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.


Riverbed SteelConnect SD-WAN Demo with Vivek Ganti

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Josh Dobies, Vivek Ganti

Josh Dobies, VP Product Marketing at Riverbed, introduces their SteelConnect SD-WAN solution. This provides policy and orchestration tools across a wide connectivity fabric, allowing it to expand from hybrid cloud to edge sites.

Vivek Ganti, Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, proceeds to give the delegates a demo of SteelConnect in action.


Riverbed SteelFusion: Tech Updates and Azure Demo with Parimal Puranik

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Parimal Puranik

Parimal Puranik, Director of Product Management at Riverbed, reviews technology updates for SteelFusion, which includes NFS support, backup snapshot integrartion, and a virtual SteelFusion Edge for a hardware agnostic offering. The platform also now supports Hyper-V, allowing it to work on Azure Cloud. This capability is then demoed for the delegates.


Riverbed: Whiteboard of a Complete Deployment of SteelFusion with Parimal Puranik

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Parimal Puranik

Parimal Puranik, Director of Product Management at Riverbed, hits the whiteboard to demonstrate a typical SteelFusion deployment. He shows how SteelFusion Edge collapses the edge server, storage, and backup into a single appliance. He shows how to deploy application from the core data center out to the edge.


Extending Hybrid Cloud to the Software-Defined Edge with Riverbed and Parimal Puranik

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Parimal Puranik

Parimal Puranik, Director of Product Management at Riverbed, reviews the problem of that hybrid cloud causes for IT teams. This complex landscape extends across a number of connection types to a variety of applications. He then introduces the Riverbed SteelFusion which provides a software-defined edge IT platform to make hybrid cloud management much easier in remote locations. These can run infrastructure, file, and critical application services.


Introducing Riverbed and the “Bleeding Edge” with Josh Dobies

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Josh Dobies

Josh Dobies, VP Product Marketing, gives an overview how Riverbed’s solutions can allow organizations to extend the value of the data centers to edge locations. This allows distributed enterprises to embrace the digital transformations brought by the cloud and mobility, without losing a unified approach to managing IT.


Scale Computing Cloud Unity Pricing and Availability with Craig Theriac

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Scale Computing Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Scale Computing

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Personnel: Craig Theriac

Craig Theriac, Director of Product Management at Scale Computing, discusses the specifics of Cloud Unity pricing, which will be sold with their channel partners. It will be an annual subscription offering with either a full DR as a Service or a Self Service option, with predictable costs for each.


Scale Computing Cloud Unity with Phil White

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Scale Computing Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Scale Computing

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Personnel: Phil White

Phil White, CTO at Scale Computing, announces details of Cloud Unity with Google Cloud. This effectively gives seamless DR with full failover in the cloud for anything already running on their HC3 platform.


Scale Computing HyperCore Direct NVMe Overview with Phil White

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Scale Computing Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Scale Computing

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Personnel: Phil White

Phil White, CTO at Scale Computing, reviews how their SCRIBE storage engine works for their HCI solution. This was designed for scalability and efficiency from the start, with no file system, storage protocols, or VMs in the data path. SCRIBE has been integrated directly to the hypervisor, which has provided near bare metal performance with the adoption of NVMe. Phil introduces HyperCore, their NVMe over fabrics HCI solution based on the HC3 software stack.


Scale Computing SCRIBE Architecture Overview with Phil White

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Appearance: Scale Computing Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Scale Computing

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Personnel: Phil White

Phil White, CTO at Scale Computing, gives an overview of the SCRIBE architecture, their software-defined block storage for VMs to address. This pools together the blocks in a cluster and makes them available with data services. This includes thin provisioning, dedupe, snapshots, and tiering.


Scale Computng Company Overview, History, and Target Markets with Jeff Ready

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Scale Computing Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Scale Computing

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Personnel: Jeff Ready

Jeff Ready, CEO and Co-Founder of Scale Computing, introduces the company to the delegates. The company’s HC3 hyperconverged infrastructure solution has provided an alternative path to virtualization since it launched in 2012. The company tries to provide HCI to organizations with a focus on simplicity, scalability, and performance.


Ixia Container Visibility with Kris Raney

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Ixia Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Ixia

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Personnel: Kris Raney

Kris Raney, Distinguished Engineer at Ixia, gives an overview how CloudLens approaches getting visibility into traffic to and from containers. Containers add another level of complexity on top of just location. Kris overviews how Docker handles namespaces with containers, and goes into the details of Docker’s networking that makes gaining visibility vital to security for your organization.


Securing Networks Through End-To-End Visibility with Ixia with Recep Ozdag

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Ixia Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Ixia

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Personnel: Recep Ozdag

Recep Ozdag, VP of Product Management at Ixia, goes into details of the company’s visibility solutions. They entered this market with key acquisitions in 2016 by launching VisionOne flagship. This has grown to include CloudLens for cloud visibility, Active SSL for MITM monitoring, and most recently multi-cloud support.


Ixia CloudLens: Visibility Across Multiple Cloud Provider Platforms with Sushil Srinivasan

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Ixia Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Ixia

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Personnel: Sushil Srinivasan

Sushil Srinivasan, Senior Product Manager at Ixia, discusses their solution for getting visibility across multiple cloud environments. CloudLens provides end-to-end insight that removes visibility blind spots by bridging packet level visibility to physical, virtiual, and cloud environments. This platform can be deployed as a pure SaaS offering, a container, or an agent running on your hardware.


Ixia Active SSL: Encryption, The Dual-Edge Sword with Scott Register

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Ixia Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Ixia

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Personnel: Scott Register

Scott Register, VP of Product Management at Ixia, Cloud & Security, discusses best practices for monitoring SSL traffic to gain visibility into network traffic. He reviews the challenges that encryption sessions cause for network security, the pros and cons of using static keys, and forthcoming changes to SSL. He then introduces Ixia’s Visibility Application Module as part of their Active SSL visibility solution.


Introducing Ixia, a Keysight Business with Recep Ozdag

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Ixia Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Ixia

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Personnel: Recep Ozdag

Recep Ozdag, VP of Product Management at Ixia, reintroduces the company to the delegates in light of their recent acquisition by Keysight. He gives an overview of the company’s portfolio, and how they align with industry trends in moving to the cloud. Through their testing and visibility solutions, the company has situated itself to provide solutions across the network lifecycle.