NetApp FlexPod SF Deep Dive Q&A with Jeremiah Dooley
Jeremiah Dooley, Senior Manager, NGDC at NetApp, engages with a question and answer session on FlexPod architecture and Cisco integrations with the delegates.
NetApp FlexPod SF Technical Overview with Jeremiah Dooley
Jeremiah Dooley, Senior Manager, NGDC at NetApp, gives the delegates an architectural review of the FlexPod SF. This marks the first architectural change since the FlexPod solution was introduced over seven years ago. This still runs the same ElementOS, so existing integrations remain intact. He reviews how this works with Cisco’s line of Catalyst switches, […]
NetApp SolidFire FlexPod SF CLUS Introduction with Keith Norbie
Keith Norbie, Senior Manager of Business and Alliances Development at NetApp, introduces the FlexPod SF to the delegates, which is designed specifically non-storage admins, instead it’s built for agility in VM use cases. Lee Howard, Cisco Alliance CTO at NetApp, then walks through the evolution of the FlexPod line.
Monitoring Devices with Paessler with Benjamin Day
Benjamin Day, Senior Systems Engineer at Paessler, reviews how PRTG is agile enough to create custom monitoring models for a variety of applications hosts and other hardware. This includes a look at best practices, creating custom sensors, and generating maps and reports over time.
Paessler Sensors, Thresholds, and Notifications with Benjamin Day
Benjamin Day, Senior Systems Engineer at Paessler, goes into a deep dive into how PRTG uses an array of sensors to get a comprehensive view of system performance across a variety of metrics. He then shows how these can be configured with thresholds and notifications to get meaningful feedback from your monitoring.
Paessler Introduction at CLUS 2017 with Benjamin Day
Benjamin Day, Senior Systems Engineer at Paessler, introduces the company to the delegates and situates where the company’s PRTG monitoring solution fits into their overall solutions portfolio. He introduces Paessler’s definition of a sensor, and how PRTG scales from virtual to physical hosts.
Opengear Lighthouse 5 Demo with Rob Waldie
Rob Waldie, Distinguished Engineer at Opengear, demonstrates the all new Lighthouse 5 centralized management solution. This is a zero touch enrollment process, with robust support for automation. He then demonstrates the RESTful API, showing a basic ChatOps workflow via Slack.
Opengear Lighthouse 5 – Centralized Management VM with Rob Waldie
Rob Waldie, Distinguished Engineer at Opengear, introduces the delegates to Lighthouse 5, which launched at Cisco Live US 2017. This runs on a VM, and has been rearchitected with a new Linux distribution, UI, CLI, and management architecture.
Opengear Introduction and Background with Marcio Saito
Marcio Saito, CTO at Opengear, introduces the company history and mission to the delegates. This focus is on network remediation via resilience and provisioning. To that end, the company announced Lighthouse 5, which automates the deployment of out-of-band infrastructure.
Cisco Digital Network Assurance and Closed-loop Automation via Analytics
Tim Szigeti, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, looks at how their Digital Network Architecture (DNA) provides an abstraction for policy and enables closed-loop automation via analytics. Network administrators build their network, hope for the best, and react to alarms. This reactive approach leads to perpetual fire-drills with operation teams running down issues to placate […]
Application Hosting on Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switches with Jeff McLaughlin
Jeff McLaughlin, Principal Marketing Engineer with Cisco, reviews Cisco Open IOS XE, which can now do much more than move packets, it can host applications in Linux containers or VMs directly on a network device. Cisco’s IOx provides the framework for packaging and delivering applications to network devices. He goes over how it works, use […]
Cisco Network Programmability Using APIC-EM APIs with Saurav Prasad
Saurav Prasad, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, looks at how the Cisco DNA Center provides a single point of control to simplify the operation of your enterprise network. The DNA controller (Cisco APIC-EM) exposes a rich REST based Northbound APIs to allow other applications to take advantage of the controller capabilities and unlock the power […]
Cisco Open APIs for Network Device Programmability with Kevin Kuhls
Kevin Kuhls, TME Enterprise Solutions at Cisco, gives an overview of open APIs. These are available on network devices. Something besides CLI (Command Line Interface) actually does exist! In this introductory talk, he discusses open APIs for use in environments to support configuration management, along with the ability to retrieve (or stream) operational data. He […]
Cisco Policy Federation – Normalizing Policy Across any Domain with Victor Moreno
Victor Moreno, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, reviews that network, security and cloud operations remain very much domain specific tasks with domain specific functionalities, yet the behavior across these different environments can be expressed in a consolidated policy. He explores the architecture, language and interactions that make this Federation possible across Network and Security domains of […]
Cisco Encrypted Traffic Analytics – Why Network Security Matters with Saravanan Radhakrishnan
Saravanan Radhakrishnan, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, looks at how the rapid rise in encrypted communications and security impacts the network. How prevalent is encrypted traffic is in your enterprise? Did you know that encryption is being used by evasive applications and malicious software to escape detection in corporate networks? Can you pinpoint end-points in your […]
Cisco Software-Defined Access – Campus Fabric with DNA Center Automation & Assurance with Shawn Wargo
Shawn Wargo, Principal Engineer, EISG Technical Marketing at Cisco, reviews how the new Cisco DNA Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) solution combines the Campus Fabric and IWAN overlay solutions with Cisco TrustSec, into a common API-driven GUI ecosystem comprised of DNA Center: APIC-EM, ISE, NDP and others. The Presentation introduces the SD-Access and DNA Center, and some […]
Cisco Secure Agile Exchange – Architecture Building Blocks with Miles Davis
Miles Davis, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, reviews how the company plans to use virtualization, switching fabrics, VNFs, and orchestration to manage security policy at the edge of enterprise networks. This includes going through some of the use cases that SAE has to offer including SaaS, IaaS, Private Cloud, and Extranet connectivity.
Cisco eNFV – An Open Solution for Virtualizing Network Functions with Matthias Falkner
Matthias Falkner, Distinguished Engineer, Technical Marketing with Cisco, explores the openness of the eNFV solution, showing how every layer of the solution stack is exposing the APIs. Support for 3rd party Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and application workloads running on NFVIS is explained. The session also introduces the 3rd party Ecosystem support process, which provides […]