The Journey to the Efficient Data Centre

Fibre Channel’s speed roadmap defines a well-understood technological trend: the need to double the bit rate in the channel without doubling the required bandwidth.

In order to do this, PAM4 (pulse-amplitude modulation, with four levels of pulse modulation), enters the Fibre Channel physical layer picture. With the use of four signal levels instead of two, and with each signal level corresponding to a two-bit symbol, the standards define 64GFC operation while maintaining backward compatibility with 32GFC and 16GFC.

This advanced technical session will cover the T11 standards which define 64GFC serial Fibre Channel, backwards speed auto-negotiation compatibility, and compatible form factors:

•New physical layer and specification challenges for PAM4, which includes eye openings, crosstalk sensitivity, and new test methodologies and parameters
•Transceivers, their form factors, and how 64GFC maintains backward compatibility with multi-mode fibre cable deployments in the data center, including distance specifications
•Discussion of protocol changes, and an overview of backward-compatible link speed and forward error correction (FEC) negotiation
•The FCIA’s Fibre Channel speed roadmap and evolution, and new technologies under consideration

Building a cloud storage architecture requires both storage vendors, cloud service providers and large enterprises to consider new technical and economic paradigms in order to enable a flexible and cost efficient architecture.

Economic:
Cloud infrastructure is often procured by service providers and large enterprises in the traditional way – prepay for expected future storage needs and over provision for unexpected changes in demand. This requires large capital expenditures with slow cost recovery based on fluctuating customer adoption. Giving these cloud service providers flexibility in the procurement model for their storage allows them to more closely align the expenditure on infrastructure resources with the cost recovery from customers, optimizing the use of both CapEx and OpEx budgets.

Technical:
Clouds inherently require often unpredictable scalability – both up and down. Building a storage architecture with the ability to rapidly allocate resources for a specific customer need and reallocate resources based on changing customer requirements allows the cloud service provider to optimize storage capacity and performance pools in their data center without compromising the responsiveness to the change in needs. Such architecture should also align to the datacenter level orchestration system to allow for even higher level of resource optimization and flexibility.

In this webcast, you will learn:
•How modern storage technology allows you to build this infrastructure
•The role of software defined storage
•Accounting principles
•How to model cloud costs of new applications and or re-engineering existing applications
•Performance considerations

Join this live panel discussion with experts at VMworld US for an in-depth look at the trends, technologies, vendors and platforms that are forever changing the IT landscape.

Tune into this interactive Q&A session with world-renowned Data Center, Cloud, Virtualization, and Infrastructure experts as they discuss the following:

- The CTO's agenda: what they're planning for, how they're preparing, and who to watch in the coming years
- How technologies such as IoT, DevOps and NFV are impacting developers, telco, security and more
- Changing how you work: from digital workplaces, to Agile tools and methodologies, to closing the skills gap and beyond

This live panel will be streamed directly from VMworld US in Las Vegas! Join us for live Q&A from the comfort of your desk.

Join this live panel discussion with experts at VMworld US for all things virtual and cloud networking; from security, network virtualization and beyond.

Tune into this interactive Q&A session with world renowned Data Center, Cloud, Virtualization, and Infrastructure experts as they discuss the following:

- How to secure your application infrastructure and the role of micro-segmentation
- How to ready today's cloud network for tomorrow's demands
- How technologies like SD-WAN and IoT are extending beyond the data center to the edge, and what that means for your customers

This live panel will be streamed directly from VMworld US in Las Vegas! Join us for live Q&A from the comfort of your desk.

Join this live panel discussion with experts at VMworld US to learn what the future holds for data centers and hybrid cloud management.

Tune into this interactive Q&A session with world-renowned Data Center, Cloud, Virtualization, Storage experts as they discuss the following:

- How to develop an integrated IT strategy for a modernized data center
- Trends in virtualized infrastructure, applications, hyper-converged and more
- How technologies like HCI, software-defined and automation are shifting the data center landscape, and what IT leaders can do to prepare
- How to navigate through the cloud-native journey with containers, microservices, Kubernetes, and PaaS

This live panel will be streamed directly from VMworld US in Las Vegas! Join us for live Q&A from the comfort of your desk.

Panellists
W. Curtis Preston (aka “Mr. Backup”), Chief Technical Architect, Druva

Join this live panel discussion with experts at VMworld US for up-to-date trends on what's disrupting the market and how to take your business to the next level.

Tune into this interactive Q&A session with world renowned IT and business leaders while they discuss the following:

- How to declutter and take on today's most pressing IT priorities
- The latest technologies, methodologies and best practices for IT leaders
- How to ensure your organization is primed for 21st century trends from both a business and tech perspective

This live panel will be streamed directly from VMworld US in Las Vegas! Join us for live Q&A from the comfort of your desk.

For datacenter applications requiring low-latency access to persistent storage, byte-addressable persistent memory (PM) technologies like 3D XPoint and MRAM are attractive solutions. Network-based access to PM, labeled here PM over Fabrics (PMoF), is driven by data scalability and/or availability requirements. Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) network protocols are a good match for PMoF, allowing direct RDMA Write of data to remote PM. However, the completion of an RDMA Write at the sending node offers no guarantee that data has reached persistence at the target. This webcast will outline extensions to RDMA protocols that confirm such persistence and additionally can order successive writes to different memories within the target system.

The primary target audience is developers of low-latency and/or high-availability datacenter storage applications. The presentation will also be of broader interest to datacenter developers, administrators and users.

Protocol Analysis for High-Speed Fibre Channel Fabrics in the Data Center: Aka, Saving Your SAN (& Sanity)

The driving force behind adopting new tools and processes in test and measurement practices is the desire to understand, predict, and mitigate the impact of Sick but not Dead (SBND) conditions in datacenter fabrics. The growth and centralization of mission critical datacenter SAN environments has exposed the fact that many small yet seemingly insignificant problems have the potential of becoming large scale and impactful events, unless properly contained or controlled.

Root cause analysis requirements now encompass all layers of the fabric architecture, and new storage protocols that usurp the traditional network stack (i.e. FCoE, iWARP, NVMe over Fabrics, etc.) for purposes of expedited data delivery place additional analytical demands on the datacenter manager.
To be sure, all tools have limitations in their effectiveness and areas of coverage, so a well-constructed “collage” of best practices and effective and efficient analysis tools must be developed. To that end, recognizing and reducing the effect of those limitations is essential.

This webinar will introduce participants to Protocol Analysis tools and how they may be incorporated into the “best practices” application of SAN problem solving. We will review:
•The protocol of the Phy
•Use of “in-line” capture tools
•Benefits of purposeful error injection for developing and supporting today’s high-speed Fibre Channel storage fabrics

Join us on October 10, 2018. FCIA experts will be on hand to answer your questions.

With just a few weeks to the must-attend IT event of the year for CIOs, IT Managers and Directors, Security specialists, Technical experts, we've gathered some of the elite speakers who will be taking the stage to debate the hottest solutions, trends and the biggest opportunities and challenges for businesses to successfully embrace digital change.

Topics to be covered include:

- Cyber Security
- DevOPs
- AI Analytics
- Blockchain
- Internet of Things

What will they be talking about at ExCeL London, on the 3-4 of October 2018, what do they want to hear about, what are they looking forward to?

Presenters
Simon Bitton, Director of Marketing, Europe, Park Place Technologies

Tune into this live panel discussion and start building your enterprise architecture roadmap for 2020 and beyond.

Topics in this panel discussion will include:

- How to drive business value through technology
- Enterprise architecture from a UX perspective
- Cloud transformation and automation, including Robotic Process Automation
- Services and API strategy
- How technologies like Blockchain are changing the enterprise

And much more!

Moderator: Jeanne Morain, Digital Strategist, Author & Speaker, iSpeak Cloud
Panelists: Bala Kalavala, Director of Enterprise Architecture, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and Anthony Nguyen, UX/Enterprise Architect at HP

We all know technology can improve the customer experience, but exactly which technologies and how do we apply them? Too much technology, too quickly deployed can result in frustration and failure.
In this webinar, we will review some fascinating, real-world case studies of how companies transformed their customer experience. We'll address:
• What were their challenges?
• Which technologies were key in their transformation?
• Who ran the project?
• How did they measure success?

We look forward to sharing this information with you!

This webinar will outline how successful Digital Transformation requires an evolution of traditional Enterprise Architecture and Security practices.

This will include a brief history of today's rapid paradigm shifts, drivers, benefits and challenges.

Key considerations among several related areas:
- FOSS, mobile
- Cloud architecture & deployment models
- Agile DevOps vs. traditional governance
- Traditional app architecture vs. CloudNative Microservices & FaaS/Serverless
- The rapidly changing data landscape (OLTP/OLAP -- BigData & Streaming Analytics)

Todd Jobson will explore the impact in several of these areas related to successful Digital Transformation, Enterprise Cloud Architecture, as well as considerations related to security. While not intended to be a comprehensive nor prescriptive webinar, it will include several strategic recommendations along with inter-related tactical considerations that most enterprises will encounter along the complex path of Digital Transformation.

About the Speaker:
Todd Jobson is the CTO & Co-Founder of TechThought.org and has 25 years of experience as both a strategic & tactical thought leader across some of the most demanding business & technically complex mission critical environments. His background has included SW Engineer/Manager developing Nuclear Reactor Control & RealTime access control systems for NYPA, directing application architecture & global Integration (as far as Moscow, Russia) as Chief Technologist for SAI, leading a decade of Enterprise (Fortune 50) client architecture & delivery engagements for Sun Microsystems Professional Services, to conducting Enterprise-wide Digital Transformation Workshops/ Assessments & Future State Cloud Architecture enablement for dozens of Oracle's largest customers.