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.
Ixia Container Visibility with Kris Raney
Kris Raney, Distinguished Engineer at Ixia, gives an overview how CloudLens approaches getting visibility into traffic to and from containers. Containers add another level of complexity on top of just location. Kris overviews how Docker handles namespaces with containers, and goes into the details of Docker’s networking that makes gaining visibility vital to security for […]
Securing Networks Through End-To-End Visibility with Ixia with Recep Ozdag
Recep Ozdag, VP of Product Management at Ixia, goes into details of the company’s visibility solutions. They entered this market with key acquisitions in 2016 by launching VisionOne flagship. This has grown to include CloudLens for cloud visibility, Active SSL for MITM monitoring, and most recently multi-cloud support.
Ixia CloudLens: Visibility Across Multiple Cloud Provider Platforms with Sushil Srinivasan
Sushil Srinivasan, Senior Product Manager at Ixia, discusses their solution for getting visibility across multiple cloud environments. CloudLens provides end-to-end insight that removes visibility blind spots by bridging packet level visibility to physical, virtiual, and cloud environments. This platform can be deployed as a pure SaaS offering, a container, or an agent running on your […]
Ixia Active SSL: Encryption, The Dual-Edge Sword with Scott Register
Scott Register, VP of Product Management at Ixia, Cloud & Security, discusses best practices for monitoring SSL traffic to gain visibility into network traffic. He reviews the challenges that encryption sessions cause for network security, the pros and cons of using static keys, and forthcoming changes to SSL. He then introduces Ixia’s Visibility Application Module […]
Introducing Ixia, a Keysight Business with Recep Ozdag
Recep Ozdag, VP of Product Management at Ixia, reintroduces the company to the delegates in light of their recent acquisition by Keysight. He gives an overview of the company’s portfolio, and how they align with industry trends in moving to the cloud. Through their testing and visibility solutions, the company has situated itself to provide […]