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Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 15



Tech Field Day 15


This Presentation date is September 28, 2017 at 16:00-18:00.


Introducing Riverbed and the “Bleeding Edge” with Josh Dobies


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Josh Dobies, VP Product Marketing, gives an overview how Riverbed’s solutions can allow organizations to extend the value of the data centers to edge locations. This allows distributed enterprises to embrace the digital transformations brought by the cloud and mobility, without losing a unified approach to managing IT.

Personnel: Josh Dobies

Extending Hybrid Cloud to the Software-Defined Edge with Riverbed and Parimal Puranik


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Parimal Puranik, Director of Product Management at Riverbed, reviews the problem of that hybrid cloud causes for IT teams. This complex landscape extends across a number of connection types to a variety of applications. He then introduces the Riverbed SteelFusion which provides a software-defined edge IT platform to make hybrid cloud management much easier in remote locations. These can run infrastructure, file, and critical application services.

Personnel: Parimal Puranik

Riverbed: Whiteboard of a Complete Deployment of SteelFusion with Parimal Puranik


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Parimal Puranik, Director of Product Management at Riverbed, hits the whiteboard to demonstrate a typical SteelFusion deployment. He shows how SteelFusion Edge collapses the edge server, storage, and backup into a single appliance. He shows how to deploy application from the core data center out to the edge.

Personnel: Parimal Puranik

Riverbed SteelFusion: Tech Updates and Azure Demo with Parimal Puranik


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Parimal Puranik, Director of Product Management at Riverbed, reviews technology updates for SteelFusion, which includes NFS support, backup snapshot integrartion, and a virtual SteelFusion Edge for a hardware agnostic offering. The platform also now supports Hyper-V, allowing it to work on Azure Cloud. This capability is then demoed for the delegates.

Personnel: Parimal Puranik

Riverbed SteelConnect SD-WAN Demo with Vivek Ganti


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Josh Dobies, VP Product Marketing at Riverbed, introduces their SteelConnect SD-WAN solution. This provides policy and orchestration tools across a wide connectivity fabric, allowing it to expand from hybrid cloud to edge sites.

Vivek Ganti, Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, proceeds to give the delegates a demo of SteelConnect in action.

Personnel: Josh Dobies, Vivek Ganti

Riverbed Xirrus: The Wireless Edge with Bruce Miller


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Bruce Miller, VP of Marketing at Xirrus, reviews why the company was acquired by Riverbed, what their appeal is to customers, and how Xirrus fits into the Riverbed Edge IT platform. Riverbed Xirrus is able to deliver a distributed model of Wi-Fi, which pushes the intelligence of control to the edge, while keeping the management plane in the cloud or on-prem. This removes a single point of failure from the system, and enable organizations to better control Wi-Fi on the edge.

Personnel: Bruce Miller

The Riverbed IT Story with Bill Bragg


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Bill Bragg, VP IT Infrastructure at Riverbed, gives an overview of Riverbed in the overall IT landscape. He includes a look at their hybrid hosted landscape, centered around their performance management center. This also includes a look at their infrastructure topology.

Personnel: Bill Bragg


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