Ethernet Storage Fabric, Open Networking and Hyper Convergence

Come join us with storage and networking industry leaders from Mellanox, Cumulus Networks, HPE and Nutanix to learn the importance of Ethernet Storage Fabric in modern data center and cloud infrastructures. Enjoy too much food and drinks at the 80-person room at the CDW downtown HQ office (Room 10G01), sponsored by Mellanox and Cumulus Networks, while learning about the benefits of dedicated storage switches, and how they can be leveraged in building and deploying a world class, integrated compute-storage-network solutions.

Agenda:
• Come hear about the latest Storage technology trends
• Learn why Storage & HCI require scale-out storage switches vs. conventional datacenter switches.
• Hear from the experts how open source networking is bringing web-scale networking to bare-metal switches.
• Why is 25G the new 10G?
• Q&A

As always the event is free to attend and guests are always welcome (though we encourage everyone to RSVP by joining the Meetup group to insure you are notified of future events). Networking of the professional kind is also always encourage before and after the event!

This is a joint posting with the Chicago IT / Bare Metal Meetup in conjunction with Mellanox. Additional information and events can be found on their Meetup page at https://www.meetup.com/Chicago-IT-Bare-Metal-Meetup/