Generative DevOps Powering the 10x Operator with RackN and Backstage

Event: Cloud Field Day 17

Appearance: RackN Presents at Cloud Field Day 17

Company: RackN

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Personnel: Rob Hirschfeld, Shane Gibson

Demos declarative APIs in RackN Digital Rebar that make it easy to automate clusters of bare metal infrastructure using Dev Portals like Backstage.io to empower developers with available, reliable and fast self-service.

In this conversation, Rob and Shane discuss their roles as developers and the integration of Backstage and Digital Rebar. Rob explains that he has set up his own Backstage developer environment and successfully connected it to his Digital Rebar system. However, he encounters an issue where a newly created cluster does not show any machines. Shane suggests looking into the front-end code to ensure that the necessary parameters are passed to the Digital Rebar API. They discuss adding additional information like the context broker and count to make the API work correctly. After making these adjustments, Rob successfully creates clusters and observes the machine resources being generated. They also touch on topics like resizing clusters, job logs for troubleshooting, and cluster cleanup. The conversation ends with a discussion on the on-ramp process for adopting Digital Rebar and the flexibility it offers for multiple teams within an organization. They mention the ability to import existing virtual machines and bare metal servers and the concept of machine objects and runner services in Digital Rebar.


Empowering Platform Engineering with RackN Infrastructure Platform

Event: Cloud Field Day 17

Appearance: RackN Presents at Cloud Field Day 17

Company: RackN

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Personnel: Rob Hirschfeld, Shane Gibson

RackN Digital Rebar Infrastructure Platform provides the available, reliable and fast automation needed by operations teams to support enterprise Platform Engineering efforts.

RackN focuses on infrastructure platforms and platform engineering, addressing challenges faced by operations teams through their self-managed software called Digital Rebar. Their goal is to empower companies to independently manage their infrastructure, whether on-premises or in the cloud, by emphasizing infrastructure-as-code pipelines and process automation. They prioritize availability, reliability, and speed as key factors for success in an infrastructure platform. Through customer journey stories, they demonstrate how their solution has reduced equipment onboarding time, improved system availability, and increased operational speed. Automation, integration with various systems, and handling of edge systems are key features. They also address the challenges of managing Dev and Ops tool sprawl and advocate for a consolidated operational experience. RackN’s Digital Rebar is highlighted as a vendor-neutral infrastructure-as-code automation platform that offers customizable workflows and air gap capabilities.


Morpheus Data Workflows: Scaling Automation and IaC via Self-Service

Event: Cloud Field Day 17

Appearance: Morpheus Data Presents at Cloud Field Day 17

Company: Morpheus Data

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Personnel: Martez Reed

Going beyond developer self-service and provisioning of application instances, this session will spotlight how Morpheus can be used to help IT simplify operations and scale GitOps style automation initiatives. By decoupling the creation and execution of automation scripts and infrastructure-as-code patterns, organizations can streamline and govern the use of technologies like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, PowerShell, Python, and more. The session will also spotlight the new dynamic automation target feature which enables use cases like patch management, security remediation, and routine maintenance.

In this session, Martez Reed, Director of Technical Marketing with Morpheus Data, discusses scaling automation in Infrastructure as Code (IAC) through self-service. He talks about the challenges of using YAML and raw automation, such as the lack of user-friendliness and difficulty in understanding available environments. Martez highlights the importance of focusing on the business value rather than getting caught up in the coolest way to implement automation. He explores the concept of click ops and the use of user interfaces (UIs) and no-code solutions for efficient and quick outcomes. Martez demonstrates how Morpheus provides a platform for creating Terraform Cloud workspaces using UI-based interactions, simplifying the sharing and scaling of automation across organizations. The platform’s role-based access control, workflow automation, and integration capabilities enable users to accomplish their tasks without the complexities of manual scripting or infrastructure management. The discussion also touches on features like dynamic automation targeting and the adoption of immutability in handling system redeployment and patching.


Morpheus Data Plugins: Extensibility for Hybrid Cloud Platform Operations

Event: Cloud Field Day 17

Appearance: Morpheus Data Presents at Cloud Field Day 17

Company: Morpheus Data

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Personnel: Martez Reed

For years, Morpheus has led the hybrid cloud management market when it comes to rapid integration of third-party technologies with dozens of out-of-the-box codeless integrations into clouds, ITSM, IPAM, Backups. This session goes deep on the underlying service delivery framework within Morpheus and showcases how third-party plugins can be developed to expose data for custom reports, pull in third-party observability and AIOps information, extend cloud connectivity, enable custom user dashboards, and more.

In this session, Martez Reed, Director of Technical Marketing at Morpheus Data, introduces the extensibility features of the Morpheus platform for hybrid cloud operations. He explains that Morpheus is available as a Linux package, installable on-premises or in the public cloud, and highlights its highly modular and extensible nature. The platform supports a plugin framework that allows users to extend its capabilities beyond the out-of-the-box features. Reed discusses various areas of extensibility, such as custom reports and UI customization, including the ability to create a custom dashboard. He also mentions the integration of third-party services through plugins, providing examples like DNS, load balancer, and backup integrations. The Morpheus exchange is mentioned as a repository of curated plugins. The session concludes with a discussion on plugin deployment, management, and versioning, as well as the potential for private repositories and security considerations.


Morpheus Foundation: Developer Self-Service and Platform Operations

Event: Cloud Field Day 17

Appearance: Morpheus Data Presents at Cloud Field Day 17

Company: Morpheus Data

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Personnel: David Estes

This demo and deep dive will illustrate how enterprises and service providers can enable DevOps speed and agility while also improving control and reducing cost of delivering IT services. We’ll show how easy it is to integrating technologies like VMware, Nutanix, AWS, Azure, GCP, ServiceNow, Terraform, Ansible, and more while providing a governance framework and policy engine to bring Developers, Security, Finance Operations teams closer together.

Dave Estes, the co-founder and CTO of Morpheus, gave a presentation on the developer and self-service aspects of Morpheus. The presentation included a demonstration of the platform’s features, starting with the new customizable dashboard and self-service portal. Morpheus is a self-service platform that covers various aspects of infrastructure, such as provisioning, networking, lifecycle management, and costing. The presentation focused on provisioning instances, showcasing the flexibility to create basic virtual machines or more complex clusters. It also highlighted the adaptive configuration options based on different cloud providers and the ability to automate tasks like installing Apache, setting up scaling, backups, replication, and power schedules. The presentation also discussed how Morpheus handles eventual inconsistencies and provides a comprehensive history of actions and diagnostics. Additionally, the platform supports CLI automation, API integration, and can function as a Terraform state management system. The presentation emphasized Morpheus as an internal developer platform that eliminates the need for building such a system from scratch, providing benefits like abstraction, easy transition between infrastructure modules, and compatibility with various environments and architectures.


Morpheus Data 101: The Rise of Hybrid Cloud Platform Operations

Event: Cloud Field Day 17

Appearance: Morpheus Data Presents at Cloud Field Day 17

Company: Morpheus Data

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Personnel: Brad Parks

For years, Morpheus has led the hybrid cloud management market when it comes to rapid integration of third-party technologies with dozens of out-of-the-box codeless integrations into clouds, ITSM, IPAM, Backups. This session goes deep on the underlying service delivery framework within Morpheus and showcases how third-party plugins can be developed to expose data for custom reports, pull in third-party observability and AIOps information, extend cloud connectivity, enable custom user dashboards, and more.

Brad Parks explains that Morpheus aims to bring teams together and simplify how developers, finance, and operations teams interact with hybrid clouds, containers, and automation tools. He compares the company’s mission to the TV show “Ted Lasso,” highlighting the quote “Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse. You’re comfortable while you’re doing it. You’re probably doing it wrong.” He emphasizes the importance of automating manual processes and enabling self-service for various roles within an organization. Parks outlines the core use cases Morpheus addresses, including consistent provisioning across different cloud environments, Kubernetes cluster management, scaling automation initiatives, and integration with IT service management and monitoring tools. He also discusses the challenges faced by IT organizations, the security, development, and finance teams, and how Morpheus provides solutions for each. Parks concludes by highlighting the platform’s features, such as integration with existing tools, a fine-grained RBAC model, support for development workflows, cost optimization, and data-driven insights for chargeback and showback. He mentions the platform’s scalability, integration capabilities, and freedom of choice in provisioning across various cloud endpoints.


Roots to Cloud: Cisco Wireless Legacy and Vision

Event: Mobility Field Day 9

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Mobility Field Day 9

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Phal Nanda

The Meraki and Catalyst brands come together to unite Cisco Wireless Solutions built on lessons learned from millions of deployed networks across the globe.  The new Unified Cisco Wireless Solutions are transforming the Enterprise supporting the most demanding use cases with ease of deployment, configuration and management through intuitive centralized platforms that offer on premises or cloud managed.


Aruba Atmosphere 2023 Roundtable: Discussing Aruba’s Big Announcements from Atmosphere

Event: Networking Field Day Experience at Aruba Atmosphere 2023

Appearance: Aruba Presents at Networking Field Day Experience at Aruba Atmosphere 2023

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

Join the Networking Field Day Experience delegates as they discuss the announcements from Aruba Atmosphere 2023. Hear how new technologies and acquisitions are building HPE Aruba Networking into a premier company that can address edge connectivity and security needs. Learn about new wireless technologies that are being integrated into the Aruba portfolio and where you might see them deployed in the future.


NetAlly CyberScope Product Walkthrough and Demo

Event: Mobility Field Day 9

Appearance: NetAlly Presents at Mobility Field Day 9

Company: NetAlly

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Personnel: James Kahkoska

In Part 2 of NetAlly’s presentation to #MFD9, James Kahkoska (CTO) covers the benefits and techniques to perform an onsite security assessment by demonstrating the use of CyberScope, NetAlly’s new cyber security analyzer, a handheld instrument that provides unprecedented visibility to expose possible site security concerns and interior threats.


Enabling Wi-Fi Site Assessments with NetAlly CyberScope

Event: Mobility Field Day 9

Appearance: NetAlly Presents at Mobility Field Day 9

Company: NetAlly

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Personnel: James Kahkoska

In Part 1 of NetAlly’s presentation to #MFD9, James Kahkoska (CTO) – in his classic Field Day storytelling style – talks about the history of innovation, mobility, and the evolving complexity of site networks – and the impact of this complexity on cyber security. He relates how common network analysis capabilities can be utilized for security workflows. James explains why, whether handling numerous remote sites or a single large campus, the first step in Cyber Security is visibility into all the devices that are present, where they are located, how they are connected and what services they are offering or using.


What’s Cooking in WIPS with Arista

Event: Mobility Field Day 9

Appearance: Arista Presents at Mobility Field Day 9

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Jatin Parekh, Robert Ferruolo

A viable WIPS offering needs to constantly adapt to mitigate new threats. In this section we will introduce a number of innovations that enable automatic detection and prevention of threats related to newer standards and practices such as; WPA3, OWE, 802.11w, client MAC randomization.


Arista Cognitive Campus Unified Wired + Wireless Architecture

Event: Mobility Field Day 9

Appearance: Arista Presents at Mobility Field Day 9

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Kumar Narayanan, Robert Ferruolo

In this session, we will discuss how we are building a truly unified wired + wireless architecture for campus networks that is based on open standards, and also discuss large enterprise reference network designs.


Arista AIOps in Action: Proactive Root Cause Analysis

Event: Mobility Field Day 9

Appearance: Arista Presents at Mobility Field Day 9

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Karan Gupta, Sriram Venkiteswaran

In this session, we will do a quick recap of the core AIOps functionalities built into our CloudVision platform and share some of the new features including Automated Root Cause analysis, that we have been working on to make the life of network admins easier.


Arista CloudVision AGNI Deep Dive

Event: Mobility Field Day 9

Appearance: Arista Presents at Mobility Field Day 9

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Bhagya Prasad NR, Supara Dam

Arista Networks recently announced, a cloud-delivered, AI-driven network identity service for enterprise security and IT operations, CloudVision AGNI (Arista Guardian for Network Identity). Join this session for a deep dive discussion & a demo on the capabilities of CV AGNI.


What’s New with Arista Cognitive Campus

Event: Mobility Field Day 9

Appearance: Arista Presents at Mobility Field Day 9

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Sriram Venkiteswaran

Arista has been growing steadfast & has become a serious contender in the campus networking space. Join us for a quick recap of our recent product execution and what we have been working-on, on the Campus side of Arista’s solution.


Mobility Field Day Delegate Roundtable: Challenges of Moving Services to the Cloud

Event: Mobility Field Day 9

Appearance: Mobility Field Day 9 Delegate Roundtable

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

The modern world has moved beyond simple connectivity. The need for pervasive coverage and the realities of a post-COVID world mean users are expecting to get online everywhere. What are the challenges of providing easy and secure connectivity outside of the enterprise office? How does the cloud both help and hinder these efforts? Can the reality of IT in 2023 live up to the promise? In this Mobility Field Day delegate roundtable hear the perspectives of a group of experts about how moving your services to the cloud has both challenge and reward.


Scaling Enterprise Private 5G Network Globally While Supporting 4G and 5G Device Eco-Systems 

Event: Mobility Field Day 9

Appearance: Celona Presents at Mobility Field Day 9

Company: Celona

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Personnel: Prince Jose, Puneet Shetty

Celona recently launched support for 5G  across n48, n77, n78 bands. This allows for higher speed, lower latency network and most importantly the support global enterprise deployments. Migrating to 5G devices is also a major cost consideration for enterprises. We will demo and discuss Celona’s converged 4G/5G architecture  to help enterprises to support 4G/5G devices concurrently.


Hardening Celona’s 5G LAN Solution to Solve Real-World Wireless Challenges

Event: Mobility Field Day 9

Appearance: Celona Presents at Mobility Field Day 9

Company: Celona

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Personnel: Puneet Shetty

Celona 5G LAN is the industry’s  only turn-key private wireless solution built for the enterprise.  This session will cover a few challenging  real-world use cases, where Celona has deployed private wireless. We will discuss details on the challenges , how Celona 5G LAN overcame these challenges and how we have enhanced our solution based on these learnings to harden our products.  We will demonstrate some of these new features live.


The State of 6 GHz with Fred Niehaus

Event: Mobility Field Day 9

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Mobility Field Day 9

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Fred Niehaus

Much excitement and momentum is surrounding the allocation of 6 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi low powered indoor networks. But what if you need an external network for your network? Meet the 9166D1 Series Directional AP! We included a directional array to solve your indoor external antenna issues. Now experience simplified solutions for your network with fewer components to mount and more aesthetically pleasing deployments. Tune in to meet the newest AP to our Wi-Fi 6E solutions!


Breaking Barriers with Simplicity From Cisco

Event: Mobility Field Day 9

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Mobility Field Day 9

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Ali Ali, Neil Kulkarni

As two (2) of the world’s largest networking brands unite, Cisco Wireless takes the complexity out of the network to bring you simplified solutions for seamless migration with consistent end user experiences. But the benefits don’t stop there! Unified Wireless reduces day-to-day operations and improves automation for Network Admins. Find out how Cisco Wireless is breaking down barriers with simplified solutions.


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