Paresh Gupta’s deep dive on AI cluster operations focused on the extreme and unique challenges of high-performance backend networks. He explained that these networks, which primarily use RDMA over Converged Ethernet (ROCE), are exceptionally sensitive to both packet loss and network delay. Because ROCE is UDP-based, it lacks TCP’s native congestion control, meaning a single […]
Introduction to Cisco AI Cluster Networking Design with Paresh Gupta
Paresh Gupta, a principal engineer at Cisco focusing on AI infrastructure, began by outlining the diverse landscape of AI adoption, which spans from hyperscalers with hundreds of thousands of GPUs to enterprises just starting with a few hundred. He categorized these environments by scale—scale-up within a server, scale-out across servers, and scale-across between data centers—and […]
The Age of Operations: Third Party Views of DCF Innovation
Scott Robohn of the consulting firm Solutional provided a third-party, operational perspective on data center innovation, based on a collaboration with The Futurum Group and Nokia. He introduced his background as a former network engineer and Tech Field Day delegate, now focused on NetOps and AI adoption. Robohn’s central thesis is that with AI driving […]
Root Cause Analysis with Nokia AI Operations Automation
Clayton Wagar introduced Nokia’s AI-driven approach to root cause analysis, focusing on solving difficult day-two operational challenges. The presentation highlighted the chronic pain of hidden impairments or gray failures, where traditional monitoring systems fail because physical links appear active while protocols or services are down. The goal of Nokia’s deep RCA tool is to move […]
Delivering Nokia Enhanced AIOps with the Right Foundations
Bruce Wallis pivoted the discussion to Nokia’s AIOps capabilities, centered on a new natural language interface called Ask EDA. This feature, which resembles a ChatGPT for the network, allows operators to interact with the EDA platform through a simple chat box. The core idea is to abstract the complexity of network operations, enabling users to […]
Nokia Event-Driven Automation (EDA) Multi Vendor – Deliver on the Promise
Bruce Wallis, Product Manager for Nokia’s EDA (Event-Driven Automation) platform, began by revisiting the core assertions made when the product was unveiled a year prior. He reiterated that EDA was built on the same successful principles as Kubernetes: abstraction and a declarative model. The goal was to apply this logic to networking, creating a ubiquitous […]
Exploring the Power and Potential of Enhanced AIOps with Nokia
Clayton Wagar, leading the AI practice for Nokia’s IP division, framed his presentation as creating a “through line” connecting the history of network operations to its AI-driven future. Recalling his own start managing a 911 data center with manual, CLI-driven processes, he traced the evolution of the industry as operators moved from mastering workflows in […]
Introduction to Nokia with Andy Lapteff
Andy Lapteff, a network engineer who became a product marketing manager for Nokia Data Center, introduced his presentation by sharing his personal journey. He admitted that, like many, he previously only knew Nokia for its indestructible cell phones and was unaware of its significant presence in the data center market. It was at a previous […]
Graphiant Demos with Vinay Prabhu
Chief Product Officer Vinay Prabhu demonstrated the Graphiant infrastructure, first focusing on the network for AI. He framed AI as a massive publisher-subscriber problem and demoed a B2B data exchange where services, like GPU farms, can be published to a personal marketplace. This allows partners (both on and off-network) to be securely connected in minutes, […]
Graphiant: The AI Strategy
Vinay Prabhu, Chief Product Officer at Graphiant, outlined a two-part strategy encompassing network for AI and AI for network. The network for AI pillar addresses the challenge of AI being a massive distributed publisher and subscriber problem, where data is generated in one location and inference happens in another, often across different business boundaries. To […]
Graphiant Use Cases with Arsalan Khan
Graphiant’s CSO, Arsalan Khan, detailed use cases focused on this challenge, beginning with unified connectivity. He explained that the Graphiant fabric treats all endpoints, public clouds, data centers, and emerging AI neoclouds, as part of a single any-to-any fabric. This model eliminates the need for traffic backhauling, providing lower latency and guaranteed paths for high-bandwidth […]
About Graphiant NaaS with Arsalan Khan
As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, data governance and network security have become inseparable. In Graphiant’s Networking Field Day presentation titled, “Why Data Governance Demands a Unified and Secure Approach to AI Networking,” Graphiant explores how a secure, compliant, and unified networking infrastructure is essential to enable responsible AI at scale. Arsalan Khan framed the core […]
Futurum Signal – Agentic AI Platforms for Enterprise
In his presentation at AI Field Day 7, Stephen Foskett, President of Tech Field Day at The Futurum Group, introduced the Futurum Signal, a groundbreaking vendor evaluation survey designed to challenge traditional analyst methodologies. The Signal leverages Agentic AI to provide a fresh perspective on evaluating major enterprise AI platforms. Unlike traditional, manual processes that […]
Battle of the Bots – Which AI Assistant Delivers with Calvin Hendryx-Parker
Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Co-Founder and CTO of Six Feet Up, delivered an insightful presentation at AI Field Day 7, evaluating the efficacy of various AI coding assistants in real-world developer workflows. His talk built upon an earlier session by exploring updates in agentic AI tools, which have become indispensable in modern coding practices. These tools, including […]
Scaling Autonomous IT: The Real Enterprise Impact with Digitate ignio
Discover how Digitate is transforming enterprise operations through an AI-first go-to-market strategy built for global scale and complexity. In this session, Digitate’s GM and VP, Rajiv Nayan, will dive into real-world customer success stories that showcase how Digitate is scaling innovation across industries, building multi-billion dollar business opportunities, and reshaping how businesses run in the […]
Incident Resolution with Digitate’s ignio AI Agent
At AI Field Day 7, Rahul Kelkar, Chief Product Officer at Digitate, presented the capabilities of ignio, an AI-based incident resolution agent designed to automate, augment, and improve IT operations. Ignio uses a logical reasoning model for incident resolution, leveraging enterprise blueprints to understand situations in a closed loop and applying automation where possible. When […]
Powering Autonomous IT with ignio AI Agents from Digitate
Digitate is a global provider of agentic AI platform for autonomous IT operations. Powered by ignio™, Digitate combines unified observability, AI-powered insights, and closed-loop automation to deliver resilient, agile, and self-healing IT and business operations. In this presentation, Digitate’s Chief Product Officer, Rahul Kelkar, will introduce Digitate’s vision for an autonomous enterprise, where organizations learn, […]
The Technical Foundations of Articul8’s Agentic Al Platform
Dr. Renato Nascimento, Head of Technology at Articul8, and Dr. Arun Subramaniyan, Founder and CEO, presented the technical architecture and capabilities of the Articul8 platform at AI Field Day 7. The platform is built to enable orchestration and management of hundreds or thousands of domain- and task-specific AI models and agents at enterprise scale, supporting […]
Inside Articul8’s Domain-Specific Platform and Real-World ROl
At AI Field Day 7, Parvathi Letha, Head of Product Management at Articul8, and Dr. Arun Subramaniyan, Founder and CEO of Articul8, presented the Articul8 platform, a secure, domain-specific generative AI solution tailored for high-value enterprise use cases. Parvathi detailed the architecture, beginning with its autonomous data perception functionality, which ingests and semantically connects structured […]