Ken Duda, Founder, CTO and SVP Software and Engineering at Arista, has worked in networking for decades, but is a programmer at heart. He reviews the how the EOS architecture is different from other switches, starting from it’s simplified single binary image. This allows for standardization across an entire environment. This is enhanced by their […]
Andy Bechtolsheim on the 400 Gigabit Landscape
Andy Bechtolsheim, Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman at Arista, reviews how Arista is preparing for the 400 Gigabit future. While 100G Ethernet is gaining ascendency now, by 2021 he sees the 400G port numbers reaching parity with 100G Ethernet. The optics for this will be powered by 100G per lane, as defined by the […]
Arista Introduction and Overview with Anshul Sadana
Anshul Sadana, SVP and Chief Customer Officer at Arista, updates the delegates on the state of Arista. The company has evolved from Leaf-Spine designs for data center networking and now has moved into spine interconnects between data centers. He also discusses the companies move into supporting IP storage, spine routing, cloud peering, and security monitoring.
Veriflow Automated Intent Inference Demo with Sajid Awan
Sajid Awan, VP Worldwide Ops at Veriflow, gives a demonstration of the Veriflow predictive platform. This includes visualizing the physical and functional network topology, continuous verification of service availability to protect against failure, and validation of proper segmentation of network services and users. This is done in their UI, which allows for easily understood maps, […]
Veriflow Software Architecture with Brighten Godfrey
Brighten Godfrey, Co-Founder and CTO at Veriflow, reviews the software architecture behind the company’s formal network verification. The solution is set up via a collector VM on-site, which connects to network devices to get the data plane state. This information is handed off to Veriflow’s Verification Engine, which builds the predictive model of all possible […]
Veriflow Continuous Network Verification with Brighten Godfrey
Brighten Godfrey, Co-Founder and CTO at Veriflow, reviews the company’s Continuous Network Verification technology. This models the complete data flow behavior of the network. This includes every possible packet, with every possible combination of header bits, along every possible path through the network. This predictive model is built without needing to observe live traffic. Watch […]
Veriflow Company Overview with James Brear
James Brear, CEO at Veriflow, introduces how Veriflow brought formal verification to network infrastructure with original research work back in 2011. The company predicts outages and vulnerabilities before they impact business operations. This allows IT teams to operate secure and resilient networks, without being reactive based on monitored network flows. Watch the entire Veriflow Systems […]
NetApp Enterprise Scale Hyperconverged Infrastructure with Gabriel Chapman
Gabriel Chapman, Senior Manager with NetApp HCI, presents NetApp’s recent entry into the hyperconverged infrastructure market. He starts by outlining the challenges of HCI, which sits at the inflection point between traditional infrastructure and the cloud. He then discusses how the first generation of HCI made trade offs to be feasible. This then leads into […]
Pluribus Networks Netvisor OS and Adaptive Cloud Fabric with Steven Shalita
Steven Shalita, Vice President of Marketing at Pluribus Networks, reviews the fundamentals of the Netvisor OS and the Adaptive Cloud Fabric architecture that differentiates their solutions. Their OS is based on a controller-less distributed architecture designed to scale without specific protocol requirements. He further goes over the automation and programmability of Netvisor, including a look […]
Pluribus Networks History and Overview with Steven Shalita
Steven Shalita, Vice President of Marketing at Pluribus Networks, gives a technological overview of their solutions. This includes a look at the history behind the development of the Netvisor, and the company’s history with initial OEM relationships that allowed them develop and harden their technology rapidly. This business focus on OEMs allowed them to mature […]
Druva Cloud Platform Demo with Bhaskar Sirohi
Bhaskar Sirohi, Director of Western US Field Engineering with Druva, demonstrates the Druva Cloud Platform for the delegates. This starts from the Phoenix console web UI, which gives you an overview of system performance, snapshots, VMs, and data restore volume. They further walk through the restore experience, which supports vCenter integration. Hot, warm, and cold […]
Druva Cloud Platform Introduction with Jesse Kachapis
Jesse Kachapis, Senior Pre-Sales Engineer at Druva, introduces the delegates to the company’s Cloud Platform. This is primary based around their hybrid cloud data protection solution, which allows organizations to move legacy backup infrastructure off-site. This runs in AWS and supports tiering among their various storage offerings. On top of this, Druva offers additional services […]
Kingston DCP1000 Overview with Cameron Crandall
Cameron Crandall, Senior Technology Manager at Kingston, gives an overview of the Kingston DCP1000, their high performance NVMe drive targeted at data center applications. The drive supports up to 3.2TB with ECC data protection, and offers 1.25 million read IOPS with 7GB/second bandwidth.
Kingston Rise of NVMe with Rich Kanadjian
Rich Kanadjian, Technical Business Development Manager at Kingston, reviews the company’s history with SSDs. From initially partnering with Intel on the first enterprise SSDs, the company is now producing NVMe drives. Rich reviews why NVMe less about hardware, and more about a simpler driver for an OS. Previous SATA protocols has over 120 commands, while […]
Kingston Introduction with David Leong
David Leong, PR Manager at Kingston Technologies, gives the delegates a brief overview of the history of the company, and their business outside of the enterprise SSD market.
