Kris Raney, Distinguished Engineer at Ixia, gives an overview how CloudLens approaches getting visibility into traffic to and from containers. Containers add another level of complexity on top of just location. Kris overviews how Docker handles namespaces with containers, and goes into the details of Docker’s networking that makes gaining visibility vital to security for […]
Securing Networks Through End-To-End Visibility with Ixia with Recep Ozdag
Recep Ozdag, VP of Product Management at Ixia, goes into details of the company’s visibility solutions. They entered this market with key acquisitions in 2016 by launching VisionOne flagship. This has grown to include CloudLens for cloud visibility, Active SSL for MITM monitoring, and most recently multi-cloud support.
Ixia CloudLens: Visibility Across Multiple Cloud Provider Platforms with Sushil Srinivasan
Sushil Srinivasan, Senior Product Manager at Ixia, discusses their solution for getting visibility across multiple cloud environments. CloudLens provides end-to-end insight that removes visibility blind spots by bridging packet level visibility to physical, virtiual, and cloud environments. This platform can be deployed as a pure SaaS offering, a container, or an agent running on your […]
Ixia Active SSL: Encryption, The Dual-Edge Sword with Scott Register
Scott Register, VP of Product Management at Ixia, Cloud & Security, discusses best practices for monitoring SSL traffic to gain visibility into network traffic. He reviews the challenges that encryption sessions cause for network security, the pros and cons of using static keys, and forthcoming changes to SSL. He then introduces Ixia’s Visibility Application Module […]
Introducing Ixia, a Keysight Business with Recep Ozdag
Recep Ozdag, VP of Product Management at Ixia, reintroduces the company to the delegates in light of their recent acquisition by Keysight. He gives an overview of the company’s portfolio, and how they align with industry trends in moving to the cloud. Through their testing and visibility solutions, the company has situated itself to provide […]
Skyport Systems: Cloud Killed the Firewall with Dan Backman
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 […]
Skyport Systems: There Is No Branch with Rob Rodgers
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. […]
Skyport SkySecure for Critical Systems with Dan Backman
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 […]
Skyport SkySecure Architecture with Will Eatherton
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 […]
How to Build a Datacenter with Skyport Systems with Nils Swart
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 […]
Advanced Cisco IOS XR Programmability: Service-Layer APIs with Akshat Sharma
Cisco says their IOS XR APIs expose these underlying resources to the user in an easily accessible way. They review the service-layer APIs, which go below the lay of the control plane to interact with the underlying architecture. The core focus is the applications running in their data centers, these APIs give customers an easy […]
Advanced Cisco IOS XR Programmability: Model-Driven Manageability with Santiago Alvarez
Cisco says their programmability stack allows for model-driven management features built into IOS XR. This is reviewed and includes a look at the standard YANG models used to define the models.
Cisco ACI Multi-Site with Max Ardica
Cisco says ACI has expanded capacity for multi-site support. To situate this, they review the history of ACI, from a single site/single pod architecture, to a stretch fabric, multiple networks in a single availability zone. Now in ACI 3.0, organizations are able to create multiple availability zones with a single region, and set multi-region policies. […]
Kubernetes and Cisco ACI with Andres Vega
Cisco says Kubernetes and their application centric infrastructure allows them to provide enterprise level solutions while leveraging bleeding edge hyperscale technology. For Kubernetes specifically, ACI allows organizations to easily bootstrap deployment platforms. ACI unifies networking for Kubernetes and provides visibility into containers.
Cisco Intersight Security
Security features of Cisco Intersight and the security process utilized to support Intersight are discussed. Intersight is a new hosted management platform for Cisco UCS and Hyperflex. As complexities of managing compute and HyperConverged infrastructure within and across the data center and remote sites has grown, the limitations of traditional management solutions have pushed additional […]
Cisco Intersight Architecture – Cisco UCS and HyperFlex on a Hosted Management Platform
Cisco Intersight is a new hosted management platform for Cisco UCS and Hyperflex, and in this session we review the architecture behind Intersight. As complexities of managing compute and HyperConverged infrastructure within and across the data center and remote sites has grown, the limitations of traditional management solutions have pushed additional burden on datacenter administrators. […]
Cisco Intersight Overview on Managing UCS and HyperFlex
This quick overview of Cisco Intersight (aka Project Starship) walks through the evolution of UCS Management and how Cisco is taking the next steps in managing UCS.
SNIA Emerald Green Storage Program with Wayne A. Adams
Wayne A. Adams, Green Storage Initiative Chair with SNIA, introduces the project to the delegates. Since 2008, SNIA has been working on energy efficiency in the data center. This includes the development of the SNIA Emerald Specification, which is a building block for both SNIA and other organizations to compare efficiency in a uniform method […]
SNIA Presents the History of the Storage Developer Conference with Mark Carlson
Mark Carlson, Technical Council Co-Chair with SNIA, gives the invited delegates an overview of the history of the Storage Developer Conference, which was created by SNIA in 2005. Mark walks through what makes the conference unique in the storage landscape and what are the emergent topics in 2017.