From Operations to Development Using 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: Jason Dobies

Jason Dobies, Senior Principal Developer Advocate, demonstrates Red Hat OpenShift operations and development. First, he shows OpenShift’s CLI, oc, which is similar to kubectl, and odo, a development tool for testing and deploying applications. Next he moves into the OpenShift graphical user interface and continues working with his demo application. Throughout the demo, Dobies takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.


Introducing the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Red Hat Presents OpenShift at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Red Hat

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Personnel: Troy Mangum

Troy Mangum, Red Hat Product Marketing, introduces the OpenShift Container Platform at Tech Field Day 22. Red Hat’s goal is to offer OpenShift Everywhere, from Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google GCP, and IBM Cloud to on-premises and edge deployment. OpenShift was designed to be a smarter Kubernetes platform, and Mangum presents customer use cases that show how it can increase efficiency and developer productivity.


Veeam Acquires Kasten: Capabilities, Integration and More

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Kasten by Veeam, Veeam Software

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Personnel: David Hill, Rick Vanover

David Hill, Global Technologist for Product Strategy, introduces the Kasten platform for data management of cloud-native applications. Veeam announced their acquisition of Kasten on October 6, 2020, and this is one of the first discussions of the integration of this solution into the Veeam portfolio. Kasten’s K10 platform brings data protection and mobility to Kubernetes workloads with a focus on application state across containers. After an architecture overview and product roadmap discussion, Hill demonstrates installation and configuration of Kasten, creation of policies, and application restore. At the end of this presentation, Rick Vanover, Senior Director for Product Strategy, summarizes the Tech Field Day presentation and takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.


Veeam Availability Orchestrator: Now to Next

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Veeam Software

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Personnel: Melissa Palmer

Melissa Palmer, Sr. Technologist, presents version 4 of Veeam Availability Orchestrator, which automates recovery, testing, and documentation of business operations. New in version 4 is orchestration of Veeam CDP replicas. She then demonstrates the product, showing how to run a DR test, create a DR plan, and launch a DR plan.


Veeam Availability Suite v11: Secure Linux Repository

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Veeam Software

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Personnel: Rick Vanover

Rick Vanover, Senior Director for Product Strategy, presents the Secure Linux Repository for protection against ransomware. He then demonstrates the capability using a live system, taking input and questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.


Veeam Availability Suite v11: Veeam ONE Now to Next

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Veeam Software

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Personnel: Kirsten Stoner, Melissa Palmer

Melissa Palmer, Sr. Technologist, and Kirsten Stoner, Technical Analyst, demonstrate Veeam ONE and give an exclusive peek into version 11. The demo covers monitoring, intelligent diagnostics, and documentation of a Veeam environment using Veeam ONE. Stoner finishes with a look at new features coming to the platform.


Veeam Availability Suite v11: Object Storage Enhancements

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Veeam Software

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Personnel: Rick Vanover

Rick Vanover, Senior Director for Product Strategy, presents object storage enhancements in Veeam Availability Suite version 11, which is currently in beta. He then demonstrates Veeam backup repositories on Microsoft Azure blob and archive storage. The Veeam scale-out backup repository implements tiered storage for backups. At the end of the session, Vanover takes questions from the Field Day delegates.


Veeam Overview: 2020 and Beyond

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Veeam Software

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Personnel: David Hill, Rick Vanover

Rick Vanover, Senior Director for Product Strategy, and David Hill, Global Technologist for Product Strategy, introduce the Veeam session at Tech Field Day 22 with a discussion of what the company has accomplished and where it is going. After going over the agenda for the Tech Field Day 22 presentation and discussion with the delegates, Vanover discusses how Veeam has become a trusted provider of backup solutions by delivering a single platform for cloud, virtual, and physical infrastructure data protection. Hill then presents “Act II” for Veeam, as the company delivers cloud-native products with an eye toward the future.


MemVerge Memory Machine Demo with Redis and in AWS Cloud

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: MemVerge Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: MemVerge

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Personnel: Charles Fan, Charlie Yu

Charlie Yu, Director of Systems Engineering, demonstrates the MemVerge Memory Machine user interface before walking through a demonstration of big memory and snapshots of a Redis database. He then demonstrates Memory Machine in Amazon AWS cloud. CEO Charles Fan then concludes the presentation with a brief discussion with the Tech Field Day delegates.


MemVerge Architecture and Big Memory Use Cases

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: MemVerge Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: MemVerge

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Personnel: Charles Fan, Yue Li

Yue Li, Co-Founder and CTO, introduces the MemVerge Memory Machine architecture. He begins with background on persistent memory and Intel Optane DC NV-DIMMs before presenting the overall Memory Machine architecture stack for Linux. Li then discusses the challenges of implementing NV-DIMM today and the benefits of the MemVerge tiered memory allocation model. He also presents the benefits of ZeroIO memory snapshots. He is joined by CEO Charles Fan in taking questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.


Introducing Big Memory with MemVerge

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: MemVerge Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: MemVerge

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Personnel: Charles Fan

Charles Fan, Co-Founder and CEO of MemVerge, introduces the concept of “big memory” at Tech Field Day 22. He begins by introducing the session and presenters before giving an overview of the company. Fan sees a convergence of memory and storage leading to a memory-centric future for computing. Big Data will give rise to Big Memory, and MemVerge Memory Machine is designed to enable this without changes to applications. The goal is to lower TCO and solve the “data greater than memory” problem by creating tiered memory with high availability and multi-cloud mobility. Fan concludes the session with a discussion of customers that are using the solution today.


Comprehensive NetOps and Visibility with Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Navjyoti Sharma

Navjyoti Sharma, Sr. Product Manager, presents the Cisco Nexus dashboard. During this session, Sharma discusses how Nexus Dashboard can simplify data center operations. With an intuitive and centralized management console, Cisco Nexus Dashboard helps to onboard common operational services, rapidly assure, change, scale and troubleshoot to operate the full mutlicloud environment.


Cisco Catalyst 8000 Family: Powering the Next Generation of SD-WAN

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Muhammad Imam

Muhammad Imam, Director of Technical Marketing, introduces the Cisco Catalyst 8000 platform family and shows how it powers the next generation of WAN. Imam goes through the building blocks of the platforms and the power that it comes with. He also discusses some of the rich services that it enables to keep the modern branches secure and connected to the workloads, wherever they might be.


Quantum ActiveScale Product Demonstration

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Quantum Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Quantum

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Personnel: Sherman Schorzman

Sherman Schorzman, ActiveScale Technical Marketing Engineer, demonstrates the basic operation and user interface of Quantum ActiveScale. To demonstrate the ease of use and highlight key architectural features, this section showcases ActiveScale in action. The demonstration initially shows basic operation of the user interface and highlight key elements. The second part showcases the architectural differences that make ActiveScale unique based on the dual layer architecture consisting of the access layer and the data layer.


Quantum ActiveScale Data Layer

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Quantum Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Quantum

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Personnel: Noemi Greyzdorf, Thomas Demoor

Thomas Demoor, ActiveScale Lead Architect, and Noemi Greyzdorf, Director of Product Marketing, discuss the data layer of Quantum ActiveScale. Unstructured data is growing rapidly, and customers require a new type of architecture to handle this influx of data. Quantum’s ActiveScale has the ideal architecture to solve customer problems. In this Tech Field Day 22 presentation, Demoor and Greyzdorf explore the data layer, which enables better data durability and optimal data placement. These features ensure customers will benefit from the highest performance at the lowest cost for storage, and durability to ensure that data is available when needed, even over a period of many years.


Quantum ActiveScale Layered Architecture

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Quantum Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Quantum

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Personnel: Noemi Greyzdorf, Thomas Demoor

Thomas Demoor, ActiveScale Lead Architect, and Noemi Greyzdorf, Director of Product Marketing, discuss the architecture of Quantum ActiveScale. Unstructured data is growing rapidly, and customers require a new type of architecture to handle this influx of data. Quantum’s ActiveScale has the ideal architecture to solve customer problems. In this Tech Field Day 22 presentation, Demoor and Greyzdorf explore the dual-layered architecture that enables enterprise scalability and performance to meet demanding applications. The architecture starts with the access and metadata layer and is the foundation for additional features not available in other architectures.


Quantum Object Storage and ActiveScale Introduction

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Quantum Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Quantum

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Personnel: Thomas Demoor

Thomas Demoor, ActiveScale Lead Architect, introduces Quantum’s object storage solution. Unstructured data is growing rapidly, and customers require a new type of architecture to handle this influx of data. Traditional storage systems optimized for file data cannot meet the scale and unique needs of unstructured data (e.g. media and entertainment, autonomous vehicles, life sciences or genomic data). Quantum’s ActiveScale offers a new architecture that solves the critical problems that customers have – ensuring performance and scalability for very large datasets. This Tech Field Day 22 presentation provides an overview of this industry segment plus a brief introduction to the ActiveScale line of unstructured storage products.


Quantum Company Overview

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Quantum Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Quantum

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Personnel: Ed Fiore

Ed Fiore, GM of Primary Storage, introduces the new Quantum in 2020. Quantum focuses on creating innovative technology and solutions to help customers get the most value from their data. With 40 years of storage know-how, Quantum’s technology, solutions, and services help customers capture, create, and share digital content – and preserve and protect it for decades. In this section of their Tech Field Day 22 presentation, Fiore provides an overview of Quantum’s portfolio and share insights on the company’s new direction. Quantum has made a series of recent announcements in a wide range of new product categories, and this is just the beginning. They have a unique product portfolio and key intellectual property to solve a range of customer problems for unstructured data.


Commvault HyperScale X Powered by Hedvig

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Commvault Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Commvault

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Personnel: Geeta Vaghela

Geeta Vaghela, Senior Director, Products, presents Commvault HyperScale X powered by Hedvig. Data is siloed in infrastructure silos, and Hedvig for HyperScale X is designed to solve this with performance, scalability, and resilience. Vaghela then demonstrates the HSX product, backing up a virtual machine and simulating a node failure.


Managing and Protecting Data in Kubernetes with Commvault

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Commvault Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Commvault

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Personnel: Mathew Ericson

Mathew Ericson, Senior Product Manager, discusses Commvault’s data protection offerings for Kubernetes. The adoption of containers presents new challenges for data management, and Commvault is addressing these with Hedvig distributed storage, Metallic backup, and Commvault Complete data protection. Commvault protects all Kubernetes data, from Dockerfile manifests and source code to the container registry to data on persistent volumes and object stores. Ericson then discusses data protection with the Tech Field Day delegates, presenting a reference architecture and demonstrating the solution in action.