Cisco Data Center User Group Meetup

The Cisco Data Center User Group (DCUG) meeting will run on the first Tuesday of every month. This user group is centered around Cisco Next-Generation Data Centers and is for anyone that uses Cisco technology or that of the extended ecosystem. Our meetup is a fantastic opportunity to get to know others in the community over some nibbles and beers in a relaxed and social environment. While the group is supported by Cisco, don’t expect sales pitches. We’ll focus on enabling a local community for Cisco Data Center users to share experiences, network and to learn more about both technology and careers. We openly invite submissions for topics and presentations from any members. !!!Please note the time change to our more regular time of 6.00PM

Also, we're upstairs in Porter Place for this session

Vendor Session:

Session: Software Defined Access
Glenn is going to present about “Software Defined Access” which will provide a bit of SDN history, then jump into it and be fairly technical around VXLAN and LISP. Glenn will also do a demo as well on the Assurance component of SDA

Speaker: Glenn Fullager, Systems Engineer, Cisco
Glenn Fullager is a R&S and Security CCIE. Glenn has worked in large telcos in Australia and also built a nation-wide IP network in the US for an east-coast bank, before he joined Cisco working on the Security/VPN team in the Technical Assistance Centre (TAC) located in Research Triangle Park (RTP).

Glenn spent a further 3 years working on the RTP TAC before moving back home to Melbourne where he joined the TAC Professional Services Asia team providing 3rd level support for Security/VPN technologies across the AsiaPac region. He later joined the TAC Escalation team providing similar support.

After 8 years in the TAC, Glenn joined the Cisco Sales organisation as a Systems Engineer in ’08, where he now supports Victorian Public Sector including the transport and emergency services verticals.

Community Session:

Session: Cloud Computing – Evolution and Future

Cloud Computing has been around for a while yet a lot of organisations fail to utilise Cloud Computing efficiently. This session will introduce you to the core concepts of Cloud computing, its Use Cases followed by a Demo.

Speaker: Ankul Bhardwaj – Cloud Product Architect, Thomas Duryea Logicalis

Ankul is currently working as a Cloud Product Architect for Thomas Duryea Logicalis, an international provider of integrated IT solutions, Cloud and Managed services. Ankul’s primary role is to architect different components of TDLs’ Cloud product offering and edify customers on how they can leverage various cloud platforms to meet an organisation’s need.

Ankul specialises in various Cloud / Data Center components such as virtualisation, Disaster Recovery and Backups. As a product architect within TDL cloud practice, he has architected multiple strategies/solutions to migrate customers’ data/application(s) residing on traditional On-Prem infrastructure to highly available TDL cloud platform and other public cloud platform.