The Independent IT Influencer Event
Event: Networking Field Day 16
Appearance: KEMP Technologies Presents at Networking Field Day 16
Company: Kemp
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Personnel: Micheal Higgins
Micheal Higgins, Principal Technical Product Manager with KEMP Technologies, reviews what it takes to deliver an ADC. This includes everything from provisioning resources through starting a VM, obtaining a license, and configuring options.
Event: Networking Field Day 16
Appearance: KEMP Technologies Presents at Networking Field Day 16
Company: Kemp
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Personnel: Micheal Higgins
Micheal Higgins, Principal Technical Product Manager with KEMP Technologies, reviews how to move from legacy per-instance licensing and capacity planning models to a fabric based consumption approach built for the cloud.
Event: Networking Field Day 16
Appearance: KEMP Technologies Presents at Networking Field Day 16
Company: Kemp
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Personnel: Micheal Higgins
Micheal Higgins, Principal Technical Product Manager with KEMP Technologies, reviews how to streamline the migration of apps and their services in hybrid and multi-cloud environments with their application delivery solution.
Event: Networking Field Day 16
Appearance: KEMP Technologies Presents at Networking Field Day 16
Company: Kemp
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Personnel: Micheal Higgins
Micheal Higgins, Principal Technical Product Manager with KEMP Technologies, introduces the company’s Application Delivery Fabric to the delegates. This includes a definition of the solution and an understanding of why it’s important for modern application environments.
Event: Networking Field Day 16
Appearance: KEMP Technologies Presents at Networking Field Day 16
Company: Kemp
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Personnel: Kurt Jung
Kurt Jung, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at KEMP Technologies, introduces the company’s application delivery solutions to the delegates. The company has a range of application delivery controllers that can be deployed on virtual, cloud, and on-premise infrastructure.
Event: Networking Field Day 16
Appearance: Apstra Presents at Networking Field Day 16
Company: Apstra
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Personnel: Damien Garros
Damien Garros, Customer Enablement Engineer at Apstra, reviews managing a security zone with the company’s intent-based networking platform.
Event: Networking Field Day 16
Appearance: Apstra Presents at Networking Field Day 16
Company: Apstra
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Personnel: Damien Garros
Damien Garros, Customer Enablement Engineer at Apstra, gives the delegates a demo of how to use their intent-based networking platform from a developers role. This includes the ability to add information to a schema to include information about applications and changing configs based on those applications.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
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/
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/
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/
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.
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.
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