VAST Data Announces Next Generation Platform Concept Called Ceres

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: AIC, NVIDIA, Solidigm, VAST Data

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Personnel: CT Sun, Greg Matson, Howard Marks, Jeff Denworth, Rob Davis

An introduction to a next generation platform concept called Ceres. Enabled by VAST’s Universal Storage data platform, Ceres is built leveraging new hardware technologies including NVIDIA BlueField DPUs (data processing units) and Solidigm ruler-based hyperscale flash drives that improves performance, simplifies serviceability and reduces data center costs. Presented by Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder and CMO.


Cisco Secure Application for AppDynamics

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Randy Birdsall

Cisco dives into Secure Application, the only solution purpose-built to protect business-critical applications no matter where they run, from the inside out, to maintain speed and uptime, while balancing risk. You’ll learn by leveraging the AppDynamics agent, Secure Application will uniquely bring together business, performance, and security insights to protect your brand against slowdowns and exploits.


Cisco Cloud Native Application Connectivity and Security Solutions

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Tim Szigeti

Businesses are increasingly adopting Cloud Native microservice-based architectures to enable rapid application development with flexibility, stability, portability, and scale. These Cloud Native architectures present new connectivity and security challenges to operators. Learn how Cisco is bringing their extensive experience, expertise, and thought leadership in networking and security to these new architecture domains. In this session, they introduce you to Cisco Service Mesh Manager and Cisco Secure Application Cloud.


Cisco Secure Cloud Insights, Beyond Just CSPM

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Jamey Heary

This session will dive into identifying, mapping, analyzing, and securing your cyber assets and attack surface with Cisco Secure Cloud Insights. You’ll learn how to gain full visibility into your complex cloud environments to uncover threats, close compliance gaps, and prioritize risk. Cisco dives into how Secure Cloud Insights moves your visibility from just posture management to full cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM).


Cisco Nexus Dashboard Bolsters Network Visibility with Innovations

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Matthias Wessendorf

Cisco Nexus Dashboard is the solution that IT has been looking for to be able to build, connect and operate hybrid cloud networks rapidly and securely. In this session, you’ll learn more about Cisco’s latest cloud-neutral innovations, tracking end to end flow across service chains real time, how to break down operational silos between network and server teams and more.


Cisco Endpoint Security Posture Analysis and Trusted Access

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Krishnan Thiruvengadam

Learn how Cisco AI Endpoint Analytics is used to evaluate endpoint security posture by continuously analyzing endpoint attributes and behavior for anomalies, threats, and vulnerabilities. Find out how it uses the evaluation to provide trusted access to endpoints and IOT devices around your enterprise. They discuss two key use cases with demos.


Cisco Private 5G Designed for Enterprise

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Ravi Guntupalli

Learn more about Cisco’s Private 5G solution and how it was developed with Enterprise customers in mind. Ravi Guntupalli, Director of Technology in Cisco’s Mass-Scale Infrastructure Group, discusses how the solution integrates into existing Enterprise architectures seamlessly, how the current architecture from Cisco achieves the goal of simplifying the network integration, and how it can ensure delivering a unified identity and policy across the various access options for the Enterprise customers.


Introduction to End User Monitoring with ThousandEyes

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Company: Cisco, ThousandEyes

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Personnel: Alex Cruz Farmer

With the huge shift to hybrid work, IT had to completely reinvent their playbooks to support this new way of working. One of their biggest challenges is visibility. This session gives you an insight into the day-to-day challenges that IT teams face and how ThousandEyes is helping those teams identify and resolve end-user issues.


Cisco SD-WAN and WAN Transformation

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Jean-Marc Barozet

The Enterprise WAN is going through a major transformation and is changing from a network-of-networks to a network of data centers. This session goes over the Meet at the Colo and Network Cloud paradigms, explains the new Hierarchical SD-WAN, details the SD-WAN Gateway or Border Router role, and describes overall observability and will cover orchestration and automated guided workflows.


Redefining Edge Intelligence with Cisco Meraki MV Sense

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Appearance: Cisco Meraki Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Company: Cisco, Meraki

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Personnel: Matthew Marston

In this session, you’ll learn how Cisco Meraki is tackling big customer problems in a small package using MV smart cameras with edge intelligence.


The Evolution of the Cisco Meraki Cloud Architecture

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Appearance: Cisco Meraki Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Company: Cisco, Meraki

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Personnel: Bryant Chae

Cisco Meraki discusses how they have scaled their cloud backend to support the world’s largest cloud customer deployment of over 10M+ devices online.


Cisco AI Enhanced RRM: The Next Chapter in RF Performance

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Networks Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Jim Florwick

In this session, you’ll see how Cisco’s AI Analytics Cloud, Cisco DNA Center, and the Cisco Catalyst Wireless Stack are combined to bring the next level in Enterprise RF Performance Management. They’ll dive into how RF Networks are dynamic and experience a very wide range of conditions throughout the day. You’ll also learn how Cisco AI Analytics and AI Enhanced RRM work together to learn and evaluate outcomes based on the learned RF Performance telemetry stored for the task.


Cisco Wi-Fi 6E Readiness Update

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Networks Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Company: Cisco, Meraki

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Personnel: Jim Florwick, Steve Rodriguez

Cisco updates the state of the spectrum worldwide, dives into the industry discussion on discovery, client capabilities, and the Catalyst approach. Jim Florwick and Steve Rodriguez conclude with a deep dive on the new Cisco Catalyst 9136AXI and Cisco Meraki MR57 Wi-Fi 6E Access Points.


Cisco Catalyst IE9300: A New Generation of Rugged Industrial Switching

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Networks Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Carlos Gonzalez

This session deep dives into the Cisco Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series Switch, a high-density fiber port switch, specifically designed for the performance challenges of industrial verticals with a small footprint and ruggedized form factor.


Under the Hood of the Cisco Catalyst 9000X

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Networks Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Siddharth Krishna

In this session, Cisco dives into the premium additions to the Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switching Portfolio. They cover the Cisco Catalyst 9300X and 9400X high performance access switches along with the enhancements and innovation they bring. They end looking at the new core switching additions – Cisco Catalyst 9500X Switch and 9600X Supervisor (powered by Cisco Silicon One) that introduce 400G in the campus for the first time as well as provide multifold switching capacity and scale.


Pure Storage Pure1 Edge Service Use Case Demos

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Ralph Ronzio, Stan Yanitskiy

Ralph Ronzio, Technical Director, Digital Experience at Pure Storage, closes out the day by demoing some of the use cases that the Pure1 Edge Service enables, and shows how easy it is to initiate a code upgrade right from Pure1.


Pure Storage Pure1 Edge Service Overview

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Stan Yanitskiy

Stan Yanitskiy, Senior Product Manager at Pure Storage, provides an overview of the Pure1 Edge Service, which powers Pure Storage’s Fusion and enables other use cases such as Customer Driven Upgrades.


Last Time on Storage Field Day with Pure Storage

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Ralph Ronzio, Stan Yanitskiy

Ralph Ronzio, Technical Director, discusses Digital Experience at Pure Storage, covers some updates on what we shared last time, including a preview of Proactive Recommendations, updates to the PaaS management workflows, and more.


Unleashing Similarity Search with Intel Optane Persistent Memory

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: Intel Presents Optane at Storage Field Day 23

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Jawad Khan

Similarity search is the backbone of many modern applications, such as web search, media (e.g., image, video, or audio) search, and recommender systems. With exploding datasets, Similarity Search or Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) Search at extreme scales is bottlenecked by existing hardware in performance and cost. Join Intel Principal Engineer, Dr. Jawad Khan, as he describes Intel’s winning entry in the NeurIPS Conference Competition “Big ANN Challenge.” He’ll describe the winning algorithm, design choices, the Intel Xeon + Optane PMem hardware set-up and results – 4X better CAPEX+OPEX than the alternative options. Presented by Dr. Jawad Khan, Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation.


Optimize memory deployments in VMware VMs with Intel Optane Persistent Memory

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: Intel Presents Optane at Storage Field Day 23

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Flavio Fomin

The ever-increasing consolidation of business-critical workloads on VMware hybrid clouds, together with the accelerated growth of data-intensive applications, such as AI/ML, continue to escalate the challenges to control costs, energy and footprint while supporting SLAs. Flavio Fomin, Intel Cloud Solution Engineer, will discuss how a tiered memory solution with Intel Optane PMem helps address these challenges and provides capabilities to optimize memory and foster VM consolidation. Presented by Flavio Fomin, Cloud Solution Architect, Intel Optane Group.