Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Rubrik Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Rubrik

Video Links:

• Vimeo: An Introduction to Rubrik with Chris Wahl
• YouTube: An Introduction to Rubrik with Chris Wahl

Personnel: Chris Wahl

Chief Technologist Chris Wahl gives an introduction to Rubrik for those new to the company. He also presents what Rubrik’s customers are doing with their products in the real world. This includes a brief look at the state of backups to present, which Rubrik sees as inherently inefficient. Chris then introduces Rubrik’s initial response to this, their rack and go backup solution designed for high volume ingest, managed by policy, with global dedupe across a single namespace.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Platform9 Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Platform9

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Platform9 Fission Platform Demo
• YouTube: Platform9 Fission Platform Demo

Personnel: Roopak Parikh

Platform9 Co-Founder and CTO Roopak Parikh leads a demonstration of Fission in a serverless computing environment. This demo uses Jira to integrate with Fission via a web hook to both send a notification to Slack upon an issue or outage, while simultaneously creating a new tenant in the Platform9 UI.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Platform9 Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Platform9

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Platform9 Fission and the Serverless Revolution
• YouTube: Platform9 Fission and the Serverless Revolution

Personnel: Roopak Parikh

Platform9 Co-Founder and CTO Roopak Parikh discusses the revolution of serverless computing and how Platform9 Fission fits in. He first reviews the importance of Functions as a Service as the most recent shift in cloud computing. This focuses on single, short-lived functions without containers, allowing developers to simply focus on code, rather than operational aspects. This automatically scales economically within the serverless system. Platform9’s Fission platform started as a hackathon project, and now is in early alpha. Roopak runs down the use cases they see for the environment.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Platform9 Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Platform9

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Platform9 Cloud Bursting with Federated Clusters Demo
• YouTube: Platform9 Cloud Bursting with Federated Clusters Demo

Personnel: Paavan Shanbhag

Paavan Shanbhag, Software Engineer with Platform9, demonstrates cloud bursting with federated clusters. This includes a look at how Platform9’s managed Kubernetes environment handles added strain to the system, and a review of how the UI presents federated clusters and pods across providers. Paavan then walks through how local clusters can be extended to AWS or Google Container Engine to manage capacity and keep high availability.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Platform9 Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Platform9

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Platform9 Managed Kubernetes with Paavan Shanbhag
• YouTube: Platform9 Managed Kubernetes with Paavan Shanbhag

Personnel: Paavan Shanbhag

Paavan Shanbhag, Software Engineer, discusses managing Kubernetes with Platform9. This is designed to reduce the operation complexity of operating a cluster and cloud. Using their managed solution, Platform9 is able to greatly simplify deploying and managing a Kubernetes environment, and easily extend it into a hybrid cloud. Paavan particularly focuses on Cloud Bursting scenarios, when additional capacity is rapidly needed for additional demand.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Platform9 Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Platform9

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Platform9 OpenStack Omni Demo with Jeremy Brooks
• YouTube: Platform9 OpenStack Omni Demo with Jeremy Brooks

Personnel: Jeremy Brooks

Jeremy Brooks, Customer Success Engineering Manager, demonstrates Platform9 OpenStack Omni on Google Cloud Platform. This is a new release for Omni, with the UI tied specifically to a Google Cloud instance. Jeremy demonstrates how Omni is able to flip through information from Google Cloud, and let you manage your instances within their same consistent UI. This is fully configurable with OpenStack APIs to give customers maximum flexibility.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Platform9 Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Platform9

Video Links:

• Vimeo: How Do You Manage Hybrid Clouds with Jeremy Brooks of Platform9
• YouTube: How Do You Manage Hybrid Clouds with Jeremy Brooks of Platform9

Personnel: Jeremy Brooks, Roopak Parikh

Roopak Parikh, Co-Founder and CTO, introduces Platform9 at Cloud Field Day 2 before handing the presentation over to Jeremy Brooks, Customer Success Engineering Manager, to discuss hybrid cloud management. Platform9 defined hybrid of any combination of resources from multiple cloud end-points. Their solution to hybrid cloud management is based around an open-source orchestration framework that can provide a single pane of glass for all cloud resources without being locked in to a specific vendor.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: ServiceNow Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: ServiceNow

Video Links:

• Vimeo: ServiceNow Platform Demo with Josh Nerius
• YouTube: ServiceNow Platform Demo with Josh Nerius

Personnel: Josh Nerius

In this presentation at Cloud Field Day 2, Josh Nerius, a Solutions Architect and Developer Advocate at ServiceNow, demonstrated the capabilities of the ServiceNow platform by building a Rental Property Manager application from scratch. The demo highlighted the ease of integrating various systems and creating a functional application using a single interface, focusing on how developers can utilize the platform’s components effectively. The application was designed to manage interactions between tenants looking to rent properties and property managers handling applications and approvals. This hands-on approach showcased the platform’s strength in providing an integrated environment that supports the entire application development lifecycle.

As Nerius began building the Rental Property Manager, he emphasized the simplicity of constructing the application architecture, which involved creating a robust data model, business logic, and user interfaces. Starting with an empty application in ServiceNow Studio, he outlined the quick setup of a database to manage rental property details, such as addresses, credit score thresholds, and property types. Throughout the development process, Nerius utilized built-in functionalities and tools provided by ServiceNow, such as readily available APIs that facilitate integration and data manipulation without requiring extensive coding knowledge. This approach underlines ServiceNow’s goal of empowering business users and developers to create applications efficiently.

Moreover, Nerius discussed the importance of workflow automation within the application, which auto-approves or rejects rental applications based on predefined credit score limits, freeing users from manual oversight. By incorporating a user-friendly service portal, the presentation illustrated how businesses can enhance the user experience, offering modern interfaces while keeping the robustness of the backend. He acknowledged the necessity for sound governance and best practices in application design, reminding the audience that while the platform reduces barriers to entry for development, it still requires careful consideration of data management and security practices to avoid pitfalls in application functionality and compliance. Ultimately, this demonstration reinforced ServiceNow’s potential as a comprehensive solution for organizations looking to streamline their application development processes and enhance operational efficiencies.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: ServiceNow Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: ServiceNow

Video Links:

• Vimeo: ServiceNow Corporate Story and Platform Strategy with Dominic Phillips
• YouTube: ServiceNow Corporate Story and Platform Strategy with Dominic Phillips

Personnel: Dominic Phillips, Jonathan Sparks

Dominic Phillips, Vice President of Finance and Corporate Development at ServiceNow, along with Senior Director of Product Management Jonathan Sparks, presented the corporate story and platform strategy at Cloud Field Day 2, emphasizing their quest to provide a unified modern platform for managing diverse IT systems, which include everything from call systems and building access to finance and HR. The company’s strong growth trajectory is marked by a significant increase in headcount and revenue, highlighting the growing demand for their services among major global enterprises, including 40% of the Fortune 2000. They clarified that ServiceNow is not merely an IT service desk solution but a versatile platform that helps modern companies streamline workflows and enhance productivity across various departments.

The presentation outlined ServiceNow’s transition from being perceived primarily as an ITSM solution to a comprehensive platform that supports broader enterprise needs. This shift is driven by the increasing necessity for enterprises to address complex legacy workflows and improve user experiences. By introducing structured automation into traditional processes, ServiceNow aims to replace inefficient systems that rely heavily on emails, spreadsheets, and manual interactions. The platform supports an array of applications tailored to different business functions like HR, security, and customer service, while also allowing clients to develop custom solutions to meet specific operational needs. This adaptability is at the heart of their strategy to demonstrate the platform’s capabilities beyond just traditional IT processes.

ServiceNow also highlighted their evolving customer engagement initiatives, showcasing tangible case studies like Stone Brewing and CERN that illustrate diverse applications of their platform in real-world scenarios. They expressed confidence in their ability to foster digital transformation within organizations by transforming cumbersome processes into efficient workflows. The platform fundamentally allows users with minimal coding expertise to contribute to application development, enhancing collaboration between IT and business units. Ultimately, through their integrated platform approach, ServiceNow seeks to redefine how companies operate and respond to changing market demands, becoming a substantive partner in their client’s digital transformation journeys.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Scality Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Scality

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Scality Zenko is More Than A Multi-Cloud API: Metadata Analytics and Protection with Lauren Spiegel and Giorgio Regni
• YouTube: Scality Zenko is More Than A Multi-Cloud API: Metadata Analytics and Protection with Lauren Spiegel and Giorgio Regni

Personnel: Giorgio Regni, Lauren Spiegel

Lauren Spiegel, Technical Lead S3,  and Giorgio Regni, CTO and Co-Founder, present the extended capabilities of Scality Zenko. They use a Shakespearean metaphor to look at the robust search features brought to Zenko, which allows for fast metadata powered searches of S3 buckets. This supports multi and hybrid cloud searches via a single RESTful API call.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Scality Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Scality

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Scality Zenko Live Install and Portal Demo with Rached Ben Mustapha
• YouTube: Scality Zenko Live Install and Portal Demo with Rached Ben Mustapha

Personnel: Rached Ben Mustapha

Scality software engineer Rached Ben Mustapha demonstrates Zenko installation and configuration. This leverages Docker Swarm for simplicity, with plans to soon deploy on Mesos and Kubernetes. The demo also includes a look at the Zenko web UI, which can be used to look at capacity, performance, and management.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Scality Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Scality

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Scality Zenko Multi-Cloud Data Controller with Giorgio Regni
• YouTube: Scality Zenko Multi-Cloud Data Controller with Giorgio Regni

Personnel: Giorgio Regni

Giorgio Regni, CTO and Co-Founder of Scality, discusses managing data across multiple cloud services with a single API and central control. The session provides the rationale, product background, customer use cases, and key features of Zenko from Scality. The overall vision of Zenko is to provide control and freedom in an increasingly multi-cloud world. This is done via a S3-compatible API that can be used across clouds, keeps data in cloud native formats, with robust metadata search.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Scality Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Scality

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Scality S3 Cross Region Replication Demo with Rahul Padigela
• YouTube: Scality S3 Cross Region Replication Demo with Rahul Padigela

Personnel: Rahul Padigela

Rahul Padigela, Technical Lead for Data Management at Scality, demonstrates the features of Scality RING, including cross-region data replication. This is built on their Backbeat architecture, which provides replication while still sticking to Amazon’s specifications. This allows for customers to leverage existing APIs and SDKs and not require learning something fundamentally new. Backbeat runs as a container with the Kafka queue manager to provide asynchronous replication across sites.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Scality Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Scality

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Scality S3 For The Secure Enterprise
• YouTube: Scality S3 For The Secure Enterprise

Personnel: Paul Speciale

How do you build a secure enterprise cloud and still get the benefits of secure data center storage and cloud integration? Scality RING provides S3 protocol compatibility, extensions to Amazon S3, cloud tiering, cross-region replication, IAM/AD integrations, versioning, encryption, and more.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Accelerite Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Accelerite

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Accelerite Rovius Hybrid Cloud Demo
• YouTube: Accelerite Rovius Hybrid Cloud Demo

Personnel: Jaydeep Marfatia

Jaydeep Marfatia demonstrates Acclerite Rovius hybrid cloud. This can be used to effortlessly extend a given Rovius cloud into a public cloud environment based on performance and SLA needs. He shows how to extend Rovius to hybrid cloud and how out of the box cloud services can help businesses compete across various offerings.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Accelerite Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Accelerite

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Accelerite Rovius Cloud Creation Demo
• YouTube: Accelerite Rovius Cloud Creation Demo

Personnel: Rajesh Ramchandani

Rajesh Ramchandani, General Manager of Cloud Services and Platforms at Accelerite, demonstrates cloud creation with Accelerite Rovius. He builds a Rovius cloud from bare metal and registers it with their ops manager to begin managing it. This is done by defining a cloud blueprint within their UI. From there, Rajesh runs through setting up storage, compute and networking to provide a fully capable cloud within minutes.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Accelerite Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Accelerite

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Accelerite Hybrid Cloud Journey with Rovius
• YouTube: Accelerite Hybrid Cloud Journey with Rovius

Personnel: Rajesh Ramchandani

Rajesh Ramchandani, General Manager of Cloud Services with Accelerite, introduces various aspects of Accelerite’s Rovius, their next gen cloud platform. Rovius prioritizes ease of use, features, and improving the hybrid cloud journey. The ideas is to make their cloud platform as close to a public cloud experience, but with the added assurance of an on-prem cloud. Weaved into each of the steps and features is a full demo of how Rovius eases building and running an enterprise private cloud.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Accelerite Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Accelerite

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Accelerite Rovius Introduction with Nara Rajagopalan
• YouTube: Accelerite Rovius Introduction with Nara Rajagopalan

Personnel: Nara Rajagopalan

Accelerite CEO Nara Rajagopalan introduces Rovius, their hybrid cloud solution. The Rovius technology stack powers over 200 clouds of varying scale. Rovius focuses on ease and similicity of operations at scale. Enterprises have consistently experienced failures in realizing the full value of private clouds due to complexity and cost of operations. Rovius is designed to build a full-featured cloud from commodity bare metal servers and storage within minutes. Managing ongoing operations with Rovius is highly simplified, resulting in a stable and rich hybrid cloud at a much lower TCO than today’s alternatives.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Accelerite Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Accelerite

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Accelerite Introduction with Nara Rajagopalan
• YouTube: Accelerite Introduction with Nara Rajagopalan

Personnel: Nara Rajagopalan

Accelerite CEO Nara Rajagopalan introduces the company and their connected products for the digital enterprise, delivering solutions from enterprise hybrid cloud to self-service big data analytics, IoT, and endpoint security. He also shares some of their key customers including Fortune 500s and telecom operators and how Accelerite’s digital transformation platform allows the enterprise CxO to shift the spotlight from efficiency to innovation by retooling every enterprise IT asset for agility.

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

Appearance: Nirmata Presents at Cloud Field Day 2

Company: Nirmata

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Nirmata Dev Use Cases Demo with Jim Bugwadia
• YouTube: Nirmata Dev Use Cases Demo with Jim Bugwadia

Personnel: Jim Bugwadia, Ritesh Patel

Jim Bugwadia, Founder of Nirmata, give a live demo of application modeling, delivery, and management on the “dev” side of DevOps. They also overview how Nirmata eases moving workloads via policy either between clouds or hybrid cloud deployments. This can be automated to move applications to meet performance requirements.