Rick Schlander, Megan Robinette, Tom Hollingsworth, Arjan Timmerman, Gabe Maentz, Stephen Foskett, Chris Evans, Enrico Signoretti, Ray Lucchesi, Jon Klaus, Max Mortillaro, Marco Broeken, Josh De Jong, Dan Frith, Francesco Bonetti

Storage Field Day 10

May 25–May 27, 2016

#SFD10

Who: Storage

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

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Delegate Panel

Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.

Arjan Timmerman

@ArjanTim

Dutch analyst, world traveler and technology advisor

Chris M Evans

@ChrisMEvans

Chris is a UK-based consultant with an interest in all technologies, focusing on storage, virtualisation and cloud.

Dan Frith

@PenguinPunk

I like punk rock and storage arrays.

Enrico Signoretti

@ESignoretti

Independent analyst, blogger, event organizer, weekend sailor, gelato lover, always on a diet.

Francesco Bonetti

@FBonez

VMware vExpert | Virtualization and Storage Specialist | Senior System Engineer

Gabe Maentz

@GMaentz

Consultant, Dad of 4, Marquette alum, Life-Long Learner, vExpert, vBrisket Founder

Jon Klaus

@JonKlaus

Storage architect gone project manager, working for a MSP in the south of the Netherlands.

Josh De Jong

@EuroBrew

Storage and virtualization guy. Occasional blogger, twitter addict, taker of naps.

Marco Broeken

@MBroeken

Dutch Virtualization Admirer and DaaS Lover, Blogger at www.vClouds.nl

Max Mortillaro

Max Mortillaro is an independent data center consultant specializing in virtualization and storage technologies.

Ray Lucchesi

@RayLucchesi

Ray Lucchesi is president of Silverton Consulting, blogs at RayOnStorage.com, co-hosts GreyBeardsOnStorage.com podcast and has worked in data storage for over 30 years mostly in marketing and engineering new disk and tape automation products.

Rick Schlander

@VMRick

Virtualization Architect & vExpert, Minneapolis & Rochester VMUG Leader, NetAppEMC Storage & Cisco UCS Engineer-Blogger.

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at stg-techfielddayq-staging.kinsta.cloud, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, May 25 9:30 - 11:30 Kaminario Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Frederic Van Haren, Josh Epstein, Shachar Fienblit, Shai Maskit
Wednesday, May 25 12:30 - 14:30 Primary Data Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: David Flynn, Kaycee Lai, Lance Smith
Wednesday, May 25 15:00 - 17:00 Cloudian Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Gary Ogasawara, Michael Tso, Paul Turner, Victor Salvacruz, Vikram Gupta
Wednesday, May 25 17:15 - 18:00 Gestalt IT Roundtable at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Stephen Foskett
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chris Evans, Dan Frith, Enrico Signoretti, Francesco Bonetti, Gabe Maentz, Jon Klaus, Josh De Jong, Marco Broeken, Max Mortillaro, Ray Lucchesi, Rick Schlander
Thursday, May 26 9:30 - 11:30 Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Brian Gold, Par Botes, Rob Lee
Thursday, May 26 13:00 - 15:00 Datera Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Bill Borsari, Marc Fleischmann, Raghu Krishnamurthy
Thursday, May 26 16:00 - 18:00 Tintri Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Brandon Salmon, Christopher Slater, Justin Lauer, Kieran Harty, Mark Dritter
Friday, May 27 8:00 - 10:00 Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: David Adamson, Gavin Cohen, Rochna Dhand, Rod Bagg, Stephan Joe, Tom McKnight
Friday, May 27 10:30 - 12:30 Hedvig Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Abhijith Shenoy, Avinash Lakshman, Bharat Naik, Chris Kranz, Guarav Yadav, Rob Whiteley
Friday, May 27 13:30 - 15:30 Exablox Presents at Storage Field Day 10
Presenters: Doug Brockett, Sean Derrington
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Megan Robinette

@MegRobinette

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.


72 Links with Tag #SFD10

  1. Coverage: Celebrating 10 Years of Pure Storage and Tech Field Day
  2. News: Celebrating 10 Years of Pure Storage and Tech Field Day
  3. Coverage: Data Mobility – Global/Scale-out Data Platforms
  4. Coverage: Kaminario Goes Software-Defined
  5. Coverage: Data Mobility – Caching Technologies
  6. Coverage: Cloudian Announces HyperFile, Makes Object Better
  7. Coverage: Cloudian Announces HyperStore 4000 – Gets Super Dense
  8. News: Storage Field Day Events in 2017
  9. Coverage: Making life a whole lot easier with Tintri VM-aware storage
  10. Coverage: Bringing hyperscale operations to the masses with Datera
  11. Coverage: Squashing assumptions with Data Science
  12. Coverage: Datera Announces Integration With Google’s Kubernetes
  13. Coverage: Pure Storage Flashblade is now available!
  14. Coverage: Hedvig storage system, Docker support & data protection that spans data centers
  15. Coverage: Datera: Elastic Data Fabric
  16. Coverage: FlashBlade: custom hardware still makes sense
  17. Coverage: Data Virtualisation is More Than Just Migration for Primary Data
  18. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama
  19. Coverage: It’s Hedvig, not Hedwig
  20. Coverage: The Cool Thing About Datera Is Intent
  21. Coverage: Exablox Isn’t Just Pretty Hardware
  22. Coverage: Exablox, bring your own disk storage
  23. Coverage: Cloudian Hyperstore: manage more PBs with less FTE
  24. Coverage: Pure Storage’s FlashBlade is great on paper. But it’s still only on paper
  25. Coverage: Nimble Storage are Relentless in their Pursuit of Support Excellence
  26. Coverage: Cloudian Does Object Smart and at Scale
  27. Coverage: Scale-out, flash, files and objects. How cool is Pure’s FlashBlade?
  28. Coverage: Pure Storage’s FlashBlade – Against The Grain
  29. Coverage: Pure Storage FlashBlade well positioned for next generation storage
  30. Coverage: Tintri Keep Doing What They Do, And Well
  31. Coverage: 33: GreyBeards talk HPC storage with Frederic Van Haren, founder HighFens & formerly Sr. Director of HPC at Nuance
  32. Coverage: Metadata search helps to offload some DB-like operations to storage
  33. Coverage: EXABLOX – A different and smart approach to NAS for SMB
  34. Coverage: Breaking down storage silos with Primary Data DataSphere
  35. Coverage: Pure Storage really aren’t a one-trick pony
  36. Coverage: Defining Software-defined Storage definition. Definitely. – Juku.it
  37. Coverage: Has triple parity Raid time come?
  38. Coverage: Simplicity with Kaminario Healthshield & QoS
  39. Coverage: Torus – Because We Need Another Distributed Storage Software Solution
  40. Coverage: Hedvig Overview
  41. Coverage: All-flash enterprise storage for today and tomorrow
  42. Coverage: Hedvig Deep Dive – Is software-defined the future of storage?
  43. Coverage: Storage Administrators: an endangered species?
  44. Coverage: Flash Needs a Highway
  45. Coverage: Kaminario are doing some stuff we’ve seen before, but that’s okay
  46. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 presentation, whiteboards, and demos
  47. Coverage: Surprises in flash storage IO distributions from 1 month of Nimble Storage customer base
  48. Coverage: VM-aware storage, is it still a thing?
  49. Coverage: Object Storage: Validating S3 Compatibility
  50. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
  51. Coverage: Primary Data: a true Software-defined Storage platform?
  52. Coverage: We’re almost live…
  53. Coverage: Follow us live at Storage Field Day 10
  54. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 – Day 0
  55. Coverage: Storage Field Day – Live Stream & Ways to Engage
  56. Coverage: Ready for Storage Field Day 10!
  57. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Hedvig
  58. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Primary Data
  59. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Exablox
  60. Coverage: The B-side of storage containerization
  61. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Nimble Storage
  62. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Datera
  63. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Tintri
  64. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Pure Storage
  65. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Next Week
  66. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Kaminario
  67. Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Cloudian
  68. Coverage: Heading to Tech Field Day
  69. Coverage: Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At SFD10
  70. Coverage: Is Hedvig the solution to all our (storage) problems?
  71. Coverage: If youre going to SFD10 be sure to wear microdrives in your hair
  72. Coverage: I will be flying out to Storage Field Day 10!

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