Videos

SolarWinds – Active Directory: Gateway to a Breach

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: SolarWinds

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Personnel: Jim Hansen

Jim Hansen, VP of Products, Security and Cloud at SolarWinds discusses Access Rights Manager


SolarWinds – Machine Learning, Anomaly Detection, and Database Performance Analyzer

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: SolarWinds

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Personnel: Karlo Zatylny, Tom LaRock

Thomas LaRock, Head Geek and Karlo Zatylny, Distinguished Engineer at SolarWinds discuss machine learning, anomaly detection, and Database Performance Analyzer.


SolarWinds – Observability: Metrics Traces, and Logs Aren’t Enough

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: SolarWinds

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Personnel: Keith Kuchler

Keith Kuchler, SolarWinds VP of Engineering discusses observability and when metrics, traces, and logs aren’t enough.


SolarWinds – Better Monitoring for Networks Both New and Old

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: SolarWinds

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Personnel: Chris O'Brien

SolarWinds Group Product Manager Chris O’Brien discusses Better Monitoring for Networks New and Old.


SolarWinds Strategy and Vision

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: SolarWinds

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Personnel: Joe Kim

Joe Kim, EVP of Engineering and Global CTO discusses the SolarWinds Strategy and Vision


Day 365 in the Life of a VMware Virtualization Admin

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: VMware Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: John Nicholson, Nigel Hickey

John Nicholson, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, and Nigel Hickey, Technical Marketing Engineer, walk through the year as an admin. In this third video, they discuss scalability. How do we do this again? They also demonstrate vROPS and Quick Start.


Day 180 in the Life of a VMware Virtualization Admin

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: VMware Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: John Nicholson, Nigel Hickey

John Nicholson, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, and Nigel Hickey, Technical Marketing Engineer, walk through the year as an admin. In this third video, they discuss what do to when everything is “on fire”. They dig into the status quo of life in the datacenter and discuss what to do when help is needed. They demonstrate vSphere Support Assist/Humbug.


Day 0 in the Life of a VMware Virtualization Admin

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: VMware Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: John Nicholson, Nigel Hickey

John Nicholson, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, introduces VMware’s presentation at Tech Field Day Austin, 2019. He then walks through the year as an admin, getting things off the ground on “day 0”. Nicholson and Nigel Hickey, Technical Marketing Engineer, discuss the progress made to simplify day 0 operations and demonstrate EasyInstall and Quick Start.


Day 30 in the Life of a VMware Virtualization Admin

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: VMware Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: John Nicholson, Nigel Hickey

John Nicholson, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, walks through the year as an admin. In this second video, he discusses health checks, covering vSAN and vSphere health. How do these proactive alerts work to keep vSphere environments in shape? Nicholson and Nigel Hickey, Technical Marketing Engineer, also demonstrate vSphere and vSAN health and remediation methods.


NetApp Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture for Active IQ

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Shankar Pasupathy

Each day, Active IQ receives telemetry data from more than 300,000 assets around the globe, adding to a multi-petabyte data lake that processes ten trillion data points each month.  Supporting a big data environment of this size with a traditional architecture is inefficient and expensive. In this 20-minute video, Shankar Pasupathy gives an overview of the hybrid cloud architecture powering Active IQ. He will talk about building a unified data lake on-premises as well as how we are enabling our data scientist to use their platform of choice without making individual copies of data.  Our use of the data fabric to build this environment has drawn interest from hundreds of customers looking to build their own AI infrastructures.

Presented by Shankar Pasupathy, Technical Director, AI and Data Engineering, Active IQ.


How NetApp Active IQ Uses Data Science to Deliver Insights and Recommendations

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Shankar Pasupathy

In data science, volume, velocity and variety matters. Shankar Pasupathy discusses how NetApp uses telemetry data from our large and diverse install base to deliver deep insights and recommendations with Active IQ.  He will also talk about ‘prescriptive ops” and how NetApp is helping ensure everyone managing NetApp storage is able to thrive.

Presented by Shankar Pasupathy, Technical Director, AI and Data Engineering, Active IQ.


A Day in the Life of NetApp Active IQ Users

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Marty Mayer, Sudip Hore

During this live demo of Active IQ, Sudip Hore will walk through several key workflows for two personas: IT Admin and IT Architect.  You will see how an IT director ensures his systems are running properly, quickly addresses risks before they become problems, and stays on top of any security vulnerabilities.  Next, Sudip will show how an IT Architect can easily identify areas to improve her environment and plan for growth.

Presented by Marty Mayer, Director, Product Management, Active IQ, and Sudip Hore, Sr. Manager, Product Management, Active IQ.


Introducing NetApp Active IQ with Marty Mayer

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Marty Mayer

The NetApp Active IQ intelligence engine uses machine learning, predictive analytics and community wisdom to create actionable intelligence that allows customers to proactively optimize their NetApp solutions and improve their user experience. In this 10-minute video, Marty Mayer will introduce Active IQ and its “Face” and “Brain.” He will look back at the evolution of Active IQ, discuss how we create insights and recommendations using the telemetry data from 300,000 storage assets, and the real benefits we’ve seen for customers.

Presented by Marty Mayer, Director, Product Management, Active IQ, NetApp


Datera Containers, VMs & Bare Metal: Let’s Talk About Containers

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: Datera Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: Datera

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Personnel: Shailesh Mittal

This presentation focuses on application portability, eliminating infrastructure lock-in, and graduating applications from QA/Test-dev to production without resource overload. Presented by Shailesh Mittal, Sr. Engineering Architect.

  • Why containers?
  • Application portability from on-premises to cloud
  • Eliminating infrastructure lock-in from hardware dependent to software dependent
  • What is a pod?
  • Application intent driven, built for today and tomorrow
  • Cloud-like self-service on-premises
  • Graduating applications from QA/test-dev to production without resource overhead
  • Datera is built to keep containers world contained
  • Enterprise features as they apply to containers and other environments


Datera Modern Data Center Awareness

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: Datera Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: Datera

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Personnel: Bill Borsari

This presentation explores failure domains, layer 3 networking, and why policy-based operations is so critical. Presented by Bill Borsari, Head of Field Systems Engineering.

  • The modern data center
  • Availability vs. agility
  • Policy-based operations
  • L3 networking and BGP peering
  • Key workloads


Data Infrastructure Optimized for Constant Change with Datera

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: Datera Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: Datera

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Personnel: Nic Bellinger

This session covers how Datera is built for always-on transparent data-movement and how Datera works to be distributed, lockless and application intent driven. Presented by Nic Bellinger, Chief Architect and Co-Founder, Datera.

  • How Datera is built: Always-on transparent data movement for reduced complexity in planning and operation with no vendor lock-in and rapid hardware technology adoption
  • How Datera works: Distributed, lockless, application intent driven
  • Datera architecture trade offs and benefits
  • Datera Analytics: Understanding performance and infrastructure
  • Policy-based data automation: Changes on the fly
  • What’s new: Eliminating manual data migrations and forklift upgrades and upfront capacity and performance planning


Datera: How it is Built

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: Datera Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: Datera

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Personnel: Hal Woods

How Datera delivers continuous availability and perpetual operation. Presented by Hal Woods, CTO, Datera.


Datera Introduction to Enterprise Sofware-Defined Storage

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: Datera Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: Datera

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Personnel: Hal Woods

Datera introduces the evolution to the Software Defined Data Center and their value proposition. Hal Woods, CTO, discusses the following:

  • Evolution of the Software Defined Data Center
  • Datera value proposition
  • Use cases (database acceleration, DBaaS, digital-first enterprises, cloud service providers, SaaS)
  • Hardware partnerships are important: HPE, Intel, Fujitsu, Lenovo


CloudCenter Suite 5.0 and Cisco’s Multicloud Strategy

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019

Appearance: Cisco Cloud Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Jeremy Oakey

This session will provide details of the new product – its new architecture and modules and a live demo as well as discussion on the overall Cisco Multicloud strategy

Presented by Jeremy Oakey


Cisco Network Innovation – Cisco SD-Access, ETA, Wireless

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Switching Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Dave Zacks

Cisco continues to innovate with their amazing chips and expertise in ASICs. Learn how Cisco is leveraging their new UADP chipsets to enhance encrypted traffic analytics and more in this video.


Cisco Innovations in Silicon, Why Hardware Matters in a Software Defined World

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Switching Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Dave Zacks, Peter Jones

This session will explore how Cisco’s latest advancements in powerful, programmable ASICs and silicon enable and support some of the latest innovations in Enterprise networking – including SD-Access, ETA, mGig, and next-gen wireless functionality.


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