VMware Multi-Cloud as a Strategy, Inevitable Outcome, or Both

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: VMware Cloud on AWS Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Kit Colbert

In this Ask Me Anything session, VMware Cloud CTO Kit Colbert takes the position that multi-cloud is an inevitable outcome whether you have a strategy or not. In an ideal world, running all your apps on a single cloud is likely best for most businesses. The problem, though, is that it’s very hard to run all apps in only one cloud. There’s no consensus about multi-cloud, so it’s hard to answer the question “Should I go multi-cloud?” The reality is, you can choose your path or have it chosen for you. Try as hard as you may, being single cloud won’t be the case for very long. Something will happen to make you go multi-cloud.


VMware Resilient Infrastructure Simplifies High Availability for Cloud Applications

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: VMware Cloud on AWS Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Eric Gray

When customers deploy to VMware Cloud on AWS, they are free to focus valuable resources on their business applications instead of infrastructure management. Availability and resiliency are designed into the Software-defined Data Center service and the underlying AWS global cloud infrastructure. In this session, you will see how elements of the physical and virtual infrastructure architecture maximize application uptime by protecting against failures in any aspect of the stack. Presented by Eric Gray, Principal Technical Marketing Architect, VMware.


The Economics of VMware Cloud on AWS Versus Native Public Cloud

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: VMware Cloud on AWS Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Craig Stanley

There are significant migration hurdles and hidden costs in delivering enterprise applications from a native public cloud. This session will identify and evaluate the real cost and impact of these factors and illustrate how VMware Cloud on AWS can mitigate these costs. Presented by Craig Stanley, Cloud Economist, VMware.


Building A Better Developer Experience for VMware Cloud on AWS

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: VMware Cloud on AWS Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Dave Shanley

VMware is in the midst of a major transformation that will improve the way customers use and learn about automating and extending the VMware Cloud platform. A new public developer portal with concise API documentation and an internal emphasis on consistency, completeness, and test coverage is enabling the transition. Bringing together standards such as OpenAPI, as well as integration with native package repositories for popular languages, will enable teams to integrate VMware Cloud automation with their other infrastructure-as-code initiatives. Presented by Dave Shanley, Sr. Staff Engineer, VMware.


Multi-Cloud Data Management with Komprise

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: Komprise Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: Komprise

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Personnel: Mike Peercy, Mohit Dhawan

Mike Peercy, CTO and co-founder, will review the Komprise architecture for multi-cloud use cases and elastic provisioning of Komprise Operations Services and Mohit Dhawan, SVP Engineering and Cloud Operations, will demonstrate Komprise cloud data migration and cloud data management use cases.


Komprise Intelligent Data Management Demonstration

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: Komprise Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: Komprise

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Personnel: Mike Peercy, Mohit Dhawan

Mike Peercy, CTO and co-founder, will first review the Komprise architecture, introducing the Komprise Director Cloud Service and how Komprise Observers scale out elastically. Mohit Dhawan, SVP Engineering and Cloud Operations, will demonstrate Komprise data migration and hybrid data management use cases, highlighting some of the key differentiators of the Komprise analytics-first approach, including:
– No Storage Agents or Stubs
– No Interference to Hot Data Path
– No Scaling Limits
– No Changes to User or App Access
– No Silos


Komprise Intelligent Data Management

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: Komprise Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: Komprise

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Personnel: Kumar Goswami

Data growth is exploding. Budgets are not. Continuously buying more storage and treating all of your data the same is a never-ending cycle that stifles innovation and locks you in. Komprise Intelligent Data Management allows you to analyze, move, and manage file and object data at any scale while reducing enterprise storage, backup, and cloud costs. In this presentation, CEO and co-founder Kumar Goswami introduces Komprise and outlines the primary cloud use cases.


StorageOS Technology Use Cases

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: StorageOS Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: StorageOS

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Personnel: James Spurin

During this session, James Spurin, Product Evangelist will discuss the flexibility of the StorageOS platform and how it powers a variety of different technical use cases which are all cloud native and Kubernetes enabled. The use cases identified, highlight real life customers using StorageOS in production today.


StorageOS Live Demo: Database High Availability

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: StorageOS Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: StorageOS

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Personnel: Ferran Castell, Paul Sobey

StorageOS Product Reliability Engineer, Ferran Castell and Head of Product, Paul Sobey illustrates how to implement automatic failover with high availability. Learn how your mission critical databases with StorageOS are highly available, how your database data is transparently protected behind the scenes.


StorageOS Live Demo: Database As A Service with PostgreSQL

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: StorageOS Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: StorageOS

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Personnel: Ferran Castell, Paul Sobey

Ferran Castell, Product Reliability Engineer and Paul Sobey, Head of Product demonstrate the migration of Postgres databases in production into a Kubernetes environment with multi-cloud portability. The demo will cover how to build a database-as-a-service. Identifying the benefits of the self services, composable, and templateable ways of creating anything-as-a-service which any developer can do with the power of StorageOS.


StorageOS Technical Deep Dive

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: StorageOS Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: StorageOS

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Personnel: Paul Sobey

Paul Sobey, Head of Product, illustrates how the StorageOS end-to-end platforms works, identifying the unique offering, and the technical differentiators within the cloud native storage market.


The Evolution of Cloud Native Storage with StorageOS

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: StorageOS Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: StorageOS

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Personnel: Alex Chircop

StorageOS is cloud native, software-defined storage platform for running containerized applications in production, running in the cloud, on-prem and in hybrid/multi-cloud environments. StorageOS enables persistent storage for Kubernetes and other stateful applications with the view of solving real life storage problems. In this presentation, Founder and CEO, Alex Chircop introduces StorageOS, the market trends, key challenges enterprises are faced with today, and benefits of using StorageOS.


A Path to Intelligent Cloud and Data Center with Intel Telemetry

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: Intel Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Josh Hilliker

Josh Hilliker, Cloud Solutions Architect, SMG Cloud TSS, introduces Intel’s vision for telemetry to enable intelligent cloud and data centers. The goal is to simplify and automate infrastructure management and reduce human involvement in day-to-day operations. Artificial intelligence can deliver intelligent infrastructure as part of a modernization process driving from monitoring and telemetry to action, control, and complete automation. The telemetry and analytics solution exposes the right metrics and provides control surfaces for infrastructure efficiency, reliability, security, and performance. Intel Telemetry Collector enables a modern autonomous data center based on telemetry from Intel Platform Monitoring Units (PMU) and Top-Down Microarchitecture Analysis Method (TMAM). This technology can be used by both cloud service providers and their customers, thanks to the Intel Telemetry Collector and tools like perf, ipmitool, and dstat. It can even be used inside containers and inside Docker. For more information, visit http://www.intel.lv/IntelTelemetry


Confidential Computing with Intel SGX

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: Intel Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Garry Binder, Laura Martinez, Scott Raynor

Garry Binder, Senior Security Architect, introduces the data center security landscape and current trends for a data center security strategy to protect data and platforms without compromising performance. Data in use must be protected from malicious insiders, hackers, and third parties, and this is the reason for a confidential computing-based approach. Intel is a founding member of the Confidential Computing Consortium, which is focused on securing data while it is in use and driving compatibility across the industry. Intel has developed Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) to help protect against software attacks, increase protections for secrets, prevent future attacks, and provide an option for hardware-based attestation. Joining the presentation is Scott Raynor, Senior Application Engineer, who discusses Intel SGX in detail, and Laura Martinez, Director of Security Marketing, who presents use cases and real-world examples of confidential computing. For more information, visit http://www.intel.lv/ConfidentialComputing


Advancements in Cloud Data Management with Scality

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: Scality Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: Scality

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Personnel: Giorgio Regni, Paul Speciale

Over the last few years, concepts around hybrid and multi-cloud data management have received increasing attention from customers and solutions providers. In its early forms, cloud data management has focused on solving discrete use-cases such as cloud data archiving (moving cold/dormant data to cloud storage), bursting data to the public cloud for processing, or mirroring data to the cloud for business continuance (D/R solutions). A new set of requirements is now emerging that creates a need for more custom cloud data management policies, to help solve data-centric problems in areas such as edge computing, AI/ML and to ensure that data sovereignty rules are enforced.

In this session, Scality Chief Product Officer, Paul Speciale, and Scality Co-Founder & CTO, Giorgio Regni, we will discuss and demonstrate a new visual data management policy UI and engine that promises to deliver a solution for these new requirements.


European Union Data Sovereignty and the Role of Storage Providers with Jerome Lecat of Scality

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: Scality Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: Scality

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Personnel: Jerome Lecat

The world has become globally dependent on digital information. Enterprises, service providers and government agencies depend on free access to data as delivered through IT infrastructure and underlying technologies, and delivered as cloud services. This puts governments in the position of ensuring that their regional and local industries have access to this information technology, and that the supply chain is not disrupted. After the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2016, the EU published regulations on the free flow of non-personal data (FFD), plus a Cybersecurity Act and Open Data Directive in 2019. Early in 2020, the EU released a new Digital Strategy, which includes a five-year policy roadmap and a proposal for the creation of a single European market for data. This is underpinned on the idea of Data Sovereignty, which focuses on the intention of the EU to reduce its technological dependencies on foreign entities, and rely more on European cloud services.

In this session, Scality CEO and Founder Jerome Lecat will discuss the principles of data sovereignty, the emergence of new cloud service providers to address these EU specific requirements, and the role of storage technology vendors in this forming landscape.


Demo: Application-Aware Data Management for Kubernetes with NetApp Astra

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Garrett Mueller

Garrett Mueller, Director of Engineering, demonstrates application-aware data management for Kubernetes with NetApp Astra. From the Astra dashboard, Mueller adds an application cluster to be managed in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He then switches to an application view, showing that a demo application can be dynamically managed by Astra, including storage clones across regions with all application resources. He then applies a protection policy that leverages snapshots of data and resources.


Introducing NetApp Astra, Application-Aware Data Management for Kubernetes

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Sayan Saha

Sayan Saha, Sr. Director, Product Management, introduces NetApp Astra, application-aware data management built for Kubernetes. Enterprises are accelerating the deployment of business-critical applications on Kubernetes. These are stateful applications with high-availability and mobility needs. NetApp has developed Astra to provide a set of application-aware data services for enterprise applications in Kubernetes. It is a fully-managed cloud service provided by NetApp and will work across many public clouds, starting with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) on NetApp’s Cloud Volumes Service storage.


Demo: Kubernetes Infrastructure Management with Spot Ocean by NetApp

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Jeremy Deshotel

Jeremy Deshotel, Solutions Architect for Spot by NetApp, demonstrates Ocean, part of Spot by NetApp. Using three deployments in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ocean is able to dynamically balance using automatic instance scaling with Ocean by Spot. This achieves extremely high utilization, as demonstrated in the Spot management interface, simplifying operation and reducing cost.


Optimizing Kubernetes Infrastructure Management with Spot Ocean by NetApp

Event: Cloud Field Day 10

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Cloud Field Day 10

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Jeremy Deshotel

Jeremy Deshotel, Solutions Architect for Spot by NetApp, discusses the need for optimization of infrastructure management for Kubernetes. CloudOps is a description of the best practices, processes, and tools applied to successfully deploy and operate modern applications in the cloud, including DevOps and FinOps. Spot by NetApp provides continuous optimization of cloud applications, extending continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD). It includes FinOps (Cloud Analyzer and Eco) and DevOps (Elastigroup and Ocean). In this presentation, Deshotel focuses on Spot Ocean, which enables sport instances management in Kubernetes. Applications can scale horizontally or vertically, and Spot continually balances these instances to meet application demands and minimize idle resources.