Webinar: Building for Scale: Benchmarking and Performance Tuning of AI Cluster Networks by Techstrong Learning

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Building for Scale: Benchmarking and Performance Tuning of AI Cluster Networks

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As AI workloads push the limits of modern infrastructure, testing and emulation have become essential to building performance-ready data centers. This webinar brings together key insights for validating every layer of AI-enabled networks—from frontend ingestion across distributed environments to high-speed interconnects, workload emulation, and automated fabric optimization.

Learn how leaders like Keysight and Crusoe are tackling scalability, reliability, latency, and security through advanced methodologies and real-world validation—from physical infrastructure to application-level performance. We’ll explore best practices for building testbeds, selecting fabric types, and implementing load balancing strategies. Whether you’re designing clusters, tuning network fabrics, or scaling AI deployments, this interactive discussion delivers actionable data to help you build for performance where it counts.

When

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 · 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (US & Canada) (GMT -4:00)

Presenters

Alastair Cooke

Tech Field Day Event Lead - Futurum Group

Alastair has made a twenty-year career out of helping people understand complex IT infrastructure and how to build solutions that fulfill business needs. Much of his career has included teaching official training courses for vendors, including HPE, VMware, and AWS.
Alastair has written hundreds of analyst articles and papers exploring products and topics around on-premises infrastructure and virtualization and getting the most out of public cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Alastair has also been involved in community-driven, practitioner-led education through the vBrownBag podcast and the vBrownBag TechTalks.

Alan Shimel

Founder & CEO - Techstrong Group

Alan is founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, the company behind DevOps.com, Container Journal, Security Boulevard and Digital Anarchist, as well as co-founder of the DevOps Institute. As such, he is attuned to the world of technology, particularly cloud, DevOps, security and open source. With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations. He is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chats podcast, DevOps TV and Digital Anarchist audio and videos are widely followed. Alan attributes his success to a combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality. He is a graduate of St. John's University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.

Denise Donohue

Business Architect and Technical Author

Denise has worked with information systems since the mid-1990s, focusing on network design since 2004. During that time she has worked with a wide range of networks, private and public, of all sizes, across most industries. Her expertise spans most technologies. Denise has authored numerous Cisco Press books and frequently shares her knowledge in webinars and seminars. She holds CCIE #9566 in Routing and Switching.

Matt Garvin

Josh Warcop

Senior Account Executive - American Sound

Josh Warcop is an engineer, consultant, collaborator, tinkerer, and technology enthusiast. He likes to remind everyone that technology brings business value. Josh has over two decades of network engineering experience with a specific focus on project delivery. If you’re looking to move a data center, build a stadium, leave the cloud, consolidate telephony, or roll out a new generation of networking — then you’d call Warcop. Today, he also consults with businesses to eliminate traditional IT ‘silos’ by impacting culture and collaboration. And, most people call him Warcop. At home he’s dad, chef, and a self-proclaimed BBQ aficionado.

Amritam Putatunda

Sr. PM, Application and Security Solutions - Keysight Technologies

Amritam Putatunda is a senior product manager specializing in network performance, with expertise in testing AI infrastructure, cloud environments, and distributed security architectures. He focuses on real-world traffic emulation and scenario-driven validation to ensure scalable, resilient, and high- performing networks. Prior to joining Keysight, Amritam worked as a development test engineer for Cisco in its new generation routers and switches division.