Pure Storage Purity ActiveCluster Demo with Larry Touchette

Event: Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017

Appearance: Pure Storage FlashArray Presentation at Pure Accelerate 2017

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Larry Touchette

Larry Touchette, Director, Technical Product Management at Pure Storage, gives a demonstration of Purity ActiveCluster in action. He reviews the Purity 5.0 UI, while showing the entire process of getting ActiveCluster initiated within an existing environment.


Pure Storage Purity ActiveCluster with Tabriz Holtz

Event: Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017

Appearance: Pure Storage FlashArray Presentation at Pure Accelerate 2017

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Tabriz Holtz

Tabriz Holtz, Engineering Lead at Pure Storage, reviews the company’s newly announced Purity Flash Array ActiveCluster solution, their entry into the synchronous replication market. This was designed to specifically resolve customer pain points, including disaster protection, consistent performance, and transparent failover, all in a solution that’s easy to manage. ActiveCluster is designed to read, write and modify on both sides of the cluster, with no RTO, RPO, additional licensing, or additional hardware.


Turbonomic 5.9: Cloud Economics and Migration with Mor Cohen-Tal

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Turbonomic Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Turbonomic

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Personnel: Eric Wright, Mor Cohen

Mor Cohen-Tal, Product Manager at Turbonomic, and Technology Evangelist Eric Wright give an overview of Turbonomic 5.9. This update give you visibility across cloud provider services. This includes showing costs for each point in time for each services, and projects costs and performance going forward. 5.9 also has public cloud migration tools, allowing you to compare shifting workloads or clusters to different providers. Customers can then choose when to execute the migration. This is all driven with Turbonomic’s application assurance engine to show the full implications of moving to the public cloud.


Paessler PRTG Uncommon Sensors and Q&A with Greg Ross

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Appearance: Paessler Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Company: Paessler

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Personnel: Greg Ross

Greg Ross, Senior Systems Engineer at Paessler, reviews how PRTG can be used to monitor uncommon devices that might not be considered part of infrastructure, but are just as critical. These include everything from dishwaters at a hospital to slot machines at a casino. PRTG is able to do this because of the customizable nature of the sensors. These can capture MIBs from anything writing in SNMP, which can be customized to fit an organizations needs.


Monitoring Devices with Paessler PRTG with Greg Ross

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Appearance: Paessler Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Company: Paessler

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Personnel: Greg Ross

Greg Ross, Senior Systems Engineer at Paessler, gives a demonstration of PRTG monitoring devices in production. He shows how PRTG can be deployed across a wide range of use cases, using their idea of sensors as metrics unique to a device. He reviews how PRTG can be setup for specialized notifications in certain monitoring situations. In VMware environments, this can be drilled down into the vCenter level, and help with provisioning, performance, and reliability.


Paessler PRTG Architecture and Basic Monitoring with Greg Ross

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Appearance: Paessler Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Company: Paessler

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Personnel: Greg Ross

Greg Ross, Senior Systems Engineer at Paessler, goes over the architectural underpinning of PRTG. This includes a built in web server and NoSQL database, and is setup for monitoring within minutes. For distributed networks, PRTG allows for deploying remote probe polling agents. These polling agents tap into various protocols as needed for devices and applications across the infrastructure. PRTG uses the idea of sensors to monitor infrastructure, which are disparate metrics that when pooled for 20-40 sensors, give a full picture of the state.


A New Era of Network Monitoring with Paessler PRTG with Greg Ross

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Appearance: Paessler Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017

Company: Paessler

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Personnel: Greg Ross

Greg Ross, Senior Systems Engineer at Paessler, gives an overview of their IT infrastructure monitoring solution. This includes an introduction to the company’s history and mission. He gives a quick introduction into their new beta for PRTG on-demand cloud service. This allows for PRTG to be used on a subscription bases in the cloud.


Considering Managed Storage, Past, Present, and Future with ClearSky Data CTO Lazarus Vekiarides

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: ClearSky Data Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: ClearSky Data

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Personnel: Lazarus Vekiarides

Lazarus Vekiarides, CTO and Co-Founder at ClearSky Data, engages with the delegates on the history around managed storage, and how ClearSky is uniquely situated in the space to avoid a lot of the category’s past failings.


ClearSky Data with Containers and Orchestration with Lazarus Vekiarides

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: ClearSky Data Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: ClearSky Data

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Personnel: Lazarus Vekiarides

Lazarus Vekiarides, CTO and Co-Founder at ClearSky Data, reviews the company’s plans for allowing for storage integrations with containers and container orchestration platforms. This includes working with Docker on the solution.


Datrium Replication and Protection Demo with Mike McLaughlin

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Datrium

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Personnel: Mike McLaughlin

Mike McLaughlin, Director of Technical Marketing with Datrium, demonstrates search and dynamic policy binding with Protection Groups. He also reviews granular vDisk recovery, as well as how to set up and manage replication.


Extending Datrium Data Cloud Across Cloud Data Centers with Boris Weissman

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Datrium

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Personnel: Boris Weissman

Boris Weissman, Founder at Datrium, reviews their first application of Data Cloud spanning private cloud data centers with Elastic Replication. This is designed to scale performance and provider resiliency. Boris also discusses the future directions of Data Cloud, including public cloud support.


Datrium Converging Primary Workloads and Cloud Data Management with Sazzala Reddy

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Datrium

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Personnel: Sazzala Reddy

Sazzala Reddy, Founder at Datrium, reviews the company’s approach to converging primary workloads with cloud data management via Data Cloud. He further reviews how scale and granularity have both played roles in the policy management and catalog design of fundamental data cloud components, including Protection Groups, Snapshots, and its related catalog, Snapstore.


Datrium End-to-End Encryption with Data Reduction with Windsor Hsu

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Datrium

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Personnel: Windsor Hsu

Windsor Hsu, Senior Director of Engineering, reviews how Datrium is able to offer end-to-end encryption, both at-travel and at-rest, without losing an data reduction services like deduplication. He also reviews how Datrium’s DVX solution is able to do this with minimal performance penalty.


Datrium DVX Demonstration with Mike McLaughlin

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Datrium

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Personnel: Mike McLaughlin

Mike McLaughlin, Director of Technical Marketing with Datrium, introduces the delegates to their VM-centric management, monitoring, and analytics that support DVX Rackscale systems. This includes a demonstration of the systems “insane” mode.


Datrium DVX Rackscale Systems with Hugo Patterson

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Datrium

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Personnel: Hugo Patterson

Hugo Patterson, CTO and Founder at Datrium, shares the vision and technology behind DVX Rackscale systems, touching on open convergence and their “matrix” architecture. This splits elastic performance from durable capacity in discreet nodes. This allows for mixing and matching of existing hardware with Datrium DVX nodes.


Introduction to Datrium with Brian Biles

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Datrium Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Datrium

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Personnel: Brian Biles

Brian Biles, CEO and Founder of Datrium, introduces the company. He discusses the foundation of their solution, to take convergence in two different directions. One is convergence of compute and capacity in a very different direction from traditional HCI to support low latency and critical applications with greater ease. The second direction is the convergence of primary application workloads with integrated cloud data management for simplified administration of data.


Demonstrating ClearSky Data Protection with Darren Miller

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: ClearSky Data Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: ClearSky Data

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Personnel: Darren Miller

Darren Miller, Engineer with ClearSky Data, gives a demonstration of the ClearSky Data platform in action. This clearly outlines available storage volumes, shows protection schedules, and customize schedules by preference.


ClearSky Data 2017 Update with Lazarus Vekiarides

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: ClearSky Data Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: ClearSky Data

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Personnel: Lazarus Vekiarides

Lazarus Vekiarides, CTO and Co-Founder at ClearSky Data, gives an overview of the company, and updates the delegates about recent updates and announcements. ClearSky Data delivers on-demand primary storage, and has recently expanded into disaster recovery. They use points-of-presence in metro areas around the United States to guarantee extremely low latency storage using a combination of on-premises flash caches and private dedicated connections to customers.


Turbonomic with Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Containers with Mor Cohen-Tal

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Turbonomic Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Turbonomic

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Personnel: Mor Cohen

Mor Cohen-Tal, Product Manager at Turbonomic, reviews how Turbonomics application assurance platform works across the cloud spectrum. This includes details into how the solution is deployed, and what specifically it can monitor and remediate. She also shows how Turbonomic can be used to provide application assurance in containerized environments.


Turbonomic Performance and the On-Premises Story with Mor Cohen-Tal

Event: Tech Field Day 14

Appearance: Turbonomic Presents at Tech Field Day 14

Company: Turbonomic

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Personnel: Mor Cohen

Mor Cohen-Tal, Product Manager at Turbonomic, walks through the current state of the Turbonomic product. This has been recently updated to a new UI. This gives a better view of their central framing metaphor of the platform, a virtual supply chain. This shows every item that effects application performance, and allows you to quickly get a sense of what are the current issues.