Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Nimbus Data Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Nimbus Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Nimbus HALO Operating System Overview
• YouTube: Nimbus HALO Operating System Overview

Personnel:

Tom Isakovich introduces the Nimbus HALO operating system, touching on the following points:

• The Nimbus system is all-inclusive with regard to software
• Administration with the CLI, REST API, and GUI (future)
• Multi-protocol interface (iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand SRP)
• Thin provisioning, replication, snapshots, deduplication, encryption
• Standards: T10 thin provisioning, ALUA multi-pathing
• The Nimbus flash-optimized file system and multi-enclosure aggregation
• Performance impact from on-the-fly data deduplication
• Integration with VMware (VAAI), Citrix Ready, Microsoft (VSS), Oracle

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Nimbus Data Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Nimbus Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Tom Isakovich introduces Nimbus Data to the Storage Field Day delegates
• YouTube: Tom Isakovich introduces Nimbus Data to the Storage Field Day delegates

Personnel: Tom Isakovich

Tom Isakovich introduces Nimbus Data to the Storage Field Day delegates. Tom talks about their “Sustainable Storage” vision and his predictions for the solid state storage market. He then introduces the Nimbus Data line: The E-Class (for Enterprise or Efficiency) and the S-Class (for Speed and Simplicity).

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Drobo Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Drobo

Video Links:

• Vimeo: A Demonstration of Drobo Technology with Mario Blandini
• YouTube: A Demonstration of Drobo Technology with Mario Blandini

Personnel: Mario Blandini, Rick Vanover

Drobo Chief Evangelist, Mario Blandini, demonstrates SSD tiering with a Drobo B1200i. The intent of this demonstration was to show how the array performance improves once an SSD is added for BeyondRAID to use. Mario also passes around an Icy Dock (which Drobo uses to mount 2.5″ SSDs) and an OCZ Talos SSD.

Mario also invites Rick Vanover of Veeam to talk about how that company integrates with Drobo devices for small-business data protection.

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Drobo Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Drobo

Video Links:

• Vimeo: How Drobo BeyondRAID Handles SSDs
• YouTube: How Drobo BeyondRAID Handles SSDs

Personnel: Eric Pounds, Rod Harrison

Continuing their discussion of BeyondRAID technology, Erik Pounds (Director, Product Management) and Rod Harrison (Chief Architect) of Drobo discusses the following key points:

• Logical storage tiering with hard disk drives and SSDs
• How Drobo handles SSDs internally
• The use of multiple physical storage tiers inside BeyondRAID
• How the Drobo system automatically tunes itself

Event: Storage Field Day 1

Appearance: Drobo Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Drobo

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Drobo Chalk Talk – The Technology Behind BeyondRAID
• YouTube: Drobo Chalk Talk – The Technology Behind BeyondRAID

Personnel: Eric Pounds, Rod Harrison

Eric Pounds (Director, Product Management) and Rod Harrison (Chief Architect) of Drobo details the technology behind BeyondRAID, their core data management technology. They hit on the following key points during this discussion:

• How Drobo presents a single pool of storage
• How BeoyndRAID creates thousands of “zones” of storage on disk drives
• How these zones are built and re-built
• Drobo’s “data-aware” thin provisioning technology

Event: Tom Buiocchi introduces Drobo to the Storage Field Day delegates

Appearance: Drobo Presents at Storage Field Day 1

Company: Drobo

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Tom Buiocchi introduces Drobo to the Storage Field Day delegates

Personnel: Tom Buiocchi

Drobo CEO, Tom Buiocchi introduces the company (formerly known as Data Robotics) and outlines the company’s agenda for Storage Field Day 1. He announces a major 1 Petabyte customer win while placing the company firmly in the SMB market segment.