Ixia took a different approach to their recent Tech Field Day presentation. They talked about the current state of networking threats and the events that you are protecting against. In this episode of Briefings in Brief, Greg Ferro gives a little more background to get you up to speed on their offerings.
BiB083 – Forescout – Visibility for Segmentation
On this episode of Briefings in Brief, Greg Ferro takes a look at Forescout, a company that has been around for a decade but never before coming to Greg’s attention. If you want to get up to speed, Greg does a great job of breaking down the key features of this Network Access Control company. After you listen, be sure to watch their recent Tech Field Day presentation.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Greg Ferro
Gestalt IT delegate interviews are usually done with people going to their first event. But for the Tech Field Day tenth anniversary, they talked with one of the first delegates. In this interview, they talk with the Packet Pushers’ Greg Ferro, digging into his background and what he’s looking forward to at the event.
Meet the First #TFD Delegates: Greg Ferro
Greg Ferro has been a delegate with Tech Field Day since the very beginning, and we couldn’t think of someone more appropriate to have at our tenth anniversary event. In this interview done by Aruba Networks, he discusses the event’s history and how it has expanded into specific verticals over time.
Tech Field Day 20 – The Ten Year Anniversary Edition
We’re coming up on the 10th anniversary of Tech Field Day. As one of the first delegates at the first event, Greg Ferro shares his excitement at the anniversary, and shares a video of the closing speech from the event. While a lot in IT has changed in the last 10 years, it’s great to still have a lot of those first faces involved with the event.
Network Break 194: Amazon Spooks Switch Vendors; Big Switch Brings VPCs On Prem
On the Packet Pushers’ Network Break podcast, Greg Ferro features Networking Field Day 18 presenting sponsor Big Switch and their new software designed to enable VPC-like networking in private data centers.
BiB 48: Gluware at Network Field Day 18
Greg Ferro talks Gluware after their Networking Field Day 18 presentation, describing the company as an automation engine that works well in a brownfield network because it is multi-vendor, multi-technology, and works with existing tools like the CLI. Greg is also excited by, and goes on to describe, a Campus demo where Gluware showed the dot1x template being applied to ports as needed.
Network Field Day 18 – Some Preparation and Review
Greg Ferro does his homework for Networking Field Day 18, giving a brief explanation of his thoughts and the facts about each presenting sponsor. He also goes over what themes he think will be consistent talking points throughout the event, such as Multi-cloud, Kubernetes, and SDN.
Musing: The Short Life of Influencers — EtherealMind
Greg Ferro gives some important to advice to any established or aspiring influencer in the IT world. He encourages everyone to take a stab at blogging and to stick with it because, eventually, someone will notice your hard work and make your effort worth it.
Some Things I Learned About VeloCloud SD-WAN
Greg Farrow was surprised by what he learned about SD-WAN from VeloCloud’s presentation at Networking Field Day. The surprises included features that look an awful lot like intent-based networking, as well as PCI DSS compliant. It clearly was an eye opening presentation.
Considering The Future Of Juniper’s Contrail And OpenContrail/Tungsten
Greg Farro runs down the implecations of OpenContrail moving from a more Juniper Networks controlled open source project to the Linux Foundation. To accompany this change, OpenContrail is being rebranded to Tungsten Fabric. Greg compares this to what he saw of Juniper’s main Contrail platform, which continues to add features specifically for the enterprise market to make it viable in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments.
BiB 029: Cisco At NFD17 – Automation, Telemetry & Intent
In this episode of Briefings in Brief, Drew Conry-Murray and Greg Ferro discuss what they heard from Cisco during their Networking Field Day presentation last month. Like much of the networking world, Cisco focused on how they are bringing intent, automation, and telemetry into their ecosystem.
BiB 028: VMware NSX At NFD17 – SD-WAN & Security
In this episode of Briefings in Brief, Drew Conry-Murray and Greg Ferro discuss what they saw from VMware’s NSX team at Networking Field Day last month. They touch on the company’s update on VeloCloud post-acquisition, NSX-T features, and a look at the latest version of vSphere.
BiB 027: Juniper Networks At NFD17 – A Platform Emerges
In this episode of Briefings in Brief, Drew Conry-Murray and Greg Ferro discuss the presentation from Juniper Networks at last month’s Networking Field Day. The company demoed their analytics platform AppFormix, clarified the divergence of Contrail from OpenContrail, and discussed the adoption of the P4 language across a variety of hardware.
BiB 30: Mellanox, Ixia & Cumulus At NFD17 – VXLAN & Whitebox
In this episode of Briefings in Brief, Drew Conry-Murray and Greg Ferro discuss what they saw from Mellanox, Ixia and, Cumulus Networks at Networking Field Day last month. Mellanox reviewed their switch portfolio, which can run a third-party OS like Cumulus Networks’ Cumulus Linux network OS. Ixia showed off IxNetwork, their flagship testing suite.
BiB 26: Extreme Networks At NFD17 – Composing Workflows For Mean Time To Payrise
Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray posted a Briefings in Brief episode on what they saw from Extreme Networks at Networking Field Day last week. They focus on their presentation reviewing their automation efforts with StackStorm and Workflow Composer. Once you listen to the episode, be sure the checkout the full video of Extreme Networks presentation for yourself.
BiB 25: ThousandEyes At NFD17 – Expanding Into User Experience
Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray posted a Briefings in Brief episode based on what they saw from ThousandEyes at Networking Field Day last week. They look at how the company is moving away from being strictly a visibility company, and more into monitoring overall customer experience with their internet as a network approach.
BiB 24: Juniper OpenContrail At NFD17 – One Fabric To Bind Them
Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray posted a Briefings in Brief episode on Juniper Networks’ presentation from Networking Field Day last week. They focus on their announcements regarding Contrail. Juniper reviewed the difficulties of fully open sourcing OpenContrail, how Contrail and OpenContrail will diverge going forward, and where they see the commercial product going from here. Once you listen to the episode, be sure to watch the full video of their presentation.
Its time for Network Field Day 17
Greg Ferro is no stranger to Networking Field Day. We’re happy to have him along for our first event of the year. He’ll beheading out to Silicon Valley to hear presentations from the latest and greatest in networking. In this piece, Greg breaks down where each of the presenting companies are positioned at the start of 2018 and what he hopes to hear from them. Make sure to watch along with Greg on our live stream!
