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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.

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 […]

Overview of the Riverbed Acceleration Portfolio

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 […]

Riverbed Introduction and Tech Field Day Welcome with Rich McBee

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.

Adventures in Zero Trust

Illumio makes it easy for everyone to participate in the tall task of operationalizing Zero Trust. Join the presenters on this journey through the deployment of Illumio’s world class microsegmentation solution.

The Rabbit Hole of Containers

See how a disjointed approach to security in a hybrid world – mixing containers and non-containerized assets – can become an operational and security challenge.

Don’t Terrorize Your Admins

Segmentation solved your security problems – did it cover the admins? Or did you leave them behind? See how Illumio makes it a win-win for users as well as security teams.

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  • Jan 28-Jan 30 — AI Infrastructure Field Day 4
  • Mar 11-Mar 12 — Cloud Field Day 25
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  • Apr 15-Apr 16 — AI AppDev Field Day 3
  • Apr 29-Apr 30 — Security Field Day 15
  • May 6-May 8 — Mobility Field Day 14
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