NetApp Insight
Berlin

FlexPod - An Innovation Platform

Chris O’Brien, Director, CSPG UCS Data Center Solutions, Cisco

Abstract:FlexPod is built on technology trusted by over 8,400 customers worldwide with solutions that are optimized for the most popular infrastructure use cases, applications, and technology transition points in the industry, such as virtualized infrastructure, cloud computing, and enterprise applications. And with continuous innovation over the past 7 years, the FlexPod portfolio has continued to help those customers simplify and modernize their IT environments in a constantly shifting technology landscape. In this session, we will explore the latest hardware, software, management models and use cases for FlexPod. Join us to learn about recent advancements and future options to our innovation platform, FlexPod.

Capitalize Mission Critical Applications

Erik Lillestolen, Sr. Product Manager, Cisco, Ralf Klahr, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco and Mike Brennan, Product Manager, Desktop Virtualization & Graphic Solutions, Cisco

Getting More from your FlexPod

John George, Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco

Abstract:You made the right choice FlexPod, and as a result more and more workloads are being positioned “on it”. It has proven its agility, performance and value, but can you do more? Get more? In this session, we will discuss the operational best practices and tools available to get the most out of your FlexPod. Join us to learn about Cisco Workload Optimization manager to cost-effectively match application demand with infrastructure supply so that you can keep pace with changes in your business today and in the future. Discover how Cisco UCS Performance Manager exposes ties application performance to physical and virtual infrastructure performance. Enroll to do more..

Cisco ACI Multi-Site – One Pane of Glass to Manage Multiple Data Centers

Shehram Jamal, Sr. Product Manager, Cisco

Abstract:What if You Could: - Have both availability and flexibility in your network, without compromise? - Have one management view across your data centers, whether they are in the same building or across the globe? - Have one single operational domain? ACI Multi-Site: - Provides a single point of management to efficiently manage multiple data centers – be it in the same building or across the globe (OpEx savings) - Allows you to extend your “intent” (in form of consistent security policy) across sites (Security Everywhere) - Enables workload migration across data centers (disaster recovery, fault isolation, application availability) - Offers high availability with flexibility without compromise (business continuity)

Cisco Tetration Analytics – Get to a Secure Zero-Trust Model in an Application-Centric World

Shehram Jamal, Sr. Product Manager, Cisco

Abstract: FTetration analytics provides answers to critical questions: - How many endpoints make up this application? - Who is talking to who, on what ports, on what sockets - What policies are required to secure this application? - What are the flow characteristics of this application? - Am I in compliance with my security rules? - Do I have any miss-configurations? Cisco Tetration Analytics support compelling use cases for data center security and operations personnel: - Application visibility and insight into application component communication - Automated whitelist policy recommendations - Policy enforcement that enables application segmentation - Policy impact analysis and compliance - Complete flow visualization, exploration, and forensics