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.


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.