The Independent IT Influencer Event
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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
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.
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.
Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019
Appearance: Cisco IoT Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019
Company: Cisco
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Personnel: Tim Szigeti
This session will show how enterprise networks can be extended beyond traditional carpeted environments using the same management tools (including Cisco DNA Center and Cisco SD-WAN).
Presented by Tim Szigeti
Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019
Appearance: Avi Networks Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019
Company: Avi Networks
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Personnel: Ashish Shah
Ensuring application availability is critical to the operation of today’s IT environment. Services that provide load balancing are vital. So too are security services like web application firewalls. Avi Networks has the solutions that you need to provide the availability and security that your applications need.
Presented by Ashish Shah
Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019
Appearance: Forward Networks Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019
Company: Forward Networks
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Personnel: Andreas Voellmy, Chiara Regale, Elyor Khakimov
Complicated networks are a reality of today’s IT environment. The key to being able to troubleshoot and predict behavior is having an accurate picture of your network. Forward Networks has built a solution that is capable of modeling your network and providing information that you need to succeed. Their platform, Forward Enterprise, is a network assurance platform that uses a mathematical and behaviorally accurate model of the network to help operators verify intent and troubleshoot network problems quickly and efficiently across various network devices. Since its founding in 2013 and product launch in 2016, Forward Networks has been deployed across tens of thousands of network devices worldwide, supporting a wide range of verticals including financial institutions, service providers, and enterprises. This Tech Field Day session features Chiara Regale, Andreas Voellmy, and Elyor Khakimov of Forward Networks, and was recorded on January 30, 2019.
Forward Networks’ platform addresses the challenges of manual network operations by providing a higher level of abstraction that aligns with the needs of agile businesses. Traditional tools like ping and traceroute are limited in their scope and often vendor-specific, making them inadequate for modern, multi-vendor environments. Forward Enterprise, on the other hand, offers a vendor-neutral abstraction that allows for comprehensive end-to-end connectivity and security posture verification. The platform collects configuration and state data from network devices, models it in a vendor-agnostic language, and uses algorithms like header space analysis to map all possible traffic paths. This approach ensures that operators can see not just one potential path but all possible paths a given traffic flow can take, providing a more accurate and complete picture of the network.
The platform’s applications, such as forward search, forward verify, behavioral diff, and predict, can be accessed via a user-friendly GUI or through APIs. These tools enable use cases like application team self-service, where application teams can independently verify network connectivity and security without involving network engineers, and change window assistance, which helps network engineers verify that changes have not inadvertently affected network behavior. The platform also supports custom verification checks through its Network Query Engine (NQE), which uses a GraphQL-based API to provide structured, normalized data about the network. This allows users to write their own verification checks and integrate them into their workflows, significantly reducing the time and effort required for network troubleshooting and verification.
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