Advancements in VMware vRealize Cloud Management

Event: Cloud Field Day 9

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Taruna Gandhi

Taruna Gandhi, Senior Director, Product Marketing, gives an overview and update of VMware vRealize Cloud Management, VMware’s premier management solution for private, hybrid and public clouds. Gandhi review a series of new capabilities and announcements including:

  • Introduction to vRealize Cloud Universal
  • Overview of vRealize AI Cloud
  • What’s new in vRealize Operations, Automation and Network Insight
  • Adding True Visibility Suite to the portfolio


Pensando DSC Technical Overview and Direction

Event: Storage Field Day 20

Appearance: Pensando Presents at Storage Field Day 20

Company: Pensando

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Personnel: Francis Matus

Francis Matus, VP Engineering, Pensando Systems discusses the technologies behind the Distributed Services Platform. The Pensando platform included in the NetApp AFF A400 is built around a custom, programmable P4 processor called Capri. Capri is optimized to execute a software stack delivering cloud, compute, network, storage, and security services at cloud scale with minimal latency, jitter and very low power requirements (~30W@100G). This makes it an ideal acceleration engine for a broad range of distributed services and protocols, capable of eliminating an assortment of discrete appliances throughout the data center and simplifying IT operations. In this session Francis will provide an overview of the design principles, capabilities and future direction of the Pensando platform.


Scaling NetApp Storage Systems with Pensando Distributed Services Platform

Event: Storage Field Day 20

Appearance: Pensando Presents at Storage Field Day 20

Company: NetApp, Pensando

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Personnel: Naresh Patel

Naresh Patel, Chief Architect & VP for Platforms and Storage Engineering at NetApp, discusses how the NetApp AFF A400 all-flash array is able to scale using the Pensando Distributed Services Platform. The AFF delivers end-to-end NVMe-based storage for workloads that include artificial intelligence, machine learning, real-time analytics, and MongoDB, as well as business-critical databases. It is the first commercial storage platform to ship with the Pensando Distributed Services Platform which acts as an interconnect and services acceleration engine, delivering up to 50% higher performance than its predecessor. In this session Naresh will provide an overview of the A400 platform in addition to details on how NetApp has leveraged the Pensando platform today as a look into future enhancements.


Cisco HX iSCSI Overview and Demo

Event: Storage Field Day 20

Appearance: Cisco Presents HyperFlex at Storage Field Day 20

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Joost Van der Made

A closer look and demonstration of the new native iSCSI capability in HyperFlex release 4.5, which enables customers to carve out iSCSI targets from HyperFlex along with hosting VM datastores and containers persistent volumes simultaneously. We will look at supported use cases for iSCSI on HyperFlex, how we make iSCSI easy-to-use for application administrators without specialized SAN knowledge, and how our modern scale-out file system delivers benefits such as consistent performance (no hot spots) and reliability to iSCSI workloads whether they run on the cluster or on external hosts.


Cisco HyperFlex 4.5 Introduction

Event: Storage Field Day 20

Appearance: Cisco Presents HyperFlex at Storage Field Day 20

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Ronnie Chan

An introduction to the upcoming release of HyperFlex, release 4.5, with new capabilities such as iSCSI, N:1 replication for HX Edge, Boost Mode, ESXi and vCenter 7.0, secure boot with built-in hardware root of trust, new 2U and short-depth HX Edge server options, ML-driven cluster health checks and storage utilization forecasts in Intersight, and new validated workloads on HyperFlex, including Cisco ISE, Cisco SDWAN, and Epic Systems electronic health records (EHR) on HX All NVMe.


Cisco HyperFlex Evolution

Event: Storage Field Day 20

Appearance: Cisco Presents HyperFlex at Storage Field Day 20

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Ronnie Chan

A look back at how HyperFlex has demonstrated leadership in Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) by focusing on three pillars of innovation: delivering a modernized private cloud with enterprise-class simplicity and performance, enabling cloud native applications on premises and multicloud workflows, and simplifying edge workloads with a cloud-operated HCI model through Cisco Intersight.


Security Field Day Delegate Roundtable: Digital Identity Can’t Scale

Event: Security Field Day 4

Appearance: Security Field Day 4 Delegate Roundtable Discussion

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

Our digital identity is becoming everything about who we are. It is also becoming loaded with context and harder to separate who we are from what we do and who we do it for. How long will it be until the entire idea of a digital ID collapses from the weight we’ve forced it to bear?


Security Field Day Delegate Roundtable: Work From Home Has Complicated Security

Event: Security Field Day 4

Appearance: Security Field Day 4 Delegate Roundtable Discussion

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

Working from home has become a necessity in 2020. We find ourselves staying away from the office to flatten the curve and hopefully save lives. But is the security in our home network as good as in our enterprise office? In this roundtable, we explore how the lack of enterprise security products at home has reduced our security posture and how IT departments can alleviate these issues.


Security Field Day Delegate Roundtable: AI & ML Are Accelerating Attacks

Event: Security Field Day 4

Appearance: Security Field Day 4 Delegate Roundtable Discussion

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

AI and ML are hot technologies that are allowing security teams to scale up and quickly defend against threats across the board. But are those same technologies allowing attackers to scale up as well? In this roundtable we explore how AI and ML are helping attackers as well as how to combat these trends.


Cisco Capturing Policy at the CI:CD Level and Enforcement for Application Developers

Event: Security Field Day 4

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Security Field Day 4

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Remi Philippe

Shift Left: Start early! How can you adopt a DevOps model without sacrificing security? We discovered and enforced Tetration policy at the workload but now, how do you embed security that scales with the code and is not bound by infrastructure?
Come join us in this section to learn how you can embed fine-grained controls and policies in the code and consistently push the same across your legacy and existing environments, with Tetration
How can you be the enabler, for your developer.


Cisco Automated Policy Discovery and Enforcement for Security Teams

Event: Security Field Day 4

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Security Field Day 4

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Tim Garner

Now that we know what to do and what we want to secure our applications, where do we start? Do you know how your applications are dependent and communicating in your environment? How can you identify all the logical boundaries and connectivity to define & implement your segmentation & security policy? Even if you did figure that out, how do you keep them current and where do you enforce them?
Come join us in this section to learn how Tetration discovers the policy automatically, in your dynamic environment. How can it help keep your policies current & up to date, how does it ‘follow’ your application workload.
Once we discover the policy, we will also walk through where and how to enforce it in your environment to keep all your workloads secure, everywhere.


Cisco Introduction to Tetration and Overview Demo

Event: Security Field Day 4

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Security Field Day 4

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Rob Tappenden

Modern applications have become the number one target for attacks and breaches. Reality is, they are highly distributed, complex, hard to box them in a perimeter – making it lot harder to protect. Come join us in this section to learn how Cisco Tetration can help. Tetration brings security down to the workload level, evolves with your application. It is not tied to any infrastructure, cloud or compute. Understand how you can secure & segment your applications in real world with a scalable, software based approach.

Does this seem unreal? We will show you in a live demo followed by the why, what & how of Tetration.


Today’s Data Centers with VMware and Pensando

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Pensando Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Pensando

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Personnel: Nick Furman

Nick Furman, Business Development, Pensando Systems, discusses how customers are already leveraging the capabilities of the Pensando Distributed Services Platform in VMware environments today and how they can get started on the journey to next-gen infrastructure with Pensando and VMware.


VMware and Pensando Introduce Project Monterey

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Pensando Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Pensando, VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Kit Colbert, Vipin Jain

At VMworld 2020, VMware announced Project Monterey, a re-architecture of VMware Cloud Foundation to leverage offload capabilities included in the latest generation of network interface cards (NICs/SmartNICs). In this session Kit Colbert, VP & CTO, Cloud Platform BU, VMware, and Vipin Jain, CTO, Pensando Systems, discuss why this is a valuable next step in the evolution of VCF-enabled next gen applications, how it will work and key use cases.


Soni Jiandani Introduces Pensando Systems

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Pensando Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Pensando

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Personnel: Soni Jiandani

Pensando Systems was founded on the belief that there has to be a better way to address the complex infrastructure issues facing IT departments today. In this session, Soni Jiandani will provide an overview of the company, an introduction to the Pensando Distributed Services Platform and an overview of the recently announced collaboration with VMware.


Pure Storage Optimizing Resources with FlashStack

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart, VP of Technology Alliances, discusses optimization of resources with Pure Storage FlashStack. The company claims that it requires less compute, storage, rack space, and power than leading competitors when used to support virtual machines. He also presents Pure’s Evergreen Storage and Pure as-a-Service subscription options.


Pure Storage Cloud Native Storage in VMware and Kubernetes

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Kyle Grossmiller, Vaughn Stewart

Kyle Grossmiller, Sr. Solutions Architect, discusses Kubernetes cloud-native storage in VMware Tanzu, vSphere, and the cloud-native storage (CSI) driver. He then demonstrates the vSphere Kubernetes integration with Pure Storage.

Next, Vaughn Stewart, VP of Technology Alliances, discusses the recent announcement of the acquisition of Portworx by Pure Storage. He gives a preview of how this acquisition will help Pure Storage advance the development of data services for Kubernetes in VMware and the cloud. They finish the presentation with questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.


Modernizing and Protecting VMware Infrastructure with Pure Storage FlashStack

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart, VP of Technology Alliances, presents the benefits of a Pure Storage solution to protect and modernize VMware infrastructure. Pure provides instant VM snapshots in vCenter, SRM orchestrated disaster recovery, 0 RTO with vMSC on ActiveCluster, combined vMSC (metro) and SRM (geo), CloudSnap snapshot offload, and FlashRecover powered by Cohesity. Vaughn also takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.


Pure Storage Fabric Flexibility and Simple Management

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Kyle Grossmiller, Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart, VP of Technology Alliances, presents the flexible storage fabric options available to Pure Storage FlashStack customers. FlashStack supports Fibre Channel, iSCSI, VMFS, and vVol, and is prepared for next-generation protocols like NVMe over Fabric.

Next, Vaughn discusses management of VMware infrastructure enhanced by Pure Storage. FlashArray was originally designed to support VMware workloads and includes many features to reduce complexities and trade-offs. When FlashStack is used to support VMware Cloud Foundation, customers benefit from SmartConfig, vSphere Lifecycle Manager without loss of data protection, Pure 1 updates, integrated compute, storage, and networking, and in-place hardware upgrades.

Next, Kyle Grossmiller, Sr. Solutions Architect, demonstrates a vVols-based workload domain deployment in VCF. Kyle and Vaughn also take questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.


VMware Cloud Foundation on Pure Storage FlashStack Overview and Cloud Agility Demo

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Appearance: Pure Storage Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020

Company: Pure Storage

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Personnel: Kyle Grossmiller, Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart, VP of Technology Alliances, introduces VMware Cloud Foundation on Pure Storage FlashStack. He begins with an overview of the solution and the benefits that Pure brings to VMware infrastructure. VMware Cloud Foundation is an on-premises architecture that aligns to VMware public cloud architectures, and Pure Storage FlashArray provides an integrated storage solution that provides many benefits over direct-attached storage solutions. VCF on FlashStack brings a standard architecture that is efficient and agile.

Following this introduction, Kyle Grossman, Sr. Solutions Architect, demonstrates implementation of the FlashStack solution migrating an ESXi host into the SDDC inventory to become part of an ESXi cluster. He then removes the node from the cluster, re-baselines it from a snapshot, and then adds it again to a second workload domain. This shows the speed and flexibility of the solution.

Following the demo, Kyle and Vaughn take questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.


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