Row 1 (L-R): Stephen Foskett, Frederic Van Haren, Barry Coombs
Row 2 (L-R): Dan Frith, Paul Stringfellow, Keiran Shelden
Row 3 (L-R): Enrico Signoretti, Matt Leib, Ben Gage, Ray Lucchesi
Row 4 (L_R): Andrea Mauro, Becky Elliot, Jason Collier, Max Mortillaro

Storage Field Day 21

January 20–January 22, 2021

#SFD21

Who: Storage

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Virtual

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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.

Andrea Mauro

@Andrea_Mauro

IT Architect with focus on virtualization, cloud and storage

Barry Coombs

@VirtualisedReal

Barry is a passionate and energetic IT infrastructure and strategy specialist and evangelist turned business leader, as well as achieving many industry qualifications has been awarded the VMware vExpert title every year since 2010, alongside a wide number of over accolades.

Becky Elliott

@BeckyLElliott

Technologist and Blogger

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.

Frederic Van Haren

@FredericVHaren

Frederic is the CTO at HighFens Inc (active in the HPC & AI market). He spent more than a decade building large HPC & AI environments from the ground up and is frequently invited to speak at events to provide his vision on AI, Big Data and HPC.

Jason Collier

@BocaNuts

Jason Collier has over 20 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur in the technology industry. Jason was the Founder and Chief Evangelist at Scale Computing, one of the early pioneers in the hyperconvergence space.

Keiran Shelden

@Keiran_Shelden

Keiran is a System Engineer who loves to working with the full stack from compute to storage and all things between.

Matthew Leib

@MBLeib

Long time engineer, and presales architect specializing in Storage, VIrtualization and Orchestrations in the cloud.

Max Mortillaro

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

Paul Stringfellow

@TechStringy

Technical Director of UK data management consultancy Gardner Systems. Host of the Tech Interviews podcast. Part of the NetApp A-Team and Veeam Vanguards as well as included on the CRN UK A-List.

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.

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.

All dates and times listed are local time in Virtual, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Ben Gage

@BenTGage

Ben Gage has a professional background which started in logistics and supply chain for manufacturing and agriculture. To subsidize the methodical nature of these fields he started and performs with an original Americana band. With a penchant for the ra …

Matt Garvin

@MrMattGarvin

Matt Garvin is the Director of Operations for Tech Field Day at the Futurum Group and brings over a decade experience to the team.

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


52 Links with Tag #SFD21

  1. Coverage: Converged Architecture Built for AI
  2. Coverage: MinIO Delivers Hybrid Cloud Object Storage to the Enterprise
  3. Coverage: Intel Customers Share Their Optane Experience Stories at Storage Field Day
  4. Coverage: Tintri VMstore Delivers Self-Optimizing and Intelligent Infrastructure for Virtual Workloads
  5. Coverage: Hammerspace Unlocks Scale and Performance With Hybrid Cloud Storageless Data
  6. Coverage: How Nasuni Made Their Name in a Cloud-Washed Space
  7. Coverage: Pliops Brings Performance, Endurance, and Cost Savings to Flash-Based Storage
  8. Coverage: NetApp Delivers AI Data Management Solutions to Enterprise IT
  9. Coverage: Storageless Data, Really? – Doug Fallstrom
  10. Coverage: Storage Field Day 21 – Wrap-Up and Link-O-Rama
  11. Coverage: MinIO – Cloud, Edge, Everywhere …
  12. Coverage: 115-GreyBeards Talk Database Acceleration With Moshe Twitto, CTO&Co-founder, Pliops
  13. Coverage: So Long, and Thanks for All the Memory – Micron Ceases 3D XPoint Development, Sells Lehi Fab
  14. Coverage: Nasuni Puts Your Data Where You Need It
  15. Coverage: Pliops – Can We Take Fast and Make It Faster?
  16. Coverage: Storageless Data!?
  17. Coverage: NetApp Keystone – How Do You Want It?
  18. Coverage: Pliops: Re-Imagining Storage, Crushing Bottlenecks and a Bright Future in the Cloud
  19. Coverage: Data Science Storage With NetApp’s Python Toolkit
  20. Coverage: The Role of AI in Data Storage
  21. Coverage: Intel Optane – Challenges and Triumphs
  22. Coverage: Hammerspace, Storageless Data, and One Tough Problem
  23. Coverage: Back to the Future With Tintri
  24. Coverage: Storage Options for the Distributed Enterprise
  25. Coverage: Presenters React to the Storage Field Day 21 Experience
  26. Coverage: Storage Field Day 21 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
  27. Coverage: Object Storage Is Heating Up
  28. Coverage: Why MinIO Wins the Private Cloud
  29. Coverage: Storage Field Day Session Four: The Hybrid Cloud and MinIO
  30. Coverage: The Rise of MinIO Object Storage
  31. Coverage: Storage Field Day Session Three: Innovation at MinIO
  32. Coverage: Looking Ahead With Storage Field Day 21 – Barry Coombs, Jason Collier, Max Mortillaro – Ep 149
  33. Coverage: Storage Field Day Session Two: Kubernetes and MinIO
  34. Coverage: Storage Field Day Session One: All Things MinIO
  35. Coverage: Delegates Win the Day at Storage Field Day 21
  36. Coverage: Unions – Taxes & UBI – Philanthropy – Microsoft Goes Full Black Mirror – Universal Chat App – Helicopter on Mars
  37. Coverage: Storageless Data, Cloud Native Und Kubernetes: Storage Field Day 21
  38. Coverage: NetApp Data Science Toolkit
  39. Coverage: Storage Field Day 21 – Hammerspace
  40. Coverage: Storage Field Day 21 – The TECHunplugged Take on Nasuni
  41. Coverage: Nasuni – Cloud-Scale NAS Without Cloud Worries
  42. Coverage: Storage Field Day 21 – Intel
  43. Coverage: Storage Field Day 21 – Pliops
  44. Coverage: Storage Field Day 21 – MinIO Session
  45. Coverage: Storage Field Day 21 – Nasuni
  46. Coverage: Storage Field Day 21 – Tintri
  47. Coverage: Storage Field Day 21 – NetApp
  48. Coverage: Taking a Deep Dive Into Modern Storage Solutions With Storage Field Day 21
  49. Coverage: Is Storageless Storage Just Someone Else’s Storage?
  50. Coverage: Storage Field Day 21 – Streaming to You Live
  51. Coverage: Storage Field Day 2021: A Sneak Peek Into What Tintri Will Be Talking About
  52. Coverage: I’ll Be at Storage Field Day 21

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, info@techfieldday.com.


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