The Independent IT Influencer Event
Event: Storage Field Day 15
Appearance: WekaIO Presents at Storage Field Day 15
Company: WEKA
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Personnel: Barbara Murphy
Barbara Murphy, VP of Marketing, give an overview of the company, introducing WekaIO Matrix. This is a parallel NVMe over Fabric file system designed so that applications never have to wait for data.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: Dell EMC Servers Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: Dell EMC
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Personnel: Kevin Noreen
Kevin Noreen, Product Management, Enterprise Systems Management, closes out Dell EMC’s presentation with a discussion on how the company is shifting further into the software-defined data center. This includes iDRAC being operating system aware for management, as well vRealize integration. This leads into a general discussion of Dell EMC’s automation philosophy.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: Dell EMC Servers Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: Dell EMC
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Personnel: Ray Hebert
Ray Hebert, OpenManage, Change Management, reviews how Dell EMC’s Repository Manager solves the traditional admin pain points of finding, managing, and deploying updates for firmware, BIOS, and drivers.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: Dell EMC Servers Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: Dell EMC
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Personnel: Brian Doty
Brian Doty, OpenManage, Systems Management, reviews OpenManage Enterprise, a new console that’s a follow on to their existing OpenManage Essentials. This is based around a simple HTML5-based UI, providing end-to-end automation via APIs and policy, and unified around centralized authentication.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: Dell EMC Servers Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: Dell EMC
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Personnel: Paul Rubin
Paul Rubin, Systems Management, reviews Dell EMC’s management automation via RESTful APIs. This is in response to customer concerns, that are looking for a multivendor, standards compliant methodology. The presentation reviews OpenManage’s ability to handle overall management automation to meet these needs.
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Appearance: Dell EMC Servers Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: Dell EMC
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Personnel: Doug Iler, Manoj Malhotra
Doug Iler, iDRAC Systems Management, and Manoj Malhotra, OpenManage Systems Management, walks the delegates through the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller, iDRAC, which is the hub for their automation solution. This includes a look at their updated web UI, initial configuration, and demonstrating iDRAC server management.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: Dell EMC Servers Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: Dell EMC
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Personnel: Kevin Noreen
Kevin Noreen, Product Management, Enterprise Systems Management, introduces Dell EMC’s OpenManage portfolio, designed to automate modern IT infrastructure.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: NetApp
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Personnel: Adam Carter, Andy Banta
Adam Carter, Chief Architect at NetApp, leads an in-depth comparison and discussion of HCI architectures. He covers the three architectural approaches that cover the current HCI vendors in the market: Hypervisor on bare metal and storage as a virtual machine, Hypervisor and storage on shared bare metal, Hypervisor and storage as independent systems.
He discusses how each architecture emphasizes intellectual property that vendor had when they entered into the HCI market. The presentation lays out the pros and cons of each architectural approach. The presentation ends with the unique advantages of a independent HCI architecture approach. NetApp HCI advantages include scale out, flexibility of scale, predictable performance, fewer software licenses, Enterprise SAN with no penalties and Hybrid Cloud use cases through NetApp Data Fabric with AWS, Azure, Google and IBM Cloud.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: Dell EMC High-End Storage Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: Dell EMC
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Personnel: Scott Delandy
Scott Delandy, Director, Modern Data Center reviews Dell EMC’s VMAX All Flash storage array. This includes an overview of the updated hardware, including how VMAX addresses data protection and management.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: Dell EMC High-End Storage Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: Dell EMC
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Personnel: Jodey Hogeland, Todd Toles
Jodey Hogeland, CTO, Modern Data Center, reviews Dell EMC’s XtremIO X2 and applications with virtualized workloads. This includes a look at scaling capability with consistent outcomes and how the system enables operational agility.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: Forcepoint Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: Forcepoint
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Personnel: David Coffey
David Coffey, VP Research & Development, reviews how Forcepoint approaches securing a global network an organization doesn’t own or fully manage. Their solution is the Cloud Application Security Broker, which sits between a user and the cloud, and is able to implement security policies.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: Forcepoint Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: Forcepoint
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Personnel: Antti Kuvaja
Antti Kuvaja, Senior Director, Product Management, reviews Forcepoint’s capabilities for Human Point Security. This includes an overview of their Endpoint Context Agent to collect endpoint metadata and a dedicated dashboard to view user network activity,
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: Forcepoint Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: Forcepoint
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Personnel: Jim Birmingham
Jim Birmingham, VP Research & Development, starts the session by defining what insider threats are for organizations, which constitute the majority of security threats against an organization. He then reviews how Forcepoint’s User and Entity Behavior Analytics platform provides a holistic view of insider behavior to help detect threats.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: Forcepoint Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: Forcepoint
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Personnel: Richard Ford
Richard Ford, Chief Scientist at Forcepoint, discuss the current state of Forcepoint, and where the company plans to go in the near future. They approach security from the perspective that traditional security has failed. This is based on the idea of identifying the good from the bad with certainty. Forcepoint instead focuses on the point at which humans interact with data, and try to understand how people and data interact over networks of variable trust.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: SolarWinds
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Personnel: Chris Groot
Chris Groot, VP Product Strategy – Backup, discusses why SolarWinds entered into the backup market. He then reviews how their solution can help reduce overall cost and complexity versus traditional backup.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: SolarWinds
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Personnel: Chris O'Brien
Chris O’Brien, Senior Product Manager, reviews Network Insight for Cisco ASA firewalls. This looks at how the ASA blocks and allows traffic, how are VPN tunnels to partners and cloud configured, and gives an overall view of health and performance.
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Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: SolarWinds
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Personnel: Steven Hunt
Steven Hunt, Principal Product Strategist, demonstrates the 6.6 update of SolarWinds’ Server and Application Monitor. This takes a mapping of application dependencies, correlating this information to allow only one server to be monitored, but get a comprehensive view of performance.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: SolarWinds
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Personnel: Brian Radovich
Brian Radovich, Product Strategy Principal, reviews PerfStack. PerfStack now includes DPA data, allowing it to sample queries and see how long users are waiting on them. This provides the types of queries and users most effected by delay. Brian also demos PerStack in action.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: SolarWinds
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Personnel: Keith Kuchler, Michael Yang
Michael Yang, Director, Product Management and Senior Director of Engineering Keith Kuchler discuss how logs, metrics, and tracing form the three pillars of observability. They then review how their full-stack cloud monitoring solutions comprehensively involve all three.
Event: Tech Field Day 16
Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Company: SolarWinds
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Personnel: Joe Kim
Joe Kim, EVP, Engineering and Global CTO at SolarWinds, discusses the company’s overall vision and strategy with the delegates. This touches on what they see happening in the market and how disruptions will effect users in the future. Joe then discusses the SolarWinds strategy of organization for the company’s solutions and services.
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