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.
MFD9 Day2 Recap
This Wireless Pubcast podcast episode focused on day 2 of Mobility Field Day 9, featuring presentations from Cisco, NetAlly, and Ruckus. Cisco showcased positive developments in their integration of engineering teams, consolidation of wireless product oversight, and new AP capabilities. NetAlly introduced the CyberScope, expanding their network testing tools with Nmap functionality. Ruckus discussed their IoT platform, enhancements to Adaptive Intelligent Radio Management, and briefly touched on Wi-Fi 7 features. They also introduced a rebranded firewall. Listen in as Chris Reed and Raymond Hendrix dive deep into Mobility Field Day 9 day 2 on the Wireless Pubcast podcast!
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MFD9 Day3 Recap
The Wireless Pubcast podcast covered day 3 of Mobility Field Day 9, featuring Arista and Celona. Arista showcased their comprehensive Wi-Fi solution, CloudVision AGNI, emphasizing its polished interface, rule-based analysis capabilities, and compatibility with other vendors’ networks. Celona presented their Celona Private 5G solution, highlighting its flexibility for future transitions and real-world deployments. They discussed the importance of regulatory compliance, offered free online classes for certification, and mentioned plans for exploring neutral host arrangements. Listen in as Chris Reed and Raymond Hendrix dive deep into Mobility Field Day 9 day 3 on the Wireless Pubcast podcast!
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MFD9 Day1 Recap
In the Wireless Pubcast podcast episode covering Day 1 of Mobility Field Day 9, Juniper Networks announced the integration of ChatGPT into their conversational interface platform, Marvis, along with the incorporation of Dynamic Application Intelligence (DAI) for better application analysis and troubleshooting, especially for Zoom. Fortinet showcased their AIOps product for network monitoring and introduced a SASE solution for zero trust access. The roundtable discussion focused on cloud services, specifically the suitability of placing radius in the cloud, with arguments against cloud-based radius emphasizing proximity to clients for minimizing latency. Listen in as Chris Reed and Raymond Hendrix dive deep into Mobility Field Day 9 day 1 on the Wireless Pubcast podcast!
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Catchpoint Excels at Internet Resilience
Catchpoint is a solution focused on monitoring the entire Internet stack, including applications and network traffic, with the goal of providing the best internet resilience. It offers the most global monitoring points for its customers to leverage, allowing candid reporting on external perceptions of performance as well as the hard Network performance data points. By providing comprehensive monitoring strategy, Catchpoint enables predictive insights, contingency planning, and continuous improvement over time, ensuring that users receive the best possible experience through the digital service delivery chain. Read more in this Gestalt IT article by Peter Welcher, sponsored by Catchpoint.
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Catchpoint Excels at Internet Resilience
Cisco Live 2023- Tech Field Day Extra- Event Preview
Girard Kavelines is getting excited for an in-person Cisco Live event, not to mention that Tech Field Day will be there. The event will include two-action-packed days, with presentations and demos from a host of well-known vendors. These will include Opengear and BackBox, both of whom will present their latest products and services to delegates. And of course there will be hours of deep dives into the latest from Cisco!
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Cisco Live 2023- Tech Field Day Extra- Event Preview
Composing a Harmonized Infrastructure With Solidigm and Supermicro
As data center workloads become more intensive, storage struggles to keep pace with CPU and memory in terms of speed and density increases. Composable infrastructure, like that offered by Solidigm, serves as an answer by presenting resources as and when they are needed, specifically the D5-P5430 Solidigm data center SSD. It’s a storage device that communicates via NVMe over PCIe gen 4.0 and is available in a U.2, E1.S, and E3.S form factor, with Solidigm using Enterprise Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF), a design that provides better density options than standard drive form factors while also being front-loading and hot-pluggable. This sponsored article by Andy Banta looks deeper at the Solidigm P5430 SSD family.
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Composing a Harmonized Infrastructure With Solidigm and Supermicro
Solidigm and Supermicro Help Organizations Achieve Three Goals of Infrastructure Sustainability
Solidigm and Supermicro have collaborated on E3.S EDSFF SSDs to provide high-density NVMe QLC SSDs. Solidigm’s D5-P5430, which uses E3.S, EDSFF, and U.2 form factors, provides up to 30.72 TB per single SSD. The collaboration helps enterprises like hyperscalers and xSPs that need capacity-oriented storage to achieve three sustainability objectives, which include scaling storage density and reducing energy consumption. This sponsored article by Max Mortillaro explores the use case for the new P5430 SSD family.
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Solidigm and Supermicro Help Organizations Achieve Three Goals of Infrastructure Sustainability
Solidigm D5-P5430 Addresses QLC Endurance in Data Center SSDs
Solidigm has launched the D5-P5430, its latest QLC data center SSD, which offers high-end endurance. With the D5-P5316 lineup, Solidigm focused on high density for storage racks, offering a 30TB SKU for less than $100/TB. The D5-P5430 claims to overcome the limitations of QLC and offer performance and endurance at substantial cost savings.
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Solidigm D5-P5430 Addresses QLC Endurance in Data Center SSDs
Securing Classified Data With Rubrik and Zscaler
As organizations increasingly fall victim to data breaches and cyberattacks, Rubrik and Zscaler have partnered to launch a double extortion solution integrating Rubrik Security Cloud with Zscaler’s Index Tool to enhance data loss prevention efforts. The joint solution provides an automated process for identifying which data sets contain sensitive content and where they are located within an organization’s distributed environment, improving data protection for critical information. Rubrik’s integration with Zscaler adds that extra layer of protection to confidential and high-value information, making it less likely for cyberattacks to result in losses from hacking incidents.
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Securing Classified Data With Rubrik and Zscaler
Aruba Isn’t a Wireless Company (Any More)
Although widely known as a wireless company, HPE Aruba Networking has grown into a full enterprise networking company today, emphasizing the importance of user-focused and holistic product lineups. As highlighted at the recent Aruba Atmopshere event, the company’s offerings have expanded beyond just wireless access points and devices that power them, to include campus and data center switches, SASE/SSE, IoT, and cloud-enabled management, to name a few. The shift in perception towards a more comprehensive networking company from being just a wireless company signifies rising maturity and effectiveness in catering to the complex needs of a modern user.
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Aruba Isn’t a Wireless Company (Any More)
Application Management at the Edge With Avassa
In this TechArena podcast, Allyson Klein engages in conversation with Avassa CTO Carl Moberg, who she met at Edge Field Day recently. Carl shares how his company is pioneering the idea of bringing application control to edge environments while designing solutions that cater to both infrastructure operators and application developers. Avassa’s solution enables businesses to get the most out of their existing infrastructure investments while delivering applications with improved performance. Listen to the TechArena and learn all about Avassa!
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Application Management at the Edge With Avassa
Making Mobility Magic at Mobility Field Day 9
Mobility Field Day 9 is May 17-19 in Silicon Valley, bringing together the top technology minds and experts in wireless and mobility to share their innovations and contributions to the field. With presentations from Arista, Celona, Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper Networks, NetAlly, and Ruckus Networks, attendees can expect updates on advancements in AI networking, SASE, and cybersecurity, among others. The presentations will be streamed live on our online platforms and feature roundtable discussions from our Field Day delegates. Watch this video for more information!
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Making Mobility Magic at Mobility Field Day 9
Zero-Downtime Software Upgrades With Aruba CX 6400
Sulagna Saha highlights the new technology pioneered by HPE Aruba Networking that promotes business resiliency through software redundancy with Aruba CX 6400 series that minimizes, even eliminates downtimes during software upgrades and provides always-on networking. Businesses across the globe face costly interruptions from cyber-attacks, natural disasters, and other failures that accumulate to downtimes resulting in huge losses. Hence, technologies such as software redundancy and resilience play a crucial role enabling business continuity through software upgrades during which firmware is downloaded, codes are refreshed, and switches are rebooted while ensuring continuity of performance.
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Zero-Downtime Software Upgrades With Aruba CX 6400
Deploying the Next Generation Datacenter Fabric With Aruba CX 10000 Series
As IT enters a new era of hybrid infrastructures, the network topology has started to shift demanding a new datacenter fabric that satisfies the emerging needs. The Aruba CX 10000 enables a new generation of network fabric that helps overcome the cost and performance limitations of the previous fabrics and unlocks new levels of efficiency that is vital to support new applications. Read more in this article at Gestalt IT which highlights the switch’s evolution in the networking landscape and introduces the new Aruba CX 10000 series jointly designed by HPE Aruba and AMD Pensando.
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Deploying the Next Generation Datacenter Fabric With Aruba CX 10000 Series
Improved Visualization and AI Efficiency With New Aruba Central
HPE Aruba Networking expanded the AI capabilities of Central, giving users easier and wider access to data, and enabling quicker RCA and remediation. A more feature-rich, AI-powered interface builds upon earlier versions to offer a more accessible UI and simplified, efficient task automation. A global data lake with multimodal processing and an AI model lifecycle management system support Aruba’s initiative for a more efficient, customer-focused, automated network operation that enables faster issue detection and remediation through near-real-time AI insights. This article explores the capabilities of the new Aruba Central, revealed at Aruba Atmosphere 2023.
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Improved Visualization and AI Efficiency With New Aruba Central
NFD31 – BackBox
BackBox presented their automation tool at Networking Field Day, focusing primarily on task automation rather than network automation as a whole. By allowing specific tasks, such as backups, software updates, configuration drift remediation, and compliance checks, to be automated, BackBox eliminates the need for extensive manual labor and thus lessens the potential for errors. With API integrations and external tools for reporting, alerting and inventory, BackBox forms the groundwork that can be coordinated with other automation tools to build a comprehensive network automation strategy. Read the entire article by Gian Paolo Boarina to learn more about BackBox!
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Fixing Firewall Sizing Issues With Prosmio
Tom Hollingsworth sheds light on the challenges of deploying an appropriately sized firewall and highlights Prosimo’s solution, as seen at Cloud Field Day last year. Prosimo Adaptive Service Insertion helps in deploying firewall resources in appropriate locations with minimal fuss by creating spokeless environments. Additionally, Prosimo introduces the possibility of directing guaranteed, critical traffic to a Prosimo instance to be processed, thus enabling businesses to ensure that their operational rules are respected. Finally, Prosimo’s tool allows for variable flow discovery and resource consumption, allowing organizations to manage their financial payments better.
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Fixing Firewall Sizing Issues With Prosmio
The Amazing Way Observability Shapes Automation
The benefits of automation far outweigh the potential perils, mainly because more than 70% of IT decision-makers have acknowledged reduced employee workload with automation’s help. Visibility and automation share a close relationship, with data being a prerequisite for both. Saha further explains how with proper implementation and integration, networking automation can significantly improve the entire system’s efficiency while reducing the need for human-based control. This Networking Field Day Roundtable discussion focuses on the promise and pitfalls of network automation.
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The Amazing Way Observability Shapes Automation
Automated Provisioning and More With HashiCorp’s Terraform
Provisioning infrastructure in hybrid multi-cloud need not be exceedingly complex, nor time-consuming. Terraform offers the best way to automate provisioning and management tasks utilizing infrastructure as code. Teams can provision and de-provision at scale, while managing infrastructure lifecycle at minimum effort. Read more about it at Gestalt IT or watch the HashiCorp presentations from the recent Networking Field Day event right here!
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Automated Provisioning and More With HashiCorp’s Terraform
Observability at Full Fidelity With Kentik Network Observability Platform
Kentik’s Observability Platform helps improve edge-to-edge visibility in complex, hybrid networks. The platform aggregates data from various sources, normalizes it, and transforms it into meaningful analytics to provide fast and flexible query responses. Built with multilayered telemetry, it helps teams monitor and troubleshoot the network and detect problems proactively through meaningful information derived from deep observability. In this article, Sulagna Saha highlights the platform’s capability for data enrichment, full-fidelity data collection, and its ability to integrate with multiple data sources and visualization tools, making it an effective solution for businesses looking to improve network visibility in the modern network landscape.
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Observability at Full Fidelity With Kentik Network Observability Platform