Intel Data Center Optane Storage Products and Updates
David Tuhy, VP and GM of Intel’s Data Center Optane Storage Division, introduces new data center SSDs leveraging Intel Optane technology for high-performance applications. Growing workload intensity impacts system architecture, and the number of CPU cores per socket has driven up the amount of memory and storage required. Legacy storage is a bottleneck, and Intel […]
Intel Optane Persistent Memory Update
Kristie Mann, Senior Director, Product Management discusses the application of Intel Optane technology in the Persistent Memory tier. This technology is used in high-end servers such as Oracle Exadata, high-performance computing (HPC) exemplified by Intel’s DAOS, and big memory as with MemVerge software. Oracle Exadata X8M ships with Intel Optane Persistent Memory (PMEM) today and […]
The Future of Storage and Memory with Intel Optane
Frank Hady, Intel Fellow and Chief Optane Systems Architect, discusses the evolution of the memory and storage hierarchy and the application of Intel Optane technology across it. Intel’s Optane technology can help to fill the “hole” in the memory and storage hierarchy between NAND flash and DRAM in two different ways: Storage-addressed and memory-addressed. As […]
VMware Cloud DR Architecture: SaaS Orchestrator and Cloud Service Configuration
Nabil Quadri, Group Product Manager, presents VMware SaaS Orchestrator and cloud service configuration. VMware Cloud DR greatly simplifies the process of setting up a DR plan with its built-in DR orchestration capabilities. This presentation is a technical deep dive into these capabilities and other important technical considerations such as access control and networking configuration.
VMware Cloud DR Demo: Setting Up a DR Plan
Michael McLaughlin, Sr Technical Marketing Architect, demonstrates the configuration of a DR solution. This demo-based session covers the key steps needed for initial deployment, including protected sites, protection groups and DR plan construction.
VMware Cloud DR Architecture: Scale-Out Cloud File System
Sazzala Reddy, Chief Technologist, presents VMware’s cloud DR architecture with a focus on the scale-out cloud file system. Having replicated copies in the cloud is not enough when ransomware or other disasters strike. In this session, the Co-Founder and CTO of Datrium demonstrates key technical innovations in VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery that make VMware’s solution […]
VMware Cloud DR Demo: DR Failover
Michael McLaughlin, Sr Technical Marketing Architect, demonstrates DR failover workloads from an on-premises vSphere environment to a VMware Cloud on AWS. This demo-based session will provide a technical walkthrough of executing a DR plan and review the details of a working DR environment.
VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution Overview
Mark Chuang, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, introduces VMware’s cloud disaster recovery solutions. Disaster recovery (DR) has always been important to organizations of all sizes. But with today’s pandemic and resulting acceleration of digital transformation, it’s now critical to be able to recover a large set of IT services in the event of ransomware or other […]
Riverbed Dynamic Alerting: The Devil’s Details
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 […]
Advanced Analytic Alerting From Flow Analysis with Riverbed NetProfiler and ASM
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.
Advanced Analytic Alerting from Packet Analysis with Riverbed AppResponse
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.
Troubleshooting End Point Packets with Riverbed Client Accelerator
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.
How Riverbed Is Using AI and ML
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.
Investigating Network Performance Issues with Riverbed NPM
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 […]
From Wrenching to Conducting with Riverbed
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 […]
Riverbed Troubleshooting Taxonomy
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.
Overview of the Riverbed Visibility Portfolio
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 […]