Reinventing Application Lifecycle Security Through Automation and AI with Fortinet

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Fortinet Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Fortinet

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Personnel: Aidan Walden

Fortinet offers a comprehensive solution to application lifecycle security, focusing on the roles of app developers and the cloud SOC in delivering a secure application. Using principles from AI and cloud automation, Fortinet drives automation and DevOps into the security practice. Key aspects of their strategy include ensuring visibility of applications and assets, automating SOC practices and workflows, and using AI as a force multiplier. Fortinet’s automation capabilities also aid in reducing common challenges in web services security, such as false positives. Maintaining a broad and deep integration, operationalizing data and signal, and maximizing automation, Fortinet aims to enhance operational efficiency and scalability.


Introducing WEKA Converged Mode for AWS

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: WEKA Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: WEKA

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Personnel: Efraim Grynberg

WEKA Converged Mode for AWS is a deployment mode that enables greater resource efficiency for AI model training and other GPU-accelerated workloads in AWS Cloud. In this session, Efraim Grynberg discusses WEKA’s approach, the innovation making this possible now, and how customers are benefiting from it.


WEKA in the Cloud Architecture Deep Dive

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: WEKA Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: WEKA

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Personnel: Brennan Conley, Phil Curran

In this session, Phil Curran and Brennan Conley talk through how the WEKA platform runs in the cloud and the unique capabilities WEKA delivers to enable extreme performance, massive scalability, increased operational efficiency and sustainability, and reduced costs. By diving into the architectural details of the WEKA Data Platform, they show how customers benefit from advanced automation, bi-directional autoscaling, and data portability to enable mutlicloud, hybrid cloud, and cloud-native deployments.


Enabling Cloud Workloads with the WEKA Data Platform

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: WEKA Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: WEKA

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Personnel: Phil Curran

The WEKA Data Platform is a software solution purpose-built for modern data stacks in the cloud and AI era. It transforms stagnant data silos into dynamic data pipelines that power GPUs efficiently and fuel AI, ML, and HPC workloads seamlessly and sustainably. In this session, Phil provides an overview of the WEKA Data Platform, and discuss major use cases for WEKA in the cloud.


Optimize Costs with VMware Tanzu CloudHealth

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Mike Mouchantat, TJ March

Mike Mouchantat, Lead Solution Engineer, and TJ March, Senior Technical Marketing Architect, demonstrate VMware Tanzu CloudHealth. VMware Tanzu CloudHealth is a multi-cloud financial management (or FinOps) platform that helps organizations make sense of their cloud data, optimize and control cloud spend, and enhance their cloud management practice. The presentation and demonstration discussed how Tanzu CloudHealth enables enterprises and managed service providers to deliver quality products and solutions faster, while keeping costs under control.


Achieve Actionable Intelligence with VMware Tanzu Insights

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Yogita Patil

Yogita Patil, Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware, demonstrates Tanzu Insights, a tool for providing actionable intelligence and holistic visibility for contextual troubleshooting across Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure environments. Unlike traditional tools, Tanzu Insights sources data from a variety of platforms, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of issues. The tool’s unique approach involves de-duplicating, correlating, and summarizing events and alerts from these sources, simplifying insight generation and expediting root cause analysis. Tanzu Insights focuses on making IT operations more efficient by reducing alert noise, offering insights in an easy-to-understand format, and visualizing applications’ impacts on the infrastructure. It excels as a diagnostic tool, providing quick views of issues, their causes, and affected areas, ultimately saving valuable time and resources. With its ability to offer visibility into workloads, performance metrics, and service quality in diverse cloud sources and Kubernetes clusters, Tanzu Insights is a valuable asset for modern IT operations, showcasing the practical application of AI in real-world scenarios.


Demo: Govern Your Clouds at Scale with VMware Tanzu Guardrails

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Michael Poore

Michael Poore, Senior Technical Marketing Architect, VMware showcased groundbreaking advancements in unified multi-cloud governance and policy management. Tanzu Guardrails is a transformative product that streamlines compliance and configuration management. The process begins with onboarding accounts for inventory analysis and relationship mapping, enabling automated monitoring of changes and immediate reactions to configuration updates. This dynamic system pairs accounts with compliance benchmarks, auto-applies policy settings, and flags violations or configuration drifts, aggregating them on a single platform marked by an attention score. Guardrails’ flexibility allows for custom policy sets, and it offers notifications to various platforms for quick alerting and remediation.


Govern Your Clouds at Scale with VMware Tanzu Guardrails

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Tai Tran

Tai Tran, Senior Director of Product Management, introduces Tanzu Guardrails as a groundbreaking tool for unified multi-cloud governance and policy management. As cloud adoption continues to expand, the need for effective governance and policy implementation becomes paramount. Tran shed light on the challenges faced in governing dynamic cloud environments, such as misconfigurations and the complexity of managing multiple cloud environments. Tanzu Guardrails serves as an innovative solution that addresses these challenges, operating on top of Tanzu Hub and leveraging a multi-cloud event-driven graph-based inventory. It offers a compliance approach to posture management, ensuring standards are enforced and drift is prevented over time. Additionally, Tanzu Guardrails handles cloud entitlement management and host configuration, facilitating consistent VM and OS configurations across various cloud environments. It provides a unified view of the cloud environment, making it an essential tool for organizations managing complex and dynamic cloud ecosystems.


Accelerate Multi-Cloud Management with VMware Tanzu Hub

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Justin Stanton

Senior Technical Marketing Architect Justin Stanton, showcases VMware Tanzu Hub, a robust platform that redefines multi-cloud management and application delivery. Serving as the foundational framework for all Tanzu Intelligent Services, Tanzu Hub leverages a backend graph data store to provide comprehensive visibility across diverse environments while consolidating data from various Intelligent Services. The platform offers a homepage summary dashboard, expediting resource discovery and enabling cloud account integration. Its versatility is evident in its free tier version and feature-rich entitlements, including the Active Insights tile, governance summary tile, and cost breakdown tile, making it an invaluable resource for optimizing cloud operations. Tanzu Hub’s multi-cloud visibility, resource navigation, and deep search capabilities empower users to efficiently manage applications, explore new resources, and gain a profound understanding of resource interconnections.


Cloud Migrations with VMware Tanzu Transformer

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Matt Just

Matt Just, Staff Technical Marketing Architect, presents a comprehensive demonstration of VMware Tanzu Transformer. This powerful tool is designed to facilitate the assessment and planning of cloud migrations while optimizing application workloads. The demonstration emphasized its user-friendly nature and highlighted its diverse data collection methods, including live inventory acquisition from vCenter and secure connections establishment through virtual appliances. Importantly, it detailed the flexibility of VMware Tanzu Transformer, allowing for tailored assessment criteria based on specific business needs and providing in-depth views of applications and their dependencies. Moreover, the presentation included an illustrative Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculation, shedding light on the financial implications of migrating to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, making VMware Tanzu Transformer an indispensable resource for organizations embarking on cloud migration journeys.


Accelerate Multi-Cloud Migration with VMware Tanzu Transformer

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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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 by Broadcom

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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.


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