Event:

Appearance: RackTop Systems Tech Field Day Showcase

Company: RackTop Systems

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Create Data Centric Zero Trust Architecture with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework with RackTop
• YouTube: Create Data Centric Zero Trust Architecture with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework with RackTop

Personnel: Jonathan Halstuch

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is a widely used approach that consists of a set of guidelines and best practices to help manage cybersecurity risks. In this Tech Field Day Showcase presented by RackTop Systems, CTO, Jonathan Halstuch talks about building an airtight data-centric zero trust architecture that aligns fully with the NIST cybersecurity framework with RackTop’s BrickStor SP. Fashioned by experts in the cybersecurity industry, the framework provides a blueprint for understanding, tackling and reducing risks, and defending digital assets, for organizations any size. Although proven effective, few solutions fully comply with the framework, even fewer in the enterprise storage aisle. Learn how RackTop’s cyberstorage solution leverages the NIST standards in aiding organizations protect their data from the worst threats.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Networking Field Day 31 Delegate Roundtable Discussion

Company: Tech Field Day

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Visibility and Automation Should Be Working Together
• YouTube: Visibility and Automation Should Be Working Together

Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

Automation isn’t going to take our jobs away any time soon. One of the major reasons why is because we don’t trust it yet to do the major jobs we rely on people to accomplish. Is it because we don’t think a script is capable of doing things a human would do? Or is it because we can’t tell for sure that the system has done what we’ve asked it to do and no more? Integrating visibility together with automation is the key to helping both tools grow into wider adoption. In this Networking Field Day delegate roundtable we explore how visibility and automation need to be more tightly integrated.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Networking Field Day 31 Delegate Roundtable Discussion

Company: Tech Field Day

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Enterprises Should Act More Like Service Providers
• YouTube: Enterprises Should Act More Like Service Providers

Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

Large enterprises treat their users and departments like a service provider. IT functions to meet their needs instead of being a slow cost center. That works for the Fortune 50 but why hasn’t it filtered down to smaller organizations yet? Are IT departments ill-equipped to function in this way at smaller sizes? Does the trend of outsourcing prevent it from happening? Can companies with a stake in both worlds help ease the transition? In this Networking Field Day delegate roundtable learn how enterprises should approach these questions.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: HashiCorp Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: HashiCorp

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Manage Network Infrastructure as Code Complexity with HashiCorp Terraform Cloud
• YouTube: Manage Network Infrastructure as Code Complexity with HashiCorp Terraform Cloud

Personnel: Rosemary Wang

In this session, Rosemary Wang demonstrates patterns and practices to help maintain and scale networking as code over time. By using Terraform Cloud, Wang shows how to reduce configuration drift with drift detection to minimize automation failures and treat the network as immutable infrastructure using a blue-green deployment model to implement major changes.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: HashiCorp Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: HashiCorp

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Collaboration Patterns for Network Infrastructure as Code with HashiCorp Terraform Cloud
• YouTube: Collaboration Patterns for Network Infrastructure as Code with HashiCorp Terraform Cloud

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: HashiCorp Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: HashiCorp

Video Links:

• Vimeo: HashiCorp Terraform for Network Infrastructure as Code
• YouTube: HashiCorp Terraform for Network Infrastructure as Code

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: HashiCorp Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: HashiCorp

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Standardize Infrastructure Automation with HashiCorp Terraform
• YouTube: Standardize Infrastructure Automation with HashiCorp Terraform

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: BackBox Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: BackBox

Video Links:

• Vimeo: CIS Compliance with BackBox
• YouTube: CIS Compliance with BackBox

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: BackBox Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: BackBox

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Automated Upgrades with BackBox
• YouTube: Automated Upgrades with BackBox

Personnel: Josh Stephens, Perry Greenwood

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

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: BackBox Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: BackBox

Video Links:

• Vimeo: BackBox Programmability with Perry Greenwood
• YouTube: BackBox Programmability with Perry Greenwood

Personnel: Josh Stephens, Perry Greenwood

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

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: BackBox Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: BackBox

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Introduction to BackBox with Josh Stephens
• YouTube: Introduction to BackBox with Josh Stephens

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Itential

Video Links:

• Vimeo: How Itential Helps NetDevOps Teams to Expose and Deliver Self-Service Network Automations
• YouTube: How Itential Helps NetDevOps Teams to Expose and Deliver Self-Service Network Automations

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Itential

Video Links:

• Vimeo: How Itential Helps NetDevOps to Enhance their Ability to Test & Validate Network Automations
• YouTube: How Itential Helps NetDevOps to Enhance their Ability to Test & Validate Network Automations

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Itential

Video Links:

• Vimeo: How Itential Helps NetDevOps Teams to Build Automations Efficiently
• YouTube: How Itential Helps NetDevOps Teams to Build Automations Efficiently

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Itential

Video Links:

• Vimeo: How Itential Helps NetDevOps Teams to Integrate Network Automations with their Entire Ecosystem
• YouTube: How Itential Helps NetDevOps Teams to Integrate Network Automations with their Entire Ecosystem

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Itential

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Itential Network Automation for NetDevOps Teams
• YouTube: Itential Network Automation for NetDevOps Teams

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Kentik Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Kentik

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Kentik Container Network Observability
• YouTube: Kentik Container Network Observability

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Kentik Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Kentik

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Kentik Is Your Cloud Provider Executing a Network Maintenance? Yes, Yes They Are
• YouTube: Kentik Is Your Cloud Provider Executing a Network Maintenance? Yes, Yes They Are

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

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Kentik Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Kentik

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Data-Driven Network Observability with Kentik
• YouTube: Data-Driven Network Observability with Kentik

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 31

Appearance: Kentik Presents at Networking Field Day 31

Company: Kentik

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Kentik Network Observability Across the Enterprise
• YouTube: Kentik Network Observability Across the Enterprise

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.