The Independent IT Influencer Event
Event: Mobility Field Day 5
Appearance: Mist Systems Presents at Mobility Field Day 5
Company: Juniper Mist AI
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Personnel: Jeff Aaron
The combination of Mist Systems and Juniper Networks is having a huge impact on the world of wireless and wired networking. Learn how the technologies of Mist are being implemented with the reach of Juniper and see some exciting hints about what’s to come in the near future.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Zerto Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Zerto
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Personnel: Deepak Verma
Join Deepak Verma, Director of Product Strategy, to hear about Zerto’s latest announcement to support resilience for next-gen applications. Zerto’s vision is to provide IT resilience for all business applications and to do that they are adding support for containerized next-gen applications based on the Kubernetes platform. Get the latest details on Zerto for Kubernetes that takes you one step further along Zerto’s journey to cloud and cloud born applications.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Zerto Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Zerto
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Personnel: Gijsbert Janssen van Doorn
Join Gijsbert Janssen van Doorn, Zerto’s Director of Technical Marketing, for a deep dive on Zerto’s cloud journey offering customers a true multi cloud architecture. By supporting replication, failover and mobility to, from and between all of their cloud platforms, hear about new features to support IT resilience in the cloud with partners like Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Qumulo Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Qumulo
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Personnel: Tim Kresler
Tim Kresler, Director of Systems Engineering, demonstrates Qumulo in action, replicating an existing Qumulo AWS cluster to Google Cloud Platform.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Qumulo Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Qumulo
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Personnel: Molly Presley
Molly Presley, Sr. Director Global Product Marketing, presents the architecture of the Qumulo data platform. The system is built to be flash-first, hardware agnostic, API-driven, massively scalable, and simple to use. It supports a variety of access methods, including SMB, NFS, FTP, AD, LDAP, REST API, CLI, and GUI, and provides data services and a file system across a scalable block store. Presley reveals the product’s real-time analytics platform, showing performance, capacity trends, and activity across the system. Qumulo Shift enables native S3 storage placement, allowing data to scale to the cloud for native object access.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Qumulo Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Qumulo
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Personnel: Barry Russell, Molly Presley
Barry Russell, SVP and GM of Cloud, presents the cloud strategy and customer use cases for Qumulo. Qumulo’s model is to offer one differentiated solution enabling customers to manage file data across private and public clouds. The Qumulo data platform powers applications and services across a variety of use cases, and Russell focuses on a few in this presentation: Content creation, mortgage processing, IoT in manufacturing, and retail. Qumulo enables cloud workflows across private and public clouds with open APIs that can be used in a DevOps pipeline.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Infrascale Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Infrascale
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Personnel: Brian Kuhn, Chris Bayne
The Infrascale Cloud Backup (ICB) solution is fast, secure, and efficient. In this section, we’ll discuss how we achieve these tasks – as well as round out the description of the service, beyond the technical traits. We will also demonstrate the cornerstones of ICB that differentiate our endpoint backup solution. Infrascale Cloud Backup – endpoint backup and recovery—when and where you need it! Presented by Chris Bayne, Chief Solutions Architect and Brian Kuhn, Chief Operating Officer.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Infrascale Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Infrascale
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Personnel: Chris Bayne
Infrascale Cloud Backup (ICB) delivers the management tools that administrators and IT managers need. In this section we will demonstrate ICB’s management capabilities including: automated install, policy management, and security for remote workers or branch offices; the ability to meet remote servicing needs; and granular monitoring and automated reporting. Presented by Chris Bayne, Chief Solutions Architect.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Infrascale Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Infrascale
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Personnel: Chris Bayne
In this section we will demonstrate how Infrascale Cloud Backup (ICB) offers endpoint protection through IP geo-tracking for lost or stolen devices, supports Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and provides the ability to wipe lost or stolen endpoint devices. Presented by Chris Bayne, Chief Solutions Architect.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Infrascale Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Infrascale
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Personnel: Chris Bayne
The greatest existential threat for enterprise networks is ransomware. In this section we will demonstrate how Infrascale Cloud Backup (ICB) endpoint protection extends with detection and mitigation of ransomware attacks. ICB challenges the negative impacts of ransomware by preventing ransomware infection of backups, providing unlimited versioning for managing attack recovery, and securing data proactively. Presented by Chris Bayne, Chief Solutions Architect.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Infrascale Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Infrascale
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Personnel: Chris Bayne
In this section we will demonstrate how Infrascale Cloud Backup (ICB) is built for ease of end-user backup and recovery experience, including:
Presented by Chris Bayne, Chief Solutions Architect.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Infrascale Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Infrascale
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Personnel: Chris Bayne
Infrascale Cloud Backup (ICB) provides direct-to-cloud endpoint backup protection for laptops and mobile devices – as well as servers such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL databases – all in one solution. ICB also supports bare metal system backup needs on virtual and physical machines. During this section we will provide an overview of ICB as well as discuss the three simple questions that strike fear into most business professionals. Presented by Chris Bayne, Chief Solutions Architect.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Infrascale Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Infrascale
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Personnel: Brian Kuhn
Infrascale is a data protection company that provides backup and disaster recovery solution along with security and ransomware mitigation. Combining intelligent software with the power of the cloud, Infrascale removes the barriers and complexity of secure, offsite data storage for backup and disaster recovery. The Infrascale solution portfolio employs a customer-first approach and equips its customers with the confidence to handle the unexpected by providing greater availability, better security, and less downtime, when it comes to their data. Presented by Brian Kuhn, Chief Operating Officer.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Fortinet Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Fortinet
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Personnel: Ming Chiou, Philip Qian
In this session, Philip Qian gives a high-level overview of the FortiCWP solution that provides visibility, security and compliance control for your cloud workloads. Ming Chiou gives a demonstration of two use cases – detecting your public readable S3 bucket and sensitive information exposed in those buckets.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Fortinet Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Fortinet
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Personnel: Brian Schwarz, Ming Chiou
Web applications today increasingly expose APIs to the Internet, and those APIs need to be defended. In this session, Brian Schwarz and Ming Chiou will provide an overview of FortiWeb Cloud, Fortinet’s WAF-as-a-Service offering, and will demonstrate configuring API protection, including validating API Enforcing access controls based on an OpenAPI definition file using the included API Gateway to manage API users, verify API keys, control API access, and rate limits calls.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Fortinet Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Fortinet
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Personnel: Praveen Lokesh
In this session, Praveen Lokesh, Solution Architect, will give a demo of the solution that simplifies connectivity and security between workloads on multiple IaaS clouds (Public/Private) using Fortinet SDN Fabric Connector and FortiGate-VM Secure SD-WAN capabilities. The demo will also feature how the FortiGates in different locations can be managed by a centralized FortiManager and also log to a centralized FortiAnalyzer.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Fortinet Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Fortinet
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Personnel: Vinod Sundarraj
In this session, Vinod Sundarraj, Sr. Director, Cloud Security and MSSP Marketing, presents an overview of Fortinet network security capabilities and key use cases. Customers need cloud network security and Fortinet provides secure SD-WAN for the cloud with Cloud OnRamp, multi-cloud SD-WAN, remote access from the cloud, multi-cloud VPC to VPC segmentation, and cloud intrusion detection.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Fortinet Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Fortinet
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Personnel: Ali Bidabadi
In this session, Ali Bidabadi, Director of Cloud Architecture, gives an overview of Fortinet cloud security reference architectures and how they can be leveraged to build a resilient and scalable deployment in a multi-cloud environment. He will discuss various deployment models and design patterns in AWS, Azure, and GCP as well as some of the design considerations and best practices to secure Kubernetes clusters in a multi-cloud environment.
The Fortinet Cloud Solution Architecture Team designs solutions for multi-cloud deployment in the enterprise. Examples include FortiGate VM active/passive HA in public cloud, a cloud security services hub with autoscaling and AWS transit gateway, Azure virtual WAN architecture, secure segmentation and highly available web application protection, and multi-region teleworker architecture in GCP. The discussion then turns to Calico, which Fortinet uses to provide best of breed container and Kubernetes security. It enables fine-grained access control to any external endpoint and is integrated with FortiGate. Fortinet can also provide telemetry to FortiSIEM or other SIEM solutions from Kubernetes.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: Fortinet Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: Fortinet
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Personnel: Lior Cohen
In this session, Lior Cohen, Sr. Director, Cloud and SP Security, gives a high-level overview of the Fortinet Dynamic Cloud Security Strategy and Solutions outlining the importance of a multi-tier approach spanning multiple clouds, network security, application security and platform security as well as outlining Fortinet’s Unique offering.
As digital innovation and cloud adoption extends the digital attack surface, the Fortinet security fabric provides a flexible model for zero trust network access, security-driven networking, dynamic cloud security, ai-driven security operations, and overall management. Fortinet provides network security, application security, and platform security for any cloud that follows applications and data.
Event: Cloud Field Day 8
Appearance: NetApp Presents at Cloud Field Day 8
Company: NetApp
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Personnel: Dave Stump, Scott McCullough
David Stump, Director, Global GTP – SAP, and Scott McCullough, SAP Solutions Architect, discuss options for deploying SAP workloads on cloud with NetApp. NetApp and SAP have over 20 years of innovation together, with NetApp a founding member of the SAP Co-Innovation Lab. Running SAP in public cloud gives flexibility, faster deployments, ROI improvement, and security, but is challenging in many ways. NetApp tools and services can help, with NetApp CVS in Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure NetApp Files, and AFF/FAS in the datacenter. The discussion then turns to SAP HANA on Google Cloud with NetApp Cloud Volumes Service, followed by a workflow automation demo.
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