Red Hat OpenShift: Hosted and Managed Services

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: Red Hat Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: Red Hat

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Personnel: Andrew Cathrow

In this session, Andrew Cathrow will cover Red Hat managed services offerings. Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on AWS, GCP, Azure and IBM Cloud. In addition viewers will learn and see demos how to start on Azure Red Hat Openshift (ARO) and newly announced Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA).


Stu’s Cloud Journey to Red Hat

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: Red Hat Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: Red Hat

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Personnel: Stu Miniman

The importance of cloud is not as a place or a destination, rather it is the changes in architecture and organization that must be taken to leverage the innovation and agility of modern environments. Hear how Stu Miniman’s journey as an analyst and host of thousands of video interviews led to a decision to join Red Hat’s cloud platform team.


A Look at the AWS Developer Experience for Containers

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: AWS Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: AWS

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Personnel: Nathan Peck

Nathan Peck, Sr. Product Developer Advocate, demonstrates the experience of developers deploying containers in Amazon Web Services (AWS). This segment will demo two recent developer-focused projects that aim to make it easier for developers to go from code to containers running on AWS. The first is AWS Copilot, the command line tool for deploying code to AWS ECS/Fargate. The seconds is  AWS Cloud Development Kit, an Infrastructure-as-Code SDK that lets developers deploy their architecture by using familiar programming languages.


The Role of Amazon ECS in the Container Ecosystem

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: AWS Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: AWS

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Personnel: Massimo Re Ferrè

Massimo Re Ferrè, Principal Technologist, discusses the evolution of Amazon Web Services ECS in the container ecosystem. Having operated a cloud for roughly 15 years, AWS has learned that different users have different requirements. In this session, the Field Day delegates learn about three Elastic Container Service (ECS) themes that are important and differentiating Amazon’s offerings. These themes include the data plane evolution and the flexibility AWS provides to meet customer requirements, the operational simplicity of the solution, and the application-focused approach Amazon envisions for ECS.


Introduction to AWS Container Services Portfolio

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: AWS Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: AWS

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Personnel: Nick Coult

Nick Coult, Sr. Manager of Product Management, presents the Amazon Web Services container services portfolio. Containers offer one of the best on-ramps for customer’s journey towards modern application development. In this section, Coult offers an overview of AWS Container Services portfolio.


The Evolution of End User Computing with NetApp

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Charles Foley, Mike Walsh

Chuck Foley and Mike Walsh, Sr. Directors at NetApp, discuss the challenges of VDI at enterprise scale, and present a cloud-based solution. Although organizations have been looking to VDI for over a decade, the cloud can accelerate the value of a VDI solution, presenting new options to meet the challenges of today’s remote workforce. NetApp sees VDI moving “upstream” as organizations require remote solutions everywhere all at once.

NetApp’s Virtual Desktop Service is designed to deliver VDI at enterprise scale. It includes a global control plane for hybrid or multi-cloud virtual desktop deployments leveraging VMware vSphere, HCI, and Azure, GCP, and AWS public clouds. Mike Walsh then demonstrates the SaaS portal, deploying virtual desktops in Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure as the delegates ask questions and discuss the solution. The session concludes with a discussion of the benefits of the solution: cost savings, security, and operational automation using NetApp Cloud Insights.


The Evolution of Enterprise Applications with NetApp

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Jeff Whitaker

Jeff Whitaker, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, discusses the evolution of enterprise applications and how NetApp is supporting them as data moves to the cloud. He presents the main cloud migration strategies for SaaS, container SaaS, and serverless or microservices PaaS, rehost, refactor, rearchitect, and rebuild. Throughout the presentation, the Field Day delegates ask questions and discuss the solution.

Whitaker then moves on to discuss one challenge many applications face in the cloud, namely the need for enterprise-class file services. This is the market served by Azure NetApp Files, a fully managed Azure service that allows organizations to transition enterprise file workloads to the cloud without having to refactor and rearchitect. The key use cases for Azure NetApp Files include migration of applications and database workloads to the cloud. It provides file services for both Linux and Windows with NFS and SMB protocols. This can be used to support various enterprise applications, and Whitaker discusses Oracle, Repsol, and SAP HANA on Azure in detail. He finishes with a demonstration of Azure NetApp Files.


How StorPool-Powered Clouds Compete with Leading Public Clouds

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: StorPool Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: StorPool

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Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

These are the reasons why companies choose to use StorPool when they need a high-performance storage platform for their clouds. As a result, their end-users applications perform measurably better – as per the measurements, up to 2.5 times better than the second-best public cloud offering and more than 10 times better than the other leading clouds in some tests.

StorPool delivers a unique combination of performance (less than 100 microseconds and millions of IOPS), reliability, scalability, ease of use and proactive mission-critical support. It is a good fit for demanding public and private clouds.


StorPool Performance Мeasurement and Comparison of Leading Public Clouds

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: StorPool Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: StorPool

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Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

Boyan Krosnov, CPO of StorPool presents what are the key tests you need to perform on your cloud environment to analyze its storage performance. Thanks to his experience in building storage solutions for some of the world’s most demanding clouds, his team at StorPool has created a robust, yet simple performance tests framework for benchmarking data storage system performance.

The framework uses a number of easy-to-run tools/tests, including FIO, rsync, pgbench, sysbench and more. It also covers how to read the results you get and reference values one expects to get. Weighted by price and price/performance, allows one to take valuable data-driven decisions on improving application and cloud performance.

During this part of the presentation, StorPool dissects the block storage offerings of four leading public clouds – Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Digital Ocean and will compare them against two StorPool-based clouds. All systems in the tests are production ones – 5 public clouds and 1 private. And all but one of the systems (StorPool’s internal private cloud) are part of generally available public cloud offerings, so the results are easily reproducible.


StorPool Тesting Мethodology for Еvaluating the Storage Performance of Any Cloud

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: StorPool Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: StorPool

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Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

Most cloud architects already understand that raw storage performance is critical for their service quality and business success. Better application performance (time to load a page, time to rebuild or execute a specific query, fast sync, compile times, etc.) results in happier users, lower TCO and improved ROI. Public cloud operators rely on performance as a competitive edge to attract and retain customers, which is even more important and harder to achieve in multi-tenant environments.

All-in-all, cloud performance is a key point, which is often misunderstood. As performance is affected by multiple factors, to improve it you need to understand the modes in which a system operates. StorPool presents a testing methodology for evaluating the storage performance of any cloud, in the right way. Presented by StorPool CPO, Boyan Krosnov.


Typical Customers and Why Companies Select StorPool

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: StorPool Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: StorPool

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Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

Boyan Krosnov presents the profiles of the typical StorPool’s customers. StorPool’s data management platform is used by leading public and private clouds – enterprises, SaaS, hosting, cloud providers and MSPs. It is the preferred choice for companies, which need to build a high-performance cloud for running demanding workloads and applications.

In this part of the presentation, Boyan will showcase success stories with three companies:

  • Dustin – A publicly listed European MSP which uses StorPool as the foundation for it’s New Age IT stack to consolidate and replace it’s traditional IT stack
  • Amito – Infrastructure and managed service provider powering its operations with StorPool
  • Katapult – Virtual Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Platform running on StorPool


Introduction to StorPool Storage

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: StorPool Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: StorPool

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Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

Boyan Krosnov, CPO of StorPool Storage gives an overview of StorPool. Its block storage software with a scale-out, shared-nothing architecture, which transforms commodity hardware into a high-performance data storage platform for demanding workloads.

StorPool is one of the fastest software-defined block storage solutions on the market. With its advanced capabilities, a high number of features and support for multiple IT/software stacks and wide range of cloud management platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenNebula) and new-age technologies (OpenSource, Kubernetes, etc.) StorPool is the ultimate data storage solution for leading public and private cloud builders at scale.


Pure Storage Portworx Kubernetes Backup Demo

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Goutham Rao, Matt Kixmoeller

Goutham Rao, Co-Founder and CTO of Portworx, presents a holistic approach to Kubernetes backups. Such a solution needs to be future proof and offer any to any data movement. He then demonstrates this new solution from Pure Storage and takes questions from the Cloud Field Day delegates. Rao is joined by Matt Kixmoeller, VP of Strategy, who closes the session.


Pure Storage Portworx Multi Cloud and DR Demo

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Goutham Rao

Goutham Rao, Co-Founder and CTO of Portworx, introduces enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery of Kubernetes applications. He also takes questions from the Field Day delegates about the new offering from Pure Storage.


Pure Storage Kubernetes Data Services Platform Overview and Demo

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Goutham Rao

Goutham Rao, Co-Founder and CTO of Portworx, presents the Kubernetes Data Services Platform from Pure Storage. A storage overlay built for containers, Portworx is designed to virtualize physical storage and form a container storage overlay, offer dynamic container granular volume provisioning driven through Kubernetes, and offer container virtual volumes highly available anywhere. It is highly scalable, secure, and extends to anywhere. Rao then demonstrates the Portworx solution in action with a PostgreSQL failover, volume resize, and snapshots. He also takes questions from the Field Day delegates.


Pure Storage Portworx Deep Dive

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Goutham Rao

Goutham Rao, Co-Founder and CTO of Portworx, offers a look at how the team built a leading Kubernetes data services platform for cloud native applications. Portworx provides hybrid Kubernetes data services on any storage infrastructure, not just Pure Storage. Rao then discusses the differences in architecture between a machine-defined and application-defined control plane, and how Portworx moves storage management into Kubernetes. Finally, Rao takes questions from the Cloud Field Day delegate panel.


Pure Storage and Portworx Deliver the Modern Data Experience

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Matt Kixmoeller

Matt Kixmoeller, VP of Strategy, introduces the combination of Pure Storage and Portworx. The two companies aim to deliver a modern data experience that accelerates traditional and cloud native applications on any infrastructure. Portworx offers a 100% software solution for cloud, on-premises, or hybrid deployments that supports any infrastructure. And Portworx has been popular with many enterprise companies in the cloud.


Operationalizing VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Part 3: Self-Service Hybrid Cloud

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Vincent Riccio

Vincent Riccio, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, demonstrates how the cloud admin can use vRealize Cloud Management to successfully expand usage of VMware Cloud on AWS. This demo-based session will consist of a technical walkthrough of vRealize Automation to govern the consumption of the hybrid cloud and highlight the ease of deploying new applications.


Operationalizing VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Part 2: Managing Applications

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Brandon Gordon, Martijn Smit

Brandon Gordon and Martijn Smit, Staff Technical Marketing Architects, demonstrate the use of VMware vRealize Cloud Management to manage capacity, cost, performance and compliance of applications and workloads running on VMware Cloud on AWS. This session will consist of a technical walkthrough of vRealize Operations hybrid cloud capabilities through a demo.


Operationalizing VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Part 1: Planning and Migrating

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Brandon Gordon, Martijn Smit

Brandon Gordon and Martijn Smit, Staff Technical Marketing Architects, review the key considerations to successful initial planning and migrating applications to a hybrid cloud environment based on VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Cloud Management. The session includes a deep dive demo of vRealize Operations and vRealize Network Insight as used by the network administrators and VI admins.


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