Dropbox Network Infrastructure with Dzmitry Markovich

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Dropbox Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Dropbox

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Personnel: Dzmitry Markovich

Dzmitry Markovich, Head of Technical Infrastructure at Dropbox, reviews the company network infrastructure. This was designed to provide exceptional network performance without experiencing hight latency and packet loss. This originally used EC2 instances to get as close to the user as possible. Dzmitry then goes into what Dropbox is doing today with their network infrastructure.


Dropbox Background on Magic Pocket with James Cowling

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: Dropbox Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: Dropbox

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Personnel: James Cowling

James Cowling, Principal Engineer at Dropbox, provides background on the development and technical details on their Magic Pocket, their custom built, internally hosted, software defined, cloud storage infrastructure.


IBM Storage Spectrum Protect Plus Demonstration with Christian Burns

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: IBM Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: IBM

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Personnel: Christian Burns

Christian Burns, Technical Sales Team Lead, Spectrum Protect Plus, gives a demonstration of their data reuse platform. This includes a look at the dashboard, as well as some common use cases.


IBM Storage Spectrum Plus Technology Overview with Christian Burns

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: IBM Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: IBM

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Personnel: Christian Burns

Christian Burns, Technical Sales Team Lead, Spectrum Protect Plus, reviews Spectrum Protect Plus: a data reuse solution for virtual environments and applications.


IBM Storage Next Generation Data Protection with Steve Kenniston

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: IBM Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: IBM

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Personnel: Steve Kenniston

Steve Kenniston, Business Development Executive, Spectrum Storage Software, reviews IBM’s efforts with next generation data protection. This includes a look at the Spectrum Protect solutions, as well as emphasizing IBM’s idea of data reuse.


WekaIO Product Demonstration with Shimon Ben-David

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: WekaIO Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: WEKA

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Personnel: Shimon Ben-David


WekaIO Product Overview & Chalk Talk with Liran Zvibel

Event: Storage Field Day 15

Appearance: WekaIO Presents at Storage Field Day 15

Company: WEKA

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Personnel: Liran Zvibel

Liran Zvibel, Co-Founder and CEO at WekaIO, gives an overview of the company’s core intellectual property, built over two decades to recreate storage in software only. This includes an architectural overview, and how their solution makes data locality irrelevant.


WekaIO Introduction with Barbara Murphy

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.


Dell EMC Discussion and Closing with Kevin Noreen

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.


Dell EMC Automation Updates with Ray Hebert

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.


Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise with Brian Doty

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.


Dell EMC Management Automation (RESTful API) with Paul Rubin

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.


Dell EMC IDRAC Server Embedded Management with Doug Iler and Manoj Malhotra

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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.


Dell EMC Welcome and Introduction to Automation with Kevin Noreen

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.


NetApp Comparing HCI Architectures with Adam Carter

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.


Dell EMC VMAX All Flash with Scott Delandy

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.


Dell EMC XtremIO X2 for Virtualized Workloads with Jodey Hogeland

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.


Forcepoint Cloud Application Security Broker and Web Security with David Coffey

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.


Forcepoint Networking Security with Antti Kuvaja

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,


Forcepoint User and Entity Behavior Analytics with Jim Birmingham

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.