Fast Lane Webinar Schedule

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Industrial IoT Simplified: Unleashing Data & Connecting the Unconnected

The Internet of Things (IoT) is fueling innovation in nearly every aspect of businesses across a spectrum of industries. Enterprises, cities, and organizations face enormous competitive pressures to innovate with new connected technologies while being heavily invested in legacy systems and technologies that are cost-prohibitive to replace. This webinar focuses on successful customer journeys and successful implementations of Industrial IoT with an emphasis on introducing the key elements of an IIoT deal. Get an introduction to use-cases and business outcomes, how to initiate a pitch on IIoT to your customers, as well as technology and solution components to consider from Intel and relayr, an innovative German based startup.

This webinar will be presented on two different dates:

The first session will be presented on Tuesday, October 11th at 1 p.m. ET. Click Here to Sign Up.

Presenters:

• Guneet Bedi, VP of Business Development, relayr Inc
• Wayne Irwin: Director IoTG Marketing Channels - Intel
• Featured Guest Speaker from relayr channel partner

The second session will be presented on Wednesday, October 12th at 9 a.m. ET. Click Here to Sign Up.

Presenters:

• Guneet Bedi, VP of Business Development, relayr Inc
• Dan Hascall: Director IoTG ISV Enablement - Intel
• Featured Guest Speaker from relayr channel partner

Industrial Retrofitting: How to make money while using IIoT to bring legacy equipment into the future

Successful Industrial IoT deployments have a few key needs; a well-defined architecture and retrofitting legacy assets being the most important. Attend this webinar to learn:

• The many ways that retrofitting legacy equipment begins to benefit businesses immediately
• How fog architecture enables retrofitting in nearly any environment and industry
• Business Outcomes of fog architecture and retrofitting: Remote diagnostics, OEE, Predictive Maintenance. Longer life of existing assets etc.
• Real-life success stories and use-cases in Manufacturing, Buildings, and other verticals
• Understand Deal dynamics & sizes from relayr and their channel partners

Presenters:

• Guneet Bedi, VP Business Development, relayr Inc.
• Wayne Irwin, Director IoT Market and Channels Acceleration, Intel
• Guest Speaker from Channel Partners

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How to use IoT to unleash and capitalize on the data in your Buildings and Stadiums

IoT technologies are enabling more building assets to be connected; improving the way buildings are operated and resources are utilized, which provides enhanced visibility, control, and cost savings. This webinar focuses on:

• Quickest wins you can achieve through smart buildings and use-cases being implemented
• How smart buildings really benefit businesses, from energy management to space utilization and beyond
• Journey of a successful deal and implementation for smart building use-cases
• The future of building management as we know it

Presenters:

• relayr Guest Speaker
• Intel Guest Speaker
• Channel Partner Speaker – Robert Nilson, Managing Director, Born Green Solutions

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IoT and Omni-Channel can Save Billions for Retailers; Deals up for grabs

Implementing “Internet of Things” technologies to deliver a full Omni-Channel retail experience is key to the future success of retailers worldwide. Omni-Channel retailing is defined as the use of a variety of channels and decision points in a customer’s shopping experience, including research prior to making a purchase and post-purchase returns. As implementing and selling "Internet of Things" solutions become key needs for retail establishments everywhere, this webinar will teach you:

• How to use IoT to both save and help make money for your retail customers.
• Omni-Channel retailing use-cases, including a successful deal and implementation journey as well as the solution components to be considered.
• relayr, Intel, and other companies will highlight specific use-cases, including how you can start the retail customers IoT journey with Smart Shelves.

Presenters:

• relayr Guest Speaker
• Intel Guest Speaker
• Intel/relayr channel partner Guest Speaker

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 SESSION 1: All About CUCM 11’s New Feature “Conference Now”

Join Fast Lane Central Eastern Europe elite instructor and CCIE Collaboration subject matter expert Sebastjan Kocelj and learn everything you need to know about CUCM 11's cutting-edge new feature, "Conference Now." Fast Lane is proud to bring you our best instructors in this webinar series: Sebastjan was recognized by Cisco as being in the top 25% of elite CCSIs being recognized for delivering quality CCIE Collaboration training and maintaining high customer satisfaction throughout FY2015.

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 SESSION 2: How to get the most out of UCS- Beyond UCS Manager

Join Fast Lane Central Eastern Europe Senior Instructor and Data Center subject matter expert Vlado Stajic for this interesting and useful seminar on Cisco UCS. Don't be limited to UCS Manager- learn valuable techniques for interacting with and maximizing the capabilities of this technology. Vlado is an award-winning Cisco Certified Instructor, consistently recognized year after year for his expertise and teaching success. In this free session, you'll gain important knowledge that will help you successfully meet and overcome today's and tomorrow's challenges.

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 SESSION 4: Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet Explained

Join Fast Lane Central Eastern Europe Instructor and IoT expert Gasper Parte for this interesting and useful seminar on Internet of Things and Industrial Internet. Gain important knowledge that will help you successfully meet and overcome today and tomorrow's challenges.

Topics to be covered:

• IoT & Big Data - how to manage - solution -> Cloud
• How Connect Assets/Machines to Internet
• What to do with collected data? Answer is Monitor, Analyse & Optimise
• Security in IoT - Users, Access and Data transfer -> We do not share user credentials, but exchange them for a token using OAuth2. For data transfer we use HTTPS and WebSocket.

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 SESSION 5: ACI for Network Engineers- It’s Actually Simple!

Join Data Center Subject Matter Expert and Fast Lane Central Eastern Europe Instructor Jaka Javornik (JJ) for this cutting-edge seminar on ACI technology. This webinar will help you to understand ACI concepts from the networking point of view, and you'll gain important knowledge that will help you successfully meet and overcome today's and tomorrow's challenges. JJ is a multi-award-winning instructor, who specializes in high-end data center training and is recognized year after year for his excellent teaching and ability to help students reach their fullest potential.

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 Session 3: Deploying User Endpoints on Cisco Unified Communications Manager using the Self-Provisioning IVR

A step by step demonstration of the Self-Provisioning IVR Feature. Starting at the LDAP integration with Active Directory. Then Setup of the Universal Device and Line Templates. Followed by building of the Self-Provisioning IVR and finishing with the deployment of the self-provisioned endpoints.

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 Session 5: Introduction to What, Why and How of Cisco ACI

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) reduces TCO, automates IT tasks, and accelerates data center application deployments. Join us on this webinar to understand more.

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 SESSION 3: What’s New From NetApp & Practical Applications

Join Fast Lane Central Eastern Europe Professional Trainer Gyorgy Orban for this interesting and useful seminar discussing NetApp advancements and new releases announced in September 2016. Gain important knowledge about how you can make the most of these technologies and innovations. In this webinar series, Fast Lane's award winning instructors help you successfully meet and overcome today and tomorrow's challenges.

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 Session 2: Transitioning from 7-Mode to Cluster-Mode

An insightful look at the transition methodology to take your 7-Mode NetApp environment and steer you towards a successful transition to Cluster-Mode.

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 Session 2: Transitioning from 7-Mode to Cluster-Mode

An insightful look at the transition methodology to take your 7-Mode NetApp environment and steer you towards a successful transition to Cluster-Mode.

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 Session 4: PaloAlto Networks Firewall - not your traditional firewall

PaloAlto Networks firewall is the first true Application firewall on the market, In this webinar we will discuss what it truly means to have an application Based firewall.

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1. Cisco ACI for Network Engineers- It’s Actually Simple!
2. Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet Explained
3. What’s New From NetApp & Practical Applications
4. How to get the most out of UCS- Beyond UCS Manager
5. All About CUCM 11’s New Feature “Conference Now”
6. What's New in OnCommand Insight Operation and Best Practices
7. IT Professionals - Transform your Company and Career Using Advanced Business and Interpersonal Skills
8. VSC 6.x Policy-Driven Storage with VVOLs
9. Move into the Fast Lane with Fast IT - EDS
10. MetroCluster in Clustered Data ONTAP
11. Move into the Fast Lane with Fast IT - The Cloud
12. Move into the Fast Lane with Fast IT - DevOps
13. What's New in Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.1
14. Next Generation Architectures with Red Hat Certification
15. New Features and Best Practices of Citrix XenDesktop 7.6
16. New Features of Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3
17. Securing the Data Center
18. Clustered Data ONTAP Performance
19. Introduction to ACI - Application Centric Infrastructure
20. Zephyr Application Programming Interface
21. The Power of Programmability
22. What is OpenStack?
23. Management and Orchestration
24. Red Hat Cloud Technologies & Training Offerings
25. Leveraging Converged Architectures- FlexPod and Vblock
26. The Power of Unified Computing
27. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Key Technology Changes and Curriculum & Certification Overview
28. Protecting Clustered Data ONTAP from Disaster
29. MDS and the Role of Fibre Channel and FCoE
30. Cisco Nexus Innovations
31. Clustered Data ONTAP in a Multi-tenant Environment
32. Global Data Center Evolution- Servers, Networking and Storage
33. The Impact of Applications on Data Center Architectures
34. Configuring NetApp Storage for FlexPod
35. Demystifying Cisco TrustSec
36. Optimize and Manage the Virtual Data Center with vSphere 5.5
37. NetApp E-series: Serious Performance for Data Intensive Workloads
38. Cisco ISE Webinar Series: Beyond BYOD
39. Fighting BYOD Sprawl with Cisco’s Identity Services Engine (ISE)
40. Migrating From 7-Mode to Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2
41. Enabling Big Data Solutions with Cloudera
42. Syncsort ECX: A File & Object Catalog for Your Entire NetApp and VMware Enterprise
43. Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 for 7-Mode Administrators
44. ABCs of FlexPod with Clustered ONTAP
45. Understanding Cisco's Open Network Environment
46. Managing the Virtual Data Center with Cisco UCS Director
47. What's New in Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2
48. Clustered Data ONTAP Disaster Recovery
49. Clustered Data ONTAP Multi-Tenant Environment
50. Migrating From 7-Mode to Clustered Data ONTAP
51. Clustered Data ONTAP 101 for 7-Mode Administrators
52. The New Landscape of Cisco’s Data Center Certifications

2016 Previously Recorded Webinars

 

Cisco ACI for Network Engineers- It’s Actually Simple!

Presenter: Jaka Javornik
Original air date: Tuesday, November 22, 2016.
Regardless of whether your focus is datacenter, security, compute or applications, you have been confronted one way or another with Software Defined Network technology. Application Centric Infrastructure is a major step forward for data center network infrastructure, but it can appear slightly daunting if moving from a traditional environment. If you are confused by VMM domains, attachable entity profiles, bridge domains, switch profiles and end point groups, this is the webinar for you.

About the webinar: Award-winning Cisco Certified Systems Instructor (CCSI) and Data Center SME Jaka Javornik (JJ) will present. JJ is an ACI expert, and has traveled around the world instructing on the move to ACI and beyond since its beginning.

During the webinar, JJ will walk you through:

• Some of the common tasks that network administrators encounter when configuring an ACI environment
• Experiences from real deployments
• Best practices
• Some pitfalls and how to avoid them

 

Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet Explained

Presenter: Gasper Parte
Original air date: Thursday, October 13, 2016.
Join Fast Lane Central Eastern Europe Instructor and IoT expert Gasper Parte for this interesting and useful seminar on Internet of Things and Industrial Internet. Gain important knowledge that will help you successfully meet and overcome today and tomorrow's challenges.

Topics Covered:

• IoT & Big Data - how to manage - solution -> Cloud
• How Connect Assets/Machines to Internet
• What to do with collected data? Answer is Monitor, Analyse & Optimise
• Security in IoT - Users, Access and Data transfer -> We do not share user credentials, but exchange them for a token using OAuth2. For data transfer we use HTTPS and WebSocket.

 

What’s New From NetApp & Practical Applications

Presenter: Gyorgy Orban
Original air date: Tuesday, October 11, 2016.

Netapp recently introduced a new main release of its world classic OS, ONTAP 9. It is more than just a facelift. With this release, NetApp introduced many new enhancements, and is focusing on re-using proven technologies from the 7-mode platform, but in a redesigned, optimized way. In this Webinar, Technical Instructor and NetApp expert Gyorgy Orban will present the well-known and less well-known features, and talk about how it can transform your storage environment into a better, more optimized system.
Gain important knowledge about how you can make the most of these technologies and innovations. In this webinar series, Fast Lane's award winning instructors help you successfully meet and overcome today and tomorrow's challenges.

 

How to get the most out of UCS- Beyond UCS Manager

Presenter: Vladimir Stajic
Original air date: Thursday, September 22, 2016.

Join Fast Lane Central Eastern Europe Senior Instructor and Data Center subject matter expert Vlado Stajic for this interesting and useful seminar on Cisco UCS. Don't be limited to UCS Manager- learn valuable techniques for interacting with and maximizing the capabilities of this technology. Vlado is an award-winning Cisco Certified Instructor, consistently recognized year after year for his expertise and teaching success. In this free session, you'll gain important knowledge that will help you successfully meet and overcome today's and tomorrow's challenges.

 

All About CUCM 11’s New Feature “Conference Now”

Presenter: Sebastjan Kocelj
Original air date: Tuesday, September 06, 2016.

Join Fast Lane Central Eastern Europe elite instructor and CCIE Collaboration subject matter expert Sebastjan Kocelj and learn everything you need to know about CUCM 11's cutting-edge new feature, "Conference Now." Fast Lane is proud to bring you our best instructors in this webinar series: Sebastjan was recognized by Cisco as being in the top 25% of elite CCSIs being recognized for delivering quality CCIE Collaboration training and maintaining high customer satisfaction throughout FY2015.

 

What's New in OnCommand Insight Operation and Best Practices

Presenter: Eugene Kashpureff
Original air date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016.

This webinar is designed for current and future administrators, managers, and users of OnCommand Insight and covers the following:

• Explain OnCommand Insight architecture.
• Introduce the components of NetApp OnCommand Insight
  • Discover
  • Assure
  • Plan
  • Perform
• Discuss the concepts taught in our OnCommand Insight Operations and Best Practices and OnCommand Insight Advanced Report Creation classes.
• Review some of the new features of OCI.
• Discuss key concepts for a successful OnCommand Insight deployment.

 

IT Professionals - Transform your Company and Career Using Advanced Business and Interpersonal Skills

Presenter: Eric Bloom
Original air date: Thursday, March 3, 2016.

Want to expand your company, career success and future opportunities? Then this webinar is for you. Your technical ability is, of course, key to your professional performance, but it’s your understanding of the business you serve and your ability to communicate with others that drives your professional brand, future promotions and yet unforeseen opportunities. Join us on this webinar and learn how enhanced business savvy and stronger soft skills can propel you forward.

This webinar is designed for IT technical professionals looking to advance their companies and careers through enhanced business and interpersonal communication skills and a greater understanding of the businesses they serve.

 

VSC 6.x Policy-Driven Storage with VVOLs

Presenter: Anne Achleman
Original air date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016.

vSphere 6.0 on NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3 supports the new NetApp plugin for VMware called Virtual Storage Console 6.0 (VSC) with VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP v6 integration of VMware Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM) functionality to overcome upfront storage provisioning challenges, such as capacity planning, differentiated service level and managing resource headroom.

NetApp’s Software-Defined Storage (SDS) architectural model leverage’s VMware’s goal to dynamically deliver storage services on a per-VM basis from the hypervisor based on policies rather than time-consuming process of managing each storage system independently. NetApp VASA Provider (VP) advertises NetApp storage capabilities to VMware using self-defined profiles, simplifying VM storage management according to the specific needs of each workload. With this new storage visibility, VMware administrators can intelligently place VMs on either traditional datastores or new vSphere 6 VVOLs and NetApp VP will monitor ongoing VM storage compliance requirements, independent of the VMware or storage administration teams, for greater agility.

 

Move into the Fast Lane with Fast IT - EDS

Presenter: Don Sheppard
Original air date: Tuesday, February 2, 2016.

The final webinar of the Fast IT series is both about Fast IT itself and also about the suite of enabling technologies that Fast IT is designed to stay ahead of and continuously embrace. The unbelievably rapid pace of change in IT means that businesses must prepare now for the transformation to Fast IT.

This webinar covers how emerging technologies support disruptive innovation in IT. Strategies for digital business transformation will next be considered. Also discussed are the emerging “SMAC+I” technologies and how they are changing the IT landscape.

The Fast IT approach is an enabler for rapid technology adoption in support of business development and operational model improvement. The faster a company can adopt new technologies and adapt to changing markets, environments and competitors, the better chance they have of not just surviving but also “thriving” in the emerging digital society.

The webinars in this series are stand alone. While each webinar in the series covers a different topic within Fast IT, you do not need to watch them in chronological order.

 

MetroCluster in Clustered Data ONTAP

Original air date: Wednesday, January 20, 2016.

MetroCluster was introduced to Clustered ONTAP in 8.3.

This webinar discusses how the MetroCluster architecture in Clustered ONTAP differs from the previous version in 7-mode, when and why MetroCluster should be used, and how to transition MetroCluster from 7-mode to Clustered ONTAP.

 

Move into the Fast Lane with Fast IT - The Cloud

Original air date: Tuesday, January 12, 2016.

This webinar discusses cloud dynamics, different types of cloud computing including their service models and the pros and cons of each, and technologies required to implement. Other topics that are covered include what it means for the future of the business world and the internet in general and how it will truly revolutionize businesses in ways never before imagined, when implemented properly.

The webinars in this series are stand alone. While each webinar in the series covers a different topic within Fast IT, you do not need to watch them in chronological order.

2015 Previously Recorded Webinars

 

Move into the Fast Lane with Fast IT - DevOps

Original air date: Tuesday, December 8, 2015.

This webinar discusses the origin of the “DevOps” phenomena, including the components of DevOps, NOT just the two or three that everyone else believes is DevOps, but the TRUE components that make up the extremely complex and very large operational infrastructure. This webinar will also cover all the processes, procedures and true benefits that this remarkable combination of “Network Operations” and “Software Development” can bring to any organization.

We will also discuss the various options, use cases, driving factors and market forces surrounding the DevOps phenomenon and how best to implement it as part of the total Fast IT solution and how it works with the other components.

The webinars in this series are stand alone. While each webinar in the series covers a different topic within Fast IT, you do not need to watch them in chronological order.

 

What's New in Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.1

Original air date: Thursday, December 3, 2015.

This webinar talks about the Clustered Data ONTAP features that have been enhanced in 8.3.1. Major topic areas include MetroCluster, two-node clusters, foreign LUN import enhancements, and Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) disaster recovery. Other enhancements that are discussed are the ability to have an all-flash FAS, using non-default IPspaces for cluster peering, and audit log forwarding.

 

Next Generation Architectures with Red Hat Certification

Original air date: Thursday, October 29, 2015.

Learn how Red Hat® Certification is different from other programs and how we help customers implement next-generation architectures using emerging technologies such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux® OpenStack® Platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage, OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat, and Linux containers.

During this webinar, we'll discuss:

• Emerging technologies that are helping customers improve application delivery.
• How Red Hat certification can help you recruit capable technical talent.
• How Red Hat training and certification can help you develop in-house technical talent.

 

New Features and Best Practices of Citrix XenDesktop 7.6

Original air date: Tuesday, August 11, 2015
In this webinar, participants will be introduced to the components and capabilities of XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 and learn to leverage the new FMA architecture for deployment in their environment. Using active discussions with live-lab demonstrations, the following areas of interest will be highlighted:

• The new features available in a XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 deployment
• Hardware requirements and Best Practices for High Availability
• Basic architecture and components in a successful XenApp 7.6 deployment
• The role of the Delivery Controllers and application servers
• The role of Store 2.5 and new features.
• Managing and configuring application hosting
• The integration of XenApp 7.6 with XenDesktop 7.6 and scalability options

 

New Features of Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3

Original air date: Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Join our webinar host, Tia Williams, as she describes the key enhancements to NetApp’s latest clustered operating system. Tia will describe the new features and explain the evolution of clustered Data ONTAP technologies such as root-data partitioning and selective LUN mapping. We will also explore the new networking model and explain the use of broadcast domains and IP Spaces. If you plan to upgrade or migrate to clustered Data ONTAP 8.3, you don’t want to miss this webinar. Key enhancements that will be discussed include:

• Root-Data Partitioning
• SSD Partitioning for Flash Pools
• Automated Non-disruptive Upgrades
• Networking changes model including broadcast domains and IP Spaces
• Protocol enhancements
• Selective LUN mapping
• Metrocluster
• Data Protection enhancements with SnapMirror

 

Cisco Unified Data Center Power Series Session 10: Securing the Data Center

Original air date:Thursday, December 4, 2014
This session will address an often overlooked and yet critical area of Data Center design - Security. Join us as we walk you through the over-arching security concerns and solutions affecting Data Center designs. You will be taken through the common areas that need to be addressed and provide an overview of the associated Cisco products that can be deployed to protect your organization’s critical data and traffic. Topics covered include:

• Unique Security challenges in tomorrow’s Data Center
• What is TrustSec?
• Hypervisor based security
• Security appliances
  • Physical
  • Virtual
• Integrating Security into infrastructure overlays
• Utilizing programmability to simplify Security operations
• The Identity Services Engine (ISE) role in the Data Center
• Implications of Cisco’s Source Fire acquisition

 

Clustered Data ONTAP Performance

Original air date:Tuesday, December 2, 2014
During this webinar, you will learn about performance management of clusters and the key metrics that matter in managing performance in clustered Data ONTAP. We will also cover the following topics:

• Cluster Mode architecture
• Cluster Mode performance metrics and scaling
• Introduction to OnCommand Unified Manager

 

Cisco Unified Data Center Power Series Session 9: Introduction to ACI - Application Centric Infrastructure

Original air date:Thursday, November 20, 2014
This session will focus on Cisco’s recently announced ACI solution. You will gain an understanding of ACI, its current state and what the future holds for ACI. Use this session to begin to evaluate the areas where you think this approach will move your organization into the future.

 

Zephyr Application Programming Interface

Original air date:Tuesday, November 11, 2014
During this webinar, we will discuss the use of ZAPI to automate workflows in Data ONTAP as an alternative to using the CLI. We will also cover the following topics:

• NetApp SDK and Powershell toolkit Installation
• ZAPI Authentication
• Powershell programming
• Making API function calls
• ZEDI Zexplore utility

 

Cisco Unified Data Center Power Series Session 8: The Power of Programmability

Original air date: Thursday, November 6, 2014
This session will explore the emerging conversation around Software Defined Networking and programmability along with specifics on Cisco’s approach. If you are not sure what SDN is or how it will affect your organization, join Terry Jenkins, the presenter, as he explains the need to solve many well-known issues in the networking and Data Center design space. Learn how to navigate the buzz about SDN and programmability, how to evaluate the various approaches and find out how early adoption and partnering with Cisco on this journey can make it easier to embrace these disruptive technologies without disrupting your environment.

 

What is OpenStack?

Original air date: Wednesday, November 5, 2014
In an aim to demystify the most popular and advanced open source cloud computing platform to date, we will take a look at the origins of OpenStack and unveil its architecture. In a concise overview, we will browse through key platform components and services, explaining their role in the big picture, also looking at some of the optional services that really put the sugar on top of the cake.

Concluding the presentation, we will enumerate some of the major OpenStack distributions and commercial support providers. In the mean time, we will be running an automated set up of a proof-of-concept installation in the background so as to conclude the webinar with a short demonstration of what OpenStack Management Console looks like in RHOS5 (Icehouse) platform.

 

Cisco Unified Data Center Power Series Session 7: Management and Orchestration

Original air date: Thursday, October 23, 2014
This session will focus on examining the rapidly evolving Data Center management landscape. You will receive a no nonsense evaluation of Cisco’s past challenges in network management and a view of the coming changes. Along with an overview of the leading solutions in this area, you will be introduced to new use cases and the power of automation and orchestration. When properly adopted, these solutions can save organizations significant amounts of money and speed up the adoption of critical services in the Data Center.

 

Red Hat Cloud Technologies & Training Offerings

Original air date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Please join Fast Lane and Red Hat for a Technology and Training & Certification Discussion of Red Hat Cloud & Virtualization Products. Red Hat offers the World's Leading Open Source solutions for the Data Center and the cloud. In this discussion, you will learn more about Red Hat's Cloud Solutions, including Red Hat OpenStack Open Shift, Cloud Forms, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as well as their award winning Training & Certification offerings.

 

Cisco Unified Data Center Session 6: Leveraging Converged Architectures- FlexPod and Vblock

Original air date: Thursday, October 9, 2014
This session will explore the power of collapsing multiple vendors into a packaged solution consisting of server, networking, storage networking and backend storage arrays. The session will focus on the two leading approaches Cisco/NetApp FlexPod and VCE Vblock. This session will offer valuable insight into navigating the business and operational benefits of these solutions and will guide you through how to select the right products from each vendor for many of the common use cases deployed today.

 

Cisco Unified Data Center Session 5: The Power of Unified Computing

Original air date: Thursday, September 11, 2014
This session will explore the power of unifying storage, network and compute into a single platform. Join this session to learn about emerging use cases and products that are part of Cisco’s Unified Computing portfolio.

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Key Technology Changes and Curriculum & Certification Overview

Original air date: Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Please join Fast Lane and Red Hat for the one hour Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Key Technology Changes and Curriculum & Certification Overview. As you know, Red Hat introduced RHEL7 to the market a few months ago, and there are some significant changes to Operating Systems from previous versions. During this webinar, Red Hat experts will discuss the changes to the technology, and to their curriculum and certification programs.

 

Protecting Clustered Data ONTAP from Disaster

Original air date: Thursday, August 19, 2014
If you experienced a disaster today, would you be able to recover your NetApp cluster? In this webinar we review the various methods of data protection with clustered Data ONTAP and discuss requirements for recovering from a complete cluster disaster. We will also cover:

Topics covered include:

• SnapMirror and SnapVault
• Requirements for failing over to disaster recovery site
• Recovering the NetApp cluster database

 

Cisco Unified Data Center Session 4: MDS and the Role of Fibre Channel and FCoE

Original air date: Thursday, August 14, 2014
This session will explore the various innovations within the MDS portfolio and the world of storage including FC and FCoE.

 

Cisco Unified Data Center Session 3: Cisco Nexus Innovations

Original air date: Thursday, July 31, 2014

This session will explore various innovations within the Nexus portfolio. You will be walked through the whole product portfolio highlighting not only features and capabilities but will also make recommendations on proper placement.

 

Clustered Data ONTAP in a Multi-tenant Environment

Original air date: Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Multitenancy in the NetApp storage environment is supported in 7-Mode with MultiStore. But are these multitenant capabilities supported with clustered Data ONTAP? clustered Data ONTAP inherently supports multitenancy. In this webinar, attendees will gain insight into the inherent multitenant capabilities of clustered Data ONTAP, including secure separation and delegation of Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs). We will also discuss how clustered Data ONTAP inherently supports application and tenant separation within enterprise environments.

Click here and sign up to watch the webinar.

 

Cisco Unified Data Center Power Series Session 2: Global Data Center Evolution- Servers, Networking and Storage

Original air date: Thursday, July 10, 2014
This session will explore the evolution of major components within the Data Center industry and will provide insight into how this evolution has driven vendors to adapt their products to keep pace. You will be walked through a historical conversation around some of the key engineering challenges that have shaped this evolution. The session will highlight many areas that network, storage and server engineers rarely consider when designing Data Centers. You will leave with a renewed perspective on vendor design goals within their products and solutions, new areas to examine within your own designs and a confidence to properly choose the right technologies for your situations.

 

Cisco Unified Data Center Power Series Session 1: The Impact of Applications on Data Center Architectures

Original air date: Thursday, June 19, 2014
This session will introduce the challenges organizations are facing today as you try to keep pace with the rapidly evolving technologies and architectures in the data center industry. Terry Jenkins, the presenter, will walk you through some of the many challenges to be faced and highlight some you may not be aware of. Based on his vast experience in leading major data center rollouts Terry will introduce you to many techniques and real world solutions that are used by large enterprises to overcome these problems. Terry’s insight into the engineering and business perspectives of data center design will leave you both confident and challenged as you return to your organization to address these situations.

 

Configuring NetApp Storage for FlexPod

Original air date: Wednesday, June 4, 2014

NetApp storage in FlexPod provides a foundation for features such as server high availablity, SAN boot, hypervisor storage and more. In this webinar we begin with a brief comparison of FlexPod Express, Datacenter and Select and explore how NetApp fits into each of these architectures. We will also investigate how NetApp storage supports the foundational features of FlexPod and define the NetApp storage configuration required to support these features. Our webinar will conclude with a live review of a NetApp configuration supporting FlexPod.

 

Demystifying Cisco TrustSec

Original air date: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014

Cisco TrustSec replaces traditional network overlay methods with a topology-independent approach to integrated security policy enforcement. Cisco TrustSec addresses several IT challenges faced by businesses today by providing centralized policy distribution and uniform enforcement methods across multiple platforms through the use of Cisco-specific and standards based functionality.

Join industry expert, Natalie Timms, for our one hour Demystifying Cisco TrustSec Webinar where we will cover both technical concepts and practical deployment use cases that explain the advantages of deploying a Cisco TrustSec solution.

• Understanding the Problem Space - Business Justification and Advantages
• Cisco TrustSec Components - Protocols, Features and Devices
• Deploying Cisco TrustSec - Uses case for BYOD and Data Center Segmentation

Natalie Timms is a former program manager with the CCIE certification team at Cisco, before becoming an independent consultant. With more than 20 years experience with computer networking, she has contributed at the IETF standards level and has written many technical papers and is also a Cisco Press author and US patent holder. Natalie has also been an instructor in the Asia Pac region for Wellfleet Communications/Bay Networks and a multiple Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker award winner. Natalie has a CCIE Security Certification and has a BSc in Computer Science and Statistics from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

 

Optimize and Manage the Virtual Data Center with vSphere 5.5

Original air date: Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

Businesses are transforming their data centers into simplified cloud computing environments which deliver the next generation of IT services. The VMware vSphere 5.5 release offer features to increase efficiency, utilization and automation of a data center’s operational assets.

Join industry expert, Mike Sutton, in our Optimize and Manage the Virtual Data Center with vSphere 5.5 webinar where we will discuss the VMware vSphere 5.5 release and how you can optimize the management of any virtual data center or cloud platform. Mike has 20+ years of IT experience and several VMware certifications. Currently, Mike provides both consulting and education training in the areas of cloud computing solutions, data center infrastructure and virtualization technologies.

Topics covered include:

• The virtual data center and the public, hybrid, and private cloud value proposition
• The new features and capabilities within VMware vSphere 5.5 release
• Why the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification is relevant to career skills development
• The VMware add-on products and advanced training available to transform your data center’s cloud, mobility and infrastructure services
• Q&A session

 

NetApp E-series: Serious Performance for Data Intensive Workloads

Original air date: Wednesday, January 15, 2014

E-Series is versatile, reliable storage that appeals to a wide range of customers, from entry level up to big data HPC environments. The key for these different segments is that E-Series systems deliver superior price/performance for SAN, where the application drives the data management. Attend this one-hour Fast Lane webinar to learn what use cases are best served by the NetApp E-series platform and how E-series is optimized for these workloads. We will also take a look at the special requirements of a Hadoop based file system and how the E-series platform meets these needs. Be sure to register to attend this Webinar on January 15th at 2pm eastern presented by E-series expert Derek Sorrells.

 

2013 Webinars

Cisco ISE Webinar Series: Beyond BYOD

Original air date: Wednesday, December 18, 2013

In this webinar, the first in a two-part series, we will be introducing you to the components required for a secure enterprise network, and show you how ISE solutions answer the needs for Triple A services and network access policy deployment and enforcement. We will also introduce you to ISE’s Guest Access, Profiling and Posture capabilities.

 

Fighting BYOD Sprawl with Cisco’s Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Original air date: Wednesday, December 4, 2013

The BYOD phenomenon is a hacker’s paradise: it facilitates moving corporate assets from fixed, company owned resources to mobile, hard-to-control devices outside the ownership of IT.

In this webinar, we will show you how you can use Cisco’s ISE to control BYOD Sprawl, implementing granular policy on any device that has access to company resources. You will learn about the latest ISE (Version 1.2) features that make for seamless integration with top MDM (Mobile Device Manager) vendors, and how ISE stays up-to-date on the latest mobile computing platforms.

 

Migrating From 7-Mode to Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2

Original air date: Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Part two of our clustered Data ONTAP series focuses on the migration from 7-mode. 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.

 

Enabling Big Data Solutions with Cloudera

Original air date: Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Would you like to learn how companies are implementing Big Data to solve complex problems? Join our presenter, Ryan Goldman, in our upcoming webinar, Enabling Big Data Solutions with Cloudera.

During this webinar, you will:

• Hear a very brief history of—and the motivation for—Hadoop
• Learn about Hadoop training for enterprise disruption (and not being disrupted)
• Find out how your team can make or break the data value chain
• Hear a success story: Persado supports marketing language engineering with Cloudera Data Analyst Training

This webinar will end with a question and answer session where you can ask about the Cloudera training curriculum.

 

Syncsort ECX: A File & Object Catalog for Your Entire NetApp and VMware Enterprise

Original air date: Tuesday, November 12, 2013

As a NetApp FAS Administrator, you may have a few questions about your file storage:

• How quickly can you find one file in a pool of millions or even billions of files?
• Can you quickly locate classified/secured files that have leaked onto unsecured networks?
• What types of files take up the most space?
• Do you have a clear understanding of how much space may be wasted in your NetApp environment?
• How old is your data?
• Can you meet your compliance reporting needs in terms of verifying that your Snapshots, SnapVaults and/or SnapMirror have completed successfully?

There were no easy answers to these questions until Syncsort ECX. ECX is an Enterprise Catalog software which provides unprecedented IT visibility, knowledge, and efficiency for NetApp and VMware customers. ECX catalogs both NetApp and VMware infrastructures and allows you to rapidly search across all tiers of storage for files and other IT objects.
Join us in this technical webinar to get a quick demo of ECX. You will be surprised at what you can uncover in your NetApp and VMware environments.

 

Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 for 7-Mode Administrators

Original air date: Wednesday, October 16, 2013

In this webinar, the first of a two part webinar series, we explore the architecture and use cases for clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 (formerly known as Cluster-Mode). We will compare features and functionality of clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 with 7-mode. This webinar will prepare you for part 2 where we will talk about migrating from 7-mode Data ONTAP to clustered ONTAP and the tools that are available.

 

ABCs of FlexPod with Clustered ONTAP

Original air date: September 25, 2013

In this webinar, we will describe features and benefits of clustered ONTAP in a FlexPod environment.  We will also compare differences in the architecture of FlexPod with 7-Mode and a FlexPod with clustered Data ONTAP. Our discussion will also include recent updates to the validated design  guides including the Nexus 7000 and managing FlexPod with Cisco UCS Director. 

 

Understanding Cisco's Open Network Environment

Original air date: August 13, 2013

Cisco’s Open Network Environment (ONE) is a comprehensive solution to help networks become more open, programmable, and application-aware. In this 1-hour webinar, you’ll learn how Cisco leapfrogs industry norms while maintaining compatibility with industry supported standards like OpenFlow. Join our industry expert, Dutch Dyer, as he explains:

• What differentiates Cisco ONE from “standard” Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• How the ONE Platform Kit (onePK) enables direct operation of the network
• What agents and controllers bring to the table
• Why a virtual network overlay is advantageous

Former Cisco Advanced Services Senior Data Center Program Manager and Air Force Major, Michael “Dutch” Dyer has over 17 years data center systems design, development, implementation and leadership experience with Cisco, the Department of Defense and commercial industry. President and Senior Data Center Consultant (SDCC) for the Iron Mountain Consulting Group, Dutch is a noted author, Cisco certified instructor, DoD INFOSEC award winner and data center virtualization proponent.

 

Managing the Virtual Data Center with Cisco UCS Director

Original air date: July 30, 2013

Businesses everywhere have realized the value of cloud technologies and as a result, Cisco UCS Director (formerly known as Cisco Cloupia) has become very valuable software. Please join us for our free 1 hour webinar where we will discuss the key features of Cisco UCS Director and how you can use it to manage your virtual data center. Topics covered include:

• The rebranding of Cisco Cloupia to Cisco UCS Director
• The cloud value proposition for managing converged infrastructure
• Key strategies and delivery models utilized in a successful journey to cloud
• Cisco systems infrastructure and cloud management solutions

 

What's New in Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2

Original air date: May 23, 2013

Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 is finally here. In this exciting webinar we will take a first look at the new features and benefits of this highly anticipated release. Our discussion will include:

• Changes to Aggregate & Volume
• Single Node Installs
• Switchless Clusters
• NAS Protocol Enhancements
• Infinite Volume Enhancements
• Storage QoS
• Important Considerations Before Upgrading

Join NetApp expert Tia Williams as she goes over these topics and answers your questions about Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.

 

Clustered Data ONTAP Disaster Recovery

Original air date: April 16, 2013

Part four of our four-part Clustered Data ONTAP series: We will explore disaster recovery options for Clustered Data ONTAP including intra-cluster and inter-cluster SnapMirror. We will also discuss various ways to recover one node versus the entire cluster in the event of a disaster.

 

Clustered Data ONTAP Multi-Tenant Environment

Original air date: March 19, 2013

Part three of our Clustered Data ONTAP series focuses on the multi-tenant capabilities of Clustered Data ONTAP (formerly known as Cluster-Mode). Compare Vserver administration and delegation capabilities with the capabilities of MultiStore vFilers. A demo will be performed covering common multi-tenant Vserver administrative tasks including restricting Vserver administrator access.

 

Migrating From 7-Mode to Clustered Data ONTAP

Original air date: February 21, 2013

Part two of our Clustered Data ONTAP series focuses on the migration from 7-mode. Learn how to prepare for migration to Clustered Data ONTAP and get an overview of what is required to complete the migration.

 

Clustered Data ONTAP 101 for 7-Mode Administrators

Original air date: January 29, 2013

In this Webinar, the first of a four part webinar series, we explore the architecture and use cases for Clustered Data ONTAP (formerly known as Cluster-Mode). We will compare features and functionality of Clustered Data ONTAP with 7-mode.

 

The New Landscape of Cisco’s Data Center Certifications

Original air date: January 16, 2013

In this Webinar, we look into the exciting changes and updates to Cisco's Data Center certifications. We’ll explore the new landscape to best choose the path and the most appropriate certifications for your job and career. We will also discuss what is retiring from Cisco and look at prerequisites, recommended training and exams for all Cisco DC certifications.

2012 Webinars

What’s New and Exciting in VMware vSphere 5.1

Original air date: December 5, 2012

In this webinar, we will introduce the most significant and exciting new features of vSphere 5.1 and vCenter Server 5.1. We will also highlight some of the differences from the previous release, some of which are significant, but subtle and easily overlooked.

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CUWN 7.2 Training Update

Original air date: March 29, 2012

This webinar provides an overview of the key new features and enhancements to CUWN 7.2, covering implementation considerations, and high-level configuration information, including RRM enhancements, Alloy QoS, FlexConnect enhancements, Wi-Fi Direct, WebAuth scalability enhancements, MSE Virtual Appliance and High Availability, and 802.11u Hotspot and MSAP.

The primary intended audience is customers considering upgrading their network to WLC 7.2/NCS 1.1, and the technical staff responsible for implementing this latest WLAN code.

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