Cisco Contiv Introduction with Kiran Kamity

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2017

Appearance: Cisco Contiv Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2017

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Kiran Kamity

Kiran Kamity, Senior Director at Cisco, reviews Cisco’s Contiv container networking solution. This isn’t simply a network overlay, Contiv supports L2, L3, overlay and ACI. It’s also 100% open source.


Programmable ASICs for Cisco Catalyst Switches with Muhammad Imam

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2017

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Switching Presents at Tech Field Day at Cisco Live Europe 2017

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Muhammad Imam

Muhammad Imam, Senior Manager Technical Marketing at Cisco, reviews the traditional role of fixed function ASICs at Cisco, and how programmability changes this mainstay. In 2013, they debuted the Catalyst 3850 switch, which had programmable pipelines. Muhammad reviews how the UADP ASIC architecture is able to achieve that programmability. Finally, he reviews the most recent feature updates for the Catalyst 3850 line.


Cisco Network as a Sensor and Enforcer with Derek Huckaby

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2017

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Switching Presents at Tech Field Day at Cisco Live Europe 2017

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Derek Huckaby

Derek Huckaby, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, reviews how Cisco is rolling out a security focused mindset across the Catalyst switch line. They do this by allowing switches to have visibility to incoming traffic, as well as be the enforcement point. This can dynamically be updated by pushing down policy to switches.


Cisco Operational Improvements with Open Programmability on Switches with Fabrizio Maccioni

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2017

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Switching Presents at Tech Field Day at Cisco Live Europe 2017

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Fabrizio Maccioni

Fabrizio Maccioni, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, reviews Cisco’s efforts to bring programmability to switches. Their efforts are based on the idea of trying to automate the entire network life cycle, from day zero to scripting and application hosting, through the upgrade cycle. The key to this is to bring consistency across many platforms and operating systems.


Overview: Cisco DNA with Enterprise Switching with Sehjung Hah

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2017

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Switching Presents at Tech Field Day at Cisco Live Europe 2017

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Sehjung Hah

Sehjung Hah, Manager with Catalyst Technical Marketing, introduces the session for the delegates. The presentations are based around Digital Network Architecture, based around operating simplicity.


Uila Virtual Networking Demo with Roger Yao

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Uila Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Uila

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Personnel: Roger Yao

Roger Yao, VP of Engineering, demonstrates Uila’s support for monitoring virtual networks. Their graphical approach allows you to easily see how applications are performing across the network, down to individual virtual machines.


Uila End User Experience Monitoring and Troubleshooting with Roger Yao

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Uila Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Uila

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Personnel: Roger Yao

Roger Yao, VP of Engineering at Uila, demonstrates using their solution for end-user experience monitoring. This is part of their full stack model of analytics and monitoring. They measure the packets inside the data center to find out the time the end-user spends waiting. This can then be traced back to why the packet is getting slowed or lost in transmission to help troubleshoot issues.


Uila Infrastructure Monitoring Demo with Roger Yao

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Uila Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Uila

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Personnel: Roger Yao

Roger Yao, VP of Engineering, demonstrates how Uila can handle monitoring for overall infrastructure performance. This can be used to view problems from the cluster level, all the way down to individual VMs. This is graphically based for fast consumption of data, but supports detailed analytics as you click down to individual machines.


Uila Application Visibility and Root Cause Demo with Roger Yao

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Uila Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Uila

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Personnel: Roger Yao

Roger Yao, VP of Engineering at Uila, demonstrates how Uila’s solution can be used for greater application visibility. This combines a dynamic timeline view of overall application performance, with individual graphics for application, network, storage, memory and CPU performance. This can be drilled down into to help determine the root cause of issues.


Uila Company Overview with Chia-Chee Kuan

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Uila Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Uila

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Personnel: Chia-Chee Kuan

Chia-Chee Kuan, CEO and President of Uila, introduces the company to the Tech Field Day delegates. They review their solution for full stack visibility of the data center. This is a unified offering, providing detailed analytics to allow for better awareness of the state of the data center, and for better provisioning and planning down the line.


ZeroStack Z-Brain: Machine Learning for the Self-Driving Cloud with Ajay Gulati

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: ZeroStack Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: ZeroStack

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Personnel: Ajay Gulati

Ajay Gulati, CEO at ZeroStack, reviews the company’s machine learning AI that backs the self-driving cloud, called Z-Brain. This is a suite of operations that takes proactive management of your cloud environment. This includes resource allocation, upgrading, optimization, and security.


ZeroStack Self-Driving Cloud Automation and Analytics Demo with Ajay Gulati

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: ZeroStack Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: ZeroStack

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Personnel: Ajay Gulati

Ajay Gulati, CEO at ZeroStack, demonstrates more of the company’s self-driving cloud solution. ZeroStack has a number of features baked in, including an app store to ease deployment. This not only makes configuration and deployment easier, but these apps can also call back to the ZeroStack infrastructure to automatically help improve performance over time.


ZeroStack Self-Driving Cloud Demo with Ajay Gulati

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: ZeroStack Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: ZeroStack

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Personnel: Ajay Gulati

Ajay Gulati, CEO at ZeroStack, demonstrates their self-driving cloud solution. He shows how to configure their solution using their Z-Block hardware, going from bare metal to an operational cloud within 30 minutes. Ajay also shows how to migrate from various services into ZeroStack, as well as some of the integrations they have with AWS.


ZeroStack Self-Driving Cloud Overview with Ajay Gulati

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: ZeroStack Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: ZeroStack

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Personnel: Ajay Gulati

Ajay Gulati, CEO at ZeroStack, gives an overview of the company’s self-driving cloud solution. He runs through the steps you need to properly develop this kind of service based approach, and begins to explain how ZeroStack created solutions to address each one. They see the private cloud evolving along the same line as cars. For a long time, you could either buy and maintain your own, or pay someone to do that for you. ZeroStack proposes a third option: a self-healing, fully automated cloud.


Dell EMC OEM Digital Transformation with Alan Brumley

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Dell Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: Alan Brumley

Alan Brumley, OEM Chief Technology Officer at Dell EMC, reviews the latest OEM capabilities from the company. He runs through the range of options available to enterprises and startups, from unbranded Dell hardware to fully customized solutions. This allows companies to get exactly the hardware they need to handle their specific business needs.


Dell EMC Data Analytics with Armando Acosta

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Dell Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: Armando Acosta

Armando Acosta, Hadoop Product Manager at Dell EMC, reviews the company’s Big Data offerings. Their division has been building the hardware for Big Data platforms for Google and Facebook since 2008. Their solution brings business centric design combined with operation agility to allow for complex analysis across a vast array of data types.


Dell EMC VxRail Discussion with Chad Dunn

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Dell Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Dell EMC

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Personnel: Chad Dunn

Chad Dunn, the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Dell EMC, gives a comprehensive review of their VxRail product, their hyperconverged infrastructure appliance. It was just launched in February of 2016, so he gives a full breakdown of where the product is succeeding, and where it needs work.


Platform9 Engineering Behind the Scenes with Amrish Kapoor

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Platform9 Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Platform9

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Personnel: Amrish Kapoor

Amrish Kapoor, VP of Engineering at Platform9, reviews the engineering principals that have influenced the company. The model themselves as a distributed systems company, and approaches their solutions as such. He finishes by reviewing some the tooling they’ve developed with this approach.


Platform9 Fission Serverless on Kubernetes with Amrish Kapoor and Cody Hill

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Platform9 Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Platform9

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Personnel: Amrish Kapoor, Cody Hill

Amrish Kapoor, VP of Engineering at Platform9, reviews their approach to the serverless computing paradigm, called Fission. Their implementation was created during a company hackathon, and serves as an alternative to AWS Lambda, and is completely open source. Cody Hill, Lead Systems Engineer, then leads a demonstration.


Platform9 Managed Kubernetes with Amrish Kapoor and Cody Hill

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Platform9 Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Platform9

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Personnel: Amrish Kapoor, Cody Hill

Amrish Kapoor, VP of Engineering at Platform9, goes more into depth on the company’s managed Kubernetes solution. He reviews the state of container orchestration in the enterprise, and how Platform9 differentiates itself in the crowded the space. Cody Hill, Lead Systems Engineer, then leads a demonstration in creating and deploying a cluster.