VMware AI/ML Workload Challenges and Bitfusion Introduction

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: VMware Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Mazhar Memon

With enterprises’ growing adoption of AI, ML, and analytics workloads, GPUs and FPGAs are becoming integral infrastructure parts to provide the timely results required by business-critical apps. For IT admins, this means satisfying a growing demand for elastic and virtual infrastructure to support more apps and users.

Discussion about Bitfusion, vSphere’s recent acquisition, to learn how its software turns GPUs and FPGAs into a shared network-attached virtual GPU and FPGA pool, responding in real time to workload demand.


VMware Project Pacific Architecture

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: VMware Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Michael West

Modern applications are distributed and introduce complex challenges for Developers and IT Operators. Project Pacific, a technology preview, is a new evolution of the vSphere platform that tightly integrates a Kubernetes control plane with vCenter, ESXi (compute), networking, and storage. Project Pacific enables developers to use Kubernetes declarative state syntax and tools to self-service manage data center resources including containers, VMs, storage, and networks. This Kubernetes control plane is managed completely by vCenter, allowing IT operators to use their existing tools and skills to manage modern applications.


VMware How Project Pacific Was Created for vSphere

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: VMware Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Jared Rosoff

Modern applications are distributed and introduce complex challenges for Developers and IT Operators. Project Pacific, a technology preview, is a new evolution of the vSphere platform that tightly integrates a Kubernetes control plane with vCenter, ESXi (compute), networking, and storage. Project Pacific enables developers to use Kubernetes declarative state syntax and tools to self-service manage data center resources including containers, VMs, storage, and networks. This Kubernetes control plane is managed completely by vCenter, allowing IT operators to use their existing tools and skills to manage modern applications.


VMware Introduction to Project Pacific

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: VMware Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Jared Rosoff

Modern applications are distributed and introduce complex challenges for Developers and IT Operators. Project Pacific, a technology preview, is a new evolution of the vSphere platform that tightly integrates a Kubernetes control plane with vCenter, ESXi (compute), networking, and storage. Project Pacific enables developers to use Kubernetes declarative state syntax and tools to self-service manage data center resources including containers, VMs, storage, and networks. This Kubernetes control plane is managed completely by vCenter, allowing IT operators to use their existing tools and skills to manage modern applications.


Virtana Virtual Wisdom 6.2 Product Demo

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: Virtana Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: Virtana

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Personnel: Andrew Sebastian

The VirtualWisdom IT infrastructure monitoring and AIOps platform is the only application-aware solution that can non-intrusively optimize the performance and availability of applications by measuring, correlating and analyzing actual workload behavior across your private and public cloud infrastructure.


Virtana: 3 Cures for vMotion Sickness

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: Virtana Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: Virtana

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Personnel: Tim Van Ash

The VirtualWisdom IT infrastructure monitoring and AIOps platform is the only application-aware solution that can non-intrusively optimize the performance and availability of applications by measuring, correlating and analyzing actual workload behavior across your private and public cloud infrastructure.

The term “vMotion Sickness” refers to VMs moving continuously because the date available doesn’t provide sufficient insight.


Virtana Company Introduction

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: Virtana Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: Virtana

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Personnel: Tim Van Ash

Virtana delivers the industry’s only real-time AIOps platform for mission-critical IT infrastructure – from the data center to the public cloud. The VirtualWisdom and WorkloadWisdom platforms provide unprecedented visibility into the performance, health, and utilization of IT infrastructure – empowering our customers to guarantee the performance and availability of their mission critical applications and to proactively prevent application slowdowns and outages.


NetApp Enhanced Data Center Workloads – High Performance Computing

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Andy Banta

High Performance Computing (HPC) is a growing area of the modern data center and cloud computing. Learn how to leverage traditional workloads in this new environment and where issues can arise with deployments.


NetApp Enhanced Data Center Workloads – GPUs and Inference

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Andy Banta

Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are an important component of the disaggregated data center in modern computing. Learn more about use cases that can heavily leverage these specialized pieces of hardware and broker virtual access to them through the hypervisor.


NetApp Enhanced Data Center Workloads – Microvisors

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Andy Banta

The modern hypervisor is a large software construct that allows hardware access to virtual workloads. But does it need to be so big? Learn about smaller microvisors that can broker resource access while also reducing the footprint of the management layer.


NetApp Enhanced Data Center Workloads – Persistent Memory

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Andy Banta

The landscape of the modern data center has changed in the past few years. Learn more about how persistent memory can accelerate database performance in a virtualized environment.


Apstra NSX-T Security Enforcement Demo

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: Apstra Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: Apstra

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Personnel: Rags Rachamadugu

This demonstration show how Apstra AOS accelerates NSX-T deployments with closed loop integration of the underlay and overlay networks. This demo highlights security policy enforcement in a microsegemented network with zero-trust principles.


Apstra AOS and NSX-T Fabric Deployment Demo

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: Apstra Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: Apstra

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Personnel: Claire Delcourt

This demonstration show how Apstra AOS accelerates NSX-T deployments with closed loop integration of the underlay and overlay networks. This demo highlights deployment of the network fabric, fabric VLANs, and NSX-T Transport Nodes.


Apstra AOS and NSX-T Integration with Claire Delcourt

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: Apstra Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: Apstra

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Personnel: Claire Delcourt

Learn how Apstra AOS is integrating with VMware NSX-T. This talk includes discussion of yes practices for fabric design, considerations for fabric design with NSX-T, and the Apstra AOS Intent-Based Networking solution.


Apstra Company Update with Mansour Karam

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Appearance: Apstra Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019

Company: Apstra

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Personnel: Mansour Karam

Get a corporate update on Apstra and software-first Intent-Based Networking from Founder and CEO Mansour Karam. Learn more about key capabilities in Apstra AOS 3.1 that were announced at VMworld 2019.


Aruba Dragonblood Update

Event: Mobility Field Day 4

Appearance: Aruba Presents at Mobility Field Day 4

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Dan Harkins

WPA3 is a Great Leap Forward in wireless security technology. Learn the latest about the Dragonblood issues with the protocol and how it is being addressed by the architects behind the protocol.


Aruba AI-Powered Network Operations

Event: Mobility Field Day 4

Appearance: Aruba Presents at Mobility Field Day 4

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Jose Tellado, Sriram Venkiteswaran

“It must be your network”! If you’re a network admin, then you must be pretty used to others pointing fingers at the network for client and application issues, when the real culprit was outside the network. How often have you found yourselves scrambling to prove your innocence to reduce the MTTI (Mean Time To Innocence)? Admins need the right tools and visibility to root cause issues but this becomes tough when managing distributed networks. In this session, we will show you Aruba’s AI/machine learning techniques integrated in our Cloud Platform, Central, and how admins can scale their operations to improve troubleshooting for the network.


Aruba Enhanced Wi-Fi Security

Event: Mobility Field Day 4

Appearance: Aruba Presents at Mobility Field Day 4

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Dan Harkins

Device provisioning tends to be tedious, insecure and hard to scale. This is compounded when more “headless” devices, such as IoT sensors that lack user interfaces, need to be deployed. Wi-Fi Easy Connect, also known as Device Provisioning Protocol (DPP) is a new standard that allows devices to be easily provisioned onto a network using simple, modern techniques such as scanning a QR code. This replacement for WPS provides robust, secure, and scalable provisioning for IoT devices in any environment, from homes to manufacturing locations. In this session, Dan Harkins, the creator of DPP will outline how it works, how it achieves security and robustness and provide a hands-on demo of provisioning a device using DPP.


Aruba Better Edge Experience with WLAN as an IoT Platform

Event: Mobility Field Day 4

Appearance: Aruba Presents at Mobility Field Day 4

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Jone Ostebo, Sati Banerjee

With the introduction of Wi-Fi 6, Aruba has delivered 802.11ax multi user capabilities like OFDMA and Target Wake Time, support for the 2.4GHz channel, as well as integrated USB, Bluetooth 5 and 802.15.4 radios to transform the role of the access point into an IoT platform. This brings support for a broad range of use cases such as asset tracking, personnel safety, physical security and electronic shelf labels. In this session, we will discuss these enhancements and demo integrations with strategic technology partners.


Aruba Outdoor Access Points for Hazardous Locations

Event: Mobility Field Day 4

Appearance: Aruba Presents at Mobility Field Day 4

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Eric Johnson

Aruba is introducing two new models in the Aruba 370EX series for operation in Class 1 Div 2/Zone 2 and ATEX Zone 2 areas. The solutions leverage the ease of install that Aruba APs have a track record of providing without sacrificing radio operation and robustness. We’ll be talking and showing this product and answer any question about its design.