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Skyport Presents at Tech Field Day 15



Tech Field Day 15


This Presentation date is September 27, 2017 at 15:00-17:00.


How to Build a Datacenter with Skyport Systems with Nils Swart


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Nils Swart, Head of Product at Skyport Systems, introduces the company’s entirely cloud managed on-premises virtualization platform. Nils explains that cloud will probably win the bulk of current data center workloads, but they’re designed a secure solution for the ground up for those that must stay on-premises. They’re designed to introduce a simple architecture while not sacrificing security.

Personnel: Nils Swart

Skyport SkySecure Architecture with Will Eatherton


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Will Eatherton, Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Skyport Systems, introduces how their cloud managed infrastructure is able to operationalize security for organizations. Their SaaS offering includes rack mounted x86 system and utilizes a software programmable flow processor via PCIe. This provides flow managed, analytics and policy enforcement, while provides the architectural isolation for many of their management services. Running on this is their SkySecure OS, with applications on top.

Personnel: Will Eatherton

Skyport SkySecure for Critical Systems with Dan Backman


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Dan Backman, Director Technical Marketing at Skyport Systems, reviews some of the use cases for their solution. This includes how Skyport can be used to build critical IT infrastructure, and mitigate ransomware threats. This bucks the trend of virtualizing everything and trying to treat all apps the same. Skyport maintains that some apps need to be handled fundamentally differently to ensure security.

Personnel: Dan Backman

Skyport Systems: There Is No Branch with Rob Rodgers


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Rob Rodgers, Co-Founder and Chief Architect at Skyport Systems, discusses their ideas on remote branches, and how these differ from the traditional compute sense. Remote branches have considerable compute capabilities, and communicate via the network back to a home office. These are more akin to micro data centers and they approach securing them as such. This feeds into their overall message of simplifying management to better increase security.

Personnel: Rob Rodgers

Skyport Systems: Cloud Killed the Firewall with Dan Backman


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Dan Backman, Director Technical Marketing with Skyport Systems, reviews a demo of a new Skyport rack server arriving at a remote site. This includes a look at how a customer can establish that the system is secure at the time it arrives. Skyport establishes unique identity on a hardware level to ensure the box that’s arrived is yours. Dan walks through the UI and how the system is designed to be both simple and secure.

Personnel: Dan Backman


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