At AI Field Day 7, Robin Braun from HPE and Luke Norris from Kamiwaza presented their collaborative smart city solution, highlighting a real-world deployment in Vail, Colorado. The focus was on using agentic AI systems to improve core municipal operations such as information access, public safety, affordable housing oversight, and regulatory compliance. By integrating Kamiwaza’s […]
HPE News from NVIDIA GTC DC 2025
At AI Field Day 7, HPE presented its latest AI developments announced during NVIDIA’s GTC DC 2025, with a strong focus on its collaborative initiatives to simplify and operationalize AI workloads. Robin Braun and Luke Norris highlighted the challenges organizations face in deploying AI applications, particularly the difficulty of moving from pilot projects to full-scale […]
Unleash AI with HPE and Kamiwaza
At AI Field Day 7, Robin Braun presented HPE’s “Unleash AI” initiative, emphasizing their collaborative and outcomes-based approach to bringing AI to practical use. Braun was joined by Kamiwaza CEO Luke Norris, in all three sessions. HPE launched the Unleash AI program in early 2024 with the goal of curating a robust partner ecosystem, offering […]
Delivering Valuable AI Insights Requires Protecting AI Data Sources
In the AI Field Day 7 presentation, Subbiah Sundaram, Senior Vice President of Products at HYCU, highlighted the importance of data protection in the context of AI deployment and insights. Sundaram emphasized that protecting data is not limited to the raw data itself, but also includes configurations, metadata, and associated systems that power AI infrastructure. […]
Protecting the Intelligence and Infrastructure Behind AI
In his presentation at AI Field Day 7, Sathya Sankaran, Head of Cloud Products at HYCU, emphasizes the importance of protecting the data and infrastructure that underpin AI systems. He highlights that while much of the AI conversation tends to focus on GPUs and models, the foundational data that fuels AI often lacks comprehensive protection. […]
The Role of Data Protection in AI Readiness
At AI Field Day 7, Brian Babineau, Chief Customer Officer at HYCU, outlined the company’s direction and how data protection plays a crucial role in AI readiness. He introduced his team and emphasized HYCU’s mission to ensure complete data protection and recoverability, especially as businesses embrace AI technologies and shift workloads to the cloud. Babineau […]
From Zero to AI Hero with HPE Private Cloud and Storage Solutions
Discover how HPE Private Cloud AI (PCAI), co-engineered with NVIDIA, delivers a fast, scalable foundation for enterprise AI workloads. See how HPE Alletra MP X10000 Storage powers data-driven innovation with built-in data intelligence and ultra-fast object performance with RDMA to streamline data pipelines—accelerating customers’ AI journey. Ed Beauvais from HPE presented the HPE Alletra MP […]
Eliminating Hypervisor Lock In and Accelerating Private Cloud with HPE
Live from CFD, uncover how Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is eliminating VMware lock-in and accelerating Private Cloud adoption with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials. See how this powerful solution integrates VMware environments with HPE’s KVM-based hypervisor for seamless migration, VM-vending, and management. Discover how HPE VM Essentials, available as software or embedded in HPE Private Cloud […]
Enabling Hybrid Cloud Anywhere with HPE CloudOps Software
In this CFD session, we explore how Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is transforming the way enterprises provision, manage, and protect hybrid cloud environments with the HPE CloudOps Software suite, comprising HPE Morpheus Enterprise, HPE OpsRamp, and HPE Zerto. Including discussion and live demo of HPE’s orchestration and automation control plane for on-prem technologies like VMware, […]
HPE’s Hybrid Cloud Strategy & Portfolio Overview
Brad Park from HPE opens by outlining the company’s hybrid cloud strategy and portfolio, emphasizing the importance of achieving a cloud operating model for AI and other initiatives. He highlights the challenges posed by technical debt and the complexities of heterogeneous enterprise environments. The goal is to address these complexities with solutions that transcend individual […]
Protecting the Keys to the Kingdom with Fortinet
The Three Pillars of Fortinet AI Security: Protect from AI, Assist with AI, and Secure AI. This demonstration illustrates how Fortinet combines AI-driven analytics for SOC assistance with deep protection for AI workloads themselves. Showcasing a simulated attack on a cloud-based e-commerce application powered by an AI chatbot, and highlighting vulnerabilities that can be exploited […]
AI Powered Web Application Protection with Fortinet
Fortinet’s approach to securing AI workloads involves a layered defense strategy. Their presentation at Cloud Field Day 24 demonstrated SQL injection (SQLi), Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), and model manipulation attacks against an AI-powered application using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), showcasing how Fortinet solutions protect at each stage of the attack kill chain. The demonstration […]
Defending Cloud AI Applications with Fortinet
The scalability, GPU access, and managed services of public cloud make it the natural platform for developing and deploying AI and LLM-based applications—and why this changes the architecture of security itself. Fortinet is focusing on securing AI applications in the cloud, a topic that dominates its conversations with customers. They emphasize the cloud’s unique ability […]
Where are we going with Oxide Computer Integrations
Matthew Sanabria focuses on future integrations for the Oxide Computer Company, aiming to expand its capabilities and make it a more attractive choice for customers. These integrations include a Kubernetes CSI plugin to enable Oxide storage with Kubernetes, the Kubernetes Cluster API to create clusters across different platforms using Kubernetes, and observability enhancements. The goal […]
Oxide Integrations: Empowering Platform Teams and Developers with Oxide Computer
Matthew Sanabria from Oxide Computer Company discusses integrations that empower platform teams and developers to build on top of the Oxide platform. As Oxide is API-driven, these integrations are crucial for engineering teams needing to work at scale. Sanabria covers three platform integrations: a Go SDK, a Terraform provider, and a Packer plugin, demonstrating how […]
Who wants Oxide Computer and Why
The video centers on Oxide’s mission to address the inefficiencies and integration challenges prevalent in the industry, which is commoditized and ossified. Oxide started with a clean sheet of paper, tackling problems accumulated over decades by building their own machines fit for purpose, rather than relying on personal computers in data centers. Oxide aims to […]
Scaling Up The Cloud Computer with Oxide Computer
Cloud computing has been the most significant platform shift in computing history, allowing companies to modernize and grow their businesses. While cloud computing has accelerated businesses, it has begun to hit its limits. Companies need to extend their operations beyond the public cloud for reasons like locality, security, sovereignty, and regulatory compliance. However, operating infrastructure […]
Enterprise Storage for the Cloud – Simplify, Scale, and Save with Pure Storage
Pure Storage Cloud brings enterprise-grade storage to the cloud with simplicity, resilience, and efficiency. This session dives into the technical foundations that deliver consistent performance and protection while helping organizations reduce costs across cloud migration, disaster recovery, and hybrid deployments. David Stamen introduced Pure Storage Cloud as an update to their portfolio, emphasizing a shift […]
Breaking Silos and Managing Data Across On-Premises and Cloud with Pure Storage
Pure Fusion, built into the Purity operating environment, is a core enabler of the Enterprise Data Cloud architecture. Fusion federates arrays into a single, unified fleet and uses outcome-driven automation through Presets to ensure consistent provisioning and configuration of workloads across environments. The result: a self-service, API-driven platform that lets users manage data—not storage—across their […]
The Enterprise Data Cloud with Pure Storage
The Enterprise Data Cloud reimagines storage as a unified, software-driven environment—enabling organizations to manage data, not hardware. It brings together on-premises, cloud, and hybrid resources under a single intelligent control plane for consistent governance, automated protection, and seamless mobility. With built-in cyber resilience, SLA-driven performance, and real-time analytics, the Enterprise Data Cloud empowers enterprises to […]