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.


Riverbed Troubleshooting Taxonomy

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, presents Riverbed’s troubleshooting taxonomy, which can help IT organizations address network and application performance issues. The taxonomy begins with identifying symptoms and proceeds with discovery of causes, investigation into underlying issues, and addressing these with devices and tools.


Overview of the Riverbed Visibility Portfolio

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Brandon Carroll, John Pittle

Brandon Carroll, Director of the Technical Evangelist Team, introduces Riverbed’s portfolio of network visibility products. Network Performance Management is a key piece of the visibility requirements of administrators, since visibility gaps create problems across IT. Riverbed’s unified NPM platform addresses devices, packets, and flows for complex networks across the enterprise. This includes AppResponse Cloud, NetProfiler and Flow Gateway, and NetIM. After the presentation, Carroll takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.


Overview of the Riverbed Acceleration Portfolio

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Phil Gervasi

Riverbed Technical Evangelist Phillip Gervasi introduces the company’s portfolio of application acceleration products. After discussing the challenges of remote network access and WAN optimization, Gervasi presents the vision for application acceleration. The Branch SteelHead client accelerator can be deployed as distributed software at the edge, as a service, or in the cloud. The Client Accelerator extends optimization and acceleration to mobile agents, reducing network latency and mediating connection issues.


Riverbed Introduction and Tech Field Day Welcome with Rich McBee

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Brandon Carroll, Rich McBee

Riverbed President and CEO, Rich McBee, gives an update on the company and welcomes the Tech Field Day delegates for their presentation. After this, Brandon Carroll, Director of the Technical Evangelist Team, introduces the Tech Field Day 22 presentation agenda.


Adventures in Zero Trust

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Illumio Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Illumio

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Personnel: Bharath Shashikumar, Harish Chakravarthy

Illumio makes it easy for everyone to participate in the tall task of operationalizing Zero Trust. Join the presenters on this journey through the deployment of Illumio’s world class microsegmentation solution.


The Rabbit Hole of Containers

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Illumio Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Illumio

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Personnel: Harish Chakravarthy, Pierre-Louis Gingembre

See how a disjointed approach to security in a hybrid world – mixing containers and non-containerized assets – can become an operational and security challenge.


Don’t Terrorize Your Admins

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Illumio Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Illumio

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Personnel: Harish Chakravarthy, Neil Patel

Segmentation solved your security problems – did it cover the admins? Or did you leave them behind? See how Illumio makes it a win-win for users as well as security teams.


Illumio Microsegementation Masterpieces

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Illumio Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Illumio

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Personnel: Matthew Glenn, PJ Kirner

Founding insights and a look at Illumio’s unique approach to securing workloads in the data center and cloud through micro-segmentation. Enterprises such as Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, Salesforce, and Oracle NetSuite use Illumio Core to reduce cyber risk and achieve regulatory compliance. Additional, there is a brief overview of the Illumio architecture and discussion of the technology that helps provide a secure solution you can trust.


Edge Computing with Red Hat OpenShift

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Red Hat Presents OpenShift at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Red Hat

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Personnel: Mark Schmitt, Nick Barcet

Nick Barcet, Sr. Director of Technology Strategy, and Mark Schmitt, Principal Product Manager, present Red Hat OpenShift at the edge. OpenShift is designed to provide a consistent platform from the core to the edge in large or small configurations. Barcet then discusses use cases for OpenShift at the edge, including AI/ML and telco RAN. Schmitt then presents a solution blueprint for industrial manufacturing and takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.