The transformation of communications networks towards virtualized infrastructure is well underway from edge applications to the core of the network. In her keynote, Intel vice president Sandra Rivera will deliver perspective on industry progress towards broad deployments of virtualized network infrastructure and discuss how Intel Network Builders collaborations will fuel the delivery of the broad scale deployments ahead.

Enterprise IT is seeking a path to on prem cloud deployment delivering more agile and efficient services to fuel business growth. In this presentation, Intel vice president Jonathan Donaldson will discuss the business opportunity offered from cloud solution delivery, the industry progress with delivery of software defined infrastructure, and how Intel Builders aims to accelerate this market opportunity towards Intel’s vision of delivery of tens of thousands of new clouds.

Dig into many of the enterprise cloud deployments today, and you'll find a limitation of efficiency and agility with continued reliance on manual provisioning of services. In his presentation, Intel Principal Engineer Das Kamhout will discuss a vision for self-provisioning, self-healing and self-aware software defined infrastructure and our collective roles in delivering solutions based on ever more advanced SDI stack featuring these advanced features.

Ease in deployment…enterprise class features…scale. While these characteristics seem like a holy grail of software defined infrastructure, they are also the key attributes that will tip us towards mass enterprise deployments. In this session, Intel’s Jake Smith will detail the use cases targeted within Intel Builders programs to drive enterprise deployments and map these use cases to Builders program engagement opportunities to help fuel your business.

Large enterprises are embracing Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) as a way of integrating data center infrastructure via virtualized compute, storage, and network resources. The path to realizing SDI requires access to automation to simplify deployment, operation, and compliance practices to significantly reduce OpEX. At the same time, internal IT customers find the public cloud infrastructure highly attractive for several reasons, including on-demand elasticity, simplicity, and cost. The challenge is to bridge these two worlds so that enterprise IT can deliver a simplified on-prem and off-prem experience while providing on-demand elasticity, simplicity, etc. The additional challenge is to accommodate new needs and keep up with the frenetic pace of innovation in the DevOps world of containers, serverless computing, open source tools, and so on. This talk will summarize the landscape and outline a strategic approach to deliver a cloud infrastructure that spans private and public clouds with example use cases.

Service Providers are under constant threats and competitive pressures. SD-WAN brings a tremendous new innovation to improve connectivity to enterprises, cloud and branches. Increase your business agility with intelligent policy-based forwarding, improve application performance and accelerate delivery for WAN connectivity at new locations. For service providers, SD-WAN provides an answer towards a growing price-sensitive market and increases their relevance with a comprehensive managed services portfolio. Learn what you can do with Juniper's SD-WAN and Cloud CPE solution.

A leading Tier-1 Operator in APAC commissioned NFV Proof of Concept to deliver enhanced managed network services in their Data Centers. Anuta Networks in collaboration with HPE and Logicalis conducted a PoC that saw the deployment of Anuta Networks' NFV Orchestrator and VNF Lifecycle Manager - Anuta NCX - which provides carrier-grade NFV orchestration for instantiating, managing, and chaining Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in accordance to IETF’s Management and Orchestration (MANO) guidelines. HPE provided the NFVI including Helion OpenStack, HP Compute, HPE Virtual Router (VRS) and HPE DCN SDN (OEM version of ALU Nuage VSP) controller. First of its kind, the highly successful PoC demonstrated capabilities of Anuta Networks via its NCX solution to deliver carrier-grade NFV orchestration while dynamically and intelligently provisioning networking resources to enable the Tier 1 Operator to efficiently deliver next-generation cloud services.

Cloud is fueling digital transformation strategies and is driving the explosion of new applications and IT operating models. Choices abound, but expanded choices mean more complexity and risk across private and public clouds. In this session, we will discuss Cisco’s cloud strategy and how it enables our customers' journey to cloud native and provides the freedom to use the right environment and the right consumption models for their applications. Only Cisco brings together data center and cloud native environments with unified orchestration, security, networking, and analytics. All designed to work together and delivered through an ecosystem of partners to help our customers achieve their digital business goals.

Learn how OpenStack container services with Kubernetes will solve key legacy issues thawrting OpenStack Cloud proliferation.

The Check Point vSEC Virtual Edition gateway protects dynamic virtualized environments from internal and external threats by securing virtual machines (VMs) and applications with the full range of protections of the Check Point Software Blade architecture. Check Point's virtualization security supports multiple hypervisors including VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM

Data centers based on software-defined technologies rely on the assumption that hardware and software components are reliable, available, and high performing. However, the true state is that infrastructure is becoming ever more dynamic, with new component innovations from varied acquisitions and managed automation always shifting the data center blueprint. This panel puts a spotlight on industry leaders and innovators as they discuss the state of telemetry technologies, where the technologies are going, and how such assets are impacting the value of data centers.

Consumer's today expect instant results and instant access to everything. IoT usages are becoming more prevalent. What does this mean to Enterprises who want to deliver the best user experience to their customers? It means they need to be looking at Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) today as they ready their business for 5G and beyond. What problems does MEC solve today and why will it be essential to 5G? Come and hear what the experts are doing now and how this will change over time.

Technologies such as Docker have made it possible to containerize applications easily. Yet containers are only the beginning: a small part of the puzzle as you embark on scaling your containerized workloads across the organization. Kubernetes, open source container orchestration, is providing companies with a way to scale containerized workloads easily and delivers a simple way to manage workloads across cloud and data center. Join this talk for an overview of the key container components and dive into how container technologies are changing the way we manage applications.

Industries of all types are looking to solve their hard problems by making better use of data. To be useful all this data must be reliably available and readily accessible by software actors and end users alike. This is what the Microsoft software defined datacenter technology set is about. In this session Erin Chapple, Partner Director of Program Management for Windows Server, will talk about new software defined storage (SDS) technology in Windows Server 2016 that takes advantage of Intel innovation in non-volatile memory, and what you can do to simplify data storage for any workload. Key technology areas are NVMe, Storage Spaces Direct, hyperconverged architecture, software defined storage.

Open source technologies are leading the way towards digital transformation with advanced security, accelerated innovation and unparalleled agility. Hear Chris Wright, Vice President, Chief Technologist at Red Hat discuss how open source technologies are empowering enterprises to reduce costs, increase responsiveness to customer expectations and rapidly deliver new services. Chris will explain how, according to Forrester, "with its Cloud Infrastructure 6 (RHCI) and CloudForms solutions, Red Hat is the leader with its powerful portal, top governance capabilities, and a strategy built around integration, open source, and interoperability."

Today's businesses and leaders of IT face complex data center priorities: maintain traditional business applications in as efficient and low-cost a manner possible without compromising service integrity, while at the same time utilize those savings to support next-gen application development needs. Two very different kinds of investments that, for the most part, must come out of the same—typically flat—IT budget. In this session, EMC will cover how businesses are creating a Modern Data Center, through modernizing infrastructure, automation and transforming to a hybrid-cloud environment.

Joint ecosystem solution based on Big Switch’s SDN Fabrics (for cloud and for visibility), Dell Hardware Platform and Red Hat OpenStack Platform 7 for a large NFV deployment at tier-1 US telecom provider. Currently deployed with Verizon http://prn.to/28PE2gh

For deploying OpenStack cloud for NFV, the following key design principles will be discussed:

• Resiliency & Performance at Scale
• Reducing Operational Complexity
• Integrated Security & Analytics

Additionally, pervasive visibility of NFV environment is critical due to east-west traffic across NFV workloads and increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks. Big Switch’s Big Monitoring Fabric enables advanced visibility and security to the OpenStack NFV cloud. Specifically, we’ll discuss:

• Out-of-band and inline SDN fabrics for visibility and service chaining
• Value of DPDK-based service node for advanced services such as Deduplication, Packet Slicing, and RegEx Pattern Matching
• Dynamic policy creation through event triggered API integration

As the modern data center evolves toward a software-defined infrastructure (SDI), the cost and complexity of storage architectures such as SAN and NAS are becoming an impediment for enterprises striving to be more agile and efficient. However, through the use of software-based hyperconvergence, IT organizations can now greatly simplify their storage environments while reducing cost and vendor lock-in.

Maxta MxSP software delivers a simple, agile and efficient hyperconverged infrastructure solution that can be easily deployed on a wide range of x86 servers using commodity HDDs and SSDs to dramatically lower storage cost and complexity while eliminating traditional storage arrays.

In this presentation, we will discuss the role that Maxta hyperconvergence solutions can play in helping organizations achieve their SDI vision.

This panel will explore and debate the re-use, similarities and differences in the approach to orchestrating and managing SDN and NFV networks for telco, cloud and enterprise. The 'cloudification' of the network has created profound innovation with micro-services, containers and IT DevOps tools now being considered for a broad variety of use cases across all three vertical markets. Traditional MANO solutions are just now starting to comprehend these technologies. In addition, deep requirement differences remain such as the OSS/BSS integration with the NFV-O in telco NFV networks. Can the NFV market converge on a common set of MANO tools and approaches?

Software defined infrastructure provides a path to delivering on prem cloud capabilities to the enterprise. In this panel, leaders will discuss where the industry should focus to spur delivery of easy to deploy SDI solutions, highlight traction with end customers in their deployment of SDI based solutions, and provide their views on the growth of on prem deployments based on maturity of today’s technology.

This presentation will cover Verizon's perspective on future industry trends and the opportunities to transform the network to meet future customer demands and deliver next-generation services yet to be envisioned. As an industry, we can – and should -- collaborate to enable future networks and services for businesses as well as consumers.

Netflix engineers were faced with a challenge: how do you protect the privacy of your customers while serving over a third of all internet traffic in the US? Intel and Netflix engineers discuss the scale of the challenge and how it was solved using Intel’s Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (ISA-L), VTune software, and the latest Xeon® processors in Netflix’s Content Delivery Network (CDN). This session includes details of the analysis performed, the software ingredients used, and the record setting results of this collaboration. traffic? Intel and Netflix engineers discuss the scale of the challenge and how Intel’s Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (ISA-L) was integrated to meet the need to add software encryption to the Netflix OpenConnect Appliances, a set of heterogeneous content-delivery network platforms based on commodity components. This session includes details of the analysis performed, the software ingredients used, and the future direction of these projects.