Tech Field Day

The Independent IT Influencer Event

  • Home
    • Gestalt IT
    • About Tech Field Day
    • FAQ
    • Staff
  • Sponsors
    • Sponsor List
    • Sponsor Tech Field Day
    • Results and Metrics
    • Preparing Your Presentation
      • Complete Presentation Guide
      • A Classic Tech Field Day Agenda
      • Field Day Room Setup
      • Presenting to Engineers
  • Delegates
    • Delegate List
      • 2021 Delegates
      • 2020 Delegates
      • 2019 Delegates
      • 2018 Delegates
      • 2017 Delegates
      • 2016 Delegates
    • Become a Field Day Delegate
    • What Delegates Should Know
  • Events
    • All Events
      • Upcoming
      • Past
    • Field Day
    • Field Day Extra
    • Field Day Exclusive
    • Field Day Experience
    • Field Day Live
  • Topics
    • Tech Field Day
    • Cloud Field Day
    • Mobility Field Day
    • Networking Field Day
    • Security Field Day
    • Storage Field Day
You are here: Home / Appearances / Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 22



Tech Field Day 22

Rich McBee presented at Tech Field Day 22

This Presentation date is December 10, 2020 at 11:30-15:00.


Presenters: Brandon Carroll, Gwen Blum, John Pittle, Phil Gervasi, Rich McBee, Vincent Berk
Delegate Panel: Al Rasheed, Ben Mason, Chris Hildebrandt, Chris Maki, David Chapa, Erik Ableson, Jody Lemoine, Justin Warren, Matthew Leib, Nico Stein, Robert Novak, Scott Bollinger




Riverbed Introduction and Tech Field Day Welcome with Rich McBee

Watch on Vimeo
Watch on YouTube

Riverbed President and CEO, Rich McBee, gives an update on the company and welcomes the Tech Field Day delegates for their presentation. After this, Brandon Carroll, Director of the Technical Evangelist Team, introduces the Tech Field Day 22 presentation agenda.

Personnel: Brandon Carroll, Rich McBee

Overview of the Riverbed Acceleration Portfolio

Watch on Vimeo
Watch on YouTube

Riverbed Technical Evangelist Phillip Gervasi introduces the company’s portfolio of application acceleration products. After discussing the challenges of remote network access and WAN optimization, Gervasi presents the vision for application acceleration. The Branch SteelHead client accelerator can be deployed as distributed software at the edge, as a service, or in the cloud. The Client Accelerator extends optimization and acceleration to mobile agents, reducing network latency and mediating connection issues.

Personnel: Phil Gervasi

Overview of the Riverbed Visibility Portfolio

Watch on Vimeo
Watch on YouTube

Brandon Carroll, Director of the Technical Evangelist Team, introduces Riverbed’s portfolio of network visibility products. Network Performance Management is a key piece of the visibility requirements of administrators, since visibility gaps create problems across IT. Riverbed’s unified NPM platform addresses devices, packets, and flows for complex networks across the enterprise. This includes AppResponse Cloud, NetProfiler and Flow Gateway, and NetIM. After the presentation, Carroll takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.

Personnel: Brandon Carroll, John Pittle

Riverbed Troubleshooting Taxonomy

Watch on Vimeo
Watch on YouTube

John Pittle, Professional Services CTO, presents Riverbed’s troubleshooting taxonomy, which can help IT organizations address network and application performance issues. The taxonomy begins with identifying symptoms and proceeds with discovery of causes, investigation into underlying issues, and addressing these with devices and tools.

Personnel: John Pittle

From Wrenching to Conducting with Riverbed

Watch on Vimeo
Watch on YouTube

Riverbed Chief Security Architect Vince Berk introduces his Tech Field Day 22 sessions on advanced analytics, AIOps, and machine learning with a review of core concepts. From intelligence to expert systems to artificial intelligence, the IT industry has been building towards artificial intelligence not to replace the operator but to enable them to become a conductor.

Personnel: Vincent Berk

Investigating Network Performance Issues with Riverbed NPM

Watch on Vimeo
Watch on YouTube

John Pittle, Professional Services CTO, gives a walkthrough of an NPM deep-dive investigation using packets and flow and advanced analytics to debug slow file transfer. This sample use case involved Riverbed NetProfiler, AppResponse 11, Packet Analyzer Plus, and Transaction Analyzer to identify network misconfiguration and process issues. Pittle and Vincent Berk then discuss this process with the Tech Field Day delegates.

Personnel: John Pittle, Vincent Berk

How Riverbed Is Using AI and ML

Watch on Vimeo
Watch on YouTube

Riverbed Chief Security Architect Vince Berk asks why Riverbed needs AI and ML and where the company is going with these tools. ML can assist with risk analysis, spotting significant changes, and surfacing issues for a human operator.

Personnel: Vincent Berk

Troubleshooting End Point Packets with Riverbed Client Accelerator

Watch on Vimeo
Watch on YouTube

Gwen Blum, Senior Technical Evangelist, discusses how packets and network traces can be used to for forensic troubleshooting. This demonstration uses SteelCentral Transaction Analyzer to isolate an IP conversation and analyze these packets. Next he demonstrates metrics and reports in Client Accelerator and deploys the Client Accelerator Controller in Microsoft Azure to manage it.

Personnel: Gwen Blum

Advanced Analytic Alerting from Packet Analysis with Riverbed AppResponse

Watch on Vimeo
Watch on YouTube

John Pittle, Professional Services CTO, demonstrates Riverbed AppResponse for network alerting. AppResponse includes many built-in analytics policies and can send these alerts to ServiceNow, SNMP, syslog, or email. He then demonstrates the system with server availability and takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.

Personnel: John Pittle

Advanced Analytic Alerting From Flow Analysis with Riverbed NetProfiler and ASM

Watch on Vimeo
Watch on YouTube

Gwen Blum, Senior Technical Evangelist, presents actionable advanced analytics for remote workers using Riverbed NetProfiler and ASM. He demonstrates these products in real time using Riverbed tools deployed in Microsoft Azure as well as cookbooks in the Riverbed Community Toolkit.

Personnel: Gwen Blum

Riverbed Dynamic Alerting: The Devil’s Details

Watch on Vimeo
Watch on YouTube

Riverbed Chief Security Architect Vince Berk discusses emerging technologies for anomaly detection and the emergence of AI in networking. He begins with a discussion of anomaly detection and progressive baselining to detect changes over time. The product uses advanced capabilities, with multiple algorithms voting to determine the most important issues for each environment. He then moves on to present AI in networking, focusing on root cause analysis and trend extraction for predictive analysis.

Personnel: Vincent Berk


  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Event Calendar

  • Apr 5-14 — Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021
  • Apr 21-23 — Tech Field Day 23
  • Apr 27-27 — Tech Field Day Presents Scality: Making the Future of Data Possible
  • May 12-14 — Networking Field Day 25
  • May 26-28 — AI Field Day 2
  • Jun 23-25 — Cloud Field Day 11
  • Jul 14-16 — Mobility Field Day 6
  • Aug 4-6 — Storage Field Day 22

Latest Links

Networking Field Day 24: Takeaways and Highlights

Quantum ActiveScale Delivers Scalable, Resilient Object Storage On-Premises

Tune in for Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Security Field Day 5: All About SASE and Secure Access

Session-Aware AI-Driven Networking With Juniper Networks

Recent Videos

End-to-End Visibility with Cisco ThousandEyes Integrations

DL Boost for AI Performance in Intel Xeon 3rd Generation Processors

Cisco Routed Optical Networking Solution Demo

Cisco's Innovative Approach to Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

Watch Tech Field Day on YouTube

Best of Tech Field Day

How Devices Connect to the Fabric: Understanding Cisco ACI Domains

Introduction to Tail-f and NCS

NetEx HyperIP Beer Bottle Demo from TFD5

Cisco Access Point Designs with Fred Niehaus

Watch Tech Field Day on YouTube

Return to top of page

Copyright © 2021 · Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in