Welcome to this Around the IT Block video blog presented by Hewlett Packard
Enterprise. I’m your host Calvin Zito. We are at HPE Discover. One of the Chalk
Talks I did from Discover is looking at HPE GreenLake for Data Fabric
and Don is going to show us this amazing demo that he had told me about before we came here that
we're going to look at. Don, why don't you first start by introducing yourself to everybody.
Hi, my name is Don Wake, I work for Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the Ezmeral team so I
do a lot of fun stuff with Ezmeral Data Fabric and with the Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise products
and we've just announced at this show the HPE GreenLake for Data Fabric as
a service so lots of cool stuff going on. Why don’t you to set it up, what we're going
to see when we look at the demo? Sure! I wanted to show people what you could do with Data Fabric
from a developer's perspective. It's really all about getting that data where it lives,
where it where it grows, where it's invented. In this case, we have a drone program that we
wrote that allows you to contact the drone using Ezmeral Data Fabric streams. So we get a video
stream and we then put data about the drone; we can control the drone using streams and tables;
we can take the video and the important thing that it's doing is a little bit of analytics.
So as the camera identifies objects, we have an application that takes the camera images
and then puts a little rectangle around what it identifies as a person. So we put these little
toys here to have something to play with and show in real time that, “hey it's actually running
analytics at the edge on a Data Fabric cluster”. Well let's actually just take a look at the demo
and then we'll wrap up after you finish the demo. So let's take a
look at the demo. All right, let's do it! So i actually have a Chalk Talk looking at
HPE GreenLake for Data Fabric and for people that don't know what it is and want to get more detail,
they can watch that video by clicking the i on the top of this screen.
Don, give us an idea of what the pieces are to the demo that we're going to watch here in a
minute and how we are using the Data Fabric? Well, it starts and ends really with the HPE
GreenLake for Data Fabric. We're offering Data Fabric as a service through that platform to
enable data driven businesses that have to get data at the edge and move it around to core
data centers and out to public clouds. So this demo, I thought what would one of our customers
do with the HPE GreenLake for Data Fabric. So that's what this demo is going to show you.
We have an edge deployment of Data Fabric right here at Discover and the application running
right there on the Ezmeral Data Fabric allows the user to control the drone, fly it around, capture
the video, do analysis of it, look for images like people inside that video stream, and then the data
can be saved and mirrored out to the data centers and co-locations and public clouds of the world.
And obviously you're using this demo at Discover and it's a cool demo that's getting
people's attention, but this is a real-world kind of application because lots of people
are using cameras for security and other purposes. And they're going to want to pull all
that information along with telemetry together. It's true but I don't want to confuse people and
make them think that HPE GreenLake is selling drones or even the software to control the
drones or the software to analyze the video. We're selling HPE GreenLake for Data Fabric platform so
that you can do cool stuff like this. Makes total sense. Well let's take a look at the demo Don.
Here's a quick look at what the customer application would look like.
This dynamic web page is subscribing to the video stream and if it identifies - if the processor
application identifies what it thinks is a person, it'll put a little rectangle
around it and add a count to it. You see the count reflected in the dashboard;
you can also see what the battery life is and there's some more information on the page just
showing you how the architecture of the demo works - more objects are placed in front of the camera,
etc. The important thing here is that it's running on the edge Data Fabric, it's utilizing the
edge Data Fabric streams, tables, and files to communicate amongst multiple processes and
save all of the information in standard POSIX files right there on the same edge Data Fabric.
That's a very cool demo to visually watch you do it. Let's now look at what this looks like in
HPE Data Fabric. Let's take a quick look at that projects folder that our application is writing
to. So we'll log in here to the manage control system. It's a web UI for the Data Fabric. Here we
can go in and we can manage, replicate, mirror our volumes; we can replicate streams, we can add data
to buckets, manage our buckets. We can look at our project folder there, look at the access to it,
and monitor it. And also most importantly we could go to another Data Fabric and mirror
that out to our cloud Data Fabric, for example. So let's go ahead to our other Data Fabric running
in a cloud infrastructure. Now we've switched over to another deployment of Data Fabric,
this one in another data center in the cloud. What we're going to show here is that this
one is connected to our mycluster.com - that's where we're running it and also to another edged
cluster. From this cloud-based Data Fabric deployment, we're going to go in and create
a mirror volume. When you go into volumes, you can see here we've actually already created it
called projects mirror but I’ll show you how easy it is to do that. Simply click
the create mirror button, you give it a name like projects mirror because that's what we're
doing - we're mirroring that project structure - that volume that we've put all of our drone data,
images and metadata into. We're going to mirror it and we're going to say go to that edge cluster
because we've created a trust relationship between these clusters. It finds it right there:
there's our mycluster.com running our drone demo. We tell it the volume we want to replicate
so we just say projects. Of course this has to exist on the remote cluster you're mirroring
from and you just tell it where you want to mount this here on the cloud-based Data Fabric.
And that's pretty much it. You can accept all defaults. Of course it's an enterprise storage
solution so you can have multiple user accounts and you control access control, replication,
security - just the tip of the iceberg. Here is just shows you the idea that you can connect
two clusters together - total control over the access to them and then you're simply hitting
the create volume button. The next step would then be to create a mirror schedule so you can
mirror at whatever interval you want, retain for as long as you want.
Amazing demo! This is so cool and what Data Fabric can do - bringing all these data sources together.
I appreciate you showing me the demo. Where can people find more information about the Data
Fabric? You know, just go on go online to hpe.com, look for Ezmeral. There's all kinds of pages out
there, documents so everything you can imagine. So yeah just hpe.com and search for Ezmeral. Yeah
HPE.com. I know this: hpe.com/Ezemeral is where you can go to get all of that content and then
find the Data Fabric stuff there. Thanks for your time, amazing demo, thanks! All right, thank you!