Modern enterprise networks are supporting everything from business processes and deployed applications to hyperconnected environments for workers and customers. Learn how Aruba CX switching technology delivers always-on experiences for businesses that never sleep.
Aruba Presents at Networking Field Day Experience at Aruba Atmosphere 2023
Presentation Schedule 10:45 – 11:15 – Aruba CX Switching, Ready for Mission Critical Networks Modern enterprise networks are supporting everything from business processes and deployed applications to hyperconnected environments for workers and customers. Learn how Aruba CX switching technology delivers always-on experiences for businesses that never sleep. 12:00 – 12:30 – Building Fourth Generation Data […]
Manage Network Infrastructure as Code Complexity with HashiCorp Terraform Cloud
In this session, Rosemary Wang demonstrates patterns and practices to help maintain and scale networking as code over time. By using Terraform Cloud, Wang shows how to reduce configuration drift with drift detection to minimize automation failures and treat the network as immutable infrastructure using a blue-green deployment model to implement major changes.
Collaboration Patterns for Network Infrastructure as Code with HashiCorp Terraform Cloud
Rosemary Wang dives into patterns for collaborating on network as code using Terraform Cloud. Wang shows how to modularize, test, and secure networks as code and empower teams to correctly and safely configure the network across an organization.
HashiCorp Terraform for Network Infrastructure as Code
Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that integrates with a variety of platforms, providers, and clouds. In this presentation, Rosemary Wang introduces Terraform and applies it to network use cases.
Standardize Infrastructure Automation with HashiCorp Terraform
HashiCorp enables the cloud operating model with infrastructure automation to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. Terraform is the standard for infrastructure automation to provision and manage cloud, network, on-premises, and SaaS.
CIS Compliance with BackBox
During the presentation at Networking Field Day 31, Josh Stephens and Perry Greenwood from BackBox highlighted the importance of automating compliance workflows to simplify network management for various compliance standards such as PCI, HIPAA, and STIG. They emphasized that many organizations currently depend on Excel sheets for compliance management, which is not the most efficient […]
Automated Upgrades with BackBox
BackBox offers a network automation platform which supports multi-vendor environments and aims to simplify OS upgrades across various network devices. With built-in automations for 47 different platforms, BackBox can handle complex updates, even for devices not initially included, thanks to a supportive professional services team that can tailor solutions for customers. The platform does not […]
BackBox Programmability with Perry Greenwood
The presentation by Perry Greenwood, Senior Product Manager, and Josh Stephens, CTO at BackBox, focuses on the company’s programmability, APIs, and integrations. They describe two key aspects of programmability: extending scripts and integrating with outside services or homegrown systems. Perry showcases the IntelliTrack scripts, which are device-aware and capable of both automation checks and remediation. […]
Introduction to BackBox with Josh Stephens
Since this is BackBox’s first appearance at Networking Field Day, we’ll start with an introduction to BackBox. We’ll discuss the company’s history, our vision for the future, and our approach to network and security device automation. Josh Stephens, the CTO at BackBox, along with Senior Product Manager Perry Greenwood, began by introducing BackBox. BackBox is […]
How Itential Helps NetDevOps Teams to Expose and Deliver Self-Service Network Automations
Expanding the use of trusted automations to end-users and platforms is key for delivering self-service networking. In this session, Rich Martin, Director of Technical Marketing at Itential, will demonstrate how the Itential Automation Platform can take automations that are created and tested by the NetDevOps team, and safely and securely expose them so they can […]
How Itential Helps NetDevOps to Enhance their Ability to Test & Validate Network Automations
NetDevOps teams must ensure that every automation is validated and tested before production deployments. In this session, Joksan Flores, Senior Solutions Engineer at Itential, will demonstrate how NetDevOps teams can take advantage of the features in the Itential Automation Platform that provide testing, validation, and verification before changes are introduced into the network.
How Itential Helps NetDevOps Teams to Build Automations Efficiently
For NetDevOps teams, building automations is a foundational process. In this session, Dan Sullivan, Principal Solutions Engineer at Itential, will demonstrate how the Itential Automation Platform can help NetDevOps teams quickly and easily build new automations for orchestrating across hybrid cloud infrastructure.
How Itential Helps NetDevOps Teams to Integrate Network Automations with their Entire Ecosystem
Integrations are the building blocks of a successful automation strategy, yet integrating with various IT and network systems can be challenging. In this session, Rich Martin, Director of Technical Marketing at Itential, will demonstrate how the Itential Automation Platform simplifies integrations and transforms data into normalized data for NetDevOps teams.
Itential Network Automation for NetDevOps Teams
NetDevOps is about applying DevOps principles to NetOps teams, evolving how we operate networks and infrastructure. In this presentation, Chris Wade, CTO & Co-Founder at Itential, introduces how Itential bridges the gap between NetOps and DevOps teams and how the Itential Automation Platform is enabling NetDevOps teams to integrate, build, test, and deploy network automations […]
Kentik Container Network Observability
Justin Ryburn describes the complexities of managing the network in a modern Kubernetes deployment and how Kentik can provide observability. Leveraging eBPF technology allows Network Engineers the ability to visual and make sense of the network traffic within the Kubernetes cluster as well as traffic entering and leaving the cluster. Justin wraps up with a […]
Kentik Is Your Cloud Provider Executing a Network Maintenance? Yes, Yes They Are
What happens to your apps when your cloud provider executes network or application maintenances? With Kentik we are seeing changes in paths that correlate to service outages for teams like “Sales”. Cloud providers always execute maintenances, to ensure longevity of hardware, security and cost containment. You rely on the cloud providers to reduce your staffing […]
Data-Driven Network Observability with Kentik
The network may be the last thing most people think about, but it’s one of the most crucial components of application delivery. In this presentation, we’ll discuss the importance of a data-driven approach to network observability. We’ll unpack how Kentik’s approach to machine learning, big data, and a unified data repository can help network operations […]
Kentik Network Observability Across the Enterprise
Justin Ryburn describes the complexities of managing a modern enterprise network and the various areas that Kentik can provide observability. Having all of this information in a single platform that is easy to access and highly-scalable provides a lot of value to Kentik customers. Justin wraps up with a discussion of Kentik’s roadmap for the […]
