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.
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Kentik Detect for DDoS and Alerting with Jim Meehan
Jim Meehan, Director of Solutions Engineering at Kentik, reviews Kentik Detect’s alerting capabilities. The solution comes with predefined alert parameters around capacity, general anomalies, and DDoS threats, but these can also be defined per user preference. This can include specific filters and datasets, as well as historical baselines for context.
Kentik Detect for DevOps, NPM, and DNS with Avi Freedman
Avi Freedman, Co-founder and CEO at Kentik, demonstrates Kentik Detect as a plugin for Grafana. This provides a subset of data from the Kentik API that can be used alongside other application metrics in an overall dashboard.
Kentik Detect for Network Peering and Planning with Jim Meehan
Jim Meehan, Director of Solutions Engineering at Kentik, reviews using Kentik Detect for network peering analysis and planning purposes. This can be used by service providers, content source networks, or CDNs. Because Kentik Detect correlates flow data with other variables at full resolution, it gives organizations easily understood information to prioritize traffic for cost or […]
Kentik Data Engine with Avi Freedman
Avi Freedman, Co-founder and CEO at Kentik, gives a technical overview of their Data Engine. This is run in the cloud, and designed by Kentik for the particularly high ingest required to maintain full resolution of all network flow data. KDE allows for realtime stream processing of network traffic for anomaly detection. Avi goes into […]
Kentik Detect SaaS Platform with Jim Meehan
Jim Meehan, Director of Solutions Engineering at Kentik, reviews the UI and functionality of the Kentik Detect SaaS platform. This is designed to keep the full resolution of network flow data, rather than an aggregated ingest. This enables the creation of summary reports, while still allowing for drill down into very narrow pieces of data.
Introduction to Kentik with Avi Freedman
Avi Freedman, Co-founder and CEO at Kentik, introduces the company to the delegates. They offer network traffic analytics, starting with flow information and augment it with routing and other metrics.