VMware NSX Technology Overview with Ray Budavari

Ray Budavari, Senior Staff Technical Product Manager, NSBU at VMware, gives a brief technical overview as NSX as a solution. He reviews the idea in NSX of treating the hypervisor as the network edge, and builds upon that by explaining the security and network management features that are put as close the hypervisor as possible.

VMware NSX Vision and Product Overview with Milin Desai

Milin Desai, Vice President of Products, NSBU at VMware, gives the delegates an overview of NSX, including the rationale behind it’s development, and how people are using it. NSX operates with a focus on applications, by decoupling them from the concerns of underlying architecture, which allows for better automation and security.

PNDA Platform Overview with John Evans

John Evans, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, gives an overview of PNDA, an open source project that provides an abstraction layer to better handle big data in network application development. He shows how the platform can be used to break down network information silos, giving a pipeline from that data to established analytic practices, without having […]

PNDA Linux Foundation and Open Source with Marc Cohn

Marc Cohn, Vice President Networking Strategy at The Linux Foundation, introduces the delegates to the Foundation’s project portfolio related to networking and orchestration. This started back in 2012 with OpenDaylight, the SDN controller framework. Today, their offerings have moved up the networking stack with numerous other projects, including PNDA, a big data analytics project designed […]

IP Infusion VirNOS Product Overview with Tetsuya Murakami

Tetsuya Murakami, Chief Technology Officer at IP Infusion, reviews VirNOS. VirNOS is a networking solution for NFV to help network operators reduce costs, accelerate time-to-market for new services, increase agility, and deploy new network services. He also reviews use cases that show robust support for network virtualization.

IP Infusion OcNOS Product Overview with Shaji Ravindranathan

Shaji Ravindranathan, Vice President, Product Management, introduces OcNOS, IP Infusions network OS for White Boxes. OcNOS gives network operators, carriers, and enterprises the software solution needed to achieve a disaggregated networking model. Shaji discusses how IP Infusion differentiates from other network OS companies, reviews the technical benefits and features, gives an overview of OcNOS’s market […]

IP Infusion Technology Advantage with Tetsuya Murakami

Tetsuya Murakami, Chief Technology Officer at IP Infusion, reviews the company’s technology foundation, ZebOS. He goes into a technical deep dive on how the modular architecture and abstractions have enabled hundreds of OEM customers to create reliable products faster at a lower cost.

IP Infusion Company Intro with Atsushi Ogata

Atsushi Ogata, President and CEO of IP Infusion, introduces the company to the delegates. IP Infusion was founded in 1999 and makes ZebOS, a comprehensive standards-based Layer 2, Layer 3, and MLPS network platform. The company has also expanded into making a disaggregated networking solution.

Cisco Tetration Granular Scope and RBAC with Tim Garner

Tim Garner, Technical Marketing Engineer, walks through the flexibility of scope with Tetration to be able to adapt to a variety of network and organizational sizes. This is largely done through their policy based framework.

Cisco Tetration Sensors with Remi Philippe

Remi Philippe, Technical Marketing Engineer, reviews the sensors used within the Tetration Analysis Platform. These sensors give full network information without sitting inside the data path or hurting performance. He further walks through the physical hardware features behind these sensors.

Cisco Tetration Introduction with Tim Garner

Tim Garner, Technical Marketing Engineer, gives an overview of Cisco’s Tetration Analytics Platform. He reviews the customer input that spurred its development. Tim then proceed to give an architectural overview. Finally, he gives a general demo on the platform at work.

Intel Resource Director Technology (RDT) for Storage with Tony Luck

Tony Luck, Principal Engineer, SSG Enabling Group, reviews Intel’s Resource Director Technology, which can help with processor core resource management for software defined networking. He goes into a technical deep dive of what’s actually happening on the silicon to reach this core optimization, down to the L3 cache.

SPDK and the Future of Storage with Jonathan Stern

Jonathan Stern, Applications Engineer, Network Platforms Group, gives an overview of Intel’s Storage Performance Development Kit. He reviews the performance benefits of SPDK over using the standard Linux kernel. This is especially evident when it comes to VM optimization and hyperscale operations.

SNIA Hyperscaler Storage Development with Mark Carlson

Mark Carlson, Co-Chair SNIA Technical Council, reviews the state of hyperscaler storage, discussing how organizations can better address this disruptive trend. These enterprise hyperscaled organizations are building their own storage arrays, rather than going to traditional storage vendors, and by some measure, half of all bytes shipped go to hyperscalers.

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