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Storage Field Day 2

L-R: Matt Simmons, Howard Marks, Scott D. Lowe, Stephen Foskett, Claire Chaplais, Edward Grigson, Robert Novak, John Hickson, Marco Broeken, Rick Schlander, Robin Harris, Arjan Timmerman

Storage Field Day 2

November 8–November 9, 2012

#SFD2

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

Ed Grigson

@EGrigson

I’m an infrastructure professional with a keen interest in cloud, virtualisation and storage.

Fabio Rapposelli

@FabioRapposelli

Howard Marks

@DeepStorageNet

Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

John Hickson

@StudioSystems

Marco Broeken

@MBroeken

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

Matt Simmons

@StandaloneSA

Small Infrastructure IT Administrator in Academia

Rick Schlander

@VMRick

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

Robert Novak

@Gallifreyan

Citizen-analyst, writer, comedian, shopkeeper, retired system administrator, griller and smoker

Robin Harris

@StorageMojo

Scott D. Lowe

@OtherScottLowe

Scott D. Lowe is an independent consultant, blogger, and author focusing on issues that affect the CIO and on the virtualization and storage markets.

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Thursday, Nov 8 08:00-10:00 Nimble Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Presenters: Dan Leary, Michael McLaughlin, Umesh Maheshwari
Thursday, Nov 8 10:30-12:30 Nimbus Data Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Presenters: Tom Isakovich
Thursday, Nov 8 13:30-15:30 Zerto Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Presenters: Chen Burshan, Shannon Snowden
Thursday, Nov 8 16:00-18:00 Tintri Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Presenters: Edward Lee, Geoff Stedman, Mark Gritter
Thursday, Nov 8 18:45-19:30 Asigra Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Presenters: Eran Farajun, Sergey Perchak, Tracy Staniland
Friday, Nov 9 08:00-10:00 NexGen Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Friday, Nov 9 10:30-12:30 Nutanix Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Friday, Nov 9 13:30-15:30 Riverbed Presents at Storage Field Day 2
Presenters: Jerome Noll, Ray Villeneuve, Vivasvat Keswani
Friday, Nov 9 16:00-18:00 Virsto Presents at Storage Field Day 2
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Claire Chaplais

@CChaplais

Claire Chaplais has over 20 years experience in business operations, marketing communication programs, and event management for the high tech industry. She worked for great companies like Wind River Systems, StorageTek, Common Sense Media, and Harris B …

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


41 Links with Tag #SFD2

  1. Coverage: Does it matter how we define ‘hyperconverged’?
    • Ed Grigson
    • Maxta, Nutanix, Pure Storage
  2. Coverage: Marco Broeken, January Virtualization Pro of the Month
    • Storage Field Day 3
    • Marco Broeken, Scott D. Lowe
  3. Coverage: Hybrid Flash Array From Nimble Storage Makes iSCSI Sexy Again
    • Storage Field Day 4
    • Chris Wahl
    • Nimble Storage
  4. Coverage: Nexus7 tablet power issues resolved
    • Ed Grigson
    • Asigra
  5. Coverage: Asigra at the Tech Field Day roundtable
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2013
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Asigra
  6. Coverage: Zerto Virtual Replication 3.0 Now Available for Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds
    • Marco Broeken
    • Zerto
  7. Coverage: Nutanix released NOS 3.5 with Support for Microsoft Hyper-V (Tech Preview)
    • Marco Broeken
    • Nutanix
  8. Coverage: NimbusData at VMworld 2013 in SFO
    • Storage Field Day 1
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Nimbus Data
  9. Coverage: Nutanix Platform Professional
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Nutanix
  10. Coverage: Hybrid Storage: Buy Now, Add Workloads Later And Enjoy Additional Value
    • Next-Generation Storage Symposium
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • Nimble Storage, Starboard Storage, Tegile, Tintri, Western Digital
  11. Coverage: My take on Tintri VM-Aware Storage
    • Marco Broeken
    • Tintri
  12. Coverage: Zerto brings Disaster Recovery to the next level
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Zerto
  13. Coverage: Hyper-Convergence and Commoditization for CIOs – Wikibon
    • Next-Generation Storage Symposium
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • Nutanix
  14. Coverage: Is storage a fungible commodity?
    • Ed Grigson
    • Virsto
  15. Coverage: Tech Field Day Whiteboard Session on Zerto
    • Shannon Snowden
    • Zerto
  16. Coverage: 2013 – the year of FLASH in BeNeLux
    • Storage Field Day 1
    • Hans De Leenheer
    • Nimble Storage, Nimbus Data, Nutanix, Pure Storage, SolidFire
  17. Coverage: Nutanix – NOS 3.0 & NX-3000 – The 400VM 2U Building Block
    • Marco Broeken
    • Nutanix
  18. Coverage: One Year of Tech Field Day Video: 90,000 Views!
    • Networking Field Day 3, Networking Field Day 4, Storage Field Day 1, Wireless Field Day 2, Wireless Field Day 3
    • Stephen Foskett
  19. Coverage: The brewing battle between hybrid and all-flash storage
    • Scott D. Lowe
  20. Coverage: Enterprise storage is in for an exciting few years
    • Next-Generation Storage Symposium
    • Ed Grigson
  21. Coverage: My last blog post of 2012, 2013 here we come!
    • Marco Broeken
  22. Coverage: How to clone and snapshot a VM on #Tintri VMstore
    • Marco Broeken
    • Tintri
  23. Coverage: Technical Deep Dive on Tintri Architecture
    • Marco Broeken
    • Tintri
  24. Coverage: Virsto v2.0 for vSphere – delivers purpose-built software defined storage
    • Marco Broeken
    • Virsto
  25. Coverage: Nimbus Data is for real
    • Robin Harris
    • Nimbus Data
  26. Coverage: Zerto’s Virtual Replication 2.0 – first looks
    • Ed Grigson
    • Zerto
  27. Coverage: Tintri at Storage Field Day 2
    • Tintri
  28. Coverage: Starting a New Chapter
    • Howard Marks
  29. Coverage: Perhaps the sexiest demo the Tech Field Day delegates have ever seen?
    • Arjan Timmerman, Matt Simmons, Robert Novak, Scott D. Lowe
    • Nutanix
  30. Coverage: The Nimble Scale
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Nimble Storage
  31. Coverage: Flash Drives as Replaceable Parts
    • Next-Generation Storage Symposium
    • Matt Simmons
  32. Coverage: Storage QoS: The Next Frontier?
    • Next-Generation Storage Symposium
    • Howard Marks
    • NexGen Storage, Tintri
  33. Coverage: Live Stream from Nimble Storage
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Nimble Storage
  34. Coverage: Live from Storage Field Day 2
    • Arjan Timmerman
  35. Coverage: Storage Field Day 2 / Day Two
    • Marco Broeken
    • NexGen Storage, Nutanix, Riverbed, Virsto
  36. Coverage: Tech Field Day – Storage Field Day 2 Starts this Week!
    • Rick Schlander
  37. Coverage: Zerto to Present on Hypervisor-based Replication at Storage Field Day 2
    • Zerto
  38. Coverage: Storage Field Day 2 (5th & 6th November 2012)
    • Marco Broeken
  39. Coverage: Storage Field Day 2: Next Week!
    • Matt Simmons
  40. Coverage: Storage Field Day 2 Approaches
    • Next-Generation Storage Symposium
    • Chris Wahl
  41. Coverage: Tech Field Day | www.vExperienced.co.uk
    • Ed Grigson

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, [email protected].


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