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Event: Storage Field Day 2
Appearance: Nutanix Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Company: Nutanix
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Personnel: Steve Poitras
This demo shows Steve Poitras deploying a new from factory Nutanix cluster, configuring storage and exposing it to EXSi hosts, provisioning a 400 desktop view pool while running a Hadoop job, scaling out the cluster from 4 to 8 nodes.
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Event: Storage Field Day 2
Appearance: Nutanix Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Company: Nutanix
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Personnel: Mohit Aron
Nutanix co-founder and CTO Mohit Aron gives the delegates of Storage Field Day 2 the first look at the new products and features before they are formally announced!
In part 2 of his talk, Aron dives into more new features: Auto-pathing virtual machine traffic, distributed orchestration, Bonjour-based dynamic node addition, Hypervisor agnostic capability and the announcement of KVM support, support for Hadoop, and serviceability of the product.
Howard Ting, VP of Marketing, then announces “Project Nfinity”, a 200-node Hadoop cluster.
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Event: Storage Field Day 2
Appearance: Nutanix Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Company: Nutanix
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Personnel: Mohit Aron
Nutanix co-founder and CTO Mohit Aron gives an overview of the Nutanix architecture before giving the delegates of Storage Field Day 2 the first look at the new products and features before they are formally announced!
After 15 minutes talking about the Nutanix product as it exists today, Aron dives into new features: Native disaster decovery and data compression.
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Event: Storage Field Day 2
Appearance: Nutanix Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Company: Nutanix
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Personnel: Dheeraj Pandey
The presentation by Dheeraj Pandey, CEO and co-founder of Nutanix, at Tech Field Day 2 on November 9, 2012, provided a comprehensive overview of Nutanix and its business updates. The session began with Howard Ting, VP of Marketing, introducing the company and highlighting the experienced team assembled from top tech companies like Oracle, Google, VMware, and Palo Alto Networks. Nutanix, founded in 2009, has been selling its solutions for about a year and is backed by prominent venture capital firms such as Lightspeed, Battery, COSLA, and Goldman. The company focuses on leveraging the channel for distribution and emphasizes that its core intellectual property lies in software, delivered through a hardware form factor. Ting also mentioned that the presentation would include sneak peeks into unannounced features, encouraging attendees to write about them.
Dheeraj Pandey then delved into the technological evolution over the past decade, particularly the shift towards converging compute and storage, a concept pioneered by tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon. This approach led to the creation of scalable, flat data centers where compute and storage resources are integrated into the same machines, eliminating the need for traditional storage area networks (SANs). Pandey highlighted VMware’s recent alignment with this vision, as evidenced by their acquisition of Nicera and their push towards software-defined data centers. This paradigm shift envisions enterprise data centers as homogeneous, symmetric environments where all services, including applications, storage, networking, and security, run on commodity servers. Nutanix’s vision aligns with this trend, aiming to bring the benefits of cloud data centers to enterprise environments.
Pandey further explained the concept of convergence and its implications for data center architecture. True convergence, according to Nutanix, involves integrating compute, storage, and other services into a homogeneous set of machines, rather than merely bolting together existing systems. This approach allows for independent scaling of compute and storage, with storage controllers running as virtual entities rather than on bare metal. This flexibility enables late binding of features, allowing administrators to assign policies at the virtual machine level rather than being constrained by hardware configurations. Nutanix’s architecture supports dynamic, self-learning systems that adapt to data access patterns, optimizing performance and resource utilization. The presentation concluded with a discussion on the benefits of hyperconvergence, including cost savings, incremental scalability, and the elimination of silos, positioning Nutanix as a leader in the software-defined data center space.
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Event: Storage Field Day 2
Appearance: Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Company: Nimble Storage
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Personnel: Michael McLaughlin
Michael McLaughlin demonstrates the dynamic reconfiguration capabilities of the Nimble Storage solution, replacing hardware on the fly
Event: Storage Field Day 2
Appearance: Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Company: Nimble Storage
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Personnel: Umesh Maheshwari
Nimble Storage founder and CTO Umesh Maheshwari discusses the issues facing enterprise storage array design, the challenges of hybrid solid state and disk systems, and the Nimble Storage product architecture
Event: Storage Field Day 2
Appearance: Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Company: Nimble Storage
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Personnel: Dan Leary, Stephen Foskett
Stephen Foskett introduces Storage Field Day 2 and the Nimble Storage presentation. Dan Leary from Nimble Storage takes over, giving an overview of the company and its hybrid enterprise storage products.
Event: Next-Generation Storage Symposium
Appearance: Engineering Storage for Virtualization and Cloud
Company: Nimbus Data, Pure Storage, SolidFire, Tegile
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Personnel: Dave Wright, Matt Kixmoeller, Rajesh Nair, Stephen Foskett, Tom Isakovich
Event: Next-Generation Storage Symposium
Appearance: Scaling Storage for the Future Panel
Company: Nutanix, Scale Computing, SolidFire
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Personnel: Dave Wright, Dheeraj Pandey, Jason Collier, Scott D. Lowe, Stephen Foskett
Event: Next-Generation Storage Symposium
Appearance: Solid State Tiering and Caching Panel
Company: Nexsan, Starboard, Tegile
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Personnel: David Floyer, George Symons, Howard Marks, Lee Johns, Rajesh Nair
Event: Next-Generation Storage Symposium
Appearance: Next-Generation Array Architecture Panel
Company: Nimbus Data, Pure Storage, Scale Computing, SolidFire
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Personnel: Chris Evans, Dave Wright, Jason Collier, Matt Kixmoeller, Robin Harris, Tom Isakovich
Event: Next-Generation Storage Symposium
Appearance: Next-Generation Storage: Robin Harris Keynote
Company: N/A
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Personnel: Robin Harris
Event: Next-Generation Storage Symposium
Appearance: Lunch with Permabit
Company: Permabit
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Personnel: Jered Floyd
Event: Next-Generation Storage Symposium
Appearance: Introducing the Next-Generation Storage Leaders
Company: Nexsan
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Personnel: George Symons
Nexsan Chief Strategy Officer, George Symons, presents their corporate vision for storage. He discusses the reality and hype of SSD-based storage arrays and the multiple locations flash can be used in enterprise IT. He then presents the NST5000 hybrid and E-Series storage systems.
Event: Next-Generation Storage Symposium
Appearance: Introducing the Next-Generation Storage Leaders
Company: Tegile
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Personnel: Rob Commins
Tegile VP of Marketing Rob Commins presents the case for hybrid storage arrays. Commins discusses hybrid clouds, the “I/O Blender”, VM density, and various approaches to storage array design. He dismisses all-disk arrays, SSD as a tier, and all-flash arrays and suggests instead using DRAM and SSD caching, deduplication and compression, and unified storage in a hybrid array.
Event: Next-Generation Storage Symposium
Appearance: Introducing the Next-Generation Storage Leaders
Company: SolidFire
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Personnel: Dave Wright
Event: Next-Generation Storage Symposium
Appearance: Introducing the Next-Generation Storage Leaders
Company: Pure Storage
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Personnel: Matt Kixmoeller
Matt Kixmoeller of Pure Storage outlines five observations about solid state storage:
1) Flash is disrupting every segment of storage
2) It’s all about the dedupe
3) Tiering is a compromise
4) Flash is now suitable for most applications
5) Flash’s simplicity is more disruptive than performance
Event: Next-Generation Storage Symposium
Appearance: Introducing the Next-Generation Storage Leaders
Company: Nimbus Data
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Personnel: Tom Isakovich
Event: Networking Field Day 4
Appearance: Juniper Presents at Networking Field Day 4
Company: Juniper Networks
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Personnel: Dan Backman, Derick Winkworth
Event: Networking Field Day 4
Appearance: Juniper Presents at Networking Field Day 4
Company: Juniper Networks
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Personnel: Kyle Adams
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