Enterprise Workloads with Google Cloud and NetApp

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Geoff Tudor, Niraj Verma

Geoff Tudor, Director, Cloud Solutions, and Niraj Verma, Solutions Architect, introduce NetApp Cloud Volumes for Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon AWS. They begin with a look back at the enterprise cloud journey, as companies move from traditional datacenters to virtualized solutions to the cloud. NetApp’s goal is to be the number 1 platform for shared storage, cost optimization, and the modern workplace on the public cloud of your choice. NetApp and Google Cloud are addressing the needs and challenges of file-based workloads for enterprises. Use cases include SAP, Windows, Google Cloud VMware Engine, and hybrid clouds. NetApp offers Cloud Volumes Service, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and Anthos with NetApp HCI in Google Cloud. Tudor and Verma then discuss the architecture of Cloud Volumes and present benchmarks for performance. Next is a demo of Cloud Volumes on Google Cloud Platform and a discussion of various use cases.


Optimizing Cloud Economics and Visibility for FinOps with Morpheus

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Morpheus Data Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: Morpheus Data

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Personnel: David Estes, Hicham Mourad

FinOps shines a spotlight on cloud value by bringing together technology, business, and finance stakeholders to evaluate and implement change. Morpheus sits at the intersection of tools, technology, people, and process and as such can provide data to inform, optimize, and operate hybrid cloud environments. This session will focus on visibility, analytics, guidance, pricing and other features relevant as organizations trying to manage return on cloud investments. We’ll also cover FinOps related features coming in upcoming releases. Presented by Hicham Mourad, Director of Technical Marketing, and David Estes, VP of Engineering and Co-Founder.


Application and Process Modernization for DevOps with Morpheus

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Morpheus Data Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: Morpheus Data

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Personnel: Adam Hicks, David Estes

Self-service is a key pillar of DevOps maturity, but it also requires a broader tool ecosystem. Morpheus can represent a step forward for organizations trying to bridge the gap between Dev and Ops and navigate the move from VM to Container. This session will dig into the Morpheus blueprint engine, terraform provider, and Kubernetes services. We’ll also cover highlights from upcoming releases focused on the DevOps persona. Presented by Adam Hicks, Field CTO, and David Estes, VP of Engineering and Co-Founder.


Enabling Self-Service for CloudOps and SecOps with Morpheus

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Morpheus Data Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: Morpheus Data

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Personnel: David Estes, Hicham Mourad

Cloud is an elastic and on-demand experience characterized by self-service. Unfortunately building private clouds and governing public cloud has proved difficult at scale. This session will illustrate how to connect to on-prem hypervisors, establish governance, and provision application services on-demand. We’ll also cover highlights from our upcoming releases focused on the CloudOps and SecOps personas. Presented by Hicham Mourad, Director of Technical Marketing, and David Estes, VP of Engineering and Co-Founder.


Introduction to Hybrid Cloud Application Orchestration with Morpheus

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Morpheus Data Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: Morpheus Data

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Personnel: Brad Parks

Enterprises are trying to modernize applications, transform customer experiences, and move fast all while dealing with global economic realities and an increasingly complex IT landscape. This session will introduce the Morpheus platform and outline how persona-based cloud management and application-centric automation combine to simplify hybrid IT, lower cloud costs, improve security, and streamline application development. Presented by Brad Parks, VP of Business Development and CMO.


Diamanti Spektra 3.0 Demo: Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Solution

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Diamanti Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: Diamanti

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Personnel: Brock Mowry

Learn how to use Diamanti Spektra 3.0 in this session, which provides a demo and technical walkthrough of the multi-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes solution for stateful apps. Presented by Brock Mowry, System Engineer.


Federated Kubernetes for Stateful Applications: Diamanti Spektra 3.0

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Diamanti Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: Diamanti

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Personnel: Boris Kurktchiev

This session introduces Diamanti Spektra™ 3.0, the first multi-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes solution that meets enterprise IT requirements for operating and managing stateful applications. With Diamanti Spektra 3.0, enterprise customers have one flexible solution to deploy, replicate, and migrate cloud-native applications across bare metal and public cloud infrastructures. Presented by Boris Kurktchiev, Field CTO.


Deep Dive into Diamanti Storage Architecture and Data Services

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Diamanti Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: Diamanti

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Personnel: Abhay Singh, Boris Kurktchiev

Get more out of your infrastructure with Diamanti’s patented high-performance storage architecture and integrated data services. In this session, you will learn about Diamanti’s patented storage solutions that deliver the performance, low latency, resiliency, data protection, and consistency that cloud-native applications require. Snapshots, backup, DR, and synchronous mirroring are all available out-of-the-box while delivering 1M IOPS per node at sub-100us latency. Presented by Abhay Singh, Founding Engineer.


HashiCorp Consul in Action with Shipyard

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: HashiCorp Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: HashiCorp

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Personnel: Nicole Hubbard

Nicole Hubbard, Developer Advocate, demonstrates the power of HashiCorp Consul using the Shipyard tool, which can stand up complete environments running locally in docker. This allows developers to test deployment of complete cloud applications and networks in a Docker container environment on their local machine. The demo includes Consul, Nomad, a database, and containerized applications. Hubbard also demonstrates Kubernetes Authentication in Vault completely in Shipyard.


HashiCorp Consul and Application First Networking

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: HashiCorp Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: HashiCorp

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Personnel: Cody De Arkland

Cody De Arkland, Technical Product Marketing, demonstrates HashiCorp Consul, using Nomad to deploy workloads and connect multiple environments together in a practical service mesh. Consul is a tool for connecting applications across clouds and runtimes, creating a “service mesh” for “application first networking.” Consul focuses on first-class support for all runtimes (Kubernetes, virtual machines, bare metal, and Docker) and creates a global service mesh out of the box, with consistency between inconsistent environments. Like all of HashiCorp, consul favors workflows over technologies, solving and enhancing use cases. De Arkland demonstrates application first networking in a series of interactive live demos and discussions with the Field Day delegates.


Armon Dadgar Introduces the HashiCorp Product Portfolio

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: HashiCorp Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: HashiCorp

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Personnel: Armon Dadgar

Armon Dadgar, Co-Founder and CTO, introduces the HashiCorp product portfolio. HashiCorp is well known for Vagrant, Terraform, Consul, and Vault, but Dadgar says the company is focused broadly on cloud infrastructure automation. Through a series of hand-drawn slides, Dodger places the company in the context of legacy enterprise IT and next-generation DevOps, NetOps, SecOps, and ITOps. He then talks specifically about Consul and Service Mesh. This is an interactive discussion with the Cloud Field Day delegates.


Igneous Data Management Demonstrations and Use Cases

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Igneous Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: Igneous

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Personnel: Andy Ferris, Jeff Hughes, Mike O'Brien

Andy Ferris, Product Manager, demonstrates Igneous data management through a series of use cases for the product. The first demonstration is legacy NAS backup, which presents challenges at scale. A modern NAS backup solution should always hit SLAs, minimize costs, and be simple and flexible, and Ferris demonstrates how Igneous protects NAS at scale for a major chip manufacturer. The next use case is data archive, which presents many challenges in terms of visibility, simplicity, and ROI. His demonstration of Igneous shows file archive at scale for the Allen Institute, which has 5 PB of data and can be scanned in 2 hours by Igneous. The third use case is data visibility and discovery. Igneous presents an up to date index that is scalable, organized, and sharable for Quantum Spatial. Ferris is joined by the Cloud Field Day delegates, with many questions throughout.


Tackling Unstructured Data with Igneous

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Igneous Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: Igneous

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Personnel: Jeff Hughes, Mike O'Brien

Jeff Hughes, CTO, presents the Igneous technology and how the company is facing the challenge of unstructured data. The goal was to develop a simple approach to data management, de-coupling data management from storage to bring flexibility. Igneous focused on performance and scale to create a single data management solution across all enterprise unstructured storage locations. Igneous AdaptiveSCAN, InfiniteINDEX, and IntelliMOVE powers the company’s DataProtect, DataDiscover, and DataFlow products. AdaptiveSCAN scans data quickly without impacting other production applications. InfiniteINDEX is a cloud-based, purpose-built database optimized to index all enterprise data. IntelliMOVE moves data at a constant rate that is independent of data and storage characteristics. Jeff is joined by Mike O’Brien, CRO, and the Cloud Field Day delegates in a discussion of data management.


Get More Out of Your Current Storage with Igneous

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Igneous Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: Igneous

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Personnel: Mike O'Brien

Mike O’Brien, CRO, introduces Igneous through a discussion of unstructured data management. Igneous targets data management in the enterprise, the complex and manual data management, and the sprawl of vendors and products. Enterprises are struggling to keep up with data growth. They can’t see, manage, monitor or search, they are failing SLAs, are locked in to storage products, and see the cloud as cost prohibitive. Infrascale seeks to provide better data visibility as the key to efficient unstructured data management.


Cloud Onramp with Aruba SD-Branch

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Aruba Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Samuel Perez

Samuel Perez, Solution Architect, SD-WAN & SD-Branch, discusses how Aruba SD-WAN provides a connection to cloud services. He shows how to connect SD-WAN to the cloud, orchestrating connectivity to IaaS and cloud security. Branch then demonstrates the solution.


Aruba User and Application Experience

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Aruba Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Fouad Zreik

Fouad Zreik, Director of Product and co-founder of Cape Networks presents the user and application experience provided by Aruba. He begins with a discussion of the key challenges facing IT monitoring solutions before showing how Aruba UXI can directly measure user and application experience from the edge. He then demonstrates the solution.


The Reimagined Workplace with Aruba

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Aruba Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Alan Ni

Alan Ni, Aruba CTO Group, discusses how Aruba can transform the workplace with secure remote work, return to the office, and the creation of a hybrid workplace. Key to this is the use of location data for contact tracing, leveraging the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth data in Aruba APs. Ni demonstrates this using Aruba Central.


HPE InfoSight AIOps Contextual Insights for HPE Compute and Storage

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Aruba Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Rochna Dhand

Rochna Dhand, Sr. Director, Product Management, introduces HPE InfoSight AIOps, discussing how it can give contextual insights for HPE compute and storage products. InfoSight enables autonomous infrastructure that is self-managing, self-healing, and self-optimizing. Dhand then demonstrates how InfoSight works with HPE storage and virtualized environments. Throughout the presentation, the Field Day delegates join with questions and comments.


AIOps for Aruba Networking: The Cloud Advantage

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Aruba Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Jose Tellado

Jose Tellado, PhD, HPE Fellow and AIOps Chief Technologist discusses how AIOps gives Aruba and all of HPE a “cloud advantage.” He introduces the Aruba Edge Services Platform (ESP), an AI-powered service for cloud networking integrated with Aruba Central. Aruba provides smart streaming telemetry for AIOps with millions of devices and clients giving real insights for customers. Tellado also discusses the environment classifier and how Aruba uses machine learning models. Throughout the presentation, the Field Day delegates join with questions and comments.


HPE GreenLake: Cloud-Native As-a-Service

Event: Cloud Field Day 8

Appearance: Aruba Presents at Cloud Field Day 8

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Erik Vogel

Erik Vogel, Customer Experience, presents HPE GreenLake. He begins with the vision of Antonio Neri for the next phase of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s strategic pivot to offering everything as a service. HPE’s GreenLake is a leader in this space, with true pay-per-use for on-premises resources and over US$4 billion booked to date. Vogel takes questions from the Field Day delegate panel and discusses the offering with them.