Scality DevOps and Cloud-Native Storage Panel Discussion

James Governor, Redmonk founder, cloud-native expert and ex-edge skeptic, joins Joey D’Antoni, Gorilla Guide DevOps guru and principal consultant at Denny Cherry & Associated Consulting, for a frank conversation about making the edge a reality and the DevOps implications of Scality ARTESCA. They discuss: Why Kubernetes and cloud-native is the future The inherent complexity involved […]

Aruba Atmosphere 2018 Security Discussion

The Mobility Field Day Extra delegates as they discuss the current state of security. At the event keynote, 80% of all intrusions use valid network credentials, and overall malware has increased 800%. The delegates discuss the security enhancements they’ve seen at Aruba Atmosphere.

Aruba Atmosphere 2018 Smart Digital Workplace Discussion

The Mobility Field Day Extra delegates discuss what they saw about the Smart Digital Workplace displayed at Aruba Atmosphere. This provides a way to integrate a multivendor landscape across a variety of endpoints for workplace applications.

Aruba Atmosphere 2018 NetInsights Discussion

Join the Mobility Field Day Extra delegates as they discuss the new Aruba NetInsights platform and how it can use rich analytics to provide network usage profiles, aid in troubleshooting, and help network administrators validate their design decisions.

Panel Discussion: SDN Requirements in Vertical Markets

Stephen Foskett moderates a panel featuring Avi Bhagtani, Director Product Management, Sarosh Vesuna, VP&GM, and Manish Rai, VP Corporate Marketing, of Meru. Also on the panel is Dan Pitt, Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation.

IP Storage Panel: SDN’s Killer App

With the evolution of storage from centralized disk arrays with dedicated Fiber Channel SANs towards distributed software-based storage architectures, IP/Ethernet networking is becoming an integral component of new evolving scale-out storage. Due to the sensitivity to latency and packet drops, storage traffic places new demands on Ethernet/IP networking, which need to be addressed by new network architectures and […]

SDDC in the Sunlight: Real World Use Cases Panel

Technology discussions and protocol arguments solve little. The real world is where SDDC technologies will be proven. Moderator Howard Marks and his panelists will discuss real world applications of SDDC technology from a business case perspective as well as interesting deployments seen in actual networks.

The CapEx / OpEx Battleground Panel

Budgets in the SDDC are tight. Should you budget for traditional big expenditures? Or will monthly fees lure you to the operational model? Watch as moderator Michael Bushong and our panelists discuss the pros and cons of each approach.

Architecture in the SDDC Panel

Moderator Chris Evans and a panel of experts discuss the convergence of compute, storage, and networking and what this means for the future of data center architecture.

Applications and SDDC: Impact Analysis and Stakeholder Perception

With a greater focus on applications in today’s environments, how will the SDDC keep up? Moderator Tom Hollingsworth and a panel of experts explore how applications are changing the way a typical SDDC is designed and implemented in production.  In addition, there will be discussion of the changing perception of stakeholders with regard to the SDDC and […]

Public or Private Software-defined Data Center Panel

Discuss how and when to build a private SDDC or rent public SDDC capabilities and understand the political and organization impact of each decision. Moderated by Greg Ferro with panelists Andy Brown, Ron Sackman, Brent Salisbury, Scott Sneddon (Nuage Networks), and Anjan Srinivas (Nutanix).

Money Flow: Predicting Budget Winners and Losers Panel

Discuss how SDDC changes economic buyers, challenges vendor loyalties and who are the power brokers for SDDCs within the enterprise. Moderated by Jim Duffy and featuring panelists from Andy Brown, Ron Sackman, Jon Hudson (Brocade), John Vincenzo (Embrane), Inder Gopal (OpenDaylight), and Nils Swart (Plexxi).

Next Generation Software-defined Data Center Architecture Panel

Discuss the convergance of compute, storage, and network and what that means to the datacenter architectures. Moderated by Ivan Pepelnjak with panelists Brent Salisbury, Curt Beckmann (Brocade), Dimitri Stiliadis (Nuage Networks), Samrat Ganguly (NEC), Dheeraj Pandey (Nutanix), and Chris Wright (OpenDaylight).

Hotspot 2.0 and 802.11u Discussed at the Wi-Fi Mobility Symposium

Discussion about Hotspot 2.0 at the Wi-Fi Mobility Symposium was heated, with much optimism about this new technology. This session was introduced by Andrew von Nagy and moderated by Andrew and Marcus Burton. It features the following panelists (L-R): Devin Akin, Aerohive Networks Peter Thornycroft, Aruba Networks Paul Congdon, HP Labs GT Hill, Ruckus Wireless Public Wi-Fi hotspots are […]

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