Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: MemVerge Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: MemVerge

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Introducing Big Memory with MemVerge
• YouTube: Introducing Big Memory with MemVerge

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.

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Comprehensive NetOps and Visibility with Cisco Nexus Dashboard
• YouTube: Comprehensive NetOps and Visibility with Cisco Nexus Dashboard

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.

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

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

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.

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Quantum Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Quantum

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Quantum ActiveScale Product Demonstration
• YouTube: Quantum ActiveScale Product Demonstration

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.

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Quantum Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Quantum

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Quantum ActiveScale Data Layer
• YouTube: Quantum ActiveScale Data Layer

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.

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Quantum Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Quantum

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Quantum ActiveScale Layered Architecture
• YouTube: Quantum ActiveScale Layered Architecture

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.

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Quantum Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Quantum

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Quantum Object Storage and ActiveScale Introduction
• YouTube: Quantum Object Storage and ActiveScale Introduction

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.

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Quantum Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Quantum

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Quantum Company Overview
• YouTube: Quantum Company Overview

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.

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Commvault Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Commvault

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Commvault HyperScale X Powered by Hedvig
• YouTube: Commvault HyperScale X Powered by Hedvig

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.

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Commvault Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Commvault

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Managing and Protecting Data in Kubernetes with Commvault
• YouTube: Managing and Protecting Data in Kubernetes with Commvault

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.

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Commvault Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Commvault

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Commvault Metallic: No-Comprise BaaS
• YouTube: Commvault Metallic: No-Comprise BaaS

Personnel: David Ngo, Janet Giesen

Janet Giesen, VP, Operations & Programs, and David Ngo, CTO, introduce Metallic, a Commvault Venture. One year after introducing Metallic, Commvault is seeing customer adoption and accolades for the backup as a service product. Metallic is now available in 14 countries and has been expanded from core backup and recovery, Microsoft Office 365 data protection, and endpoint backup and recovery, to include VM and Kubernetes backup, database backup, file & object backup, and eDiscovery as well as a cloud storage service for Commvault customers. Ngo demonstrates Metallic Cloud Storage Services (MCSS), which provides a managed cloud storage solution in Microsoft Azure, and discusses how the Metallic as-a-service offerings work with the Tech Field Day delegates.

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Commvault Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Commvault

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Introducing Commvault Recovery Readiness Solutions
• YouTube: Introducing Commvault Recovery Readiness Solutions

Personnel: Jeff Harbert

Jeff Harbert, Director, Technical Services Programs, presents Commvault’s recovery readiness solutions. Recovering from a catastrophic data loss or data-compromising event requires a plan, and Commvault’s Readiness Solutions help prepare companies to return to operations. Harbert discusses Commvault’s readiness approach and takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Commvault Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Commvault

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Commvault Disaster Recovery Updates
• YouTube: Commvault Disaster Recovery Updates

Personnel: Rahul Pawar

Rahul Pawar, VP, Product Management, introduces the expanded Commvault portfolio of disaster recovery products. Disaster Recovery is a new product in the Commvault portfolio, providing a simple, flexible, powerful, scalable, and intelligent disaster recovery solution for businesses. It addresses the modern hybrid and multi-cloud enterprise, supporting common platforms like VMware and clouds like Azure, AWS, and GCP. Pawar then demonstrates the product and takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.

Event: Tech Field Day 22

Appearance: Commvault Presents at Tech Field Day 22

Company: Commvault

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Don Foster Introduces the New Commvault
• YouTube: Don Foster Introduces the New Commvault

Personnel: Don Foster

Don Foster, Global VP, Sales Engineering, introduces the new Commvault in 2020. Commvault has responded to multi-cloud, cloud-native, automation, DevOps, and changing IT economics to build an intelligent data management portfolio. The goal is to provide data awareness, agility, and automation through Commvault products, from backup & recovery and disaster recovery to file storage optimization, data governance, eDiscovery and compliance, and multi-protocol storage both on-premises and as SaaS.

Event: AI Field Day 1

Appearance: Intel Presents VAST Data at AI Field Day 1

Company: Intel, VAST Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Introduction to VAST Data LightSpeed: Storage Architecture for Machine Intelligence
• YouTube: Introduction to VAST Data LightSpeed: Storage Architecture for Machine Intelligence

Personnel: Howard Marks, Jeff Denworth

Jeff Denworth, CMO, introduces VAST Data LightSpeed, a storage platform for next-generation AI applications. The LightSpeed platform is designed to enable any platform to gain maximum performance via a single NFS mount point. NFS over RDMA can exceed multiple gigabyte per second performance using nconnect multipath. Denworth then discusses the need for high-speed NFS storage for AI applications and presents benchmarks for Nvidia DGX-A100 with VAST Data LightSpeed. He also presents a use case of AI imaging using LightSpeed. This session was sponsored by Intel.

Event: AI Field Day 1

Appearance: Intel Presents VAST Data at AI Field Day 1

Company: Intel, VAST Data

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Introduction to VAST Data Universal Storage
• YouTube: Introduction to VAST Data Universal Storage

Personnel: Jeff Denworth

Jeff Denworth, CMO, introduces VAST Data’s universal storage product. It is designed to be a universal data platform for all applications, with all-NVMe performance, tier-5 cost efficiency, and exabyte scale for NAS and object storage. It is built on a modern foundation with disaggregated storage networking using NVMe-over-Fabrics, revolutionary flash economics using Intel QLC NAND SSDs, and persistent memory using Intel Optane SSDs. This session was sponsored by Intel.

Event: AI Field Day 1

Appearance: Intel Presents MemVerge at AI Field Day 1

Company: Intel, MemVerge

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Machine Learning Use Cases for MemVerge Memory Machine Software
• YouTube: Machine Learning Use Cases for MemVerge Memory Machine Software

Personnel: Yue Li

Yue Li, Co-Founder and CTO, presents AI applications for MemVerge Memory Machine software. He begins with training using large memory, showing that DRAM can be combined with Intel Optane Persistent Memory (PMEM) to provide large memory capacity with DRAM-like speed. He uses GraphSAGE as an example of machine learning on a large graph with MemVerge Transparent Memory Service. Next he presents inference with a large model and feature embeddings using Facebook’s DLRM as an example. He also uses image recognition as an example of leveraging MemVerge. Finally he discusses using persistent memory for instant model rollback or recovery.

Event: AI Field Day 1

Appearance: Cisco Presents at AI Field Day 1

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco AL and ML for Endpoint Analytics and Detecting Spoofing Attacks
• YouTube: Cisco AL and ML for Endpoint Analytics and Detecting Spoofing Attacks

Personnel: JP Vasseur

JP Vasseur PhD, Cisco Fellow and head of ML and Data Science engineering, presents an advanced use case for machine learning in network security. He discusses clustering using machine learning and how Cisco can measure the efficacy of the results in terms of purity, percentage of unassigned, number of clusters, speed of unknowns resolution, and stability. He then gives a sneak peek at what comes next: Detecting spoofing attacks with ML/AI. ML is an excellent tool for detecting anomalies, and Vasseur presents a specific mechanism to accomplish this using ML instead of complex rules.

Event: AI Field Day 1

Appearance: Cisco Presents at AI Field Day 1

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Advanced Endpoint Visibility with Cisco AI Endpoint Analytics
• YouTube: Advanced Endpoint Visibility with Cisco AI Endpoint Analytics

Personnel: Krishnan Thiruvengadam

Event: AI Field Day 1

Appearance: Cisco Presents at AI Field Day 1

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco’s AI/ML Networking Journey
• YouTube: Cisco’s AI/ML Networking Journey

Personnel: JP Vasseur

In this presentation, JP Vasseur PhD, Cisco Fellow and head of ML and Data Science engineering, presents the journey of Cisco’s AI applications from 2013 to 2020. This journey began with self-learning networks, then proceeded to AI network analytics for wireless automated detection and root cause analysis, and now to ML-based security classification and behavioral spoofing detection. He also demonstrates Cisco AI Endpoint Analytics on Cisco ISE.