Storage Field Day 10

This page will hold links to Storage Field Day 10, due to be held in San Jose, California, USA, 25-27 May 2016.  I am attending as a delegate.

• What: Gestalt IT Storage Field Day #10, invitation only vendor/blogger presentations event.
• Where: San Jose, California, USA and streamed online at http://techfieldday.com.
• Twitter: Storage Field Day 10 Delegates List

Pre-Event Delegate Posts

• I will be flying out to Storage Field Day 10! (Fast Storage Blog, retrieved 5 May 2016)
• I’ll be at SDF10 (Penguin Punk blog, 5 May 2016)
• Is Hedvig the solution to all our (storage) problems? (Kamshin blog, retrieved 10 May 2016, published 26 April 2016)
• If you’re going to SFD10… be sure to wear microdrives in your hair (Kamshin blog, retrieved 10 May 2016, published 21 April 2016)
• Heading to Tech Field Day (Maentz.net blog, retrieved 16 May 2016, published 13 May 2016)
• Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Cloudian (retrieved 16 May 2016, published 16 May 2016)
• Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Kaminario (retrieved 17 May 2016, published 17 May 2016)
• Storage Field Day 10 Next Week (VMBulletin blog, retrieved 17 May 2016, published 16 May 2016)
• Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Datera (retrieved 22 May 2016, published 22 May 2016)
• Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Tintri (retrieved 22 May 2016, published 20 May 2016)
• Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Pure Storage (retrieved 22 May 2016, published 19 May 2016)
• The B-side of Storage Containerization (Juku.it, retrieved 23 May 2016, published 22 May 2016)
• Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Hedvig (retrieved 23 May 2016, published 23 May 2016)
• Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Nimble Storage (retrieved 23 May 2016, published 23 May 2016)
• Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Exablox (retrieved 25 May 2016, published 24 May 2016)
• Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Primary Data (retrieved 25 May 2016, published 24 May 2016)
• Storage Field Day 10 – Day 0 (Penguin Punk blog, retrieved 25 May 2016, published 25 May 2016)
• Ready for Storage Field Day 10 (FastStorage blog, retrieved 25 May 2016, published 24 May 2016)
• We’re almost live… (VDIcloud blog, retrieved 25 May 2016, published 25 May 2016)

Post-Event Delegate Posts

• Surprises in flash storage IO distributions from 1 month of Nimble Storage customer base (Ray on Storage blog, retrieved 1 June 2016, published 31 May 2016)
• VM-aware storage, is it still a thing? (juku.it, retrieved on 1 June 2016, published 31 May 2016)
• Storage Field Day 10 (Fairly) Full Disclosure (Penguin Punk blog, retrieved 1 June 2016, published 31 May 2016)
• Primary Data: a true Software-defined Storage platform? (kamshin blog, retrieved 1 June 2016, published 26 May 2016)
• Flash Needs a Highway (Networking Nerd blog, retrieved 2 June 2016, published 1 June 2016)
• Kaminario are doing some stuff we’ve seen before, but that’s okay (Penguin Punk blog, retrieved 2 June 2016, published 2 June 2016)
• Simplicity with Kaminario HealthShield & QoS (Fast Storage blog, retrieved 6 June 2016, published 6 June 2016)
• Torus – Because We Need Another Distributed Storage Software Solution (published 5 June 2016, retrieved 6 June 2016)
• Hedvig Overview (VMBulletin blog, published 3 June 2016, retrieved 6 June 2016)
• Hedvig Deep Dive – Is software-defined the future of storage? (Kamshin blog, published 2 June 2016, retrieved 6 June 2016)
• Storage Administrators: an Endangered Species? (Kamshin blog, published 3 June 2016, retrieved 6 June 2016)
• Scale-out, flash, file and objects. How cool is Pure’s FlashBlade? (Juku.it, retrieved 22 June 2016, published 21 June 2016)
• Cloudian Hyperstore: manage more PBs with less FTE (faststorage blog, retrieved 7 July 2016, published 4 July 2016)
• Nimble Storage are Relentless in their Pursuit of Support Excellence (Penguin Punk blog, retreived 7 July 2016, published 27 June 2016)

Timeline

Kaminario started the day with a background presentation from Josh Epstein on the company, including new offices, expansion of sales teams and an increase in Q1 sales year-on-year of 120%.  This was followed by a customer presentation from Nuance (Frederic Van Haren) on the use of Kaminario K2 for voice processing.  Shachar Fienbit (Kaminario CTO) then discussed the futures of all-flash arrays, including how media and connectivity can be expected to be implemented.  The final presentation was from Shai Maskit, demonstrating the new quality of service functionality.

The second set of presentations was from Primary Data.  Lance Smith started the day off with background on the company and the development of the technology.  David Flynn followed on with an in-depth discussion of the Primary Data technology; DataSphere and DSX (the software running on client servers).  Currently there’s no ability to span data centres with the technology.  The logical assumption is that over time, customers should start replacing traditional arrays and move towards commodity storage with DataSphere as the abstraction layer.  Finally Kaycee Lai presented a demo of the solution, with use cases and cost savings.

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