Has Kubernetes Crossed the Chasm in Enterprise IT? A Field Day Roundtable

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Reconsidering Kubernetes Cloud Field Day 15 Delegate Roundtable

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Stephen Foskett

In this Field Day Roundtable discussion, the Cloud Field Day delegates discuss Kubernetes in the enterprise. Has it “crossed the chasm” and become a mainstream component of enterprise infrastructure? Is it the new standard to describe cloud services in enterprise IT? Has it replaced Docker or even VMware vSphere?


Scaling IaC Collaboration with RackN Breaks IT Silos

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: RackN Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: RackN

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Personnel: Rob Hirschfeld, Shane Gibson

RackN breaks DevOps silos with collaboration focused IaC with the Digital Rebar platform. Enable GitOps and self-service by using integrated labs and versioned, composable and reusable automation.

Presented by Rob Hirschfeld, CEO & Co-Founder, and Shane Gibson, Chief Solutions Architect and Founding Member, RackN.

Visit rackn.com/products/infrastructure-as-code/ for more information.


Scaling Ansible Day 1 and 2 Operations with RackN

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: RackN Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: RackN

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Personnel: Rob Hirschfeld, Shane Gibson

RackN orchestrates Day 2 operations with Digital Rebar IaC platform. Our ability to switch tools like Ansible between workflows and work orders allows platform teams to create portable automation for all infrastructure types.

Presented by Rob Hirschfeld, CEO & Co-Founder, and Shane Gibson, Chief Solutions Architect and Founding Member, RackN.

Visit rackn.com/products/provisioning-automation/ for more information.


Scaling Terraform Day 1 and 2 Operations with RackN

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: RackN Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: RackN

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Personnel: Rob Hirschfeld, Shane Gibson

Explore how RackN architected the Digital Rebar IaC platform so platform teams can seamlessly scale tools like Terraform to across multiple teams, cloud, and infrastructures.

Presented by Rob Hirschfeld, CEO & Co-Founder, and Shane Gibson, Chief Solutions Architect and Founding Member, RackN.

Visit rackn.com/products/provisioning-automation/ for more information.


RackN Enterprise Scale Infrastructure as Code

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: RackN Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: RackN

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Personnel: Rob Hirschfeld

RackN Digital Rebar helps companies scale Infrastructure as Code with our full life-cycle distributed IaC platform. Learn about how RackN addresses the challenge of tools silo to create integrated infrastructure pipelines for Enterprises.

Presented by Rob Hirschfeld, CEO & Co-Founder, RackN

Visit rackn.com for more information.


Improving Customer Security Posture with Multi-Layered, Zero-Trust DMaaS

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Commvault Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Commvault, Metallic

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Personnel: Indu Pettibhotla, Louis Smith Jr., Ranga Rajagopalan

In this session we spotlight our multi-layered approach to security, and how Metallic improves the security posture for businesses of every size. We’ll also unpack key our unique position as the only Data Management as a Service offering to protect and secure data across both production and backup environments.

Presented by Ranga Rajagopalan, SVP Products, Commvault


Live Demo: See Metallic ThreatWise in Action

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Commvault Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Commvault, Metallic

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Personnel: Indu Pettibhotla, Louis Smith Jr.

Tech time! In this session, we will show you around our new early warning ransomware deception capabilities, with a live, hands-on demo of Metallic ThreatWise.

Presented by Louis Smith, Jr., Director, Metallic


Threat Deception and Its Unique Role in Next-Generation Data Protection

Event: Cloud Field Day 15

Appearance: Commvault Presents at Cloud Field Day 15

Company: Commvault, Metallic

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Personnel: Indu Pettibhotla

Ransomware has evolved. With double and triple extortion on the rise, today’s businesses need new tools that safeguard their data before it’s compromised. In this session we will highlight the importance of early warning, and how Metallic leverages patented threat deception to surface zero-day and unknown attacks before they reach your data.

Presented by Indu Peddibhotla, VP Product Management, Metallic


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.