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DataCore MaxParallel Demo with Tim Warden

Tim Warden, Senior Director, Engineering Product Management, gives the delegates a demonstration of MaxParallel for SQL Server. The demo shows a VM in Azure Cloud running SQL Server utilizing MaxParallel, showing their database optimizations for real-time analytics and other high velocity data.


Introduction to DataCore and MaxParallel for SQL Server with Augie Gonzalez

Augie Gonzalez, Director of Product Marketing, reviews their database optimizations found in MaxParallel for SQL Server. MaxParallel maximizes database productivity and performance. It significantly shortens time to process transactions, generate reports, and analyze trends by eliminating the I/O scheduling bottleneck in the OS.


NETSCOUT AirCheck G2 2.0 Overview with Chris Hinsz

Chris Hinsz, Product Manager, introduces the new features of the NETSCOUT AirCheck G2 2.0 release. Included is discussion and demonstration about packet captures, iPerf testing, and identifying interference devices on the network.


Actifio Test Data Management for DevOps with Chandra Reddy

Chandra Reddy, VP of Product Marketing with Actifio, reviews new features for Actifio Sky 8.0, test data management for DevOps. This helps to solve the problem of database cloning, which is time consuming and storage intensive. Actifio solves this by creating a gold copy from their incremental backups to create virtual databases from production. These […]


Oracle ASM Switch & Rebalance with Actifio with Chandra Reddy

Chandra Reddy, VP of Product Marketing with Actifio, introduces a new feature for Actifio Sky 8.0, which goes beyond instant recovery, Oracle ASM Switch & Rebalance. This is designed to mitigate the problems of large databases, which typically have a large RTO and downtime to return to production. With their Switch and Rebalance approach, this […]


Actifio Cloud Mobility and Global Catalog Cloud Search with Chandra Reddy

Chandra Reddy, VP of Product Marketing with Actifio, introduces a new feature of their Actifio Sky 8.0 release, cloud mobility. This allows you to take a VM or physical machine and bring it up on another cloud. This captures the data as well as system state, uses its incremental ingestion, and makes it compatible with […]


Actifio Sky Platform Architecture Overview with Brylan Achilles

Brylan Achilles, Global Field CTO at Actifio, gives an architectural overview of Actifio. Their Enterprise Data as a Service offering is designed around speed, efficiency and scale. Data is captured incrementally, with only the deltas being moved via their virtual data pipeline. This is made available in the cloud, while keeping a database on the […]


Unveiling Actifio Sky Platform 8.0 with Ash Ashutosh

Ash Ashutosh, Founder and CEO of Actifio, reintroduces the company to the delegates. Actifio first presented at Tech Field Day in 2010 and introduced the idea that data is an asset and must be managed as such. Ash then introduces the idea behind their Enterprise Data as a service offering, Sky Platform 8.0. This is […]


The Riverbed IT Story with Bill Bragg

Bill Bragg, VP IT Infrastructure at Riverbed, gives an overview of Riverbed in the overall IT landscape. He includes a look at their hybrid hosted landscape, centered around their performance management center. This also includes a look at their infrastructure topology.


Riverbed Xirrus: The Wireless Edge with Bruce Miller

Bruce Miller, VP of Marketing at Xirrus, reviews why the company was acquired by Riverbed, what their appeal is to customers, and how Xirrus fits into the Riverbed Edge IT platform. Riverbed Xirrus is able to deliver a distributed model of Wi-Fi, which pushes the intelligence of control to the edge, while keeping the management […]


Riverbed SteelConnect SD-WAN Demo with Vivek Ganti

Josh Dobies, VP Product Marketing at Riverbed, introduces their SteelConnect SD-WAN solution. This provides policy and orchestration tools across a wide connectivity fabric, allowing it to expand from hybrid cloud to edge sites. Vivek Ganti, Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, proceeds to give the delegates a demo of SteelConnect in action.


Riverbed SteelFusion: Tech Updates and Azure Demo with Parimal Puranik

Parimal Puranik, Director of Product Management at Riverbed, reviews technology updates for SteelFusion, which includes NFS support, backup snapshot integrartion, and a virtual SteelFusion Edge for a hardware agnostic offering. The platform also now supports Hyper-V, allowing it to work on Azure Cloud. This capability is then demoed for the delegates.


Riverbed: Whiteboard of a Complete Deployment of SteelFusion with Parimal Puranik

Parimal Puranik, Director of Product Management at Riverbed, hits the whiteboard to demonstrate a typical SteelFusion deployment. He shows how SteelFusion Edge collapses the edge server, storage, and backup into a single appliance. He shows how to deploy application from the core data center out to the edge.


Extending Hybrid Cloud to the Software-Defined Edge with Riverbed and Parimal Puranik

Parimal Puranik, Director of Product Management at Riverbed, reviews the problem of that hybrid cloud causes for IT teams. This complex landscape extends across a number of connection types to a variety of applications. He then introduces the Riverbed SteelFusion which provides a software-defined edge IT platform to make hybrid cloud management much easier in […]


Introducing Riverbed and the “Bleeding Edge” with Josh Dobies

Josh Dobies, VP Product Marketing, gives an overview how Riverbed’s solutions can allow organizations to extend the value of the data centers to edge locations. This allows distributed enterprises to embrace the digital transformations brought by the cloud and mobility, without losing a unified approach to managing IT.


Scale Computing Cloud Unity Pricing and Availability with Craig Theriac

Craig Theriac, Director of Product Management at Scale Computing, discusses the specifics of Cloud Unity pricing, which will be sold with their channel partners. It will be an annual subscription offering with either a full DR as a Service or a Self Service option, with predictable costs for each.


Scale Computing Cloud Unity with Phil White

Phil White, CTO at Scale Computing, announces details of Cloud Unity with Google Cloud. This effectively gives seamless DR with full failover in the cloud for anything already running on their HC3 platform.


Scale Computing HyperCore Direct NVMe Overview with Phil White

Phil White, CTO at Scale Computing, reviews how their SCRIBE storage engine works for their HCI solution. This was designed for scalability and efficiency from the start, with no file system, storage protocols, or VMs in the data path. SCRIBE has been integrated directly to the hypervisor, which has provided near bare metal performance with […]


Scale Computing SCRIBE Architecture Overview with Phil White

Phil White, CTO at Scale Computing, gives an overview of the SCRIBE architecture, their software-defined block storage for VMs to address. This pools together the blocks in a cluster and makes them available with data services. This includes thin provisioning, dedupe, snapshots, and tiering.


Scale Computng Company Overview, History, and Target Markets with Jeff Ready

Jeff Ready, CEO and Co-Founder of Scale Computing, introduces the company to the delegates. The company’s HC3 hyperconverged infrastructure solution has provided an alternative path to virtualization since it launched in 2012. The company tries to provide HCI to organizations with a focus on simplicity, scalability, and performance.


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