Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Coraid Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Coraid

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Coraid Introduction and Architecture

Personnel: Carl Wright, Kevin Brown

Coraid CEO Kevin Brown introduces the company and its history:

• Founded by Brantley Coyle (Cisco PIX and NAT)
• Coraid’s 10-year history, growth, funding, and management
• Financial value of the Coraid solution

Next, Carl Wright, Executive VP of Sales for Coraid, talks about the product architecture:

• Positioning Coraid in the FC and IP storage market
• Migration of high-end features down from high-end systems
• The Coraid global namespace
• ATA over Ethernet appears as a SCSI controller to hosts
• Simplicity of a connectionless datagram protocol
• LUN configuration is stored on the drives for flexibility and resilience
• Virtual software RAID
• Automation and one-click provisioning

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Coraid Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Coraid

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Storage Protocols Compared to AoE with Coraid

Personnel: Carl Wright, Mark LaRosa

Robert Przykucki (Director, Product Management at Coraid) compares enterprise storage protocols:

• Physical configuration of Coraid arrays
• History of networking and storage
• Protocol stack comparison: AoE, Fibre Channel, FCoE, and iSCSI
• The iSCSI data path: Connection-based and serial
• The AoE data path: Connectionless and parallel

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Coraid Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Coraid

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Coraid Use Cases and Technology Deep Dive

Personnel: Carl Wright, Mark LaRosa

Mark LaRosa (Principal Architect) discusses use cases for the Coraid storage solution:

• Customer story: DLA – Coraid AoE SAN plus ZFS NAS
• Customer story: i-cubed – high-throughput GPFS

Next, Mark and Carl Wright go into greater depth on the Coraid technology:

• Whiteboard demo of Coraid LUN and RAID configuration with a few simple CLI commands
• Mixing drive types in the Coraid environment (SATA, SAS, SSD)
• LUN masking and access control
• How the architecture enables automation and mass-scale

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Quest Software Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Quest Software

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Quest Software presents at Storage Field Day 1
• YouTube: Quest Software presents at Storage Field Day 1

Personnel: Bob Maeser, Walter Angerer

Quest Software begins with their vision and company mission, then discusses their various enterprise backup and recovery products. The majority of the discussion focuses on NetVault XA, their next-generation backup product and global dashboard concept. This new platform unifies Quest’s data protection technologies, aligns backup and recovery directly to the organization’s service continuity needs, and delivers a customized experience for users in multiple roles. NetVault XA version 1.0 will be available in the second half of 2012, and will be incorporated into the planned releases of NetVault Backup, NetVault SmartDisk, and vRanger.

Presenters:

• Walter Angerer, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Protection
• Bob Maeser, Vice President, Research and Development, Data Protection

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Dell Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Dell Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Mike Davis introduces the Dell Storage vision
• YouTube: Mike Davis introduces the Dell Storage vision

Personnel: Mike Davis

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Dell Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Dell Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Dell AppAssure demonstration
• YouTube: Dell AppAssure demonstration

Personnel: TBD

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Dell Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Dell Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Derek Gascon details the Dell DX Object Store technology
• YouTube: Derek Gascon details the Dell DX Object Store technology

Personnel: Derek Gascon

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Brocade Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Brocade

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Jon Hudson introduces the Brocade presentation at Storage Field Day 1
• YouTube: Jon Hudson introduces the Brocade presentation at Storage Field Day 1

Personnel: Jon Hudson

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Brocade Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Brocade

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Brocade DCB iSCSI demonstration
• YouTube: Brocade DCB iSCSI demonstration

Personnel: Jon Hudson

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Brocade Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Brocade

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Brocade presents the 1860 Fibre Channel and Ethernet Fabric Adapter technology
• YouTube: Brocade presents the 1860 Fibre Channel and Ethernet Fabric Adapter technology

Personnel: Jon Hudson, Marcus Thordal

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Tintri Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Tintri

Video Links:

• Vimeo: A brief look at Tintri by Kieran Harty, Co-Founder and CEO
• YouTube: A brief look at Tintri by Kieran Harty, Co-Founder and CEO

Personnel: Kieran Harty

A brief look at Tintri by Kieran Harty, Co-Founder and CEO from Storage Field Day 1.

Note: We apologize that the first 3 minutes of this video have poor audio and video. They were recorded with our alternate camera, with the primary camera feed lost due to a software issue.

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Tintri Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Tintri

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Mark Gritter and Edward Lee present the Tintri VMstore architecture
• YouTube: Mark Gritter and Edward Lee present the Tintri VMstore architecture

Personnel: Edward Lee, Mark Gritter

Mark Gritter and Edward Lee present the Tintri VMstore architecture.

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Tintri Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Tintri

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Edward Lee walks through Tintri VMstore management and troubleshooting
• YouTube: Edward Lee walks through Tintri VMstore management and troubleshooting

Personnel: Edward Lee

Edward Lee walks through Tintri VMstore management and troubleshooting.

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Tintri Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Tintri

Video Links:

• Vimeo: John Walsh of Northwestern University discusses the Tintri VMstore in production
• YouTube: John Walsh of Northwestern University discusses the Tintri VMstore in production

Personnel: John Walsh

John Walsh of Northwestern University discusses the Tintri VMstore in production.

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Pure Storage Update
• YouTube: Pure Storage Update

Personnel: Matt Kixmoeller

In this first video VP, Products Matt Kixmoeller gives an update on Pure Storage, including recapping Pure’s customer traction through its Early Adopter Program, and sharing how Pure Storage views the emerging market segmentation in the all-flash array space.

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: SIEMENS eMeter Case Study

Personnel: Bryan Bond

In this video Bryan Bond (@VMJedi), Sr. SysAdmin at SIEMENS eMeter discusses his experience running the Pure Storage FlashArray in a production environment, supporting his development, testing, and training operations.

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Dedupe and Compression Deep Dive

Personnel: John Hayes

In this video Pure Storage Chief Architect John Hayes dives deep into the world of data reduction technologies, explaining how deduplication and compression techniques differ between backup, disk, and flash-based primary storage arrays, ultimately explaining how Pure Storage delivers inline deduplication and compression without sacrificing performance.

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Kaminario Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Kaminario

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Kaminario CEO Dani Golan presents the K2 solid state storage solution
• YouTube: Kaminario CEO Dani Golan presents the K2 solid state storage solution

Personnel: Dani Golan

Dani Golan presented a deep dive into their solid-state storage array. He began with some background on the solid state storage revolution and the challenges this poses to storage array design. Using a recorded demonstration, Golan showed the scale-out K2 storage system recovering from the loss of an entire active storage blade. He then discusses the elements of Kaminario’s DataProtect software layer and scale-out “SPEAR” architecture.

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Nimbus Data Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Nimbus Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Nimbus Performance Tests and Closing Points
• YouTube: Nimbus Performance Tests and Closing Points

Personnel:

Demartek recently tested the Nimbus S-Class, and Tom Isakovich discusses the results. The device reached line-rate over QDR InfiniBand (8 GB/s uncached reads, 2.3 GB/s writes). Demartek also validated VMware VAAI and SSD compatibility under vSphere 5.

Tom then hits some discussion points:

• Unified flash storage
• Tier-0 vs. tier-1
• PCIe vs. array storage
• Deduplication
• Hybrid vs. dedicated all-flash
• Scale-up vs. scale-out
• Memory Area Networks with InfiniBand or 40 GbE

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Nimbus Data Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Nimbus Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Nimbus Market and Pricing
• YouTube: Nimbus Market and Pricing

Personnel: Tom Isakovich

Comparing the pricing of a traditional hard disk drive-based storage array with the Nimbus all-flash array. Tom Isakovich’s comparison includes hardware, overhead, licensing, and support to reach a lower cost before deduplication or compression. He then talks about use cases for all-flash storage and recent Nimbus customer wins.