Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Pensando Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Pensando

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Soni Jiandani Introduces Pensando Systems
• YouTube: Soni Jiandani Introduces Pensando Systems

Personnel: Soni Jiandani

Pensando Systems was founded on the belief that there has to be a better way to address the complex infrastructure issues facing IT departments today. In this session, Soni Jiandani will provide an overview of the company, an introduction to the Pensando Distributed Services Platform and an overview of the recently announced collaboration with VMware.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Pure Storage Optimizing Resources with FlashStack
• YouTube: Pure Storage Optimizing Resources with FlashStack

Personnel: Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart, VP of Technology Alliances, discusses optimization of resources with Pure Storage FlashStack. The company claims that it requires less compute, storage, rack space, and power than leading competitors when used to support virtual machines. He also presents Pure’s Evergreen Storage and Pure as-a-Service subscription options.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Pure Storage Cloud Native Storage in VMware and Kubernetes
• YouTube: Pure Storage Cloud Native Storage in VMware and Kubernetes

Personnel: Kyle Grossmiller, Vaughn Stewart

Kyle Grossmiller, Sr. Solutions Architect, discusses Kubernetes cloud-native storage in VMware Tanzu, vSphere, and the cloud-native storage (CSI) driver. He then demonstrates the vSphere Kubernetes integration with Pure Storage.

Next, Vaughn Stewart, VP of Technology Alliances, discusses the recent announcement of the acquisition of Portworx by Pure Storage. He gives a preview of how this acquisition will help Pure Storage advance the development of data services for Kubernetes in VMware and the cloud. They finish the presentation with questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Modernizing and Protecting VMware Infrastructure with Pure Storage FlashStack
• YouTube: Modernizing and Protecting VMware Infrastructure with Pure Storage FlashStack

Personnel: Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart, VP of Technology Alliances, presents the benefits of a Pure Storage solution to protect and modernize VMware infrastructure. Pure provides instant VM snapshots in vCenter, SRM orchestrated disaster recovery, 0 RTO with vMSC on ActiveCluster, combined vMSC (metro) and SRM (geo), CloudSnap snapshot offload, and FlashRecover powered by Cohesity. Vaughn also takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Pure Storage Fabric Flexibility and Simple Management
• YouTube: Pure Storage Fabric Flexibility and Simple Management

Personnel: Kyle Grossmiller, Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart, VP of Technology Alliances, presents the flexible storage fabric options available to Pure Storage FlashStack customers. FlashStack supports Fibre Channel, iSCSI, VMFS, and vVol, and is prepared for next-generation protocols like NVMe over Fabric.

Next, Vaughn discusses management of VMware infrastructure enhanced by Pure Storage. FlashArray was originally designed to support VMware workloads and includes many features to reduce complexities and trade-offs. When FlashStack is used to support VMware Cloud Foundation, customers benefit from SmartConfig, vSphere Lifecycle Manager without loss of data protection, Pure 1 updates, integrated compute, storage, and networking, and in-place hardware upgrades.

Next, Kyle Grossmiller, Sr. Solutions Architect, demonstrates a vVols-based workload domain deployment in VCF. Kyle and Vaughn also take questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: VMware Cloud Foundation on Pure Storage FlashStack Overview and Cloud Agility Demo
• YouTube: VMware Cloud Foundation on Pure Storage FlashStack Overview and Cloud Agility Demo

Personnel: Kyle Grossmiller, Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart, VP of Technology Alliances, introduces VMware Cloud Foundation on Pure Storage FlashStack. He begins with an overview of the solution and the benefits that Pure brings to VMware infrastructure. VMware Cloud Foundation is an on-premises architecture that aligns to VMware public cloud architectures, and Pure Storage FlashArray provides an integrated storage solution that provides many benefits over direct-attached storage solutions. VCF on FlashStack brings a standard architecture that is efficient and agile.

Following this introduction, Kyle Grossman, Sr. Solutions Architect, demonstrates implementation of the FlashStack solution migrating an ESXi host into the SDDC inventory to become part of an ESXi cluster. He then removes the node from the cluster, re-baselines it from a snapshot, and then adds it again to a second workload domain. This shows the speed and flexibility of the solution.

Following the demo, Kyle and Vaughn take questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Runecast Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Runecast

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Easy Mode for Security Standards Compliance with Runecast
• YouTube: Easy Mode for Security Standards Compliance with Runecast

Personnel: Kev Johnson

Monitoring compliance with the relevant security standards in the SDDC is something that is typically covered on an annual basis, usually in the weeks leading up to an audit. In this live demo, Kev Johnson walks you through Runecast Analyzer and focuses on ways to gain visibility into your Hybrid Cloud all year round. Through continuously checking your configuration and security posture and highlighting where you drift from your desired baselines, Runecast helps you quickly remediate any deviations for VMware products, AWS, and now also Kubernetes. He’ll also show you how to automate your way to compliance.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Runecast Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Runecast

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Keeping Atop The Tin – Hardware Compatibility and Upgrades with Runecast
• YouTube: Keeping Atop The Tin – Hardware Compatibility and Upgrades with Runecast

Personnel: Kev Johnson

Kev Johnson dives deep into the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) checks feature of Runecast Analyzer, showing how you can remove some of the biggest causes of risk and go beyond that to having actual vSphere security rather than just business-as-usual (BAU) mode. Extending this capability to upgrade planning via simulation, he’ll show how you can identify hardware that will need replacing, and also assets that you can sweat for another year or two through BIOS, firmware, and driver updates.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Runecast Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Runecast

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Runecast For Everything with Stanimir Markov
• YouTube: Runecast For Everything with Stanimir Markov

Personnel: Stanimir Markov

Runecast has a proven track record of providing industry-leading proactive analytics for VMware-driven software-defined data centers (SDDCs). In this presentation, CEO and Co-Founder Stanimir Markov will talk about how Runecast Analyzer has evolved to provide insights for additional platforms, to help organizations optimize and secure their Hybrid Cloud (VMware, AWS, Kubernetes). He will demonstrate how forward-thinking companies use Runecast Analyzer for operational transparency, to mitigate risk, comply with ever-changing security requirements, ensure greater uptime – all the while saving a lot of money with its proactive automation – and give a glimpse toward the vision of Runecast for Everything.

Event: Networking Field Day 23

Appearance: Broadcom Presents at Networking Field Day 23

Company: Broadcom

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Broadcom BroadView+ Inline Analytics and Anomaly Detection
• YouTube: Broadcom BroadView+ Inline Analytics and Anomaly Detection

Personnel: Niranjan Vaidya

Hyperscale networks encounter one-in-a-million problems on a weekly basis. The ability to quickly identify and correct these anomalies is crucial to ensuring network performance. See how Broadcom BroadView+ enables inline analytics and detection of these problems with Flow Tracker.

Event: Networking Field Day 23

Appearance: Broadcom Presents at Networking Field Day 23

Company: Broadcom

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Broadcom BroadView+ SLA Monitoring with Inband Flow Analyzer (IFA), Mirror-on-Drop and Streaming Telemetry
• YouTube: Broadcom BroadView+ SLA Monitoring with Inband Flow Analyzer (IFA), Mirror-on-Drop and Streaming Telemetry

Personnel: Surendra Anubolu

Service-level Agreements (SLAs) are critical to the operation of large networks. Thanks to Broadcom’s BroadView+, networking professionals can now get up-to-the-second telemetry on their network performance and use it to ensure SLAs and SLOs are being met.

Event: Networking Field Day 23

Appearance: Broadcom Presents at Networking Field Day 23

Company: Broadcom

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Broadcom BroadView+ Root Cause Analysis with Mirror-on-Drop (MOD) and Inband Flow Analyzer (IFA)
• YouTube: Broadcom BroadView+ Root Cause Analysis with Mirror-on-Drop (MOD) and Inband Flow Analyzer (IFA)

Personnel: Bhaskar Chinni

Broadview+ enables networking professionals to provide enhanced root cause analysis thanks to in-band flow analysis and mirror-on-drop functionality. Learn how Broadcom is able to provide these critical features while still maintaining packet flow for large networks.

Event: Networking Field Day 23

Appearance: Broadcom Presents at Networking Field Day 23

Company: Broadcom

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Broadcom BroadView+ Overview
• YouTube: Broadcom BroadView+ Overview

Personnel: Bhaskar Chinni

In this video, Broadcom gives an overview of their BroadView+ platform and how it is helping enable hyperscale networks to perform above and beyond expectations and how these enhancements will flow down into the enterprise as well.

Event: Networking Field Day 23

Appearance: Apstra Presents at Networking Field Day 23

Company: Apstra

Video Links:

• Vimeo: How Apstra Manages and Automates Enterprise SONiC
• YouTube: How Apstra Manages and Automates Enterprise SONiC

Personnel: DJ Spry

The session demonstrates Apstra’s ability to simplify the deployment and operations of Enterprise SONiC, with speed and reliability. The demonstration shows how Apstra interfaces with SONiC to configure and automate for fast and easy deployment, and operation in your data center network.  This session demonstrates the simplicity of making changes reliably.

Event: Networking Field Day 23

Appearance: Apstra Presents at Networking Field Day 23

Company: Apstra

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Visualize Traffic Trends For Optimal Network Performance with Apstra’s Heatmap and Headroom Views
• YouTube: Visualize Traffic Trends For Optimal Network Performance with Apstra’s Heatmap and Headroom Views

Personnel: Josh Saul

Apstra contextualizes and correlates data center traffic flows to provide a comprehensive view for network operators. The operational telemetry views are automatically generated from our analytics. Apstra has the unique ability to collect relevant traffic statistics from overlaying historical continuously, and real-time traffic flows for various network views. The result is fabric heatmaps of network traffic and load so that operations teams can tune the network for optimal performance.

Event: Networking Field Day 23

Appearance: Apstra Presents at Networking Field Day 23

Company: Apstra

Video Links:

• Vimeo: How to Perform Fast and Reliable Roll Backs with Apstra’s Intent Time Voyager
• YouTube: How to Perform Fast and Reliable Roll Backs with Apstra’s Intent Time Voyager

Personnel: Josh Saul

Apstra uses a graph model coupled with a single truth source to manage and automate some of the world’s most extensive and most complicated networks. We’ll show you how Apstra inherently creates snapshot versions of the network configuration so operations teams can reliably perform network rollbacks with an ease unparalleled in the industry. Our customers’ operational teams find this to be a game-changing feature.

Event: Networking Field Day 23

Appearance: Apstra Presents at Networking Field Day 23

Company: Apstra

Video Links:

• Vimeo: How Apstra Eliminates EVPN Complexity with Reliable Automation
• YouTube: How Apstra Eliminates EVPN Complexity with Reliable Automation

Personnel: DJ Spry

Apstra simplifies the deployment and operation of EVPN. Apstra’s single source of truth enables faster mean-time-to-resolution to identify, resolve quickly, and eventually prevent data center network issues. We discuss and demonstrate how Apstra uses Intent-Based Analytics to understand the config, state, and expectations and uses context to provide closed-loop validation to companies using EVPN at scale.

Event: Networking Field Day 23

Appearance: Apstra Presents at Networking Field Day 23

Company: Apstra

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Apstra Company Overview and Updates
• YouTube: Apstra Company Overview and Updates

Personnel: Zack Zilakakis

Apstra delivers a unified solution to automate the architecture and operations of the data center network. Apstra’s flagship product, AOS, empowers organizations to automate all aspects of designing, building, deploying, and operating their networks. This automation and validation enable quick and reliable changes to the network while efficiently using available resources and ridding themselves of hardware vendor lock-in. With Apstra, operations start at Day 0 and continue through day 2 with closed-loop validation.

Event: Networking Field Day 23

Appearance: Airvine Presents at Networking Field Day 23

Company: AirVine

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Airvine Delegate Discussion
• YouTube: Airvine Delegate Discussion

Personnel: Vivek Ragavan

Join the Networking Field Day delegates as they discuss the technology behind AirVine’s WaveTunnel wireless connectivity solution and some of the specific use cases for this unique platform.

Event: Networking Field Day 23

Appearance: Airvine Presents at Networking Field Day 23

Company: AirVine

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Airvine Company Introduction with Vivek Ragavan
• YouTube: Airvine Company Introduction with Vivek Ragavan

Personnel: Vivek Ragavan

AirVine is building a unique method of connecting data center equipment through the use of 60GHz wireless technologies. In this video, they discuss the challenges of building the solution and how they have worked very hard to build a solution that will empower systems administrators to connect devices across their campus.