SolarWinds Monitoring Cloud – Pingdom Demo with Chris Erway

Chris Erway, Director of Architecture at SolarWinds, gives a demonstration of the company’s Pingdom tool. This is part of the SolarWinds Monitoring Cloud suite. This begins by offering simple uptime checks, with full customization of probes to individual sites. This can be geographically set, as well as what kind of tolerances for unresponsiveness will generate […]

SolarWinds Virtualzation Manager 7: AWS Monitoring and Recommendation Engine with Chris Paap

Chris Paap, Product Manager at SolarWinds, reviews their Virtualization Manager solution that lives within their Orion interface. This can directly pull metrics into Orion via an API. The Virtualization Manager has a robust series of analytics and alerts which can all be customized by the administrator. The solution is backed by robust visualization support to […]

SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor with Steven Hunt

Steven Hunt, Principal Product Strategist at SolarWinds, reviews some of monitoring possibilities with PerfStack and how these are presented relationally within their Orion interface. These monitoring solutions combine system and network analysis, to help pinpoint where problems reside, and reduce the mean time to innocence.

SolarWinds NetPath 12.1 Sneak Peak with Chris O’Brien

Chris O’Brien, Senior Product Manager at SolarWinds, gives an update on new enhancements coming to their NetPath tool. These updates include better debugging tools and automated packet capture. NetPath also now has improved Meraki wireless monitoring. All of this is wrapped in their intuitive drag and drop UI.

SolarWinds Strategy and Vision with Lee Calcote

Lee Calcote, Senior Director of Strategy for SolarWinds, gives the delegates an introduction to the company. This includes their SolarWinds MSP and Monitoring Cloud portfolios. They see these tools as vital for managing the digital transformation of traditional companies into software companies.

Silver Peak Internet Breakout Automation with Rolf Muralt

Rolf Muralt, VP of Product Management at Silver Peak, reviews some of the current customer implementations of their SD-WAN solution with the delegates. He then gives a demo of their Internet Breakout Automation with their Unity Orchestrator platform to build out an SD-WAN network rapidly.

Silver Peak Overview with Damon Ennis

Damon Ennis, SVP for Products at Silver Peak, starts the presentation with a review of the company product portfolio. This includes SD-WAN, WAN optimization, and replication acceleration. He further reviews what Silver Peak sees as the purpose of SD-WAN, which is ultimately to connect users to apps. Their SD-WAN solution can do this with simple […]

Juniper Networks Extension Toolkit (JET) APIs with Gurudatt Shenoy

Gurudatt Shenoy, Director of Product Management at Juniper Networks, reviews the Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET) APIs. This is a framework that provides developers with access to a set of high-speed APIs to change and retrieve state information for control and management plane services. He closes out the presentation with a demonstration of JET in action.

Juniper Networks Streaming Telemetry with Dmitry Shokarev

Dmitry Shokarev, Senior Product Manager at Juniper Networks, reviews their streaming telemetry available to Junos. This is highly scalable distributed collection engine designed to help network operators stream statistics and event states for real-time analysis. He further demonstrates using this with an OpenConfig plugin to get this information.

Juniper Networks Data Models with Nilesh Simaria

Nilesh Simaria, Senior Software Engineer at Juniper Networks, reviews the company’s data modeling practices. This includes a review of their Data Definition Language (DDL), a precursor to YANG. He demonstrates the ability to support multiple YANG models, including OpenConfig and BYOY options as defined by end users.

Juniper Networks Junos Automation with Gurudatt Shenoy

Gurudatt Shenoy, Director of Product Management at Juniper Networks, reviews the Juniper vision of the “self-driving network”. This allows service providers and enterprises to provision multiple simultaneous services instantly for a simply customer experience. Gurudatt further reviews what Juniper Networks identified to make this happen, and how they are meeting each milestone.

Software Development at Juniper Networks with Nitin Kumar

Nitin Kumar kicks off the Juniper Networks presentation. He reviews the company’s software development strategy. The cloud has affected their philosophy for the Junos operating system. He reviews what they think the cloud is on a basic level and where they think it will push their software going forward.

Kentik DDoS and Anomaly Detection with Dan Ellis

Dan Ellis, CTO at Kentik, demonstrates the capabilities that Kentik Detect has to find network anomalies and to detect DDoS attacks. This is integrated with APIs to allow mitigation services to be activated once a DDoS is detected.

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