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 Telemetry and Context Data with Remi Philippe
Remi Philippe, Technical Marketing Engineer, reviewing the data pipeline for the Tetration Analysis Platform. This includes a detailed looking into how the telemetry and context data is gathered and processed.
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.
Introduction to SNIA with Michael Oros
Michael Oros, Executive Director at SNIA, gives an overview of the entire organization, including their technical focus for the foreseeable future. They are the leading body advancing industry storage standards, best practices, and testing.
Datera Ecosystem Demo: Kubernetes with Bill Borsari
Bill Borsari, Head of Systems Engineering, demonstrates Datera working with Kubernetes. With it, you can set a block storage volume for the container instances to use, which can be added to if additional workloads are created by Kubernetes.
Datera Ecosystem Demo: OpenStack with Bill Borsari
Bill Borsari, Head of Systems Engineering, demonstrates using Datera with OpenStack. He shows created volumes in OpenStack being reflected in their GUI. This also allows for viewing tenancy, as well as volumes.
Datera Elastic Data Fabric Demo with Bill Borsari
Bill Borsari, Head of Systems Engineering, gives a preliminary demonstration of the Datera user interface. The system obscures the carefully constructed architecture behind an easy to consumer UI. He walks through the various views available to administrators, including active nodes, and overall system performance. Finally, he digs into how the system handle application performance on […]
How We Built Datera with Nic Bellinger, CTO and Co-Founder
Nic Bellinger, CTO and Co-Founder, goes to the whiteboard to review their distributed placement implementation within Datera’s solution. He reviews how Datera designed their solution around application requirements at a very high level. This makes the entire system built around constant change, allowing you to easily verify your placement map without disrupting IO.
Datera Elastic Data Fabric with Ashok Rajagopalan
Ashok Rajagopalan, Head of Products, introduces their Elastic Data Fabric, which is designed to defragment the data center and improve utilization. This solution is flexible enough for any application, allows for mixed nodes within a on-premises cloud, provides for true scale-out, and allows for any orchestration stack.
Datera Update with CEO and Founder, Marc Fleischmann
Marc Fleischmann, CEO and Founder, introduces Datera to the delegates. He overviews their Elastic Data Storage, which is targeted toward on-premises clouds. Their overall mission is to bring data simplicity, agility and performance to on-prem clouds, and to allow for better data management across a hybrid cloud.
Top of Mind Discussion with NetApp Founder Dave Hitz
Dave Hitz, Executive VP and Founder of NetApp, further discusses the history of Data Fabric, and their overall cloud vision. He further reviews how the state of the company changed over the last two years, including the massive growth in their all-flash storage array.
NetApp Object Storage and StorageGRID with Duncan Moore
Duncan Moore, Director, StorageGRID software, reviews the recent trend in object storage. He then uses this to pivot into a discussion of the ongoing gaps within object storage, particularly with unstructured data. He then reviews how StorageGRID can serve to extend NetApp’s Data Fabric through S3. Finally, Duncan reviews how StorageGRID scales to Webscale storage […]
What’s New with NetApp Data Fabric with Arthur Lent
Arthur Lent, VP, Chief Architect, reviews updates to NetApp’s Data Fabric. He puts the updates into the context of the problems of the modern enterprise, primarily the issue of data silos. Arthur reviews how over the last two years, the capabilities and versatility of Data Fabric has exploded.
Nimble Storage Docker Volume Plugin with Sakthi Chandra and Michael Mattsson
Sakthi Chandra, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, reviews how their entire portfolio from storage arrays to their Cloud Volumes can be used with the Docker Volume Plugin. Michael Mattsson, Sr. Tech Marketing Engineer, then does a demonstration of the Docker Volume Plugin in action.
Nimble Storage Achieving Six-Nines Availability with Rod Bagg
Rod Bagg, Vice President, Analytics & Customer Support, reviews the reliability of their product. They’ve achieved six-nine availability, even as their customer base grew to over 10,000. They see InfoSight as being key to maintaining this. Rod further reviews the methodology behind these figures, which is based on real world observed performance.
Nimble Storage InfoSight Demo with David Adamson
David Adamson, Principal Data Scientist, demonstrates the Nimble Storage InfoSight platform. The system can be used to suggest hardware upgrades, as well as ways to modify workloads to optimize for performance. This allows for greater environmental transparency and empowerment, and relying less on a sales and support model.