Intent-Based Networking Introduction with Sasha Ratkovic of Apstra

Event: Networking Field Day 16

Appearance: Apstra Presents at Networking Field Day 16

Company: Apstra

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Personnel: Sasha Ratkovic

Sasha Ratkovic, CTO and Founder of Apstra, spends this session cutting through the hype around intent-based networking. Sasha narrowly defines what Apstra means by intent. This isn’t simply a “correct” abstraction layer or a configuration management scheme. He outlines how intent is based on the outcome of automating the complete networking service lifecycle.


Apstra Automating Network Intent with Derick Winkworth

Event: Networking Field Day 16

Appearance: Apstra Presents at Networking Field Day 16

Company: Apstra

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Personnel: Derick Winkworth

Derick Winkworth, Bit Wrangling Telepath and Beard Achiever at Apstra, gives an overview how developers can use the Apstra Operating System as a platform for building their own intent-based networking applications. These are the people implementing how the network gets automated. Derick further goes on to outline how networking is all in our heads, the intention is a mental goal. All documentation does is help indicate what this intention was. Apstra differentiates itself by capturing that intent inside of a data store.


Arista Networks Routing Architecture Transformations with Russell Kelly

Event: Networking Field Day 16

Appearance: Arista Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 16

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Russell Kelly

Russell Kelly, Technical Marketing Engineer, gives an overview of how Arista is positioned to attack the routing space, with a combination of silicon and programability. This is informed by a transformation in routing architecture based around cloud principles that have driven transformation in most other enterprise infrastructure already. He then gives an overview of the scalability of their approach with FlexRoute.


Arista Networks Automation and Telemetry with Ryan Madsen

Event: Networking Field Day 16

Appearance: Arista Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 16

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Ryan Madsen

Ryan Madsen, Manager Software Engineering, begins this session why explaining why Arista entered into the crowded monitoring market. This was a response based on the customer need to obtain comprehensive state from boxes in real time. This leads into an overview of their answer, CloudVision Telemetry. He then reviews how the system operates in a live demo.


Arista EOS Programmability with Ken Duda

Event: Networking Field Day 16

Appearance: Arista Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 16

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Ken Duda

Ken Duda, Founder, CTO and SVP Software and Engineering at Arista, has worked in networking for decades, but is a programmer at heart. He reviews the how the EOS architecture is different from other switches, starting from it’s simplified single binary image. This allows for standardization across an entire environment. This is enhanced by their state oriented approach, which allows for off-box programmability. All of this is backed by a commitment to “true” Linux with an off the shelf Linux distribution.


Andy Bechtolsheim on the 400 Gigabit Landscape

Event: Networking Field Day 16

Appearance: Arista Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 16

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Andy Bechtolsheim

Andy Bechtolsheim, Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman at Arista, reviews how Arista is preparing for the 400 Gigabit future. While 100G Ethernet is gaining ascendency now, by 2021 he sees the 400G port numbers reaching parity with 100G Ethernet. The optics for this will be powered by 100G per lane, as defined by the 100G Lambda MSA consortium. He further reviews how this standard will allow for more seamless transition to 400G than the standards proposed by the IEEE.

Bechtolsheim highlights the rapid growth of 100 Gigabit Ethernet, which is expected to continue its ascendancy until 2021 when 400 Gigabit ports will start to reach parity. He explains that the transition to 400G will be facilitated by the 100G per lane standard defined by the 100G Lambda MSA consortium, which Arista is a part of. This standard is seen as more efficient and forward-compatible compared to the IEEE’s proposals, which have been slower to finalize and less practical in terms of implementation.

Bechtolsheim also discusses the technical intricacies and market dynamics of Ethernet and optical lane speeds, emphasizing the importance of lower power consumption and cost-effectiveness in driving adoption. He outlines the progression from 25G lanes to 50G and eventually to 100G lanes, noting that the latter will become the dominant standard due to its efficiency. The presentation also touches on the challenges and solutions related to form factors, such as the OSFP and QSFP-DD, and the importance of forward and backward compatibility in optical modules. Bechtolsheim concludes by stressing the economic drivers behind the rapid adoption of new standards and the potential future limitations of electrical lane speeds, hinting at a possible transition to photonics as a long-term solution.


Arista Introduction and Overview with Anshul Sadana

Event: Networking Field Day 16

Appearance: Arista Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 16

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Anshul Sadana

Anshul Sadana, SVP and Chief Customer Officer at Arista, updates the delegates on the state of Arista. The company has evolved from Leaf-Spine designs for data center networking and now has moved into spine interconnects between data centers. He also discusses the companies move into supporting IP storage, spine routing, cloud peering, and security monitoring.


Veriflow Automated Intent Inference Demo with Sajid Awan

Event: Networking Field Day 16

Appearance: Veriflow Presents at Networking Field Day 16

Company: Veriflow

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Personnel: Sajid Awan

Sajid Awan, VP Worldwide Ops at Veriflow, gives a demonstration of the Veriflow predictive platform. This includes visualizing the physical and functional network topology, continuous verification of service availability to protect against failure, and validation of proper segmentation of network services and users. This is done in their UI, which allows for easily understood maps, with powerful search and automated policy checks.

Watch the entire Veriflow Systems presentation at Networking Field Day 16 here: https://www.veriflow.net/sept-13-launch-video/


Veriflow Software Architecture with Brighten Godfrey

Event: Networking Field Day 16

Appearance: Veriflow Presents at Networking Field Day 16

Company: Veriflow

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Personnel: Brighten Godfrey

Brighten Godfrey, Co-Founder and CTO at Veriflow, reviews the software architecture behind the company’s formal network verification. The solution is set up via a collector VM on-site, which connects to network devices to get the data plane state. This information is handed off to Veriflow’s Verification Engine, which builds the predictive model of all possible network traffic.

Watch the entire Veriflow Systems presentation at Networking Field Day 16 here: https://www.veriflow.net/sept-13-launch-video/


Veriflow Continuous Network Verification with Brighten Godfrey

Event: Networking Field Day 16

Appearance: Veriflow Presents at Networking Field Day 16

Company: Veriflow

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Personnel: Brighten Godfrey

Brighten Godfrey, Co-Founder and CTO at Veriflow, reviews the company’s Continuous Network Verification technology. This models the complete data flow behavior of the network. This includes every possible packet, with every possible combination of header bits, along every possible path through the network. This predictive model is built without needing to observe live traffic.

Watch the entire Veriflow Systems presentation at Networking Field Day 16 here: https://www.veriflow.net/sept-13-launch-video/


Veriflow Company Overview with James Brear

Event: Networking Field Day 16

Appearance: Veriflow Presents at Networking Field Day 16

Company: Veriflow

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Personnel: James Brear

James Brear, CEO at Veriflow, introduces how Veriflow brought formal verification to network infrastructure with original research work back in 2011. The company predicts outages and vulnerabilities before they impact business operations. This allows IT teams to operate secure and resilient networks, without being reactive based on monitored network flows.

Watch the entire Veriflow Systems presentation at Networking Field Day 16 here: https://www.veriflow.net/sept-13-launch-video/


NetApp Enterprise Scale Hyperconverged Infrastructure with Gabriel Chapman

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Appearance: NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Gabriel Chapman

Gabriel Chapman, Senior Manager with NetApp HCI, presents NetApp’s recent entry into the hyperconverged infrastructure market. He starts by outlining the challenges of HCI, which sits at the inflection point between traditional infrastructure and the cloud. He then discusses how the first generation of HCI made trade offs to be feasible. This then leads into a discussion of NetApps particular HCI architecture, which leverages SolidFire storage nodes and NetApp designed compute nodes to run VMware ESXi hosts. This serves as the basis for serving both integrated data services and NetApp’s Data Fabric services.


Pluribus Networks VMware Integrations with Alessandro Barbieri

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Appearance: Pluribus Networks Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Company: Pluribus Networks

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Personnel: Alessandro Barbieri

Alessandro Barbieri, Vice President of Product Management at Pluribus Networks, reviews the company’s new integrations with VMware. This includes discovery and provisioning of ESXi hosts, integration of endpoint metadata housed in their Cloud Fabric which allows for advanced policy configuration, and exploration of host to VM analytics. These integrations not only include vCenter, but NSX as well.


Pluribus Networks Netvisor OS and Adaptive Cloud Fabric with Steven Shalita

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Appearance: Pluribus Networks Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Company: Pluribus Networks

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Personnel: Steven Shalita

Steven Shalita, Vice President of Marketing at Pluribus Networks, reviews the fundamentals of the Netvisor OS and the Adaptive Cloud Fabric architecture that differentiates their solutions. Their OS is based on a controller-less distributed architecture designed to scale without specific protocol requirements. He further goes over the automation and programmability of Netvisor, including a look at their network visibility offerings.


Pluribus Networks History and Overview with Steven Shalita

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Appearance: Pluribus Networks Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Company: Pluribus Networks

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Personnel: Steven Shalita

Steven Shalita, Vice President of Marketing at Pluribus Networks, gives a technological overview of their solutions. This includes a look at the history behind the development of the Netvisor, and the company’s history with initial OEM relationships that allowed them develop and harden their technology rapidly. This business focus on OEMs allowed them to mature their technology before pursuing a commercial market with enterprises.


Druva Cloud Platform Demo with Bhaskar Sirohi

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Appearance: Druva Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Company: Druva

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Personnel: Bhaskar Sirohi

Bhaskar Sirohi, Director of Western US Field Engineering with Druva, demonstrates the Druva Cloud Platform for the delegates. This starts from the Phoenix console web UI, which gives you an overview of system performance, snapshots, VMs, and data restore volume. They further walk through the restore experience, which supports vCenter integration. Hot, warm, and cold snapshot restores are supported, with hot snapshots restored from a local cloud cache, and the other tiers from the cloud.


Druva Cloud Platform Introduction with Jesse Kachapis

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Appearance: Druva Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Company: Druva

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Personnel: Jesse Kachapis

Jesse Kachapis, Senior Pre-Sales Engineer at Druva, introduces the delegates to the company’s Cloud Platform. This is primary based around their hybrid cloud data protection solution, which allows organizations to move legacy backup infrastructure off-site. This runs in AWS and supports tiering among their various storage offerings. On top of this, Druva offers additional services like dedicated cloud disaster recovery.


Kingston DCP1000 Overview with Cameron Crandall

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Appearance: Kingston Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Company: Kingston

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Personnel: Cameron Crandall

Cameron Crandall, Senior Technology Manager at Kingston, gives an overview of the Kingston DCP1000, their high performance NVMe drive targeted at data center applications. The drive supports up to 3.2TB with ECC data protection, and offers 1.25 million read IOPS with 7GB/second bandwidth.


Kingston Rise of NVMe with Rich Kanadjian

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Appearance: Kingston Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Company: Kingston

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Personnel: Rich Kanadjian

Rich Kanadjian, Technical Business Development Manager at Kingston, reviews the company’s history with SSDs. From initially partnering with Intel on the first enterprise SSDs, the company is now producing NVMe drives. Rich reviews why NVMe less about hardware, and more about a simpler driver for an OS. Previous SATA protocols has over 120 commands, while NVMe has only 13 essential commands. Rich further introduces the delegates to Kingston’s enterprise NVMe solutions.


Kingston Introduction with David Leong

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Appearance: Kingston Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Company: Kingston

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Personnel: David Leong

David Leong, PR Manager at Kingston Technologies, gives the delegates a brief overview of the history of the company, and their business outside of the enterprise SSD market.


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