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.
Secrets Are Difficult to Keep
HashiCorp is revolutionizing secrets management with their new offering, HCP Vault Secrets, as highlighted in Karen Lopez’s LinkedIn article. This solution provides organizations with a secure and flexible platform for storing, generating, and accessing sensitive information like API keys and passwords. With features such as tokenization, dynamic secrets, role-based access, and centralized management, Vault Secrets ensures the confidentiality and integrity of secrets across clouds and environments, while also offering auditing and compliance monitoring capabilities.
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Easy, Verified M&A With Forward Networks
Forward Networks can ease the process of integrating networks after a merger or acquisition, regardless of the platforms or deployments. The company builds a digital twin of an environment and collects information to model the network and provide comparison capabilities between points in time, ensuring better observability and pinpointing changes in the environment. Forward Networks supports data collection from all major cloud providers and most network security device manufacturers, which ensures path observability from end to end in multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud-only, and on-premises-only deployments, while its Network Query Engine allows for positive or negative verification of intent. In this article, sponsored by Forward Networks, Remington Loose provides a look at this unique aspect of their solution.
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Easy, Verified M&A With Forward Networks
Meraki in the Enterprise ASTERISK
In this article, Sam Clements discusses the evolution of Meraki and its suitability for enterprise deployment. He highlights that over the years, Meraki has addressed various concerns, such as external antennas, firmware update controls, RF profiles, high gain antennas, and operating temperature. He also notes that with the integration of the Catalyst portfolio, Meraki now offers monitoring and insights for Catalyst 9800 WLCs through the dashboard, hinting at a potential future for configuration capabilities. Clements suggests that those who may have previously had reservations about Meraki should reconsider, as the platform continues to evolve and align with enterprise requirements.
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Meraki in the Enterprise ASTERISK
Out-Of-Band Management for Day 0, Day 1 and Day 2 Operations With Opengear Smart OOB
Opengear’s Smart Out-of-Band (OOB) solution is expanding and capable of serving customers for everyday use cases instead of just emergency scenarios. Opengear initially focused on console server access and sideline OOB management, providing features like Lighthouse software that offers centralized management for all Opengear appliances and deployed resources. The company’s Smart OOB provides reliable connectivity and a management plane for deployment, automation, and troubleshooting, and their enhancement, Routed Management Fabric, creates an overlay that enables routed IP access based on industry standards for people outside the serial space. Learn more by reading this article on Gestalt IT.
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Out-Of-Band Management for Day 0, Day 1 and Day 2 Operations With Opengear Smart OOB
MFD9 – Arista Lights Up Their Session With AGNI
At Mobility Field Day 9, Arista presented their Cognitive Campus architecture, including Arista Guardian for Network Identity (AGNI), which offers a cloud NAC solution that provides all the features of a modern architecture while maintaining scalability and security with multi-vendor support. Arista also announced UPSK, which can isolate clients or mark a shared resource, and a WIPS solution that uses different frames to force a target client to disconnect from an unauthorized WPA3 SSID using the multi-function radio integrated into all the Arista access points. Read this article by Mohammad Ali to learn more.
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MFD9 – Arista Lights Up Their Session With AGNI
Infusing Automation in EveryDay Networking Tasks With BackBox
Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live included a presentation from BackBox, which demonstrated its differentiated automation platform that simplifies day-to-day networking use cases involving upgrades, network configurations, and more. Additional features include 2300 pre-built scripts, hundreds of pre-configured automation blocks, hyperintelligent automation, and a rollback option in case of a failed update. This article from Gestalt IT goes into more detail on the BackBox solution.
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Infusing Automation in EveryDay Networking Tasks With BackBox
Cisco Introduce a Directional WIFI 6E Low Power Indoor (LPI) Access Point
Cisco introduced the Catalyst 9166D1 access point that delivers the required performance for high-density environments with its internal directional antenna feature, unlike the omnidirectional antenna access point provided by current regulation policies for Wi-Fi 6e deployment. The access point gives the same coverage pattern as previous products using a 6 dBi directional antenna but with fewer bulky cables and accessories, providing a more aesthetically pleasing solution for WLAN installations. Read this article by Mario Gingras to learn more!
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Cisco Introduce a Directional WIFI 6E Low Power Indoor (LPI) Access Point
Announcements From Cisco Live
In this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown, Stephen Foskett and Jeff Ton discuss significant developments in the IT sector, including the recent Cisco Live event, which unveiled several new solutions for network management, Secure Service Edge, observability, and Panoptica, which offers end-to-end lifecycle protection for cloud native applications.
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Safe and Sound at Security Field Day 9
Security Field Day 9 promises to showcase how security companies and teams are addressing ever-evolving cybersecurity threats to keep users safe. A lineup of prominent security companies will present their innovative solutions to reduce security risks, ensuring a better and secure user experience. Broadcasting live on June 28 and 29, we will see presentations from Commvault, HashiCorp, NetAlly, Cisco, Cribl, and Noname Security, highlighting their approach to enhancing data security and protection focused on critical areas such as backups and disaster recovery, multi-cloud defense, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Learn more about Security Field Day in this video featuring Tom Hollingsworth!
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Safe and Sound at Security Field Day 9
Is the Topic of Security “dry as Dust?”
In preparation for Security Field Day, Alex Neihaus refutes the notion that enterprise security is a dry and boring topic, emphasizing its criticality as the existential risk in enterprise computing. Alex promises to provide updates on what he sees and learns at Security Field Day, which can be followed on his blog and Twitter page.
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Is the Topic of Security “dry as Dust?”
Tapping Into Software Extensibility With Morpheus Data
Hybrid multi-cloud mastery no longer entails hiring certified skills, but having the right solution that can make the road less rocky. In this article, Sulagna Saha delves into the Morpheus platform’s extensibility feature, which enables users to customize the platform to suit their needs, eliminating the need to use multiple solutions. The Morpheus platform provides hybrid cloud automation enabling multi-cloud implementation in record time. Read about the platform’s extensibility feature at Gestalt IT or watch the demo on the website.
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Tapping Into Software Extensibility With Morpheus Data
Making Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Painless With RackN Digital Rebar
RackN Digital Rebar extends the automation capabilities of Infrastructure as Code to any infrastructure making lifecycle management easy, effortless and self-driving. In this article, Sulagna Saha discusses how RackN’s Digital Rebar architecture provides a straightforward way for organizations to deploy and manage their infrastructure reliably, transparently, and repetitively, simplifying the provisioning and management of infrastructure by leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation. Watch the demo on the website or read the review at Gestalt IT.
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Making Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Painless With RackN Digital Rebar
Netally Introduce Cyberscope
NetAlly presented their latest product, CyberScope, at Mobility Field Day, and Mario Gingras reviewed it in this post. CyberScope is a portable security scanning tool that simplifies NMAP technology into one powerful tool, dramatically reducing the time it takes to run a scan. The product is the perfect tool for security professionals to quickly have a complete picture of their network security, with real-time data displayed on a user-friendly interface. CyberScope has a user-friendly interface and is suitable for both security professionals and non-security professionals to identify their network vulnerabilities and quickly patch anything that comes up.
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Catchpoint BGP Monitoring
Catchpoint’s BGP Monitoring helps organizations track their networks and ensure they function at optimal levels. BGP is a complicated routing protocol used to provide information to several organizations on the web in terms of their routing peers, and each has an assigned Autonomous System Number (ASN). By monitoring such information, Catchpoint uses data center, ISP, and public route collectors to examine BGP performance, offering an overview of maintenance and usage costs, and displays charts and train tracks diagrams to highlight any issues. Catchpoint’s BGP dashboards provide useful, actionable, and straightforward information that is beneficial to clients. This article, sponsored by Catchpoint, is a follow-up to Peter Welcher’s previous discussion of their Networking Field Day presentation.
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Getting Off the Storage Refresh Treadmill With StorPool
StorPool’s storage model is distinct from traditional storage platforms as it offers storage as a service by using a massively parallel, multi-node system with shared-nothing architecture and multiple redundancy. StorPool’s platforms are designed to handle the extreme demands of modern applications as it is always on and requires no downtime for upgrades or expansion and provide data protection by triple-writing data across all storage devices within storage clusters. Additionally, it provides linear scalability of storage performance regardless of any expansion in overall capacity or peaks in performance demand by including lightweight standard servers to the existing cluster. Read more in this article on the Gestalt IT website and watch their presentation from Storage Field Day to learn more.
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Getting Off the Storage Refresh Treadmill With StorPool
My Take on Juniper Network Presentation at Mobility Field Day 9
Juniper Networks’ presentation at Mobility Field Day 9 featured improvements and new features in Mist AI that caught Mario Gingras’ attention. Marvis has been upgraded to ingest user experience data from third-party apps like Zoom, which enables it to make predictions and raise alerts for issues with video calls. Next, Juniper Networks introduced a Tri-radio, Tri-band, dual band concurrent AP24 access point, which uses 100% recyclable materials. Finally, Juniper presented Mist Access Assurance (NAC), a feature that integrates network access control in the cloud, which could be a good alternative for a serverless environment with apps in private or public clouds.
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My Take on Juniper Network Presentation at Mobility Field Day 9
Preventing Attack Escalation With Real-Time Encryption Detection in the New Zerto 10
Ransomware has eluded real-time detection a long time. That is about to change. Zerto is introducing real-time encryption anomaly detection in Zerto 10. The new Zerto 10 solution reinforces its capabilities with real-time encryption detection, a cyber resilience vault, secure appliance, and protection for Azure at scale. Zerto 10’s real-time detection continuously scans and searches for signs of encryption, empowering organizations to swiftly discover and take action against ransomware threats. Read how Zerto’s new real-time capabilities enhance ransomware resilience and help contain blast radius, at Gestalt IT. Also catch the solution demo on the website.
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Preventing Attack Escalation With Real-Time Encryption Detection in the New Zerto 10
Building Better Applications at Reduced Cost With Couchbase
At the heart of digital transformation are applications. Couchbase provides applications a multimodel database platform that is high-performing, flexible and scalable, and provides breakthrough economics. Couchbase’s multimodel database, Capella, streamlines application development by providing developers with data technology that is flexible, fast, and efficient. Capella integrates JSON databases and a multimodel system and has differentiated capabilities like query tools, analytics on active data, multi-record transactions, and geographic replication. With Capella’s granular resource scaling, developers can handle each service with the appropriate environmental resource and achieve peak performance, and by choosing Couchbase, organizations can eliminate the cost of using an assortment of databases, reduce redundancy, simplify architecture, and reduce complexity. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the demo on the website.
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Building Better Applications at Reduced Cost With Couchbase
Integrating Native Data Protection to Any Infrastructure Codelessly With HYCU R-Cloud
Companies are facing multi-cloud and SaaS infrastructures at ever-increasing rates. While data protection is already difficult, multi-cloud compounds the complexities even further, requiring data protection services to adopt new solutions, such as HYCU Protégé and R-Cloud, that offer native and automated data protection, extensive visibility, and compliance features in all infrastructures with no additional coding. HYCU’s data protection innovation and modernization efforts aim to address companies’ struggles in safeguarding their data across multi-cloud and SaaS platforms. This article from Gestalt IT discusses the latest updates to HYCU R-Cloud, which was shown as part of Cloud Field Day 17.
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Integrating Native Data Protection to Any Infrastructure Codelessly With HYCU R-Cloud
Ransomware Is a Real Threat but CyberSense From Index Engines Can Help
Ransomware continues to be a severe threat that organizations worldwide face, especially firms with older technologies with out-of-support software packages like Windows 2003 and Informix. This article by Denny Cherry discusses Index Engines’ CyberSense solution, which can protect organizations from ransomware by scanning, validating, and counting as safe both older and modern platforms. CyberSense distinguishes itself from other solutions in the same industry by detecting encrypted files by looking at file metadata and data themselves, detecting even slow encryption through delta comparison of entropy scores. This unique form of detection helps protect organizations from ransomware, especially with the more targeted approach observed in recent attacks.
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Ransomware Is a Real Threat but CyberSense From Index Engines Can Help