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Appearance: Cisco Cloud and Compute Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2023

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Gerard Sheehan, Shangxin Du

See how to integrate NX-OS with the open source TIG stack, to gain visibility into the state of the network, visualize the data on Grafana, and see how to troubleshoot your network.

Cisco is actively engaged in enhancing programmability, automation, visibility, and telemetry capabilities within the XOS system. Their primary focus revolves around integrating the XOS system with open-source tooling, emphasizing the utilization of APIs and telemetry overview to gather essential data. Two distinct approaches to telemetry are discussed: dial out and dial in, each offering different operational models to cater to customer needs. While the TIG stack, comprising Telegraph, InfluxDB, and Grafana, is commonly employed for visualizing telemetry data, alternative methods for constructing similar dashboards are also explored. The true value of telemetry data lies in its interpretation and its application for DevOps purposes. Use cases for dashboard and telemetry data in daily operations are highlighted, with two examples demonstrating how telemetry data can greatly aid in troubleshooting and issue isolation within a network. Additionally, Grafana, an open-source tool, can establish alerts based on thresholds and state changes, albeit with a steep learning curve for the query aspect.

Cisco Why You Need a CNAPP ASAP!

Appearance: Cisco Cloud and Compute Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2023

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Tim Szigeti

Over 750 million new cloud native applications will be developed by 2025. This astronomical rate of application development is enabled by the widespread adoption of cloud native application architectures. However, these microservice-based architectures also massively increase the attack surface and expose applications to new vulnerabilities and threats. To meet these threats, Cisco is launching a new cloud native application protection platform (introduced in the technology keynote on June 6). This session will provide details and demonstrations of this new Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) in action.

In response to the increasing complexity and distribution of applications, traditional security measures are no longer adequate in safeguarding against potential attacks. To address this challenge, a new security approach is required, one that incorporates security measures at every phase of the application development process. Cisco Panoptica recognizes the need for such an approach and has acquired Lightspin technologies to expand its capabilities in mitigating software vulnerabilities, misconfigured infrastructure, and other vulnerabilities. By identifying specific security exposures and rating risks individually, Panoptica’s tool offers remediation steps, including CLI usage. With the ability to contextualize threats and their criticality, the tool effectively filters noise, ensuring better protection against complex attacks. Panoptica emphasizes the importance of making security-conscious development choices, hardening infrastructure, securing entitlements, and continuously monitoring runtime environments. As part of their commitment to cloud-native security adoption, Cisco is providing Panoptica as a free tool for users.

Security Analytics and Cisco XDR

Appearance: Cisco Security Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2023

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Matthew Robertson

This session gives an overview of Cisco Secure Analytics and the newly introduced Cisco XDR.

The speakers provide an overview of Cisco’s Secure Analytics, focusing on their recently announced XDR product. They discuss the security operations process, emphasizing the importance of data gathering for informed security decision-making. Within Cisco’s Security Operations Center, two products are highlighted: Secure Network Analytics and XDR. Secure Network Analytics specializes in threat detection through the collection and analysis of network telemetry. Notably, the unique data processing capabilities of Secure Network Analytics enable features such as policy analytics and the TrustSec matrix for identifying potential policy violations. The product utilizes both on-the-box and cloud-based analytical engines for threat detection. XDR, on the other hand, extends network analytics by incorporating multiple data sets and integrates with other products for incident response. It is worth noting that XDR requires a separate license. Overall, the speaker emphasizes the significance of data collection and analysis in driving valuable analytical outcomes within Cisco’s security analytics offerings.

New Zero Trust Innovations Power Cisco Secure Access

Appearance: Cisco Security Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2023

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Eric Eddy, Fay Lee

Introducing Cisco’s Unified SSE solution: Cisco Secure Access! Cisco Secure Access is a cloud-delivered, unified Secure Service Edge, offering a secure internet access, private app access and more! In this session you will see how Cisco is creating a new level of security convergence including market first ZTNA innovations that provide extended value and flexibility. Cisco Secure Access provides a great user and admin experience while simplifying and lowering the cost to deploy for IT teams without compromising security.

The speakers introduce Cisco Secure Access, a comprehensive solution that incorporates DNS monitoring and Zero Trust Network Access capabilities. Emphasizing the importance of a seamless user experience, the solution is designed to detect and encrypt all types of traffic using modern protocols like Mask and Quick. They delve into the client-side architecture, explaining how traffic control is achieved at the socket level without manipulating routes. Additionally, the solution offers user enrollment with just an email address. They also discuss the process for establishing a secure connection between client devices and enterprise applications using ZTNA technology, covering device enrollment, certificate generation, and secure tunnel establishment. App connector deployment and the use of mask proxies for secure access are highlighted. They further mention the inclusion of mobile ZTNA and a partnership with Apple for the enterprise relay service, with future plans for MDM configurability in the second phase of mobile ZTNA.

Assuring Every Digital Experience with Cisco ThousandEyes

Appearance: ThousandEyes Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2023

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Alex Cruz Farmer

Watch to learn how the new ThousandEyes innovations deliver end-to-end visibility, accelerated insights, and streamlined workflows to help our customers thrive in a connected world—whether on premises, the Internet, or in the cloud.

Alex Cruz Farmer, a Product Manager at Cisco ThousandEyes, presented their Network Assurance product at Cisco Live. The talk introduced ThousandEyes and its core pillars of visibility, intelligence, and workflows. He highlighted the challenges of digital transformation, including limited visibility and control. ThousandEyes addresses these challenges by consolidating data into actionable insights and enabling efficient application management. The announcements included support for Meraki MX, high availability features in the Enterprise Agent, and pre-staging deployment options. ThousandEyes also integrates with WebEx RoomOS devices, offering instant tests and end-to-end visibility into meetings and core services. The platform provides network path visibility for individual users, streamlines installation with the Endpoint agent within the secure client, and introduces event detection to contextualize and understand the impact of outages. ThousandEyes aims to enhance its path visualization by incorporating data from AWS and expanding third-party data ingestion. Notably, ThousandEyes demonstrated its value during incidents like the Salesforce and Microsoft outages, offering administrators the ability to analyze and share detailed insights on the impact and affected regions.

Cloud-Delivered Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Networking Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2023

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Anupam Mishra

In this session, you’ll learn how Cloud-delivered Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN offers an automated solution delivery with Cisco overseeing the lifecycle management of the SD-WAN fabric, and how we provide provide rich, actionable, end-to-end insights while lowering TCO.

Anupam Mishra, the leader of product management in Cisco SD-WAN View, introduced a new deployment model called Cloud-delivered Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN. The objective of this model is to streamline the operational aspects of SD-WAN for customers by assuming the responsibility of managing the fabric to a significant extent. The Cloud-delivered option includes integrated analytics, automated software upgrades, certificate installation, and a bundled SKU for convenient ordering. While the Cloud-delivered model is not currently supported in GovCloud, Cisco plans to add support in later phases. Initially targeting enterprise customers, Cisco will expand its focus to include the MSP and federal markets. The ordering process for AWS is simplified and can be done directly, while partner involvement is necessary for ordering through Cisco Commerce Workplace. The Cloud-delivered Catalyst SD-WAN simplifies onboarding and deployment by capturing user intent during the ordering process, enabling single sign-on, and bundling the required controllers and licenses. In its initial phase, the Cloud-delivered model supports up to 1000 devices and aims to provide customers with a straightforward operational model that allows them to concentrate on their network business outcomes.

Cisco Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Data Center Networking Blueprint

Appearance: Cisco Enterprise Networking Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2023

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Nemanja Kamenica

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is part of many industries and day to day life, and it will expand in the future. This session shows how Ethernet Networks use RoCEv2 transport benefits AI/ML clusters. You’ll also see a demonstration of congestion management capabilities of Nexus switches, that will improve AI workload transports.

Nemanja Kamenica, a technical marketing engineer at Cisco, presented an AI/ML data center networking blueprint. The presentation highlighted the diverse applications of AI in various sectors such as medical research, financial services, public transport optimization, manufacturing, and retail recommendations. Kamenica discussed the two types of AI clusters: distributed training clusters and product inference clusters. The network requirements for AI training networks, including non-blocking transport, lossless Ethernet, and ROC-UV2 technology with PFC and ECN for congestion management, were outlined. A demo showcased congestion occurring when multiple hosts simultaneously sent data to a storage device, leading to congestion on a specific port. To address congestion issues, the Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller allows the configuration of QoS mechanisms such as WRED, ECN, and PFC. Proper management of bursty all-to-all communication within AI clusters is crucial to prevent congestion and mitigate potential financial losses.

Empowering Enterprise Disaster Recovery with JetStream Software and Microsoft Azure NetApp Files

Appearance: JetStream Software Presents at Cloud Field Day 17

Company: JetStream Software, NetApp

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Personnel: Prashant Desai

Prashant Desai, product manager at NetApp for Azure NetApp Files, discusses the partnership between NetApp and JetStream Software, highlighting the value it brings to customers. JetStream’s unique technology, including continuous data protection with near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs), aligns perfectly with the requirements of NetApp’s enterprise customers using Azure NetApp Files (ANF) for business-critical workloads. By integrating JetStream’s solution, customers can leverage ANF for disaster recovery from on-premises Azure VMware Solution (AVS) environments with stringent RTOs. Additionally, the solution can be used for standard DR scenarios where RTOs are not as critical. ANF’s performance tiers offer flexibility and cost optimization, allowing customers to choose the appropriate tier for continuous rehydration and adjust performance levels as needed during a DR event. This collaboration provides customers with a comprehensive DR solution within Azure, supporting AVS private clouds and minimizing infrastructure costs.

JetStream Enables DR of Virtual Machines to Microsoft Azure

Appearance: JetStream Software Presents at Cloud Field Day 17

Company: JetStream Software, Microsoft Azure

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Personnel: Justin Jakowski

JetStream DR on AVS allows failover from on-prem VMware clusters to Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution (AVS), a software-defined data center built on bespoke hardware in Azure data centers. It utilizes VMware’s vSAN for storage, NSXT for networking, and ESXi on physical servers, with management through vCenter. AVS is primarily used for cloud migration, data center extension, and disaster recovery, and JetStream Software is a critical component of DR to AVS. AVS provides performant all-flash storage with deduplication and compression. Networking is connected to Azure via an internal dedicated express route circuit, with global reach for on-premises replication. The solution offers high throughput for migration and replication, and can connect to Azure services like Azure NetApp Files through express route gateways.

Future of Databases in the World of Cloud, Edge and AI with Couchbase

Appearance: Couchbase Presents at Cloud Field Day 17

Company: Couchbase

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Personnel: Ravi Mayuram

Couchbase has reimagined the database with its fast, flexible and affordable cloud database platform Capella, allowing organizations to quickly and cost-effectively build the applications of the future and deliver premium experiences to their customers. Capella uniquely has built-in application services so developers can easily build always on and always reliable apps. With big trends like cloud, AI, edge and digital transformation all colliding, what does the future of applications look like? And how will the database have to evolve to meet the demands of next-gen apps?

In this conversation, Ravi Mayuram, the CTO of Couchbase, discusses the evolution of Couchbase from a simple key-value cache to a distributed database capable of handling transactions seamlessly. He emphasizes the need to modernize databases and consolidate multiple layers of technology to avoid data sprawl and other related issues. Couchbase’s key capability is its support for flexible JSON data without the need to define a schema upfront. It can function as a cache, key-value store, or a full-fledged SQL database with the ability to perform full-text searches on JSON. The architecture allows for multi-dimensional scaling, analytics, eventing, and distributed replication across geographies, enabling operational, analytical, and translytical use cases. Ravi also mentions the visibility and performance insights available through the administration console and REST APIs. He highlights the platform’s versatility, supporting hybrid cloud deployments and offering the same features and capabilities in both self-hosted and Capella environments. The conversation further touches upon the challenges enterprises face in managing data sources, the importance of data strategy aligning with business goals, and the data mesh concept of organizing data domains. Couchbase and Capella play a crucial role in facilitating data consolidation and serving as systems of truth in the data mesh architecture.

How to Build a Multi-Model Data Platform with Couchbase Capella DBaaS

Appearance: Couchbase Presents at Cloud Field Day 17

Company: Couchbase

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Personnel: Tom McSpiritt

Capella is a fully managed JSON document and key-value database with SQL access and built- in full-text search, eventing and analytics. It easily supports a broad range of modern application use cases with multi-model and mobile synchronization capabilities and allows customers to use the programming language of their choice. Capella’s memory-first architecture drives blazingly fast millisecond data responses at scale, resulting in best-in-class price performance of any fully managed document database. In this demo, Tom will show how fast and easy it is to spin up a multi-model data platform with Couchbase’s DBaaS, Capella.

Tom McSpiritt discusses the Couchbase Capella demo. He explains that Couchbase is a multi-model data platform offering different data access patterns through SDKs for building applications. Tom demonstrates various features of Capella, including a sample configuration, document access, index definitions, and full-text search. He also explains that Couchbase allows deployment across different cloud providers and supports regions for flexibility. Tom discusses the control plane and data plane in Couchbase, mentioning that while the control plane is hosted by Couchbase, the data plane can be deployed in the customer’s own VPC with the ability to connect through VPC peering, private links, or public endpoints. He emphasizes that each customer gets their own isolated tenancy for data storage. Tom further explores monitoring tools, SQL queries, indexes, and access settings in Capella. He addresses questions about common connect strings, IP access control, IAM authentication, and automation capabilities. Finally, Tom demonstrates the Couchbase SDKs, showing a Python example of a key-value retrieval.

Couchbase Powers Diverse Industries with Personalized Experiences and Efficient Data Management

Appearance: Couchbase Presents at Cloud Field Day 17

Company: Couchbase

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Personnel: Jeff Morris

Jeff Morris discusses the wide range of use cases for Couchbase and the benefits it provides. Couchbase is utilized in various industries such as travel, hospitality, telecommunications, retail, financial services, media, and entertainment. It offers features like JSON support, efficient account profile management, and matching dynamic catalogs. The examples mentioned include applications for inventory management, customer loyalty programs, fraud detection, streaming services, customer service improvement, rescue operations, preflight checklists, and more. Couchbase enables personalized experiences, offline-first functionality, and high-speed performance in critical activities.

Couchbase Capella Spring Release: Enhancing Modern Applications with New Features

Appearance: Couchbase Presents at Cloud Field Day 17

Company: Couchbase

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Personnel: Jeff Morris

Jeff Morris introduces National Cloud Database Day and announces the Couchbase Capella Spring Release and Couchbase Server 7.2, which introduce significant enhancements to support modern applications. The database now includes time series data support in JSON for IoT and financial applications, as well as user-defined functions for transforming and accessing data. Change data capture and cross-base optimization for JSON queries have been added, along with a multi-parallel processing analytic service that aggregates data from Couchbase and cloud storage. Additional features include memory-only buckets for caching, integrations with Netlify and Visual Studio Code, dynamic disk expansion, cluster hibernation, and improved support for cloud service providers.

Couchbase in a Cloud NoSQL Database Comparison

Appearance: Couchbase Presents at Cloud Field Day 17

Company: Couchbase

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Personnel: Jeff Morris

Organizations have a variety of NoSQL databases to choose from – and understanding the differences between them is critical when planning to deploy a NoSQL database in the cloud. Jeff Morris, VP Product Marketing at Couchbase, compares Couchbase’s award-winning Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) Couchbase Capella against top NoSQL competitors. Find out how Capella stacks up against competing DBaaS document store offerings and see why Capella stands out from the rest for ease of getting started, multicloud deployment, and price/performance – particularly as application needs grow.

Jeff Morris provides an overview of Couchbase, highlighting its key features and advantages over competitors. He emphasizes that customers primarily choose Couchbase for its performance and the flexibility of a multi-model data store. The platform supports mobile application development and helps reduce the cost of cloud operations. Morris discusses Couchbase’s memory-first design, which enables fast data processing, and its ability to scale services independently for optimal performance. He explains how Couchbase achieves active-active clustering and distributed systems through virtual buckets and application awareness. While migrating from a different database to Couchbase may require some work for developers, the portability of query languages makes the transition smoother. Morris compares Couchbase to MongoDB, highlighting Couchbase’s memory-first design, scalability, low latency, and comprehensive capabilities. He emphasizes Couchbase’s SQL++ query language, which offers powerful querying capabilities similar to relational databases. Customer surveys indicate significant cost savings and improved overall total cost of ownership (TCO) when using Couchbase. Additionally, Couchbase’s Capella database as a service further reduces costs and operational complexities. The presentation concludes by providing an overview of Couchbase’s deployment options and its autonomous operator feature, which includes self-healing and auto-scaling capabilities.

Comprehensive DPaaS for Google Cloud Services with HYCU

Company: HYCU

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Personnel: Shiva Raja, Shreesha Pai Manoor

As Google Cloud use continues to rise, the need to have all of its IaaS, PaaS, DBaaS and Collaboration services protected and recoverable in a consistent and intuitive manner has never been more critical. Shiva and Shreesha share a compelling demo on HYCU along with the continued innovations to make Google Cloud backup, recovery and its management easy, efficient and extremely affordable across all of the Google Cloud services from compute to database to business intelligence to The Marketplace.

Shiva Raja, Technical Solutions Architect, and Shreesha Pai Manoor, Vice President, Customer and Partner Solutions of HYCU, presented a solution for Google Cloud during which they discussed the broad range of services offered by Google Cloud beyond infrastructure as a service. They highlighted the need for data protection and shared customer use cases. They emphasized the automated deployment and discovery processes, as well as the ability to protect and restore data without the need for agents or manual installations. They also addressed security measures such as authentication, multi-tenancy, backup consolidation, and immutability using Google Cloud’s immutable storage. The presenters compared their solution to manual scripting, emphasizing the comprehensive coverage and ease of use provided by their product. They also mentioned the cost-effectiveness and encryption options available to customers.

Addressing Data Protection Challenge for Atlassian Users Moving from Datacenter to Cloud with HYCU

Company: HYCU

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Personnel: Andy Fernandez, Subbiah Sundaram

With more than 17,000+ SaaS apps in use across enterprises in North America today, several of the most widely deployed and in use are from Atlassian. As Atlassian users, including Jira and Confluence, look to take advantage of Atlassian Cloud, data needs to be protected and restored by a tightly integrated and enterprise-class solution. Andy shares more in a compelling demo on how HYCU is addressing the Jira Backup challenge along with making restoration in light of disruption a 1-click process.

Andy Fernandez and Subbiah Sundaram discuss the importance of protecting and restoring data within SaaS applications like JIRA. They highlighted JIRA’s significance for both HYCU and Fortune 500 companies, emphasizing its role in software release, bug management, customer experience, and revenue generation. HYCU explained that while many organizations assume SaaS applications are fully protected, it is still their responsibility to safeguard data and ensure compliance. They outlined three critical reasons for protecting data in SaaS applications: operational data loss, cyber events and outages, and compliance. The presenters then introduced HYCU’s data protection platform, Protege, which offers backup and recovery for various SaaS applications, including JIRA. They demonstrated the platform’s capabilities, such as granular restoration at the project, attachment, and subtask levels. They also mentioned that HYCU is working on expanding its integrations and aims to have 100 apps in the marketplace by the end of the year.

Modern Data Protection Starts with the Right Architectural Foundation with HYCU

Company: HYCU

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Personnel: Goran Garevski

To be able to address the challenges raised by HCI and multi-cloud adoption, data protection solutions need to be architected right from the ground up. Goran shares more on how HYCU was developed with solving not only the immediate needs of multi-cloud data protection but also effectively handling the emergence of as-a-Service and SaaS application use.

Goran Garevski, CTO and co-founder of HYCU, discusses the challenges of data protection in the era of numerous data silos and the company’s approach to simplifying and streamlining the process. The goal is to abstract the problem across different types of data sources, such as classical data centers, file systems, containers, SaaS applications, databases, and service platforms, in order to apply the same policy for efficient data protection. HYCU aims to provide central intelligence for cross-cloud data protection management and standard functionality. They emphasize the importance of abstraction on the policy level to apply it to various sources. The company also focuses on application awareness and offers a marketplace for extending the platform’s functionality. The challenges of discovering and protecting SaaS and DBaaS sources are addressed, and HYCU aims to provide users with information about the protection capabilities of SaaS services. They have developed advanced logic for identification, filtering, and automapping of SaaS instances. The platform visualizes the environment and provides a comprehensive view of data protection and compliance. Additionally, HYCU offers a RESTful API for integration and potential graph-based representation of data.

Modern Data Protection for Modern Applications and the Future of SaaS Backup with HYCU

Company: HYCU

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Personnel: Simon Taylor

HYCU was founded with the fundamental belief there is a better way to protect mission critical data across on-prem, hybrid and public clouds and with the rise of SaaS application usage in companies. Simon shares more on the history of HYCU (Hybrid Cloud Uptime), the company’s roots and what is driving technology innovation to solve the most significant challenge in recent IT history: the proliferation of SaaS application use and the lack of enterprise-class data protection options.

Simon Taylor, CEO and co-founder of HYCU, introduces the company as a modern data protection business named for hybrid cloud uptime, aiming to simplify data management. HYCU is the world’s fastest-growing backup and data protection as a service provider, with over 3,600 customers in 78 countries and $140 million in funding. They have a strong presence in the US government sector, with over 100 agencies as customers. The company boasts a world-class team and board, including industry experts and successful investors. HYCU’s goal is to solve the challenges of the data protection market, including the complexity of multi-cloud environments, the proliferation of data silos, and the lack of protection for SaaS applications. They prioritize customer success, as evidenced by their high Net Promoter Score (NPS) and their commitment to not charging for professional services. HYCU aims to provide comprehensive and unified data protection across on-premises, public cloud, and SaaS platforms. They emphasize the importance of addressing the increasing threat of ransomware attacks and the erosion of trust caused by the lack of data protection. HYCU’s extensible architecture and focus on simplifying the industry position them as a solution to these challenges.

JetStream DR in Action! Live Demonstration of JetStream DR on Microsoft Azure VMware Solution