The Evolution of Storage Architecture with VAST Data

Renen Hallak, CEO, introduces VAST Data at Storage Field Day 20. VAST has made a lot of news since our last visit to Storage Field Day from our investors funding us into the unicorn class to becoming the fastest growing startup in the history of IT infrastructure. In this session, Renen will bring the delegates […]

Data Management and Real-Time Analytics Demonstration with Qumulo

Qumulo Field CTO Keith Nargi demonstrates their storage system user interface. Nargi focuses on the ways that the interface gives real-time information about the Qumulo cluster as well as a historical view of data. He then shows how to identify throughput and IOPS hot spots at the directory level, down to the individual file, helping […]

Advantages of a Flash-First Design with Qumulo

Jason Sturgeon, Sr. Product Manager, discusses the Qumulo storage architecture, built on flash from the start. Sturgeon discusses the use cases for the Qumulo platform, along with Keith Nargi, Field CTO, and Molly Presley, Global Product Marketing, and takes questions from the Storage Field Day delegates. Qumulo can leverage flash through traditional SSD or hybrid […]

File Data Management Across On-Prem and the Cloud with Qumulo

Molly Presley, Global Product Marketing, discusses the diversity of storage options for data-driven projects and workloads. After presenting cloud storage at Cloud Field Day 8, Qumulo focuses this time on datacenter-resident storage. Presley begins with a review of a recent survey they conducted, highlighting the top pain points for storage administrators and the key workloads […]

Enabling NVMe-IP with Cisco Nexus 9000

Kamal Bakshi, Principal Engineer, presents IP fabric in the Cisco Nexus 9000. He focuses on some key challenges to NVMe/IP adoption: End point security, low latency, visibility, and automation. Cisco’s switches provide visibility into storage traffic, smart buffers improve latency performance, NXOS and ACI enable automation, and ACI also provides endpoint security.

Accelerating NVMeOF Adoption with Cisco Solutions and Intersight

Chris O’Brien, Technical Marketing Director, presents Cisco’s Data Center Modernization solutions in converged infrastructure. Cisco is working to accelerate adoption of converged infrastructure by configuring a base platform of Nexus, UCS, MDS, and partner storage technology for SAP, Oracle, AI/ML, VDI, and other applications. He focuses on Cisco’s FlexPod offering in partnership with NetApp, which […]

NVMe-FC Analytics with Cisco SAN Insights

Paresh Gupta, Technical Marketing Engineer, discusses how Cisco can collect and present SAN analytics for NVMe-FC. He follows a NVMe-FC write operation from the initiator to the Cisco MDS switch to the target, recording storage access latency and exchange completion time. The Cisco MDS switch includes traffic inspection, metric calculation, and metric export. Gupta then […]

Cisco NVMe Storage Transport Solutions

Kamal Bakshi, Principal Engineer, introduces Cisco’s NVMe storage transport solutions. He begins with a review of the history of storage transport, from FC-SCSI to iSCSI to FCoE, and discusses how flash storage is affected by these protocols. NVMe gives greater performance than SAS, and next-generation SANs will consist of an NVMe fabric using FC, InfiniBand, […]

Ventev Taking the Telecom Closet Outdoors

New workforce models and changes in teh way people are doing business require us to rethink the way we do our power requirements and infrastructure design. Learn how Ventev is enabling you to place your telecom closet anywhere you want.

Ventev Antenna Innovation with Dennis Burrell

Have you ever seen a wireless antenna and wondered how they made it fit into that space? Or how you can cover crazy configurations with ease? Dennis Burrell of Ventev shows off some of the custom antenna designs that Ventev can do for your project.

Ventev Not All Antennas Are Created Equal

In this video, learn how Ventev approaches antenna design differently and why their products have been chosen by suppliers as the best way to make your Wi-Fi work in challenging environments.

Cisco Advances in Wireless Security

In this session, a Cisco expert shares his thoughts on Wi-Fi security, specifically around Wi-Fi 6 and WPA3. This is a deep dive into the technology, best practices, and how Cisco’s work with Wi-Fi Alliance is making Wi-Fi more secure for all.

Cisco DNA Spaces – Back to the Office Applications

Learn about how Cisco DNA Spaces can help you return to office with new applications that are powered by your WIFI Infrastructure. Applications such as Location Analytics, COVID-19 specific Captive Portal, Right Now and Proximity Reporting will be demoed and discussed.

Cisco Catalyst Access Point Update

This is an early look (before the official release) at Cisco’s newest and smallest 9105 Series Catalyst Access Point. In addition to this new product, we will also dive into the 9120 and 9130 external antenna operation and design.

Nyansa Cloud API Integration

In this video, see how Nyansa can integrate with cloud APIs to provide analytics on performance and configuration changes for both on-premises and cloud applications.

Nyansa Service Desk Demo

In this demo, see how Nyansa can augment your service desk through the use of innovative technologies like their mobile client. Presented by John Turner, Head of Customer Success.

Introduction to Nyansa

Learn all about Nyansa and their start in the analytics field as well as their acquisition by VMware VeloCloud and how the two companies are working together to increase the adoption of their solution.

NetAlly Technology Review and Roadmap

What’s next for NetAlly? In this video, James Kahkoska outlines the upcoming solutions from NetAlly and how they will fit into the wireless ecosystem.

NetAlly Product Announcements

Learn all about the new products NetAlly is working on and what new features you can expect from their latest releases.

NetAlly A Year in Review

NetAlly has been around for a year and has been continuing the great product development from their past incarnations. Learn how they have spent their last year in this video.

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