The document discusses Enterasys' data center networking solutions and strategy. It summarizes that Enterasys has developed the world's most intelligent data center network through $1 billion in R&D, decades of experience, and feedback-driven innovation. Their next-generation data center solutions provide optimized performance, simplicity, and agility to help customers address challenges like cost overruns and integration complexities.
Modern Network Compliance: The Journey of a CustomerItential
This webinar slideshow showcases real-world examples of how Itential users achieved network compliance. Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Rich Martin review why configuration compliance is a requirement to achieve network security, reliability, and performance goals as well as show these principles in action with real-world customer examples and results.
Rapid changes in customer expectations and the growth of IoT device are impacting rural service providers long term viability and relevance. Faced with outdated and burdensome Govt regulation, coupled with declining customer ARPU , OTT service threats and outdated networks, rural service providers are fighting for relevance and a voice in the IoT connected world.
Modern Network Compliance: The Journey of a CustomerItential
This webinar slideshow showcases real-world examples of how Itential users achieved network compliance. Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Rich Martin review why configuration compliance is a requirement to achieve network security, reliability, and performance goals as well as show these principles in action with real-world customer examples and results.
Rapid changes in customer expectations and the growth of IoT device are impacting rural service providers long term viability and relevance. Faced with outdated and burdensome Govt regulation, coupled with declining customer ARPU , OTT service threats and outdated networks, rural service providers are fighting for relevance and a voice in the IoT connected world.
Learn how EcoStruxure is digitizing industry with IIoT to increase end-to-end operational efficiency with more dynamic control for better business results.
An IoT13 presentation showcasing promising companies in the internet of things. Ken Foster, Thingworx, describes the Internet of things and M2M opportunity for his company and the evolution of the M2M market
Feature by Feature comparison of IoT Platform is no sufficient. This presentation talks about why leveraging IOT Platforms is important to accelerate innovation and focus on creating true differentiation. This presentation also provides a reference architecture and technical and business evaluation criteria.
2021 Predictions and Trends for the SD-WAN and Edge MarketQOS Networks
Looking at the new year with a refreshed understanding of what the IT team is looking for, what CIOs are being tasked with, and how to drive a relevant conversation can make the difference with your customer. Join us for our 2021 market insight and trends that can help target the conversation around the edge network and solutions that complement those needs!
This is the IoT path that we are building in Telefónica.
But we are not only talking about IoT.
We are talking about a future we can all create together.
This is the right moment to make it happen.
The Internet of Things… of the People.
Let’s make this future an actual reality.
Let’s do IoT.
Voice and Video Join IT In The Cloud - Huawei EnterpriseHuawei Enterprise
Ron Raffensperger's presentation on voice and video joining IT in the cloud, from the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona - November 08th 2011 for Huawei Enterprise.
Verso IoT experience – What have we learned from implementations all over the...Bosnia Agile
IoT projects face many obstacles on their journey from idea to end-to-end solution. Technology is less an issue, with many vendors and solutions emerging every day. This brings optimism, but also concerns about proper future proof choice and interoperability issues. Even bigger concerns are present in business model definition, business cases creation, go-to-market strategy preparation which requires organizational changes that companies need to conduct in order to be long-term successful in the IoT domain. Verso deploys many projects worldwide, focusing mainly on communication part of IoT solution, however being involved in business discussion as well. What are common technological and business obstacles and what are best practices to resolve them will be the main feature of our presentation.
Hitachi Vantara and our special guest, Dr. Alison Brooks, Research Director at IDC, discuss:
• How video and other IoT data can help your business become smarter, safer and more efficient.
• How to harness IoT data to gain operational intelligence and achieve better business outcomes.
• How Hitachi’s customers are innovating with IoT to excel.
• Which practical applications and best practices will get you started on your own IoT journey to reach your goals and tackle your challenges.
In this webinar we went through three real world examples of how customers have leveraged SD WAN and VeloCloud to reduce overall telecom and WAN expenses.
Chromebooks in K-12 Education Survey ResultsRobert Nilsson
Who uses Chromebooks for K-12 Education and how do they use them? We surveyed school districts around the world for the answers and present the results in this infographic.
Learn how EcoStruxure is digitizing industry with IIoT to increase end-to-end operational efficiency with more dynamic control for better business results.
An IoT13 presentation showcasing promising companies in the internet of things. Ken Foster, Thingworx, describes the Internet of things and M2M opportunity for his company and the evolution of the M2M market
Feature by Feature comparison of IoT Platform is no sufficient. This presentation talks about why leveraging IOT Platforms is important to accelerate innovation and focus on creating true differentiation. This presentation also provides a reference architecture and technical and business evaluation criteria.
2021 Predictions and Trends for the SD-WAN and Edge MarketQOS Networks
Looking at the new year with a refreshed understanding of what the IT team is looking for, what CIOs are being tasked with, and how to drive a relevant conversation can make the difference with your customer. Join us for our 2021 market insight and trends that can help target the conversation around the edge network and solutions that complement those needs!
This is the IoT path that we are building in Telefónica.
But we are not only talking about IoT.
We are talking about a future we can all create together.
This is the right moment to make it happen.
The Internet of Things… of the People.
Let’s make this future an actual reality.
Let’s do IoT.
Voice and Video Join IT In The Cloud - Huawei EnterpriseHuawei Enterprise
Ron Raffensperger's presentation on voice and video joining IT in the cloud, from the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona - November 08th 2011 for Huawei Enterprise.
Verso IoT experience – What have we learned from implementations all over the...Bosnia Agile
IoT projects face many obstacles on their journey from idea to end-to-end solution. Technology is less an issue, with many vendors and solutions emerging every day. This brings optimism, but also concerns about proper future proof choice and interoperability issues. Even bigger concerns are present in business model definition, business cases creation, go-to-market strategy preparation which requires organizational changes that companies need to conduct in order to be long-term successful in the IoT domain. Verso deploys many projects worldwide, focusing mainly on communication part of IoT solution, however being involved in business discussion as well. What are common technological and business obstacles and what are best practices to resolve them will be the main feature of our presentation.
Hitachi Vantara and our special guest, Dr. Alison Brooks, Research Director at IDC, discuss:
• How video and other IoT data can help your business become smarter, safer and more efficient.
• How to harness IoT data to gain operational intelligence and achieve better business outcomes.
• How Hitachi’s customers are innovating with IoT to excel.
• Which practical applications and best practices will get you started on your own IoT journey to reach your goals and tackle your challenges.
In this webinar we went through three real world examples of how customers have leveraged SD WAN and VeloCloud to reduce overall telecom and WAN expenses.
Chromebooks in K-12 Education Survey ResultsRobert Nilsson
Who uses Chromebooks for K-12 Education and how do they use them? We surveyed school districts around the world for the answers and present the results in this infographic.
The new CIO-CMO relationship in Higher EducationRobert Nilsson
Extreme Networks interviewed CIOs and conducted research to find how Higher Education CIOs can work with their CMOs to lead campus digital transformation.
Unleash the power, intelligence, and analytics of your networks with a flexib...Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise enables customers to move to SDN at their own pace with a practical SDN solution.
http://enterprise.alcatel-lucent.com/?solution=DataCenter&page=overview
Welcome to NEC! SpiceCorp of Dallas / Fort WorthInteractiveNEC
NEC recently welcomed regional user group members from the Spiceworks community to their Irving-based headquarters. The Dallas/Fort Worth SpiceCorp Group held their monthly meeting at NEC, kicking it off with a reception in the Executive Briefing Center where members ate and enjoyed beverages, while being able to mix and mingle with NEC’s Subject Matter Experts.
NEC presented several short 15 minute presentations with a lot of time for Q&A/discussions on:
• NEC’s Smart Enterprise Overview
• Simplifying Network Administration with Software Defined Networking
• Business Continuity Technology that Helps You Sleep Peacefully at Night
• Storage Technology that Handles Ever Increasing Corporate Data
• Short Preview of NEC’s Cloud-based Services
Watch the entire event at https://youtu.be/JqlTPiaDDQ4?list=PLWJf584cuAlRm94wTWUNR78hfVYoy6FEO.
Bridging the gap between business intelligence, IT network management, and security with Purview, a network-powered application analytics solution. Purview is a Network-Powered Application, Analytics and Optimization solution that helps CIOs make faster and more effective decisions. Purview also enables you to gain 100% visibility of your network traffic. It does this all from a centralized command and control center that combines Network Management with Business Analytics, and at unprecedented scale (100M sessions) and scope.
Cloud Networking Presentation - WAN Summit - Ciaran RocheCiaran Roche
Ciaran Roche, CTO of Coevolve looks at the recent trends towards multi-cloud environments in enterprises. How can technologies like SD-WAN help extend reliable connectivity to these environments?
Operating costs decrease and agility increases, allowing you to react quickly to new market opportunities.
http://www.cisco.com/web/offers/sp04/simplifying-operations/index.html?KeyCode=000947566
The CoreSite Interconnect Gateway™ (CIG) solution was created with optimal performance and cost efficiency in mind. CIG allows you to hit the “easy button” to rapidly enhance your network performance. This fully managed solution creates secure, high-bandwidth direct connectivity to leading public clouds, network service providers, data centers, and corporate offices to improve application performance and reduce network costs. Traffic is efficiently routed between vendors through router, firewall and WAN acceleration services on the platform.
High Scalability Network Monitoring for Communications Service ProvidersCA Technologies
CA Performance Management is a big data collection, warehousing and analytics solution that helps communications service providers maximize return on their network infrastructure investments and lower the cost of network operations.
Learn more about CA Performance Management here: http://bit.ly/1vrQPJB
Structure 2014 - Disrupting the data center - Intel sponsor workshopGigaom
Presentation from Gigaom's Structure 2014 conference, June 21-22 in San Francisco
Intel sponsor workshop: Disrupting the data center
#gigaomlive
More at http://events.gigaom.com/structure-2014/
In these slides, you will be able to learn about what we will need to do in order to enable 5G and how open source can help accelerate that transformation.
Trends in the K-12 education market and their impact on ITRobert Nilsson
Styles of education are rapidly evolving and Extreme Networks keeps ahead of emerging trends like competency-based learning, virtual reality for education, massive open on-line courses (MOOC), digital badges, adaptive learning, and global connected and convergent classrooms so we can help you understand and implement them.
This presentation will also help you prepare for online assessments, drawing from customer experience with the PARCC field testing; implementing Chromebooks for education; using Google Glass and drones for education; and a look at the US E-rate program.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
2. 2012 Saw More Total Traffic Volume Than All Other Years Combined70 Billion Mobile App Downloads per Year by 201472% of Enterprises use Social Technologies in Their Business60% of All Cloud Deployments Will be Hybrid by 201690% of the World’s Total Data has been Created in the Last 2 Years
DATACENTER
MEGATRENDSAND THE EVOLVING
3. $1 Billion in Research and Development
INNOVATION
ENTERASYS HERITAGE OF
Decades of Data Center Customers
A World of Data Center Experience
6. 2013 Global Data Center SurveyDATACENTER
CHALLENGES
73% Experience Unplanned Cost for Virtualization – Inhibiting ROI
63% Have Consistent User Satisfaction Complaints – Impacting Perception of IT
72% Require Network, Server and Storage Consolidation
86% Face Integration Complexities – Increasing Operational Expense
7. DATACENTER
ENTERASYS NEXT GENERATION
Building a Smarter Data Center
OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE Lengthens Investment Lifecycle
SIMPLICITY Through Unified Visibility and Control
AGILITY to Rapidly Adjust to Changing Business Conditions
8. THE MOST INTELLIGENTDATACENTER NETWORK
SOLUTIONS
Dozens of Disruptive Feature Innovations
3 New Data Center Switch Families
2X Increase in Performance and Capacity
9. RAISING THE DATACENTER
IQ
Reduce Complexity of High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Network Awareness of Storage and Virtualization
Intelligent Service Integration
10. S-SERIESHIGHEST CAPACITY,
MOST INTELLIGENT PLATFORM
Flexible Form Factors for all Deployment Needs
Scalable to 244x10G Ports with 2X to 3X Lower Energy Consumption
Purpose-Built CoreFlow2 – Unmatched Visibility and Control at Scale
11. S180 CLASSHARDWARE
Future-Proof – 2.56 Tbps 1G, 10G and 40G Support (100G Ready)
Leading Buffer Capacity Ensures Application and Storage Performance
Resiliency and Ease of Management with Virtual Switch Bonding
12. Disaster Recovery and High Availability Made Easy
Guarantee Reliability and Interoperability via Standards-Based Meshing
Traffic Engineering to Optimize User and VM to VM Communication
S180 CLASSSOFTWARE
14. Dynamic VM Awareness and Provisioning
Server High Availability via Switch Bonding
Energy Efficient – Less Than 2 Watts per Port
7100-SERIESTOP-OF-RACK INTELLIGENCE
15. 7124
7148
7124T
7148T
(24 SFP+ ports and 4 40G ports)
(48 SFP+ ports and 4 40G ports)
(24 10GBASE-T ports and 4 40G)
(48 10GBASE-T ports and 4 40G)
7100-SERIESDEPLOYMENT FLEXIBILITY
16. NETWORK
MANAGEMENT
Centralized Server, Storage and Wired/Wireless Network Visibility
Workflow Integration for Application, Server and Network Teams
Automation and Orchestration of IP Storage and Virtual Environments
19. SIMPLICITY IS HARD TOACHIEVE
EFFICIENTLY
Single Policy Enforcement Engine vs. Multiple with Disparate Controls
Same Campus and Data Center HA Protocols vs. Varied and Complex
Consistent Private and Public DC Interconnect vs. Multiple and Incompatible
23. DYNASTY
One of the most successful football teams in NFL
history with a record winning streak and a regularly
sold-out, 70,000-fan stadium.
24. GOT YOUR BACK
Online backup provider with over 300 Billion files
stored in multiple data center locations across the US
for over 1 million customers.
25. FAST TRACK
Spanish national rail system with over 15,000 KM of
high-speed rail and commuter lines serving over 450
million passengers annually.
28. SERVICE
AWARD-WINNING
Insourced for Expert Data Center Consultation Every Time
Average Tenure of 14 Years Ensures Rapid Resolution
Industry’s Highest Rated Service Department
Everything that is critical to the business is part of the data center. The data center is your business and making the world’s most intelligent data center is ours.
Mobile, applications, social, cloud and big data are the mega trends that are dynamically changing the industry today. The way that data centers are run and designed, the way that apps are architected and how they are placed into the network, the integration between the server teams, app teams and the network teams, these mega trends are massively changing the game and what a data center needs to do to support the management and overhead that goes into it. Here are some stats that identify that these trends are massively changing the way that your customers and your prospects have to deal with the data center on a day-to-day basis:Mobile: 2012 saw more total traffic volume that any other years combined: That was driven by mobile devices. Mobile is the new edge, it’s the new way that people access apps, those apps reside in the data center or come through the data center to get to Cloud, so that’s a massive impact.70 billion mobile app downloads per yr by 2014- If you look at those downloads, that is data that flows from the Cloud through that data center to a mobile app across the network through the data center over the wireless edge, so it has a massive impact on the amount of traffic flowing through the network .Social:72% of enterprises use social technologies in their business: It’s not only a consumer product, it is being done at work and for work and we are a great example of that, we use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest- there are many diff apps that are important to our business. When it comes to the data center you want to be able to identify and differentiate all of the things we talked about and so it is having a massive impact there as well.Cloud: 60% of cloud deployments will be hybrid by 2016: This means that not only are you outsourcing apps to the Cloud which means you have to have better visibility of what’s going on in your network today but you are also housing private cloud apps where it’s on you own servers, they are virtualized- this has a big impact on where apps are and the mobility of those apps and this goes back to the management and visibility of that data center. Cloud apps change the dynamics of how apps flow, where they flow to, east/west traffic, that traffic that is going outside your network. The hybrid element is really important to us, because as you look at the different data center apps, the things that are going to be moved to the Cloud are often times going to be the less critical apps, so what we retain here, even if you look at our own biz, our financial info, our key data bases that we are pulling from, all that data is very specific and very critical for us in running our operations. That stuff is going to stay in our data center, our data center may not be huge but it is really important, so providing a solution that provides the right level of performance, intelligence and the ability to manage that data effectively and get that data in a very efficient manner while allowing the IT teams to be able to manage that with small resources is really very critical and a lot of your customers are going to be going to this hybrid-Cloud element where you have certain apps in the Cloud and off-premise but a lot of critical apps will still be in the DC, the DC is not going to go away and our solution is the right size for that trend to continue to play out. Recent conversation with Gartner highlight that very thing: data centers are not necessarily going to continue to grow and grow and grow within the different enterprises, they will probably stay the same as you move to 10G you will get more efficient, but the criticality of those apps is the key and to be able to manage that intelligently with our solution is going to be of great value to our customers. Data centers will either stay the same or they may even shrink in size in terms of number of ports, virtualization and as you move to private cloud you are bringing those apps onto servers, the ratio of virtual apps to servers is growing – was at one time 10 to 1, now more like 40 or 50 to one, need fewer ports but are buying 10G, as you move to new servers with more VMs on them you need more bandwidth so there is a trend in the data center of moving from away from 1G to 10G, there is still revenue to be had there… the complexity of a data center even if it is smaller in terms of number of ports isn’t getting less, still have consolidation of storage, still have virtualization going on and the dynamic mobility of that virtualization. The intelligence that we build into that data center is very important, these mega trends are driving significant change, apps that are moving to public cloud may mean maybe fewer servers in my network, but the ones that are there still need to support that consolidated of server, storage and virtualization and that is where we come into play.90% of the World’s total data has been created in the last 2 years- now companies are looking to mine that, we are a perfect example, we are constantly looking at the biz intelligence that we have, we have tons of data in our data center and we are using apps to mine that data, means there is a different traffic pattern in that data center, the criticality of getting that information at any given time from a storage device over IP is changing the dynamics of the data center. Changing aspects of the traffic pattern, instead of N/S traffic coming from storage and server devices up through the network and out, you have a lot of E/W traffic moving server to server, you are increasing the number of virtual devices on each server and the amount of storage you have to deploy to support the growing amounts of data, a lot of that data is just moving from one workload to another on a variety of different virtual machines, it is really important that the network is able to support that east/west traffic in a very efficient and non-blocking manner and we have technology that does that.
$1 Billion in Research and DevelopmentWant to make sure the customer understands that we have a lot of customers that use us in the data centerWe have spent $1 billion in R&D in data center technologyThe things that make us different: Our core flow, our flow awareness and the visibility and control that comes along with thatWe have spent $1 billion, a massive investment, to make sure the product meets the needs of customers todayDecades of Data Center CustomersWe have been doing this for a long timeWe have customers globally that use us, it is important to demonstrate that thought leadership
We have a world of data center experienceWe have customers literally all over the world that trust us to implement their data center, in some of the most sophisticated data centers in the world, but again we want to paint the picture that this is not a niche market for us, this is a massive biz for us.There is an $8 billion dollar market today for that transition to 10G in the enterprise space that we work in, so we want to demonstrate that this is our space and we have experience there, they are the right size products, we have literally hundreds and hundreds of customers that have the exact same needs as the prospect that is sitting in front of you today.
Customer Feedback Drives InnovationHow we’ve come to have the technology we have today has been driven by customer feedbackWe are the right sized company to do biz with, we’re global in scale but we take feedback from customersWe delivered a global Survey on the data center to gather information and we learned some interesting things…
73% experience unplanned cost for virtualization – inhibiting ROIMany times the CFO brought virtualization into the data center expecting to get a return on that investment which comes in from optimization, efficiencies, and cost savings, as a result of fewer servers and optimization of compute and memory of that environment, but in order to do that they need to get to VMotion, that dynamic mobility of those servers in the data center, and most solutions today inhibit that ROI because in many cases you cannot turn on the mobility of virtualization because it costs them more, more people, more hardware. With our solution, we provide that dynamic virtual awareness that allows you to achieve that ROI - this is huge.72% require network, server and storage consolidationThis is happening today- consolidation of IP storage, virtualization of servers, and it is truly difficult as the next stat proves86% face integration complexities – increasing operational expenseThe products that we are bringing to market are meeting these pain points, our solutions are proven and implemented.These stats show prospects that the challenges they are seeing are the same challenges that everyone in the market is seeing and Enterasys has a solution.With virtualization, often times what gets overlooked is the amount of orchestration and communication required, it is so easy to pick up a new VM and move it around, but often times the processes in the organization have not caught up to that technology capability, there is a lot of the overhead required to operate that and it goes back to making sure the environment is clean, understanding who has created the machine, what is the purpose, how are we using it, and making sure that the right network resources are enabled on the other side to accommodate that VM and allow it to do what it was created to do, that cross-communication is critical and that is what we enable.63% have consistent user satisfaction complaints – impacting perception of ITThat orchestration can manifest with a poor user experience and that means to the user that IT is not doing their job.A tremendous amount of money can be spent on a data center, but if the data center does not meet the needs of the end user, the perception is that IT is not doing their job and that is not a good place for IT to be.
Building a Smarter Data CenterThrowing capacity at the problem and buying a bigger and faster box is not solving your problem, it’s simply masking the complexities you are having and that is a never ending loop.We don’t ask customers to whip out their checkbooks every two years to buy bigger, faster boxes, it’s about intelligence that is built in, we build the world’s most intelligent data centers that allows our customers to solve the actual problems of that consolidation of server, compute and storage.SIMPLICITY through unified visibility and controlWe build a smarter data center through driving simplicity, what is often times a manual process for other solutions of that orchestration or lack of any integration around the orchestration between server, compute and virtualization.Delivering unified visibility and control into that data center, it’s not just capacity, just throwing a bigger pipe at it and allowing whatever traffic you want to go through it with no idea if you are optimizing that environment, we have the ability to identify and control that traffic ensuring that you are optimizing that to make sure that business critical apps are getting the high priority that virtualization through mobility, you are controlling that traffic, you are aligning that virtual mobility with the control you want to have.AGILITY to rapidly adjust to changing business conditions We are a perfect example of this, we are a nimble company and are constantly bringing new apps in to drive productivity and value to sales, IT could be jumping through hoops to be able to deploy and support those apps through the data center that we have today, through Cloud or apps placed in-house. The simplicity and management we deliver allows us to be agile and meet the needs of the business.OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE lengthens investment lifecycleNot just about a bigger, faster pipe, it’s about being able to identify what traffic is on the network and control that traffic in a way that is meaningful to the business.Also helps to lengthen the lifecycle of that product, it’s a different approach than a lot of our competitors which ask customers to spend budget on the bigger faster box every few years, we have a 30 year heritage of having longer lifecycles for the product.
Dozens of Disruptive Feature InnovationsDisruptive is usually seen as a negative, in this case, if you go back to the survey we delivered clearly what is being done today in the market is not working, it’s not meeting customer needs. What we are bringing to market, the simplicity, we are bringing dozens of innovative features that allow customers to deploy the technology and meet the needs of their business in a way that they could not before.3 New Data Center Switch FamiliesHaving at least a 2X increase in performance and capacity. You need capacity, there is no question, you need 10G, you need 40G in the data center, but it’s not just capacity, its capacity with intelligence built in and we are bringing all of that to market with our new solution.
Reduce Complexity of High Availability and Disaster RecoveryIn data centers today, one of the most important components is that is where all your critical apps reside, it is your business, therefore redundancy within that is very important , customers build redundancy into their own data center with multiple links and high availability, but it’s not ok to just have a redundant data center in your building, most companies have an off-site data center (either on a premise outside of their organization, in the cloud, a hardware as a service potentially, or in a remote location within their biz), the complexity that goes into building that disaster recovery and high availability traditionally has been high and we have brought simplicity to that with many of these disruptive features.Network Awareness of Storage and VirtualizationIt’s not just the ability to support it, it’s the ability to have awareness to it and have that visibility and control for the virtual environment to support the mobility we have talked about as well as the storage.Storage is collapsing onto IP, the need to access it is growing because of things like big data and everything we need to do our job on a daily basis, as you bring that storage onto the IP network there are things like buffer capacities, that are incredibly important to be able to deliver that storage.Storage is a loss-less environment, it’s not ok to drop packets in a storage environment typically, so fibre channel traditionally has been the method to do that, it works great but is very expensive so customers are looking to transition away from Fibre Channel with the new storage they are purchasing, bring it into the data center bring it into the IP environment with iSCSI. For us we do that here and one employee used the words “I did it and it just worked”. Nothing was a problem, we laid that onto our network with the S-Series and because of our capacity of visibility and control and the ability to optimize, identify and prioritize that traffic in addition to the deep buffers that we have, it all worked.For most customers today storage doesn’t “just work” when you overlay it onto the data center the switches in their environment don’t have the capacity, the intelligence, the buffering to ensure that. So we sometimes feel like it is no problem, but for most customers trying to do that today, it is not a seamless integration. So when we talk about that awareness of storage and virtualization it’s incredibly important to provide that simplicity in that environment.Intelligent Service IntegrationOur ability to integrate with competitors. A lot of examples: SDN and our ability to integrate from a virtualization standpoint with vSphere, the ability to integrate with Citrix, Microsoft, with the different storage competitors, etc.
Flexible form factors for all deployment needsIn conjunction with our promise of continuing to provide additional functionality with the same chassis platforms and are allowing you to add new functionality to that current product set and increase the overall performance, the form factors we are now providing range from 10GBase-T, SFP, the 40G, etc., as well as the traditional form factors that we have been providing.Scalable to 244X10G ports with 2X to 3X Lower Energy ConsumptionAllows for that expansion into the data center within the 10G spaceLower energy consumption helps keep the overall operational expenses down at a manageable levelPurpose-built CoreFlow2 – unmatched visibility and control at scaleThis is a true differentiator for us, not many vendors in the market right now that are building their own custom ASIC and we are the only ones to build a flow-based ASIC architecture with can scale up to millions of flows , 96 million flows within the S-series verses thousand of flows that other vendors are shipping now.Allows for a lot more visibility and control at scale, line rate, non-performance impacting, etc.When you look at SDN, we can do a lot more than our competitors can based on the R&D that we have put into our chip set.
Future-proof – 2.56 Tbps 1G, 10G, 40G Support (100G Ready)Leading buffer capacity ensures application and storage performanceIt is important for storage applications, as you are moving traffic east/west within the data center and it is critical to be able to do that at a loss-less performance base and the buffering is critical to enable that, if you look at ours where we are providing multi-Gigs per slot in buffering verses typical trident plus based solutions with 9MGs per slot- huge difference in buffering capacity and ultimately impacts the performance within that data center environment as you are moving traffic back and forth across the server infrastructure and performing those workloads.Resiliency and ease-of-management with virtual switch bondingVirtual switch bonding is a unique chassis bonding technology that we are building upon, we have dedicated bonding ports within S180 that allow you to connect those chassis together without burning your other ports, which is something you have to do with some of the competitive platforms, it is a nice feature that allows you to connect them together and link them up directly.
Disaster Recovery and High Availability Made EasyGuarantee Availability and Interoperability via standards-based meshingOur data center interconnect solution is very strong, we are leveraging standards-based protocols to be able to do this. We are using Layer 2 GRE to be able to make those connections, shortest path bridging, data center bridging to be able to help with that.From a data center bridging and congestion notification standpoint, as well as shortest path bridging, we are the only vendor in the market to be able to combine those two. Being able to use those protocols in conjunction with each other to provide that loss-less guarantee and assurance is really critical and is something that is a differentiator for us.Traffic Engineering to optimize user and VM to VM communicationWe are doing a standards-based type extension of various technologies. If you look at VRRP, our fabric router capability, there is an extension of VRRP we are making at a high scale Layer 2 interconnection across the data center. We are creating little mini routers in each of those areas so that you’ve got a very scalable routing infrastructure without having to employ full routing all the way down, which provides a much more seamless transmission of data across east/west. If you think about how Cisco’s fabric extender technology works for example where they have to tunnel all their traffic back up to the 5K or the 7K, we are providing that east/west traffic at a much better performance rate using these sorts of technologies, so it is very differentiating.Note: There was a webinar done which was very technically detailed on data center interconnect. This is a great asset for SEs and AEs to go back and watch to get additional information to add to this discussion with prospects.One of the key things that we are not asking our customers to do is learn new proprietary protocols specifically for the data center. Our solution uses standards-based protocols and definitions. We are using the same technology that we use in the campus that we use in the data center; even our management solutions are the same way. That is part of the simplicity of our overall solution that really provides for our customers to deploy these technologies much easier.
Complete Robust FeaturesPerformance OptimizedLower Cost Form FactorThe 140 provides as much performance as our 150 did back in the day, we are providing the same level of capability with a more cost-effective solution for our customers, it’s the right size for our small and medium enterprise customers and it’s got a very strong feature set, we have not skimped on the features in any way. Really what you are looking at is tailoring the capacity and overall performance to the customer’s needs so this is going to be a very nice solution for a lot of our customers.
Dynamic VM awareness and provisioningServer High availability via switch bondingEnergy efficient – less that 2 Watts per portA nice solution once you start to scale up the number of 10G ports that you need, as you scale up the number of ports within the data center beyond the few hundred ports that we might support in the S-Class, you’d use the 7100-Series as the way to do that. You’ve got the same capabilities w/ respect to the protocols, you’ve got the switch bonding for high availability – this is the stacking technology that I talked about - and it’s very energy efficient, it’s using the energy efficient Ethernet, the EEE capability on the ports to be able to shut down ports not being utilized and so it keeps the overall energy footprint down.When you look at Cisco’s fabric extender model, top-of-rack is important because it’s a different approach than a fabric extender which is really just connectivity with intelligence build upstream and not very efficient for that east/west traffic, that intelligence at top-of-rack is a big deal for us and it’s an easy way to contrast it from a fabric extender.
You have both 24 port and 48 port versions of SFP+ and 10GBased-T. Our 10GBased-T portfolio now between the 7100-Series and the S-Class is one of the most robust in the industry. We’ve got more connectivity options now with 10GBased-T and as you look at a lot of customers that are wanting to save money on their fiber optics by deploying Cat6 cabling in the data center, a lot of them will look and say OK this is now a viable option for me, I am going to go with those sorts of deployments connecting straight onto that server port.
Being able to have a centralized view point of the network elements, as well as the virtualization elements within the architecture is really critical and being able to have that communication between the network teams and server/storage teams is a really important aspect.Our Data Center Manager solution is truly a differentiator for us, it is very unique in the industry, we have interconnected the solution using our SDN OneFabric Connect technology and provide that visibility all the way into the virtualized environment. The virtualization guy can look within their vSphere control center and launch our OneFabric control center embedded right within there, and as they create VMs the nomenclature for those machines will appear on both sides, the vSphere center and on the networking side as well - this is key. As you create new VMs a lot of times the workflow may not be there and it is difficult to understand what someone might be referring to because what might be referred to and named on the network side isn’t necessarily the same nomenclature that is used on the virtualization side and so being able to provide a tool set for trouble-shooting for example is really important and a key value add and that helps to keep the overall OPEX low within the IT team in terms of managing the virtual environment, kicking off new services, being able to create that workflow, even automating it to the extent to where the posts are provisioned as you use vMotion to move something from one physical server to another. On the network side the ports are all reallocated and reassigned all with the same policies and everything that the network administrator may have wanted to ensure goes along with that provisioning of that virtual server. Those sorts of things are really what differentiates us and makes our solution unique.Note: Screen shot used on this slide is App ID, we will be releasing it in the Fall, we put it in as a teaser so you can look at some of the different apps and the visibility we talked about. It is something that is coming that will bring full visibility and control for apps in the data center.With NetSight 5.0, the app intelligence platform is in beta mode right now, prospects can look at it, it will be released with 5.1 in the Fall
Customer-Proven Integration for VMWare, Citrix and MicrosoftDoing integrations for the main players in this space.Named Hottest Product of Interop 2013Reference to customers as a proof-point to what we are bringing out from a product technology stand point.Ongoing Community-Driven Development through Open APINew integrations, new ways to use that API are provided by our community-based customer set and is really going to provide an increasingly diverse amount of applications for OneFabric Connect and using it in new ways. We’ve already got a number of different applications for this with various use cases.
If you look at what we’ve done obviously on the data center manager side with Hyper-V, VMWare, Citrix, etc., we’ve also got a number of integrations already on the MDM side with Casper, Mobile Iron and AirWatch.We’ve talked a little but about iBoss in the past in terms of the web filtering but also some of the voice integration we’ve got, security as well. This is really what we alluded to, the user-defined create your own.As more connections are highlighted and as different opportunities come about we will be able to create new use cases to exchange data for mutual benefit and we will continue to build those out. At Garter conference we are launching this new product and one of the things that they highlighted from an SDN standpoint is that the most value from SDN is coming out through that north bound API integration and that’s what this is – this is the north bound integration into other use cases. This is where the value of SDN really becomes realized. It’s not so much that south bound open flow type orchestration of the network switches; we’ve already got a very rich capability there with our flow-based processor, with our policy implementation. What we are doing from a south bound standpoint is way more than what the industry can. What we are doing on the north bound side is also already ahead of what the industry is doing and very robust.
Single policy enforcement engine vs. multiple with disparate controlsSimplicity is hard to achieve, complexity is easy. Building a solution that has a lot of different moving parts that is a compellation of many different products, which is the approach that many of our competitors take, is not that hard to do.The elegant simplicity is very difficult. The value we are bringing with reducing the cost, the overhead, that’s how it manifests. We’ve got years of R&D, a billion dollars invested, that has gotten us to this point.This speaks to one of the blogs that Markus wrote, so from an SE standpoint you can go back and read that. Talks about the components from Cisco that are required to do what we do.We use a single policy enforcement engine, we know that from our OneFabric architecture we do that literally from the VM all the way to the mobile user. When you go back to that perception of how IT is doing being based on the experience of the user this is a big deal that really matters. What are all of the components that sit between the application and the user, and how many different control mechanisms do you need to enforce that, what is the likelihood of having an error, of driving up your cost and the complexity? It’s significant when you have multiple different control points.This concept of policy in our single policy enforcement engine vs. everybody else that has multiple, it’s a big deal and we want to talk about that.Same Campus and Data Center High Availability Protocols vs. Varied and ComplexThere are dozens of innovative and disruptive features that we are bringing to market. The way that we are delivering shortest path bridging, the way that we are doing data center bridging, and the ability to do them together as we mentioned before, and bring them literally, if you’ve got a K at the edge of the network that high availability protocol is consistent from the edge of the network into the core, there is nobody else that can do that.When you talk about the data center interconnect (watch webinar for detail) everybody else takes a different protocol approach depending on where those are, if you look at high availability from a data center and disaster recovery, if your disaster recovery is in-house at a different location it’s one set of protocols if your Cisco, if you’re out of house, across the wide area it’s a completely different set of protocols to enforce that using MPLS and the complexity that gets driven with that is significant.We are saying that is doesn’t matter where that second data center is, the way that you connect them, the protocols that you use and the people that it takes to do that – it’s the same set of protocols. It’s much more simple, and operationally its far more efficient.Consistent Private and Public Data Center Interconnect vs. Multiple and IncompatibleEfficiency is hard to achieve and we believe that we’ve done it in a way that nobody else can.
54% Reduction in OPEXThis comes in in a number of ways, as we talked about it takes fewer people to manage that network, so that has a productivity impact that we’ll talk about as well. The other piece is that operational expenses are things like how much does it cost to power that. The concept of the green data center hasn’t gone away, and there is a massive impact on the S-Series as it compares to the Cisco Nexus 7000 with some of the higher end modules. There is a significant reduction in power consumption and again that manifests into operational expense reduction.42% Lower CAPEXIf you look at a Cisco Nexus 7000, VM-Series Class modules which are their higher-end modules, which they’ve built for the very high end - the service provider for the public Cloud environment, and they are trying to push them down into the mid-sized enterprise because that is the platform that they have architected.If you look at our solution being right-sized, we are deploying a solution that meets the needs of the market today and customers that we have today in the mid-market and we can do it at a significantly lower capital expense depending on the configuration that you are up against. 50% Productivity ImprovementsFrom an Enterasys standpoint, we are very similar to most of our customers, who are mid-sized enterprise customers competing with much larger customer. We need to therefore, do more with less. We’re operating at 50% or less of the staffing and productivity that other competitors are doing. If you look at the ratio of administrators to users, it’s a real value. That centralized view and management enables you to do more with less and we are saying that it can even be higher than a 50% productivity improvement by leveraging us in the data center.
Virtual Server, Storage and Network CoordinationThe end-user drives perception of success- that requires Virtual Server, Storage and Network Coordination. As a user I am accessing data and information and applications – things that either reside in the data center or in a private or a public Cloud. The data center is becoming very important for that. As an end-user, my expectation of what I get as an experience requires that coordination between those modules and we are providing that.Control Automation Ensures Consistent User ExperienceUser Perception Becomes RealityIT can spend a lot of money on new products and massive capacity in the data center and still fall far short of enabling that user experience.Going back to that survey that we did there is a massive number of organizations out there where the end-users perception is poor and we solve that problem.
Customers Leading the WayThere are certain vertical markets that we do well in, healthcare, K-12, higher-ed, manufacturing, but those aren’t the only markets – we have global customers that are doing some very innovative things with our data center…
NE Patriots: It’s not just the mobility and the wireless that everyone knows about, the Pats deployed a state-of-the-art data center. All of those video feeds that are coming from the field that the user in the stands is accessing, comes through that data center. So the performance of that data center and the requirements are quite heavy.
Carbonite: Their business is doing remote backup for consumers, you point your computer at home to Carbonite, you do snapshots across the wide area network, the internet, and they store that data from a backup standpoint, so if your hard drive crashes, all of what you wanted is available. Their entire business model is built around that data center – its massive scale and they trust Enterasys to deliver that data center.
Renfe: the national rail system for Spain, again a very large complex environment, they have 450 million passengers annually. This is a very interesting and complex environment and the trust Enterasys to their data center.
Charite: Located in Germany, they are a very large, long-standing health care organization. You are talking about life-critical networks, resiliency of the data center isn’t just about making sure that it’s always available for the business, but that it’s always available for the sake of the lives of the patients in the hospital. They trust Enterasys to their data center.
oBoticario: Located in Brazil, they are the largest cosmetics and perfume retailer in world with over 3200 stores in Brazil, and their data center is Enterasys. We’ve got a lot of existing customers and a lot of vertical markets that we do well in, but we do well in other markets outside of that as well and we wanted to show that. As you look at our breadth and depth of customers within the data center you realize that we have been doing this for a long time. The tool sets now are that much better to help you win in the data center. If you look at the new hardware platforms and the new capabilities we are providing in the software firmware between data center bridging and shortest path bridging, extending VRRP with fabric routing and IP host routing etc. and then if you look at what we are providing with data center manager from a management standpoint, it really is a triple threat solution to go in and address the key concerns from an IT standpoint within the data center and ultimately provide that end user experience that we know is critical.
Insourced for expert data center consultation every timeWhen you are talking about the most critical part of the network, that’s important. Average Tenure of 14 years ensures rapid resolutionIf you have troubles in downtime and it pertains to the data center, time to repair is critical and it is really important that we have that expertise that answers the phone and resolves that on the first call. Industry’s highest-rated service departmentWith the hybrid Clouds, what remaining on the on-premise data center are the most critical applications that a customer has within their business, it is driving their business, so the support aspect is hyper-critical to be able to make sure that their network is going to be able to continue to perform and maintain the uptime that they need and want.
We have given some tangible evidence to this point; we’ve got a lot of customers and references throughout the world that we can lean on that shows that. The visibility, the control and the embedded intelligence is something that is a very different approach than any of our competitors take and why do we do it? Because there is nothing more important than our customers.
The billion dollars that we’ve spend in R&D, the fact that we take feedback from our customers that drives our innovation to make sure that the products that we bring to market solve the real world challenges that they have today. It’s all because there is nothing more important than our customers.Hopefully you can see that our data center solution is a very different approach. Good luck selling!