Interop Las Vegas 2012

Interop is one of the leading events to give you a comprehensive and unbiased understanding of all the latest innovations—including cloud computing, virtualization, security, mobility and data center advances. This page will help you stay up to date on all of the technology Dell will be showcasing at this years event.

Dell at Interop Las Vegas 2012

Dell is excited to take part in Interop Las Vegas 2012 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. There, we will showcase our portfolio of end to end solutions for traditional, virtual and cloud environments. Representatives from Dell servers, storage, networking and services will be on hand to meet with customers and discuss industry trends in booth #1727.

Keynotes

Tuesday, May 8, 2012; 1:00PM
Mandalay Ballroom H

Beyond Networking – Dell Solving Tough IT Challenges from End-to-End - We at Dell dream big. Our customers do too. They are doing amazing, transformative things like accelerating and personalizing medical research, bringing technology into the classroom to help improve education, or running social networks that change the way all interact. Come see how we’re helping them with some of their toughest IT challenges.

Dario Zamarian, Vice President & General Manager Networking, Dell
Special guest Dr. Spyro Mousses, PhD of Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)

Dario Zamarian
Dell Inc. | Networking Platform Vice President and General Manager

Dario Zamarian serves as vice president and general manager, Networking Platform, for Dell. In this role, he is responsible for engineering, design, development and marketing of all networking products and solutions.

Prior to joining Dell in 2010, Dario was vice president of Systems and Network Management for the Access Routing Technology Group at Cisco Systems, Inc. He also served as vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Security and Network Management business unit.

Prior to joining Cisco in 2004, Dario held senior leadership roles with several Silicon Valley startup companies, including Servgate Technologies and Securify.

Dario earned a master's degree in business administration from INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration), France and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy.

Dell Speaking Sessions

Tuesday, May 8, 2012; 11:15 AM
Mandalay Bay L

A Discussion on Data Center Network Virtualization - As the compute and storage architectures are increasingly virtualized, today’s network architecture in the data center environment is becoming a major bottleneck to workload and operations agility. In contrast to the provisioning of virtual machines which can be accomplished in a matter of minutes, configurations changes to the data center networks need to go through careful validation and potential troubleshooting which often requires hours or even days to complete. Virtualizing the network, similar to virtualizing the computing and storage environments, is the new focal point of data center operations. Currently there are two major approaches towards data center network virtualization. One is based on the virtual networking framework implemented in the hypervisor environment and the other is based on the OpenFlow-based Software Defined Networking (SDN) framework. This session will provide an overview of the emerging architectures for data center network virtualization.

Geng Lin, Chief Technology Officer of Networking, Dell

Tuesday, May 8, 2012; 12:15 PM
Mandalay Bay L

Accelerating the Journey to the Private Cloud with Dell - As your organization pursues improved IT service delivery and optimal use of infrastructure resources, take a detour from challenges that deter the flexibility of your environment. Dell delivers a standardized, resilient and scalable platform to maximize hardware utilization and simplify IT infrastructure and operations management of your cloud environment. Learn how to quickly deploy and automate management of physical, virtual and private cloud technologies through proven, integrated software and hardware configurations and optimized delivery models that leverage Dell’s Virtual Integrated System (VIS) and vStart solutions.

Ben Tao, Director, Dell Virtualization Solutions

Tuesday, May 8, 2012; 2:30PM
Mandalay Bay L

Simplifying the Complex : New Directions in Dell Network Management Using Dell’s OpenManage Network Manager 5.0 to Solve Networking Challenges - Learn how Dell’s new OpenManage 5.0 can simplify the management of the entire line of Dell networking products. The session covers a series of networking management challenges including:

Analyzing the Traffic Patterns and Layout of your Network
Managing Automated Upgrades
Locating Bottlenecks
Tracking and Identifying Excessive Data Users

Each scenario will feature a live demonstration of how each challenge can be solved through the use of Dell OpenManage Network Manager 5.0.

Terry Myers, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Dell Networking
Odie Cavazos, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Dell Networking
Scott McIntyre, Sr. Product Manager, Dell Networking

Tuesday, May 8, 2012; 3:30PM
Mandalay Bay K

Architecting Data Center Networks in the Era of Big Data and Cloud - Big Data clusters and SDN enabled clouds invite a new approach to data center networking. This session for data center architects will explore the transition from traditional scale-up chassis based Layer 2 centric networking, to the next generation of scale-out Layer 3 CLOS based fabrics of fixed switches.

Brad Hedlund, Consulting Solution Architect, Dell

Wednesday, May 9, 2012; 11:15 AM
Mandalay Bay L

Wireless Challenges? Learn Simplified Wireless Solutions from Dell - Wireless is the new Access. Your employees and guests want to bring their own devices, connect to your network, and access services while demanding a rich experience. You want to provide this access in a reliable, secure and simplified way. In this session, we will explore how Dell networking solutions will help you to meet BYOD demands and provide seamless Unified Communications experience over wireless.

Pratik Mehta, Wireless Product Line Manager, Dell

Wednesday, May 9, 2012; 1:15 PM
Mandalay Bay L

How do you Overcome Remote Site Challenges to Enable the Same User Experience Found in the Campus LAN? - Enterprises continue to become more geographically distributed, largely as a result of dynamic workforce change and growth. This session discusses remote office IT challenges, and the changes that can be made to infrastructure to overcome them. Topics include remote application access, storage availability, collaboration across sites, security and compliance solutions, as well as approaches to orchestrate and centrally manage services to optimize resources.

Craig Phelps, Senior Product Manager, Dell Networking

Mini-theater Presentations In Booth

Themes for in booth presentations:

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Tuesday, May 8	Wednesday, May 9
Virtual Network Architecture (10:15 -11:45 AM) Power of 10 - End to End (12:15 - 2:15 PM) Wireless Networking (2:45 - 4:15 PM)	Cloud Services (10:15 - 11:45 AM) Virtualization (12:15 - 2:15 PM) M1000e Blade System (2:45 - 4:15 PM)

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

10:15 AM
Get Control of your Network with Dell OpenManage Network Manager
Scott McIntyre, Sr. Product Consultant, Networking Systems Management
Session Abstract: Information is the lifeblood of your organization, and your network is what keeps it flowing. Learn how Dell is simplifying configuration, monitoring, and management for the entire Dell networking family with OpenManage Network Manager

10:45 AM
Dell Networking Overview: Campus, Branch and Mobility
Jason Echols – Global Product Manager
A brief summary of Dell Networking products for Campus, Branch and Mobility; and how they fit into Dell Virtual Network Architecture.

11:15 AM
Automated Workload Mobility
Mario Chow, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer
Automated workload mobility is integrated in the Force10 Operating System (FTOS) and the Dell Force10 data center networking product line. The automated VM-VLAN features allow data center operators to automate networking tasked associated with migrating virtual machines.

11:45 AM
Fabrics that Fit
Dax Choksi, Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Emerging workloads and Big Data present a challenge for the data center architects. The session looks into distributed core fabric architecture to addresses this challenge.

12:15 PM
The Power of 10
Nikul Sheth, Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Data centers are undergoing a transformation by moving to a virtualized data center. 10GbE is required in the data center for the network to keep up with the trends in virtual computing. Higher bandwidth applications such as video, virtualization and VDI are driving the need for 10GbE in the data center.

12:45 PM
Dell PowerEdge 12th Generation Servers
Carol Pflueger, Product Marketing Manager, Dell PowerEdge Servers
Employ the newest Dell server technology, with high-density memory, balanced I/O and the latest processors, for your enterprise virtualization and business processing environments. The 12th Generation of Dell PowerEdge family is engineered with the right combination of features and performance scalability like performance packed computing, advanced I/O capabilities, flexible and scalable networking to handle tough workloads for both large and small data center environments.

1:45 PM
Optimized Data Tiering with Data Progression
Jacob Hull, Senior Storage Engineer
Learn about Dell’s industry leading auto-tiering capabilities and how it can both improve performance and reduce costs of your storage and data management requirements.

2:15 PM
Scale-out Storage Benefits for Unified Storage
Gerard Svartz, Sr. Solution Marketing Mangaer
See how Dell’s scale-out, unified storage solution gives you balanced capacity and performance growth. All from a very powerful, easy to use management interface.

2:45 PM
Dell Services, Solving Business Challenges with Networking Services
Bob Groselle, Dell Services Networking Solutions Architect
Today’s data and communication networks are dealing with unprecedented complexity producing customer pain around dealing with the continued growth in cloud computing, virtualization, a proliferation of pervasive security technologies and a “constantly on, always wired” workforce that is becoming increasingly more mobile. Dell has the networking solutions to help our customers meet the challenges of network planning, deployment, support and management for the Virtual Era.

3:15 PM
Guest Access and BYOD
Pratik Mehta, Senior Wireless Product Manager
A Scalable, easy-to-use visitor manage¬ment and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) solution that delivers secure wireless network access to guests, employees and their mobile devices.

3:45 PM
Context Aware Wireless Solution
Dilip Patel, Senior Product Marketing Manager
o Leading edge enterprise mobility solution that is highly secures, simple to deploy, easy to manage and able to deliver differentiated access policies based on context.

4:15 PM
Is a Next-Generation Firewall in Your Future? - SonicWALL
Dmitriy Ayrapetov, Senior Manager of Network Security for SonicWALL
Next-Generation Firewalls and the Enterprise This session will cover how SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewalls with application intelligence, control and visualization provide the highest overall protection and application productivity for your enterprise.

Wenesday, May 9, 2012

10:15 AM
Cloud – Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution (Dell.com/OpenStack)
Kamesh Pemmaraju
Fast. Easy. Now.
Dell can help you get started with OpenStack today.
> Crowbar installer
> Proven expertise
> Reference architecture

10:45 AM
Big Data - Dell | Hadoop Big Data Solution
Matt Newsom
The Dell | Cloudera® Solution comprises Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop, Dell PowerEdge™ C hardware, and joint service and support. This combined solution delivers an integrated, highly optimized solution for massive distributed processing against a single file system namespace.

11:15 AM
Should you move application integration to the cloud?
Aaron D Smith, Director Business Development, Dell Boomi
Is the cloud wreaking havoc on your business processes? Let us show how today’s leading companies address integration of on premise and SaaS applications.

11:45 AM
Cloud – Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution
Kamesh Pemmaraju
Fast. Easy. Now.
Dell can help you get started with OpenStack today.
> Crowbar installer
> Proven expertise
> Reference architecture

12:15 PM
Overcome Your Remote Site Challenges using Dell and Silver Peak
Enterprises continue to become more geographically distributed, largely as a result of dynamic workforce change and growth.We will discuss remote office IT challenges, and the changes that can be made to infrastructure to overcome them.

12:45 PM
Desktop Virtualization Solutions – Reducing cost and complexity
Travis Brown, Senior Product Manager, Desktop Virtualization Solutions, Dell Inc.
IT administrators need ways to boost user mobility and work flexibility while tightening security, simplify management, and reduce client cost. Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions are a cost-efficient way to enhance security, streamline management, and boost user productivity.

1:45 PM
vStart for Dell Private Cloud
James Meeker, Global Product Marketing Manager, Dell vStart
Waiting for IT assets is frustrating and negatively impacts productivity. Private clouds can eliminate the delays but are complicated to architect and take months to build. Find out how vStart for Dell Private Cloud can help you have your own private cloud in days and without the risks associated with build it yourself solutions.

2:15 PM
Accelerate your road to the cloud with workload centric network configuration and unified resource pooling
Aaron Prince, Technical Marketing Engineer, Dell Virtualization Solutions
Learn how Dell AIM identifies, configures, and manages the networking infrastructure and automates infrastructure management to create a flexible and resilient data center environment

2:45 PM
Network Virtualization
Art Fewell, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer
Networking virtualization allows the network to dynamically mold to the needs of the workload, enabling a fully automated and elastic private cloud.

3:15 PM
Dell Force10 MXL Switch
Nikul Sheth, Sr. Product Marketing Manager
The Dell Force10 MXL 10/40GbE blade switch is designed for the PowerEdge M1000e blade server in conjunction with mezzanine cards, and network daughter cards (NDC) provides complete end to end functionality of 1/10/40GbE addressing the diverse needs of environments ranging from data centers, large enterprises, government networks, education/research, and high performance computing (HPC).

3:45 PM
Fluid Data Architecture
Gerard Svartz, Sr. Solution Marketing Manager
Fluid Data optimizes your storage infrastructure by helping you put the right data in the right place at the right time for the right cost

4:15 PM
Dell PowerEdge 12th Generation Servers
Carol Pflueger, Product Marketing Manager, Dell PowerEdge Servers
Employ the newest Dell server technology, with high-density memory, balanced I/O and the latest processors, for your enterprise virtualization and business processing environments. The 12th Generation of Dell PowerEdge family is engineered with the right combination of features and performance scalability like performance packed computing, advanced I/O capabilities, flexible and scalable networking to handle tough workloads for both large and small data center environments.

Thursday May 10, 2012

10:45 AM
Dell Services, Solving Business Challenges with Networking Services
Jeff Hill
Today’s data and communication networks are dealing with unprecedented complexity producing customer pain around dealing with the continued growth in cloud computing, virtualization, a proliferation of pervasive security technologies and a “constantly on, always wired” workforce that is becoming increasingly more mobile. Dell has the networking solutions to help our customers meet the challenges of network planning, deployment, support and management for the Virtual Era.

11:15 AM
Fabrics that Fit
Dax Choksi, Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Emerging workloads and Big Data present a challenge for the data center architects. The session looks into distributed core fabric architecture to addresses this challenge.

11:45 AM
Automated Workload Mobility
Mario Chow, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer
Automated workload mobility is integrated in the Force10 Operating System (FTOS) and the Dell Force10 data center networking product line. The automated VM-VLAN features allow data center operators to automate networking tasked associated with migrating virtual machines.

12:15 PM
Dell Force10 MXL Switch
Nikul Sheth, Sr. Product Marketing Manager
The Dell Force10 MXL 10/40GbE blade switch is designed for the PowerEdge M1000e blade server in conjunction with mezzanine cards, and network daughter cards (NDC) provides complete end to end functionality of 1/10/40GbE addressing the diverse needs of environments ranging from data centers, large enterprises, government networks, education/research, and high performance computing (HPC).

12:45 PM
Is a Next-Generation Firewall in Your Future? - SonicWALL
Dmitriy Ayrapetov, Senior Manager of Network Security for SonicWALL
Next-Generation Firewalls and the Enterprise This session will cover how SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewalls with application intelligence, control and visualization provide the highest overall protection and application productivity for your enterprise.

1:45 PM
Get Control of your Network with Dell OpenManage Network Manager
Scott McIntyre, Sr. Product Consultant, Networking Systems Management
OpenManage Network Manager.

2:15 PM
Dell PowerEdge 12th Generation Servers
Carol Pflueger, Product Marketing Manager, Dell PowerEdge Servers
Employ the newest Dell server technology, with high-density memory, balanced I/O and the latest processors, for your enterprise virtualization and business processing environments. The 12th Generation of Dell PowerEdge family is engineered with the right combination of features and performance scalability like performance packed computing, advanced I/O capabilities, flexible and scalable networking to handle tough workloads for both large and small data center environments.

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