Catchpoint Excels at Internet Resilience

Catchpoint is a solution focused on monitoring the entire Internet stack, including applications and network traffic, with the goal of providing the best internet resilience. It offers the most global monitoring points for its customers to leverage, allowing candid reporting on external perceptions of performance as well as the hard Network performance data points. By providing comprehensive monitoring strategy, Catchpoint enables predictive insights, contingency planning, and continuous improvement over time, ensuring that users receive the best possible experience through the digital service delivery chain. Read more in this Gestalt IT article by Peter Welcher, sponsored by Catchpoint.


Composing a Harmonized Infrastructure With Solidigm and Supermicro

As data center workloads become more intensive, storage struggles to keep pace with CPU and memory in terms of speed and density increases. Composable infrastructure, like that offered by Solidigm, serves as an answer by presenting resources as and when they are needed, specifically the D5-P5430 Solidigm data center SSD. It’s a storage device that communicates via NVMe over PCIe gen 4.0 and is available in a U.2, E1.S, and E3.S form factor, with Solidigm using Enterprise Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF), a design that provides better density options than standard drive form factors while also being front-loading and hot-pluggable. This sponsored article by Andy Banta looks deeper at the Solidigm P5430 SSD family.


Solidigm and Supermicro Help Organizations Achieve Three Goals of Infrastructure Sustainability

Solidigm and Supermicro have collaborated on E3.S EDSFF SSDs to provide high-density NVMe QLC SSDs. Solidigm’s D5-P5430, which uses E3.S, EDSFF, and U.2 form factors, provides up to 30.72 TB per single SSD. The collaboration helps enterprises like hyperscalers and xSPs that need capacity-oriented storage to achieve three sustainability objectives, which include scaling storage density and reducing energy consumption. This sponsored article by Max Mortillaro explores the use case for the new P5430 SSD family.


Securing Classified Data With Rubrik and Zscaler

As organizations increasingly fall victim to data breaches and cyberattacks, Rubrik and Zscaler have partnered to launch a double extortion solution integrating Rubrik Security Cloud with Zscaler’s Index Tool to enhance data loss prevention efforts. The joint solution provides an automated process for identifying which data sets contain sensitive content and where they are located within an organization’s distributed environment, improving data protection for critical information. Rubrik’s integration with Zscaler adds that extra layer of protection to confidential and high-value information, making it less likely for cyberattacks to result in losses from hacking incidents.


Making Mobility Magic at Mobility Field Day 9

Mobility Field Day 9 is May 17-19 in Silicon Valley, bringing together the top technology minds and experts in wireless and mobility to share their innovations and contributions to the field. With presentations from Arista, Celona, Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper Networks, NetAlly, and Ruckus Networks, attendees can expect updates on advancements in AI networking, SASE, and cybersecurity, among others. The presentations will be streamed live on our online platforms and feature roundtable discussions from our Field Day delegates. Watch this video for more information!


Zero-Downtime Software Upgrades With Aruba CX 6400

Sulagna Saha highlights the new technology pioneered by HPE Aruba Networking that promotes business resiliency through software redundancy with Aruba CX 6400 series that minimizes, even eliminates downtimes during software upgrades and provides always-on networking. Businesses across the globe face costly interruptions from cyber-attacks, natural disasters, and other failures that accumulate to downtimes resulting in huge losses. Hence, technologies such as software redundancy and resilience play a crucial role enabling business continuity through software upgrades during which firmware is downloaded, codes are refreshed, and switches are rebooted while ensuring continuity of performance.


Deploying the Next Generation Datacenter Fabric With Aruba CX 10000 Series

As IT enters a new era of hybrid infrastructures, the network topology has started to shift demanding a new datacenter fabric that satisfies the emerging needs. The Aruba CX 10000 enables a new generation of network fabric that helps overcome the cost and performance limitations of the previous fabrics and unlocks new levels of efficiency that is vital to support new applications. Read more in this article at Gestalt IT which highlights the switch’s evolution in the networking landscape and introduces the new Aruba CX 10000 series jointly designed by HPE Aruba and AMD Pensando.


Improved Visualization and AI Efficiency With New Aruba Central

HPE Aruba Networking expanded the AI capabilities of Central, giving users easier and wider access to data, and enabling quicker RCA and remediation. A more feature-rich, AI-powered interface builds upon earlier versions to offer a more accessible UI and simplified, efficient task automation. A global data lake with multimodal processing and an AI model lifecycle management system support Aruba’s initiative for a more efficient, customer-focused, automated network operation that enables faster issue detection and remediation through near-real-time AI insights. This article explores the capabilities of the new Aruba Central, revealed at Aruba Atmosphere 2023.


Fixing Firewall Sizing Issues With Prosmio

Tom Hollingsworth sheds light on the challenges of deploying an appropriately sized firewall and highlights Prosimo’s solution, as seen at Cloud Field Day last year. Prosimo Adaptive Service Insertion helps in deploying firewall resources in appropriate locations with minimal fuss by creating spokeless environments. Additionally, Prosimo introduces the possibility of directing guaranteed, critical traffic to a Prosimo instance to be processed, thus enabling businesses to ensure that their operational rules are respected. Finally, Prosimo’s tool allows for variable flow discovery and resource consumption, allowing organizations to manage their financial payments better.


The Amazing Way Observability Shapes Automation

The benefits of automation far outweigh the potential perils, mainly because more than 70% of IT decision-makers have acknowledged reduced employee workload with automation’s help. Visibility and automation share a close relationship, with data being a prerequisite for both. Saha further explains how with proper implementation and integration, networking automation can significantly improve the entire system’s efficiency while reducing the need for human-based control. This Networking Field Day Roundtable discussion focuses on the promise and pitfalls of network automation.


Automated Provisioning and More With HashiCorp’s Terraform

Provisioning infrastructure in hybrid multi-cloud need not be exceedingly complex, nor time-consuming. Terraform offers the best way to automate provisioning and management tasks utilizing infrastructure as code. Teams can provision and de-provision at scale, while managing infrastructure lifecycle at minimum effort. Read more about it at Gestalt IT or watch the HashiCorp presentations from the recent Networking Field Day event right here!


Observability at Full Fidelity With Kentik Network Observability Platform

Kentik’s Observability Platform helps improve edge-to-edge visibility in complex, hybrid networks. The platform aggregates data from various sources, normalizes it, and transforms it into meaningful analytics to provide fast and flexible query responses. Built with multilayered telemetry, it helps teams monitor and troubleshoot the network and detect problems proactively through meaningful information derived from deep observability. In this article, Sulagna Saha highlights the platform’s capability for data enrichment, full-fidelity data collection, and its ability to integrate with multiple data sources and visualization tools, making it an effective solution for businesses looking to improve network visibility in the modern network landscape.


Democratizing Automation for NetOps and DevOps With Itential Automation Platform

There’s widespread frustration among network operators and developers as everyday errors lead to downtime halts and loss of revenue. Itential offers a way around with the Itential Automation Platform. Itential enables integration and scaling of automation across NetDevOps, and provides self-serve networking for end-users. Read the article on Gestalt IT or watch the demo from the recent Networking Field Day event here at Tech Field Day.


Automating Device Upgrades With BackBox Automation Platform

In this article on Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha discusses how the BackBox Automation Platform automates and centralizes updates for firewalls and network devices. The platform features dozens of customizable, device and context-aware scripts, which can be modified and reused to run upgrades on a full fleet of devices. With its intelligent notification system and professional service team, the BackBox platform offers a robust solution for streamlining network device maintenance and ensuring devices are updated consistently.


Excitement in the Air at Aruba Atmosphere 2023!

Gestalt IT is bringing the Networking Field Day Experience to Aruba Atmosphere on April 25th and 26th. The event will feature keynote sessions from Antonio Neri and David Hughes, and technical presentations from the data center networking team, wireless group, and security discussions as well. With valuable insights into new technologies in the networking, mobility, and security spaces, this event is an exciting opportunity for IT professionals looking to stay updated on industry trends. Learn all about the Networking Field Day Experience at Atmosphere from Tom Hollingsworth in this post and video!


Elevating Data Protection With AWS Backup

Sulagna Saha provides insights on how AWS Backup automates data protection across AWS and on-premises in this Storage Field Day article. She highlights the technology’s key capabilities, including centralization, policy-driven protection, and data resiliency, and how it meets user expectations around data governance and compliance. With valuable takeaways for IT professionals looking to improve their data protection strategy, this article is an essential read.


Rethinking Search With Cribl

Cribl Search is a federated query engine designed to integrate datasets, with a focus on security. In this article for Gestalt IT, Tom Hollingsworth discusses Cribl’s unique approach to data processing that combines observability and security. With insights into the latest developments in search technology, this article is an essential read for IT professionals looking to stay ahead of the curve.


Meet the Field Day Delegate – Greg Grimes

We’re looking forward to seeing Greg Grimes at Networking Field Day this week! This “meet the delegate” post explores Grimes’ background in IT and his current role as a senior systems engineer at a VAR. With insights into Grimes’ passion for technology and his background in IT, this article provides readers with a glimpse into the world of IT professionals making waves in their field.


Takeaways From the Recent Storage Field Day

In a recent article on Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha shares the key takeaways from our recent Storage Field Day event. The discussion highlights the latest trends in storage technology, including the increasing importance of data management and the growing use of AI in storage solutions, with a special focus on CyberSense from Index Engines. With insights into the latest industry developments, this article is a valuable resource for IT professionals looking to stay up-to-date on emerging storage technologies.


Networking Field Day Returns This April!

Tom Hollingsworth, writing for Gestalt IT, announces the return of Networking Field Day this month with a lineup of stellar presenters, including BackBox, Itential, HashiCorp, and Kentik. Tom notes that with the rise of remote work, this Networking Field Day event will focus on technologies that can support distributed teams. From software-defined networking to open-source networking, attendees will get a chance to learn about the latest trends and innovations in the industry.