Who Is Kaminario?

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Kaminario Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Kaminario

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Personnel: Dani Golan

Company overview and business update


Catalogic Software Use Cases

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Catalogic Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Catalogic Software

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Personnel: Steve Kenniston

Steve Kenniston, VP Product Evangelism, discusses customer use cases for Catalogic’s ECX Intelligent Copy Data Management Platform.


Catalogic Software Architecture and Roadmap

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Catalogic Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Catalogic Software

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Personnel: Kamlesh Lad

Kamlesh Lad, Architect, discusses the architecture and product roadmap of Catalogic’s ECX Intelligent Copy Data Management Platform. See also ECX – How it Works.


Catalogic Software Live Demo

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Catalogic Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Catalogic Software

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Personnel: Prasshant Jagannathan

Prasshant Jagannathan, Technical Manager, demonstrates Catalogic’s ECX Intelligent Copy Data Management Platform.

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Catalogic Software Overview and High Level Architecture

Event: Storage Field Day 7

Appearance: Catalogic Presents at Storage Field Day 7

Company: Catalogic Software

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Personnel: Ed Walsh

Ed Walsh, CEO of Catalogic Software, introduces the company, its competitive differentiators, and gives a high-level architecture overview for Catalogic’s ECX Intelligent Copy Data Management Platform. See also ECX – Data Sheet.


Aruba Atmosphere 2015 Roundtable: Improving Air Quality – Using Tools and Tactics to Make Operational Wifi Happen

Event: Tech Field Day Roundtable at Atmosphere 2015

Appearance: Tech Field Day Roundtable at Aruba Atmosphere 2015

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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The Aruba Atmosphere delegates discuss the importance of improving your wireless air quality and how interactions with clients and outdated software can impact your wireless environment.


Aruba Atmosphere 2015 Roundtable: Future-proofing Your Network with 802 11ac Wave 2 and MGig – Do You Need It?

Event: Tech Field Day Roundtable at Atmosphere 2015

Appearance: Tech Field Day Roundtable at Aruba Atmosphere 2015

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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The Aruba Atmosphere delegates discuss the latest announcements around 802.11ac Wave 2 and the NBaseT / MGig Alliance and their proposed specification for increasing wired networking speeds to support faster wireless.


Aruba Atmosphere 2015 Roundtable: HP Aruba Acquisition – What Does The Future Hold?

Event: Tech Field Day Roundtable at Atmosphere 2015

Appearance: Tech Field Day Roundtable at Aruba Atmosphere 2015

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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The Aruba Atmosphere delegates discuss the impact of the announcement of HP acquiring Aruba Networks and how the two companies will proceed in the future with regards to both wireless and wired networking.


Brocade Volumetric Traffic Management SDN Application Preview

Event: Networking Field Day 9

Appearance: Brocade Presents At Networking Field Day 9

Company: Brocade

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Personnel: Santosh Rajvaidya

Santosh Rajvaidya, Product Manager, and Daniel De La Rosa, Solutions Architect Manager, Demonstrate the Volumetric Traffic Management application, which steers large flows in the data center.


Brocade VDX and NOS Programmability and Intelligence Update

Event: Networking Field Day 9

Appearance: Brocade Presents At Networking Field Day 9

Company: Brocade

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Personnel: Jon Hudson

Jon Hudson, Principal Engineer, leads a discussion about how programmability and intelligence are changing the way networking is done.


Brocade SDN NFV Update and Use Cases

Event: Networking Field Day 9

Appearance: Brocade Presents At Networking Field Day 9

Company: Brocade

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Personnel: Robert McBride

Robert McBride, Senior Product Manager, discusses recent Brocade activities and provides an overview of two use cases that are being deployed with the Brocade vRouter and hardware.


Brocade Vyatta Controller Update with Lisa Caywood

Event: Networking Field Day 9

Appearance: Brocade Presents At Networking Field Day 9

Company: Brocade

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Personnel: Lisa Caywood

Lisa Caywood, Senior Product Marketing Manager, welcomes the delegates and gives an update on the Brocade Vyatta Controller.  Also discussed are the resources for getting started with SDN.


Cisco ACI Demo with Carly Stoughton

Event: Networking Field Day 9

Appearance: Cisco Presents At Networking Field Day 9

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Carly Stoughton

Carly Stoughton, Technical Marketing Engineer, demonstrates the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) system from the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC).


How Devices Connect to the Fabric: Understanding Cisco ACI Domains

Event: Networking Field Day 9

Appearance: Cisco Presents At Networking Field Day 9

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Carly Stoughton

Carly Stoughton, a Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, presented an in-depth look at how devices connect to the Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric, focusing on the concept of ACI domains. She began by explaining the basic architecture of ACI, which includes a spine-leaf topology where all devices connect to leaf switches, and leaves connect to spines but not to each other. This setup ensures predictable latency and efficient data flow. Stoughton emphasized the role of the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) in managing these connections and policies, highlighting how it integrates with various types of devices and systems, such as VMware servers, bare metal servers, and external routers.

Stoughton detailed the integration of VMware into ACI through the creation of Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) domains. This integration allows for enhanced visibility and control over VMware environments by pushing a VMware distributed switch into the servers, enabling each port group to act as an endpoint group (EPG). This method allows network administrators to define EPGs based on virtual ports rather than traditional VLANs or physical ports. The APIC establishes a relationship with the VMware vCenter, creating a VMM domain for each data center, which helps in isolating and managing different environments. This setup ensures that network policies are consistently applied across virtual machines, simplifying management and enhancing security.

In addition to VMware integration, Stoughton discussed how ACI handles other types of devices through physical and external Layer 2 and Layer 3 domains. For bare metal servers, a physical domain can be created to group servers with similar policies into the same EPG, regardless of their physical or virtual nature. External Layer 2 domains are typically used for connecting to existing data center switches, while external Layer 3 domains facilitate connections to WAN or internet routers using protocols like OSPF, static routing, and BGP. Stoughton also touched on the future support for additional protocols like EIGRP and IPv6. This comprehensive approach ensures that ACI can accommodate a wide range of devices and configurations, making it a versatile solution for modern data centers.


Understanding the Cisco ACI Policy Model

Event: Networking Field Day 9

Appearance: Cisco Presents At Networking Field Day 9

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Carly Stoughton

Carly Stoughton, a Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, presented an in-depth look at the Cisco ACI policy model during a Tech Field Day session on February 13, 2015. She emphasized the unique aspects of the ACI policy model, which focuses on the needs of applications rather than the traditional method of configuring individual network devices. Stoughton illustrated how ACI simplifies network management by defining who is on the network, who can communicate with whom, and what they are allowed to discuss. This approach contrasts with the traditional method of configuring multiple routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers individually. The ACI policy model uses endpoint groups (EPGs) to categorize network entities that require similar treatment, and it employs a whitelist model where no communication is allowed until explicitly permitted through policies known as contracts.

Stoughton explained that an application typically consists of a front-end web tier, application servers, and a backend database, along with shared services like Active Directory, DHCP, and DNS. These components are grouped into EPGs, which are collections of endpoints needing similar network treatment. The ACI policy model is different from traditional Ethernet networks, as it does not allow any communication by default. Instead, it requires explicit policies, or contracts, to be defined to permit communication between EPGs. These contracts can specify actions such as permit, deny, redirect, log, or copy, and can be unidirectional or bidirectional. The policies are enforced at the leaf switches, which tag packets with source EPG information to ensure proper policy enforcement across the network fabric.

The session also covered the technical aspects of how ACI handles traffic and policy enforcement. Stoughton discussed various methods for defining EPGs, including VLANs, VXLAN tags, physical ports, and virtual ports. She highlighted the flexibility of the ACI policy model in integrating with existing network environments and its ability to support stateful and stateless filtering. The ACI fabric uses a spine-leaf architecture, ensuring predictable latency and bandwidth. Stoughton also touched on the role of the APIC controller cluster, which manages policy configurations and can be interacted with through a GUI or API. The APIC supports automated backups and the export of configurations for version control. Overall, the presentation showcased how the ACI policy model brings a new level of simplicity and efficiency to network management by aligning network configurations with application requirements.


Cisco ACI Overview with Soni Jiandani and Joe Onisick

Event: Networking Field Day 9

Appearance: Cisco Presents At Networking Field Day 9

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Joe Onisick, Soni Jiandani

Soni Jiandani, Senior Vice President, and Joe Onisick, Principal Engineer, introduce Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and discuss the methodology and reasoning behind it.


NEC ProgrammableFlow SCVMM Demo

Event: Networking Field Day 9

Appearance: NEC Presents At Networking Field Day 9

Company: NEC Networking

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Personnel: Aravind Sukumar

Aravind Sukumar, Senior Systems Engineer, introduces the Programmable Flow integration with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and demonstrates how the two products interact.


NEC ProgrammableFlow vCOps Solution

Event: Networking Field Day 9

Appearance: NEC Presents At Networking Field Day 9

Company: NEC Networking

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Personnel: Toshal Dudhwala

Toshal Dudhwala, Senior Product Manager, introduces the new ProgrammableFlow solution for VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCOps).


NEC ProgrammableFlow Product Update

Event: Networking Field Day 9

Appearance: NEC Presents At Networking Field Day 9

Company: NEC Networking

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Personnel: Toshal Dudhwala

Toshal Dudhwala, Senior Product Manager, introduces the NEC ProgrammableFlow product and discusses the recent updates to the solution.


Introduction to NEC Networking

Event: Networking Field Day 9

Appearance: NEC Presents At Networking Field Day 9

Company: NEC Networking

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Personnel: Don Clark

Don Clark, Director of Business Development, introduces NEC Networking and discusses their product lines and contributions to software defined networking.


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