Multimedia Coverage from theCube and SiliconANGLE.tv
Original Content: SiliconANGLE and Wikibon filmed three days of live video at Dell Storage Forum 2012 in Boston, MA, June 11 through 13, 2012.
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Darren Thomas, Dell VP and GM of Enterprise Storage, shares how his team is driving hard towards creating storage solutions built for customer requirements. Dell uses acquisitions, integration and innovation to create building blocks for the next generation of storage architecture.
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Carter George, Dell Executive Director of Storage Strategy, discusses how Dell is integrating it's plethora of acquisitions from the last 4 years. He discusses how Dell is creating workload aware storage management.
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Travis Vigil, Dell Executive Director of EqualLogic, discusses how Dell's scale-out storage architecture has a strong match and affinity for virtualization solutions. He talks to the strong engineering relationship that Dell storage has with VMware and Microsoft for server and desktop virtualization.
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Dario Zamarian, Dell VP/GM of Dell Networking Business, shares his vision of where Dell fits into the networking and SDN marketplace. He also talks about Dell's presence in Silicon Valley and the new Dell Ventures.
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Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman of Wikibon introduce Day 1 of SiliconAngle's live independent coverage of Dell Storage Forum 2012 in Boston.
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Brett Roscoe, Dell GM/Executive Director of PowerVault and owner of Dell's data management solutions discusses how the AppAssure acquisition brings a revolution in backup to Dell's storage line.
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Praveen Asthana, Dell VP of Enterprise Solutions and Strategy talks about how customers now buy based on the VM rather than the server and how Dell positions its products and services to meet this and other customer requirements.
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Dave Vellante of Wikibon and John McArthur, President of Walden Technology Partners, analyze the moves that Dell has made in transforming it's technology portfolio over the last few years. Dave and John also talk about the changes in DSF since it's inaugural session in Orlando 2011.
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Stu Miniman of Wikibon and Nick Ilyadis, CTO of Infrastructure and Networking at Broadcom, talk about the latest trends in networking including the role of merchant silicon, the role of networking software (including SDN) and the latest on high speed Ethernet.
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Bob Fine, Dell Director of Product Marketing for Compellent, discusses how Dell has been shipping SSD since 2010 and that with the 2011 acquisition of RNA Networks, has the software to create future architectures such as "Project Hermes", which promises to allow server based, PCI SSD to coordinate with a Compellent array.
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Greg Davis, Dell VP and GM of Dell Global Commercial Channels, and Bob Skelley, Global Director of Dell's Certified Partner Program, confirm Dell's strong commitment to the channel.
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Wikibon Co-Founder and Chief Analyst Dave Vellante and Senior Analyst Stu Miniman dig deep into the findings gleaned from the Dell leadership team. With dramatic changes sweeping the storage and networking industry, Dave and Stu peel the onion on the key issues of the day and track Dell's positioning.
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Jeff Echols, CommVault Director of Product Marketing, discusses his company's Simpana software and the partnership with Dell.
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Stuart Miniman and Dave Vellante of Wikibon discuss Darren Thomas’ keynote and what’s on tap for Day 2 in theCUBE.
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Arpit Joshipura, Dell Head of Networking Product Management and Marketing, shares that in the last 12 months since Dell acquired Force10, that it has seen a 43% growth in its customer base. Dell Networking now claims to be the #3 10Gb Ethernet switch supplier and the #2 in 40Gb Ethernet.
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Brian Payne, Dell Executive Director of Server Solutions, discusses Dell’s updates in servers including 12G, hyper-scale and Copper (ARM-based, extremely low power) offerings. He answers how Dell looks to build off commodity components while still adding value to the solution and how servers and storage product groups collaborate for new solutions.
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Howard Marks, Storage Analyst and Founder of DeepStorage.net, shares his take on Dell’s announcements and how the wave of flash storage solutions will radically impact the storage industry.
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Pete Koehler, Senior Systems Administrator at Tecplot, discusses how his company is dealing with rapid growth with simplified storage solution from Dell. Tecplot is a data visualization software company based in Seattle.
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Bob Plankers, Blogger and Virtualization & Cloud Architect at University of Wisconsin, Madison, discusses his university’s infrastructure and operations. He gives his unfiltered view of how cloud and virtualization are transforming the storage industry.
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George Crump, Storage Analyst with Storage Switzerland, breaks down Dell’s moves in storage and recent announcements in the storage industry.
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Chris Hansen, System Manager at Gordon College, tells how Compellent Copilot helped him on his first day on the job and many since.
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Felipe Payet and Tracy Waller of VMware’s Dell partner team discuss the engineering collaboration and field engagement commitment of VMware. Not only is Dell a significant OEM of VMware on the server side, but has strong relationship on the storage side.
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Teri McClure, Senior Analyst at ESG, discusses the critical importance of storage infrastructure including the importance of object storage.
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Edward Haletky of The Virtualization Practice discusses his definition of converged infrastructure, industry gaps in security and the state of cloud in the marketplace.
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Nick Allen of Wikibon joins Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman to discuss Flash Storage and other items of interest from Dell Storage Forum in Boston.
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Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman kick off the final day of Dell Storage Forum in Boston with a look at some of the foreword looking projects that were discussed at Carter George’s keynote.
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Randy Kerns, Storage Analyst at The Evaluator Group, discusses the rapid moves by Dell into the storage market. He shares that only 30% of customers are using thin provisioning and that users should treat new storage feature adoption as a project to overcome organizational delay.
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Alex Rodriguez, VP of Systems Engineering and Product Development of Expedient, explains the infrastructure architecture that he uses across 8 data centers that provide collocation and cloud services. Expedient uses Dell EqualLogic for virtualization and Compellent for tiering. Expedient is a Cloud Service Provider with over 200,000 sq ft of data center spread throughout the northeast that also offers telecommunication services.
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Donald Wilkins, Director of IT at Navicure, keeps up with expansion and growth by keeping the infrastructure simple to manage.
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Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman of Wikibon discuss news of the day including a Dell dividend and the evolution of Dell’s flash storage offerings using RNA Networks technology that was recently acquired.
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Roger Lund, Blogger and Sr Systems Administrator with Array Services Group, discusses his 75% virtualized environment that leverages Dell storage. Lund also shares how being a VMUG Leader and blogger has been a positive impact on his visibility in the community and helped him share with peers.
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Ben Tao, Dell Marketing Director of Converged Infrastructure Solutions, provides updates on converged infrastructure including the new EqualLogic Blade Array and vStart 1000 solutions. He also discusses Dell’s “Application Recipes”, the first of which is for Microsoft Sharepoint environments.
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Roger Bouchard, Author and Brocade Global Solutions Architect, discussed the state of the Fibre Channel industry and storage security. He also got a chance to plug his newly updated book, “Securing Fibre Channel Fabrics: SAN Protection for Storage and Security Professionals,” which he said is a timely read considering the growing intersection of storage and security.
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Laz Vekiarides, Dell Executive Director of Software Engineering, discusses how EqualLogic has ridden the wave of virtualization including close partnerships with VMware and Microsoft. He also discusses a future direction of separating the storage management and virtualization layers from EqualLogic to create a “Host Virtualized Storage (HVS)” array as a VM. Laz also shares some thoughts on where Dell is investigating Big Data.
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Dan Marbes, Discipline Lead of Systems Engineering at Associated Bank, has been a Compellent customer since 2006 and has attended all of its customer conferences. He shares how Compellent has always listed to his needs and crafted products that help his team do its job simply.
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Deni Connor, Principal Analyst at Storage Strategies NOW, shares some of her research on the SMB storage market. She gives her views on Dell’s portfolio and competition, especially in the SMB and midmarkets.
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John McArthur, President of Walden Technology Partners, joins Stu Miniman and Dave Vellante for the final wrap-up of Dell’s 2nd annual user conference. They discuss Dell’s move from ecommerce visionary to customer focus and the (as of yet unmet) potential to play in the Big Data ecosystem. After 3 days and dozens of interviews, the team closes with final thoughts on the show and news.
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Dell Storage Forum 2012 Articles from Wikibon and SiliconANGLE
- What to Expect at Dell Storage Forum 2012
- Dell Brings New Vision of Highly Automated Enterprise Level Storage at SMB Prices (Carter George)
- What's Hot at Dell Storage Forum: Analytics, Security and Automation
- Dell Releases new blade based EqualLogic arrays
- Dell's Data Protection Solutions and the Future of Back Up (Brett Roscoe)
- Dell Converges Virtual Machine Technologies Based on Customer Needs (Praveen Asthana)
- Broadcom's CTO of Networking on Dell, Smart Networks and SDN (Nick Ilyadis)
- Dell Force10 Champions Network Virtualization (Arpit Joshipura)
- Dell's $100M Innovators Fund
- Dell Networking on Strategy, Cloud and Opportunity (Dario Zamarian)
- Deploying Successful Storage as the Clouds Roll In (Brocade's Roger Bouchard on Security)
- Chris Hansen of Gordon College Discusses Compellent on Campus
- theCUBE at Dell Storage Forum Examines VMware/Dell Partnership for Virtualization and the Cloud (Felipe Payet and Tracey Waller)
- Tec Plot's EqualLogic Adoption Opens New Doors
- Cloud Provider Combines High Security and Efficiency on Dell Backbone (Expedient's Alex Rodriguez)
- Starting with Blank Slate, Dell Engineers Best in Class Converged Infrastructure Solutions (Darren Thomas)
- Dell Speaks on Dividend Payout, Cost Cutting and Fresh Focus on Data Centers
- George Crump Discusses Dell and the Future of Storage in theCUBE
- Dell Server Solutions Focus on Data Center Customer Needs (Brian Payne)
- Fluid Data is More than a Marketing Term for Dell (Bob Fine)
- Dell Storage Forum Recap: The Strategic Shift and Latest Wave of Innovation
- Dells Storage Chief Talks Migration Convergence and the Future (Darren Thomas)
- Keys to Cloud Success: Security, Flexibility, Reliability and Management Simplicity (Brocade's Roger Bouchard)
- How One Bank Finds Efficiency with Dell Compellent (Dan Marbes)
- A Real Customer Perspective on Dell's Storage Strategy (Roger Lund)
- Vendor Messaging versus Business Reality in the Storage Market (Randy Kerns)
