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.


Intel Optane Group Update with Kristie Mann

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: Intel Presents Optane at Storage Field Day 23

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Kristie Mann

Kristie Mann, VP of Products and General Manager, gives an update on the Intel Optane Group at Storage Field Day 23.


Critical Multi-Cloud Capabilities with MinIO

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: MinIO Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: MinIO

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Personnel: AB Periasamy, Daniel Valdivia, Jonathan Symonds

In this section of MinIO’s Storage Field Day 23 presentation, MinIO stays in the product to demonstrate its ground-breaking object storage performance using Speedtest as well as Continuous Data Protection and Active-Active Multi-Site Replication. The section concludes with a look at the future of the cloud. Presented by AB Periasamy, Co-Founder and CEO, Jonathan Symonds, CMO, and Daniel Valdivia, Engineer.


Operationalizing Multi-Cloud with MinIO

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: MinIO Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: MinIO

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Personnel: Daniel Valdivia, Jonathan Symonds

In this section of MinIO’s Storage Field Day 23 presentation, MinIO provides a hands on demonstration of provisioning across clouds, managing identity across clouds and running an application across clouds. Presented by Jonathan Symonds, CMO, and Daniel Valdivia, Engineer.


Object Storage as Primary Storage with MinIO

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: MinIO Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: MinIO

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Personnel: AB Periasamy, Jonathan Symonds

Object Storage as Primary Storage. Object storage was always primary storage in the public cloud. Now it is primary storage on the private cloud and at the edge. The impact is that multi-cloud is accelerated. This section covers that trend and where MinIO fits – complete with use cases. Presented by AB Periasamy, Co-Founder and CEO, and Jonathan Symonds, CMO.


Introducing MinIO High-Performance Multi-Cloud Object Store

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: MinIO Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: MinIO

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Personnel: Jonathan Symonds

This section covers the guiding principles of performance, cloud-native and simplicity while outlining MinIO’s extraordinary growth. Presented by Jonathan Symonds, CMO.


Technical Deep Dive on VAST Data Resilience

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: VAST Data

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Personnel: Howard Marks

Howard Marks, Technologist Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, gives a technical deep dive on resilience and the quest to six nines, plus a look at VAST’s disaggregated and shared everything (DASE) platform.


GPU Direct Storage with VAST Data Universal Storage

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: VAST Data

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Personnel: Subramanian Kartik

Subramanian Kartik, Vice President Global Sales Engineering, describes VAST Data Universal Storage and the process of applying it to GPU Direct Storage. A look at AI and ML inference and training with GPU Direct Storage.


Introduction to GPU Direct Storage with NVIDIA and VAST Data

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: NVIDIA, VAST Data

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Personnel: CJ Newburn

CJ Newburn, Magnum IO Architect, NVIDIA GPU Cloud, gives an introduction to NVIDIA GPU Direct Storage, the ecosystem and a look at the use cases.


The VAST Data Advantage

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: VAST Data Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: VAST Data

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Personnel: Jeff Denworth

A business update to VAST Data, the data platform company for the AI powered world. VAST’s Universal Storage data platform is a next generation all-flash data platform that addresses the challenges and compromises of scale, performance, efficiency and cost, to better meet the demands of today’s data-deluged and AI-powered enterprises in a new era of machine intelligence.


SIOS Delivers High Availability Data Protection: Customer Success

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: SIOS Technology Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: SIOS

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Personnel: Harry Aujla

SIOS customers love the dependable operation, high performance, and ease of use of our products. In this session, EMEA Technical Pre-Sales Director, Harry Aujla will review real-world customer scenarios that illustrate the ways SIOS has implemented cost-efficient, reliable, high availability and disaster protection and enabled a cloud migration.


SIOS Deep Dive and Demo: High Availability Clustering and Application Awareness

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: SIOS Technology Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: SIOS

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Personnel: Dave Bermingham

SIOS Technology Corp. makes software solutions that provide high availability and disaster protection (HA/DR) for mission-critical applications, databases, and ERPs, such as SQL Server, SAP, HANA and Oracle. Senior Technical Evangelist and Microsoft Infrastructure MVP, Dave Bermingham demonstrates how to create a SANless cluster by pairing Windows Server Failover Clustering with SIOS DataKeeper for simple, flexible clustering in the cloud. He also demonstrates how powerful application recovery kits enable SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux to maintain application-specific best practices for reliable, automatic failovers.


High Availability and Disaster Recovery with SIOS Technology

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: SIOS Technology Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: SIOS

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Personnel: Cassius Rhue

SIOS Technology Corp. high availability and disaster recovery solutions protect critical Windows and Linux applications operating across physical, virtual, cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud environments from downtime and disasters. In this presentation, VP of Customer Experience, Cassius Rhue introduces SIOS Technology and describes how we enable customers to operate critical workloads in the cloud without sacrificing HA protection.


Enable a Highly Productive Remote Workforce with a Hammerspace Global Data Environment

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: Hammerspace Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: Hammerspace

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Personnel: Molly Presley

The way businesses work today has profoundly changed, with many companies no longer requiring their employees to work from office locations. Providing remote access for employees to have a unified view of an organization’s network shares is extremely challenging, as data is typically stored in multiple data silos spanning data centers and clouds.
Hammerspace makes network shares visible and accessible to anyone anywhere as though they were sitting next to local storage at the data center. Hammerspace also simplifies IT administration, enabling admins to globally set up policies so applications and users can access all data in the Global Data Environment. This global control of data policies and orchestration may be monitored and adapted as needed to changing requirements and resources through multiple administrative tools via the GUI, Admin CLI, Hammerspace Toolkit, or REST API. Presented by Molly Presley, SVP Marketing at Hammerspace.


Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud NAS Storage with a Hammerspace Global Data Environment

Event: Storage Field Day 23

Appearance: Hammerspace Presents at Storage Field Day 23

Company: Hammerspace

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Personnel: Tony Asaro

Organizations are hungry for solutions to simplify data accessibility challenges for decentralized data and remote workers. The Global Data Environment is a software-defined solution which may be deployed on commodity bare metal servers, any virtual environment, and in the Cloud. It supports virtually all storage types from any vendor, including most public and private Cloud solutions to enable global data access from:

  • Any Datacenter, Any Cloud, Any Region, Anywhere. Hammerspace enables organizations to easily store, protect, and operate on data by automatically moving it to the best location by policy or on demand, to access compute resources, take advantage of the lowest cost infrastructure, and make files locally available to distributed workforces.
  • Applications Anywhere. Applications can access data stored in remote locations while using automated orchestration tools to provide high-performance local access when needed for processing.
  • Users Anywhere. People are increasingly working from all parts of the world. Organizations seek to grow their talent pools with access to team members no matter where they reside. Hammerspace automates and optimizes the movement of data, and eliminates the need to replicate a full copy of the files at each site, enabling the enterprise to work more efficiently and cost-effectively.

Presented by Tony Asaro, SVP Strategy at Hammerspace.