Tech Field Day Coverage
Our delegate panel includes independent writers and thought leaders, and we collect their coverage of the event, Tech Field Day presentations, and sponsoring companies here.
Spotlight on Cisco Tetration and Cisco Intersight at NFD16
At the last Networking Field Day event, Pete Welcher and the rest of the delegates got to hear from Cisco. They presented on the latest updates on Tetration, as well as debutted Intersight, formerly known as Project Starship. In this post, Pete liked the updates he saw from Tetration, particular the emphasis on using it as a tool for security alerts and mitigation. As far as Intersight, Pete liked Cisco’s emphasis on platform security, but thinks the company will need to work for a while to earn customer trust of its management-as-a-service model.
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Spotlight on Cisco Tetration and Cisco Intersight at NFD16
Data Mobility – Caching Technologies
As part of his series looking at data mobility for the hybrid cloud, Chris Evans digs into the four main options for hybrid cloud caching. He reviews NAS, VM, database, and storage gateway caching, looking at the challenges involved for each.
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Data Mobility - Caching Technologies
Simplify Remote Offices
At Tech Field Day last year, Mark May heard from Riverbed about their SteelFusion appliance. This combines a remote appliance with an appliance in a datacenter to accelerate access to centralized data. For Mark, this simplifies a lot of remote office IT, by providing local performance at the remote site but while keeping all the advantages of centralizing management and data.
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Network Field Day 17: Mark Your Calendars!
Drew Conry-Murray and Greg Ferro from Packet Pushers will be at Networking Field Day next week. They’ll get to drink from the firehouse of presenting companies over the three day event. Remember to follow along on our live stream and tweet out questions with #NFD17.
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Network Field Day 17: Mark Your Calendars!
Brain dump: network visibility
In this post, Brandon Mangold puts his thoughts to paper on the state of network monitoring and visibility. For Brandon, this helps frame the overall point of network management, emphasizing user experience at the end of the day. To this point, monitoring applications need to look at network performance from the perspective of the endpoint and the application. Brandon looks at solutions from ThousandEyes and Cisco’s App Dynamics as examples of this focus.
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Brain dump: network visibility
Object Storage Critical Capabilities #3 – Searching, Indexing and Metadata
Chris Evans has been looking at object storage requirements in a series of posts. In this edition, he looks at how to handle object naming, the importance of user and system metadata, and the importance of search. For this last item, Chris highlights the Zenko multi-cloud object storage controller from Scality, which he saw at Storage Field Day in November.
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Object Storage Critical Capabilities #3 - Searching, Indexing and Metadata
Deep visibility of cloud by Gigamon
At Cloud Field Day this summer, Mariusz Kaczorek saw Gigamon’s latest solution for hybrid cloud visibility. He got a deep dive into the Gigamon Visibility Platform for AWS, which uses agents on an EC2 instance to mirror traffic to gain insights into what’s going through the cloud.
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Deep visibility of cloud by Gigamon
Going Faster with 400Gbps Ethernet and Andy Bechtolsheim
How will we get to the 400Gbps Ethernet future? Tom Hollingsworth heard a talk from Arista Networks’ Andy Bechtolsheim at Networking Field Day on the topic. The talk delved into the challenges, politics, and opportunities of 400Gbps.
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Going Faster with 400Gbps Ethernet and Andy Bechtolsheim
Riverbed Steel Fusion: A New Approach to Remote Office Infrastructure
Remote and edge sites are exploding in the enterprise. But as organizations span across countries and legal jurisdictions, managing and securing data can become onerous. In this piece, Paul Woodward takes a look at Riverbed’s Steel Fusion solution, something he saw at Networking Field Day last year. This offers administrators simplified automated deployments, centralized management, and helps organizations prepare for issues that might otherwise be overlooked when planning a remote location.
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Riverbed Steel Fusion: A New Approach to Remote Office Infrastructure
Policy Control with WxLAN, PPSK, and Personal WLANs
Robert Boardman and the Wi-Fi of Everything crew talk to Mist Systems. In this video, they look at how the company integrated sophisticated policy controls into their wireless products.
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Policy Control with WxLAN, PPSK, and Personal WLANs
Getting to Know IP Infusion
Rich Stroffolino takes a look at IP Infusion. The company has been around since 1999, commercializing the founders’ previous work on GNU Zebra in the form of ZebOS. Rich reviews how the company has pivoted to now provide a network operating systems for white box vendors and virtualized environments.
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Dynamic Packet Capture For Simpler Wi-Fi Troubleshooting
Robert Boardman and the Wi-Fi of Everything crew talk with Mist Systems and look at how their dynamic packet capture can ease troubleshooting. This allows an engineer to follow a given client across access points.
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Dynamic Packet Capture For Simpler Wi-Fi Troubleshooting
Why move to one cloud, if you can move to a multi cloud?
Jon Klaus likes the cloud, but is hesitent to depend on a single provider. He looks at how Scality’s Zenko Multi Cloud Controller allows you to easily replicate storage across multiple clouds, public and private. This often increases resiliency and cost savings at the same time.
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Why move to one cloud, if you can move to a multi cloud?
Voyance – Visibility into the User Experience
Keith Parsons wrote up some impression of Nyansa’s Voyance networking monitoring solution, after speaking with their Director of Product and Technical Marketing, GT Hill. GT presented for Nyansa at Networking Field Day last year. Keith reviews how Voyance helps track network changes, its recommendation engine, and visibility into user experience.
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Voyance – Visibility into the User Experience
Uila App-Centric Monitoring: Deep Packet Inspection meets beautiful UI
After hearing about Uila from friends and colleagues, Max Mortillaro checked out the company’s presentation from Tech Field Day last year. He found their monitoring solution compelling, particularly their use of deep network packet analysis. This allows for transactional data, which can even give visibility into areas not strictly inside the infrastructure. According to Max, Uila has “a very interesting product that delivers outstanding business outcomes, while keeping true to their network engineering roots.”
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Uila App-Centric Monitoring: Deep Packet Inspection meets beautiful UI
NFD16: Automating Arista Networks
Pete Welcher shares his thoughts on Arista’s Networking Field Day appearance from last year. He reviews the company’s presentations on streaming telemetry, extensive programmability, and changes in routing architecture.
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NFD16: Automating Arista Networks
Architecting Container Direction with Nirmata
Containers may have a lot of advantages. But when it comes to using Kubernetes to orchestrate them, complexity starts to become a substantial issue for organizations. Tom Hollingsworth looks at Nirmata’s presentation from Cloud Field Day as a way to address this. They offer an orchestration layer on top of Kubernetes, that lets organizations spent more time working on their business intent, and less time learning configuration.
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Architecting Container Direction with Nirmata
Avere Systems is Acquired by Microsoft
A new year, a new acquisition by Microsoft. The Redmond software company acquired Avere Systems, with plans to integrate their hybrid cloud solutions into Azure. Chris Evans shares his thoughts on how this acquisition might effect the competitive landscape.
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Avere Systems is Acquired by Microsoft
Keeping An Eye On Containers with Ixia CloudLens
Containers have a number of benefits in modern IT, but monitoring them can quickly become problematic. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at Ixia’s CloudLens solution, a container monitoring solution built into a container! This allows it to be highly portable and easily configured with other containers for monitoring.
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Keeping An Eye On Containers with Ixia CloudLens
That’s a Wrap: An ExploreVM Look Back at 2017
2017 seems to have been a year of milestones for Paul Woodward. He completed season 1 of his new ExploreVM podcast, launched his YouTube channel, wrote a record number of blog posts, and saw readership increase by over 300%! He also attended a number of IT events, finishing the year by attending Tech Field Day in September. We’re looking forward to seeing more of Paul’s impressions from Tech Field Day, and what he has in store for 2018!
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