Dell Storage Forum 2011 Multimedia Coverage from theCube and SiliconANGLE.tv
Original Content: SiliconANGLE and Wikibon filmed 3 days of videos at the Dell Storage Forum in Orlando, FL, June 7-9, 2011. Also see videos from this show on SiliconAngle's YouTube playlist.
Both Dell and its customers are making the transformation from just buying and selling products, to establishing relationships that take into account customers’ overall needs, according to Brandon Canaday, Product Marketing Director, Storage Solutions at Dell. Speaking live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum, Canaday also discusses Dell’s sales strategy.
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Dell Compellent President Phil Soran: Compellent To Keep Innovating Under Dell
Compellent has been known as an innovative company for its entire existence, and that’s not about to change now that the company is a division of Dell. Dell Compellent President Phil Soran said live inside theCube that C3, the Compellent Customer Council, is one of the ways the company stays innovative.
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From financial firms to non-profit organizations and everywhere in between, “It’s always fun to see where your product ends up,” Dell Compellent President Phil Soran said live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum in Orlando. Soran also discussed Dell Compellent’s expansion plans.
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Phil Soran, President at Dell Compellent, goes live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum to share his advice to start-up technology firms struggling to make it. Soran also discusses Compellent’s transformation from such a start-up to now being part of tech giant Dell.
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Dell Social Media Evangelist Gina Rosenthal: Technical Blogging Helps Spread IT Knowledge
Dell Social Media Evangelist Gina Rosenthal (@gminks) plans to get technical, blogging about object-based storage in the coming weeks. Speaking live inside theCube, Rosenthal talks about the role of technical blogging and social media at Dell.
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One of the best ways to learn is by listening to the experience of peers, according to Gina Rosenthal, Dell’s Social Media Evangelist. In Part 2 of her interview inside theCube, Rosenthal talks about why events like Dell Storage Forum are often the catalyst for new initiatives.
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Dell Executive Director, SMB Tony Parkinson: Goal To Be Best Client Provider Across All Devices
Dell would love for all your client devices to come from Dell, but even if they don’t, Dell is still determined to be “the best client provider across your device,” said Dell Executive Director, SMB Tony Parkinson, speaking live inside theCube with SiliconANGLE’s Cali Lewis and Wikibon’s John McArthur.
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StorageIO Founder Greg Schulz: The Cloud Is Nothing To Fear
StorageIO Founder and author Greg Schulz (@storageio) goes live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum to discuss his new book, Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking, and why companies have nothing to fear when it comes to the cloud.
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Centre Technologies CEO Chris Pace: Focus on Providing Vale, Not Box-Flipping
Unlike most VARs, Centre Technologies really is “not the best at box flipping, according to CEO Chris Pace. Pace, speaking live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum in Orlando, said instead Centre Technologies takes a holistic approach to each customer and what it s trying to achieve in the data center.
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Dell’s Sheryl Koenigsberg and Magi Kapoor: IT, Storage Not Just A Man's World
Magi Kapoor, Sr. Product Marketing Advisor at Dell, and Sheryl Koenigsberg, Senior Solutions Marketing Consultant (Storage) at Dell, go live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum to discuss the role of women in technology.
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Mazda’s Kai Sookwongse and Barry Blakeley: Virtualization Helps Mazda Drive Efficiency, Improve ROI
With only four people overseeing it infrastructure, Mazda North America needed to simplify its data center, according to Barry Blakeley, an Infrastructure Architect with the company. He turned to Dell to help him and his team virtualize Mazda’s infrastructure. He explains how this helped improve efficiency and drive greater ROI from inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum.
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Dell EqualLogic Manager of Technical Marketing Darren Miller: Hands-On Labs At Forum a Huge Success
Dell EqualLogic’s Hands-On Labs have evolved from a couple small instructor-led training seminars to a 20+ station, hands-on course, said Darren Miller, Manager of Technical Marketing at Dell EqualLogic, speaking live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum in Orlando.
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Cinetica’s Fabio Raposelli and Roger Lund: Integration Between VMware and Storage “Not Going to Be Easy to Manage”
There are many integration points when dealing with VMware installations of 100 instances or more, according to Fabio Raposelli (@fabiorapposelli), CIO at Cinetica. Virtualization Blogger Roger Lund (@rogerlund) and Fabio discuss the challenges of management and how they can be overcome as they speak live inside theCube.
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Dell EqualLogic Executive Director, Software Engineering Lazarus Vekiarides: Networking Pros Play Large Role in Storage Industry
Lazarus Vekiarides, Executive Director, Software Engineering at Dell EqualLogic, goes inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum to discuss his transformation from networking guru to storage expert and the role networking has played in the evolution of storage technology.
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Dell EqualLogic’s Pete Korce and Travis Vigil: Easy-to-Manage Storage Key for Lean IT Staff
Lean IT staffs need easy-to-manage storage solutions, according to Travis Vigil, Executive Director of Data Management Solutions at EqualLogic. Speaking live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum, Vigil and EqualLogic Vice President and General Manager Pete Korce discuss how EqualLogic’s approach to storage management.
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Dell’s Suresh Jasrasaria and iLand’s Dante Orsini: Data Privacy Key Issue In Cloud Computing
Companies considering moving operations to the cloud shouldn’t forget to consider data privacy laws and regulations, which can differ by country, according to Dante Orsini, Vice President of Business Development at iLand. Orsini and Dell’s Suresh Jasrasaria also share their impressions of Michael Dell’s keynote address at Dell Storage Forum.
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Dell VP of Storage Darren Thomas: Use Case, Not Customer Size or Deployment Model, Determines Dell Approach
With some overlapping capabilities within its multiple storage offerings, it’s critical for Dell to understand each customer’s intended use case before determining which products to go with, according to Darren Thomas, VP of Storage at Dell. Speaking live inside theCube Del Storage Forum, Thomas also discusses hoe Dell collaborates with customers to improve its offerings.
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Dell has spent close to $2 billion acquiring four companies, two being EqualLogic and Compellent, Dell VP of Storage Thomas explains. The two are among the best assets in the storage industry, Thomas said live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum in Orlando.
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Dell Virtualization Product Specialist Darren Schmitz: Experimenting With VMware Reference Architectures for VDI
Darren Schmitz has a really cool job. He gets to play with all the new, cutting-edge Dell technologies and new products from partners like VMware. Speaking live inside theCube, Schmitz discusses his latest area of focus, VMware reference architectures for VDI.
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Dell Team Lead, Product Management, Storage Mike Davis: Dell Has Best De-dupe Tech on the Market, Davis Claims
Mike Davis, Team Lead, Product Management, Storage talks about Dell’s acquisition of Ocarina Networks live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum in Orlando. Davis also backs up his claim that Dell has the best de-dupe technology on the market.
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Dell Project Manager, FS7500 Scott Sinclair: FS7500 More Than Just A NAS Product
SAN is a big part of the Dell FS7500, but there’s much more to it than that, according to Scott Sinclair, Project Manager, FS7500 at Dell. It boasts a scale-out architecture, which traditionally is reserved for high-end computing products, Sinclair said live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum.
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Dell Sr. Product Marketing Manager: Dell Empowers Workers To Be Creative, Strategic
Executives and frontline workers alike have the freedom to let their creative juices flow, according to Christy Pooler, a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Dell. The creative spirit, she said live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum, comes from the top down.
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Dell Executive Director, SMB Tony Parkinson: Dell Strives To Be Customers’ “Trusted Advisor”
Dell’s SMB business has a mantra, according to Tony Parkinson, Executive Director, SMB at Dell. “Our mantra is to be the trusted advisor for our customers,” Parkinson said live inside theCube. “The only way to do that is to meet your customers and listen to them.”
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Dell’s Gene Chesser and Caringo’s Mike Melson: Dell and Caringo Partnership Strong
Dell’s Gene Chesser and Caringo’s Mike Melson go live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum with Wikibon’s John McArthur to discuss the two companies’ partnership. Dell’s DX Object Storage Platform is powered by Caringo's object storage software.
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Grupo Posadas’ Jose Luis Cuevas: Dell EqualLogic Aids Grupo Posada's Growth
Dell EqualLogic customer Jose Luis Cuevas, who oversees storage for Grupo Posadas, goes live inside theCube with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and John McArthur at Dell Storage Forum in Orlando to talk about his experience working with Dell.
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STEC Director, SSD Technical Marketing Scott Shadley: Non-Volatile Storage Enabled Data Growth
It’s true that solid-state drives have a finite lifespan, but STEC helps customers manage that lifecycle with little disruption, said Scott Shadley, SSD Technical Marketing Director at STEC. STEC can even expand SSDs to up to five years, Shadley said live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum.
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Associated Bank Systems Engineer Dan Marbes: Associated Bank and Compellent Watch Storage Grow Together
Dan Marbes, Systems Engineer at longtime Compellent customer Associated Bank, said his organization has grown up along with the storage vendor over the last five years. Speaking live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum, Marbes takes viewers on Associated Bank’s storage journey.
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Indiana University Associate IT Director Jannsen Jones: We’ve Been Deploying Hyper-V Like Crazy
Since its first deployment in 2008, Indiana University has been deploying Hyper-V “like crazy,” according to Jannsen Jones, the school’s Associate IT Director. Speaking live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum, Jones said the school is now “99% virtualized” on Hyper-V with Compellent storage.
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Joyent Sr. Technical Director Ed Saipetch: Innovative Companies Looking for “Burstability”
Public cloud or private cloud, it doesn’t really matter to Joyent Sr. Technical Director Ed Saipetch (@edsai). Different customers are looking for different characteristics, according to Saipetch, among them scalability and “burstability.”
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Guard Insurance Group Storage Administrator Jonathan Franconi: Forum Labs Give Attendees Hands-On Training
Guard Insurance Group Storage Administrator Jonathan Franconi talks about a number of hands-on labs he ran at Dell Storage Forum, including a SQL lab and a data protection lab. Franconi is also a prolific blogger on all things storage and networking.
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Dell’s Bob Skelley and Michael Beach: Dell Compellent Reveals Channel Strategy
Dell’s Bob Skelley and Michael Beach go live inside theCube at Dell Storage Forum with Wikibon’s John McArthur to discuss the Dell/Compellent channel strategy.
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