ServiceNow Presents at Cloud Field Day 2
At Cloud Field Day 2, ServiceNow presented its corporate story and platform strategy, emphasizing its evolution from an IT service desk solution to a comprehensive platform for managing diverse IT systems. The platform, designed to streamline workflows and enhance productivity across various departments, supports applications tailored to different business functions and allows clients to develop […]
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 […]