Ruckus Networks demonstrated the benefits of ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) initiatives in its IoT Insights platform at Mobility Field Day 9. By providing customized application-level analytics that could draw intelligence from enterprise-related IoT data, professionals could fulfill their organization’s ESG goals and support real-world uses cases. Although there are several variables and considerations to be mindful of when applying ESG initiatives, utilizing IoT devices could deliver numerous benefits like improved energy management and carbon footprint regulation. This Gestalt IT article provides more insight into Ruckus, ESG, and Mobility Field Day!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Enterprise Storage Enters a New Age
In this article on Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha describes a recent roundtable discussion from Storage Field Day that explored the latest trends in enterprise storage solutions and how the industry is evolving. The delegates discussed several key trends, such as hyperconvergence, the cloud, and artificial intelligence, that are driving innovation in the industry. Read this article to stay up-to-date on the evolving landscape of enterprise storage.
Index Engines CyberSense – Detecting Data Corruption With Maximum Accuracy
Index Engines presented CyberSense at Tech Field Day, a data integrity software that can detect and prevent data corruption with high accuracy. CyberSense uses advanced algorithms and machine learning techniques to continuously monitor and analyze data, identifying anomalies and alerting administrators to potential issues before they cause significant damage. Read more at the Gestalt IT website and watch their Tech Field Day presentation on YouTube!
Staying Ahead in the Storage Game With StorPool
Despite the proliferation of hardware and as-a-service solutions, storage is hard to get right. In this article, Sulagna Saha discusses the problems with the traditional storage model, and StorPool Storage that offers a way for companies to enjoy a high-performing storage infrastructure for industrial workloads at a lower TCO. Read her article at Gestalt IT or watch the full presentation on the Tech Field Day YouTube channel.
Consolidating Distributed Data With IBM’s Global Data Platform for AI
A solid storage architecture is the bedrock of AI/ML adoption. In this article, Sulagna Saha explores the capabilities of IBM’s Global Data Platform, a storage architecture designed for AI/ML workloads that provides a common data plane for global data access and sharing between public cloud, on-prem, and the edge sites. Read the full article on the Gestalt IT website.
Enabling Disaster Recovery With Amazon EBS Snapshots
In this article, Sulagna Saha reviews Amazon EBS Snapshots, a data protection solution that makes snapshots recoverable after a disaster. Read her article on Gestalt IT or watch the presentation on the Tech Field Day YouTube channel.
A Game-Changing Approach, New Mergers and a Disruptive Technology With Siamak Tavallaei From the CXL Consortium
In this article, Sulagna Saha talks about CXL, and the capabilities of CXL 3.0 released last year. Based on Siamak Tavallaei’s talk at the recent Tech Field Day event, the article explores CXL’s maturation, the group behind the technology, and the future of composability in datacenters. Read the article on Gestalt IT or watch the presentation on the Tech Field Day YouTube channel.
Implementing CXL With MemVerge
Sulagna Saha talks about CXL solutions, MemoryViewer and Memory Machine from the house of MemVerge. Read her article at Gestalt IT, or watch the demo of the solutions from the recent Tech Field Day event on the Tech Field Day Youtube channel.
Synthetic Network Monitoring With Kentik
Summary – Network observability aims to be a holistic measurement of the performance indicators. Kentik takes it a step further by making it proactive with synthetic testing. In this article, Sulagna Saha takes a closer look at Kentik Synthetics, a newly added capability in the Kentik Network Observability Platform that measures and improves digital experience. Read the article on Gestalt IT’s website or check out the demos on the Tech Field Day YouTube channel.
