Cisco presented the Cisco Data Center Networking Blueprint for AI/ML Applications, a detailed and instructive handbook on AI/ML network, at the recent Tech Field Day event. The document decodes the strict requirements of modern AI/ML workloads, and provides a blueprint for building a high-performing AI/ML network. Cisco’s Nexus 9000 Series switches offer high throughput, low latency, and congestion management features necessary for AI/ML applications, including RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) in network transport. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the presentation here at Tech Field Day.
Achieving a Consistent Policy Across Enterprise With Cisco Security Group Tag
A common policy across products and use cases can cut the chaos and solve the challenges of policy management in enterprises. Cisco’s Security Group Tag enables a central policy control, allowing teams to collaborate more effectively, and put up a strong front against cyber threats. Cisco’s approach to bridging policy islands through context sharing and the use of Security Group Tag (SGT) are described as effective solutions for centralized policy control, interoperability, and cost benefits. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the demo on the website.
Thwarting Malicious Cyberattacks With the New Lightspin CNAPP From Cisco
In this Gestalt IT article, Sulagna Saha discusses Cisco’s cloud security solution, Lightspin CNAPP, and its capabilities in protecting microservices applications from vulnerabilities and malicious cyberattacks. Saha highlights the complex nature of microservices applications and the need for layered security across development and runtime phases. She explains how Lightspin CNAPP, with its graph database technology and comprehensive scanning capabilities, can identify vulnerabilities, correlate events, and provide remediation recommendations. The article also mentions the recent acquisition of Lightspin Technologies by Cisco and provides a link to watch Cisco’s demo of Lightspin CNAPP.
Cisco Rolls Out Industrial Ethernet Catalyst Switches for the Most Rugged Outdoor Deployments
Outdoor industrial environments can be harsh to enterprise switching and wireless equipment that are most suited to work in controlled indoor settings. That’s why Cisco has launched a new set of weather-proof industrial ethernet switches that are built to provide speedy connectivity in the most unfriendly locations. Read about the Cisco Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series at Gestalt IT or watch the demo here at the website.
Drilling Down Into the Invisible Parts of the Network With ThousandEyes
Uninterrupted visibility is no longer a privilege, but an absolute essential in today’s digital scene. ThousandEyes eliminates obscurity, bringing transparency and observability into the most complex IT environments, thus unlocking accelerated innovation. Read about the platform’s new capabilities at Gestalt IT, or watch the presentation on the website.
Out-Of-Band Management for Day 0, Day 1 and Day 2 Operations With Opengear Smart OOB
Opengear’s Smart Out-of-Band (OOB) solution is expanding and capable of serving customers for everyday use cases instead of just emergency scenarios. Opengear initially focused on console server access and sideline OOB management, providing features like Lighthouse software that offers centralized management for all Opengear appliances and deployed resources. The company’s Smart OOB provides reliable connectivity and a management plane for deployment, automation, and troubleshooting, and their enhancement, Routed Management Fabric, creates an overlay that enables routed IP access based on industry standards for people outside the serial space. Learn more by reading this article on Gestalt IT.
Infusing Automation in EveryDay Networking Tasks With BackBox
Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live included a presentation from BackBox, which demonstrated its differentiated automation platform that simplifies day-to-day networking use cases involving upgrades, network configurations, and more. Additional features include 2300 pre-built scripts, hundreds of pre-configured automation blocks, hyperintelligent automation, and a rollback option in case of a failed update. This article from Gestalt IT goes into more detail on the BackBox solution.
Tapping Into Software Extensibility With Morpheus Data
Hybrid multi-cloud mastery no longer entails hiring certified skills, but having the right solution that can make the road less rocky. In this article, Sulagna Saha delves into the Morpheus platform’s extensibility feature, which enables users to customize the platform to suit their needs, eliminating the need to use multiple solutions. The Morpheus platform provides hybrid cloud automation enabling multi-cloud implementation in record time. Read about the platform’s extensibility feature at Gestalt IT or watch the demo on the website.
Making Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Painless With RackN Digital Rebar
RackN Digital Rebar extends the automation capabilities of Infrastructure as Code to any infrastructure making lifecycle management easy, effortless and self-driving. In this article, Sulagna Saha discusses how RackN’s Digital Rebar architecture provides a straightforward way for organizations to deploy and manage their infrastructure reliably, transparently, and repetitively, simplifying the provisioning and management of infrastructure by leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation. Watch the demo on the website or read the review at Gestalt IT.
Getting Off the Storage Refresh Treadmill With StorPool
StorPool’s storage model is distinct from traditional storage platforms as it offers storage as a service by using a massively parallel, multi-node system with shared-nothing architecture and multiple redundancy. StorPool’s platforms are designed to handle the extreme demands of modern applications as it is always on and requires no downtime for upgrades or expansion and provide data protection by triple-writing data across all storage devices within storage clusters. Additionally, it provides linear scalability of storage performance regardless of any expansion in overall capacity or peaks in performance demand by including lightweight standard servers to the existing cluster. Read more in this article on the Gestalt IT website and watch their presentation from Storage Field Day to learn more.
Preventing Attack Escalation With Real-Time Encryption Detection in the New Zerto 10
Ransomware has eluded real-time detection a long time. That is about to change. Zerto is introducing real-time encryption anomaly detection in Zerto 10. The new Zerto 10 solution reinforces its capabilities with real-time encryption detection, a cyber resilience vault, secure appliance, and protection for Azure at scale. Zerto 10’s real-time detection continuously scans and searches for signs of encryption, empowering organizations to swiftly discover and take action against ransomware threats. Read how Zerto’s new real-time capabilities enhance ransomware resilience and help contain blast radius, at Gestalt IT. Also catch the solution demo on the website.
Building Better Applications at Reduced Cost With Couchbase
At the heart of digital transformation are applications. Couchbase provides applications a multimodel database platform that is high-performing, flexible and scalable, and provides breakthrough economics. Couchbase’s multimodel database, Capella, streamlines application development by providing developers with data technology that is flexible, fast, and efficient. Capella integrates JSON databases and a multimodel system and has differentiated capabilities like query tools, analytics on active data, multi-record transactions, and geographic replication. With Capella’s granular resource scaling, developers can handle each service with the appropriate environmental resource and achieve peak performance, and by choosing Couchbase, organizations can eliminate the cost of using an assortment of databases, reduce redundancy, simplify architecture, and reduce complexity. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the demo on the website.
Integrating Native Data Protection to Any Infrastructure Codelessly With HYCU R-Cloud
Companies are facing multi-cloud and SaaS infrastructures at ever-increasing rates. While data protection is already difficult, multi-cloud compounds the complexities even further, requiring data protection services to adopt new solutions, such as HYCU Protégé and R-Cloud, that offer native and automated data protection, extensive visibility, and compliance features in all infrastructures with no additional coding. HYCU’s data protection innovation and modernization efforts aim to address companies’ struggles in safeguarding their data across multi-cloud and SaaS platforms. This article from Gestalt IT discusses the latest updates to HYCU R-Cloud, which was shown as part of Cloud Field Day 17.
DR as a Service With JetStream Software
Organizations seeking an economical and easy way for data protection and efficient disaster recovery (DR) could turn to disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). JetStream aims to provide organizations with extended data protection for both the private and public cloud to enable them to migrate to DRaaS solutions from legacy DR solutions and avoid costs that come with on-prem DR infrastructure. Thanks to its Continuous Data Protection (CDP) service, JetStream can offer minimal downtime, low recovery point objectives (RPO), and recovery time objectives (RTO). JetStream achieves this by leveraging cloud object storage that is economically viable and has both on-demand and reserved instances where compute/storage can be paid for as needed, instead of having to predict capacity. Read about the solution at Gestalt IT or catch the demo on the website.
Cisco Wireless and a Common Management Strategy With Meraki Dashboard
The Meraki Dashboard provides Cisco with high levels of observability into its clients’ networks, giving the company access to data from 12 million online Meraki devices. Designed to be as automated as possible, the platform can perform sophisticated comparisons and assist in making predictive analyses while allowing the company to troubleshoot numerous networking issues easily. With its new business unit, Cisco Wireless, Cisco is focused on having a common management strategy, allowing it to deliver a more comprehensive and seamless experience across the Meraki and Catalyst wireless platforms. Read about the transition of the Meraki Dashboard through the years at Gestalt IT or watch the demo on the website.
Overcoming the Uncomfortable Aspects of Network Identity Management With Arista Networks’ CloudVision AGNI
Arista Networks presented its AI-driven NAC solution CloudVision AGNI at Mobility Field Day, hoping to achieve its potential for zero-trust security. AGNI expands Arista’s flagship CloudVision solution with features such as secure onboarding, dynamic access control, and AI-driven policy enforcement, among others. Built from scratch in the cloud, the solution embodies modern cloud-first principles, and it has a modern microservices architecture that delivers elastic scalability from tens to thousands of devices in a few clicks, self-service style onboarding for wireless with single sign-on (SSO), and reduced average deployment time from weeks to hours. Read more in this article by Sulagna Saha, and watch the entire presentation on the Tech Field Day website!
Elevating the Zoom Experience With Juniper Networks’ Marvis
Juniper Networks has updated its AI assistant, Marvis, to include Zoom data and ChatGPT to improve its ability to respond to complex networking queries. Marvis combines AI, ML, and data science to expedite operations and optimize user experience. The AI-powered predictive observability offered by Marvis allows users to solve technical errors efficiently, as AI algorithms are trained on billions of datasets, enabling them to magnify nuances long before a problem becomes an anomaly that affects the user experience. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the demo on the website.
Fortinet Takes on Even Bigger Challenges With FortiAIOps V2.0
The world has moved on from training humans to code to teaching computers to do it themselves. Fortinet’s FortiAIOps v2.0 is a fine specimen of that. Powered by more advanced AI, the new version of FortiAIOps offers broad monitoring capabilities, deep analytics, and sophisticated troubleshooting tools. Read about it on Gestalt IT or watch the demo on the website.
Analyzing Wi-Fi on Site With NetAlly CyberScope
As technology advances, network security for modern architectures must prioritize their legacy applications to support endless use cases while accommodating more dispersed and transitory users than ever with BYOD, utility management, digital signage, and the continuous expansion of new devices joining the network. NetAlly’s CyberScope offers sophisticated deep dive capabilities into device attributes, unauthorized endpoint discovery and easy-to-spot errors and failures allowing technicians to locate and analyze Wi-Fi site assessments on one all-in-one portable analyzer. Network managers can use CyberScope’s visibility to perform real-time security analysis, enabling them to stay updated and manage the network in a more efficient and secure manner with total visibility of the system. Read about it on Gestalt IT or watch NetAlly’s presentation of the solution on the website.
Adopting Private 5G in Industrial Environments With Celona 5G LAN
Celona showcased its 5G LAN at Mobility Field Day, designed to address industry needs for consistent network coverage in outdoor areas and extended spaces. Private 5G LAN provides the bandwidth, low latency, and speed for rapid compute processes that employees on factory floors need. Celona’s private 5G LAN provides industrial-strength connectivity for noisy, rugged outdoor areas as well as indoor spaces, making it the wireless solution of choice for all kinds of use cases. Read about it on Gestalt IT, or watch the demo here at Tech Field Day.
