Scale Computing SCRIBE Architecture Overview with Phil White

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Appearance: Scale Computing Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Scale Computing

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Personnel: Phil White

Phil White, CTO at Scale Computing, gives an overview of the SCRIBE architecture, their software-defined block storage for VMs to address. This pools together the blocks in a cluster and makes them available with data services. This includes thin provisioning, dedupe, snapshots, and tiering.


Scale Computng Company Overview, History, and Target Markets with Jeff Ready

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Scale Computing Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Scale Computing

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Personnel: Jeff Ready

Jeff Ready, CEO and Co-Founder of Scale Computing, introduces the company to the delegates. The company’s HC3 hyperconverged infrastructure solution has provided an alternative path to virtualization since it launched in 2012. The company tries to provide HCI to organizations with a focus on simplicity, scalability, and performance.


Ixia Container Visibility with Kris Raney

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Ixia Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Ixia

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Personnel: Kris Raney

Kris Raney, Distinguished Engineer at Ixia, gives an overview how CloudLens approaches getting visibility into traffic to and from containers. Containers add another level of complexity on top of just location. Kris overviews how Docker handles namespaces with containers, and goes into the details of Docker’s networking that makes gaining visibility vital to security for your organization.


Securing Networks Through End-To-End Visibility with Ixia with Recep Ozdag

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Ixia Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Ixia

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Personnel: Recep Ozdag

Recep Ozdag, VP of Product Management at Ixia, goes into details of the company’s visibility solutions. They entered this market with key acquisitions in 2016 by launching VisionOne flagship. This has grown to include CloudLens for cloud visibility, Active SSL for MITM monitoring, and most recently multi-cloud support.


Ixia CloudLens: Visibility Across Multiple Cloud Provider Platforms with Sushil Srinivasan

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Ixia Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Ixia

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Personnel: Sushil Srinivasan

Sushil Srinivasan, Senior Product Manager at Ixia, discusses their solution for getting visibility across multiple cloud environments. CloudLens provides end-to-end insight that removes visibility blind spots by bridging packet level visibility to physical, virtiual, and cloud environments. This platform can be deployed as a pure SaaS offering, a container, or an agent running on your hardware.


Ixia Active SSL: Encryption, The Dual-Edge Sword with Scott Register

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Ixia Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Ixia

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Personnel: Scott Register

Scott Register, VP of Product Management at Ixia, Cloud & Security, discusses best practices for monitoring SSL traffic to gain visibility into network traffic. He reviews the challenges that encryption sessions cause for network security, the pros and cons of using static keys, and forthcoming changes to SSL. He then introduces Ixia’s Visibility Application Module as part of their Active SSL visibility solution.


Introducing Ixia, a Keysight Business with Recep Ozdag

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Ixia Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Ixia

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Personnel: Recep Ozdag

Recep Ozdag, VP of Product Management at Ixia, reintroduces the company to the delegates in light of their recent acquisition by Keysight. He gives an overview of the company’s portfolio, and how they align with industry trends in moving to the cloud. Through their testing and visibility solutions, the company has situated itself to provide solutions across the network lifecycle.


Skyport Systems: Cloud Killed the Firewall with Dan Backman

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Skyport Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Skyport Systems

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Personnel: Dan Backman

Dan Backman, Director Technical Marketing with Skyport Systems, reviews a demo of a new Skyport rack server arriving at a remote site. This includes a look at how a customer can establish that the system is secure at the time it arrives. Skyport establishes unique identity on a hardware level to ensure the box that’s arrived is yours. Dan walks through the UI and how the system is designed to be both simple and secure.


Skyport Systems: There Is No Branch with Rob Rodgers

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Skyport Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Skyport Systems

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Personnel: Rob Rodgers

Rob Rodgers, Co-Founder and Chief Architect at Skyport Systems, discusses their ideas on remote branches, and how these differ from the traditional compute sense. Remote branches have considerable compute capabilities, and communicate via the network back to a home office. These are more akin to micro data centers and they approach securing them as such. This feeds into their overall message of simplifying management to better increase security.


Skyport SkySecure for Critical Systems with Dan Backman

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Skyport Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Skyport Systems

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Personnel: Dan Backman

Dan Backman, Director Technical Marketing at Skyport Systems, reviews some of the use cases for their solution. This includes how Skyport can be used to build critical IT infrastructure, and mitigate ransomware threats. This bucks the trend of virtualizing everything and trying to treat all apps the same. Skyport maintains that some apps need to be handled fundamentally differently to ensure security.


Skyport SkySecure Architecture with Will Eatherton

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Skyport Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Skyport Systems

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Personnel: Will Eatherton

Will Eatherton, Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Skyport Systems, introduces how their cloud managed infrastructure is able to operationalize security for organizations. Their SaaS offering includes rack mounted x86 system and utilizes a software programmable flow processor via PCIe. This provides flow managed, analytics and policy enforcement, while provides the architectural isolation for many of their management services. Running on this is their SkySecure OS, with applications on top.


How to Build a Datacenter with Skyport Systems with Nils Swart

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Skyport Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Skyport Systems

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Personnel: Nils Swart

Nils Swart, Head of Product at Skyport Systems, introduces the company’s entirely cloud managed on-premises virtualization platform. Nils explains that cloud will probably win the bulk of current data center workloads, but they’re designed a secure solution for the ground up for those that must stay on-premises. They’re designed to introduce a simple architecture while not sacrificing security.


Advanced Cisco IOS XR Programmability: Service-Layer APIs with Akshat Sharma

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Akshat Sharma

Cisco says their IOS XR APIs expose these underlying resources to the user in an easily accessible way. They review the service-layer APIs, which go below the lay of the control plane to interact with the underlying architecture. The core focus is the applications running in their data centers, these APIs give customers an easy way to manage their network plumbing in a consistent and scalable way.


Advanced Cisco IOS XR Programmability: Model-Driven Manageability with Santiago Alvarez

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Santiago Alvarez

Cisco says their programmability stack allows for model-driven management features built into IOS XR. This is reviewed and includes a look at the standard YANG models used to define the models.


Cisco ACI Multi-Site with Max Ardica

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Max Ardica

Cisco says ACI has expanded capacity for multi-site support. To situate this, they review the history of ACI, from a single site/single pod architecture, to a stretch fabric, multiple networks in a single availability zone. Now in ACI 3.0, organizations are able to create multiple availability zones with a single region, and set multi-region policies. This allows for the same level of policy control, but spreads fault domains between sites.


Kubernetes and Cisco ACI with Andres Vega

Event: Tech Field Day 15

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day 15

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Andres Vega

Cisco says Kubernetes and their application centric infrastructure allows them to provide enterprise level solutions while leveraging bleeding edge hyperscale technology. For Kubernetes specifically, ACI allows organizations to easily bootstrap deployment platforms. ACI unifies networking for Kubernetes and provides visibility into containers.


Cisco Intersight Security

Event: Networking Field Day 16

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day 16

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Sebastien Rosset

Security features of Cisco Intersight and the security process utilized to support Intersight are discussed. Intersight is a new hosted management platform for Cisco UCS and Hyperflex. As complexities of managing compute and HyperConverged infrastructure within and across the data center and remote sites has grown, the limitations of traditional management solutions have pushed additional burden on datacenter administrators. This session will review security features of Project Starship and walk through the embedded protections associated with this hosted management platform.


Cisco Intersight Architecture – Cisco UCS and HyperFlex on a Hosted Management Platform

Event: Networking Field Day 16

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day 16

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Sebastien Rosset

Cisco Intersight is a new hosted management platform for Cisco UCS and Hyperflex, and in this session we review the architecture behind Intersight. As complexities of managing compute and HyperConverged infrastructure within and across the data center and remote sites has grown, the limitations of traditional management solutions have pushed additional burden on datacenter administrators. Intersight (previously known as Project Starship) frees admins from the care and feeding associated with management software, while at the same time providing insights not available with legacy solutions.


Cisco Intersight Overview on Managing UCS and HyperFlex

Event: Networking Field Day 16

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day 16

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Jeff Foster

This quick overview of Cisco Intersight (aka Project Starship) walks through the evolution of UCS Management and how Cisco is taking the next steps in managing UCS.


SNIA Emerald Green Storage Program with Wayne A. Adams

Event: Storage Field Day Exclusive at Storage Developer Conference

Appearance: SNIA Presents at Storage Field Day Exclusive at Storage Developer Conference

Company: SNIA

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Personnel: Wayne A. Adams

Wayne A. Adams, Green Storage Initiative Chair with SNIA, introduces the project to the delegates. Since 2008, SNIA has been working on energy efficiency in the data center. This includes the development of the SNIA Emerald Specification, which is a building block for both SNIA and other organizations to compare efficiency in a uniform method across the industry.