Dedupe and Compression Deep Dive

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.


Kaminario CEO Dani Golan presents the K2 solid state storage solution

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.


Nimbus Performance Tests and Closing Points

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:

  • 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


Nimbus Market and Pricing

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.


Nimbus HALO Operating System Overview

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:

  • 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


Tom Isakovich introduces Nimbus Data to the Storage Field Day delegates

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).


A Demonstration of Drobo Technology with Mario Blandini

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.


How Drobo BeyondRAID Handles SSDs

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:

  • 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


Drobo Chalk Talk – The Technology Behind BeyondRAID

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:

  • 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


Tom Buiocchi introduces Drobo to the Storage Field Day delegates

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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