Cyber Risk and the Need for Modern Ransomware Detection

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Commvault Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Commvault, Metallic

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Personnel: Isabelle Guis

It’s time we thought of data protection differently. As cyberthreats advance, organizations have less time to identify, respond, and safeguard their data. In this session we’ll show you how Commvault and Metallic are thinking about data protection differently as we highlight our approach and new investments that reduce the impact of ransomware – earlier.

Presented by Isabelle Guis, CMO, Commvault


StormForge Case Study: Optimizing K8s Autoscaling for Growth and Cost-Efficiency

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: StormForge Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: StormForge

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Personnel: Yasmin Rajabi

The SaaS company in this case study had been scaling to accommodate business growth but soon found itself vastly over-provisioning Kubernetes resources and facing 40% annual growth in cloud spend, which was cutting into its margins. The firm adopted Kubernetes horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA), but found it challenging to scale workloads that were prone to bursts. With literally thousands of tuning combinations spanning numerous workloads, its optimization process required tremendous effort and cost, but still resulted in lukewarm results.

The business moved forward with a StormForge POC in an attempt to improve the efficiency of their horizontal pod autoscaling and also to introduce pod right-sizing (i.e. vertical pod autoscaling). The goal was to reduce over-provisioning costs and tuning efforts without sacrificing reliability or application performance. For its POC the firm deployed StormForge Optimize Live on a single app and realized an immediate cost savings of approximately 60%. It is now planning to use StormForge to scale efficiently across all production and non-production Kubernetes apps.

Presented by Yasmin Rajabi, VP of Product, StormForge.

StormForge Demo: www.stormforge.io/request-demo/

StomForge Free Trial: www.stormforge.io/try-free/


Kubernetes Autoscaling without Compromise: A Bi-Dimensional Approach from StormForge that Works

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: StormForge Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: StormForge

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Personnel: Brian Likosar

Predictable, optimized scaling is a challenge that requires trade-offs in Kubernetes environments today. The Kubernetes autoscalers enable horizontal and vertical autoscaling, but it’s not easy for them to work together. This leads the vast majority of organizations to use Horizontal Pod Autoscaler only, with arbitrary CPU values determining the scale point. And for the VPA to work with the HPA, custom scaling metrics other than CPU and memory must be used.

This session explains how StormForge enables bi-dimensional pod autoscaling to address these limitations, enabling simultaneous use of HPA and VPA. It accomplishes this by issuing ML-based CPU and memory recommendations for VPA while setting the optimal CPU thresholds for HPA. Now organizations can autoscale more efficiently to minimize wasted resources and unnecessary cloud expense.

Presented by Brian Likosar, Director of Global Solutions Architecture, StormForge.

StormForge Demo: www.stormforge.io/request-demo/

StomForge Free Trial: www.stormforge.io/try-free/


Rightsizing Kubernetes Apps and Optimizing Resources at Any Scale with StormForge ML

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: StormForge Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: StormForge

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Personnel: Brian Likosar

Cloud waste and operational inefficiency are significant Kubernetes problems that span pre-production, day 2 operations and beyond. The chronic inability to rightsize application resources in complex Kubernetes environments leads to excessive – yet ineffective – manual tuning, gross over-provisioning and unpredictable performance. These outcomes steal time from engineering innovation, generate unnecessarily high cloud costs and create performance and availability risks that degrade the user experience.

This session provides an overview of the StormForge platform, which uses patent-pending machine learning to drive intelligent insights and automatically rightsize Kubernetes resources at any scale. StormForge uses rapid experimentation and scenario analysis to optimize non-production environments and leverages existing observability data to optimize production. The benefits are significantly lower administrative effort and cloud costs, and more predictable SLAs.

Presented by Brian Likosar, Director of Global Solutions Architecture, StormForge.

StormForge Demo: www.stormforge.io/request-demo/

StomForge Free Trial: www.stormforge.io/try-free/


Kentik Brings Network Observability to Public Clouds

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Kentik Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Kentik

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Personnel: Jim Muggli

Abstract: Kentik, the leader in Network Observability, makes sense of the mountain of telemetry available from your public cloud infrastructure. Flow logs are combined with metadata from your compute, gateways, security policy, routing, private interconnects, cloud services, and network and web application performance metrics to provide fast answers and proactive alerts to better plan, run, and fix your AWS, Azure, and GCP infrastructure.

Presented by Jim Muggli, Solutions Engineer, Kentik.

Visit www.kentik.com/get-started/ for more information.


Using Kentik Network Observability to Uncover Hidden Costs in Public Cloud

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Kentik Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Kentik

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Personnel: Mike Krygeris

The Kentik Network Observability platform handles enriching data to give much needed context to network flow data. We do this at scale, in near-real-time, for all networks whether, it’s AWS, Azure, GCP or Private Cloud. Mike Krygeris discusses some recent examples of how Kentik was able to help identify traffic that was costing customers massive amounts of money without providing any value.

Presented by Mike Krygeris, Solutions Engineer, Kentik.

Visit www.kentik.com/resources/ebook-network-pros-guide-to-the-public-cloud/ for more information.


Kentik in the Cloud – Review of AWS and Azure

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Kentik Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Kentik

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Personnel: Ted Turner

Cloud as a concept and connections to the cloud, reviewing Kentik Maps, Data Explorer, and the Kentik ingest pipeline for AWS and Azure.

Presented by Ted Turner, Cloud Solutions Architect, Kentik.

Visit www.kentik.com/solutions/usecase/clouds-and-hybrid/ for more information.


Kentik Company Overview

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Kentik Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Kentik

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Personnel: Ted Turner

Kentik is a SAAS company with a few agents to forward data into our platform. For Cloud Observability, a company only needs to write logs to a storage location, and we will ingest them. AWS, Azure, GCP and IBM clouds are currently supported. VPC Flow logs, Describe API, NSG Flow logs, MS Graph API are all used to collect cloud details, to present a holistic picture of your network, traffic flows in the cloud, across the internet, as well as on your physical sites.

Presented by Ted Turner, Cloud Solutions Architect, Kentik.

Visit www.kentik.com/product/cloud/ for more information.


Introducing Google Cloud Hyperdisk

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Google Cloud Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Google Cloud

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Personnel: Ruwen Hess

Ruwen will discuss the recently announced Google Cloud Hyperdisk. The next generation Persistent Disk for use with Google Compute Engine (GCE), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). He’ll demonstrate Hyperdisk Extreme and the ability to support critical databases like SAP HANA and SQL Server.

Presented by Ruwen Hess, Product Management, Storage, Google.

Visit cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/storage-spotlight or cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks for more information.


Running Stateful Workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Google Cloud Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Google Cloud

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Personnel: Andrew Large, Manu Batra

Manu wil discuss the impact of stateful workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). He’ll then dive into live demonstrations showcasing Backup for GKE and the new Filestore multishare feature for NFS storage and GKE.

Presented by Manu Batra, Product Management, Storage, and Andrew Large, Engineering, GKE, Google.

Visit cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/storage-spotlight cloud.google.com/filestore/docs/multishares cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/add-on/backup-for-gke/concepts/backup-for-gke for more information.


What’s New with Google’s Cloud Storage

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Google Cloud Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Google Cloud

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Personnel: Dom Zipilli

Dom will discuss Cloud Storage best practices for a resilient infrastructure and data analytics. He’ll also dive into a live demo for Cloud Storage dual region replication with our leading Turbo Replication. Additionally, he’ll discuss the new Cloud Storage AutoClass offering providing the ability to optimize object placement, by policy, across storage classes.

Presented by Dom Zipilli, Product Management, Storage, Google.

Visit cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/storage-spotlight cloud.google.com/storage/docs/turbo-replication or cloud.google.com/storage/docs/buckets for more information.


What’s New with Storage in Google Cloud

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Google Cloud Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Google Cloud

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Personnel: Dean Hildebrand, Sean Derrington

In this overview session, Sean will share what’s new with Google Cloud, including the recent announcements around Cloud Storage, the next generation of Persistent Disk–Hyperdisk, Backup for Google Kubernetes Engine, and Filestore.

Presented by Sean Derrington, Product Management, Storage, Google Cloud, and Dean Hildebrand, OCTO, Storage, Google.

Visit cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/storage-spotlight for more information.


NetDevOps in Action with Prosimo – Onboard Your Cloud Network and Remote User Access in 5 Minutes

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Prosimo Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Prosimo

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Personnel: Erick Moore

To make it real, Erick Moore, Principal Solutions Architect, will share how Prosimo, in combination with GitHub, GitHub Actions, and HashiCorp Terraform, automate multi-cloud networking and zero trust network access (ZTNA) using a NetDevOps model to bring up or bring down infrastructure with performance, micro-segmentation, and secure access with correct guardrails in place.


How Prosimo Is Helping Customers In Their Multi-Cloud Networking Journey

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Prosimo Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Prosimo

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Personnel: Faraz Siddiqui

Join Faraz Siddiqui, Head of Solution Architecture, as he walks through the top challenges that customers face when interconnecting workloads, network endpoints, and legacy or modern applications at scale across regions, clouds, and data centers with security frameworks and performance requirements. He will walk through customer case studies that include building full-Stack transit and attaching endpoints to it operating at different layers (Network, applications, PaaS, and users) using the new Prosimo Discovery workflow in a demo that accounts for both Cloud Networking and ZTNA requirements.


Simplifying Multi-Cloud Networking with Prosimo

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Prosimo Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Prosimo

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Personnel: Mani Ganesan

Increasing complexity and the growing cost hinder cloud adoption when Enterprises do not create the right cloud networking blueprint that can span across any cloud and any type of application to deliver the time to value their business’s needs. Prosimo full stack combines cloud networking, performance, security, observability, and cost management—all powered by data insights and machine learning models, to reduce complexity and risk. In this presentation, Mani Ganesan – VP of Product, introduces the Prosimo platform architecture and outlines key customer use cases.

Visit https://www.Prosimo.io to learn more.


Cloud Field Day Delegate Roundtable with NetApp and Google Cloud

Event: Take Charge of your Multicloud Environment with NetApp

Appearance: Cloud Field Day Delegate Roundtable with NetApp and Google Cloud

Company: Google Cloud, NetApp

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Personnel: Phoebe Goh, Stephen Foskett

Speakers from NetApp and Google Cloud join a handpicked group of industry thought leaders. These thought leaders know a thing or two about multicloud data management and storage, They will have a lively discussion about key themes from themes from Cloud Field Day.

Visit www.netapp.com/cloud-services/cloud-field-day/ for more information


How To Run Enterprise File Workloads in Google Cloud with NetApp

Event: Take Charge of your Multicloud Environment with NetApp

Appearance: How To Run Enterprise File Workloads in Google Cloud

Company: Google Cloud, NetApp

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Personnel: Dean Hildebrand, Phoebe Goh, Sean Derrington

Phobe Goh from NetApp leads a Q&A discussion with Dean Hildebrand and Sean Derrington from Google on cloud storage and how customer are running file workloads in Google Cloud.

Presented by Dean Hildebrand, Technical Director, Office of the CTO and Sean Derrington, Group PM Storage, Google and Phoebe Goh, Principal Architect and Cloud Evangelist, NetApp.

Visit www.netapp.com/google-cloud/ or www.netapp.com/google-cloud/cloud-volumes-service/ for more information.


How Can NetApp Cloud File Services Improve the Day-to-Day Operations Of Your Cloud

Event: Take Charge of your Multicloud Environment with NetApp

Appearance: How Can NetApp Cloud File Services Improve Day-to-Day Cloud Operations?

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Charles Foley, Greg Marino, Phoebe Goh, Vishnu Cheruvally

Chuck Foley and some of NetApp’s smartest technical types will lead you through NetApp cloud demos and best practices for optimizing cloud storage costs, improving application performance, bolstering data protection and security, meeting compliance requirements, deploying dynamically across multicloud environments, removing barriers to productivity, and much more.

Presented by Chuck Foley, Sr. Director Product Marketing, Greg Marino, Cloud Solutions Architect, Vishnu Cheruvally, Solutions Architect and Phoebe Goh, Principal Architect and Cloud Evangelist, NetApp.

Visit netapp.com/cloud-services/multicloud/ for more information.


How Do You Make Multicloud Work For You with NetApp?

Event: Take Charge of your Multicloud Environment with NetApp

Appearance: How Does NetApp Make Multicloud Work For Customers?

Company: NetApp

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Personnel: Jeff Baxter, Phoebe Goh

Q&A discussion with Jeff Baxter and Phoebe Goh from NetApp on the future of cloud—and strategies for tackling multicloud complexity as it evolves.

Presented by Jeff Baxter, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, and Phoebe Goh, Principal Architect and Cloud Evangelist, NetApp.

Visit netapp.com/cloud-services/multicloud/ for more information.


Opengear Custom Application Deployment

Event: Networking Field Day 29

Appearance: Opengear Presents at Networking Field Day 29

Company: Opengear

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Personnel: Matthew Witmer

In this presentation, learn about the extensibility and flexibility of the Opengear Network Resilience Platform with insights into Lighthouse AP access. We discuss how to leverage Opengear to deploy custom web app to enable operators and how to virtually deploy a network engineer to any rack.