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 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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