The Commvault Story with Don Foster

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2017

Appearance: Commvault Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2017

Company: Commvault

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Personnel: Don Foster

Commvault’s Sr. Director of Solutions Marketing, Don Foster, reviews how Commvault approaches data management. This is centered around an approach of meeting the increasing complexity and volume of data with a simplified management portfolio. Don gives a high-level overview of their architectural backbone to give organizations tools to manage, secure, govern, and recover data.


Commvault GO 2017 Media and Influencer Preview with Bill Wohl

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2017

Appearance: Commvault Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2017

Company: Commvault

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Personnel: Bill Wohl

Commvault’s Chief Communications Officer, Bill Wohl, introduces Commvault GO to press and analysts. This is centered around their data management market, and their ability to allow businesses to achieve remarkable results with it. Bill also reviews the keynote speakers that presented at the event.


Cisco AppDynamics: Why It’s Relevant in Container Environments with Harish Nataraj

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Harish Nataraj

Cisco gives an overview of AppDynamics and how it can be applied to containerized environments and workloads. AppDynamics is designed to deal with the “application hairball”, providing visualizations and monitoring of highly distributed service oriented app architectures.


Cisco UCS & Flexpod with Docker with Muhammad Afzal

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Muhammad Afzal

Cisco gives a deeper dive into Cisco UCS and Flexpod integrations with Docker and containers. This includes a look into Docker Enterprise Edition optimizations, and dives into setup and staging questions for deploying these solutions.


Cisco Contiv Architecture and Demonstration with John Day

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: John Day

Cisco gives an overview of the Contiv container network plugin architecture and demonstrates it’s capabilities to the delegates. This includes a VLAN bridge mode, group based policies to ensure container isolation on the network, and is designed to work with orchestrators like Docker Swarm


Cisco Contiv Container Networking and Policy with Meenakshi Kaushik

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Meenakshi Kaushik

Cisco reviews the updates to the Contiv container network plugin with the delegates. This is designed to address concerns regarding security of network isolation, scalability, and traffic pattern predictability.


Cisco and Accelerating Container and Microservices Adoption with Vishwanath Jakka

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Vishwanath Jakka

Cisco reviews their efforts in the containers and microservices space. This includes Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Containers, which includes integration for Docker Enterprise Edition.


Containers at NetApp with Rob Esker

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Rob Esker

Rob Esker, Product Management and Strategy, NetApp, reviews the company’s efforts within open ecosystems to deliver data and storage management to containers. NetApp’s approach to providing distributed, diverse and dynamic data services and management to containers is via their data fabric. He then reviews NetApp’s integrations with Docker, including the NetApp Docker Volume Plugin, Trident, and the Cinder plugin.


OpenFaaS: From Zero to Serverless in 60 Seconds Anywhere with Alex Ellis

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Appearance: OpenFaaS Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Company: OpenFaaS

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Personnel: Alex Ellis

Alex Ellis from the OpenFaaS project reviews how to quickly get serverless functions up and running using their protocol. He first situates how functions fit into the evolution of serverless computing and containers, as well as demonstrates how highly specific and efficient functions can be integrated. Alex walks through how the project was developed through a DockerCon Cool Hacks competition. OpenFaaS currently has a thriving developer community, with developer-first options, all while maintaining portability to keep operations simple.


Docker Enterprise Edition and Integration with Kubernetes with Banjot Chanana

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Appearance: Docker Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon EU 17

Company: Docker

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Personnel: Banjot Chanana

Banjot Chanana, Senior Director Project Manager at Docker, walks the delegates through Docker Enterprise Edition announcement of integration with Kubernetes. He first runs through the basics of Docker Enterprise Edition. The basic container runtime has been open sourced under the Moby project, with Enterprise Edition having built in orchestration and extensibility with separate storage and networking tools. The addition of Kubernetes gives organizations additional choice for orchestration along with their built in Swarm tool. By integrating with Kubernetes, Docker wants to make the overall experience easier to manager across Docker for Windows and Mac. Banjot gives an overview of how Swarm and Kubernetes coexist on Docker Enterprise Edition, and how the addition offers a more consistent experience for developers.


DataCore MaxParallel Demo with Tim Warden

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: DataCore Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: DataCore Software

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Personnel: Tim Warden

Tim Warden, Senior Director, Engineering Product Management, gives the delegates a demonstration of MaxParallel for SQL Server. The demo shows a VM in Azure Cloud running SQL Server utilizing MaxParallel, showing their database optimizations for real-time analytics and other high velocity data.


Introduction to DataCore and MaxParallel for SQL Server with Augie Gonzalez

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: DataCore Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: DataCore Software

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Personnel: Augie Gonzalez

Augie Gonzalez, Director of Product Marketing, reviews their database optimizations found in MaxParallel for SQL Server. MaxParallel maximizes database productivity and performance. It significantly shortens time to process transactions, generate reports, and analyze trends by eliminating the I/O scheduling bottleneck in the OS.


NETSCOUT AirCheck G2 2.0 Overview with Chris Hinsz

Event: Mobility Field Day 2

Appearance: Netscout Presents at Mobility Field Day 2

Company: NetScout

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Personnel: Chris Hinsz

Chris Hinsz, Product Manager, introduces the new features of the NETSCOUT AirCheck G2 2.0 release. Included is discussion and demonstration about packet captures, iPerf testing, and identifying interference devices on the network.


Actifio Test Data Management for DevOps with Chandra Reddy

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Actifio Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Actifio

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Personnel: Chandra Reddy

Chandra Reddy, VP of Product Marketing with Actifio, reviews new features for Actifio Sky 8.0, test data management for DevOps. This helps to solve the problem of database cloning, which is time consuming and storage intensive. Actifio solves this by creating a gold copy from their incremental backups to create virtual databases from production. These self service virtual databases do not require any knowledge of the Actifio UI with full API support.


Oracle ASM Switch & Rebalance with Actifio with Chandra Reddy

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Actifio Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Actifio

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Personnel: Chandra Reddy

Chandra Reddy, VP of Product Marketing with Actifio, introduces a new feature for Actifio Sky 8.0, which goes beyond instant recovery, Oracle ASM Switch & Rebalance. This is designed to mitigate the problems of large databases, which typically have a large RTO and downtime to return to production. With their Switch and Rebalance approach, this greatly reduces the RTO, and by switching to their Snap Pool with incremental updaes, allows for a zero down time restore to production.


Actifio Cloud Mobility and Global Catalog Cloud Search with Chandra Reddy

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Actifio Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Actifio

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Personnel: Chandra Reddy

Chandra Reddy, VP of Product Marketing with Actifio, introduces a new feature of their Actifio Sky 8.0 release, cloud mobility. This allows you to take a VM or physical machine and bring it up on another cloud. This captures the data as well as system state, uses its incremental ingestion, and makes it compatible with the cloud’s native hypervisor. This is then demonstrated for the delegates.


Actifio Sky Platform Architecture Overview with Brylan Achilles

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Actifio Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Actifio

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Personnel: Brylan Achilles

Brylan Achilles, Global Field CTO at Actifio, gives an architectural overview of Actifio. Their Enterprise Data as a Service offering is designed around speed, efficiency and scale. Data is captured incrementally, with only the deltas being moved via their virtual data pipeline. This is made available in the cloud, while keeping a database on the changes. Virtual copies offer quick access to many different versions for a variety of production and test/dev purposes.


Unveiling Actifio Sky Platform 8.0 with Ash Ashutosh

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Actifio Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Actifio

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Personnel: Ash Ashutosh

Ash Ashutosh, Founder and CEO of Actifio, reintroduces the company to the delegates. Actifio first presented at Tech Field Day in 2010 and introduced the idea that data is an asset and must be managed as such. Ash then introduces the idea behind their Enterprise Data as a service offering, Sky Platform 8.0. This is a cloud native offering that provides multi-cloud support with native object storage.


The Riverbed IT Story with Bill Bragg

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Bill Bragg

Bill Bragg, VP IT Infrastructure at Riverbed, gives an overview of Riverbed in the overall IT landscape. He includes a look at their hybrid hosted landscape, centered around their performance management center. This also includes a look at their infrastructure topology.


Riverbed Xirrus: The Wireless Edge with Bruce Miller

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Bruce Miller

Bruce Miller, VP of Marketing at Xirrus, reviews why the company was acquired by Riverbed, what their appeal is to customers, and how Xirrus fits into the Riverbed Edge IT platform. Riverbed Xirrus is able to deliver a distributed model of Wi-Fi, which pushes the intelligence of control to the edge, while keeping the management plane in the cloud or on-prem. This removes a single point of failure from the system, and enable organizations to better control Wi-Fi on the edge.