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Howard Marks

August 5, 2012 by

Web site:

  • https://NetworkComputing.com
  • https://www.deepstorage.net
Social Media:

  • @DeepStorageNet
  • @DeepStorage@Mastodon.social

  • DeepStorage.bsky.social
LinkedIn:

  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/homarks/

As Founder and Chief Scientist at DeepStorage, LLC Howard Marks provides the kind of practical, hands-on analysis that can only come from spending 30 years in the trenches.. As a consultant he helped organizations large and small including America Express, JP Morgan, Borden Foods, BBDO Worldwide and Foxwoods Resort Casino solve real world storage and network problems.

Now at DeepStorage he runs an independent test lab evaluating the latest in storage and data center networking products in beautiful Santa Fe MN and writing about them for multiple websites including NetworkComputing.com. An entertaining and energetic speaker Howard speaks regularly at industry events including Storage Decisions, Interop, SNW and Microsoft’s TechEd. He has written three books and hundreds of articles on networking and storage technologies.

39 Events Attended

Tech Field Day Exclusive with Intel Memory and Storage

Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight 2018

Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2018

Storage Field Day 17

Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018

Storage Field Day 16

Tech Field Day Exclusive with Hitachi Vantara

Tech Field Day 16

Storage Field Day 14

Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2017

Tech Field Day 15

Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017

Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Storage Field Day 12

Tech Field Day at NetApp Insight 2016

Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2016

Tech Field Day 11

Tech Field Day Roundtable at Intel Cloud Day 2016

Storage Field Day 9

Storage Field Day 8

Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015

Tech Field Day Extra at Interop Las Vegas 2015

Storage Field Day 7

Tech Field Day Extra at Interop New York 2014

Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2014

Storage Field Day 5

SDDC Symposium 2014

Storage Field Day 4

Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2013

Tech Field Day 9

Storage Field Day 3

Storage Field Day 2

Next-Generation Storage Symposium

Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2012

Storage Field Day 1

Solid-State Storage Symposium

Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2010

Tech Field Day 3

7 Field Day Appearances

  • VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 23
  • Intel Presents at Storage Field Day 21
  • VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 20
  • VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 18
  • Storage Field Day 9 Delegate Roundtables
  • Tech Field Day Roundtables at Storage Field Day 3
  • VMworld US 2012 Booth Tour

24 Field Day Videos

  • VAST Data Announces Next Generation Platform Concept Called Ceres
  • Technical Deep Dive on VAST Data Resilience
  • Intel Optane Technology Use Case: VAST Data at DUG
  • Tech Field Day Roundtable Discussion About Intel’s Memory and Storage Moment 2020
  • Introduction to VAST Data LightSpeed: Storage Architecture for Machine Intelligence
  • VAST Data Use Case Update – AI at Lightspeed
  • VAST Data 18 Months Later – Learnings Since Launch
  • Intel Cloud Day NVMe Storage Roundtable
  • Intel Cloud Day Non-Volatile Storage Roundtable
  • Backing Up the Cloud Roundtable at Storage Field Day 9
  • Object Store Backup Roundtable at Storage Field Day 9
  • High-Performance Object Stores Roundtable at Storage Field Day 9
  • Real World SDDC Use Cases Panel at SDDC Symposium 2014
  • Coho Data Tech Talk 2: Storage QoS
  • SFD3 Roundtable: The IT Market Outside the US
  • SFD3 Roundtable: When Should You Buy From A Startup
  • SFD3 Roundtable: How Did You Get Started In Your Storage Career
  • SFD3 Roundtable: Flash As A Cache vs. Flash In Arrays
  • NGSS1 Panel: Solid State Tiering and Caching
  • VMworld 2012 TFD Roundtable with Scale Computing
  • VMworld 2012 Booth Tour – Scale Computing with Howard Marks
  • Xsigo TFD Roundtable at VMworld 2010
  • The Future of Solid State Storage Panel with Howard Marks
  • Compellent Roundtable at Gestalt IT Tech Field Day Seattle

37 Links with Tag @DeepStorageNet

  1. Coverage: EP27 – VAST Data – a Revolutionary Storage Platform for the Next Decade – With Howard Marks
    • Storage Field Day 18
    • Arjan Timmerman, Max Mortillaro
    • VAST Data
  2. Coverage: 76: GreyBeards talk backup content, GDPR and cyber security with Jim McGann, VP Mkt & Bus. Dev., Index Engines
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Index Engines
  3. Coverage: 71: GreyBeards talk DP appliances with Sharad Rastogi, Sr. VP & Ranga Rajagopalan, Sr. Dir., Dell EMC DPD
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Dell EMC
  4. Coverage: 72: GreyBeards talk Computational Storage with Scott Shadley, VP Marketing NGD Systems
    • Storage Field Day 17
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • NGD Systems
  5. Coverage: 73: GreyBeards talk HCI with Gabriel Chapman, Sr. Mgr. Cloud Infrastructure NetApp
    • Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight 2018
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • NetApp
  6. Coverage: 75: GreyBeards talk persistent memory IO with Andy Grimes, Principal Technologist, NetApp
    • Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight 2018
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • NetApp
  7. Coverage: Tech Stand Up Episode 9 – SFD17 – Initial thoughts NGD Systems Podcast
    • Storage Field Day 17
    • Joe Houghes, Luigi Danakos
    • NGD Systems
  8. Coverage: 54: GreyBeards talk scale-out secondary storage with Jonathan Howard, Dir. Tech. Alliances at Commvault
    • Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2017
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Commvault
  9. Coverage: StorMagic’s SvSAN – Targeting HCI’s ROBO Sweet Spot
    • Tech Field Day 13
    • StorMagic
  10. Coverage: Visiting Intel with SFD 12
    • Storage Field Day 12
    • Intel
  11. Coverage: Why Primary Deduplication Is A Different Animal From Backup Dedupe
    • Storage Field Day 9
    • Violin Memory, VMware by Broadcom
  12. Coverage: GreyBeards talk Copy Data Management with Ash Ashutosh, CEO Actifio
    • Tech Field Day 11
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Actifio
  13. Coverage: 33: GreyBeards talk HPC storage with Frederic Van Haren, founder HighFens & formerly Sr. Director of HPC at Nuance
    • Storage Field Day 10
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Kaminario
  14. Coverage: PB are the new TB, GreyBeards talk with Brian Carmody, CTO Inifinidat
    • Storage Field Day 8
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • INFINIDAT
  15. Coverage: I Miss the Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer or Speaking at The Flash Memory Summit and VMworld
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
  16. Coverage: VMware Endorses StorMagic for ROBO Server SAN
    • Storage Field Day 6
    • StorMagic
  17. Coverage: What I’m Doing Instead of A Summer Vacation
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2014
  18. Coverage: Gridbusters Made Me a YouTube Star
    • Storage Field Day 4
    • Gridstore
  19. Coverage: Greybeards talk all-flash arrays with Dave Wright, CEO and founder of SolidFire
    • SDDC Symposium 2014, Storage Field Day 5
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • SolidFire
  20. Coverage: Separating Storage Startups From Upstarts
    • Nimble Storage, Pure Storage, Tintri
  21. Coverage: Throw More Storage At It
    • Storage Field Day 4
    • Tom Hollingsworth
  22. Coverage: Scale-Out Storage For Hyper-V
    • Storage Field Day 4
    • Gridstore
  23. Coverage: Overland Storage SnapScale Scales Out But Falls Short
    • Storage Field Day 4
    • Overland Storage
  24. Coverage: I Guess I am A Big Shot – Storage Field Day Edition
    • Storage Field Day 4
    • Coho Data
  25. Coverage: Coho Applies SDN To Scale-Out Storage
    • Storage Field Day 4
    • Coho Data
  26. Coverage: Starboard Storage Shuts Down
    • Storage Field Day 3
    • Starboard Storage
  27. Coverage: A Bad Combo: PernixData’s FVP and VSAN
    • Storage Field Day 3
    • PernixData
  28. Coverage: RAM Caching Vs. SSDs: A Startup’s Gamble
    • Tech Field Day 9
    • Infinio
  29. Coverage: Fusion-io Leaders Step Down in Executive-Suite Turmoil
    • Storage Field Day 3
    • Fusion-io, NexGen Storage
  30. Coverage: Fusion-io Buys Hybrid Startup NexGen
    • Storage Field Day 3
    • Fusion-io, NexGen Storage
  31. Coverage: It’s A Solid-State Symposium
    • Solid-State Storage Symposium
  32. Coverage: In IT, Everything Old Is New Again
    • Colin McNamara
    • Gridstore, Tech Field Day
  33. Coverage: VC Money—Who Needs It?
    • Nimbus Data, Permabit
  34. Coverage: Starting a New Chapter
    • Storage Field Day 2
  35. Coverage: Storage QoS: The Next Frontier?
    • Next-Generation Storage Symposium, Storage Field Day 2
    • NexGen Storage, Tintri
  36. Coverage: Hyperconverged Stacks from SimpliVity and Scale
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2013
    • Scale Computing, SimpliVity
  37. Coverage: The Hyperconverged Infrastructure
    • Nutanix, Scale Computing, SimpliVity

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