The Independent IT Influencer Event
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Event: Storage Field Day 6
Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Company: StorMagic
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Personnel: Hans O'Sullivan
Hans O’Sullivan, CEO, discusses various customer use cases for the StorMagic SvSAN technology.
Event: Storage Field Day 6
Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Company: StorMagic
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Personnel: Chris Farey
Chris Farey, CTO, introduces the SvSAN product from StorMagic and demonstrates end-to-end storage provisioning, server failure, bare metal recovery, and dynamic data migration.
Event: Storage Field Day 6
Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Storage Field Day 6
Company: StorMagic
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Personnel: Chris Farey
Chris Farey, CTO, goes into the background archtecture of the SvSAN product from StorMagic. Topics discussed include high availability, management, monitoring, and scalability.
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