Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Service Provider Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco IOS XR7 Overview with Akshat Sharma
• YouTube: Cisco IOS XR7 Overview with Akshat Sharma

Personnel: Akshat Sharma

With the latest release of IOS-XR 7, Cisco is bringing new innovations to the service provider routing space. In this session, one of the XR7 software architects provides the reasoning behind the feature sets introduced as well as new capabilities that are designed to help networking professionals achieve better optimization and ease-of-use.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Service Provider Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco Update on 400G Optics with Mark Nowell
• YouTube: Cisco Update on 400G Optics with Mark Nowell

Personnel: Mark Nowell

The world of fiber optics is growing more complicated as bandwidth needs increase. The drive to reach 400GbE optics is pushing current technology to the limit. This session highlights the advances in technology necessary to create new, fast optics and position for ever-increasing speeds.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Service Provider Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco 8000 Series – Under the Hood
• YouTube: Cisco 8000 Series – Under the Hood

Personnel: Lawrence Wobker

This session takes a deep dive into the hardware that drives the Cisco 8000 Series routing platform. There is discussion of the chipsets and platform design, as well as considerations for professionals looking to deploy the solution in their data center or service provider organization.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Service Provider Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Introduction to Cisco 8000 Series with Najeeb Haddad
• YouTube: Introduction to Cisco 8000 Series with Najeeb Haddad

Personnel: Najeeb Haddad

This session in an introduction and overview of the new Cisco 8000 Series routing platform, which is aimed at the service provider market and features new technology and hardware designed to meet the needs of this unique market.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Meraki Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco, Meraki

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Security Made Simple: New Security and Connectivity Solutions from Cisco Meraki
• YouTube: Security Made Simple: New Security and Connectivity Solutions from Cisco Meraki

Personnel: Jeffry Handal, Raviv Levi

Cisco Meraki walks through recent security feature enhancements that simplify the management experience for a large, disperse network with common policy requirements.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco Catalyst 9800 Wireless Controller Innovations
• YouTube: Cisco Catalyst 9800 Wireless Controller Innovations

Personnel: Ankur Bhasin

Introducing Embedded Wireless Controller on Catalyst Access Point – Simplicity without compromise. This session is an overview of the Catalyst 9800 Wireless controller and the new features it contains, along with an overview of the newest Catalyst 9000 series access points.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco LISP Optimized Software Defined Networks
• YouTube: Cisco LISP Optimized Software Defined Networks

Personnel: Victor Moreno

In this session, Cisco explores the advanced functionality and the optimized behavior achieved in network fabrics that make use of LISP as their overlay control plane protocol. They make the case for why a demand protocol such as LISP is the optimal choice for the overlay control protocol in a Software Defined Network. Cisco also discusses the ways in which LISP simplifies and optimizes mobility, scale, convergence and routing policy. They contrast these optimizations with the observed behavior for traditional protocol choices such as BGP. They then will dive into how LISP provides all functionality required in a network fabric in a single stack using a common object model for traditional services such as VPNs (L2 and L3) and Multicast, they then explore the unprecedented functionality that can be enabled in the same consolidated stack: contextual policies for security and routing, distributed NAT, service chains, traffic engineering, and application specific routing.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Know Your Infrastructure with Wired Assurance & Cisco IOS XE
• YouTube: Know Your Infrastructure with Wired Assurance & Cisco IOS XE

Personnel: Shawn Wargo

Cisco DNA Assurance continues to add new visibility capabilities. Particularly for clients, apps, and wireless. But what about your wired infrastructure (switching & routing)? Cisco will recap Cisco DNA Assurance and the Cisco Catalyst 9000, ISR 4000, and ASR 1000 platforms. They’ll also review the new capabilities branded as “Wired Assurance”, enabled by these platforms and Cisco IOS XE programmability.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Interconnecting Multiple Clouds with Cisco SD-WAN
• YouTube: Interconnecting Multiple Clouds with Cisco SD-WAN

Personnel: Nikolai Pitaev

In this session, Cisco dives into the latest activities around AWS Transit Gateway and Microsoft vWAN. They also show how Cisco SD-WAN can leverage the latest public cloud features for IaaS.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco IoT Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco Innovations in Cyber Security and Edge Data
• YouTube: Cisco Innovations in Cyber Security and Edge Data

Personnel: Tim Szigeti

This session introduces some of Cisco’s latest technologies for OT cyber defense, notably Cisco Cyber Vision. Additionally, with an increasing amount of data being processed outside the data center, innovations in edge data processing will also be covered in this session, featuring Cisco Edge Intelligence.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Data Center Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco UCS: What’s New
• YouTube: Cisco UCS: What’s New

Personnel: Vikas Ratna

In this session, Cisco covers the significant new additions and updates to the UCS compute family and how they are set to assist their customers. They also cover the key technology trends that we see disrupting Compute in the next decade and preview their approach to deliver the disrupting values to customers.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Data Center Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco HyperFlex Application Platform Management Illustration
• YouTube: Cisco HyperFlex Application Platform Management Illustration

Personnel: Aniket Patankar

In this demo, HyperFlex Application Platform Management is configured for a sample workload. The process of creation and management is shown and the power of the platform to help professionals optimize their workload creation and management is revealed.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Data Center Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco Intersight Workload Optimization Demo
• YouTube: Cisco Intersight Workload Optimization Demo

Personnel: Vish Jakka

In this session, Cisco shows the new advances built in throughout Intersight, focusing on workload optimization.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Data Center Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco Assure Application Experience with Intersight Workload Optimizer
• YouTube: Cisco Assure Application Experience with Intersight Workload Optimizer

Personnel: Vish Jakka

In this session, Cisco reviews the exciting new advances in their computing portfolio that enable continuous application performance assurance.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Data Center Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Introducing Cisco HyperFlex Application Platform: Turnkey Platform for Application Modernization
• YouTube: Introducing Cisco HyperFlex Application Platform: Turnkey Platform for Application Modernization

Personnel: Aniket Patankar

In this session, you will hear about the latest Cisco HyperFlex Application Platform and Intersight innovations that deliver agile and intuitive infrastructure to support both development speed and management simplicity. Learn how your organization can consume containers as a service, with hypervisor agnostic full stack and IaaS management that includes monitoring, telemetry, and automated workload optimization across VMs and containers.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Appearance: Cisco Security Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2020

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco Accelerating Investigations with Cisco Threat Response
• YouTube: Cisco Accelerating Investigations with Cisco Threat Response

Personnel: Ben Greenbaum

The more security products you buy, the more complex your security investigations become. In this session, you’ll learn how to harness multiple Cisco security products together in one intuitive console to dramatically reduce MTTR.

Event: Storage Field Day 19

Appearance: MinIO Presents at Storage Field Day 19

Company: MinIO

Video Links:

• Vimeo: MinIO as a Splunk SmartStore
• YouTube: MinIO as a Splunk SmartStore

Personnel: AB Periasamy, Eco Willson

AB Periasamy, Founder and CEO, and Eco Willson, Support Lead, demonstrate MinIO as a Splunk SmartStore. MinIO can handle the performance and volume of data required to make Splunk a true enterprise IT operations data source.

The presentation outlines how Splunk recognized the rapid growth in log data and the limitation of traditional methods to handle this explosion in volume, particularly emphasizing the need to transition to a cloud-native architecture. This necessitated disaggregating storage and compute, allowing organizations to scale their infrastructures efficiently and respond to burgeoning storage needs.

The speakers highlight that Splunk evolved early on to address the disaggregation problem while others, such as MariaDB, are only now catching up. By leveraging MinIO as an object storage backend, Splunk can better accommodate the colossal amounts of data generated by enterprise IT operations. The presentation includes a demonstration showing how straightforward it is to configure Splunk to utilize MinIO. By adjusting a few lines in the Splunk configuration file, users can enable object storage, allowing Splunk to offload data to MinIO while maintaining operational efficiency with local cache management.

Additionally, the discussion on operational monitoring and automation reflects the priorities of modern DevOps teams. MinIO provides tools for system health monitoring and integrates seamlessly with Prometheus for alerting and dashboard visualization. However, the emphasis remains on automation, allowing DevOps professionals to set up rules for critical alerts rather than manually observing systems. By streamlining these processes, MinIO enables organizations to scale their Splunk environments effectively, supporting petabytes of data while maximizing performance and reliability.

Event: Storage Field Day 19

Appearance: MinIO Presents at Storage Field Day 19

Company: MinIO

Video Links:

• Vimeo: The MinIO SUBNET Experience
• YouTube: The MinIO SUBNET Experience

Personnel: AB Periasamy, Eco Willson

AB Periasamy, co-founder and CEO of MinIO, introduces the MinIO SUBNET experience, designed specifically for paying customers operating in critical production environments. Even though MinIO is fully open source, customers opt for paid support to enhance their deployment of MinIO, acknowledging its critical nature within their infrastructure. The rationale behind this decision stems from the specific context wherein customers, who are often already adept with the product, recognize the need for immediate support to prevent issues such as data loss and data breaches—concerns that have become paramount in today’s data-driven landscape. The pricing model ranges from free options for open-source projects to per-GB pricing for enterprise users, aiming to foster an integrative, supportive relationship that treats MinIO as an extension of the customer’s team.

Eco Willson, MinIO’s Support Lead, further explains the value of SUBNET, highlighting how it fundamentally transforms customer interactions. Traditional support models often leave critical avenues for collaboration unutilized, leading to frustration among expert users who prefer direct access to seasoned developers rather than level one support technicians. SUBNET addresses this issue by providing real-time, continuous communication facilitated through a chat interface reminiscent of platforms like Slack, allowing for a more personalized and immediate resolution process. By fostering an environment where customers experience dedicated support from the developers who understand the intricacies of the code, MinIO successfully contrasts itself with outdated support models that impose barriers between customers and expertise.

The essence of SUBNET is rooted in its simplicity and effectiveness, allowing the engineering team to engage seamlessly with customers about their technical challenges. Periasamy emphasizes that substantial success hinges on a product designed for self-supportability, alongside a healthy organizational culture that promotes collaboration between developers and support engineers. The ability to diagnose problems quickly is enhanced by minimizing unnecessary noise in logging and ensuring that engineers can access real-time telemetry of the customer’s environment. Collectively, these elements contribute to a robust support system that not only resolves immediate issues but also strengthens the overall customer relationship, enabling MinIO to respond effectively to the demands of modern cloud-native users.

Event: Storage Field Day 19

Appearance: MinIO Presents at Storage Field Day 19

Company: MinIO

Video Links:

• Vimeo: AB Periasamy Presents the MinIO Internals
• YouTube: AB Periasamy Presents the MinIO Internals

Personnel: AB Periasamy

AB Periasamy, Founder and CEO of MinIO, offered a comprehensive tour of the architecture and internals behind the MinIO object storage server during his presentation at Storage Field Day 19. He emphasized that MinIO operates more like a high-performance web server than a traditional storage system. Unlike typical object storage solutions that incorporate complex theories of consensus and distributed locking, MinIO adopts a single-layer architecture designed for atomic and consistent operations, significantly improving data handling efficiency. By utilizing inline erasure coding, encryption, and robust data replication, MinIO ensures data integrity, even during unexpected failures, which contributes to the company’s rapid growth and adoption in the market.

In his presentation, Periasamy outlined MinIO’s unique distribution model, allowing installations across multiple servers and data centers without hierarchical metadata or lock servers. This design means that all nodes have equal capabilities, enabling easy scaling. The architecture facilitates horizontal striping of objects across multiple drives and nodes, which enhances fault tolerance — users can lose several drives or nodes, and their data remains accessible. This is achieved through mathematical distributions that ensure even data allocation and quick data retrieval, resulting in remarkably efficient performance even in extensive deployments that can exceed petabyte scales. He noted the capability of organizations to manage multiple tenants simultaneously, simplifying multi-tenant environments.

Lastly, Periasamy discussed the importance of continuous data replication and real-time synchronization, which MinIO supports through notifications and a robust mirroring capability. This ensures that data remains synchronized across remote sites, making it reliable for mission-critical applications. He addressed security features and management tools that MinIO incorporates, such as dynamic password management and sophisticated identity management, which enhance data governance while maintaining a simplified user experience. By positioning MinIO in this way, the presentation illustrated not just the technical capabilities of the platform but also its fit within modern enterprise environments seeking flexible, scalable, and secure object storage solutions.

Event: Storage Field Day 19

Appearance: MinIO Presents at Storage Field Day 19

Company: MinIO

Video Links:

• Vimeo: A Review of MinIO’s Performance Benchmarks
• YouTube: A Review of MinIO’s Performance Benchmarks

Personnel: AB Periasamy, Jonathan Symonds

Jonathan Symonds, Chief Marketing Officer, and AB Periasamy, Founder and CEO, present MinIO’s performance benchmarks, asserting that MinIO has been engineered with a focus on speed from its inception, resulting in what they claim to be the fastest object storage system available. During the presentation, they showcased various benchmarks for S3 performance, emphasizing results with and without encryption while utilizing both traditional hard disk drives and modern NVMe SSDs. They provided comparisons of MinIO’s performance against legacy systems like HDFS and commercial cloud solutions such as AWS, illustrating MinIO’s capability to operate efficiently at scale.

The speakers elaborated on the technical underpinnings of MinIO that contribute to its superior performance. They highlighted its architecture as a single-layer object storage server that utilizes SIMD acceleration for optimized processing. A notable design element is the absence of a metadata database, which minimizes potential bottlenecks that can arise from bulk operations, allowing for atomic writes that enhance speed. They also discussed how MinIO is built using the Go programming language and assembly language to leverage hardware optimally, enabling it to handle demanding data workloads including big data analytics and machine learning applications.

The presentation concluded with a discussion on MinIO’s positioning within the evolving cloud environment, noting its applicability in use cases such as financial services and autonomous vehicles. The speakers argued that MinIO’s performance metrics not only make it a competitive alternative to HDFS but also facilitate cloud-native architectures for enterprises looking to modernize their data environments. They underscored the trend toward private cloud adoption and the expanding role of object storage in displacing traditional SAN and NAS setups, establishing MinIO as a strategically relevant choice for users looking to harness high-speed object storage capabilities in their infrastructures.