Versa Networks Tightens Up Security in Hybrid Multi-Cloud With Versa SASE

Security in a hybrid multi-cloud environment comes with its fair share of complexities and pain points. Luckily, writing for Gestalt It, Sulagna Saha discusses that the way to move past those is to have SASE in place. At this past Security Field Day, Versa Networks presented their SASE product that irons out the differences in security policies of multiple platforms while ensuring ironclad security and compliance for the users. Take a look here at Sulagna’s thought!


Multi-Cloud Doesn’t Have to Be an Erector Set Approach

Looking for an approach to Autonomous Multi-Cloud Networking? Writing for Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha discusses Prosimo ‘s presentation that outlined the underlying challenges of multi-cloud networking and how their approach helps overcome them at November’s Cloud Field Day. Check out Sulagnas’s thoughts here!


Arista Lines Up Merchant Silicon-Based Routing Products for Service Provider Networks

There is a big debate among industry insiders about who comes on top between merchant and custom silicon. Writing for Gestalt It, Sulagna Saha discusses the presentation from Arista at this past Networking Field Day: Service Provider and how their merchant silicon-based routing products settle the debate in favor of merchant silicon. Check out Sulagna’s thoughts on this inexpensive pricing for service network providers!


Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning With Cisco’s New Implementation on IOS XR

Security is critical to any network, especially when it involves Zero-Touch Provisioning. Writing for Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha discusses why secure device onboarding is a must to maintain a fully secure network. Luckily, Cisco brought an implementation on its IOS XR to the very first Networking Field Day: Service Provider this past December! Check out Sulagna’s thoughts on how this function will bolster security in ZTP workflows!


A Step Towards Ethical Facial Recognition With Oosto

With ethicality always being in question with facial recognition, it’s interesting to see that Oosto, formerly known as Anyvison, is working alongside Intel to mitigate the concerns of the users through ethical policies and bending to legal restrictions while bringing people solutions that are both intelligent and effective. Writing for Gestalt It, Sulagna Saha discusses Oosta’s demonstration on their new technology at this past Security Field Day! Check out Sulagna’s thoughts on their clever facial recognition solutions here!


Juniper Networks Is Simplifying Container Migration With Contrail

Juniper Networks presented a new approach to centralizing, automating, and ensuring security, load-balancing and migratability of architectures across cloud providers as well as within the corporate datacenter at this past Cloud Field Day! Writing for Gestalt IT, Matt Leib addresses the challenges presented by migrating containers, and the progress Juniper Networks has made in that direction through the release of Contrail software. Check out Matt’s thought here!


Threat Hunting for Exploits With Cisco

In the realm of enterprise security, it’s important to think about what threats are out there. Writing for Gestalt IT, Tom Hollingsworth explains the framework that Cisco has put in place during their presentation at the latest Security Field Day. He discusses why you should dedicate a part of your bandwidth to this kind of threat so that it can reap benefits beyond your wildest dreams! Check out Tom’s thoughts about Cisco’s presentation here!


Security Effectiveness Reaches New Heights With Juniper Security Director Cloud

At the latest Security Field Day, Juniper Networks presented on a solution to secure access with promises to make enforcement of ironclad security at the user end simple, easy, and effective. Writing for Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha discusses the uncomplicated interface of the new Juniper Security Director Cloud. Check out her thoughts on this impressively efficienct high security platform.


A Service Provider Network Is Not Your Enterprise Network

Join Gestalt IT’s, Tom Hollingsworth as he brings on Nick Buraglio, Chris Cummings, and Vince Schuele, a panel of service provider networking experts, for the latest On-Premise IT RoundTable. They will be dissecting the differences between the traditional enterprise network and a service provider or transit network. Find out the ultimate goals of your infrastructure and who the customer is for a service provider network.


Get Ready for Networking Field Day: Service Provider!

We’re right at the end of 2021, but we couldn’t let it go without a special new event! The first ever Networking Field Day: Service Provider has finally arrived. This event has been requested by the community and the presenters for a few years and we wanted to make sure to do it right. Check out the presentations from DriveNets, Cisco and Arista here!


Securing 5G and IoT With Betacom

Did you hear the big announcement from AWS re:Invent 2021? I’m sure you are all as excited as Tom Hollingsworth is for Amazon Private 5G services. Writing for Gestalt IT, Tom discusses how Betacom, a presenting company at this past Security Field Day, can help support and solve the newly enabled 5G systems from Amazon in the near future. Check out Tom’s thoughts here!


Solving the Multi-Cloud Puzzle With Prosimo

Looking for a solution to the challenges of multi-cloud with a modern approach and the balance you need? Writing for Gestalt IT, Tom Hollingsworth discusses Prosimo’s new AXI platform that was previously presented at November’s Cloud Field Day. AXI provides the transit that you need for your application to be multi-cloud enabled. Check out more from Tom and Prosimo here!


Tending Your Security Garden With Swimlane

Writing for Gestalt IT, Tom Hollingsworth gives us a deep dive into the security space problems Swimlane is solving with their new low-code approach, SOAR. This Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response platform is frequently used in security space to talk about engines that take information from alerts being triggered across the enterprise and formulating responses to them. Check out more on Tom’s take from Swimlane’s presentation, on SOAR, at October’s Security Field Day.


Cloud Field Day Returns November 3-5, 2021

It’s that time of year again. Cloud Field Day returns to Silicon Valley from November 3 through November 5, 2021.


Hybrid Cloud Automation With Cisco Nexus Dashboard

In today’s IT environments, which are often decentralized due to increasing hybridization, having a top-down view over your entire organization from a single solution seems like a pipedream. Zach DeMeyer, writing for Gestalt IT, discusses the new solution to hybrid cloud automation that Cisco presented at this past Networking Field Day. Check out Zach’s post for more information!


The Cloud Is Finally Ready for the Enterprise

The question of cloud readiness has plagued the enterprise for a decade, but we have finally gotten to the point that enterprise IT is coming to the public cloud. Check out the latest On-Premise IT Roundtable where two Field Day delegates, Jim Jones and Nico Stein, and founder of Gestalt IT, Stephen Foskett, discuss the cloud enterprise and the upcoming Cloud Field Day in November.


Kentik: Bringing Observability to the Modern Network

How can today’s IT departments keep up with their massively expanding networks? Kentik offers a solution by way of network observability through their product portfolio, which they presented during September’s Networking Field Day event. Read this post for further insights into their presentation.


Focusing on a Secure Future at Security Field Day 6

Did you miss the live Security Field Day event this October? Writing for Gestalt IT, Tom Hollingsworth lays out what to expect from the presenting companies. Each day was jam packed with topics like DNS security, NetSecOps, 5G space, SASE and so much more. It’s something you sure don’t want to miss out on! Read here for more!


Meet Field Day Delegate – Vince Schuele

We are excited to welcome Vince Schuele as a delegate at the upcoming Networking Field Day: Service Provider event in December! Learn more about Vince here!


How Riverbed Helps IT Bridge the Visibility Gap

Riverbed’s end-to-end network visibility solution is sure to reduce time spent troubleshooting remote work issues, and as a result, improve the experience of both IT staff and end users — internally and externally. Writing for Gestalt IT, Zach DeMeyer discusses how Riverbed closes the IT visibility gap during their demoed presentations at this past Networking Field Day. Read for more here!