Extending Hybrid Cloud to the Software-Defined Edge with Riverbed and Parimal Puranik
Parimal Puranik, Director of Product Management at Riverbed, reviews the problem of that hybrid cloud causes for IT teams. This complex landscape extends across a number of connection types to a variety of applications. He then introduces the Riverbed SteelFusion which provides a software-defined edge IT platform to make hybrid cloud management much easier in […]
Introducing Riverbed and the “Bleeding Edge” with Josh Dobies
Josh Dobies, VP Product Marketing, gives an overview how Riverbed’s solutions can allow organizations to extend the value of the data centers to edge locations. This allows distributed enterprises to embrace the digital transformations brought by the cloud and mobility, without losing a unified approach to managing IT.
Scale Computing Cloud Unity Pricing and Availability with Craig Theriac
Craig Theriac, Director of Product Management at Scale Computing, discusses the specifics of Cloud Unity pricing, which will be sold with their channel partners. It will be an annual subscription offering with either a full DR as a Service or a Self Service option, with predictable costs for each.
Scale Computing Cloud Unity with Phil White
Phil White, CTO at Scale Computing, announces details of Cloud Unity with Google Cloud. This effectively gives seamless DR with full failover in the cloud for anything already running on their HC3 platform.
Scale Computing HyperCore Direct NVMe Overview with Phil White
Phil White, CTO at Scale Computing, reviews how their SCRIBE storage engine works for their HCI solution. This was designed for scalability and efficiency from the start, with no file system, storage protocols, or VMs in the data path. SCRIBE has been integrated directly to the hypervisor, which has provided near bare metal performance with […]
Scale Computing SCRIBE Architecture Overview with Phil White
Phil White, CTO at Scale Computing, gives an overview of the SCRIBE architecture, their software-defined block storage for VMs to address. This pools together the blocks in a cluster and makes them available with data services. This includes thin provisioning, dedupe, snapshots, and tiering.
Scale Computng Company Overview, History, and Target Markets with Jeff Ready
Jeff Ready, CEO and Co-Founder of Scale Computing, introduces the company to the delegates. The company’s HC3 hyperconverged infrastructure solution has provided an alternative path to virtualization since it launched in 2012. The company tries to provide HCI to organizations with a focus on simplicity, scalability, and performance.
Ixia Container Visibility with Kris Raney
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.