SDDC Symposium 2013 - Tech Field Day



SDDC Symposium 2013	September 10, 2013
Who: Networking What:	When: Past Where: Silicon Valley

The SDDC Symposium will return in February 2014!

Tech Field Day and SDN Central are planning a Software-Defined Datacenter Symposium! This will feature many key figures from the industry and end-user community, and will include discussions of OpenFlow, software-defined networking (SDN), software-defined storage, convergence, and the greater software-defined future!

Note that event capacity is severely constrained. Therefore, we are focusing on end-user implementers and encouraging others to participate online by viewing the live video stream on this page!

When: Tuesday, September 10, 2013, from 8 AM to 5 PM
Where: Network Meeting Center at Techmart, Santa Clara, CA
Who: End-users interested in SDN and SDDC
How: Claim your ticket at our EventBrite page!

Your ticket includes buffet lunch!

About the Organizers

Tech Field Day is a regular event that brings together vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format. Independent bloggers, freelance writers, and podcasters have a public presence that has immense influence on the ways that products and companies are perceived and by the general public.

SDNCentral is the leading centralized source of news and resources for network virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN). Networking hardware is a $40 billion market, and SDN has the potential to drastically change the way hardware is bought and sold. With players in the field starving for information to help them determine how or whether SDN can benefit them, we are a community devoted to sharing information, connecting people, and developing the next generation of networking.

Packet Pushers is a podcast and website focussed on data networking. The weekly podcast reaches a highly technical audience of 3500 network engineers and architects.

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Event Sponsors

Moderators and Speakers

In addition to the sponsors listed above, we are pleased to have independent influencers moderating and participating in panels. The event also features a keynote speech as noted above!

	Brent Salisbury	@NetworkStatic
	Brent Salisbury works as a Network Architect, CCIE #11972.
	Greg Ferro	@EtherealMind
	Greg is a freelance Network Architect and Engineer, host of Packet Pushers Podcast and semi-professional writer.
	Ivan Pepelnjak	@IOSHints
	Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE#1354 Emeritus, is a network architect and independent blogger at ipSpace.net AG.
	Tom Hollingsworth	@NetworkingNerd
	Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.

Order of the Day

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and at some delegate and presenter web sites. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

08:00-08:30	Meeting, Registration, Introduction
	Featuring: Stephen Foskett
	Stephen Foskett kicks off the SDDC Symposium with opening remarks.
08:30-12:00	Introducing the Next Generation SDDC Leaders
	Featuring: David Husak, Don Clark, Florin Balus, Inder Gopal, Kelly Herrell, Marco Di Benedetto
	Presentations from David Husak (Plexxi), Florin Balus (Nuage Networks), Don Clark (NEC), Marco Di Benedetto (Embrane), Inder Gopal (OpenDaylight), and Kelly Herrell (Brocade).
12:00-13:00	Lunch with Nutanix
	Featuring: Dheeraj Pandey

13:00-14:00	Enterprise Trends: The Value of Software-Defined Everything
	Featuring: Alan Boeheme

14:00-14:45	Next Generation Software-defined Data Center Architecture Panel
	Featuring: Brent Salisbury, Chris Wright, Curt Beckmann, Dheeraj Pandey, Dimitri Stiliadis, Samrat Ganguly
	Discuss the convergance of compute, storage, and network and what that means to the datacenter architectures. Moderated by Ivan Pepelnjak with panelists Brent Salisbury, Curt Beckmann (Brocade), Dimitri Stiliadis (Nuage Networks), Samrat Ganguly (NEC), Dheeraj Pandey (Nutanix), and Chris Wright (OpenDaylight).
14:45-15:30	Money Flow: Predicting Budget Winners and Losers Panel
	Featuring: Andy Brown, Inder Gopal, John Vincenzo, Jon Hudson, Nils Swart, Ron Sackman
	Discuss how SDDC changes economic buyers, challenges vendor loyalties and who are the power brokers for SDDCs within the enterprise. Moderated by Jim Duffy and featuring panelists from Andy Brown, Ron Sackman, Jon Hudson (Brocade), John Vincenzo (Embrane), Inder Gopal (OpenDaylight), and Nils Swart (Plexxi).
15:30-16:15	Public or Private Software-defined Data Center Panel
	Featuring: Andy Brown, Anjan Srinivas, Brent Salisbury, Ron Sackman, Scott Sneddon
	Discuss how and when to build a private SDDC or rent public SDDC capabilities and understand the political and organization impact of each decision. Moderated by Greg Ferro with panelists Andy Brown, Ron Sackman, Brent Salisbury, Scott Sneddon (Nuage Networks), and Anjan Srinivas (Nutanix).
16:15-17:00	Applications and SDDC: Impact Analysis and Stakeholder Perception
	Featuring: David Cheperdak, David Husak, Ivan Pepelnjak, Marco Di Benedetto, Najam Ahmad, Terry Slattery
	With a greater focus on applications in today’s environments, how will the SDDC keep up? Moderator Tom Hollingsworth and a panel of experts explore how applications are changing the way a typical SDDC is designed and implemented in production. In addition, there will be discussion of the changing perception of stakeholders with regard to the SDDC and the political impact of consolidation of the many teams that comprise the SDDC. Panelists include Ivan Pepelnjak, Najam Ahmad, Terry Slattery, David Husak (Plexxi), David Cheperdak (NEC), and Marco Di Benedetto (Embrane).
17:00-17:30	Next Generation SDDC: Closing Remarks
	Featuring: Stephen Foskett

18:30-20:00	Symposium After the Symposium
	Featuring: Stephen Foskett, Tom Hollingsworth
	Coming to #SDDC13? Join us for *the Symposium After* the Symposium! According to ancient Greek practice, a symposium meant “to drink together”. It was a traditional venue to debate and revel with others. We won’t have beer and revelry during our SDDC Symposium, but we will afterwards! The Symposium After the Symposium is the perfect place to collect your thoughts and drive discussion related to Software Defined Data Centers and other topics. Questions will be answered and points will be discussed. But more importantly, there will be beer and wine to drink, and Hors d’oeuvres to eat! Free tickets are available now! Please register so we will know how many are coming! Who: SDDC Symposium attendees and others interested in networking When: Tuesday, September 10 at 6:30 PM Where: Network Meeting Center at Techmart, 5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054 How:** Get your free ticket while they last!

Event Staff

	Claire Chaplais	@CChaplais
	Matt Palmer	@SDN_News
	Stephen Foskett	@SFoskett

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More Information

If you would like to sponsor these events, please contact Stephen Foskett, Gestalt IT Community Organizer, at [email protected] or call +1(508)451-9532.

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Tickets for live attendance are available as indicated above, and the entire event is live streamed over the Internet.

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