Collaboration Patterns for Network Infrastructure as Code with HashiCorp Terraform Cloud

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: HashiCorp Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: HashiCorp

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Personnel: Rosemary Wang

Rosemary Wang dives into patterns for collaborating on network as code using Terraform Cloud. Wang shows how to modularize, test, and secure networks as code and empower teams to correctly and safely configure the network across an organization.


HashiCorp Terraform for Network Infrastructure as Code

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: HashiCorp Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: HashiCorp

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Personnel: Rosemary Wang

Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that integrates with a variety of platforms, providers, and clouds. In this presentation, Rosemary Wang introduces Terraform and applies it to network use cases.


Standardize Infrastructure Automation with HashiCorp Terraform

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: HashiCorp Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: HashiCorp

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Personnel: Melar Chen

HashiCorp enables the cloud operating model with infrastructure automation to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. Terraform is the standard for infrastructure automation to provision and manage cloud, network, on-premises, and SaaS.


CIS Compliance with BackBox

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: BackBox Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: BackBox

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Personnel: Josh Stephens, Perry Greenwood

In this session, we’ll cover how to use BackBox to validate CIS compliance and automatically remediate areas of concern.


Automated Upgrades with BackBox

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: BackBox Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: BackBox

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Personnel: Josh Stephens, Perry Greenwood

In this session, we’ll discuss using BackBox for automating firewall and network device upgrades.


BackBox Programmability with Perry Greenwood

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: BackBox Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: BackBox

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Personnel: Josh Stephens, Perry Greenwood

In this session, we’ll discuss the BackBox API, common integrations, and use cases.


Introduction to BackBox with Josh Stephens

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: BackBox Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: BackBox

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Personnel: Josh Stephens, Perry Greenwood

Since this is BackBox’s first appearance at Networking Field Day, we’ll start with an introduction to BackBox. We’ll discuss the company’s history, our vision for the future, and our approach to network and security device automation.


How Itential Helps NetDevOps Teams to Expose and Deliver Self-Service Network Automations

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Itential

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Personnel: Rich Martin

Expanding the use of trusted automations to end-users and platforms is key for delivering self-service networking.

In this session, Rich Martin, Director of Technical Marketing at Itential, will demonstrate how the Itential Automation Platform can take automations that are created and tested by the NetDevOps team, and safely and securely expose them so they can execute in a variety of ways, from self-service catalogs to CI/CD pipelines.


How Itential Helps NetDevOps to Enhance their Ability to Test & Validate Network Automations

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Itential

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Personnel: Joksan Flores

NetDevOps teams must ensure that every automation is validated and tested before production deployments.

In this session, Joksan Flores, Senior Solutions Engineer at Itential, will demonstrate how NetDevOps teams can take advantage of the features in the Itential Automation Platform that provide testing, validation, and verification before changes are introduced into the network.


How Itential Helps NetDevOps Teams to Build Automations Efficiently

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Itential

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Personnel: Dan Sullivan

For NetDevOps teams, building automations is a foundational process.

In this session, Dan Sullivan, Principal Solutions Engineer at Itential, will demonstrate how the Itential Automation Platform can help NetDevOps teams quickly and easily build new automations for orchestrating across hybrid cloud infrastructure.


How Itential Helps NetDevOps Teams to Integrate Network Automations with their Entire Ecosystem

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Itential

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Personnel: Rich Martin

Integrations are the building blocks of a successful automation strategy, yet integrating with various IT and network systems can be challenging.

In this session, Rich Martin, Director of Technical Marketing at Itential, will demonstrate how the Itential Automation Platform simplifies integrations and transforms data into normalized data for NetDevOps teams.


Itential Network Automation for NetDevOps Teams

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Itential

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Personnel: Chris Wade

NetDevOps is about applying DevOps principles to NetOps teams, evolving how we operate networks and infrastructure.

In this presentation, Chris Wade, CTO & Co-Founder at Itential, introduces how Itential bridges the gap between NetOps and DevOps teams and how the Itential Automation Platform is enabling NetDevOps teams to integrate, build, test, and deploy network automations to be used as a self-service platform for your organization.


Kentik Container Network Observability

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Kentik Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Kentik

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Personnel: Justin Ryburn

Justin Ryburn describes the complexities of managing the network in a modern Kubernetes deployment and how Kentik can provide observability. Leveraging eBPF technology allows Network Engineers the ability to visual and make sense of the network traffic within the Kubernetes cluster as well as traffic entering and leaving the cluster. Justin wraps up with a brief demo of Kentik’s beta Kentik Kube functionality.


Kentik Is Your Cloud Provider Executing a Network Maintenance? Yes, Yes They Are

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Kentik Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Kentik

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Personnel: Ted Turner

What happens to your apps when your cloud provider executes network or application maintenances? With Kentik we are seeing changes in paths that correlate to service outages for teams like “Sales”. Cloud providers always execute maintenances, to ensure longevity of hardware, security and cost containment. You rely on the cloud providers to reduce your staffing needs and maintain all the back end. When your teams are impacted, Kentik can help show what paths your applications are using today when things are working well, as well as when the network paths change and the application performance tank


Data-Driven Network Observability with Kentik

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Kentik Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Kentik

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Personnel: Phil Gervasi

The network may be the last thing most people think about, but it’s one of the most crucial components of application delivery. In this presentation, we’ll discuss the importance of a data-driven approach to network observability. We’ll unpack how Kentik’s approach to machine learning, big data, and a unified data repository can help network operations solve problems faster to ensure a reliable network with great application performance.


Kentik Network Observability Across the Enterprise

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Kentik Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Kentik

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Personnel: Justin Ryburn

Justin Ryburn describes the complexities of managing a modern enterprise network and the various areas that Kentik can provide observability. Having all of this information in a single platform that is easy to access and highly-scalable provides a lot of value to Kentik customers. Justin wraps up with a discussion of Kentik’s roadmap for the future.


IBM Storage Scale for Data and AI – Solutions and Demonstration

Event: Storage Field Day 25

Appearance: IBM Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 25

Company: IBM

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Personnel: Chris Maestas


Making Hybrid Cloud a Reality with IBM Storage Fusion

Event: Storage Field Day 25

Appearance: IBM Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 25

Company: IBM

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Personnel: Dave McDonnell


IBM Storage Scale – A Global Data Platform for Unstructured Data

Event: Storage Field Day 25

Appearance: IBM Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 25

Company: IBM

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Personnel: Matt Geiser


Introduction to IBM Storage for Unstructured Data and AI

Event: Storage Field Day 25

Appearance: IBM Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 25

Company: IBM

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Personnel: Doug McGuire