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.


Forcepoint Welcome and Introduction with Richard Ford

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.


Introducing SolarWinds Backup with Chris Groot

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.


SolarWinds Network Insight for Cisco ASA with Chris O’Brien

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.


SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 6.6 with Steven Hunt

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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.


SolarWinds PerfStack with Database Performance Analyzer with Brian Radovich

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.


SolarWinds Cloud and the Three Pillars of Observability with Michael Yang and Keith Kuchler

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.


SolarWinds Strategy and Vision with Joe Kim

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.


Cisco Intersight Overview with Jeff New

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2018

Appearance: Cisco Intersight Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Jeff New

This session will provide an update on Cisco Intersight including some of the latest features to quickly and easily deploy and manage HyperFlex and UCS C-Series Rack Servers.


Cisco and Google – Open Hybrid Cloud Partnership

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2018

Appearance: Cisco and Google Cloud Open Hybrid Cloud Architecture

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Allan Haim, Rohit Agarwalla

More and more applications are moving towards a hybrid/multicloud deployment model. Consistent environment in terms of networking, security, cloud infrastructure, analytics across cloud environments become important. In this session, we will cover the Cisco and Google Open Hybrid Cloud partnership and discuss requirements of example use cases that the joint solution will fulfill.


Cisco Tetration and Big Data Analytics with Remi Phillipe

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2018

Appearance: Cisco Tetration Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Remi Philippe

It begins with visibility. Streaming telemetry of flow, network state, and process events, combined with flexible identity sources yields Tetration an unparalleled view of the data centre landscape. From this vantage point powerful analytics furnishes the network engineer with the most advanced toolbox they ever had. In this session, Cisco overviews the solution architecture, explore sensor options and work through a number of use cases that exercises the tools at hand: behavior driven application dependency maps, centralized flow and network device visibility at per-packet-per-physical-link-per-queue resolution, distributed application segmentation expressed in an intent based policy language, performance monitoring at nanosecond accuracy with a full cross-section of application through to physical infrastructure, and for the performance super-sleuths, easily spotting TCP inefficiencies like window collapse or slow handshakes and tracing them to the network or application.


Cisco Hyperflex with Jonathan Gorlin

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2018

Appearance: Cisco HyperFlex Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Jonathan Gorlin

Cisco dives into the new innovations of the HyperFlex 3.0 platform, including Hyper-V support, Kubernetes integration, Stretch Clustering, and enhanced scalability.


Cisco Multicloud portfolio: Cloud Connect

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2018

Appearance: Cisco Multicloud Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Liad Ofek

Cisco reviews how Cloud Connect solutions can securely extend your private networks into the public clouds and ensure the application experience. The products that will be covered will include the CSR1000v and vEdge with Umbrella integration.


Cisco Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery for Networking: Managing the Network as Code

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2018

Appearance: Cisco Practical Continuous Deployments Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Fabrizio Maccioni

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (or CI/CD) is a common practice for DevOps teams.

The idea is to automatically test all the changes before deploying in production (CI) and changes are frequently deployed (CD).
The same concept can be applied to Networks as well, configs and new software images are automatically tested and pushed to production if and only if all validations are successful.