MinIO Innovation Showcase: VMware Data Persistence, Console, Operator, and SUBNET

Event: Storage Field Day 21

Appearance: MinIO Presents at Storage Field Day 21

Company: MinIO

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Personnel: AB Periasamy, Daniel Valdivia, Jonathan Symonds

Jonathan Symonds, CMO, and AB Periasamy, CEO and Co-Founder, present some of the innovations that MinIO brought to market in 2020. This includes an introduction to VMware’s Data Persistence platform, which leverages MinIO, as well as MinIO Console, MinIO Operator, and MinIO SUBNET. This session includes live demos of the products, including the new Health analyzer functionality in SUBNET, with MinIO engineer, Daniel Valdivia.


MinIO and Kubernetes

Event: Storage Field Day 21

Appearance: MinIO Presents at Storage Field Day 21

Company: MinIO

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Personnel: AB Periasamy, Jonathan Symonds

Jonathan Symonds, CMO, and AB Periasamy, CEO and Co-Founder, give an in-depth discussion of why Kubernetes is reshaping the storage landscape and why MinIO has been Kubernetes-native since its inception. This session also includes a discussion of how MinIO and Kubernetes are forcing competitive shifts in the object storage marketplace.


Understanding MinIO

Event: Storage Field Day 21

Appearance: MinIO Presents at Storage Field Day 21

Company: MinIO

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Personnel: AB Periasamy, Jonathan Symonds

Jonathan Symonds, CMO, and AB Periasamy, CEO and Co-Founder, introduce MinIO and its guiding principles: performance, cloud-native and simplicity. MinIO is a high performance, Kubernetes-native object store designed for large-scale data infrastructure. It was built from scratch to be cloud native and has become the standard object store for the hybrid cloud.


Tech Field Day Roundtable Discussion About Intel’s Memory and Storage Moment 2020

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Intel Memory and Storage

Appearance: Tech Field Day Roundtable at Intel’s Memory and Storage Moment

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Barry Coombs, Dan Frith, Enrico Signoretti, Howard Marks, Jason Collier, Justin Warren, Keith Townsend, Max Mortillaro, Paul Woodward, Stephen Foskett, W. Curtis Preston

Stephen Foskett, Publisher of Gestalt IT, leads a roundtable discussion following Intel’s Memory and Storage Moment in December 2020. Foskett begins by asking the delegates if Intel Optane Technology is truly as revolutionary as it has been presented. Next, the discussion turns to the current success of Optane technology, and whether it is having the impact we expected over the past few years. The discussion then turns to whether this technology will fundamentally transform systems architecture, especially now that disaggregated servers are a reality. The final point asked is if the application of Optane Technology inside cloud services, high-performance compute, and integrated systems is masking the true impact of the technology.


Intel Data Center Optane Storage Products and Updates

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Intel Memory and Storage

Appearance: Intel Memory and Storage Moment Tech Field Day Presentations

Company: Intel

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Personnel: David Tuhy, Frank Hady, Kristie Mann

David Tuhy, VP and GM of Intel’s Data Center Optane Storage Division, introduces new data center SSDs leveraging Intel Optane technology for high-performance applications. Growing workload intensity impacts system architecture, and the number of CPU cores per socket has driven up the amount of memory and storage required. Legacy storage is a bottleneck, and Intel is filling this gap with Intel Optane data center SSD products, including the new P5800X, which delivers record-setting performance. When compared to the previous generation P4800X, the P5800X delivers 3x random 4k mixed IOPS, 40% better QoS, 3x more sequential 4k-128k bandwidth, and 67% better endurance. It also includes a special mode that can deliver 4.6 million 512 byte IOPS. Hady then presents the growing ecosystem for Intel Optane technology. Finally, Hady and Intel Senior Director of Product Management Kristie Mann take questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.


Intel Optane Persistent Memory Update

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Intel Memory and Storage

Appearance: Intel Memory and Storage Moment Tech Field Day Presentations

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Kelsey Prantis, Kristie Mann

Kristie Mann, Senior Director, Product Management discusses the application of Intel Optane technology in the Persistent Memory tier. This technology is used in high-end servers such as Oracle Exadata, high-performance computing (HPC) exemplified by Intel’s DAOS, and big memory as with MemVerge software. Oracle Exadata X8M ships with Intel Optane Persistent Memory (PMEM) today and the system has been optimized to use it as a new data tier to accelerate database commits. Intel’s open source Distributed Asynchronous Object Store (DAOS) leverages Intel Optane Persistent Memory technology as a hot data tier for small I/O operations and metadata to deliver an order of magnitude better performance than other object stores. Finally, companies like MemVerge are using Intel Optane Persistent Memory technology to deliver “big memory” to existing applications with in-memory snapshots and persistence.

Next, Kelsey Prantis, Senior Software Engineering Manager, gives details of how the DAOS software uses Intel Optane Persistent Memory to set records for performance. Block I/O limits storage performance in today’s enterprise storage solutions, with misaligned I/O and small I/O lining up to be serialized, reducing performance. DAOS uses Intel Optane Persistent Memory to store these small I/Os, delivering record-setting performance in the ISC20 IO500 competition. Using second-generation Persistent Memory, DAOS is showing a 58% improvement in write bandwidth and 5% more read bandwidth. Prantis and Mann also take questions from the Tech Field Day delegates and discuss the application of this technology.


The Future of Storage and Memory with Intel Optane

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Intel Memory and Storage

Appearance: Intel Memory and Storage Moment Tech Field Day Presentations

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Frank Hady

Frank Hady, Intel Fellow and Chief Optane Systems Architect, discusses the evolution of the memory and storage hierarchy and the application of Intel Optane technology across it. Intel’s Optane technology can help to fill the “hole” in the memory and storage hierarchy between NAND flash and DRAM in two different ways: Storage-addressed and memory-addressed. As systems evolve beyond Dennard scaling with multi-core and specialized processors, systems need multiple hierarchies of memory and storage with greater resources to support them. Storage-addressed Optane technology can serve as specialized capacity for metadata and logs along with NAND flash, while memory-addressed Optane technology can be a tier of memory along with DRAM as a cache.


Intel Memory and Storage Moment Review

Event: Tech Field Day Exclusive with Intel Memory and Storage

Appearance: Intel Memory and Storage Moment Tech Field Day Presentations

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Marisa Ahmad

Marisa Ahmad of Intel’s Technology Leadership Team reviews Intel’s 2020 Memory and Storage Moment announcements for the Tech Field Day delegate panel. She begins with a review of the six pillars of technology for Intel: Process & Packaging, XPU Architecture, Memory & Storage, Interconnect, Security, and Software. She then discusses the evolution of the memory and storage hierarchy and how Intel’s Optane 3D-XPoint technology fits into it. Finally, she introduces the Tech Field Day presentations that were integrated with the Memory and Storage Moment.


VMware Cloud DR Architecture: SaaS Orchestrator and Cloud Service Configuration

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: VMware Presents Disaster Recovery as a Service at Tech Field Day 22

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Nabil Quadri, Sazzala Reddy

Nabil Quadri, Group Product Manager, presents VMware SaaS Orchestrator and cloud service configuration. VMware Cloud DR greatly simplifies the process of setting up a DR plan with its built-in DR orchestration capabilities. This presentation is a technical deep dive into these capabilities and other important technical considerations such as access control and networking configuration.


VMware Cloud DR Demo: Setting Up a DR Plan

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: VMware Presents Disaster Recovery as a Service at Tech Field Day 22

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Michael McLaughlin

Michael McLaughlin, Sr Technical Marketing Architect, demonstrates the configuration of a DR solution. This demo-based session covers the key steps needed for initial deployment, including protected sites, protection groups and DR plan construction.


VMware Cloud DR Architecture: Scale-Out Cloud File System

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: VMware Presents Disaster Recovery as a Service at Tech Field Day 22

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Sazzala Reddy

Sazzala Reddy, Chief Technologist, presents VMware’s cloud DR architecture with a focus on the scale-out cloud file system. Having replicated copies in the cloud is not enough when ransomware or other disasters strike. In this session, the Co-Founder and CTO of Datrium demonstrates key technical innovations in VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery that make VMware’s solution easy to use and highly differentiated from other offerings in the market.


VMware Cloud DR Demo: DR Failover

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: VMware Presents Disaster Recovery as a Service at Tech Field Day 22

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Michael McLaughlin

Michael McLaughlin, Sr Technical Marketing Architect, demonstrates DR failover workloads from an on-premises vSphere environment to a VMware Cloud on AWS. This demo-based session will provide a technical walkthrough of executing a DR plan and review the details of a working DR environment.


VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution Overview

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: VMware Presents Disaster Recovery as a Service at Tech Field Day 22

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Mark Chuang

Mark Chuang, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, introduces VMware’s cloud disaster recovery solutions. Disaster recovery (DR) has always been important to organizations of all sizes. But with today’s pandemic and resulting acceleration of digital transformation, it’s now critical to be able to recover a large set of IT services in the event of ransomware or other disasters. Chuang presents VMware’s newest DRaaS offering, showing how it can help customers with this critical business need.


Riverbed Dynamic Alerting: The Devil’s Details

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Vincent Berk

Riverbed Chief Security Architect Vince Berk discusses emerging technologies for anomaly detection and the emergence of AI in networking. He begins with a discussion of anomaly detection and progressive baselining to detect changes over time. The product uses advanced capabilities, with multiple algorithms voting to determine the most important issues for each environment. He then moves on to present AI in networking, focusing on root cause analysis and trend extraction for predictive analysis.


Advanced Analytic Alerting From Flow Analysis with Riverbed NetProfiler and ASM

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Gwen Blum

Gwen Blum, Senior Technical Evangelist, presents actionable advanced analytics for remote workers using Riverbed NetProfiler and ASM. He demonstrates these products in real time using Riverbed tools deployed in Microsoft Azure as well as cookbooks in the Riverbed Community Toolkit.


Advanced Analytic Alerting from Packet Analysis with Riverbed AppResponse

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: John Pittle

John Pittle, Professional Services CTO, demonstrates Riverbed AppResponse for network alerting. AppResponse includes many built-in analytics policies and can send these alerts to ServiceNow, SNMP, syslog, or email. He then demonstrates the system with server availability and takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.


Troubleshooting End Point Packets with Riverbed Client Accelerator

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Gwen Blum

Gwen Blum, Senior Technical Evangelist, discusses how packets and network traces can be used to for forensic troubleshooting. This demonstration uses SteelCentral Transaction Analyzer to isolate an IP conversation and analyze these packets. Next he demonstrates metrics and reports in Client Accelerator and deploys the Client Accelerator Controller in Microsoft Azure to manage it.


How Riverbed Is Using AI and ML

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Vincent Berk

Riverbed Chief Security Architect Vince Berk asks why Riverbed needs AI and ML and where the company is going with these tools. ML can assist with risk analysis, spotting significant changes, and surfacing issues for a human operator.


Investigating Network Performance Issues with Riverbed NPM

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: John Pittle, Vincent Berk

John Pittle, Professional Services CTO, gives a walkthrough of an NPM deep-dive investigation using packets and flow and advanced analytics to debug slow file transfer. This sample use case involved Riverbed NetProfiler, AppResponse 11, Packet Analyzer Plus, and Transaction Analyzer to identify network misconfiguration and process issues. Pittle and Vincent Berk then discuss this process with the Tech Field Day delegates.


From Wrenching to Conducting with Riverbed

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Vincent Berk

Riverbed Chief Security Architect Vince Berk introduces his Tech Field Day 22 sessions on advanced analytics, AIOps, and machine learning with a review of core concepts. From intelligence to expert systems to artificial intelligence, the IT industry has been building towards artificial intelligence not to replace the operator but to enable them to become a conductor.


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