StarWind HyperConverged Appliance: Intel-powered Ultra-Performance

Supermicro has released a comprehensive line of new X11 generation server and storage solutions featuring the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family with the strongest support for NVMe storage and 100G/25G Ethernet in the industry.

Supermicro’s new X11 generation solutions are engineered to unleash the full performance and rich feature sets on the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family, supporting more cores and higher TDP envelopes of 205 watts and higher, increased to six memory channels with higher bandwidth, and more PCI-E 3.0 lanes with up to 100G/40G/25G/10G Ethernet, 100G EDR InfiniBand and integrated Intel® Omni-Path Architecture networking fabrics. The elevated compute performance, density, I/O capacity, and efficiency are coupled with industry’s most comprehensive support for NVMe NAND Flash to deliver up to 16 million IOPS for unprecedented application responsiveness and agility. Customers can select the Server, Storage, Blade, Network, or Workstation systems optimized for their applications, as well as the performance, memory, storage, and I/O profiles that are optimally matched to their workloads, at attractive price points.

Register for this webinar to hear about Supermicro’s latest and broadest portfolio of new Ultra, BigTwinTM, SuperBlade®, and SuperStorage products optimized for today’s latest technology innovations. We will also be sharing critical insights on how Supermicro workload optimized server solutions deliver the highest performance, efficiency, and scalability in demanding customer environments from cloud to big data and hyper-converged solutions, and efficiently power mission-critical Enterprise workloads.

Initial versions of HCI solutions were designed to reduce the complexity of deploying storage and compute resources. To achieve simplicity, vendors had to make trade-offs that created performance, flexibility and consolidation limitations that affected how and where HCI could be utilized in your enterprise datacenter. NetApp HCI is the first enterprise-scale hyper converged infrastructure to be designed specifically to solve for these first-generation challenges.

Join us for this webinar to learn how NetApp HCI enables you to confidently deploy a hyper converged infrastructure in the core of you most demanding datacenters by:
•Delivering unique Quality of Service limits that allow the granular control of every application.
•Scaling compute and storage resources independently so you only buy what you use.
•Integrates into the NetApp Data Fabric for enhanced data portability, visibility and protection.

Want to deploy an enterprise-grade Cloud solution without the headaches? Check out this joint webinar from Intel / Supermicro / Canonical on how to design, build and manage your OpenStack or Kubernetes with the Supermicro platform and value added services from Canonical.

You will also learn about some of the most common use cases for Kubernetes and OpenStack: Machine Learning, NFV, CI / CD, and Transcoding.

Supermicro’s solutions offer highly scalable Ultra Enterprise Servers that can have up to 44 Cores, 3TB of memory, high performance NVMe storage on each node, and support for a wide variety of workloads. The solutions also support networking options such as SFP+, 10GBASE-T, 40G and InfiniBand, making them an ideal choice for Canonical’s Foundation cloud deployments.

Using these Supermicro servers, we have built a hyper-converged solution stack that has been tested and validated in Supermicro labs. Customers can choose a best-in class hardware platform with OIL validation, the leading production OS for OpenStack deployments and networking overlay delivered as a fully managed service. Using Juju, the application and service-modeling tool, foundation cloud customers can integrate the infrastructure and operations that they need.

Join Arturo Suarez from Canonical, Srini Bala from Supermicro, and Michael J. Kadera from Intel as they explore a rich landscape of opportunities that combines Juju on Supermicro’s certified platforms to help you tackle the challenges of building and maintaining complex microservices based solutions like OpenStack and Kubernetes.

Be the first to hear about Cisco and NetApp’s exciting new FlexPod solution. This revolutionary design couples operational simplicity, guaranteed QoS, and granular scale-out with FlexPod’s proven architecture. The new solution will appeal to Infrastructure buyers, as well as, Cloud and Virtualization buyers who are building next generation data centers.
•Learn how the solution can provide you with proven performance, agility and value through the latest NetApp and Cisco technologies
• Experience how FlexPod converged infrastructure can reduce risk, deliver faster time to market and improve business outcomes
• See how NetApp technology simplifies storage management and scales on demand

Configuring and managing applications and IT infrastructure can be a mundane, repetitive, and not to mention - error prone. The process also consumes valuable resources and time. Automation tools like Ansible are making it simpler to not only automate your IT platform, but also make it extremely easy to deploy applications.

Join us for this session, and learn about the value of automation across your IT ecosystem. We’ll also have a look at how Ansible’s agentless and easy-to-use approach is simplifying setting up enterprise-grade infrastructure, such as NetApp storage, with your OpenStack cloud at the click of a button.

Takeaway 1:
What is Ansible and how it can be utilized through the entire IT Ecosystem

Takeaway 2:
How to approach creating custom Ansible Playbooks for modularized installations and configurations

Takeaway 3:
An overview of Ansible Modules available for NetApp storage

Over the past 20 years, Enterprise IT has evolved from a rigid, buying all IT equipment up-front and provisioning for the next 5 years approach, to the on-demand, agile, scale-out, software defined data centers that the hyperscale companies enjoy today. But if you are not one of those hyperscale companies and need to compete with them, what do you do? Then you will need a solution like Supermicro Rack Scale Design (RSD).

Based on Intel® Rack Scale Design software framework, Supermicro RSD is a total solution comprised of Supermicro server/storage/networking hardware and an optimized rack level management software. Designed with the whole rack as the new management unit in mind, Supermicro RSD leverages industry standard Redfish RESTful APIs developed by DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) and provides the agility and efficiency for cloud scale data center operators to perform operations such as resource pooling and composability.

In this webinar, experts from Intel and Supermicro will discuss motivations behind Intel® Rack Scale Design software foundation and the unique benefits Supermicro RSD brings to cloud service providers, telecoms, and Fortune 500 companies to build their own agile, efficient, software-defined data centers.

With the advent of Software, Platform, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings in the public cloud, many enterprise IT organizations have a mandate to leverage the public cloud to deliver applications and services. Meanwhile, organizations with petabytes-scale rich content depots are finding moving persistent data storage wholesale to the public cloud is more expensive in the long run. IT has an opportunity to add value by delivering a catalog of standard, S3- and Swift-compatible, object storage services at a cost, quality, and speed comparable to the best external cloud providers.  To address this, IT organizations are turning to the Hybrid Cloud to streamline and automate management of their rich content data at scale.

In this webinar customers will learn how to evolve to succeed in the data-powered digital era utilizing flexible deployment options, multi-tenant global namespaces, automated data policies, and ease of configuration— all powered by NetApp StorageGRID Webscale software and Intel X86 servers.

This webinar will be focused on Grafana and the new features of Grafana 4
- Native alerting: Alerts on thresholds and alert notifications can be added to graph panels. The addition of alerting transforms Grafana from a visualization tool into a truly mission critical monitoring tool.
- Ad-hoc filters: This is a new and very different type of template variable, which allows you to create new key/value filters on the fly; creating new exploratory dashboards
- UI and UX improvements: This release aimed at making the use of the software more intuitive for new users, and improving the experience for existing users.
- Plugins and Dashboards: Learn more about official and community-built Grafana panels, data sources, apps and dashboards.

DataON MUST provides infrastructure visibility and management for Microsoft’s new suite of software-defined storage stack technologies like Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), Storage Replica, and Storage quality of service (QoS) which, based on your policy, monitors hardware and software storage infrastructure to identify potential problems.

In this webinar, we’ll show you how MUST provides on-demand access to curated collections of hyper-converged clusters, storage performance, and capacity metrics:

• Dashboard-level metrics
• System alerts based on Health Service faults
• Automated email services for administrators
• OOBE wizard for cluster configuration and setup
• Mobile-friendly user interface

Red Hat® OpenShift Container Platform is a complete container application platform that provides all aspects of the application development process in one consistent solution that can span across multiple infrastructure footprints. OpenShift integrates all the architecture, processes, platforms, and services needed to help development and operations teams traverse traditional siloed structures and produce applications that help businesses to succeed.

Using OpenShift with Project Trident, NetApp’s open-source dynamic storage provisioner, extends this experience to simplify and automate persistent storage volumes. Trident's integration with OpenShift allows infrastructure teams to define storage capabilities while simultaneously enabling application teams to consume storage based on their needs - when they need it, where they need it, and how they need it.

Learn how OpenShift and NetApp Project Trident can empower the development and deployment of applications in an environment which meets customers’ needs with simplicity and ease.

Cisco has developed the Cisco Business Cloud Advisor (BCA) framework in collaboration with IDC. We analyzed over 6,100 organizations across 31 countries. Cisco BCA helps you continuously improve your multicloud environment following proven and vendor agnostic methodologies. The combination of BCA, our vast cloud portfolio and our rich partner ecosystem can fuel your digital transformation journey.  

In this webinar you will learn how to power data-driven growth for your organization by effectively leveraging the opportunities offered by hybrid cloud, as well as how to connect cloud environments through a data fabric.

IT is turning into one of the main competitive advantages a business has. And at the center of today's IT is the Cloud.

In this webinar we will:
- Share practical advice for people building or managing private/public clouds on how to improve ROI
- Go through the various components of a cloud and share hints on optimizing each component - compute, network, storage & software stack;
- Show how companies used this advice to build clouds with ROI of 260+%, and increased their entire business' profit margins with 15%.

Gain an understanding of what is driving the transition from CapEx storage to OpEx-based Storage-as-a-Service. Learn from the experts why there are significant Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) advantages when transitioning from purchasing storage to pay-as-you-go. Also, learn how to avoid potential pitfalls when launching your new infrastructure.

- A comparison of HDD vs SSD and why/how to make the switch from HDD to SSD
- Market data showing the shift from CapEx to OpEx
- Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) architectures
- Cloud/Hybrid/On-Premise deployment options
- TCO Analysis
- Best-Practices for Deployment

Private cloud doesn't have to be complex. In fact, it shouldn't be complex, because your customers just want it to work. While there are countless different ways to build on-premise clouds, there's a secret most vendors have missed: private cloud should be easy. Easy to buy, easy to deploy, easy to manage and easy to use.

This session will cover the real USPs of private cloud for SMB and enterprise customers, and introduce a new turnkey, white label 'private cloud in a box' solution that combines the OnApp cloud management platform with Intel server, storage and networking products.

- what makes a cloud a cloud?
- removing complexity and adding value
- use cases & selling points
- solution brief

Docker® containers have emerged to provide the agility that development teams need while delivering the stability and reliability required by IT operations. Developers can bring existing applications into the Docker ecosystem while building new applications using microservice design principles. IT-operations teams can benefit from reduced complexity and faster deployment of containerized applications.

Typically, Docker containers do not retain data after being restarted or retired. A container’s ephemeral nature presents challenges for containerizing many common Enterprise applications, from databases to home-grown tools, where data must be retained or when a container must share its data across multiple Docker hosts. Docker and NetApp solve these issues and more with the NetApp® Docker Volume Plugin (nDVP).

The nDVP adds persistent storage capabilities to Docker containers, which gives developers the ability to enable data persistence in applications that use Docker container technology along with enterprise storage features such as transparent scalability, high availability, encryption, data deduplication, and seamless replication.