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For more information on which demonstrations are currently available please browse through the list below:
Brocade (Remote Demonstrations)
- Brocade DCX Backbone
Brocade demonstration and POC for: User interfaces and software capabilities; Clarification of specific Brocade software functionality; Driving competitive features of Brocade software to the forefront; Verifying Brocade software functionality; Gaining instant access to current versions of all Brocade products.
Book your place now + - Brocade IronView Network Manage
Complete remote demonstration of Brocade IronView Network Manager showing the management of Layer 2/3, Layer 4-7, wireless, and MPLS products. Including lifecycle management capabilities for configuration, monitoring, and management through policy-based capabilities for network-wide features such as access control lists, rate limiting policies, VLANs, Power over Ethernet (PoE), software image and configuration updates, performance monitoring, change management, and reporting.
Book your place now + - Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching
Remote demonstration o Brocade’s converged switch offerings showing the full functionality of the integration between Ethernet and SAN fabrics.
Book your place now + - SAN Solutions
Full set of on demand demonstrations of Brocade’s SAN fabric switches and integration with Avnet’s solutions centre storage environment. Including unified system management using Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM).
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Commvault (Local and Remote Demonstrations)
- Simpana 9 (SharePoint, Exchange & VmWare integration), Archive and De-Duplication
Full set of demonstrations showcasing CommVault’s backup, recovery, archive and replication of file systems and applications along with deduplication, encryption and compression.
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EMC (Local and Remote Demonstrations)
- EMC Avamar
Integrated and standalone demonstration of EMC Avamar back-up and recovery though its unique de-duplication technology.
Book your place now + - Networker
Fully unified Enterprise back-up & recovery solution demo, integrated with Avamar client and Data domain.
Book your place now + - Source One Archive Family
Integrated and stand alone Demonstration of source one archive and compliance solution for email and file systems.
Book your place now + - Recoverpoint
Full demonstration of Recoverpoint remote replication and protection solution.
Book your place now + - Replication Manager
Demonstration of the single view of management that Replication Manager provides across all of EMC’s technologies.
Book your place now + - EMC AX4-5i , CX4
Demonstrations of previous generation of Mid range storage for POC, demo and customer testing.
Book your place now + - Celerra NAS
Demonstration of fully integrated EMC NAS system with VMware integration.
Book your place now + - EMC Data Domain
Fully integrated back-up Demonstration showing complete and to end back-up de-duplication solutions.
Book your place now + - VNXe & VNX
Demonstrations on VNX, VNXe, and associated software option packs – Local protect, Remote Protect, Application Protect, FAST plus RecoverPoint, Avamar, Networker, DPA, Data Domain, and archiving products.
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F5 (Remote Demonstrations)
- F5 ARX500
Various demonstrations are available around F5’s virtualisation technology, ARX. See how ARX can reduce backup times, reduce storage costs and help migrate data from one vendor to another without the normally associated downtime.
Book your place now + - F5 Big IP
Demonstration and Proof of concept facilities available for all F5 Big-IP modules. These modules include Local Traffic Manager, Access Policy Manager, Application Security Manager, Global Traffic Manager and Webaccelerator.
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Hitachi Data Systems (Local and Remote Demonstrations)
- AMS
Core functionality including Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular 2, Dynamic Provisioning, RAID group and LUN provisioning, Snapshot and Clones, internal LUN migration. Replication between Bracknell and Warrington.
Book your place now + - Hitachi HiCommand Command Suite
Demonstration of the following key components of the and how they integrate into a seamless single pain of glass management system:
- Device Manager
- Tuning Manager
- Replication Manager.
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- IT Operation Analyzer
Auto discovery, Auto topology, Single pain of glass management dashboard, Root Cause Analysis.
Book your place now + - HNAS Platform
Core functionality, setup of volumes and shares and snapshot capability.
Book your place now + - VSP/USP-VM
Core functionality including Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering, RAID group and LUN provisioning, Snapshot and Clones, internal LUN migration. Virtualisation of external Hitachi and 3rd Party Storage, Replication between Bracknell and Warrington.
Book your place now + - HCP
Core concepts, Replication between Bracknell and Warrington and search across all types meta data.
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HP (Remote Demonstrations)
- HP Blade System Matrix
Hardware overview, Blade provisioning and Configuration (Including Rapid Deployment), Overview of Virtual Connect and Flex 10 connectivity.
Book your place now + - HP Storage Essentials
Full demonstration of the features and benefits of storage essentials, including discovery management and reporting on Heterogeneous Storage environments.
Book your place now + - HP Intelligent Management Center
Demonstration of HP’s Intelligent Management Center software tools for managing all aspects of Heterogeneous Networking.
Book your place now + - HPLeftHand
Hardware Overview of, Storage Provisioning and Configuration, Host configuration and storage presentation.
Book your place now + - Storage Management Appliance EVA
Command View familiarity including General Administration and Operation, Advanced Features including Continuous Access, Business Copy snapshots and thin provisioning.
Book your place now + - HP System Insight Manager
Demonstration System Insight manager accessing and monitoring HP servers and storage.
Book your place now + - HP Virtual Connect Manager Simulator
Simulator showing how Virtual connect manager manages all aspects of the SAN and LAN management on HP Blade systems.
Book your place now + - HP Insite Control
Demonstration allowing users to migrate, manage and remotely access Proliant servers through a single console.
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IBM (Local and Remote Demonstrations)
- IBM Storewize V7000
Fully integrated demonstration and POC capabilities showing the simplicity and management of IBM’s Virtual Storage platform.
Book your place now + - IBM Storewize V7000 Unified
File based storage capability that further enhances the flexibility of the V7000 and options for consolidation demonstration.
Book your place now + - IBM XIV Storage Solution
Enterprise class disk storage integrated with various host environments to show the platforms capabilities, and highlighting the ultimate ease of use interface.
Book your place now + - IBM SVC
* now rolled into V7000 Demos.
Book your place now + - IBM Protectier
De-duplication demonstrations highlighting storage optimization capabilities in the backup environment.
Book your place now + - Realtime compression for NAS
“Storing more with what’s on the floor”. ‘Real-world’ Demo of compression working in real-time.
Book your place now + - N-Series
Multiple systems provide a flexible environment for numerous demonstration options. Application / Environment integration is a ‘must-see’.
Book your place now + - Automated Tape Library
TS3200 - Physical tape working with Tivoli software and encryption.
Book your place now + - Tivoli Automation & Storage Management
Tivoli monitoring and application aware FlashCopy integration.
Book your place now + - Lotus and Websphere demo’s, rLab Democenter, Security Solutions
- IBM Collaboration and Social Software with unified communications
- WebSphere Portal and Application Server for application testing and compatibility PoT
- Informix and DB2 provisioning for version, compatibility and migration PoT.
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- Power Systems, Blade and X-series
- Power6 & Power7 technologies:
Demo & Proofs of Concept around, these, showcasing advanced functions, including SSDs, over IBM i, AIX & linux, and highlighting PowerVM virtualization, PowerHA, System Director and EasyTier with external storage, as above - System x/Blade:
Multiple systems available to demonstrate ease of management, performance and consolidated workloads running with the major virtualisation and IBM systems management technologies. Available for POC and workshop education days.
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- Power6 & Power7 technologies:
- Virtualbridges VDI Solution
An attractive full featured and cost effective alternative for a flexible virtual desktop solution. Learn how to size, deploy and manage this IBM offering.
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Microsoft (Local Demonstrations)
- SharePoint 2010
Full suite of SharePoint demonstrations, including integration into sharepoint.
Book your place now + - Windows 2008 R2 (Hyper-V)
Virtualisation platform from Microsoft, demonstrating integration and management via System Center. Utilising storage infrastructure to show high availability options.
Book your place now + - Microsoft System Center
Enterprise management demonstration service, enabling integration with other services in demo suite. Demonstrate simplistic approach to packaging and delivery of software and patches using a controlled platform. Full suite will be deployed, including Virtual Machine Management (VMware and Hyper-V), infrastructure monitoring and service delivery.
Book your place now + - Microsoft Lync
Communication and Collaboration solution, integrated with System Center and Hyper-V.
This has been integrated into Exchange 2010, allowing demonstration of the following Lync functions:
- Instant messaging
- Presence
- Voice and Video calling
- Conferencing and desktop sharing
- Email integration for unified voice
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Netapp (Local and Remote Demonstrations)
- BalancePoint
Topology view and features, storage analytics, ESX performance index, VM/Workload analytics, Scorecard and reports.
Book your place now + - NetApp Storage Introduction
Core features of Data ONTAP including Snapshot backup and recovery, dynamic volume management, volume cloning, deduplication, replication and illustration of NetApp System Manager (NSM) environment.
Book your place now + - Operations Manager
Core features of Operations Manager, Performance Advisor, and Protection Manager.
Book your place now + - SnapManager for Exchange(SME) V6.0
Working with Exchange 2010 to demonstrate: Backup and restore of Exchange using SME, Single Mailbox Recovery wizard within SME and database availability support with SME.
Book your place now + - SnapManager for SQL Server (SMSQL)
Working with MS SQL 2008 to demonstrate: Backup and restore of SQL server using SMSQL, Database cloning within SMSQL and SnapMirror Disaster Recovery using SMSQL.
Book your place now + - SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure
Obsolete as stand-alone GUI.
Book your place now + - Storage Virtualization with V-Series
May be possible locally when NetApp plus external storage available in The Resource.
Book your place now + - NetApp SnapProtect 9.0
Backup and Restore VMs using SnapProtect, Single File Recovery using SnapProtect, SnapProtect integration with OnCommand (DFM).
Book your place now + - VMware – NetApp Virtual Storage Console (VSC)
Backup and Restore of VMs using VSC, Single File Restore within a VM using VSC, Rapid cloning using VSC and storage provisioning.
Book your place now + - VMware SRM with SnapMirror
Fully integrated demonstration of the integration of Snapmirror, SRM Operations manager and Vcenter.
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Oracle/Sun (Local Demonstrations)
- Oracle VDI & Sun Ray Demo and POC
Fixed and mobile demonstration of Oracles VDI and Sun Ray endpoint solutions, including integration with iPad. The demonstration uses Oracle’s Virtualbox, VMWare View, Microsoft RDS and VDI solutions and shows user flexibility and mobility through Smart card authentication.
Book your place now + - M-series Server POC & demo & Application testing
Demonstration, POC and benchmarking solutions for Oracle’s M3, M4 & M5000 systems, showing Dynamic system domains, Solaris containers, fully integrated with Oracle and heterogeneous storage environments.
Book your place now + - Oracle Ops Centre& Deployment
Full suite of live demonstrations of Oracle’s Enterprise manager Ops Center software, showing patch management, application, server & storage provisioning and system monitoring.
Book your place now + - ZFS Appliance Demo & POC
Oracle ZFS appliance demonstration of the system, its user interface and unique storage analytics. Also available for POC, Benchmarking.
Book your place now + - Blade 6000
Fully integrated B6000 chassis managed and deployed through Ops Center showcasing Oracle X-86 and SPARC technology working seamlessly in the same blade chassis.
Book your place now + - X-86 deployment
Demonstration of the integration of Oracle OVM, Solaris for X-86 and Oracle Enterprise Linux working together with Microsoft Windows, Hyper-V & VMware VSpehere.
Book your place now + - Oracle Enterprise Linux
Full set of demonstrations showing the management and migration of EOL.
Book your place now + - OVM Demo
Demonstration of Oracle VM with over 90 pre-tested templates for deploying Oracle DB, applications and third party software.
Book your place now + - T-Series Server Demo's & POC's
- Demonstration, POC and benchmarking solutions for Oracle’s T-series Servers systems, showing Oracle VM for Solaris, Solaris containers, fully integrated with Oracle and heterogeneous storage environments.
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Riverbed (Local Demonstrations)
- Steelhead WAN Optimization
Full set of demonstrations showing the benefits of Riverbed WAN acceleration technology in a Storage, Network and IP environment. The two Avnet Resource centres are located at opposite side of the UK and connected via an internet VPN tunnel. Avnet have a demonstration of how we optimise the application, replication, VDI and management traffic.
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Symantec (Remote Demonstrations)
- Enterprise Vault
General Administration and Operation including MS Exchange mailbox and journal archiving, the ‘User Experience’ and overview of Discovery Accelerator.
Book your place now + - Netback-up
General Administration and Operation, Advanced Features including VMware virtual machine backup and recovery, MS Exchange backup and recovery with GRT and client backups with media server deduplication option.
Book your place now + - Netback-up Puredisk
General Administration and Operation, Advanced Features including PureDisk optimized replication and NetBackup integration.
Book your place now + - Backup Exec
General Administration and Operation, Advanced Features including VMware virtual machine backup and recovery, MS Exchange backup and recovery with GRT and client backups with media server deduplication option.
Book your place now + - Symantec Data Loss Prevention
Full suite of demonstrations for Symantec Data Loss prevention solutions.
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Syncsort (Remote Demonstrations)
- NetApp-Syncsort Integrated Backup
Fully integrated demonstration environment showcasing the Syncsort “zero impact backup” solution.
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VMware (Remote Demonstrations)
- Double-Take for VM
Demonstration showing the integration of Double-Take and VMware in a compliant back-up environment.
Book your place now + - VMware Management
Full suite of demonstrations of VMware vCenter™ Operations, VMware Site Recovery Manager™ solutions in a multi-vendor server and storage environment.
Book your place now + - VMware vCloud Director
Demonstration of vCloud director for both client and administrators alike to provision and deploy workload based templates.
Book your place now + - VMware Virtual Desktop
Demonstration of VMware View VDI solution, showing the creation and deployments of VDI workspaces to numerous desktops and end points.
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