Overview of Sponsor Sessions in Berlin

1 © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved.

Overview of Sponsor Sessions in Berlin


Diamond Sponsor - Cisco IL-3-3160-TT - Sponsor Bootcamp: Cisco Systems: FlexPod with ACI Infrastructure: Current and Future Directions

Monday, November 17 – 11:00am – this is a Tech Team only session

2 |

FlexPod is a predesigned and prevalidated data center solution developed jointly by Cisco and NetApp to support critical enterprise applications. Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) based FlexPod Datacenter is built using Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco Nexus 9000 data center switches, NetApp clustered Data ONTAP storage components, and a number of application workloads supporting a range of IT initiatives. The new FlexPod architecture is significantly different both in its design and operations due to the integration of the new ACI based policy-driven network models. In this session, you will learn about the new FlexPod with ACI architecture using VMware vSphere and clustered Data ONTAP as well as other multihypervisor solutions, including Microsoft and Redhat. This session will provide an overview of:

The FlexPod with ACI Solutions roadmap: current and futures Solutions

UCS Director support for FlexPod ACI NetApp’s Workflow Automator direction with ACI Investment protection with the Nexus 9000 – standalone to Fabric mode An ACI technology roadmap

Please join us to learn how FlexPod with ACI offers rapid application deployment capabilities and consistent policy models to the data center.


Diamond Sponsor - Cisco IL-3-3180-TT - Sponsor Bootcamp: Cisco Systems: Evolution of Cisco UCS Portfolio

Monday, November 17 – 2:45pm – this is a Tech Team only session

3 |

The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is designed for IT innovation and business acceleration. Cisco UCS delivers industry leading application performance, and simplified IT through innovation and lower cost of computing. This session will focus on the continued advancement within the UCS portfolio built to further reduce risk, support uptime and deliver performance. Topics will include:

FlexPod solutions with new UCS portfolio UCS Mini for branch office solutions UCS B-Series (Blade Servers) and C-Series (Rack Mount Servers) with latest Intel processors UCS Director enhancements

Join us to learn why Cisco has the best technology, more about the strong partnership with NetApp, and how the FlexPod solutions help customers accomplish complex IT initiatives, respond to new user requirements, and deliver better business outcomes with reduced risk, higher availability and improved performance.


Diamond Sponsor - Cisco IL-2-3680 - Cisco Systems: Build the Next Generation Automated Data Center with Cisco 9000

Tuesday, November 18 – 11:00am

4 |

This session will describe the Cisco Nexus 9000 architecture and innovations in terms of hardware, software, mechanical design, optical advantages in the 40 GE environment, and power budget. The unique combination of Merchant silicon combined with Cisco internally developed ASICs and numerous options for programmability make this platform a leader in the data center switch market. This session will also approach the data center design aspect and describe the Spine-Leaf architecture advantages. Learn how the Nexus 9000 integrates into a FlexPod environment and paves the way for ACI-enabled FlexPod.


Diamond Sponsor - Cisco IL-2-3681 - Cisco Systems: An Application-Centric Approach to Managing Your Infrastructure

Wednesday, November 19 – 1:45pm

5 |

This session will provide an overview of Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). The rapid evolution of data center architecture, driven by increasing application demands, has exposed a gap between the way applications are designed and the way they are deployed. Application connectivity and the performance, security, and auditing policies they require must be translated from application development teams to infrastructure architects/engineers without a common language. The Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) provides a fully programmable policy based network which integrates security, services and a scalable host routing fabric to support both enterprise network needs as well as SP IaaS/PaaS hosting environments. Learn how the integration of ACI with FlexPod paves the way for an agile infrastructure with secure multi-tenancy characteristics.


Platinum Sponsor - VMware VI-2-3131-TT - Sponsor Bootcamp: VMware: Technical Deep Dive on VMware Horizon 6

Monday, November 17 – 2:45pm – this is a Tech Team only session

6 |

VMware End-User Computing technologies allows customers to deliver comprehensive application and desktop virtualization and mobility solutions. Within a customer organization, different end-user requirements often dictate the type of desktop virtualization delivery required – such as on-premises or off-premises, VDI or hosted shared desktops and applications or locally executing desktop. These design decisions allow deployments to be more successful. The End-User Computing portfolio provides these deployment choices through solutions such as Horizon (with View), Horizon DaaS, Horizon Mirage and Workspace portal and Airwatch for enterprise mobility needs.


Platinum Sponsor - VMware VI-2-3130 - VMware: Automating FlexPod Solutions with VMware vRealize Suite

Tuesday, November 18 – 2:45pm

7 |

Over the last few years, customers have benefited from deploying prevalidated and jointly supported FlexPod solutions on vSphere platform. With IT organizations seeking to gain further data center efficiencies built on FlexPod, performing consolidated management and simplified automation of underlying infrastructure becomes critical. The tools customers choose to manage and automate FlexPod solutions need to integrate into both virtual and physical aspects of the environment. VMware’s vRealize suite provides these integrated analytics, management and simple policy-based automation for both Cisco UCS and NetApp storage systems. VMware vRealize Suite combines the capabilities of VMware Cloud Automation, Cloud Management, and Cloud Business solutions in a single offering.


Gold Sponsor - Brocade CR-2-3520 - Brocade: Data Center Network Considerations for Big Data, Databases and Flash Storage


8 |

The convergence of mobile broadband, social business, big data and cloud services is driving significant change impacting IT professionals. Technologies including flash storage, hyper-virtualization, and NetApp’s clustered Data ONTAP are helping solve these challenges – but what are the data center network considerations for successfully implementing these technologies? Are there unique challenges and requirements in implementing these in data center environments? Are these technologies best deployed in a SAN environment, a NAS environment, or some combination of the two? Join the experts in data center infrastructure and networking at Brocade to learn more about the significant changes impacting IT professionals, technologies answering that challenge, and how you can best position yourself to succeed in this significant time of change and opportunity.


Gold Sponsor – Catalogic Software DP-1-2680 - Catalogic Software: The 3rd Wave of Data Protection / Data Management – Copy Data Solutions


9 |

Looking to leverage your current NetApp infrastructure to get dramatically improved data recovery, and disaster recovery over your current data protection solution? Tired of PBBA and other data protection infrastructure costs? Looking to gain insight into the files, volumes, snapshots, SnapMirror and SnapVaults for a clustered Data ONTAP migration or general data management? This session will discuss the latest trends in Copy Data Solutions and how they are ushering in a new wave of visibility, insight and control. Specific solutions and tools will be discussed as well as how specific end user clients are leveraging these technologies to gain operational and competitive advantages today.


Gold Sponsor – Citrix Systems VI-2-2900 - Citrix Systems: How to Scale, Optimize, and Reduce Costs When Deploying Virtual Desktops

Wednesday, November 19 – 11:15am

10 |

Converged systems can improve agility, simplify the deployment and reduce the cost of desktop virtualization by combining desktop operating systems, applications and compute, network and storage into a single solution. In this session you will discover how to deploy Citrix XenDesktop desktop virtualization while reducing infrastructure, operations, and deployment costs with the FlexPod Datacenter integrated system. We’ll explore the latest reference architecture, which includes all flash storage, and discuss the practical experience of one customer with 100,000+ mobile users. Join us and you will learn how to:

Optimize large, enterprise grade desktop virtualization deployments Implement Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) to design a reliable and predictable storage

infrastructure Leverage validation testing to develop a mixed workload of hosted shared desktops and hosted

virtual desktops Validate performance for a cost-effective, flexible and scalable reference architecture


Gold Sponsor – Commvault DP-2-2920 - CommVault: Maximize Your Storage Investments with CommVault | NetApp Solutions


11 |

Learn how CommVault and NetApp products and services can uniquely solve your data protection and recovery challenges. Understand how legacy data management approaches can drive costs, complexity, and risks for storage and application owners. Discover new features that deliver faster backups, quicker restores, greater operational efficiency, and single platform management for NetApp customers and partners. Additionally, learn how these capabilities can be leveraged to manage your data across a range of NetApp products and solutions -- from FAS and E-Series, to FlexPod®, and into Public Cloud infrastructures.


Gold Sponsor – Eaton II-2-2766 - Eaton: FlexPod powered by Eaton and Cisco


12 |

Join Eaton and Cisco to learn about advanced power monitoring, management, and control for NetApp FlexPod and storage solutions. Eaton’s software integration with the NetApp and Cisco validated designs is built upon the capabilities of its Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) software, which allows users to manage their entire power infrastructure remotely and directly through VMware or Citrix virtualization management platforms. In this session, you will learn how

Eaton power protection and distribution solutions, together with Cisco & Netapp, provide increased business value through power management

IPM integrates into Data ONTAP to monitor, manage and facilitate a graceful shutdown of FAS to protect data integrity during an extended power outage

IPM works with Cisco UCS server management to set power consumption limits to each server for extended battery runtime • Eaton’s integrated power management solutions provide the fifth element of converged infrastructure solutions, seamlessly integrating with network switches, server, storage and virtualization components to organize, manage, and protect FlexPod

Eaton’s reference designs for FlexPod and FlexPod Express can help you address and simplify power infrastructure needs


Gold Sponsor – Fast Lane CR-2-2099 - Fast Lane: Migrating From 7-Mode to Clustered Data ONTAP


13 |

Learn how to prepare for migration to clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 and get an overview of what is required to complete the migration. We will also discuss the methods available for migration including use of the new NetApp 7-Mode Transition Tool.


Gold Sponsor – IBM OP-2-3140 - IBM Corporation: Implications of Cloud, Analytics, Mobile and Social Computing on Data Center Infrastructure


14 |

Four distinct yet increasingly interconnected technology trends: cloud computing, mobile technology, social collaboration, and analytics, are reshaping business and marking a turning point for IT. Individually and collectively, these technologies are rendering traditional data center facility strategies unsustainable or even obsolete. Strategies that worked well just a few years ago can now actually hold companies back because of their inability to handle rapidly rising demands for network and storage scalability and variable power and cooling requirements. Today's data center needs to support more users, more devices, and more applications, along with higher expectations for how and where technology can be used. Learn about the space, power, and cooling implications of cloud computing, mobile technologies, social collaboration, and business analytics, and the techniques that IBM is using to help companies build data centers that hold up in the face of such disruptive technologies.


Gold Sponsor – Intel PL-3-3060 - Intel Corporation: Intel + NetApp Better Together


15 |

Learn more about Intel and NetApps Common Vision: cost effective, scalable storage on a unified Ethernet fabric


Mixed Windows, NetApp and cloud environments are becoming ubiquitous in today’s enterprise computing environments. But how do you ensure data interoperability and availability between these environments to enable business critical applications such as data backup, migration, user home directory sync and business file sharing and collaboration? Experience first-hand how Peer Software’s DFSR+ distributed real time replication and file locking technology removes data interoperability barriers surrounding the implementation of Data ONTAP powered storage with mixed Windows and cloud environments. Through a combination of software demonstrations and real world customer case studies, session attendees will experience first hand how DFSR+ delivers powerful technical differentiators for customers choosing NetApp over other storage vendors.

Key examples include:

User home directory sync for VDI deployments and traveling users Remote office backup to NetApp and public cloud infrastructure Simplifying migration projects by reducing or even eliminating downtime

associated with cutover Global file sharing and collaboration for Active-Active systems

Gold Sponsor – Peer Software TR-1-2940 - Peer Software: DFSR+™ - The Key to Real-time Replication Across NetApp (7-mode and cDot), Windows and Cloud Environments


16 |


Based on the experience of hundreds of performance analysis’s carried out over decades, we will talk about the usual misunderstandings, which lead to performance penalties and how to reveal, avoid and fix them. Some of them are so obvious, you would never have thought about them. This is a collection of the biggest "aha" effects:

How to define the ideal RAID group size? How and where to easily detect fragmentation? How huge is the impact of misalignment? - Realistic storage sizing Data throughput limitations generated by fairness restrictions

Gold Sponsor – qSkills CR-2-3700 - qSkills: Performance Analysis: The Usual Suspects Revealed – Fast and Straight Forward


17 |


Today’s hybrid, IT architectures often involve multiple locations (data centers, branch offices, cloud providers, etc.) separated by great distances. Greater distances between users and their data can result in high-latency, increased bandwidth requirements, and poor performance. How can enterprises turn these distance-related challenges into a competitive advantage? Riverbed’s Application Performance Infrastructure solutions enable location independent computing and enable enterprises to deploy modern, hybrid architectures that maintain the performance of single data center architectures. The combined solution of Riverbed SteelFusion and Riverbed SteelHead® enables customers to achieve the full potential of hybrid architectures. Riverbed SteelFusion storage delivery appliances empower IT organizations to pull back data from the branch office and manage it on NetApp storage systems in the data center. Riverbed SteelHead® appliances dramatically accelerate WAN performance for NetApp SnapMirror, overcoming bandwidth and geographical limitations to achieve higher levels of data protection. In this session learn how you can:

Secure remote data in the data center and simplify branch IT. Consolidate branch servers and storage to data center. Centralize branch office backup operations. Accelerate disaster recovery and achieve near instant RTO. Improve RPO with up to 50x performance increase for data replication. Reduce WAN capacity requirements by up to 99%.

Gold Sponsor – Riverbed Technology DP-1-3201 - Riverbed: Turn Distance Into Competitive Advantage – Accelerate Hybrid Architectures


18 |


Gold Sponsor – SafeNet SC-2-2760 - SafeNet: Three Business Scenarios for Expanding the NetApp Footprint with Security


19 |

Today’s organizations have more data than ever to store. Often, much of this data is sensitive; that is, it contains personally identifiable or proprietary information that could be detrimental to the business in the wrong hands. In order to store this data on NetApp storage solutions, customers need to be assured that it will stay secured. This presentation will look at three real world deployments in which NetApp security solutions solved a customer’s problem, and helped to expand the use of NetApp storage within organizations. We will review the customer requirements, the architecture deployed and any technical hurdles encountered, and how NetApp and SafeNet overcame them. Specific case studies may vary to make story more compelling for each audience, but examples could include: - Energy Company: A large European oil and gas company uses ships and satellites to gather intelligence on potential drilling opportunities—vital proprietary information that represented petabytes of exploration data on NetApp drives, but that needed to be safeguarded. Without the proper security, the storage opportunity would be dramatically smaller. - Financial Institution: A large American financial institution with over $500B in assets saw their need for storage dramatically increase. They turned to NetApp for encrypted storage, but needed a way to secure those encryption keys—in a way that would meet stringent regulations. - Service Provider: A midsize infrastructure-as-a-service provider offers NetApp-based storage-as-a-service for their business clients for both primary data and backup data. They need to assure their customers that the backup data will stay secured, and that no one but the customer—not even the service provider—will have access to their data. One more issue: it can’t impact the performance of the primary data.


IDC reports that the market for Converged Infrastructure (CI), also known as Integrated Systems, continues to grow rapidly. Revenue has reportedly jumped an additional 38.5% in the first quarter of this year. CI is in high demand to meet business productivity needs, to bring the cloud to life and is fast becoming essential in enabling the "Internet of Things." This session will discuss Converged Infrastructure, what it is, what it does and how it does it, and how it impacts on and interacts with the physical infrastructure which supports it. Find out how Schneider Electric is working closely with NetApp, Cisco and others to provide 'extended,' integrated solutions that give customers simplified choice and deliver a complete and highly energy efficient IT solution that can be rapidly deployed across an organization, from the core to the edge of the network – from the data center through to the branch office and the SME.

Gold Sponsor – Schneider Electric II-1-3502 - Schneider Electric: Extending Integrated Systems in to Physical Infrastructure


20 |


Storage issues can have a critical impact on your applications’ performance and users' experience. Join us to learn how Splunk software can not only help you get unified visibility into your NetApp storage systems, but also use those insights to assure better application performance, better response times and lower latencies. You will be able to understand how to utilize Splunk Enterprise to correlate storage machine data with virtualization, operating systems and data from technology tiers for quicker time to resolution, optimal performance planning and a unified view of KPIs across your entire enterprise.

Gold Sponsor – Splunk CR-2-3280 - Splunk: Use NetApp Storage Insights to Ensure Application Performance


21 |


The always-on business requires strict and demanding uptimes, together with great protection and recovery performances. To fulfill these service levels with their stakeholders, IT departments need to leverage any modern technology able to improve their data availability. But this is not an easy task; protection activities during working hours have an impact on production performances, snapshots and their remote copies are powerful, but sometimes cumbersome for restores, and application consistency is not always easy to obtain. As long as the different components of the data center are siloed and not deeply integrated, this is hardly going to change. A tight integration between the data availability solution and the storage is the best solution to solve these problems, and to dramatically improve the level of data availability. Veeam Backup & Replication v8 has introduced support for NetApp FAS and FlexArray storage arrays, and with this technical integration it can execute storage-assisted data protection operations: backups directly from storage snapshots can be executed more frequently, with less impact, even during production hours; and at the same time, Veeam technology offers a complete set of restore capabilities to dramatically minimize downtimes, and easily restore entire virtual machines, virtual disks, single files, or application items. The integration is complete, and can be used in any NetApp deployment scenario: both block (iSCSI, FC) and NFS volumes are supported, with 7-Mode or clustered-mode arrays. And the integration is seamless: Veeam Backup & Replication can read and run restores from primary snapshots, SnapMirror and SnapVault volumes, and also save its backups into SnapVault. A comprehensive integration to leverage all the power of NetApp and Veeam. In this session, you will learn about: - how Veeam Backup & Replication integrates with NetApp arrays - Veeam Backup from Storage Snapshots – Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots - Veeam Backup Vaulting

Gold Sponsor – Veeam VI-2-2764 - Veeam Software: Datacenter Availability with Veeam and NetApp


22 |