Uila Application Visibility and Root Cause Demo with Roger Yao

Roger Yao, VP of Engineering at Uila, demonstrates how Uila’s solution can be used for greater application visibility. This combines a dynamic timeline view of overall application performance, with individual graphics for application, network, storage, memory and CPU performance. This can be drilled down into to help determine the root cause of issues.

Uila Company Overview with Chia-Chee Kuan

Chia-Chee Kuan, CEO and President of Uila, introduces the company to the Tech Field Day delegates. They review their solution for full stack visibility of the data center. This is a unified offering, providing detailed analytics to allow for better awareness of the state of the data center, and for better provisioning and planning down […]

ZeroStack Self-Driving Cloud Automation and Analytics Demo with Ajay Gulati

Ajay Gulati, CEO at ZeroStack, demonstrates more of the company’s self-driving cloud solution. ZeroStack has a number of features baked in, including an app store to ease deployment. This not only makes configuration and deployment easier, but these apps can also call back to the ZeroStack infrastructure to automatically help improve performance over time.

ZeroStack Self-Driving Cloud Demo with Ajay Gulati

Ajay Gulati, CEO at ZeroStack, demonstrates their self-driving cloud solution. He shows how to configure their solution using their Z-Block hardware, going from bare metal to an operational cloud within 30 minutes. Ajay also shows how to migrate from various services into ZeroStack, as well as some of the integrations they have with AWS.

ZeroStack Self-Driving Cloud Overview with Ajay Gulati

Ajay Gulati, CEO at ZeroStack, gives an overview of the company’s self-driving cloud solution. He runs through the steps you need to properly develop this kind of service based approach, and begins to explain how ZeroStack created solutions to address each one. They see the private cloud evolving along the same line as cars. For […]

Dell EMC OEM Digital Transformation with Alan Brumley

Alan Brumley, OEM Chief Technology Officer at Dell EMC, reviews the latest OEM capabilities from the company. He runs through the range of options available to enterprises and startups, from unbranded Dell hardware to fully customized solutions. This allows companies to get exactly the hardware they need to handle their specific business needs.

Dell EMC Data Analytics with Armando Acosta

Armando Acosta, Hadoop Product Manager at Dell EMC, reviews the company’s Big Data offerings. Their division has been building the hardware for Big Data platforms for Google and Facebook since 2008. Their solution brings business centric design combined with operation agility to allow for complex analysis across a vast array of data types.

Dell EMC VxRail Discussion with Chad Dunn

Chad Dunn, the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Dell EMC, gives a comprehensive review of their VxRail product, their hyperconverged infrastructure appliance. It was just launched in February of 2016, so he gives a full breakdown of where the product is succeeding, and where it needs work.

Platform9 Engineering Behind the Scenes with Amrish Kapoor

Amrish Kapoor, VP of Engineering at Platform9, reviews the engineering principals that have influenced the company. The model themselves as a distributed systems company, and approaches their solutions as such. He finishes by reviewing some the tooling they’ve developed with this approach.

Platform9 Fission Serverless on Kubernetes with Amrish Kapoor and Cody Hill

Amrish Kapoor, VP of Engineering at Platform9, reviews their approach to the serverless computing paradigm, called Fission. Their implementation was created during a company hackathon, and serves as an alternative to AWS Lambda, and is completely open source. Cody Hill, Lead Systems Engineer, then leads a demonstration.

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes with Amrish Kapoor and Cody Hill

Amrish Kapoor, VP of Engineering at Platform9, goes more into depth on the company’s managed Kubernetes solution. He reviews the state of container orchestration in the enterprise, and how Platform9 differentiates itself in the crowded the space. Cody Hill, Lead Systems Engineer, then leads a demonstration in creating and deploying a cluster.

Platform9 Overview and Customers with Roopak Parikh

Roopak Parikh, co-founder and CTO at Platform9, gives an overview of the company. He reviews their OpenStack Kubernetes solution, their solution for a serverless organization, and teases a special announcement at the end.

StorMagic SvSAN Customer Data Analytics with Luke Pruen

Luke Pruen, Technical Services Director at StorMagic, goes over how StorMagic handles analytics. These analytics show the flexibility of the StorMagic SvSAN, allowing for both high performance and cost effective storage.

StorMagic SvSAN Caching Deep Dive with Luke Pruen

Luke Pruen, Technical Services Director at StorMagic, reviews how StorMagic handles caching. This is done in both flash and in memory to optimize for best performance. They do this to have various VMs hitting an SSD first, maintaining high speeds through the various I/O calls. This is then intelligently managed down to slower disk storage, […]

StorMagic on Cisco UCS Deep Dive with Jason Shaw

Jason Shaw, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, reviews the StorMagic deployments on Cisco servers. He introduces the various validated hardware designs, and how these are deployed. From there, he goes over the integrated management offerings included in this bundle.

StorMagic SvSAN Overview with Luke Pruen

Luke Pruen, Technical Services Director at StorMagic, gives an overview of the company’s SvSAN product. This provides high availability between two or more servers. This supports synchronous mirroring, is centrally managed, and is versatile enough to work with the storage mediums you’re already using.

StorMagic Company Overview with Hans O’Sullivan

Hans O’Sullivan, CEO and Founder at StorMagic, introduces the company to the delegates. The company pioneered the ability to operate a vSAN using just two servers. Their emphasis is to provide high availability SDS that is easy to manage for locations where IT can’t easily reach.

Veeam Availablity Console Linux Demo with Rick Vanover and Clint Wyckoff

Rick Vanover, Director of Technical Product Marketing at Veeam, and Global Technical Evangelist Clint Wyckoff give a demo of the Veeam Availability Console on Linux. This is as full featured as the Windows version, and allows for the same incremental image based backup. They demonstrate how to setup backups, and the full recovery process.

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