SoftNAS Cloud 4 Lift and Shift Overview with Adam Marano

Event: Cloud Field Day 4

Appearance: SoftNAS Presents at Cloud Field Day 4

Company: SoftNAS

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Personnel: Adam Marano

Adam Marano, Vice President of Product Management, reviews another feature of SoftNAS Cloud 4. This presentation includes a look at Lift & Shift with continuous sync, and Data integration & Transformation (FlexFiles powered by Apache NiFi).


SoftNAS Cloud 4 Feature Deep Dive with Adam Marano

Event: Cloud Field Day 4

Appearance: SoftNAS Presents at Cloud Field Day 4

Company: SoftNAS

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Personnel: Adam Marano

Adam Marano, Vice President of Product Management, reviews the features of SoftNAS Cloud 4. In addition to including a full-featured enterprise-grade NAS, there are key features of SoftNAS Cloud Platinum that truly differentiate the SoftNAS Solution. Adam dives deeper into automated storage tiering (SmartTiers), Object storage I/O acceleration (ObjFast), and highspeed bulk data transfer (UltraFast).


SoftNAS SmartTiers Feature Overview with John Bedrick

Event: Cloud Field Day 4

Appearance: SoftNAS Presents at Cloud Field Day 4

Company: SoftNAS

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Personnel: John Bedrick

John Bedrick, Senior Director of Product Marketing, looks at SoftNAS SmartTiers, which is a SoftNAS patent-pending, automated storage tiering feature that moves aging data from more expensive, high- performance block storage to less expensive object storage according to your policies, reducing public cloud storage costs by up to two-thirds versus other available solutions.

The SoftNAS SmartTiers Cost Savings Calculator is a web-based calculator that can be used to show the potential savings a customer could save off the normal public cloud storage costs through the use of the SmartTiers feature contained within the SoftNAS Cloud Platinum edition.


SoftNAS Product Flexibility with John Bedrick

Event: Cloud Field Day 4

Appearance: SoftNAS Presents at Cloud Field Day 4

Company: SoftNAS

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Personnel: John Bedrick

John Bedrick, Senior Director of Product Marketing, looks at how SoftNAS Cloud provides companies flexibility in pricing options with choices of three product editions, support for both block and object storage, choice of compute instances, choice of storage protocols (NFS, SMB/CIFS, AFP and iSCSI) and choice of operating locations: public cloud (AWS and Azure), private cloud / on-premises, hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud environments to support multiple solutions.


SoftNAS Product Overview with John-Marc Clark

Event: Cloud Field Day 4

Appearance: SoftNAS Presents at Cloud Field Day 4

Company: SoftNAS

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Personnel: John-Marc Clark

John-Marc Clark, Vice President of Marketing, looks at SoftNAS Cloud 4, their fourth major release since 2012. The product contains three product editions and supports AWS, Azure, and VMware with support for other cloud platform vendors on the roadmap. The newest product edition is SoftNAS Cloud Platinum and is the company’s flagship hybrid-cloud / multi-cloud product.


SoftNAS Company Overview with Rick Braddy

Event: Cloud Field Day 4

Appearance: SoftNAS Presents at Cloud Field Day 4

Company: SoftNAS

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Personnel: Rick Braddy

Rick Braddy, Founder, CEO, and CTO, introduces the company and the genesis of what lead him to found it. The company was founded in 2012 with an initial focus on making cloud NAS capabilities available, easy to deploy, and cost-effective in the public cloud.


Hitachi Vantara Storage Platforms with Bob O’Heir

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Hitachi Vantara

Appearance: Deep Dive: Hitachi Storage Platforms

Company: Hitachi Vantara

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Personnel: Bob O'Heir

Hitachi Vantara’s Bob O’Heir and Joe Amato give Tech Field Day attendees a rundown on the Hitachi Virtual Storage (VSP) family of all-flash and hybrid-flash storage systems, including new models launched in May 2018, which offer increased performance and scalability and simplified installation.


Hitachi Vantara Modern Data Protection with Hitachi Data Instance Director with Bob O’Heir and John McDevitt

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Hitachi Vantara

Appearance: Deep Dive: Modern Data Protection with Hitachi Data Instance Director

Company: Hitachi Vantara

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Personnel: Bob O'Heir, John McDevitt

Hitachi Vantara’s John McDevitt presents a primer and technical deep dive on Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID), highlighting how its helping customers to address GDPR and take control of growing copy data management challenges.


Hitachi Vantara IT Automation with Hitachi Automation Director with Albert Tan and Nathan Moffitt

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Hitachi Vantara

Appearance: Deep Dive: IT Automation with Hitachi Automation Director

Company: Hitachi Vantara

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Personnel: Albert Tan, Nathan Moffitt

Hitachi Vantara’s Nathan Moffitt and Albert Tan provide Tech Field Day attendees with a technical deep dive on Hitachi Automation Director (HAD) and how it can be used to automate both Hitachi and third-party IT resources to deliver business value to customers.


Hitachi Vantara Deep Dive IT Analytics and Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor with Manu Batra

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Hitachi Vantara

Appearance: Deep Dive: IT Analytics with Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor

Company: Hitachi Vantara

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Personnel: Manu Batra, Nathan Moffitt

Hitachi Vantara’s Nathan Moffitt and Manu Batra drill down on IT Analytics and Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor (HIAA), highlighting new features and functionalities introduced in May 2018. This session features a live demo and demonstrates how HIAA is helping data center customers achieve improved operational efficiency.


Hitachi Vantara Delivering Data Value and Driving Data Center Modernization with Bob Madaio

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Hitachi Vantara

Appearance: Delivering Data Value and Driving Data Center Modernization

Company: Hitachi Vantara

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Personnel: Bob Madaio

Hitachi Vantara VP of Infrastructure Solutions Marketing Bob Madaio provides a high level overview of the company’s storage and core infrastructure products, services and solutions portfolio, and sets context for how Hitachi is helping enterprises to achieve data-driven insights and drive data center modernization in their organizations.


Hitachi Vantara Driving Digital Innovation with Asim Zaheer

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Hitachi Vantara

Appearance: Hitachi Vantara: Driving Digital Innovation at Hitachi

Company: Hitachi Vantara

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Personnel: Asim Zaheer

Hitachi Vantara CMO Asim Zaheer offers a primer on Hitachi Vantara, its role within the overall Hitachi Group, and its vision and portfolio strategy.


Hitachi Vantara Coverged Infrastructure with Bob Madaio and Ravi Srinivasan

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Hitachi Vantara

Appearance: Deep Dive: Hitachi Converged Infrastructure

Company: Hitachi Vantara

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Personnel: Bob Madaio, Ravi Srinivasan

Hitachi Vantara’s Ravi Srinivasan and Bob Madaio provide an overview of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) converged and hyperconverged infrastructure systems, highlighting new features and functionality announced in June 2018 together and key use cases.


NetApp Data Orchestration and Integration

Event: Cloud Field Day 3

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Cloud Field Day 3

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Eiki Hrafnsson

Eiki Hrafnsson, Technical Director Cloud Data Services, discusses data orchestration and integration between NetApp Cloud Volumes and public cloud services like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. This includes creating sync relationships between volumes and integration with Kubernetes via both API and UI.


NetApp Cloud Volumes on Amazon AWS and Azure

Event: Cloud Field Day 3

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Cloud Field Day 3

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Eiki Hrafnsson

Eiki Hrafnsson, Technical Director Cloud Data Services, demonstrates NetApp Cloud Volumes in action in Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.


A10 Networks Enterprise Security with SSL Insight and Cloud Visibility

Event: Networking Field Day 18

Appearance: A10 Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 18

Company: A10 Networks

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Personnel: Yasir Liaqat

Yasir Liaqat, Sr. Director of Product Management, discusses concerns about enterprise security and showcases the A10 Networks SSL Insight and Cloud Visibility platform tha allows network professionals to inspect encrypted traffic and ensure that it is not malicious or violating business regulations.


A10 Networks Distributed DDoS Detection and Protection through Intelligent Automation

Event: Networking Field Day 18

Appearance: A10 Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 18

Company: A10 Networks

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Personnel: Arvind Prabhudev, Rich Groves

Rich Groves, Director of Research and Development, and Arvind Prabhudev, Director of Software Engineering, give an overview of the A10 Networks One DDoS distributed denial of service detection and protection mechanism. Also discussed is the use of intelligent automation in the solution to secure network resources an keep networks operational through attacks.


A10 Networks Harmony Controller Demo with Tom Guerrette

Event: Networking Field Day 18

Appearance: A10 Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 18

Company: A10 Networks

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Personnel: Tom Guerrette

Tom Guerrette, Dir. Solution Architect Cloud, demonstrate the Harmony Controller Analytics solution and showcase the features it can provide to networking professionals.


A10 Networks Technology Vision with Raj Jalan

Event: Networking Field Day 18

Appearance: A10 Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 18

Company: A10 Networks

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Personnel: Raj Jalan

Raj Jalan, CTO, discusses the technology behind A10 Networks and their solutions and how network analytics and security concerns are driving customers to seek innovative solutions that meet their needs both now and in the future.


A10 Networks Company Introduction

Event: Networking Field Day 18

Appearance: A10 Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 18

Company: A10 Networks

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Personnel: Paul Nicholson

Paul Nicholson, Director of Product Marketing, introduces A10 Networks and discusses their solution portfolio. Highlights include intelligent automation and the A10 Harmony analytics controller.