Jagan Jagannathan, Founder and CTO, Xangati
We’re already in the second month of the New Year, and Xangati is as busy as ever. Next up on our agenda is something I am truly excited about—Gestalt IT’s Tech Field Day #5—being held on February 10 and 11 in Silicon Valley. If you haven’t heard of these events—now going on their second year—they are really something special, and Steve Foskett deserves credit for his extraordinary vision in coming up with the concept.
Tech Field Day is an IT forum designed to bring independent thought leaders and cutting edge technology providers together as community. Conducted regionally in different cities throughout the year, the goal is to provide a platform for engagement, education, hands-on experience and feedback. The industry influencers—or delegates, as they’re called—have the opportunity to spend quality time with a select group of vendors in order to obtain detailed knowledge about different technologies.
By visiting vendors in their own backyard, the delegates can meet with both technical and executive management teams at multiple levels within an organization—giving them unprecedented insights into a company’s products and its market perspective. I think of it as ‘running comprehensive and deep.’
The delegates are exposed to a breadth of technologies and are given the access within a company to drill down to a much deeper level than might be typical during a tradeshow or product introduction. On top of that, the event offers a trickle-down effect, as the delegates—including the best known, most respected industry bloggers—share what they’ve learned with followers on their sites and through group posts.
The benefits for the community run deep.
Xangati has been selected as a sponsor for the event and will be presenting on Thursday February 10 from 6:15 - 7:30pm. For folks not attending the event, Gestalt IT will be streaming live video of the presentations on ustream.tv.
Immediately following our presentation, Xangati is also sponsoring the Thursday-evening party at The Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Dinner and drinks will be served!
This year’s Silicon Valley event represents the first ever data-center focused Tech Field Day. With virtualization and cloud computing transforming the data center, I find this focus not only appropriate but also extremely timely. As the data center itself has morphed, so, too, have the requirements of its subsets—such as security, storage and network management.
In particular, infrastructure performance management (IPM) within a virtualized or cloud infrastructure is a radical departure from the management of legacy environments. Like Tech Field Day itself, today’s IPM approach also needs to be both comprehensive and sufficiently deep.
In virtualized and cloud environments resources are shared and connections intrinsically dynamic and ever-changing. With constant interplay between what were previously distinct and separate silos—e.g. server, network, storage and desktop—you need a different model to deal with new operational management and processes. Management must be integrated across silos—and analytics need to be sufficiently deep—to give IT control over this changing infrastructure.
As Xangati’s founder and CTO, I am understandably proud of Xangati’s IPM solution. It was designed specifically to address the dynamic and elastic nature of the evolving virtualized data center—with an advanced analytics engine, real-time cross-silo information and unprecedented interactional visibility.
Xangati’s management is both comprehensive and deep.
Therefore, I am honored to have the opportunity to ‘go deep’ with the delegates and share details about Xangati’s technology with them—including a non-disclosure “style” sneak peek at a soon-to-be released VDI-focused product that we’re very excited about. We want to provide the delegates with the information they need in order to further illuminate the market. We want to cultivate new connections in our community and be as transparent as we possibly can in sharing our views about emerging virtualization and cloud technologies.
And, above all—like any good host—we want to show our guests a good time! For those of you participating in person or watching the streaming video online, we’ll see you there!
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