Everything You Wanted To Know about Storage: Getting from Here to There

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight Series.

Join Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager at BrightTALK and Bob Crews, Co-Founder and CEO of Checkpoint Technologies, as they discuss the ins and outs of founding a tech company.

Topics include:

- Juggling the challenges of being a practitioner, sales rep, marketer and CEO simultaneously
- What to look for in a great vendor partnership
- Application security validation, its trends, and what to look out for

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.

After you watch, check-out our Q&A blog from the webcast: http://bit.ly/2DFE7SL

The recent data explosion is a huge challenge for storage and IT system designers. How do you crunch all that data at a reasonable cost? Fortunately, your familiar SAS comes to the rescue with its new 24G speed. Its flexible connection scheme already allows designers to scale huge external storage systems with low latency. Now the new high operating speed offers the throughput you need to bring big data to its knobby knees! Our panel of storage experts will present practical solutions to today’s petabyte problems and beyond.

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

After the webcast, check out the Q&A blog at http://bit.ly/2P0hsqp

This session is meant for full stack developers who wants to know the basics of Azure networking. Topics covered include:

- Software Defined Networking and Hybrid Networks
- On premise and cloud connectivity – VPN, ExpressRoute
- Routing and Traffic management – DNS, Traffic Manager, Load Balancer
- Network Security Groups and Virtual Appliances

About the speaker:
Jay is a Cloud Solution Architect, serving the North East Region of Microsoft US. As a solution architect, Jay functions as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers. In this role, he provides guidance on digital transformation, application modernization, cloud migration and IT operations to his clients.

Jay possesses 20 years of industry experience in numerous technologies and domains like Software Design & Development, Application Management, Infrastructure Design & Build, Enterprise Architecture, Operations, DevOps, Management and Consulting. He has a broad spectrum of expertise in areas like Financial Systems, Real Time Embedded Control Systems, Distributed Systems, Enterprise Messaging, Process Automation, Object Oriented Design, Cloud and Containerization.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Jay worked in various capacities such as R&D Engineer, Software Designer & Developer, Enterprise Architect, Agile Product Owner and Program Manager with various organizations. During his career, Jay consulted for domestic and international clienteles and worked in India, Germany, Switzerland and the US.

Interoperability is a primary basis for the predictable behavior of a Fibre Channel (FC) SAN. FC interoperability implies standards conformance by definition. Interoperability also implies exchanges between a range of products, or similar products from one or more different suppliers, or even between past and future revisions of the same products. Interoperability may be developed as a special measure between two products, while excluding the rest, and still be standards conformant. When a supplier is forced to adapt its system to a system that is not based on standards, it is not interoperability but rather, only compatibility.

Every FC hardware and software supplier publishes an interoperability matrix and per product conformance based on having validated conformance, compatibility, and interoperability. There are many dimensions to interoperability, from the physical layer, optics, and cables; to port type and protocol; to server, storage, and switch fabric operating systems versions; standards and feature implementation compatibility; and to use case topologies based on the connectivity protocol (F-port, N-Port, NP-port, E-port, TE-port, D-port).

In this session we will delve into the many dimensions of FC interoperability, discussing:

•Standards and conformance
•Validation of conformance and interoperability
•FC-NVMe conformance and interoperability
•Interoperability matrices
•Multi-generational interoperability
•Use case examples of interoperability

After you watch the webcast, check out the FC Interoperability Q&A blog https://fibrechannel.org/a-qa-on-fibre-channel-interoperability/

Network-intensive applications, like networked storage or clustered computing, require a network infrastructure with high bandwidth and low latency. Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) supports zero-copy data transfers by enabling movement of data directly to or from application memory. This results in high bandwidth, low latency networking with little involvement from the CPU.

In the next SNIA ESF “Great Storage Debates” series webcasts, we’ll be examining two commonly known RDMA protocols that run over Ethernet; RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and IETF-standard iWARP. Both are Ethernet-based RDMA technologies that reduce the amount of CPU overhead in transferring data among servers and storage systems.

The goal of this presentation is to provide a solid foundation on both RDMA technologies in a vendor-neutral setting that discusses the capabilities and use cases for each so that attendees can become more informed and make educated decisions.

Join to hear the following questions addressed:

•Both RoCE and iWARP support RDMA over Ethernet, but what are the differences?
•Use cases for RoCE and iWARP and what differentiates them?
•UDP/IP and TCP/IP: which uses which and what are the advantages and disadvantages?
•What are the software and hardware requirements for each?
•What are the performance/latency differences of each?

Join our SNIA experts as they answer all these questions and more on this next Great Storage Debate

After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog http://bit.ly/2OH6su8

Telemetry: The essential ingredient to success with Agile, DevOps and SRE:

Measurements, metrics and telemetry enable teams and organizations to deliver successful results with Agile, DevOps and SRE; in order to achieve speed, quality and automation targets with built-in performance, security and resiliency.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

Join Darien Hirotsu, Solution Architect at SDN Essentials and Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager at BrightTALK, as they take a technical deep dive into software-defined networks and automation.

Darien will answer questions related to trends from the field, including:

- Building the development pipeline
- Lessons learned building automation solutions

He will share expert insight into what he wish he had known about software-defined networking and automation years ago, and help you jump start your SDN solutions.

Audience members are encouraged to send questions to the expert which will be answered during the live session.

FICON (Fibre Channel Connection) is an upper-level protocol supported by mainframe servers and attached enterprise-class storage controllers that utilize Fibre Channel as the underlying transport. Mainframes are built to provide a robust and resilient IT infrastructure, and FICON is a key element of their ability to meet the increasing demands placed on reliable and efficient access to data. What are some of the key objectives and benefits of the FICON protocol? And what are the characteristics that make FICON relevant in today’s data centers for mission-critical workloads?

Join us in this live FCIA webcast where you’ll learn:

• Basic mainframe I/O terminology
• The characteristics of mainframe I/O and FICON architecture
• Key features and benefits of FICON

After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog: https://fibrechannel.org/ficon-webcast-qa/

This talk will share information on the changes that are happening with software-defined networks in the three fundamental networking blocks; namely silicon, system and software.

These changes allow for IoT and connected applications to have greater control on the underlying infrastructure. It will also share how the open communities are creating an ecosystem for disaggregated networking to thrive. Please join this webinar to gain technical insights into these changes.

About the presenter:
Ruturaj Pathak is a visionary leader with over two decades of high tech Engineering and Product Management experience. He has been working in the Networking domain for over 13 years and has seen the rise of SDN/NFV since inception. Alongside with Networking, Raj also has experience in Industrial Robotics, Print Imaging systems, and Neural Networks. His interests and strengths lie in charting out and analyzing market and technology trends and how these are likely to reshape the industry in the near future.
He is very much involved in deep learning with neural networks and how it can be applied in networking and other fields.

With high-speed connectivity at the heart of connected vehicles, 5G will play a significant role as the industry undergoes major transformation toward fully autonomous vehicles. These vehicles will be required to cooperate with each other and with the infrastructure in a secure and reliable manner with higher sustainable throughput, greater outdoor position accuracy, guaranteed jitter/delivery at a significantly reduced latency and improved vehicle safety even for out-of-coverage communications.

Key Takeaways:
1. Real-time teleoperations, putting human in the loop for autonomous vehicles.
2. Legal and lawful intervention of autonomous vehicles.
3. 5G V2X for improved safety of automated driving.

IoT, IIoT, OT... It is likely that for many of us these acronyms are confusing. The fact is that traditional industrial environments, such as utilities and production, have started a digital transformation process which harness these and other technologies to become more efficient, automated and competitive.

Within this transformation from a well-defined and well-controlled industrial ecosystem to a dynamic and open one, lurks a shift in the security challenges, needs and solutions/architecture.

This session will focus on the technologies and challenges digital transformation introduces in industrial environments and how Fortinet’s Security Fabric is deployed in such an environments to provide the required security infrastructure and posture, including demonstration of some simplified use cases.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight Series, where each week we feature inspiring founders and entrepreneurs from across industries.

In this episode, Doug Marschke will share his insight and expertise into the software-defined networking industry: what it means to found and run a consulting and managed services company, where the network industry is headed in the age of software-defined everything, and how to scale and grow a services organization in the hi-tech industry.

Join us for this live AMA where the audience will be encouraged to ask questions and engage directly with the panelists.

Looking for more cost-effective ways to implement fibre channel cabling? Learn why proper cabling is important and how it fits into data center designs. Join this webcast to hear FCIA experts discuss:
- Cable and connector types, cassettes, patch panels and other cabling products
- Variables in Fiber Optic and Copper Cables: Reflectance, Insertion Loss,
Crosstalk, Speed/Length Limitations and more
- Different variations of Structured Cabling in an environment with FC
- Helpful tips when planning and implementing a cabling infrastructure within a SAN

After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog: http://bit.ly/2KdtEx0