Cloud Field Day 14 (https://techfieldday.com/event/cfd14/) took place in sunny Silicon Valley from June 22–24, 2022. I was honored to be a delegate and could attend in person. While I encountered some challenges on my travels to San Jose from Potomac, MD (Delta flight cancellation and SW doing a pitstop for more fuel), I did make it there!
CFD14 had a heavy focus on MutiCloud, with some presentations that took me a while to understand the concepts behind it. Check out the roundtable that was recorded onsite “Multi-Cloud is Inevitable” (https://gestaltit.com/podcast/stephen/multi-cloud-is-inevitable/)
A lot of the topics here at TechField Day are innovative, and some of the products are so new that there isn’t even a competitor in the market. But this is what I love about being a delegate, being exposed to new technologies and concepts that make my brain hurt!
Here is a quick overview of the presenting companies
One of the concepts presented that I was particularly fascinated with was Lightbits Labs.
We started by looking at how much data growth there is. I thought this was a good slide:
In a nutshell, Lightbits take NVMe over TCP to provide ultra-fast, disaggregated storage over standard TCP/IP Networks. Lightbits open-sourced the technology; therefore, the protocol was integrated into Linux kernels and made available for everyone to use. It also does run on commodity hardware, no special appliances or custom builds needed. Running several data centers, I do appreciate this approach!
But of course, it won’t stop at your data center. The next evolution is the cloud data platform.
During our presentation, Lightbits did a live demo of their Cloud Platform, here on AWS. I only managed to capture one output, but it was pretty impressive to see the performance.
In conclusion, I was impressed how Lightsbits Labs addressed several obstacles in modern Datacenters and Cloud; high performance over standard TCP/IP for storage, utilizing nodes and algorithms to extend the life of SSDs, and its capability to be hardware agnostic.
If you would like to learn more, head over to Gestalt IT Cloud Field Day!
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