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KEMP Virtual Service Migration with Micheal Higgins

Micheal Higgins, Principal Technical Product Manager with KEMP Technologies, reviews how to streamline the migration of apps and their services in hybrid and multi-cloud environments with their application delivery solution.

KEMP Introduction and Overview with Kurt Jung

Kurt Jung, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at KEMP Technologies, introduces the company’s application delivery solutions to the delegates. The company has a range of application delivery controllers that can be deployed on virtual, cloud, and on-premise infrastructure.

Intent-Based Networking Introduction with Sasha Ratkovic of Apstra

Sasha Ratkovic, CTO and Founder of Apstra, spends this session cutting through the hype around intent-based networking. Sasha narrowly defines what Apstra means by intent. This isn’t simply a “correct” abstraction layer or a configuration management scheme. He outlines how intent is based on the outcome of automating the complete networking service lifecycle.

Apstra Automating Network Intent with Derick Winkworth

Derick Winkworth, Bit Wrangling Telepath and Beard Achiever at Apstra, gives an overview how developers can use the Apstra Operating System as a platform for building their own intent-based networking applications. These are the people implementing how the network gets automated. Derick further goes on to outline how networking is all in our heads, the […]

Arista Networks Routing Architecture Transformations with Russell Kelly

Russell Kelly, Technical Marketing Engineer, gives an overview of how Arista is positioned to attack the routing space, with a combination of silicon and programability. This is informed by a transformation in routing architecture based around cloud principles that have driven transformation in most other enterprise infrastructure already. He then gives an overview of the […]

Arista Networks Automation and Telemetry with Ryan Madsen

Ryan Madsen, Manager Software Engineering, begins this session why explaining why Arista entered into the crowded monitoring market. This was a response based on the customer need to obtain comprehensive state from boxes in real time. This leads into an overview of their answer, CloudVision Telemetry. He then reviews how the system operates in a […]

Arista EOS Programmability with Ken Duda

Ken Duda, Founder, CTO and SVP Software and Engineering at Arista, has worked in networking for decades, but is a programmer at heart. He reviews the how the EOS architecture is different from other switches, starting from it’s simplified single binary image. This allows for standardization across an entire environment. This is enhanced by their […]

Andy Bechtolsheim on the 400 Gigabit Landscape

Andy Bechtolsheim on the 400 Gigabit Landscape

Andy Bechtolsheim, Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman at Arista, reviews how Arista is preparing for the 400 Gigabit future. While 100G Ethernet is gaining ascendency now, by 2021 he sees the 400G port numbers reaching parity with 100G Ethernet. The optics for this will be powered by 100G per lane, as defined by the […]

Arista Introduction and Overview with Anshul Sadana

Anshul Sadana, SVP and Chief Customer Officer at Arista, updates the delegates on the state of Arista. The company has evolved from Leaf-Spine designs for data center networking and now has moved into spine interconnects between data centers. He also discusses the companies move into supporting IP storage, spine routing, cloud peering, and security monitoring.

Veriflow Automated Intent Inference Demo with Sajid Awan

Sajid Awan, VP Worldwide Ops at Veriflow, gives a demonstration of the Veriflow predictive platform. This includes visualizing the physical and functional network topology, continuous verification of service availability to protect against failure, and validation of proper segmentation of network services and users. This is done in their UI, which allows for easily understood maps, […]

Veriflow Software Architecture with Brighten Godfrey

Brighten Godfrey, Co-Founder and CTO at Veriflow, reviews the software architecture behind the company’s formal network verification. The solution is set up via a collector VM on-site, which connects to network devices to get the data plane state. This information is handed off to Veriflow’s Verification Engine, which builds the predictive model of all possible […]

Veriflow Continuous Network Verification with Brighten Godfrey

Brighten Godfrey, Co-Founder and CTO at Veriflow, reviews the company’s Continuous Network Verification technology. This models the complete data flow behavior of the network. This includes every possible packet, with every possible combination of header bits, along every possible path through the network. This predictive model is built without needing to observe live traffic. Watch […]

Veriflow Company Overview with James Brear

James Brear, CEO at Veriflow, introduces how Veriflow brought formal verification to network infrastructure with original research work back in 2011. The company predicts outages and vulnerabilities before they impact business operations. This allows IT teams to operate secure and resilient networks, without being reactive based on monitored network flows. Watch the entire Veriflow Systems […]

NetApp Enterprise Scale Hyperconverged Infrastructure with Gabriel Chapman

Gabriel Chapman, Senior Manager with NetApp HCI, presents NetApp’s recent entry into the hyperconverged infrastructure market. He starts by outlining the challenges of HCI, which sits at the inflection point between traditional infrastructure and the cloud. He then discusses how the first generation of HCI made trade offs to be feasible. This then leads into […]

Pluribus Networks VMware Integrations with Alessandro Barbieri

Alessandro Barbieri, Vice President of Product Management at Pluribus Networks, reviews the company’s new integrations with VMware. This includes discovery and provisioning of ESXi hosts, integration of endpoint metadata housed in their Cloud Fabric which allows for advanced policy configuration, and exploration of host to VM analytics. These integrations not only include vCenter, but NSX […]

Pluribus Networks Netvisor OS and Adaptive Cloud Fabric with Steven Shalita

Steven Shalita, Vice President of Marketing at Pluribus Networks, reviews the fundamentals of the Netvisor OS and the Adaptive Cloud Fabric architecture that differentiates their solutions. Their OS is based on a controller-less distributed architecture designed to scale without specific protocol requirements. He further goes over the automation and programmability of Netvisor, including a look […]

Pluribus Networks History and Overview with Steven Shalita

Steven Shalita, Vice President of Marketing at Pluribus Networks, gives a technological overview of their solutions. This includes a look at the history behind the development of the Netvisor, and the company’s history with initial OEM relationships that allowed them develop and harden their technology rapidly. This business focus on OEMs allowed them to mature […]

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