Introduction and Update on HPE Nimble Storage Integration

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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Gavin Cohen, VP of Marketing and Solutions for Nimble Storage, and Calvin Zito, Storage Evangelist for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, introduce the Cloud Field Day 2 session and discuss the integration of Nimble Storage into HPE.


Top of Mind with NetApp Co-Founder Dave Hitz

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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NetApp Co-Founder and Executive VP Dave Hitz discusses the transition from on-premises computing to the cloud. The company started as workgroup storage for engineers and gradually shifted into telco internet class storage. From there, the company started to move into the enterprise. The company’s challenge now is changing into a cloud and data management business.


Inside NetApp’s Cloud Services with Anthony Lye

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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Cloud Business Unit SVP Anthony Lye presents the various cloud services offered by NetApp today. The company now has almost 2000 cloud customers, with growth at 300% year-over-year as cloud services becomes a core asset of the business.


What’s New with NetApp Cloud?

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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Dave Hitz, Co-Founder, and Mark Bregman, CTO, introduce the NetApp presentation at Cloud Field Day 2. Bregman gives some background on the company and their approach to the cloud computing revolution. Mark discusses how customer demands have shifted from infrastructure needs, to software applications, and now moving to data as the primary concern.


Gigamon Use Case: Centralized Traffic Visibility with Sesh Sayani

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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Sesh Sayani, Director of Product Management introduces a use case for Gigamon in the cloud: Centralized visibility and security. This represents where most Gigamon customers will be, with multiple business units and many VPCs. Through the Gigamon Visibility platform, Sesh introduces how the company attains visibility into transit VPC architecture and load balancers.


Gigamon Use Case: Lift and Shift to the Public Cloud

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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Sesh Sayani, Director of Product Management, discusses moving workloads from on-premises to public cloud environments and the implications for security and visibility. This includes an in-depth look at their Fabric Manager, their orchestration application for physical, virtual, and cloud nodes.

Gigamon also provides support for hybrid cloud visibility, allowing organizations to optimize cloud traffic prior to delivering it to on-site security and visibility tools. This allows for additional traffic visibility without disrupting an existing security posture.


The Need for Pervasive Visibility in the Public Cloud with Sesh Sayani

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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Sesh Sayani, Director of Product Management, reviews how the Gigamon Visibility Platform for AWS provides consistent visibility into data in motion across the entire enterprise: on-premises, remote sites, public, private, and hybrid clouds. During this session, Greg Mayfield and Sesh discuss why there is an immediate need for visibility in the public cloud, provide an overview of the Gigamon Visibility Platform, and wrap up with some live, hands-on demos.


Introduction to Gigamon with Greg Mayfield

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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Greg Mayfield, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, introduces Gigamon at Cloud Field Day 2. The company provides pervasive visibility that enables customers to obtain insight into data-in-motion across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. Their Visibility Platform is designed to work across any network environment, use existing toolsets, and enable better security. This implementation runs from a software-only solution for cloud, to a physical appliance for on-site deployments.


Rubrik SQL Live Mount in the Public Cloud

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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Database Solutions Engineer Michael Fal gives an overview of SQL Server integrated protection in Rubrik and a demonstration of their new SQL Live Mount functionality. Rubrik offers a point in time restore option, with a focus on operational simplicity. This can be recovered with a simple restore, as an export to a different location, or via Live Mount. This enables instant read/write power-on clones, with the ability to mount clones to multiple hosts. All of this has full automation support via REST API’s.


Rubrik CloudOn Instantiation Demo with Andrew Miller

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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Technical Marketing Manager Andrew Miller gives an introduction to Rubrik CloudOn, an archiving solution for virtual machines in the cloud. Included as part of their 4.0 release, this allows users to make a power-on archived snapshot of a VM in the cloud. This is optimized currently for VMware to AWS, with more support planned in forthcoming release. This includes the conversion of the .vmx file from a monolithic to a cloud streamable file, allowing for incremental updates after the initial snapshot.


Rubrik Cloud Cluster Demo with Rebecca Fitzhugh

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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Technical Marketing Engineer Rebecca Fitzhugh discusses now Rubrik can be deployed into a public cloud with Cloud Cluster. This effectively uses the same code based as Rubrik whether in the cloud or on-premises. This uses a 4-node cluster to protect Linux, Windows and SQL Server with full backup and recovery of workloads. This can be extended to include archives to the cloud, and replication to off-site DR sites. Rebecca gives a full demonstration of these capabilities.


An Introduction to Rubrik with Chris Wahl

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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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.


Platform9 Fission Platform Demo

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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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.


Platform9 Fission and the Serverless Revolution

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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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.


Platform9 Cloud Bursting with Federated Clusters Demo

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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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.


Platform9 Managed Kubernetes with Paavan Shanbhag

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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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.


Platform9 OpenStack Omni Demo with Jeremy Brooks

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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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.


How Do You Manage Hybrid Clouds with Jeremy Brooks of Platform9

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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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.


ServiceNow Platform Demo with Josh Nerius

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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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.


ServiceNow Corporate Story and Platform Strategy with Dominic Phillips

Event: Cloud Field Day 2

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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.