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.


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.


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