cPacket Network Observability at the Enterprise Core

Event: Networking Field Day 35

Appearance: cPacket Presents at Networking Field Day 35

Company: cPacket

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Personnel: Ron Nevo

cPacket provides the leading tools for the enterprise core, where every single transaction matters. The enterprise core is built on 100Gbps networks from multiple vendors, running hundreds of business applications, thousands of servers, and tens of thousands of clients, with connectivity to multiple datacenters, colos, partners, and customers, around the world. Network engineers in these environments count on cPacket to root-cause issues quickly to keep the networks resilient with minimal MTTR. To resolve problems of connectivity, latency, quality in these environments by answering the 4Ws: What, When, Where and Why, network engineers count on cPacket’s products to translate trillions of packets into metrics that can be visualized to understand the network issues.


cPacket Electronic Trading Network and Microburst Analytics

Event: Networking Field Day 35

Appearance: cPacket Presents at Networking Field Day 35

Company: cPacket

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Personnel: Ron Nevo

cPacket products inspect more than 50% of the world trading volume in equities and foreign exchange. Electronic trading systems must deliver lossless packet-data over IP multicast network with ultra low latency that is measured in nanoseconds. With these constraints the networks are sensitive to microbursts. NetOps teams count on the capabilities of cPacket’s packet-brokering and packet-delivery products to root-cause and resolve issues in their networks where nanoseconds accuracy and milliseconds resolution matters.


cPacket Company Journey with Ron Nevo

Event: Networking Field Day 35

Appearance: cPacket Presents at Networking Field Day 35

Company: cPacket

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Personnel: Ron Nevo

Learn how cPacket has focused on network observability and specialized environments such as electronic trading and AI inferencing. Understand how cPacket is providing critical information about connectivity, latency, and quality to decision makers in these areas to optimize performance and reduce complexity and costs to provide better outcomes for the business.


cPacket Company Introduction with Mark Grodzinsky

Event: Networking Field Day 35

Appearance: cPacket Presents at Networking Field Day 35

Company: cPacket

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Personnel: Mark Grodzinsky

cPacket’s evolution and journey from fabless ASIC company from Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to a leading network observability solution based on packet-data with a product portfolio that includes packet-brokering and delivery, packet-capture, packet-analytics and AI for Network Observability, empowering the NetOps teams of the most demanding enterprises.


Intel Demo: AI Inference on Intel IPUs

Event: Networking Field Day 35

Appearance: Intel Presents at Networking Field Day 35

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Cody McCain

See a demo on how Intel’s IPUs can be used to enhance AI inference. See how east/west load balancing can be expedited through IPU technology and can enhance HA needs for AI workloads.


Intel Demo: IPU Cloud Native Use Case

Event: Networking Field Day 35

Appearance: Intel Presents at Networking Field Day 35

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Cody McCain

See a demo on how Intel’s IPU can be used in a cloud native use case. Watch Intel IPUs running on RHEL 9.4 and Red Hat OpenShift accelerate workloads and optimize communications for chaining network functions.


Intel Reliable Transport of Lossy Fabrics with Falcon

Event: Networking Field Day 35

Appearance: Intel Presents at Networking Field Day 35

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Yadong Li

Learn how Falcon provides a reliable and low latency hardware transport for RDMA messages and NVMe commands in cloud scale lossy fabrics. Also learn how Falcon meets the requirements of critical workloads, HPC, AI/ML, and storage networking.


Optimizing Cloud Workloads with Intel Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs)

Event: Networking Field Day 35

Appearance: Intel Presents at Networking Field Day 35

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Thomas Scheibe

Learn how Intel is using Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) to optimize cloud workloads and how IPU deployments add value with ISVs, Comms Service Providers, and others. See the design of the Intel IPU and learn more about the growing ecosystem of partners that are enabling the technology to advance AI workloads and more.


Hedgehog Under the Hood: VPCs, QoS, and the Future

Event: Networking Field Day 35

Appearance: Hedgehog Presents at Networking Field Day 35

Company: Hedgehog

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Personnel: Mike Dvorkin, Sergei Lukianov

In this video, see a demonstration using the Hedgehog API for a day’s work. They get under the hood with an inspection API to show how Hedgehog implements multi-tenant isolation, and proves that it works. Included are discussions specifically around VPCs, quality of service (QoS) considerations, and future plans for the platform and features that will be included in upcoming milestones.


Hedgehog Technology Overview and Underlay Details

Event: Networking Field Day 35

Appearance: Hedgehog Presents at Networking Field Day 35

Company: Hedgehog

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Personnel: Mike Dvorkin, Sergei Lukianov

Follow along as Hedgehog describes a day in the life of a user. Mike will describe provisioning isolated tenants with Hedgehog Virtual Private Cloud services, peering VPCs internally, and peering VPCs externally. Also included is a demonstration of the provisioning capabilities for users that are implementing Hedgehog features for various workloads.


Hedgehog Company Overview and Customer Journey

Event: Networking Field Day 35

Appearance: Hedgehog Presents at Networking Field Day 35

Company: Hedgehog

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Personnel: Marc Austin

In this session, learn about Hedgehog’s ideal customer profile. Hedgehog is designed for cloud operations teams who grew up with AWS, but don’t have the same network certifications as the NFD delegate panel. See how Hedgehog is bridging the gap between on-prem networking and cloud concepts while also reducing overall costs through standard industry platforms.


Aruba Atmosphere 2024 Delegate Roundtable

Event: Networking Field Day Exclusive at HPE Discover

Appearance: HPE Aruba Networking Presents at HPE Discover 2024

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

Join the Networking Field Day Exclusive delegates at HPE Discover and Aruba Atmosphere as they discuss the latest technologies announced during the event. This video includes discussions around Aruba Central, Wi-Fi 7, and AI. The delegates debate the accuracy of collected data and the best ways to utilize this information for planning deployments and rollouts. They also look at new hardware features and prognosticate about the future of wireless in the enterprise.


AI Networking innovations with Next-generation HPE Aruba Networking Central

Event: Networking Field Day Exclusive at HPE Discover

Appearance: HPE Aruba Networking Presents at HPE Discover 2024

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Jose Tellado, Seelan Manavalan

Join us for an exclusive, in-depth view of next-gen Central AI/ML innovations that provide unparalleled insights and help augment resource-strapped teams. HPE Aruba Networking Product Management and AI Data Science leadership walk you through several advancements such as generative AI/LLM applications, ML-driven IoT security, AI-powered optimization recommendations, application observability, baselining of network KPIs and more. Also included is a demo and interactive Q&A.


Wi-Fi 7 in the Real World with HPE Aruba Networking

Event: Networking Field Day Exclusive at HPE Discover

Appearance: HPE Aruba Networking Presents at HPE Discover 2024

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Josh Schmelzle, Madani Adjali, Sachin Ganu

Get the inside scoop on HPE Aruba Networking ‘s Wi-Fi deployment here at Discover and hear learnings of our journey enabling 6 GHz in a 2.4/5 GHz world. Learn how HPE Aruba Networking delivers more than just Wi-Fi connectivity with our new Wi-Fi 7 AP – up to 30% more channel flexibility with patented Ultra tri-band Filtering, sub-1 meter precision self-locationing, zero trust security to the edge, and doubling down on IoT integration.


HPE Aruba Networking Comprehensive Security for All Network Devices

Event: Networking Field Day Exclusive at HPE Discover

Appearance: HPE Aruba Networking Presents at HPE Discover 2024

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Ram Krishnan, Scott Koster, Yash Nagaraju

Explore how HPE Aruba Networking delivers robust defense mechanisms against cyber threats across the entire network for unmanaged and managed devices, including IoT. Discover how HPE Aruba Networking CX switching solutions include built-in Zero Trust capabilities with AI-powered visibility, application-based policy, and micro-segmentation. Experience seamless protection enabled by SD-WAN augmented with SWG (Secure Web Gateway), shielding all network devices and accelerating SASE adoption.


Oxide Computer Company Console Demo and VM Provisioning

Event: Cloud Field Day 20

Appearance: Oxide Computer Company Presents at Cloud Field Day 20

Company: Oxide Computer Company

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Personnel: Travis Haymore

Travis demonstrates the Oxide console and deploys multiple virtual machines (utilizing Terraform). He covers silos, images, projects, and instances as well.

Travis Haymore from Oxide Computer Company presented a detailed demonstration of their console and virtual machine (VM) provisioning capabilities during Cloud Field Day 20. He began by providing an overview of their co-location environment, specifically highlighting a rack deployed in the CoreSite data center in Milpitas. This rack serves multiple purposes, including internal use, customer demos, and evaluations. Haymore introduced the concept of “silos” as a means of achieving multi-tenancy, where resources such as CPU, memory, and storage are logically and cryptographically separated. Each silo has a distinct API endpoint, ensuring a clear demarcation between different users or customers.

In his demo, Haymore showcased the process of creating and managing projects within a silo. Projects act as logical containers for different efforts within an organization, allowing for varied configurations and user privileges. He demonstrated how to create a new project, manage instances, disks, snapshots, and images, and configure virtual private clouds (VPCs) and floating IPs. Using the UI, he provisioned a VM by selecting the necessary resources and an operating system image, in this case, Ubuntu. He emphasized the ease of passing SSH keys via Cloud-Init for immediate access to the instances, which is particularly useful for teams needing quick and secure access.

Haymore also touched on more advanced configurations, such as attaching external storage and managing network interfaces. He highlighted the flexibility of the system, noting that while many customers prefer using the API, CLI, or Terraform provider for automation, the UI remains a useful tool for less sophisticated users. The demo concluded with an example of using Terraform to automate the provisioning of multiple instances, demonstrating the system’s responsiveness and ease of use. Haymore also discussed the future potential for expanding storage and memory within the rack, and the possibility of integrating different hardware profiles to meet specific needs, emphasizing Oxide’s commitment to flexibility and scalability in their cloud computing solutions.


Oxide Cloud Computer Customer Use Cases

Event: Cloud Field Day 20

Appearance: Oxide Computer Company Presents at Cloud Field Day 20

Company: Oxide Computer Company

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Personnel: Steve Tuck

Steve Tuck discusses some of Oxide’s key customer segments, across federal, financial, and cloud SaaS players.

Steve Tuck, co-founder and CEO of Oxide Computer Company, presented at Cloud Field Day 20, focusing on the diverse customer segments that are leveraging Oxide’s solutions. These segments include federal agencies, financial services, and cloud SaaS companies, each with unique needs and challenges. For instance, federal agencies are undergoing initiatives like the Digital First Public Experience, which aims to digitize a significant portion of government documents. These agencies often deal with on-premises IT infrastructures, and the introduction of Oxide’s cloud computing appliances has allowed them to streamline operations significantly. For example, tasks that once took months can now be accomplished in hours, leading to increased efficiency and effectiveness in handling projects.

In the federal space, Oxide’s solutions have been particularly transformative. One federal agency shared an anecdote about how their highly skilled security engineers were spending 60% of their time on tasks like VMware license management and BIOS updates instead of focusing on critical security projects. By deploying Oxide’s appliances, these engineers could redirect their efforts towards more impactful work, thereby increasing the agency’s overall productivity. The deployment process itself has been straightforward, with Oxide racks integrating seamlessly into existing environments and providing enhanced telemetry and visibility. This has been especially beneficial for networking teams, who can now quickly identify and resolve issues, leading to a smoother and more efficient operation.

Cloud SaaS companies and financial services firms are also finding significant value in Oxide’s offerings. For cloud SaaS companies, the ability to extend their platforms beyond the public cloud to reach more data and provide better performance has been a game-changer. For example, an e-commerce company using Oxide’s solutions can reduce latency and improve customer experience by deploying their platform closer to customer assets. Similarly, financial services firms are moving away from DIY infrastructure to focus on building financial products, leveraging Oxide’s API-driven, cloud-like operations to simplify their IT environments. Overall, Oxide’s solutions are enabling these organizations to achieve greater efficiency, transparency, and performance, making it an attractive option across various industries.


What Does Oxide Value Mean to Oxide Computer Company?

Event: Cloud Field Day 20

Appearance: Oxide Computer Company Presents at Cloud Field Day 20

Company: Oxide Computer Company

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Personnel: Bryan Cantrill

Oxide offers the values that hyperscaler infrastructure offers, but on prem. This is in sharp contrast to existing on prem solutions, which is cobbled commodity infrastructure from disparate vendors – a result of market capture, not innovation. By codesigning like the hyperscalers, Oxide offers a rack-scale system it takes complete responsibility for – a system that is robustly supportable/debuggable, and open-source.

Oxide Computer Company, co-founded by Bryan Cantrill, aims to deliver the robust infrastructure benefits of hyperscalers but for on-premises environments. Unlike traditional on-prem solutions that rely on pieced-together components from various vendors, Oxide’s approach involves a holistic co-design of hardware and software, similar to hyperscalers like Google and Amazon. This co-design allows Oxide to offer a rack-scale system that is highly supportable, debuggable, and built on open-source principles. Cantrill emphasizes that this integrated approach solves many of the inefficiencies and complexities that have historically plagued on-prem systems, which often require significant manual intervention and suffer from poor inter-vendor integration.

Reflecting on the evolution of computing infrastructure, Cantrill notes that the initial on-prem era required extensive manual setup and maintenance. The rise of cloud computing in the mid-2000s, facilitated by advancements in internet ubiquity, open-source software, and commodity hardware, allowed hyperscalers to innovate rapidly. However, this led to a divide where only hyperscalers could leverage modern, efficient infrastructure, leaving traditional on-prem systems outdated and inefficient. Oxide aims to bridge this gap by offering on-prem solutions that bring the same level of efficiency and innovation found in hyperscaler environments, but with the added benefits of ownership, compliance, and localized control.

Oxide’s unique value proposition lies in its ability to offer a fully integrated system where both hardware and software are designed to work seamlessly together. This integration not only enhances performance and reliability but also simplifies support and troubleshooting. Cantrill highlights that Oxide’s commitment to transparency, open-source development, and deep partnerships with suppliers enables them to solve complex supply chain issues and deliver a resilient product. By focusing on engineering rigor and first principles, Oxide ensures that their systems are not only high-performing but also highly supportable, providing a delightful customer experience. This approach allows Oxide to meet the needs of enterprises that require the flexibility and control of on-prem solutions without sacrificing the innovations and efficiencies of modern cloud infrastructure.


What is the Oxide Cloud Computer?

Event: Cloud Field Day 20

Appearance: Oxide Computer Company Presents at Cloud Field Day 20

Company: Oxide Computer Company

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Personnel: Steve Tuck

The Oxide Cloud Computer is a vertically integrated platform built at rack-scale for efficiency and operational benefits, with a control plane for elasticity and multi-tenancy, and with networking built in.

The Oxide Cloud Computer is a vertically integrated platform designed to bring the efficiencies and operational benefits of hyperscale cloud infrastructure to on-premises environments. Unlike traditional enterprise IT setups, which require piecing together hardware from various vendors and dealing with integration and maintenance complexities, Oxide offers a rack-scale solution that integrates hardware, software, and networking from the ground up. This approach is inspired by the design principles of cloud hyperscalers, who have moved away from the “kit car” approach of assembling individual servers and instead build at the rack level for better density, energy efficiency, and operational simplicity.

A key feature of the Oxide Cloud Computer is its focus on an API-first mentality, which simplifies automation and management tasks. By building their own switch and incorporating a fully programmable network stack using P4, Oxide ensures that the entire system is optimized for performance and observability. This allows for advanced features like delay-driven multipath routing, which constantly optimizes packet paths based on real-time latency data. Furthermore, the system’s hardware and software are co-designed to work seamlessly together, enabling capabilities such as dynamic power orchestration and power capping, which are crucial for managing energy efficiency and addressing power constraints in data centers.

The Oxide Cloud Computer also emphasizes ease of use and scalability. The system features blind-mate server sleds that can be easily added or replaced without the need for complex cabling, reducing the time and effort required to scale up capacity. This design allows for quick deployment and minimizes downtime, enabling developers to be productive within hours of installation. Additionally, the platform includes an elastic storage service and a set of networking and security services akin to those found in public clouds, providing a familiar and powerful environment for developers. By offering a CapEx model with a support subscription for updates and maintenance, Oxide aims to deliver a cost-effective and long-lasting solution for on-premises cloud computing.


Who is Oxide Computer Company?

Event: Cloud Field Day 20

Appearance: Oxide Computer Company Presents at Cloud Field Day 20

Company: Oxide Computer Company

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Personnel: Steve Tuck

The Oxide founders experienced the challenges of managing on prem cloud infrastructure firsthand – their pains alchemized into Oxide. The team consists of leading technologists specialized across the stack (from companies like Sun, Meta, Amazon, Google, etc.).

Oxide Computer Company was founded in 2019 by Steve Tuck and Bryan Cantrill, who previously worked together at Joyent, a cloud computing company. Their mission is to bring the benefits of cloud computing architecture, such as elastic infrastructure services and API-driven automation, to on-premises environments. They believe that cloud computing should not be limited to public clouds but should be ubiquitous, available to enterprises that still maintain significant IT infrastructure outside the public cloud. The founders’ experience at companies like Dell and Sun Microsystems informed their understanding of the challenges and inefficiencies in the current market, leading them to create a solution that integrates hardware and software into a unified product.

The team at Oxide is composed of top-tier technologists from various leading companies such as Sun, Meta, Amazon, and Google, covering the entire stack from hardware to software. This diverse expertise allows Oxide to take a holistic approach to designing their cloud computer, ensuring that every layer is optimized and integrated seamlessly. The company has embraced a remote-first model, which has enabled them to attract talent from around the world, including experts from the GE medical team and other specialized fields. This diverse and highly skilled team is the nucleus of Oxide, driving their ambitious goal of revolutionizing on-premises cloud computing.

Oxide’s focus is on the large enterprise and cloud SaaS markets, with significant interest from the federal sector and financial services. These sectors require the automation and developer tooling provided by cloud-native architectures but need to maintain control over their data and applications due to security, latency, and regulatory requirements. Oxide’s transparent approach, including sharing their software on GitHub and discussing their journey on the “Oxide and Friends” podcast, reflects their commitment to openness and innovation. Their partnerships with key suppliers, like Sanyo Denki, have enabled them to co-design high-efficiency systems, further enhancing their products’ performance and reliability.


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