Demo of HPE MicroServer StorMagic SvSAN Deployment

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Stuart Campbell

In this video you’ll watch a live demonstration of a StorMagic SvSAN VSA being installed on HPE MicroServers in a VMware environment. The video will show the tools used and the simplicity of the process.


HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus v2 Product Overview

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Personnel: Tim Daron

In this video, Tim Daron, HP’s Solutions Architect for SMB and mid-market solutions, introduces the MicroServer Gen 10 Plus V2. Powered by the Intel Xeon E Series, this compact server prioritizes security with features like Silicon Root of Trust for firmware authentication. Tim highlights its ILO version five and mentions its resemblance to the DL 380 flagship’s Remote Management capabilities. The MicroServer supports up to 64 GB of RAM, offers teamable Ethernet connections, and operates quietly with an external power supply.


StorMagic and HPE Showcase Edge Solutions

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Bruce Kornfeld

Strategic partners since 2020, HPE and StorMagic are joining forces at Edge Field Day 2 to show how HPE servers with StorMagic SvSAN virtual SAN software are an ideal solution to help customers solve all of their problems at the edge. The joint platform’s simplicity, flexibility and low cost make it an ideal choice for customers with dozens, hundreds or thousands of sites grappling with the challenges of data explosion at the edge.


The Value of High Density Storage at the Edge with StorageReview and Solidigm

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Solidigm Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: Solidigm, StorageReview

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Personnel: Jordan Ranous

Addressing the ever growing edge storage market is no easy task. Jordan Ranous, a Technology Analyst at StorageReview shares how a variety of workloads and customers like Cheetah RAID are benefit greatly from Solidigm’s High Density QLC SSD solutions. In this session you will dive in deep on how and why these workloads operate more efficiently and perform better than traditional or legacy storage solutions.


The Value of Solidigm SSDs Delivered at the Edge

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Solidigm Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: Solidigm

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Personnel: Tahmid Rahman

Want to understand how Solidigm SSDs are the best options for today’s most demanding read-intensive workloads? Tahmid Rahman, Data Center Director of Product for Marketing at Solidigm will how the Solidigm SSD portfolio tackles AI and edge workload in a variety of storage systems.

Solid-state drives (SSDs) have evolved significantly over the years, showcasing developments in capacity, performance, power efficiency, and space, weight efficiency. With the increasing need for data to reside, be analyzed, and consumed at the edge, SSDs, particularly Quad-Level Cell (QLC) drives, are proving essential. They offer high-density storage and enhanced performance, making them ideal for high data requirement applications like Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS). This evolution has seen SSDs become more cost-efficient and sustainable, ideal for both core and edge deployments.


The Value of Solidigm Form Factors at the Edge

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Solidigm Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: Solidigm

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Personnel: Jeniece Wnorowski

Not all edge servers are created equally. Depending on the workload, application or system configuration, there’s a need for high density storage that is available in a variety of form factors to fulfill the needs of a multitude of edge servers on the market. Jeniece Wnorowski, Influencer Marketing Strategist, shares the latest and greatest Enterprise and Data Center Form Factors (EDSFF) and how they offer better capacity, performance, service and manageability.


The Edge Storage Landscape and Edge Storage Challenges with Solidigm

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Solidigm Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: Solidigm

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Personnel: Roger Corell

As workloads evolve at the edge and become more read and data intensive, there is a need for a variety of high density storage solutions. Roger Corell, Solutions Marketing Director at Solidigm, shares how he and his team are helping organizations implement so of some of the most efficient and highly scalable storage solutions on the market.


Sustainability Means More Than Just Power Consumption

Event: Storage Field Day 26

Appearance: Storage Field Day 26 Delegate Roundtable Discussions

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Stephen Foskett

The importance of sustainability in the enterprise storage industry is often underestimated, but it’s crucial to evaluate aspects such as efficiency, power consumption, cooling, and waste to build sustainable solutions. As the dominant components in the market, Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) play a significant role, with their power consumption compared to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and contribution to overall energy use in data centers being notable. Some companies in this industry attempt to reuse or recycle old equipment, like hard drives, to minimize waste, although this effort is frequently hindered by data security concerns. To strive for better sustainability practices, attention must also be paid to the sourcing of materials, production of e-waste, and responsible disposal.


S3 Is an Accidental Storage Protocol

Event: Storage Field Day 26

Appearance: Storage Field Day 26 Delegate Roundtable Discussions

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Stephen Foskett

Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) has spawned an essential protocol for object storage, despite initially being intended as an API for a cloud service rather than a traditional protocol. However, the lack of standardization and documentation has led to considerable discrepancies in its implementation and use. Creating a universal standard for S3 faces numerous obstacles, primarily Amazon’s dominance and lack of incentive, yet such a standard is imperative for the advancement of the ecosystem.


Revolutionizing Memory to Memory Data Movement with SNIA SDXI

Event: Storage Field Day 26

Appearance: SNIA Presents at Storage Field Day 26

Company: SNIA

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Personnel: Shyam Iyer

Software memcpy has been the gold standard for memory to memory data movement. SNIA’s SDXI standard is changing that by revolutionizing memory to memory data movement and transformation.

The SDXI standard introduced by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) revolutionizes traditional memory-to-memory data movement methods such as software memcpy. It provides a standardized, efficient data movement interface that allows direct user-mode access to an accelerator interface while ensuring stability and security. With wider compatibility, the SDXI unlocks potentials across various systems and supports diverse data operations, including transformation and computation during data movement. The establishment of the SDXI standard marks a considerable step forward in memory-to-memory data movement technology.


Introducing DNA Data Storage with the DNA Data Storage Alliance

Event: Storage Field Day 26

Appearance: SNIA Presents at Storage Field Day 26

Company: SNIA

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Personnel: Daniel Chadash, Dave Landsman

Review the current state of DNA data storage, how it works and what is the status.

DNA data storage, an emerging solution, aims to tackle the increasingly inefficient traditional storage systems by offering unparalleled density, low energy consumption, and extensive data retention capabilities. Its process involves translating files into DNA sequences, structured in a way similar to traditional channels, while the DNA Data Storage Alliance is actively developing standards for this ground-breaking technology. The ultimate goal is to develop more affordable and efficient storage options, with aims to store a whopping one petabyte per chip. The DNA Data storage maintains a vital presence in data centers for archival purposes while introducing newer technologies for an error-free and streamlined data management experience.


Trends in Storage and Data – New Directions for SNIA

Event: Storage Field Day 26

Appearance: SNIA Presents at Storage Field Day 26

Company: SNIA

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Personnel: J Metz

For more than 25 years, SNIA has led the industry in vendor- and technology-neutral storage standards, education, and architectures. However, modern storage implies much more than it did 25 years ago, from radically new media to different memory types to tighter performance margins to advanced compute capabilities, “storage” moves beyond traditional drives and networks. SNIA is evolving along with it, realigning with the critical changes in the data lifecycle.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has distinguished itself in the past quarter century as a leader in the storage industry. Providing vendor-neutral standards, education, and innovative storage architectures, SNIA is now actively realigning itself in response to the drastic evolution of modern storage. At the core of this evolution is a greater level of collaboration with industry partners, a greater emphasis on educating non-experts on storage, and a commitment to efficient data handling. As storage dynamics continue to change, SNIA is expanding its focus, partnering with various organizations and redefining itself as not merely storage experts, but as comprehensive data experts.


Solidigm Presents the Cloud Storage Acceleration Layer (CSAL) Advantage

Event: Storage Field Day 26

Appearance: Solidigm Presents at Storage Field Day 26

Company: Solidigm

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Personnel: Kapil Karkra

Learn how CSAL unleashes the value of high-density NAND flash media by leveraging host-side FTL to transform any write workload to a sequential write.

The Cloud Storage Acceleration Layer (CSAL) solution offers an innovative solution to the persistent problem of write amplification in NAND storage. The open-source library is designed to optimize write workloads by converting them to sequential writes. This process enhances the performance of hyperdense QLC drives, ultimately reducing Total Cost Ownership (TCO) and making QLC drives more accessible for diverse use cases and customers.


Solidigm Introduces D7-P5810 a New Ultra-Fast SSD

Event: Storage Field Day 26

Appearance: Solidigm Presents at Storage Field Day 26

Company: Solidigm

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Personnel: Ratnesh Muchhal

In this session learn how the new D7-P5810 SLC SSD from Solidigm can help accelerate both mixed and write-intensive workloads.

At the forefront of accelerating mixed and write-intensive workload technology, Solidigm introduces the revolutionary D7-P5810 SSD—their latest ultra-fast SLC drive. With capabilities catered towards write caching, data logging, and mid-tier storage applications, this high-performance drive outpaces its competitors in terms of both endurance and power while being economically advantageous—priced at just 20% of existing technologies. The D7-P5810 clearly sets the benchmark in its class.


Solidigm QLC SSDs Designed for Value, Performance and Density

Event: Storage Field Day 26

Appearance: Solidigm Presents at Storage Field Day 26

Company: Solidigm

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Personnel: Roger Corell

Today’s workloads are becoming more and more read dominant. In this session learn how QLC SSDs can solve some of the world’s largest read-intensive storage challenges. Presented by by Roger Corell, Data Center Solutions Director, Solidigm.

Solidigm is embarking on a mission to extend the value of QLC SSDs beyond their core targeted workloads by focusing on a customer-centric design approach, storage density, and quality, utilizing insights from a recent study by the University of Toronto. As the study points out, a majority of workloads are read-intensive, Solidigm’s QLC product suite is catered to meet those requirements efficiently. Solidigm’s approach, which leverages software capabilities alongside optimum hardware, is expected to expand the QLC’s workload coverage, ultimately enhancing a plethora of applications.


Empowering Cloud Data with CTERA Data Services

Event: Storage Field Day 26

Appearance: CTERA Presents at Storage Field Day 26

Company: CTERA

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Personnel: Aron Brand, Saimon Michelson

With a global file system, unstructured data can now be seamlessly stored in private, public, or hybrid clouds. With data in a central repository, businesses now have powerful access to this data lake. CTERA’s CTO Aron Brand and Saimon Michelson, VP Alliances, will provide real-life examples of customers using the CTERA Data Services to create custom data pipeline workflows for data analytics, and automation, including the most recent S3 connector function.


How CTERA Uses AI to Solve Ransomware Challenges

Event: Storage Field Day 26

Appearance: CTERA Presents at Storage Field Day 26

Company: CTERA

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Personnel: Aron Brand, Saimon Michelson

Ransomware protection is moving from a defensive posture utilizing legacy backup methods to an offensive approach utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to thwart attacks before they infiltrate networks. CTERA’s CTO Aron Brand and Saimon Michelson, VP Alliances, will review CTERA’s state-of-the-art cyber storage capabilities, including the recently launched AI-based CTERA Ransom Protect technology that provides zero-day detection built-in within the CTERA file system.


Cloud-Native Global File Systems, Data Services, and Cyber Resiliency from CTERA

Event: Storage Field Day 26

Appearance: CTERA Presents at Storage Field Day 26

Company: CTERA

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Personnel: Oded Nagel

CTERA delivers a cloud-native global file system over public or private object storage, with a rich data services ecosystem that enables enterprises to gain full control of their data environment, for optimal edge performance, granular security, data insight, and governance. In this presentation, CTERA’s CEO Oded Nagel provides a company introduction and business landscape overview.


Making Migration Easy: VMware Architecture Migration Tool with AMD

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMware Explore US 2023

Appearance: AMD Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMware Explore 2023

Company: AMD

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Personnel: Chuck Gilbert, Jason Collier

The VMware Architecture Migration Tool (VAMT) was developed jointly by AMD and VMware to automate the migration of legacy VMs from Intel architecture to AMD architecture, with the goal of delivering a better user experience and better business value. This presentation and live demo will walk users through the features, functionality and roadmap for this quickly evolving open source tool.

Presented by Chuck Gilbert, Technical Director of Solutions Architecture for Architecture and Strategy, and Jason Collier, Principal Member of Technical Staff for Architecture and Strategy, AMD

In their presentation, Chuck Gilbert and Jason Collier explained the challenges involved in migrating virtual machines between different CPU architectures, particularly between Intel and AMD. Gilbert pointed out that while VMware’s Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) can smooth the migration process within generational families of CPUs by standardizing the feature sets across different hardware, it effectively locks performance to the lowest common denominator. Recognizing that live migration between Intel and AMD platforms remains complex due to differences embedded in the VMware portfolio, AMD and VMware co-developed the VMware Architecture Migration Tool (VAMT) to facilitate streamlined cold migrations. This tool not only supports migrations between Intel and AMD architectures but also within homogeneous or heterogeneous x86 environments.

The presentation emphasized that the VAMT simplifies the migration process by automating many traditionally manual steps through a combination of PowerShell scripting, scheduling, and task management. Operators are no longer required to individually handle each migration task as VAMT packages steps involved in cold migration, such as shutting down VMs, moving data, and ensuring VMware tools are properly functioning on the new environments. The tool also supports throttling and outage window scheduling, bringing efficiency and reliability to large-scale migrations. Jason Collier demonstrated the tool’s capabilities with a live demo, showcasing its ease of use and integration into existing workflows, making it a valuable resource for both small IT shops and large cloud providers.

Finally, the presentation highlighted that VAMT is an open-source project available on GitHub, inviting the community to contribute and suggest enhancements. Kudos were given to the fundamental aim of improving business value and user experience by simplifying VM migrations. AMD sees this tool as the starting point for broader infrastructural upgrades, potentially extending support in the future for other virtualization environments like KVM and Hyper-V, as well as cloud migrations. The overarching message was clear: VAMT represents a pragmatic, collaborative effort to solve real-world IT operational challenges, and AMD actively seeks user feedback to refine and expand the tool’s capabilities.


Meeting the Demands of the Modern Datacenter with AMD

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMware Explore US 2023

Appearance: AMD Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMware Explore 2023

Company: AMD

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Personnel: Robert Hormuth

Increasing demand for AI capabilities in your business means IT decision makers must adapt quickly or be left behind. How do you meet the AI demand though with constrained budgets, not to mention limited space and power in your data centers? The simple answer: consolidation. AMD has you covered with compute density, automation, and efficiency to free up the headroom required to pursue the AI demands on your business. AMD will walk you through the end-to-end ways AMD is ready to help your business succeed in the new era of pervasive AI.

Robert Hormuth, Corporate Vice President for Architecture and Strategy, presented at Tech Field Day Extra at VMware Explore US 2023 and discussed how AMD is addressing the demands of modern data centers. Hormuth highlighted AMD’s extensive portfolio, including the Epic CPU, Pensando DPU, and various data center GPU products, which are all designed to provide high-performance, energy-efficient compute solutions. With AI rapidly transforming businesses, AMD targets high compute density and optimized architectures to mitigate the limitations posed by budget, space, and power constraints in data centers. Hormuth underscored the significance of transitioning to heterogeneous computing to enhance energy efficiency and computational power.

Hormuth delved into the evolving landscape of AI, predicting a shift from ‘big brother’ AI, which influences human behavior, to ‘big mother’ AI, characterized by human assistance and nurturing capabilities. This evolution necessitates robust, heterogeneous compute systems. AMD offers a diverse array of products—from general-purpose CPUs to adaptive system-on-chips, accelerators, and custom solutions—that can cater to specific workloads and drive next-generation use cases. Hormuth emphasized the importance of enhancing user experiences and optimized business outcomes through these cutting-edge technologies while recognizing sustainability and energy efficiency as pivotal factors.

Addressing the intense demand for AI, Hormuth discussed the challenges data centers face, such as limited space and power. He highlighted how AMD’s Epic processors facilitate significant consolidation of older servers, resulting in enhanced performance per watt and space savings. Hormuth also mentioned that AMD’s new CPUs are designed to avoid the necessity of liquid cooling, allowing for efficient air cooling even at higher compute densities. To ensure smooth transitions to AMD’s advanced compute solutions, AMD collaborates with VMware to offer tools like the VMware Architecture Migration Tool (VAMP), which simplifies migration and optimizes workload performance in data centers.


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