Accelerate Multi-Cloud Migration with VMware Tanzu Transformer

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: VMware

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Personnel: Dattathreya Sathyamurthy Hassan

VMware Tanzu Transformer, presented by Dattathreya Sathyamurthy Hassan, is a powerful solution designed to streamline and optimize multi-cloud migrations and transformations. It provides organizations with a structured and systematic approach to managing application migrations across different cloud environments. This tool plays a pivotal role in addressing the challenges that arise when dealing with migration to multiple cloud platforms, offering expert guidance and solutions at every step of the multi-cloud journey. Tanzu Transformer emphasizes a measured and reliable approach to avoid the potential chaos associated with managing migrations to complex multi-cloud ecosystems. With its capabilities in discovery, assessment, planning, application grouping, traffic analysis, and cost analysis, Tanzu Transformer equips organizations to make informed decisions and navigate the multi-cloud migration landscape effectively. Its commitment to ongoing enhancements, such as user-friendly file-based discovery, makes it a valuable asset for organizations embarking on multi-cloud migration journeys.


Optimize Modern Applications with VMware Tanzu Intelligence Services

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: VMware

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Personnel: Rachna Srivastava

Rachna Srivastava, Director of Product Marketing, emphasizes how Tanzu Intelligence Services proactively optimize cost, performance, and security of applications across clouds with integrated ML/AI capabilities. In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, where software agility and the swift deployment of applications are paramount, the focus is on app modernization and migration strategies, a priority for CIOs seeking to remain competitive and achieve significant outcomes. Technologies like Kubernetes, open source, and multi-cloud are pivotal in this transformation, but they present unique challenges, including reducing developer cognitive load, ensuring security and compliance, and minimizing downtime during scaling. To address these issues, VMware advocates a closed-loop optimization approach, which VMware’s Tanzu platform supports by offering a comprehensive solution that enhances the developer experience, security, and infrastructure. Tanzu Intelligence Services supplements this by providing tools for cloud migration, security and policy enforcement, application observability, and cost management, all aimed at supporting customers in their application modernization journey, promoting continuous governance and improvement, and accelerating application delivery across various cloud environments.


Reduce Cloud Egress Costs Using Prosimo Multi-Cloud Networking

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Prosimo Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Prosimo

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Personnel: Faraz Siddiqui, Gaurav Thakur, Mani Ganesan

This session delves into achieving crucial cost visibility in the cloud, spanning cloud accounts, resources, bandwidth, and applications. Explore methods for implementing a chargeback model tailored to business units, factoring in apps, accounts, and shared services like firewalls. Assess the efficiency of your cloud network resources, particularly in terms of compute optimization within a spokeless architecture. Learn about the most cost-effective strategies for optimizing traffic paths in cloud-native environments, ensuring both performance and budgetary efficiency.


Reduce MTTR for Cloud Networks with a Prosimo Multi-Cloud Networking Blueprint

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Prosimo Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Prosimo

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Personnel: Faraz Siddiqui, Gaurav Thakur, Mani Ganesan

Join us to explore the challenges of troubleshooting network-related issues across different cloud service providers. Discover how basic connectivity tests, like pings, PCAPs, and route tracing, can be needlessly complex. Understand the multitude of factors that impact connectivity and the intricacies of interconnecting various components within the cloud. Learn how Prosimo avoids the 20+ steps typically required to troubleshoot even the simplest connectivity problems between workloads connected via an AWS Transit Gateway. Gain insights into simplifying network troubleshooting in multi-cloud environments.


A Cloud-Native Approach to Solve Overlapping IP and Insert a Firewall with Prosimo

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Prosimo Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Prosimo

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Personnel: Faraz Siddiqui, Gaurav Thakur, Mani Ganesan

Join us in exploring the common challenge of overlapping CIDRs that network engineers encounter throughout their careers. Traditionally, these issues were addressed using routing techniques like VRFs and tunneling, often leading to complex L3-heavy architectures. However, the shift to the cloud presents an opportunity for a more tailored approach. Learn how to connect applications and services to partner accounts without delving into the underlying networking intricacies, benefiting from a cloud-native perspective. Discover how Prosimo use the Cloud native ‘Private Links’ to offer a seamless means of connecting core applications to multi-cloud partner accounts while enhancing security through a robust policy engine, all without the need for route advertisements or compromising security.


Ensure a Secure Multi-Cloud Network with a Prosimo Multi-Cloud Networking Blueprint

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Prosimo Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Prosimo

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Personnel: Faraz Siddiqui, Gaurav Thakur, Mani Ganesan

In this session, discover strategies for routing filtered traffic to NGFW security services or virtual appliances for deep inspection. Learn how to maintain VRF aware segmentation from DC to the cloud, Explore the power of leveraging location-based policies to ensure compliance and meet regional data locality requirements. Gain insights into achieving efficient network security and segmentation in complex cloud environments.


Build Cloud Connectivity with a Prosimo Multi-Cloud Networking Blueprint

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Prosimo Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Prosimo

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Personnel: Faraz Siddiqui, Gaurav Thakur, Mani Ganesan

Learn how to abstract the complexities of configuring Multi-Cloud Transit, operationalize and orchestrate cloud-native resources, and handle dynamically changing IPs effortlessly. Discover streamlined connection requests and workflows by easily attaching applications to networks. Explore the practicality of establishing workflows to attach multiple VPCs to TGW and Prosimo across hundreds of accounts at scale.


Solve Discovery of Cloud Assets with a Prosimo Multi-Cloud Networking Blueprint

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Prosimo Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Prosimo

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Personnel: Faraz Siddiqui, Gaurav Thakur, Mani Ganesan

This session explores the seamless discovery of cloud resources, including VPCs, networks, and applications. Attendees will learn how to access a comprehensive catalog of existing connectivity and gain insights into routing information from all VPCs and VNETs within their cloud infrastructure. Discover effective methods for enhancing visibility and understanding the network landscape in the cloud environment.


How Prosimo Solves Multi-Cloud Networking Challenges with a Cloud-Native Blueprint

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Prosimo Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Prosimo

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Personnel: Faraz Siddiqui, Gaurav Thakur, Mani Ganesan

Prosimo delves into key technical challenges faced by a customer, including, handling dynamic IP address changes for PaaS, Infrastructure apps and Serverless, addressing obseravability issues, orchestrating and operationalizing cloud-native gateway attachments, route propagation, and steering filtered traffic using service insertion with Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs). The session also highlights strategies for inserting encryption, segmentation and security, offering valuable insights for tackling these complexities in a large scale network infrastructure. Overcoming these challenges resulted in a Multi-cloud Networking architecture that was scaleable and reduced this customers time to value along with reducing cloud usage bills by 50%+.


Prosimo in 10 Minutes: Enabling Highly Elastic, Secure Multi-Cloud Networking Infrastructure

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Prosimo Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Prosimo

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Personnel: Mani Ganesan

The Head of Product introduces Prosimo in this presentation and outlines key challenges faced by enterprises to operationalize their multi and hybrid cloud architecture and showcase how to solve the top challenges for Connecting to and within Clouds. See how Prosimo is simplify multicloud infrastructure for large enterprises. This Full Stack Multi-Cloud Networking stack combines cloud networking, performance, security, observability, and cost management—all powered by data insights and machine learning models with autonomous cloud networking to reduce complexity and risk.


Cloud-Native Chip Evolution with AMD

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: AMD Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: AMD

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Personnel: Robert Hormuth

Robert Hormuth, VP Architecture and Strategy, Data Center Solutions Group at AMD, presents the transformative impact of cloud-native principles on chip design. Cloud-native, emphasizing scalability, flexibility, and rapid application development, is influencing chip design to meet the unique requirements of containerized and virtualized applications. This shift requires understanding the challenges posed by elevated I/O latency and memory fluctuations. Data Processing Units (DPUs) play a crucial role by offloading intensive I/O tasks, increasing tenant instances, reducing CPU usage, and enhancing control and security. AMD’s chiplet-based design aligns with cloud-native principles, offering a cost-effective, modular, and standards-compliant solution. Overall, this presentation underscores the pivotal role of DPUs and chiplet designs in enabling a cloud-native approach that benefits both on-prem and hybrid cloud environments.


Understand and Optimize Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Events with the Mezmo Telemetry Pipeline

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Introducing Mezmo at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Mezmo

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Personnel: Braxton Johnston

In this demo presentation by Mezmo, you will learn steps DevOps, SREs, and Platform Engineers can take to understand their telemetry data, optimize it for usage in observability platforms, and make enterprises more responsive. The session will demonstrate data profiling to identify patterns for repetitive and redundant data, separating signal from noise, and dynamic pipelines for real-time response. It will show steps to optimize logs and events for consumption by downstream observability platforms like DataDog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk. You’ll learn how pipelines can help lower observability costs, improve response times, provide business insights, improve security and compliance, and maximize the investment in your current observability tools. Presented by Braxton Johnston.


Mezmo – Delivering Telemetry Data Understanding and Optimization for Cost Effective Observability

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Introducing Mezmo at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Mezmo

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Personnel: Tucker Callaway

Managing telemetry data (logs, metrics, events, traces) has been an uphill task in the face of increasing volumes and decreasing budgets. SRE, Platform Engineering, and DevOps teams struggle to understand what is in the data, and to control data volumes to keep enterprise systems running for desired performance and service delivery.  This session discusses how Mezmo telemetry pipelines help understand telemetry data, transform and enrich it, and finally route the right data in the right format to any observability platform for cost control, business insights, and faster incident response. Presented by Tucker Callaway.


How to be a Data Center Analytics Superhero with Juniper Apstra

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Juniper Networks Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Juniper Networks

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Personnel: Kyle Baxter, Rajeev Menon Kadekuzhi

Dive into how you can enhance Apstra’s extensive pre-built Intent- Based Analytics (IBA) with custom collectors and dashboards. During the demonstration, you will learn how to collect valuable data, enrich it with knowledge from the vast Apstra graph database, and create new visualizations plus custom alerts to provide better insights and information about your data centers or AI clusters. Presented by Kyle Baxter and Rajeev Menon Kadekuzhi.


Automating AI Cluster Design with Juniper Apstra

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Juniper Networks Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Juniper Networks

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Personnel: James Kelly

This demo shows how to “terraform apply” to effectively import many AI cluster design examples into Apstra. Designs include many sizes of clusters, GPU compute fabrics for model training, storage fabrics, and management fabrics. The logical rack types follow the NVIDIA best practice for rail-optimized design which is explained with the topology of eight leaf devices in a stripe grouping. Presented by James Kelly.


Cloud Style On Premises Networking with Juniper Apstra

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Juniper Networks Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Juniper Networks

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Personnel: Chris Marget

This session shows how data center (DC) operators can achieve public cloud-like service consumption on premises by using Apstra and Terraform to automate end-to- end application creation. Through a sample app deployment, it shows how Juniper’s Terraform provider fits traditionally complex network services, like EVPN, neatly into a predefined application automation. Learn how Apstra with the Terraform Provider for Apstra allows application owners to self-serve network services in a familiar way, providing seamless deployments across any infrastructure. Presented by Chris Marget.


Private Data Center as Easy as Cloud with Juniper Apstra

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Juniper Networks Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Juniper Networks

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Personnel: Mansour Karam

The evolution of the internet over the last 20 years led Juniper Apstra to an operations- first approach to transform the data center network. This drove us to invent “intent- based networking”, which has helped our customers manage their private data centers as easy as cloud. More recently, advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have presented challenges, but Juniper is well-positioned to help customers navigate these new opportunities in AI infrastructure and AIOps. Presented by Mansour Karam.


StorMagic Edge Control Live Demo

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Stuart Campbell

In this video, you’ll see Edge Control working in a live environment managing 10 sites which have 20 VSAs running. We’ll show how easy it is to view overall status in the dashboard and to click down into each VSA for more detailed information and which management functions are available right from Edge Control, eliminating the need to use multiple tools.


StorMagic Edge Control Overview

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Bruce Kornfeld

In this video, you’ll see an overview of StorMagic’s cloud-based, SaaS management tool for SvSAN. Edge Control enables customers to easily monitor and manage all of their edge sites in any part of the world, all from one browser. This version 1.0 is available to all StorMagic customers free of charge.


Falling Down a LLM Rabbit Hole with Ben Young

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Ignite Edge Field Day 2

Company: Ignite

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Personnel: Ben Young

In this Edge Field Day Delegate Ignite Talk, Ben Young shares his journey into building a chatbot web interface, with a specific focus on creating a chatbot for the Veeam knowledge base articles using OpenAI models. Along the way, he delves into the concept of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and the challenges of relying solely on large language models, such as limited access to private data and high retraining costs. To overcome these challenges, Young emphasizes the importance of understanding the chatbot’s inner workings, from document retrieval to interpretation and answer generation. He describes the process of building the knowledge base dataset and the API, highlighting the role of embeddings in matching queries to relevant information within the database. Young also explores different options for data storage, including vector databases and traditional databases with vector support, while noting the use of tools like Superbase and Langchain to manage queries and interactions with the data. Ultimately, he underscores the power of language models like Vani GPT in providing accurate and targeted responses, emphasizing the significance of crafting effective queries and prompts for optimal results.