Cloud-Native Chip Evolution with AMD

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: AMD Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: AMD

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Personnel: Robert Hormuth

Robert Hormuth, VP Architecture and Strategy, Data Center Solutions Group at AMD, presents the transformative impact of cloud-native principles on chip design. Cloud-native, emphasizing scalability, flexibility, and rapid application development, is influencing chip design to meet the unique requirements of containerized and virtualized applications. This shift requires understanding the challenges posed by elevated I/O latency and memory fluctuations. Data Processing Units (DPUs) play a crucial role by offloading intensive I/O tasks, increasing tenant instances, reducing CPU usage, and enhancing control and security. AMD’s chiplet-based design aligns with cloud-native principles, offering a cost-effective, modular, and standards-compliant solution. Overall, this presentation underscores the pivotal role of DPUs and chiplet designs in enabling a cloud-native approach that benefits both on-prem and hybrid cloud environments.


Understand and Optimize Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Events with the Mezmo Telemetry Pipeline

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Introducing Mezmo at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Mezmo

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Personnel: Braxton Johnston

In this demo presentation by Mezmo, you will learn steps DevOps, SREs, and Platform Engineers can take to understand their telemetry data, optimize it for usage in observability platforms, and make enterprises more responsive. The session will demonstrate data profiling to identify patterns for repetitive and redundant data, separating signal from noise, and dynamic pipelines for real-time response. It will show steps to optimize logs and events for consumption by downstream observability platforms like DataDog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk. You’ll learn how pipelines can help lower observability costs, improve response times, provide business insights, improve security and compliance, and maximize the investment in your current observability tools. Presented by Braxton Johnston.


Mezmo – Delivering Telemetry Data Understanding and Optimization for Cost Effective Observability

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Introducing Mezmo at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Mezmo

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Personnel: Tucker Callaway

Managing telemetry data (logs, metrics, events, traces) has been an uphill task in the face of increasing volumes and decreasing budgets. SRE, Platform Engineering, and DevOps teams struggle to understand what is in the data, and to control data volumes to keep enterprise systems running for desired performance and service delivery.  This session discusses how Mezmo telemetry pipelines help understand telemetry data, transform and enrich it, and finally route the right data in the right format to any observability platform for cost control, business insights, and faster incident response. Presented by Tucker Callaway.


How to be a Data Center Analytics Superhero with Juniper Apstra

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Juniper Networks Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Juniper Networks

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Personnel: Kyle Baxter, Rajeev Menon Kadekuzhi

Dive into how you can enhance Apstra’s extensive pre-built Intent- Based Analytics (IBA) with custom collectors and dashboards. During the demonstration, you will learn how to collect valuable data, enrich it with knowledge from the vast Apstra graph database, and create new visualizations plus custom alerts to provide better insights and information about your data centers or AI clusters. Presented by Kyle Baxter and Rajeev Menon Kadekuzhi.


Automating AI Cluster Design with Juniper Apstra

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Juniper Networks Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Juniper Networks

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Personnel: James Kelly

This demo shows how to “terraform apply” to effectively import many AI cluster design examples into Apstra. Designs include many sizes of clusters, GPU compute fabrics for model training, storage fabrics, and management fabrics. The logical rack types follow the NVIDIA best practice for rail-optimized design which is explained with the topology of eight leaf devices in a stripe grouping. Presented by James Kelly.


Cloud Style On Premises Networking with Juniper Apstra

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Juniper Networks Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Juniper Networks

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Personnel: Chris Marget

This session shows how data center (DC) operators can achieve public cloud-like service consumption on premises by using Apstra and Terraform to automate end-to- end application creation. Through a sample app deployment, it shows how Juniper’s Terraform provider fits traditionally complex network services, like EVPN, neatly into a predefined application automation. Learn how Apstra with the Terraform Provider for Apstra allows application owners to self-serve network services in a familiar way, providing seamless deployments across any infrastructure. Presented by Chris Marget.


Private Data Center as Easy as Cloud with Juniper Apstra

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Juniper Networks Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Juniper Networks

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Personnel: Mansour Karam

The evolution of the internet over the last 20 years led Juniper Apstra to an operations- first approach to transform the data center network. This drove us to invent “intent- based networking”, which has helped our customers manage their private data centers as easy as cloud. More recently, advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have presented challenges, but Juniper is well-positioned to help customers navigate these new opportunities in AI infrastructure and AIOps. Presented by Mansour Karam.


StorMagic Edge Control Live Demo

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Stuart Campbell

In this video, you’ll see Edge Control working in a live environment managing 10 sites which have 20 VSAs running. We’ll show how easy it is to view overall status in the dashboard and to click down into each VSA for more detailed information and which management functions are available right from Edge Control, eliminating the need to use multiple tools.


StorMagic Edge Control Overview

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Bruce Kornfeld

In this video, you’ll see an overview of StorMagic’s cloud-based, SaaS management tool for SvSAN. Edge Control enables customers to easily monitor and manage all of their edge sites in any part of the world, all from one browser. This version 1.0 is available to all StorMagic customers free of charge.


Falling Down a LLM Rabbit Hole with Ben Young

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Ignite Edge Field Day 2

Company: Ignite

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Personnel: Ben Young

In this Edge Field Day Delegate Ignite Talk, Ben Young shares his journey into building a chatbot web interface, with a specific focus on creating a chatbot for the Veeam knowledge base articles using OpenAI models. Along the way, he delves into the concept of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and the challenges of relying solely on large language models, such as limited access to private data and high retraining costs. To overcome these challenges, Young emphasizes the importance of understanding the chatbot’s inner workings, from document retrieval to interpretation and answer generation. He describes the process of building the knowledge base dataset and the API, highlighting the role of embeddings in matching queries to relevant information within the database. Young also explores different options for data storage, including vector databases and traditional databases with vector support, while noting the use of tools like Superbase and Langchain to manage queries and interactions with the data. Ultimately, he underscores the power of language models like Vani GPT in providing accurate and targeted responses, emphasizing the significance of crafting effective queries and prompts for optimal results.


Generative AI Tools – What Could Go Wrong? with Gina Rosenthal

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Ignite Edge Field Day 2

Company: Ignite

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Personnel: Gina Rosenthal

In this Edge Field Day Delegate Ignite Talk, Gina Rosenthal discusses the promising growth of generative AI technology, which leverages machine learning to generate predictive data and discern patterns. However, she emphasizes the potential pitfalls associated with generative AI. The technology can perpetuate bias, particularly when trained on data from the internet, which may have inherent biases due to historical demographics. Additionally, the environmental and ethical concerns surrounding generative AI are significant, from the high computational power and energy requirements to the potential for creating or spreading harmful content. Rosenthal calls for a more cautious and responsible approach to utilizing generative AI, emphasizing the importance of understanding its limitations and risks while recognizing that human creativity and critical thinking remain essential, ensuring a balanced perspective on its practical applications without undue reliance.


Leveraging Generative AI for Accurate Career Path Predictions with Jim Czuprynski

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Ignite Edge Field Day 2

Company: Ignite

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Personnel: Jim Czuprynski

In this Edge Field Day Delegate Ignite Talk, Jim Czuprynski introduced an innovative tool developed by his team that harnesses generative AI within Oracle databases. This tool draws from a data pool of 600,000 IT professionals’ profiles, offering not only predictive insights into an individual’s IT career but also a glimpse into how colleagues perceive them. Czuprynski’s talk emphasizes the value of this technological advancement and its potential to challenge cognitive biases. He offers a compelling narrative on the intersection of technology, intuition, and cognitive bias in our lives, stressing the importance of relying on data-driven insights rather than intuition alone.


Bridging the IT Security Gap With Brian Knudtson

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Ignite Edge Field Day 2

Company: Ignite

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Personnel: Brian Knudtson

In this Edge Field Day Delegate Ignite Talk, Brian Knudtson discussed the communication challenges between IT and security teams in businesses. Typically, IT focuses on maintaining efficient information flow, while security prioritizes data protection and preventing breaches, often leading to the misperception of the security team as a “Department of No.” To foster effective collaboration, both teams must gain a better understanding of each other’s roles. Collaboration between security and businesses is crucial for enabling and supporting business objectives and secure data use. Backup infrastructure plays a pivotal role in data cataloging, protection, and threat detection, aiding in disaster recovery and digital forensics. Knudtson emphasized the need for aligning communication and actions between IT and security teams and adapting to emerging trends like entropy detection for compromise indicators. Customized backup integration with security workflows and proactive measures such as diverse backup policies were also highlighted as essential components of successful collaboration in safeguarding the organization.


Don’t Get Cut By Edge Security! Edge Field Day 2 Roundtable

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Delegate Roundtable Discussions at Edge Field Day 2

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

In this Edge Field Day roundtable discussion, the delegates take on the delicate balance between privacy and security, particularly in the context of data privacy at the edge. The vulnerabilities of widely distributed data and remote devices were highlighted, with examples like the Pegasus spyware serving as stark reminders of potential threats. The ‘zero trust’ approach was emphasized for continuous verification of edge device security. The conversation explored the physical security aspects of devices and the potential for edge devices to enhance authentication security, citing Apple’s pass-key technology. It also considered the challenges and prospects of using edge computing for security, particularly focusing on the impact of privacy, law enforcement surveillance, and the ethical dimensions of technology. The overarching message stressed the importance of prioritizing societal benefits as technology continues to evolve.


Is There Only a Single Edge? Edge Field Day 2 Roundtable

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Delegate Roundtable Discussions at Edge Field Day 2

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

In this Edge Field Day 2 Roundtable discussion, delegates debated the definition of edge computing, considering whether it’s a device-driven data-gathering concept or a location for computing and storage. Practical examples, like smart highway cameras, illustrated the importance of performance and localization in edge computing. The discussion emphasized how edge technology offers organizations localized control, customized solutions, and benefits in performance, compliance, safety, and regulatory requirements. However, challenges like energy consumption, heat generation, and application ownership need careful management. This shift toward edge computing is fostering innovative approaches, such as ghost kitchens and mobile payment processing, reshaping our understanding of technology and computing solutions.


Automating Day 1 to Day N Operations with NodeWeaver

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: NodeWeaver Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: NodeWeaver

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Personnel: Carlo Daffara, Lorenzo Faleschini, Tom Mays

We continue the “hero’s journey” to focus on addressing the real world operational challenges from day 1 going forward. Here we will discuss and demonstrate cluster expansion, failover, automated management, autoscaling, remote management, application deployment, and service chaining. We will also discuss the unique security challenges presented by the distributed edge and how NodeWeaver addresses them.

NodeWeaver sets the standard for software-defined edge operating platforms, enabling the seamless operation of autonomous nano clouds. The platform can be deployed on any hardware and at any edge location, making it adaptable and versatile. With NodeWeaver’s extensive capabilities for long-term management, data protection, and excellent monitoring abilities, businesses can trust in the platform’s reliability while benefitting from its innovative features.


Automating Day -1 to Day 0 Operations with NodeWeaver

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: NodeWeaver Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: NodeWeaver

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Personnel: Lorenzo Faleschini, Tom Mays

We will take you through a “hero’s journey” of the real world challenges associated with deploying, managing, and operating edge compute infrastructure from day -1 through day N. In this section, Tom and Lorenzo will focus on day -1 to day 0 and provide a live demo of NodeWeaver’s zero-touch provisioning and configuration capability while deploying on heterogeneous systems.


NodeWeaver Platform Overview

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: NodeWeaver Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: NodeWeaver

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Personnel: Carlo Daffara

Carlo will provide a high-level overview of NodeWeaver’s key features and functionality and demonstrate these capabilities via the UI. This will also provide additional context for the other demos.

NodeWeaver is an advanced platform that enables extensive control over a NanoCloud through both web browser and API-based interfaces. Key features include hiding hardware properties, enabling easier manageability, and integrating probes that monitor and provide performance reports for each physical node. The Distributed File System optimizes storage by dividing data into blocks and replicating across multiple storage devices. NodeWeaver also supports the creation of virtual networks, switches and storage with fully customizable templates alongside context-based alterations on deployment.


Tackling Edge Computing Challenges with NodeWeaver

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: NodeWeaver Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: NodeWeaver

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Personnel: Carlo Daffara

There are many unique challenges associated with deploying, managing, and operating compute infrastructure for running applications at the distributed edge. In this presentation, NodeWeaver CEO Carlo Daffara discusses these challenges and outlines key NodeWeaver customer use cases.

NodeWeaver is an innovative software layer specifically designed to navigate the complexities of edge computing. By transforming hardware devices into a nano cloud that mirrors the capabilities of a public cloud, NodeWeaver enables seamless management, installation and operation across various devices while supporting diverse data requirements. Taking a step further, it alleviates the need for a fixed hardware compatibility list, accommodating a broad range of hardware devices, including Raspberry Pi and industrial-grade servers.


Demo of HPE MicroServer and StorMagic SvSAN Failure Scenarios

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Bruce Kornfeld, Stuart Campbell

In this video you’ll see a live demonstration of how SvSAN keeps applications running, even when servers fail. We show a simple, 2 node solution with 2 HPE MicroServers and the witness running on a Raspberry Pi. The demo shows the VMs continuing to run even when one server and the witness have their power plugs pulled. When the server re-boots, the VMs automatically move back to the restored server.


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