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.


Platform9 Managed OpenStack 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 managed OpenStack solution, and how this fits into the overall IaaS landscape. Cody Hill, Lead Systems Engineer, then gives a demonstration of a hybrid cloud deployment.


Platform9 Overview and Customers with Roopak Parikh

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Platform9 Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Platform9

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Personnel: Roopak Parikh

Roopak Parikh, co-founder and CTO at Platform9, gives an overview of the company. He reviews their OpenStack Kubernetes solution, their solution for a serverless organization, and teases a special announcement at the end.


StorMagic SvSAN Customer Data Analytics with Luke Pruen

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Luke Pruen

Luke Pruen, Technical Services Director at StorMagic, goes over how StorMagic handles analytics. These analytics show the flexibility of the StorMagic SvSAN, allowing for both high performance and cost effective storage.


StorMagic SvSAN Caching Deep Dive with Luke Pruen

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Luke Pruen

Luke Pruen, Technical Services Director at StorMagic, reviews how StorMagic handles caching. This is done in both flash and in memory to optimize for best performance. They do this to have various VMs hitting an SSD first, maintaining high speeds through the various I/O calls. This is then intelligently managed down to slower disk storage, ensuring this isn’t a performance choke point.


StorMagic Automating Large Deployments Demo with Luke Pruen

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Luke Pruen

Luke Pruen, Technical Services Director at StorMagic, gives a demonstration on automating deployments of their storage solution on large number of sites. They’ve seen customers doing this at over 50 sites at a time.


StorMagic on Cisco UCS Deep Dive with Jason Shaw

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Cisco, StorMagic

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Personnel: Jason Shaw

Jason Shaw, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, reviews the StorMagic deployments on Cisco servers. He introduces the various validated hardware designs, and how these are deployed. From there, he goes over the integrated management offerings included in this bundle.


StorMagic SvSAN Overview with Luke Pruen

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Luke Pruen

Luke Pruen, Technical Services Director at StorMagic, gives an overview of the company’s SvSAN product. This provides high availability between two or more servers. This supports synchronous mirroring, is centrally managed, and is versatile enough to work with the storage mediums you’re already using.


StorMagic Company Overview with Hans O’Sullivan

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Hans O'Sullivan

Hans O’Sullivan, CEO and Founder at StorMagic, introduces the company to the delegates. The company pioneered the ability to operate a vSAN using just two servers. Their emphasis is to provide high availability SDS that is easy to manage for locations where IT can’t easily reach.


Veeam Availablity Console Linux Demo with Rick Vanover and Clint Wyckoff

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Veeam Software

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Personnel: Clint Wyckoff, Rick Vanover

Rick Vanover, Director of Technical Product Marketing at Veeam, and Global Technical Evangelist Clint Wyckoff give a demo of the Veeam Availability Console on Linux. This is as full featured as the Windows version, and allows for the same incremental image based backup. They demonstrate how to setup backups, and the full recovery process.


Veeam Availablity Console Demo with Rick Vanover and Clint Wyckoff

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Veeam Software

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Personnel: Clint Wyckoff, Rick Vanover

Rick Vanover, Director of Technical Product Marketing at Veeam, and Global Technical Evangelist Clint Wyckoff give a demo of the Veeam Availability Console. This does incremental backups, with support for offline mobile endpoints. These can be restored to an on-prem VM, or directly on Microsoft Azure.


Veeam Agents and Availablity Console with Rick Vanover and Clint Wyckoff

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Veeam Software

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Personnel: Clint Wyckoff, Rick Vanover

Rick Vanover, Director of Technical Product Marketing at Veeam, and Global Technical Evangelist Clint Wyckoff present Veeam’s new products. They review the Veeam Agent series, available both for Windows and Linux. These provide high availability data recovery at the image level, available within minutes. This comes in a Free version, with two other tiers for all enterprise needs.


Overview of Veeam Vision with Jeff Crum

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Veeam Software

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Personnel: Jeff Crum

Jeff Crum, Director of Product Marketing for Veeam, outlines the company’s product vision. They were founded in 2006, and now have over 230,000 customers. The company got started with virtual server backups. They now have a comprehensive backup suite of products to serve across data centers of any type.


Robin Systems Product Performance with Partha Seetala

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Robin Systems Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Robin Systems

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Personnel: Partha Seetala

Partha Seetala, CTO at Robin Systems, reviews the performance implications of their containerized application-aware infrastructure vs. bare metal. On the ezFIO benchmark compared to bare metal on the same hardware, they’re able to achieve 97% of read IOPS and 92% of write IOPS.


Robin Systems Application QoS Demo with Deba Chatterjee

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Robin Systems Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Robin Systems

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Personnel: Deba Chatterjee

Deba Chatterjee, Director of Product at Robin Systems, demonstrates their QoS implementation on a live system. He is able to easily assign application different tiers of performance and monitor if they are hitting their hard performance limits and minimums.


Robin Systems Application QoS with Partha Seetala

Event: Tech Field Day 13

Appearance: Robin Systems Presents at Tech Field Day 13

Company: Robin Systems

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Personnel: Partha Seetala

Partha Seetala, CTO at Robin Systems, reviews the Quality of Service tools available in their solutions. He walks through how they implemented this on an architectural level. Their system is designed from the ground up to always guarantee minimum IOPS without unnecessarily compromising overall system performance. This is to avoid the problem of a noisy neighbor in Big Data applications.


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