Nasuni presented on Day 2 of #SFD21 taking place virtually due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Please see my doodle above covering their presentation . I will be following up with a few more thoughts and opinions of the presentation after #SFD21 completes.
NetApp presented on Day 2 of #SFD21 taking place virtually due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. See my doodle above covering their presentation. I will be following up with a few more thoughts and opinions of the presentation after #SFD21 completes.
Tintri presented on Day 1 of #SFD21 taking place virtually due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. See my doodle above covering their presentation. I will be following up with a few more thoughts and opinions of the presentation after #SFD21 completes.
You are able to watch the presentation back for yourself on the Storage Field Day website
MinIO Presents at Storage Field Day 21 - Tech Field Day
Here is my second doodle from from the Intel Memory and Storage Moment event. On day 2 Intel specialists joined the Tech Field Day team to review the latest announcments around Intel Optane Technologies.
I am lucky enough to be taking part in another Field Day event, this time a special event dedicated to Intel’s latest innovations in memory and storage. You are able to watch the presentations from Intel’s event over on their website here.
During the keynote presentations there were a number of key product announcements regarding their Optane Storage and Memory portfolio as well as NAND based offerings. You can see my doodle below covering these updates.
Intel Storage and Memory Annoucments for Optane and NAND.
Most impressive to me was the evolution in these critical technologies and particularly the advancements in the Optane technologies allowing for new and innovative use cases, in both storage and memory ecspecially when looking at benefits of persistent memory on the DDR bus.
Products Announced
Client
Intel Optane Memory H20
Intel 3D NAND SSD QLC 670P
Data Center
Intel Optane SSD P5800X
Intel 3D NAND SSD TLC - D7-P5510
Intel 3eD NAND SSD QLC - D5-P5316
Alongside VMware I have found the NetApp presentation to be one of the most interesting and relevant for myself. NetApp presented the Microsoft Azure NetApp Files services as well their Virtual Desktop Services offering. This was a really refreshing presentation for me, I had assumed with NetApp presenting we would have seen traditional storage solutions running in the cloud but I was presently surprised by the content presented.
Azure NetApp Files
Firstly we saw the Microsoft Service named Azure NetApp Files. A service ran by Microsoft natively in Azure (Not through the marketplace) allowing you to run Windows and Linux workloads in the cloud with high performance, as well as offering enterprise grade storage management including snapshots, clones, replication and tiering)
Azure NetApp Files supports NFS v3 and v4.1 as well as SMB3 allowing for a range of file based use cases, discussed was use cases around Enterprise File Repositories, Databases, HPC and VDI
https://cloud.netapp.com/azure-netapp-files
NetApp Virtual Desktop Services (VDS)
NetApp VDS comes from the acquisition of CloudJumper earlier this year. VDS is SaaS control plane allowing you to deploy, manage and optimise virtual desktop environment across on-premises and public clouds. Unlike Citrix and VMware Horizon, VDS leaves the brokering up to Microsoft RDS or WVD in the native cloud infrastructures and concentrates on the management capabilities mentioned previously.
With Microsoft’s release and continued improvement of WVD I am increasingly seeing customers wanting to look at the native Microsoft offering without rapping a third party brokering service. As such NetApp VDS sits nicely in this gap allowing admins to rely on WVD for the element it is best at whilst adding full lifecycle management capabilities.
https://cloud.netapp.com/virtual-desktop-service
Conclusion
It was refreshing to see cloud services from a traditional storage vendor like NetApp and I look forward to learning more and covering more about these technologies.
StorPool installs on standard servers, running on Linux it pools all performance and capacity across nodes starting initially from 3 nodes. It offers high throughput with up to 1 million IOPS per node offering in excess of 10million IOPS in a 10 node system, critically with extremely low latency. StorPool is focused on new-age IT workloads including KVM and Kubernetes but also support vSphere and Hyper-V. Due to it’s high performance, low latency and software defined nature StorPool is often utilised by Hosting Providors and MSPs to deliver multi-tenant cloud solutions.
Scality offer Scale-Out File and Object Storage Solutions with Support for On-Premises, AWS S3, Google Cloud and Azure.
Scality presented their experiences with kubernetes as they redesigned the distriubtion of their key offering Scality RING from RPM packages to their own bespoke MetalK8’s offering. Their Zenko solution stood out to me, Zenko offers the freedom to use object and file storage solutions on-premises and in the cloud whilst having unified management, single namespace, metadata search, flexible replication between clouds, all whilst still storing data in the native cloud formats.
Zenko supports, Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Wasabi, as well as on-premises solutions such as their own RING offering and legacy NAS.
Pure Storage presented their software defined storage management platform for Kubernetes PortWorx. PortWorx was acquired by Pure Storage in September this year after working closely within many customers utilising PortWorx for Kubernetes projects on top of Pure Storage. PortWorx will continue to be agnostic of the underlying storage platform and offers Kubernetes centric, Backup, DR, Migration, Security and Automation tools alongside software defined storage. Another of it’s USPs is its application centric approach aligned with how containers are deployed apposed to a machine centric approach that other solutions take.
An interesting presentation from a solution that ticks a number of boxes for those looking at storage management solutions for Kubernetes, if you would like to try PortWorx out yourself check out the interactive demos https://central.portworx.com/.
Today I attended the virtual vRetreat event with Runecast and 10Zig, above you can see my doodle covering the Runecast presentation by @kev_johnson.
Runecast allows VMware administrators to proactively manage their vSphere patching, security compliance and HCL compatibility. By doing this it is predicted up to 90% of known issues can be prevented.
As discussed yesterday I am lucky enough to be one of the delegates during the current Dell EMC Storage, Tech Field Day Exclusive event. Today the presentations focused on Dell EMC Power Scale, Power Protect and Power Scale use cases.
You can see my doodles from todays session below. Keep an eye out for posts covering my thoughts and opinions of the demonstrated technologies.
I am lucky enough to be one of the delegates for the current Tech Field Day virtual event with Dell Technologies.
You can learn more about the event over on the Tech Field Day website at the link below.
https://techfieldday.com/event/powerup/
I am joined on Tech Field Day with some amazing people
Andrea Mauro, @Andrea_Mauro, http://vinfrastructure.it/en/
Arjan Timmerman, @ArjanTim, https://www.techunplugged.io/blog/ http://tupodcast.blubrry.net
Becky Elliott, @BeckyLElliott, https://beckyelliott.com/blog/
Chris M Evans, @ChrisMEvans, https://www.architecting.it/blog/
Enrico Signoretti, @ESignoretti, http://juku.it/en
Gina Rosenthal, @GMinks, http://digitalsunshinesolutions.com/ http://ginaminks.com
Keith Townsend, @CTOAdvisor, http://thectoadvisor.com/
Ray Lucchesi, @RayLucchesi, http://www.SilvertonConsulting.com http://www.RayOnStorage.com
Tim Crawford, @TCrawford, http://AVOA.com
Below you will find my doodles from the first days presentations including Dell EMC PowerStore and Dell EMC PowerFlex. Keep an eye on the blog for some more thoughts and opinions regarding the content covered during the presentations.
PowerStore
PowerFlex
The second presentation from this afternoons vRetreat covered Datrium DRaaS. Their DRaaS offering allows you to replicate from any on-premises VMware infrastructure to a fully managed instance of VMware on AWS.
I spent the day with the fantastic Paul Wynne at the Dell Customer Solution Center in Limerick Ireland. The trip was planned as a training exercise for some of the members of my team but as ever the trip was really informative and it was great to see the latest new technologies and business solutions available from Dell. During our visit we covered both VMware SDDC solutions and how VxRail interacts and enhances these capabilities, we visited the innovation center looking at the business aligned IoT solutions and much more.
Here is my doodle covering the day 1 general session from VMworld in Barcelona, VMware further executing on their vision of any device, any application on any cloud with intrinsic security.
Here is my first doodle from VMworld 2019 covering the partner general session. In this session VMware discussed their strategy and new partner programme.
I was lucky enough to be invited to my third vRetreat, this time taking place at the home of Chelsea Football Ground Stamford Bridge and sponsored exclusively by Cohesity.
Covered in the doodle above
Cohesity Background
Tier 2 Storage
Test & Dev
Backup & Recovery
File Services
S3, SMB, NFS
Tiering
Cloud Deployments Options
Analytics Engine
Helios Analytics & Multi-Cluster Management
Office 365 Backup
Only for Exchange online at present
Multi-tenant Options for Service Providers
Smart Assist
The first general session at VMworld 2018 covered every aspect of VMware’s execution of their vision, from the application to the device on any cloud and most importantly with intrinsic security.
My doodle live from the general session is below
You can watch this general session back at the following link =>
https://www.vmworld.com/en/europe/learning/general-sessions.html
Ed Morgan and Mark Shaw of Rubrik presented at the recent Define Tomorrow Huddle in Bristol. They introduced us to the Rubrik platform including use cases and more. Check out the full presentation, blog posts and more over at Define Tomorrow >> https://www.definetomorrow.co.uk/past-huddles/2018/4/24/rubrik-bitdefender-zerto-20th-may-2018