Solutions for VDI: Test Methodology and Results

Event: Storage Field Day 2

Appearance: Tintri Presents at Storage Field Day 2

Company: Tintri

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Personnel: John Phillips, Tristan Todd


Welcome, Introductions, & Tintri Update

Event: Storage Field Day 2

Appearance: Tintri Presents at Storage Field Day 2

Company: Tintri

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Personnel: Geoff Stedman


Nimbus Data in the flash marketplace: Competitors and customers

Event: Storage Field Day 2

Appearance: Nimbus Data Presents at Storage Field Day 2

Company: Nimbus Data

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Personnel: Tom Isakovich


The Nimbus Data HALO software environment

Event: Storage Field Day 2

Appearance: Nimbus Data Presents at Storage Field Day 2

Company: Nimbus Data

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Personnel: Tom Isakovich


Introducing the Nimbus Data Gemini array

Event: Storage Field Day 2

Appearance: Nimbus Data Presents at Storage Field Day 2

Company: Nimbus Data

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Personnel: Tom Isakovich


Tom Isakovich positions Nimbus Data in the Flash market

Event: Storage Field Day 2

Appearance: Nimbus Data Presents at Storage Field Day 2

Company: Nimbus Data

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Personnel: Tom Isakovich


Chen Burshan and Shannon Snowden Discuss Zerto Virtual Replication Cloud Architecture

Event: Storage Field Day 2

Appearance: Zerto Presents at Storage Field Day 2

Company: Zerto

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Personnel: Chen Burshan, Shannon Snowden

Chen Burshan, the Director of Product Management and Shannon Snowden, Senior Technical Marketing Architect from Zerto discuss the capability of Zerto in the Cloud. See why Cloud hosting, Hybrid, Private and DRaaS providers are loving Zerto’s virtual aware solutions.


Chen Burshan and Shannon Snowden Discuss Zerto Virtual Replication Advanced Features

Event: Storage Field Day 2

Appearance: Zerto Presents at Storage Field Day 2

Company: Zerto

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Personnel: Chen Burshan, Shannon Snowden

Chen Burshan, the Director of Product Management and Shannon Snowden, Senior Technical Marketing Architect from Zerto discuss advanced features of Zerto Virtual Replication. See some of the reasons Zerto performs complex operations under the hood, but is friendly to administer.


Chen Burshan and Shannon Snowden Demo Zerto Virtual Replication

Event: Storage Field Day 2

Appearance: Zerto Presents at Storage Field Day 2

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Personnel: Chen Burshan, Shannon Snowden

Shannon Snowden, Senior Technical Marketing Architect and Chen Burshan, the Director of Product Management from Zerto provide a detailed live demo of Zerto and functionality such as datacenter migrations, disaster avoidance and disaster recovery operations.


Shannon Snowden and Chen Burshan provide an overview of Zerto Virtual Replication

Event: Storage Field Day 2

Appearance: Zerto Presents at Storage Field Day 2

Company: Zerto

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Personnel: Chen Burshan, Shannon Snowden

Shannon Snowden, Senior Technical Marketing Architect and Chen Burshan, the Director of Product Management from Zerto describes what it is, what it does and the architecture behind the the most capable hypervisor-based replication product on the market.


Nutanix technical product demos

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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Mohit Aron, CTO and co-founder announces technical product updates. Part 2

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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Mohit Aron, CTO and co-founder announces technical product updates. Part 1

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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Dheeraj Pandey, CEO and co-founder gives a quick introduction to Nutanix and business update

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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Scale to Fit Product Demonstration

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


Nimble Architecture Fundamentals

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


Nimble Storage Company and Products Overview

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.


NGSS1 Panel: Engineering Storage for Virtualization and Cloud

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


NGSS1 Panel: Scaling Storage for the Future

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


NGSS1 Panel: Solid State Tiering and Caching

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