Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: StorPool Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: StorPool

Video Links:

• Vimeo: StorPool Тesting Мethodology for Еvaluating the Storage Performance of Any Cloud
• YouTube: StorPool Тesting Мethodology for Еvaluating the Storage Performance of Any Cloud

Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

Most cloud architects already understand that raw storage performance is critical for their service quality and business success. Better application performance (time to load a page, time to rebuild or execute a specific query, fast sync, compile times, etc.) results in happier users, lower TCO and improved ROI. Public cloud operators rely on performance as a competitive edge to attract and retain customers, which is even more important and harder to achieve in multi-tenant environments.

All-in-all, cloud performance is a key point, which is often misunderstood. As performance is affected by multiple factors, to improve it you need to understand the modes in which a system operates. StorPool presents a testing methodology for evaluating the storage performance of any cloud, in the right way. Presented by StorPool CPO, Boyan Krosnov.

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: StorPool Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: StorPool

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Typical Customers and Why Companies Select StorPool
• YouTube: Typical Customers and Why Companies Select StorPool

Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

Boyan Krosnov presents the profiles of the typical StorPool’s customers. StorPool’s data management platform is used by leading public and private clouds – enterprises, SaaS, hosting, cloud providers and MSPs. It is the preferred choice for companies, which need to build a high-performance cloud for running demanding workloads and applications.

In this part of the presentation, Boyan will showcase success stories with three companies:

• Dustin – A publicly listed European MSP which uses StorPool as the foundation for it’s New Age IT stack to consolidate and replace it’s traditional IT stack
• Amito – Infrastructure and managed service provider powering its operations with StorPool
• Katapult – Virtual Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Platform running on StorPool

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: StorPool Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: StorPool

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Introduction to StorPool Storage
• YouTube: Introduction to StorPool Storage

Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

Boyan Krosnov, CPO of StorPool Storage gives an overview of StorPool. Its block storage software with a scale-out, shared-nothing architecture, which transforms commodity hardware into a high-performance data storage platform for demanding workloads.

StorPool is one of the fastest software-defined block storage solutions on the market. With its advanced capabilities, a high number of features and support for multiple IT/software stacks and wide range of cloud management platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenNebula) and new-age technologies (OpenSource, Kubernetes, etc.) StorPool is the ultimate data storage solution for leading public and private cloud builders at scale.

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Pure Storage Portworx Kubernetes Backup Demo
• YouTube: Pure Storage Portworx Kubernetes Backup Demo

Personnel: Goutham Rao, Matt Kixmoeller

Goutham Rao, Co-Founder and CTO of Portworx, presents a holistic approach to Kubernetes backups. Such a solution needs to be future proof and offer any to any data movement. He then demonstrates this new solution from Pure Storage and takes questions from the Cloud Field Day delegates. Rao is joined by Matt Kixmoeller, VP of Strategy, who closes the session.

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Pure Storage Portworx Multi Cloud and DR Demo
• YouTube: Pure Storage Portworx Multi Cloud and DR Demo

Personnel: Goutham Rao

Goutham Rao, Co-Founder and CTO of Portworx, introduces enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery of Kubernetes applications. He also takes questions from the Field Day delegates about the new offering from Pure Storage.

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Pure Storage Kubernetes Data Services Platform Overview and Demo
• YouTube: Pure Storage Kubernetes Data Services Platform Overview and Demo

Personnel: Goutham Rao

Goutham Rao, Co-Founder and CTO of Portworx, presents the Kubernetes Data Services Platform from Pure Storage. A storage overlay built for containers, Portworx is designed to virtualize physical storage and form a container storage overlay, offer dynamic container granular volume provisioning driven through Kubernetes, and offer container virtual volumes highly available anywhere. It is highly scalable, secure, and extends to anywhere. Rao then demonstrates the Portworx solution in action with a PostgreSQL failover, volume resize, and snapshots. He also takes questions from the Field Day delegates.

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Pure Storage Portworx Deep Dive
• YouTube: Pure Storage Portworx Deep Dive

Personnel: Goutham Rao

Goutham Rao, Co-Founder and CTO of Portworx, offers a look at how the team built a leading Kubernetes data services platform for cloud native applications. Portworx provides hybrid Kubernetes data services on any storage infrastructure, not just Pure Storage. Rao then discusses the differences in architecture between a machine-defined and application-defined control plane, and how Portworx moves storage management into Kubernetes. Finally, Rao takes questions from the Cloud Field Day delegate panel.

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: Pure Storage

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Pure Storage and Portworx Deliver the Modern Data Experience
• YouTube: Pure Storage and Portworx Deliver the Modern Data Experience

Personnel: Matt Kixmoeller

Matt Kixmoeller, VP of Strategy, introduces the combination of Pure Storage and Portworx. The two companies aim to deliver a modern data experience that accelerates traditional and cloud native applications on any infrastructure. Portworx offers a 100% software solution for cloud, on-premises, or hybrid deployments that supports any infrastructure. And Portworx has been popular with many enterprise companies in the cloud.

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: VMware by Broadcom

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Operationalizing VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Part 3: Self-Service Hybrid Cloud
• YouTube: Operationalizing VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Part 3: Self-Service Hybrid Cloud

Personnel: Vincent Riccio

Vincent Riccio, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, demonstrates how the cloud admin can use vRealize Cloud Management to successfully expand usage of VMware Cloud on AWS. This demo-based session will consist of a technical walkthrough of vRealize Automation to govern the consumption of the hybrid cloud and highlight the ease of deploying new applications.

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: VMware by Broadcom

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Operationalizing VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Part 2: Managing Applications
• YouTube: Operationalizing VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Part 2: Managing Applications

Personnel: Brandon Gordon, Martijn Smit

Brandon Gordon and Martijn Smit, Staff Technical Marketing Architects, demonstrate the use of VMware vRealize Cloud Management to manage capacity, cost, performance and compliance of applications and workloads running on VMware Cloud on AWS. This session will consist of a technical walkthrough of vRealize Operations hybrid cloud capabilities through a demo.

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: VMware by Broadcom

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Operationalizing VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Part 1: Planning and Migrating
• YouTube: Operationalizing VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Part 1: Planning and Migrating

Personnel: Brandon Gordon, Martijn Smit

Brandon Gordon and Martijn Smit, Staff Technical Marketing Architects, review the key considerations to successful initial planning and migrating applications to a hybrid cloud environment based on VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Cloud Management. The session includes a deep dive demo of vRealize Operations and vRealize Network Insight as used by the network administrators and VI admins.

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: VMware by Broadcom

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Advancements in VMware vRealize Cloud Management
• YouTube: Advancements in VMware vRealize Cloud Management

Personnel: Taruna Gandhi

Taruna Gandhi, Senior Director, Product Marketing, gives an overview and update of VMware vRealize Cloud Management, VMware’s premier management solution for private, hybrid and public clouds. Gandhi review a series of new capabilities and announcements including:

• Introduction to vRealize Cloud Universal
• Overview of vRealize AI Cloud
• What’s new in vRealize Operations, Automation and Network Insight
• Adding True Visibility Suite to the portfolio

Event: Storage Field Day 20

Appearance: Pensando Presents at Storage Field Day 20

Company: Pensando

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Pensando DSC Technical Overview and Direction
• YouTube: Pensando DSC Technical Overview and Direction

Personnel: Francis Matus

Francis Matus, VP Engineering, Pensando Systems discusses the technologies behind the Distributed Services Platform. The Pensando platform included in the NetApp AFF A400 is built around a custom, programmable P4 processor called Capri. Capri is optimized to execute a software stack delivering cloud, compute, network, storage, and security services at cloud scale with minimal latency, jitter and very low power requirements (~30W@100G). This makes it an ideal acceleration engine for a broad range of distributed services and protocols, capable of eliminating an assortment of discrete appliances throughout the data center and simplifying IT operations. In this session Francis will provide an overview of the design principles, capabilities and future direction of the Pensando platform.

Event: Storage Field Day 20

Appearance: Pensando Presents at Storage Field Day 20

Company: NetApp, Pensando

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Scaling NetApp Storage Systems with Pensando Distributed Services Platform
• YouTube: Scaling NetApp Storage Systems with Pensando Distributed Services Platform

Personnel: Naresh Patel

Naresh Patel, Chief Architect & VP for Platforms and Storage Engineering at NetApp, discusses how the NetApp AFF A400 all-flash array is able to scale using the Pensando Distributed Services Platform. The AFF delivers end-to-end NVMe-based storage for workloads that include artificial intelligence, machine learning, real-time analytics, and MongoDB, as well as business-critical databases. It is the first commercial storage platform to ship with the Pensando Distributed Services Platform which acts as an interconnect and services acceleration engine, delivering up to 50% higher performance than its predecessor. In this session Naresh will provide an overview of the A400 platform in addition to details on how NetApp has leveraged the Pensando platform today as a look into future enhancements.

Event: Storage Field Day 20

Appearance: Cisco Presents HyperFlex at Storage Field Day 20

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco HX iSCSI Overview and Demo
• YouTube: Cisco HX iSCSI Overview and Demo

Personnel: Joost Van der Made

A closer look and demonstration of the new native iSCSI capability in HyperFlex release 4.5, which enables customers to carve out iSCSI targets from HyperFlex along with hosting VM datastores and containers persistent volumes simultaneously. We will look at supported use cases for iSCSI on HyperFlex, how we make iSCSI easy-to-use for application administrators without specialized SAN knowledge, and how our modern scale-out file system delivers benefits such as consistent performance (no hot spots) and reliability to iSCSI workloads whether they run on the cluster or on external hosts.

Event: Storage Field Day 20

Appearance: Cisco Presents HyperFlex at Storage Field Day 20

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco HyperFlex 4.5 Introduction
• YouTube: Cisco HyperFlex 4.5 Introduction

Personnel: Ronnie Chan

An introduction to the upcoming release of HyperFlex, release 4.5, with new capabilities such as iSCSI, N:1 replication for HX Edge, Boost Mode, ESXi and vCenter 7.0, secure boot with built-in hardware root of trust, new 2U and short-depth HX Edge server options, ML-driven cluster health checks and storage utilization forecasts in Intersight, and new validated workloads on HyperFlex, including Cisco ISE, Cisco SDWAN, and Epic Systems electronic health records (EHR) on HX All NVMe.

Event: Storage Field Day 20

Appearance: Cisco Presents HyperFlex at Storage Field Day 20

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco HyperFlex Evolution
• YouTube: Cisco HyperFlex Evolution

Personnel: Ronnie Chan

A look back at how HyperFlex has demonstrated leadership in Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) by focusing on three pillars of innovation: delivering a modernized private cloud with enterprise-class simplicity and performance, enabling cloud native applications on premises and multicloud workflows, and simplifying edge workloads with a cloud-operated HCI model through Cisco Intersight.

Event: Security Field Day 4

Appearance: Security Field Day 4 Delegate Roundtable Discussion

Company: Tech Field Day

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Security Field Day Delegate Roundtable: Digital Identity Can’t Scale
• YouTube: Security Field Day Delegate Roundtable: Digital Identity Can’t Scale

Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

Our digital identity is becoming everything about who we are. It is also becoming loaded with context and harder to separate who we are from what we do and who we do it for. How long will it be until the entire idea of a digital ID collapses from the weight we’ve forced it to bear?

Event: Security Field Day 4

Appearance: Security Field Day 4 Delegate Roundtable Discussion

Company: Tech Field Day

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Security Field Day Delegate Roundtable: Work From Home Has Complicated Security
• YouTube: Security Field Day Delegate Roundtable: Work From Home Has Complicated Security

Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

Working from home has become a necessity in 2020. We find ourselves staying away from the office to flatten the curve and hopefully save lives. But is the security in our home network as good as in our enterprise office? In this roundtable, we explore how the lack of enterprise security products at home has reduced our security posture and how IT departments can alleviate these issues.

Event: Security Field Day 4

Appearance: Security Field Day 4 Delegate Roundtable Discussion

Company: Tech Field Day

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Security Field Day Delegate Roundtable: AI & ML Are Accelerating Attacks
• YouTube: Security Field Day Delegate Roundtable: AI & ML Are Accelerating Attacks

Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

AI and ML are hot technologies that are allowing security teams to scale up and quickly defend against threats across the board. But are those same technologies allowing attackers to scale up as well? In this roundtable we explore how AI and ML are helping attackers as well as how to combat these trends.