Subscriber Services Take a Quantum Leap with Cisco’s Cloud Native Broadband Network Gateway

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Appearance: Cisco Mass Scale Infrastructure Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Andy Schutz, Rana El Desouky Kazamel

The prevalence of Cloud and Compute in operator environments, modernized software architectures, and intensified focus on operational simplification have led to huge steps forward in subscriber services. Cisco is embracing these advancements in public standards and forums while internally mirroring that with the introduction of Cisco’s Cloud Native BNG. Watch this session to learn how subscriber services are evolving and what leaps Cisco is taking to lead this shift.


Cisco Routed Optical Networking Solution Demo

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Appearance: Cisco Mass Scale Infrastructure Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Phil Bedard

Cisco innovations in routing and optical technology is changing the way Cisco builds converged IP networks. Managing these networks requires the same level of innovation. This sessionintroduces and demonstrates Routed Optical Network management using Cisco’s open controller-based automation solution.


Build Your Network with Cisco Routed Optical Networking Solution

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Appearance: Cisco Mass Scale Infrastructure Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Rana El Desouky Kazamel


Tech Field Day Roundtable: Intel Xeon Scalable in the Server Market

Event: Intel Data Center Update with Tech Field Day

Appearance: Tech Field Day Roundtable: Intel Data Center Update Reaction

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Stephen Foskett

In this special Tech Field Day Roundtable session, Stephen Foskett leads the delegates on a discussion of Intel’s position in the enterprise server market. Is the 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable Processor competitive or dominant? And what will the market look like in the next few years?


Tech Field Day Roundtable: Edge to Cloud with Intel Xeon Scalable

Event: Intel Data Center Update with Tech Field Day

Appearance: Tech Field Day Roundtable: Intel Data Center Update Reaction

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Stephen Foskett

In this special Tech Field Day Roundtable Discussion, Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT leads the delegates through the Intel Xeon Scalable Platform positioning in the cloud. How does the third-generation Xeon fit into the public cloud and edge compute portfolio?


Tech Field Day Roundtable: Confidential Computing with Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

Event: Intel Data Center Update with Tech Field Day

Appearance: Intel Confidential Computing Update with Tech Field Day

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Scott Raynor, Stephen Foskett

In this special Tech Field Day Roundtable Discussion, the delegates discuss Intel’s Confidential Computing technology, including Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Lead by Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT, the discussion also features Scott Raynor, Security Application Engineer for Intel Corporation. For more information, visit http://www.intel.lv/ConfidentialComputing2


Why Intel Matters in the Cloud

Event: Intel Data Center Update with Tech Field Day

Appearance: Intel Cloud Silicon Update with Tech Field Day

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Joe Opdahl

Waves of digital transformation continue to sweep across markets and enterprises, cloud-based IT strategies promise gains in agility, security, and efficiency. These gains come at the cost of growing complexity, as enterprise cloud architectures span multiple clouds. Questions of how to ensure performance to meet business needs, how to scale, will my workloads be portable to another cloud, how much work is involved in moving to the cloud, are top of mind. The answer to these questions have everything to do with the underlying cloud infrastructure used to support your workloads. Learn more how Intel enables performance with the flexibility you demand across cloud service environments. Presented by Joseph Opdahl, CSP Marketing, Cloud & Enterprise Solutions Group (CESG), Data Platforms Group, Intel Corporation.  For more information, visit http://www.intel.lv/CloudPoweredbyIntel


Technical and Performance Overview for 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Platform

Event: Intel Data Center Update with Tech Field Day

Appearance: Intel Xeon Scalable Update with Tech Field Day

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Ram Ramakrishnan

Ram Ramakrishnan, Director Datacenter Performance, Data Platforms Group (DPG), discusses the performance improvements in Intel’s third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor platform known as Ice Lake-SP. After a brief overview of the 3rd generation Xeon Scalable Platform, he compares performance of Ice Lake with Cascade Lake, Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell Xeon platforms. He then discusses the impact of new instructions and capabilities like DDIO, AVX-512, Crypto Acceleration, DL Boost (VNNI int8 vs. fp32), and performance in many applications, from infrastructure and web services to HPC and AI. Considering the entire platform, including Optane Persistent Memory and SSD and Ethernet 800, performance is dramatically improved in many server workloads.


Architectural Deep Dive for 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Platform

Event: Intel Data Center Update with Tech Field Day

Appearance: Intel Xeon Scalable Update with Tech Field Day

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Irma Esmer, Ram Ramakrishnan, Thor Sewell

Irma Esmer Papazian, Senior Principal Engineer, Lead Architect, Data Center Processor Architecture, gives a deeper look into the third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor platform known as Ice Lake. She begins with an overview of the 3rd gen architecture and how “Ice Lake-SP” is positioned in the market with next-generation compute, memory, IO, and scaling. She then discusses the “Sunny Cove” core microarchitecture improvements and new instructions for cryptography and compression. This includes improvements in processing latency under changing power settings. Next she discusses Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) for trusted computing, Optane Persistent Memory capabilities in PMem 200 (“Barlow Pass”), and Optane SSD P5800X. This presentation also features Ram Ramakrishnan, Director Datacenter Performance, Data Platforms Group (DPG), and Thor Sewell, Product Line Director, Data Platforms Group (DPG), and the Tech Field Day delegates.


Technology Update on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

Event: Intel Data Center Update with Tech Field Day

Appearance: Intel Xeon Scalable Update with Tech Field Day

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Thor Sewell

Get the details about Intel’s latest Xeon Scalable processors, allowing customers to benefit from new capabilities built for industry-leading performance and flexibility from the edge to the cloud. Learn more about the platforms new enhancements including: Built-in security (SGX), built-in AI (Intel DL Boost) and built-in crypto acceleration. Presented by Thor Sewell, Product Line Director, Data Platforms Group (DPG), Intel Corporation.


DL Boost for AI Performance in Intel Xeon 3rd Generation Processors

Event: Intel Data Center Update with Tech Field Day

Appearance: Intel AI at the Edge Update with Tech Field Day

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Rajesh Poornachandran, Shamima Najnin

This session provides a deep dive on 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Deep Learning Boost (DL Boost®) solution stack towards lower numerical precision deep learning inference. We will start with a quick walk through of 3rd Gen Intel Xeon DL Boost solution stack and roadmap with support across popular deep learning frameworks, and the benefits of lower numerical precision in deep learning inference across variety of use cases. Next, we will focus on performance optimization opportunities with examples on how to unleash 3rd Gen Intel Xeon DL Boost features. Presented by Rajesh Poornachandran, Principal Engineer, Data Platforms Group (DPG) and Shamima Najnin, Software Engineering Manager, DPEA, DPG, at Intel. For more information, visit http://www.intel.lv/DLBoost


Tech Field Day Roundtable: Intel Xeon Scalable Technical Capabilities

Event: Intel Data Center Update with Tech Field Day

Appearance: Tech Field Day Roundtable: Intel Data Center Update Keynote

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Stephen Foskett

In this Tech Field Day Roundtable, the delegates discuss the technical capabilities of Intel’s third-generation Xeon Scalable processor platform, code name “Ice Lake”.


Tech Field Day Roundtable: Considering the Market for Intel Xeon Scalable

Event: Intel Data Center Update with Tech Field Day

Appearance: Tech Field Day Roundtable: Intel Data Center Update Keynote

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Stephen Foskett

In this Tech Field Day Roundtable, the delegates discuss the market presence of Intel’s third-generation Xeon Scalable processor platform, code name “Ice Lake”.


Gluware Automating Cisco Meraki

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Appearance: Gluware Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Company: Gluware

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Personnel: Michael Haugh, Olivier Huynh Van

This use-case will demonstrate how Gluware provides a layer of automation through API for Cisco Meraki. Meraki Organizations, Networks and Device Parameters can be edited and automated at scale.


Gluware Automating Cisco SD-WAN (vManage)

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Appearance: Gluware Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Company: Gluware

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Personnel: Michael Haugh, Olivier Huynh Van

This use-case will demonstrate how Gluware enables hybrid automation of Cisco SD-WAN, through SSH/CLI access to the devices and API integration with vManage. Gluware can automate Feature Templates, CLI Templates and Device Parameters.


Gluware Automating Public Cloud IaaS

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Appearance: Gluware Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Company: Gluware

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Personnel: Michael Haugh, Olivier Huynh Van

This use-case demonstration will highlight how Gluware leverages the integrated Terraform engine and AWS Provider to automate IaaS. Gluware Config Modeling simplifies and abstracts Terraform TF files into easier to use constructs for Network Operations to automate event complex IaaS designs and VNFs within.


Gluware Introduction and Product Overview Demo

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Appearance: Gluware Presents at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021

Company: Gluware

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Personnel: Michael Haugh

This introduction section shows how Gluware brings an intelligent platform with pre-packaged applications and new integrations with API-based systems including a short demo of how customer use Gluware to automate their enterprise networks.


VMware Level Up Threat Prevention Inside the Data Center

Event: Security Field Day 5

Appearance: VMware NSX Presents at Security Field Day 5

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Chad Skipper, Stijn Vanveerdeghem

With the acquisition of Lastline, VMware further extended its capabilities for NSX Firewall to deliver VMware NSX Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP). This solution includes capabilities consisting of VMware NSX Distributed IDS/IPS and Network Sandboxing and Network Traffic Analysis (NTA/NDR). NSX Advanced Threat Prevention allows security teams to stop the spread of attacks that breach the perimeter. The IDS/IPS can detect network threats by combining industry-leading signature sets and protocol decoders, the network sandbox provides complete malware analysis of artifacts traversing your data center and network traffic analysis detects lateral threats and anomalies in the traffic flow between hops.


VMware Segmentation Made Easy: A Practical Demo

Event: Security Field Day 5

Appearance: VMware NSX Presents at Security Field Day 5

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Brian Heili

This session will walk you through a real-world example of how you can secure VMware vSphere workloads with NSX Firewall. This allows you to implement segmentation in your network with just a few simple steps, in a matter of minutes, and without making any changes to your existing environment. Don’t believe us? Watch the demo and finally achieve your goal of segmenting applications and prevent lateral movement within the data center.


VMware Operationalizing East – West Security at Scale with NSX Firewall

Event: Security Field Day 5

Appearance: VMware NSX Presents at Security Field Day 5

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Dhruv Jain

VMware’s software-defined firewalling approach allows enterprises to easily operationalizing East-West security at scale and ensure threats are not able to spread laterally through the network. Enterprises can now buy and deploy VMware NSX Firewall as a standalone security product. No longer do you need to be an existing NSX customer to take advantage of our innovative software-based approach. There are no more excuses for why you can’t modernize your security strategy today.