Storage Marketecture: What is Really New in Storage and Where is it All Going?
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There is always something new in data storage. . . or is there? Is software defined storage new? Is hyper-convergence anything more than virtualizing the array controller? Object stores aren't new. They have been around forever. Even erasure codes date back to the 1960s. This session is a crash course in the new stuff that is actually changing the data storage landscape. We trace the evolution of modern storage systems from lowly hard drives and file systems to modern cloud-scale distributed storage architectures. We answer the questions what is really new, how does the evolution of hardware influence best practices in storage, and how is any of this going to get the job done faster, easier, or more economically?
Topics covered include: NVMe, NVMf, Hyper-convergence, Software Defined, RoCE, RONNIE, SMR, Object Stores.
Jacob Farmer is an industry-recognized expert on storage networking and data protection technologies. He has authored numerous papers and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as Storage Networking World, VMworld, and the USENIX conferences. Jacob's no-nonsense, fast-paced presentation style has won him many accolades. Jacob is a regular lecturer at many of the nation's leading colleges and universities. Jacob is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the marketplace for emerging storage networking technologies. He has served on the advisory boards of many of the most successful storage technology startups. Jacob is a graduate of Yale and CTO of Cambridge Computer. You can follow him on Twitter @JacobAFarmer (https://twitter.com/JacobAFarmer).
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