbo Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: VMTurbo
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Personnel: Endre Sara, Eric Bannon
Endre Sara, VP of Advanced Solutions Development for VMTurbo, presents the company’s core architectural concept. He discusses the trade-offs of management, localization, and creating a “marketplace” of services in the data center.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: VMTurbo Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: VMTurbo
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Personnel: Eric Bannon
Eric Bannon, Sales Engineer for VMTurbo, discusses the desired state for server management, the data center as a supply chain, and how a demand-driven control plane can help.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: VMTurbo Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: VMTurbo
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Personnel: Eric Wright
Eric Wright, Technology Evangelist for VMTurbo, introduces the company and the concept of control.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Platform9 Systems Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Platform9
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Personnel: Sirish Raghuram
Sirish Raghuram, CEO and Co-Founder of Platform9, wraps up the company’s Tech Field Day presentation with a bit more information about the product’s internals.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Platform9 Systems Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Platform9
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Personnel: Madhura Maskasky
Madhura Maskasky, VP Product and Co-Founder, demonstrates Platform9 working in concert with VMware vSphere.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Platform9 Systems Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Platform9
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Personnel: Madhura Maskasky
Madhura Maskasky, VP Product and Co-Founder, demonstrates Platform9 in action in a live environment.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Platform9 Systems Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Platform9
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Personnel: Madhura Maskasky
Madhura Maskasky, VP Product and Co-Founder, demonstrates Platform9 in action on KVM.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Platform9 Systems Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Platform9
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Personnel: Madhura Maskasky
Madhura Maskasky, VP Product and Co-Founder, gives an overview of the Platform9 product. She puts it in context of an OpenStack deployment and discusses how it would be used.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: Platform9 Systems Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: Platform9
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Personnel: Sirish Raghuram
Sirish Raghuram, CEO and Co-Founder of Platform9, introduces the company and its products. He begins with the history and background of the founders before turning to the company’s mission. He discusses the private cloud landscape in depth, pros and cons of OpenStack, and the Platform9 approach to management.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: SimpliVity Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: SimpliVity
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Personnel: Jesse St. Laurent
A deep dive into the architecture of SimpliVity with Jesse St. Laurent, VP of Product Strategy. He stats with a discussion of SimpliVity’s data virtualization platform architecture before turning to the company’s management system. He then talks about the company’s approach to data replication.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: SimpliVity Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: SimpliVity
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Personnel: Jesse St. Laurent
Jesse St. Laurent, VP of Product Strategy, demonstrates the efficiency of SimpliVity OmniStack. He introduces the storage I/O flow and points out the changes brought by flash-based storage. He then addresses post-process vs. inline deduplication of data.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: SimpliVity Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: SimpliVity
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Personnel: Brian Knudtson, Jesse St. Laurent
Jesse St. Laurent, VP of Product Strategy, and Brian Knudtson, Technical Marketing Manager, demonstrate the functions of SimpliVity OmniStack. They show it running in VMware vSphere vCenter, creating policy rules, backing up and restoring virtual machines, and moving them around.
Event: Virtualization Field Day 4
Appearance: SimpliVity Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Company: SimpliVity
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Personnel: Jesse St. Laurent
Jesse St. Laurent, VP of Product Strategy at SimpliVity, introduces the company’s OmniStack technology, emphasizing its vision to transform and simplify IT infrastructure. He begins by contrasting traditional data center stacks with SimpliVity’s approach, which aims to replace conventional components like servers, storage, and networking with standardized x86 systems. This transformation is likened to the operational models of hyperscale data centers like Google and Amazon, but tailored for enterprise environments that rely on off-the-shelf and homegrown applications. These enterprise applications have inherent dependencies on the underlying infrastructure, unlike the custom-built applications of hyperscale data centers that are designed to minimize such dependencies.
St. Laurent explains that SimpliVity’s OmniStack technology integrates various data center functions into a single, scalable 2U building block, simplifying management and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). The technology includes an accelerator card for deduplication, compression, and optimization of data before it is written to disk, ensuring data efficiency across all layers of the stack. This approach eliminates the need for separate data protection and replication solutions, as these functions are built into the OmniStack. The system also supports cloud integration, allowing backups to be sent to AWS, although restoring data still requires an OmniCube.
The presentation highlights the flexibility of SimpliVity’s solution, which can be deployed in both mid-market and enterprise environments. In mid-market scenarios, SimpliVity often replaces core business applications and provides disaster recovery (DR) capabilities that were previously too complex or costly. In enterprise settings, the technology is typically introduced for specific applications or development environments, gradually expanding as users recognize its benefits. The OmniStack can also function as a SAN for existing workloads, providing a pathway for gradual migration to a fully hyperconverged infrastructure. This flexibility, combined with the operational simplicity and efficiency of the OmniStack, positions SimpliVity as a compelling solution for modernizing IT infrastructure.
Event: Storage Field Day 6
Appearance: NEC Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Company: NEC Storage
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Personnel: Nobuyuki Morita
Nobuyuki Morita, Product Manager, demonstrates the NEC HYDRAstor user interface and capabilities.
Event: Storage Field Day 6
Appearance: NEC Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Company: NEC Storage
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Personnel: Gideon Senderov
Gideon Senderov, Director of Product Management and Technical Marketing, and Chauncey Schwartz, Product Manager, introduce NEC Storage and give an overview of the M-Series storage product line.
Event: Storage Field Day 6
Appearance: NEC Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Company: NEC Storage
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Personnel: Chauncey Schwartz
Chauncey Schwartz, Product Manager, demonstrates the user interface and capabilities of the NEC M-Series storage array.
Event: Storage Field Day 6
Appearance: NEC Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Company: NEC Storage
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Personnel: Gideon Senderov
Gideon Senderov, Director of Product Management and Technical Marketing, introduces the latest enhancements with the fourth generation of HYDRAstor.
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.
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.
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.
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