Unlock the next era of private cloud innovation and discover how VCF Automation within VMware Cloud Foundation is shaping the future of cloud infrastructure. This session explores how VCF Automation facilitates modern private cloud operations, enabling quick provisioning and simplified scaling in multi-tenant environments through self-service IaaS. Gain the speed to bring applications to market […]
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 – The Smarter Way to Operate Private Cloud
Effectively managing a large-scale Private Cloud environment demands robust operational strategies to effectively operate a large-scale private cloud. VMware Cloud Foundation Operations delivers these capabilities, enabling IT teams to ensure consistent access, security, lifecycle management as well as performance, cost efficiency, resource utilization, and infrastructure and application health Whether you’re an experienced VCF administrator or […]
Best Practices for Adopting & Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 introduces significant architectural enhancements that impact how modern private clouds are built and managed. This session provides some of the real-world upgrade pathways for both existing VCF 5.x users and the broader base of non-VCF customers looking to adopt the platform. From greenfield deployments to brownfield upgrades, Broadcom’s Jared Burns walks […]
What’s New in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0
Step into the future of infrastructure modernization with VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, the next evolution of VCF. In this session, Broadcom’s Sabina Anja will walk you through new innovations that will redefine how your private cloud operates. Explore features in lifecycle management, fleet management, virtual private cloud networking, and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) storage. Discover how […]
Edge to Cloud Security: Harnessing NAC, SASE and ZTNA
See new Central cloud native NAC; SASE with SSE, SD-WAN & NAC; new ZTNA natively in SD-WAN Gateways. Adam Fuoss, VP of Product for EdgeConnect SD-WAN, outlined HPE Aruba Networking’s integrated SASE portfolio, comprising SSE (Security Service Edge) for cloud-based security focused on ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Access), EdgeConnect SD-WAN for connecting diverse locations, and […]
Expanding Access Points as a Platform Capabilities
This presentation shows the features & benefits of Wi-Fi 7 APs including flex-radios, dynamic antennas, IoT, containers and more. Jerrod Howard, a hardware product manager at Aruba, introduced the concept of the Access Point (AP) as a platform, highlighting how HPE Aruba Networking is building its Wi-Fi 7 portfolio with increasingly flexible radios and complex […]
Modernize Virtualization Stack with HPE Aruba Networking CX Switches
Marty Ma, Director of Product Management for HPE Aruba Networking’s CX switching strategy, presented on modernizing the virtualization stack with HPE Aruba Networking CX Switches. He introduced new products and recent integrations that unify HPE’s offerings. The CX switch portfolio, established in late 2016, now spans from 1 GBe to 400 GBe, all operating on […]
Simplify Network Management with HPE Aruba Networking Central
Learn about AI, deep platform intelligence, self-optimizing, observability, troubleshooting and more. Dobias van Ingen, CTO and VP for System Engineers at HPE Aruba Networking, detailed the evolution of Aruba Central, emphasizing its role in addressing common enterprise challenges like domain fragmentation, policy inconsistency, experience gaps, high operational costs, data sovereignty, and vendor lock-in. Their journey […]
HPE Aruba Networking Executive Overview with James Robertson
James Robertson, VP & GM, kicked off the session by outlining HPE Aruba Networking’s focus on two significant industry shifts: AI for networking (AI-powered NetOps) and networking for AI. The former aims to enhance network efficiency and effectiveness using AI, while the latter is positioned as a new foundational infrastructure for AI workloads in data […]
cPacket Observability for AI
Modern AI workloads rely on high-performance, low-latency GPU clusters, but traditional observability tools fall short in diagnosing issues across these dense, distributed environments. In this session, cPacket explored how they augment GPU and storage telemetry (DCGM/NVML/IOPS) with full-fidelity packet insights. They covered how to correlate job scheduling, retransmissions, queue depth, and tensor-core utilization in real […]
cPacket NOC–SOC Convergence: Compliance
At Security Field Day 13, cPacket explored how Network Observability empowers SecOps teams to elevate their threat detection and response. In this session, they shifted the lens to NetOps, examining the growing convergence between NOC (Network Operations Center) and SOC (Security Operations Center) workflows. As performance and security become inseparable in hybrid and zero-trust environments, […]
cPacket Proactive Service Assurance and Compliance
Latency issues don’t always wait for end users to notice and neither should your operations team. In this session, cPacket demonstrated how they enable proactive latency detection using leading indicators, full-path packet monitoring, and anomaly detection. With integrations into LLM-powered workflows and platforms like Slack and ITSM, teams can resolve issues faster, tune alerts more […]
cPacket Service Assurance: MTTR Reduction
When service disruptions or connection issues impact key applications, speed of diagnosis is everything. This session highlighted how cPacket enables real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and triage using packet-level data. It showcased how IT teams can use LLM-powered interaction, Observability AI baselining, and SIEM integration to accelerate resolution, reduce MTTI/MTTR, and deliver a better user experience […]
cPacket Service Assurance: Realtime Video Production
Real-time video environments demand precision and speed. Troubleshooting can’t wait for decoding or downstream analysis. In this session, cPacket explored how packet-level observability enables immediate detection of transport-layer issues like encoder faults, fiber/switch errors, and edge-to-cloud latency disruptions. They demonstrated how their observability solution, with real-time alerts, dynamic dashboards, and ServiceNow integration, empowers proactive monitoring […]
cPacket Introduction with Mark Grodzinsky
cPacket’s presence kicked off by revisiting highlights from previous Networking Field Day and Security Field Day events, providing an overview of the evolution of cPacket’s Network Observability platform and introducing AI-driven innovations, framed by their Value Equation and Customer Value Journey frameworks. Mark Grodzinsky, Chief Product and Marketing Officer, emphasized that while AI is currently […]
Hedgehog Gateway Demonstration
Hedgehog CTO Manish Vachharajani explained how Hedgehog gateway peering functions as a new component to overcome limitations of switch-based VPC peering. While switch-based peering offers full cut-through bandwidth, traditional switches lack the CPU and RAM for stateful network functions like firewalling, NAT, and handling large routing tables or TCP termination. The Hedgehog Gateway addresses this […]
Hedgehog VPC Peering Demonstration
Hedgehog CTO Manish Vachharajani reviewed how Hedgehog simplifies AI networking with a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) abstraction used by customers like Zipline, emphasizing the complexities of designing modern GPU training networks with multiple ports and intricate configurations. Hedgehog addresses this by providing two main abstractions: a low-level wiring diagram for defining physical topology (like leaf/spine […]
How Zipline Uses Hedgehog for AI Training
Zipline is a drone delivery company that trains AI on private cloud infrastructure to autonomously fly drones and drop packages in precise delivery locations. Florian Berchtold, Zipline’s Principal Engineer responsible for AI developer productivity, highlighted Hedgehog’s crucial role in their operations. Zipline chose an on-premises strategy for their AI infrastructure due to significant cost efficiencies […]
Aviz Networks Network Copilot Demo
In this Networking Field Day session, Aviz Networks introduced Network Copilot (NCP), their private AI platform built for NetOps, emphasizing their vision of “Networks for AI, AI for Networks” and enabling open networking with SONiC and LLMs. The demonstration showcased NCP as a self-hosted software solution that integrates with existing network data sources through various […]
Aviz Network Copilot with Thomas Scheibe
Aviz Networks introduced Network Copilot (NCP), their private AI platform built for NetOps, emphasizing their vision of “Networks for AI, AI for Networks” and enabling open networking with SONiC and LLMs. Aviz Networks, a software networking company founded in 2019, aims to revolutionize networking by separating hardware and software, similar to the server world. Their […]