Ben Trinder1
1XENON Systems, Springvale, Australia
Biography:
Ben joined XENON Systems in 2024 as a Solutions Architect. Prior to this, he was with Quantum Storage providing Professional Services across Australia and New Zealand.
And before that, Ben worked in film and television for 20+ years, including 12 years at Endemol Shine – looking after the storage, networks and software used to create shows such as MasterChef, Ninja Warrior, Married at First Sight and many others.
Ben has experience working at vendors, at the customer side as well as in the integrator space, giving him the knowledge and skills to navigate the challenges of implementing solutions to fit budgets, deadlines and future needs.
With a strong focus on customer requirements, Ben is an “on the tools” engineer, who is ready to take a solution from initial discussions through design, implementation and ongoing support.
Abstract:
In today's modern landscape, the requirements and challenges of adding storage to an HPC environment have evolved.
Networks are 800G and beyond. HPC data sets are shared or sourced across the WAN. Environments are stretched from data centres to the cloud.
Traditional spinning disks with hardware RAID controllers presenting block storage to individual servers may not be suitable for your modern HPC environment.
Storage demands continue to grow faster than storage capacities – management and archiving is needed. How do you ensure only the right data is using up your valuable storage? Do you implicitly archive all your data using automation, or do you explicitly archive only the data when you choose?
This session covers how storage has evolved, with Flash NAND speeds approaching that of system RAM, shared-nothing architectures, Kubernetes-defined storage platforms, archive workflows and more.
From NVMe storage in individual servers, on-premises clustered Flash arrays to software-defined storage that spans multiple DCs, we discuss how the landscape has changed and what technologies can solve these modern challenges.