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

Video Links:

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

Video Links:

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

Video Links:

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

Video Links:

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

Video Links:

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

Video Links:

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.


Cloud-Native Chip Evolution with AMD

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: AMD Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: AMD

Video Links:

Personnel: Robert Hormuth

Robert Hormuth, VP Architecture and Strategy, Data Center Solutions Group at AMD, presents the transformative impact of cloud-native principles on chip design. Cloud-native, emphasizing scalability, flexibility, and rapid application development, is influencing chip design to meet the unique requirements of containerized and virtualized applications. This shift requires understanding the challenges posed by elevated I/O latency and memory fluctuations. Data Processing Units (DPUs) play a crucial role by offloading intensive I/O tasks, increasing tenant instances, reducing CPU usage, and enhancing control and security. AMD’s chiplet-based design aligns with cloud-native principles, offering a cost-effective, modular, and standards-compliant solution. Overall, this presentation underscores the pivotal role of DPUs and chiplet designs in enabling a cloud-native approach that benefits both on-prem and hybrid cloud environments.


Understand and Optimize Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Events with the Mezmo Telemetry Pipeline

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Introducing Mezmo at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Mezmo

Video Links:

Personnel: Braxton Johnston

In this demo presentation by Mezmo, you will learn steps DevOps, SREs, and Platform Engineers can take to understand their telemetry data, optimize it for usage in observability platforms, and make enterprises more responsive. The session will demonstrate data profiling to identify patterns for repetitive and redundant data, separating signal from noise, and dynamic pipelines for real-time response. It will show steps to optimize logs and events for consumption by downstream observability platforms like DataDog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk. You’ll learn how pipelines can help lower observability costs, improve response times, provide business insights, improve security and compliance, and maximize the investment in your current observability tools. Presented by Braxton Johnston.


Mezmo – Delivering Telemetry Data Understanding and Optimization for Cost Effective Observability

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Introducing Mezmo at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Mezmo

Video Links:

Personnel: Tucker Callaway

Managing telemetry data (logs, metrics, events, traces) has been an uphill task in the face of increasing volumes and decreasing budgets. SRE, Platform Engineering, and DevOps teams struggle to understand what is in the data, and to control data volumes to keep enterprise systems running for desired performance and service delivery.  This session discusses how Mezmo telemetry pipelines help understand telemetry data, transform and enrich it, and finally route the right data in the right format to any observability platform for cost control, business insights, and faster incident response. Presented by Tucker Callaway.


How to be a Data Center Analytics Superhero with Juniper Apstra

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Juniper Networks Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Juniper Networks

Video Links:

Personnel: Kyle Baxter, Rajeev Menon Kadekuzhi

Dive into how you can enhance Apstra’s extensive pre-built Intent- Based Analytics (IBA) with custom collectors and dashboards. During the demonstration, you will learn how to collect valuable data, enrich it with knowledge from the vast Apstra graph database, and create new visualizations plus custom alerts to provide better insights and information about your data centers or AI clusters. Presented by Kyle Baxter and Rajeev Menon Kadekuzhi.


Automating AI Cluster Design with Juniper Apstra

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Juniper Networks Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Juniper Networks

Video Links:

Personnel: James Kelly

This demo shows how to “terraform apply” to effectively import many AI cluster design examples into Apstra. Designs include many sizes of clusters, GPU compute fabrics for model training, storage fabrics, and management fabrics. The logical rack types follow the NVIDIA best practice for rail-optimized design which is explained with the topology of eight leaf devices in a stripe grouping. Presented by James Kelly.


Cloud Style On Premises Networking with Juniper Apstra

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Juniper Networks Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Juniper Networks

Video Links:

Personnel: Chris Marget

This session shows how data center (DC) operators can achieve public cloud-like service consumption on premises by using Apstra and Terraform to automate end-to- end application creation. Through a sample app deployment, it shows how Juniper’s Terraform provider fits traditionally complex network services, like EVPN, neatly into a predefined application automation. Learn how Apstra with the Terraform Provider for Apstra allows application owners to self-serve network services in a familiar way, providing seamless deployments across any infrastructure. Presented by Chris Marget.


Private Data Center as Easy as Cloud with Juniper Apstra

Event: Cloud Field Day 18

Appearance: Juniper Networks Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Company: Juniper Networks

Video Links:

Personnel: Mansour Karam

The evolution of the internet over the last 20 years led Juniper Apstra to an operations- first approach to transform the data center network. This drove us to invent “intent- based networking”, which has helped our customers manage their private data centers as easy as cloud. More recently, advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have presented challenges, but Juniper is well-positioned to help customers navigate these new opportunities in AI infrastructure and AIOps. Presented by Mansour Karam.


StorMagic Edge Control Live Demo

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: StorMagic

Video Links:

Personnel: Stuart Campbell

In this video, you’ll see Edge Control working in a live environment managing 10 sites which have 20 VSAs running. We’ll show how easy it is to view overall status in the dashboard and to click down into each VSA for more detailed information and which management functions are available right from Edge Control, eliminating the need to use multiple tools.


StorMagic Edge Control Overview

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Edge Field Day 2

Company: StorMagic

Video Links:

Personnel: Bruce Kornfeld

In this video, you’ll see an overview of StorMagic’s cloud-based, SaaS management tool for SvSAN. Edge Control enables customers to easily monitor and manage all of their edge sites in any part of the world, all from one browser. This version 1.0 is available to all StorMagic customers free of charge.


Falling Down a LLM Rabbit Hole with Ben Young

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Ignite Edge Field Day 2

Company: Ignite

Video Links:

Personnel: Ben Young

In this Edge Field Day Delegate Ignite Talk, Ben Young shares his journey into building a chatbot web interface, with a specific focus on creating a chatbot for the Veeam knowledge base articles using OpenAI models. Along the way, he delves into the concept of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and the challenges of relying solely on large language models, such as limited access to private data and high retraining costs. To overcome these challenges, Young emphasizes the importance of understanding the chatbot’s inner workings, from document retrieval to interpretation and answer generation. He describes the process of building the knowledge base dataset and the API, highlighting the role of embeddings in matching queries to relevant information within the database. Young also explores different options for data storage, including vector databases and traditional databases with vector support, while noting the use of tools like Superbase and Langchain to manage queries and interactions with the data. Ultimately, he underscores the power of language models like Vani GPT in providing accurate and targeted responses, emphasizing the significance of crafting effective queries and prompts for optimal results.


Generative AI Tools – What Could Go Wrong? with Gina Rosenthal

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Ignite Edge Field Day 2

Company: Ignite

Video Links:

Personnel: Gina Rosenthal

In this Edge Field Day Delegate Ignite Talk, Gina Rosenthal discusses the promising growth of generative AI technology, which leverages machine learning to generate predictive data and discern patterns. However, she emphasizes the potential pitfalls associated with generative AI. The technology can perpetuate bias, particularly when trained on data from the internet, which may have inherent biases due to historical demographics. Additionally, the environmental and ethical concerns surrounding generative AI are significant, from the high computational power and energy requirements to the potential for creating or spreading harmful content. Rosenthal calls for a more cautious and responsible approach to utilizing generative AI, emphasizing the importance of understanding its limitations and risks while recognizing that human creativity and critical thinking remain essential, ensuring a balanced perspective on its practical applications without undue reliance.


Leveraging Generative AI for Accurate Career Path Predictions with Jim Czuprynski

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Ignite Edge Field Day 2

Company: Ignite

Video Links:

Personnel: Jim Czuprynski

In this Edge Field Day Delegate Ignite Talk, Jim Czuprynski introduced an innovative tool developed by his team that harnesses generative AI within Oracle databases. This tool draws from a data pool of 600,000 IT professionals’ profiles, offering not only predictive insights into an individual’s IT career but also a glimpse into how colleagues perceive them. Czuprynski’s talk emphasizes the value of this technological advancement and its potential to challenge cognitive biases. He offers a compelling narrative on the intersection of technology, intuition, and cognitive bias in our lives, stressing the importance of relying on data-driven insights rather than intuition alone.


Bridging the IT Security Gap With Brian Knudtson

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Ignite Edge Field Day 2

Company: Ignite

Video Links:

Personnel: Brian Knudtson

In this Edge Field Day Delegate Ignite Talk, Brian Knudtson discussed the communication challenges between IT and security teams in businesses. Typically, IT focuses on maintaining efficient information flow, while security prioritizes data protection and preventing breaches, often leading to the misperception of the security team as a “Department of No.” To foster effective collaboration, both teams must gain a better understanding of each other’s roles. Collaboration between security and businesses is crucial for enabling and supporting business objectives and secure data use. Backup infrastructure plays a pivotal role in data cataloging, protection, and threat detection, aiding in disaster recovery and digital forensics. Knudtson emphasized the need for aligning communication and actions between IT and security teams and adapting to emerging trends like entropy detection for compromise indicators. Customized backup integration with security workflows and proactive measures such as diverse backup policies were also highlighted as essential components of successful collaboration in safeguarding the organization.


Don’t Get Cut By Edge Security! Edge Field Day 2 Roundtable

Event: Edge Field Day 2

Appearance: Delegate Roundtable Discussions at Edge Field Day 2

Company: Tech Field Day

Video Links:

Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

In this Edge Field Day roundtable discussion, the delegates take on the delicate balance between privacy and security, particularly in the context of data privacy at the edge. The vulnerabilities of widely distributed data and remote devices were highlighted, with examples like the Pegasus spyware serving as stark reminders of potential threats. The ‘zero trust’ approach was emphasized for continuous verification of edge device security. The conversation explored the physical security aspects of devices and the potential for edge devices to enhance authentication security, citing Apple’s pass-key technology. It also considered the challenges and prospects of using edge computing for security, particularly focusing on the impact of privacy, law enforcement surveillance, and the ethical dimensions of technology. The overarching message stressed the importance of prioritizing societal benefits as technology continues to evolve.


« Previous Page
Next Page »