Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Maxta Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Maxta

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Who is Maxta? “Think Outside the Storage Box”
• YouTube: Who is Maxta? “Think Outside the Storage Box”

Personnel: Yoram Novick

Learn how Maxta is maximizing the promise of hyper-convergence. In this session you will learn about Maxta, the problems we seek to solve, and what our unique value proposition is. Maxta not only delivers on the promise of simplicity, scalability, and cost savings, but also offers the unique choice to hyper-convergence on leading server brands and white boxes, supporting multiple hypervisors, with hybrid and all flash configurations. Maxta solutions are available in 2 deployment models – MaxDeploy Appliances and MxSP software defined storage.

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Cloudian Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Cloudian

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cloudian Smart Data – Efficient, Scalable Storage for the Internet of Things
• YouTube: Cloudian Smart Data – Efficient, Scalable Storage for the Internet of Things

Personnel: Paul Turner

In-place data analytics at petabyte scale, Hadoop integration and Hortonworks certification, and Cloudian smart support.

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Cloudian Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Cloudian

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cloudian Enterprise Management, Multi Tenancy, and the S3 Ecosystem
• YouTube: Cloudian Enterprise Management, Multi Tenancy, and the S3 Ecosystem

Personnel: Gary Ogasawara

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Cloudian Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Cloudian

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cloudian HyperStore Dynamic Policy Engine
• YouTube: Cloudian HyperStore Dynamic Policy Engine

Personnel: Gary Ogasawara

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Exablox Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Exablox

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Exablox OneBlox and OneSystem Demo
• YouTube: Exablox OneBlox and OneSystem Demo

Personnel: Sean Derrington

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Exablox Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Exablox

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Exablox OneBlox Object Store
• YouTube: Exablox OneBlox Object Store

Personnel: Tad Hunt

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Exablox Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Exablox

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Exablox OneBlox Filesystem
• YouTube: Exablox OneBlox Filesystem

Personnel: Tad Hunt

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Exablox Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Exablox

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Exablox OneSystem Cloud Based Storage Management
• YouTube: Exablox OneSystem Cloud Based Storage Management

Personnel: Tad Hunt

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Exablox Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Exablox

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Exablox Technology Overview
• YouTube: Exablox Technology Overview

Personnel: Tad Hunt

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Exablox Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Exablox

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Exablox Company and Business Update
• YouTube: Exablox Company and Business Update

Personnel: Douglas Brockett

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Cloudian Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Cloudian

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cloudian HyperStore Essentials
• YouTube: Cloudian HyperStore Essentials

Personnel: Paul Turner

Building massively scalable storage

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Cloudian Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Cloudian

Video Links:

• Vimeo: The Cloudian Story
• YouTube: The Cloudian Story

Personnel: Michael Tso

Company background, funding, analyst insights, hybrid clouds, and the future for capacity storage.

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Springpath Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Springpath

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Springpath OpenStack and Docker Demonstration
• YouTube: Springpath OpenStack and Docker Demonstration

Personnel: Aaron Kapacinskas, Sean Chen

Two demonstrations: Springpath on OpenStack + KVM and Springpath on OpenStack + containers

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Springpath Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Springpath

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Springpath Installation and Management Demonstration
• YouTube: Springpath Installation and Management Demonstration

Personnel:

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Springpath Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Springpath

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Springpath HALO Architecture Deep Dive
• YouTube: Springpath HALO Architecture Deep Dive

Personnel: Mallik Mahalingam

What makes up the distributed scale out hardware agnostic log-structure objects (HALO) data platform. What makes Springpath’s approach unique?

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Springpath Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Springpath

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Springpath Corporate and Data Platform Overview
• YouTube: Springpath Corporate and Data Platform Overview

Personnel: Ashish Gupta, Ravi Parthasarathy

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.

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Connected Data Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Connected Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Connected Data File Transporter Demo
• YouTube: Connected Data File Transporter Demo

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.

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Connected Data Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Connected Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Connected Data File Transporter Private Cloud Appliance Overview
• YouTube: Connected Data File Transporter Private Cloud Appliance Overview

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.

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: VMware Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: VMware by Broadcom

Video Links:

• Vimeo: VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 Features and Metrics
• YouTube: VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 Features and Metrics

Personnel: Christos Karamanolis

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: VMware Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: VMware by Broadcom

Video Links:

• Vimeo: VMware Virtual SAN Technical Discussion
• YouTube: VMware Virtual SAN Technical Discussion

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.