Event: Storage Field Day 1
Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 1
Company: Pure Storage
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
Event: Storage Field Day 1
Appearance: Nimbus Data Presents at Storage Field Day 1
Company: Nimbus Data
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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.
Event: Storage Field Day 1
Appearance: Nimbus Data Presents at Storage Field Day 1
Company: Nimbus Data
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Tom Isakovich introduces the Nimbus HALO operating system, touching on the following points:
Event: Storage Field Day 1
Appearance: Nimbus Data Presents at Storage Field Day 1
Company: Nimbus Data
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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
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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
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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:
Event: Storage Field Day 1
Appearance: Drobo Presents at Storage Field Day 1
Company: Drobo
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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:
Event: Tom Buiocchi introduces Drobo to the Storage Field Day delegates
Appearance: Drobo Presents at Storage Field Day 1
Company: Drobo
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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.
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