How SOUTHWORKS Leverages Multi-Cloud Technologies

Event: AppDev Field Day 2

Appearance: SOUTHWORKS Presents at AppDev Field Day 2

Company: SOUTHWORKS

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Personnel: Johnny Halife

In this presentation, Johnny Halife, CTO of SOUTHWORKS, discusses the company’s approach to leveraging multi-cloud technologies and the importance of being cloud-agnostic. He emphasizes that the cloud landscape is no longer about choosing between AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, but rather about integrating services across multiple providers to offer interoperability. SOUTHWORKS aims to build bridges between different cloud platforms, allowing clients to take advantage of the best offerings from each provider. This approach is driven by both technical and non-technical factors, such as market trends and business needs, which may require companies to switch cloud providers for reasons unrelated to the quality of the service itself. SOUTHWORKS positions itself as a partner that can work with all major cloud platforms, offering flexibility and resilience to its clients.

Halife also highlights the importance of understanding the strengths and weaknesses of each cloud provider. SOUTHWORKS maintains strong partnerships with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and its team is well-versed in the specific technologies and terminologies of each platform. This knowledge allows the company to advise clients on the best migration strategies and to help them navigate the complexities of moving between clouds. SOUTHWORKS prides itself on being transparent with its clients, offering them a range of options and ensuring that they are not locked into a single cloud provider. The company’s cloud-agnostic approach is a key part of its value proposition, enabling it to provide agile and flexible solutions that meet the evolving needs of its clients.

Finally, Halife touches on the role of Kubernetes in achieving cloud standardization, noting that while Kubernetes is a good starting point, it is not a complete solution. He explains that while containerization allows for some level of portability across clouds, there is still a need for more advanced tools and abstractions to fully take advantage of cloud-native services. SOUTHWORKS is actively involved in contributing to open-source projects that aim to fill these gaps, such as Terraform and Carpenter. The company’s commitment to multi-cloud solutions is reflected in its day-to-day operations and its development philosophy, which focuses on providing short-term, hands-on support to help clients achieve their goals quickly and efficiently.


SOUTHWORKS Migrations and Multi-Cloud Scenarios

Event: AppDev Field Day 2

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Company: SOUTHWORKS

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Personnel: Johnny Halife

In this presentation, Johnny Halife, CTO of SOUTHWORKS, discusses the company’s approach to cloud migrations and multi-cloud scenarios, focusing on how they help clients transition from traditional infrastructure to SaaS models. One of the key examples he provides is a customer who initially deployed VMs on customer subscriptions but wanted to shift to a SaaS model to reduce infrastructure costs and management overhead. SOUTHWORKS helped by containerizing workloads, leveraging Kubernetes, and using tools like Crossplane and Argo to manage multi-tenancy and compliance. The project was completed in nine months with three squads, allowing the customer to accelerate their time to market and reskill their workforce in cloud-agnostic technologies like Kubernetes, rather than being tied to specific cloud providers.

Another case involved a large-scale migration and modernization project for a company with 250 accounts and 100 teams across five regions. The company had acquired multiple businesses without integrating their technologies, leading to a complex infrastructure spread across various cloud providers. SOUTHWORKS created a blueprint using Terraform to streamline operations, prioritize managed resources, and ensure zero downtime during the migration. They also implemented a virtual network that connected data centers globally, allowing for seamless workload movement and high availability. The project took 14 months and involved 15 SOUTHWORKS engineers working alongside 30 client engineers, with a focus on creating a unified security and deployment strategy across the organization.

Throughout the presentation, Halife emphasizes the importance of flexibility, cloud-agnostic design, and the ability to scale rapidly. He discusses how SOUTHWORKS helps clients balance the use of advanced cloud services while maintaining the flexibility to move between providers. By creating abstraction layers and leveraging open-source tools, SOUTHWORKS enables clients to tap into the best features of each cloud provider without being locked in. Halife also highlights the importance of teaching clients to “fish” by integrating their teams into the process, ensuring they can maintain and evolve their infrastructure independently after the engagement.


The Future of Cloud Migration and Multi-Cloud Strategies with SOUTHWORKS

Event: AppDev Field Day 2

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Company: SOUTHWORKS

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Personnel: Johnny Halife

In this presentation, Johnny Halife, CTO of SOUTHWORKS, discusses the company’s role as a technology partner, particularly in the areas of cloud migration and multi-cloud strategies. SOUTHWORKS works with technology-driven companies, including startups and ISVs, to help them accelerate their cloud adoption and optimize their infrastructure. Halife emphasizes that SOUTHWORKS is not just a system integrator but a partner that helps companies enhance their engineering capabilities and achieve their goals faster. The focus of the presentation is on sharing real-world experiences and insights from the field, particularly in the context of multi-cloud environments and cloud-native technologies.

Halife highlights the growing trend of hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, driven by factors such as customer demands, regulatory requirements, and the need for service availability across different regions. He notes that while companies initially invested heavily in mastering specific cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP, they are now realizing that a single cloud provider may not be sufficient. This shift is often due to factors like data residency requirements, security concerns, and the need for edge computing to reduce latency and improve performance. Additionally, there is increasing pressure to optimize workloads using AI and other technologies to manage the complexity of multi-cloud environments more efficiently.

The presentation also touches on the benefits of modernizing cloud strategies, which often result in a “virtuous circle” of improvements. By simplifying management and optimizing workloads, companies can reduce costs, improve performance, and create new revenue streams. Halife shares examples of how SOUTHWORKS has helped clients navigate cloud-to-cloud migrations, transition from on-premise to cloud, and even shift business models from traditional licensing to SaaS offerings. These real-world examples demonstrate the value of multi-cloud strategies and the positive outcomes that can be achieved, even when the initial transition may seem challenging.


Aviz for Japanese Telcos

Event: Networking Field Day 36

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Company: Aviz Networks

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Personnel: Atsuhiro Aiyama

Japan’s telcos face unique challenges in delivering consistent, high-quality network performance, where even minor outages require regulatory reporting. Aviz Networks, in partnership with ITOCHU Techno-Solutions America, provides a robust, open networking solution tailored to these demands. Our solution, including the Open Packet Broker and Service Nodes, ensures seamless 5G data analysis, subscriber-aware insights, and vendor-agnostic flexibility. By leveraging centralized management, AI-driven analytics, and open-source technology, Aviz enables Japanese telcos to meet strict quality standards while optimizing cost and operational efficiency.


Aviz Networks: The New Way for Network Application and Traffic Intelligence

Event: Networking Field Day 36

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Company: Aviz Networks

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Personnel: Chid Perumal, Ilona Gabinsky

At Aviz Networks, open-source is at the heart of everything we do. In this presentation, Ilona Gabinsky will dive into our vendor-agnostic AI Networking Stack, built to empower enterprises with flexible, AI-ready solutions that seamlessly support both modern and legacy workloads. From our work with SONiC to integrating open-source LLMs, we’re redefining network infrastructure for agility and performance.

Then, Aviz Networks’ CTO will introduce our advanced Service Nodes, a game-changer in deep observability for telecom and enterprise environments. Our Service Nodes enable real-time visibility, packet processing, and high-speed data insights, powered by AI to meet the demands of modern 4G and 5G networks. Key capabilities include GTP-C/U correlation for user-specific insights, seamless mobile handover management, application identification through advanced DPI, and high availability with unified fabric management.

Leveraging AI integration with NVIDIA Morpheus, our Service Nodes provide granular, subscriber-aware analytics that drive smarter decisions, enhanced security, and optimized network performance. Discover how Aviz Networks is setting new standards in intelligent network observability.


Meter Platform Demo: Deploying Meter End-to-End

Event: Networking Field Day 36

Appearance: Meter Presents at Networking Field Day 36

Company: Meter

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Personnel: Anil Varanasi, Sunil Varanasi

Meter provides internet infrastructure for the enterprise.

This hands-on session, led by Meter Co-founder and CTO, Sunil Varanasi, brings Meter’s product to life.

With a live demonstration of bringing a network up from 0 to 1, Sunil will show you how Meter’s vertically integrated stack delivers immediate results. This demo will showcase Meter’s end-to-end solution including our new generative UI product, Meter Command—empowering customers with deep visibility and granular control of their networks.


Meter Architecture Overview with Sunil Varanasi

Event: Networking Field Day 36

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Company: Meter

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Personnel: Sunil Varanasi

Meter provides internet infrastructure for the enterprise.

In this session, Meter Co-founder and CTO, Sunil Varanasi will take you under the hood of Meter’s architecture, showcasing the complete stack—from hardware to software. He’ll dive into how Meter’s Network Operating System powers its entire stack, enabling rapid product innovation.

This talk examines how Meter’s network architecture is optimized for the best possible customer outcomes on performance, security, scalability, and reliability.


What is Meter? Building from the Ground Up

Event: Networking Field Day 36

Appearance: Meter Presents at Networking Field Day 36

Company: Meter

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Personnel: Anil Varanasi

Meter provides internet infrastructure for the enterprise.

In this session, Meter Co-founder and CEO, Anil Varanasi explores the “why” behind Meter and what makes Meter different.

You’ll leave with an understanding of how Meter works, Meter’s ambitions, and why we believe it will be the last networking company.


PathSolutions TotalView Operational Demo

Event: Networking Field Day 36

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Company: PathSolutions

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Personnel: Tim Titus

See a demo of PathSolutions TotalView and how it can speed troubleshooting for help desk employees. This demo discusses how the platform can conceptualize errors quickly and give you actionable information to solve these issues and reduce time spent on trouble tickets.


How PathSolutions Brings Advanced Network Monitoring with Automated Network Troubleshooting to Enterprises

Event: Networking Field Day 36

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Company: PathSolutions

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Personnel: Tim Titus

Automating network troubleshooting is something that other network monitoring systems can’t offer because they don’t collect enough information and don’t have any analytical capabilities to help solve problems. PathSolutions TotalView provides Total Network Visibility® meaning that you will know more about your network than with any other monitoring system.


Productize Your Network Automations with Itential

Event: Networking Field Day 36

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 36

Company: Itential

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Personnel: Dan Sullivan

Orchestrating the provisioning of infrastructure is a key opportunity to capture and store essential data throughout the deployment process. Every time you automate provisioning, you can gather critical insights—technical details, product states, and more. However, without proper tracking and organization, it becomes challenging to understand what’s running where, its current state, or the next steps required.

In this session, Dan Sullivan, Director of Solutions Engineering, will demonstrate how to define, capture, and leverage stateful data to build and manage self-service infrastructure products. You’ll discover how Itential empowers teams to track product states over time and publish reusable workflows that developers and internal customers can access through a self-service catalog.


Using Itential to Orchestrate Your Network Automations

Event: Networking Field Day 36

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 36

Company: Itential

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Personnel: Rich Martin

Most network teams leverage some sort of domain-specific automation, whether through open-source tools or controller-based software to implement network changes more efficiently. While automating individual tasks may suffice in certain cases, scaling infrastructure as a product for broader consumption requires standardized processes. Orchestration unifies tools, services, and automations across your ecosystem, streamlining each step for greater efficiency and enabling the flexibility to combine automations into new, composable products.

In this session, Rich Martin, Director of Technical Marketing will demonstrate how to connect different automations and systems to orchestrate the provisioning of a new product. You’ll see how Itential integrates with everything from change management tools to documentation processes, so every automation step — from pre-checks to notifications — happens smoothly and consistently.


Operationalize Your Network Automations with Itential

Event: Networking Field Day 36

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 36

Company: Itential

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Personnel: Wyatt Sullivan

You’ve built a library of useful automations to automate tedious, time-consuming tasks. But as your efforts scale, so do your headaches. You’ve got different scripts for different tasks, written in different languages, with varying levels of access. And when your network starts to grow (along with the complexity of what you need to automate), things start to get messy. Fast.

In this session, Wyatt Sullivan, Technical Marketing Engineer, will showcase Itential’s new Automation-as-a-Service offering and how NetDevOps engineers can standardize automation execution across Ansible Playbooks, Python Scripts and OpenTofu plans and how to enable secure authorization and role-based access control, turning automations into self-service products that teams can access and execute independently.


Itential and The Evolution of Network Automation

Event: Networking Field Day 36

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Company: Itential

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Personnel: Peter Sprygada

Network automation is going through an evolution right now. Most network engineers have built awesome scripts or playbooks that solve some problems but you’re nowhere near deploying like AWS. For most, automation likely saves you some time and reduces human error but isn’t the sort of thing you can package up into a product and enable the rest of the organization to consume, let alone be delivered as a self-serve product for app dev teams to utilize.

In this session, Peter Sprygada, VP of Product Management will dive into making sense of the evolution of network automation and how network teams can become producers and evolve from building network automations to offering infrastructure products with Itential.


Elisity Microsegmentation Platform Demo – Clinical Healthcare Use Cases

Event: Networking Field Day 36

Appearance: Elisity Presents at Networking Field Day 36

Company: Elisity

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Personnel: Dana Yanch, Piotr Kupisiewicz

This Elisity presentation at Network Field Day 36 focuses on includes the Elisity Microsegmentation Platform Demo: Securing Clinical Healthcare Networks with Identity-based microsegmentation platform that accelerates an organizations Zero Trust maturity.

Watch this comprehensive demo of how Elisity’s cloud-native microsegmentation platform transforms security for clinical healthcare environments. In this video, we showcase how leading healthcare organizations are using Elisity to protect critical medical devices, EHR systems, and sensitive patient data across complex networks.

The demo highlights the revolutionary Elisity IdentityGraph devices, from IoMT devices to clinical workstations. technology, which provides unprecedented visibility into all users, workloads

You’ll see how our solution:

  • Automatically discovers and classifies medical devices, creating a complete asset inventory that integrates with existing IoMT security platforms
  • Visualizes real-time traffic patterns between clinical systems, helping security teams spot potential threats
  • Implements identity-based policies that follow assets anywhere on the network, ensuring consistent security even as devices move between departments
  • Transforms existing network switches into policy enforcement points without requiring new hardware

We’ll demonstrate practical use cases, including:

  • Segmenting clinical networks from administrative systems
  • Protecting connected medical devices with automated policy enforcement
  • Ensuring HIPAA compliance through granular access controls
  • Managing secure access for visiting clinicians and medical device vendors

Featured in Forrester Wave Microsegmentation, Q3 2024 as a Strong Performer, Elisity is trusted by leading healthcare organizations including GSK, Main Line Health, and BUPA to secure their most critical assets.

Whether you’re looking to implement HHS 405(d) guidelines or strengthen your overall security posture, this demo shows how Elisity’s cloud-delivered microsegmentation platform can help you achieve zero trust security with minimal disruption to clinical operations.


How to Optimize a Microsegmentation Architecture with Elisity

Event: Networking Field Day 36

Appearance: Elisity Presents at Networking Field Day 36

Company: Elisity

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Personnel: Dana Yanch, Piotr Kupisiewicz

This Elisity presentation at Network Field Day 36 focuses on how Elisity’s microsegmentation architecture leverages a cloud-native distributed control plane that separates policy management from enforcement. At its core, the system utilizes a centralized policy management platform that integrates with existing identity providers and maintains the Elisity IdentityGraph—a comprehensive mapping of all network assets, their relationships, and behavior patterns. This identity-centric approach moves beyond traditional IP-based controls to enable context-aware policy enforcement at the network edge.

The implementation relies on Elisity Virtual Edge controller(s) that transform existing access-layer switches into policy enforcement points. These controllers communicate with the Elisity Cloud Control center via secure channels, enabling real-time policy updates without requiring dedicated hardware. For manufacturing environments, this architecture enables granular control over industrial control systems and OT devices while maintaining IEC 62443 compliance. In healthcare settings, it facilitates 405(d) HICP compliance while protecting sensitive medical devices and clinical systems.

Key technical components include the Elisity identity-based Dynamic Policy Engine that leverages machine learning for asset discovery and classification, graphical policy visualization matrices for traffic flow analysis, and virtual edge nodes that enforce policies using native switch functionality. The system continuously monitors east-west and north-south traffic patterns, providing real-time telemetry data for behavior analysis and policy refinement.

This architecture enables security teams to implement zero trust principles at scale, with the ability to microsegment networks down to individual workloads while maintaining the performance requirements of critical manufacturing and healthcare operations. The platform’s ability to learn from traffic patterns and automatically adjust policies based on identity and context makes it particularly effective in environments where traditional agent-based solutions are impractical.


Elisity Top Microsegmentation Challenges and Goals Across the Manufacturing Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industries

Event: Networking Field Day 36

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Company: Elisity

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Personnel: Dana Yanch, Piotr Kupisiewicz

This Elisity presentation at Network Field Day 36 focuses on how the convergence of IT and OT networks has created unique cybersecurity challenges across manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and healthcare sectors, where legacy systems, unmanaged devices, and critical operations intersect. This technical talk explores how microsegmentation addresses the distinct security requirements of these regulated industries.

In manufacturing environments, the primary challenge lies in securing industrial control systems that often run on legacy operating systems and utilize proprietary protocols. Organizations must maintain IEC 62443 compliance while enabling secure communication between production zones, enterprise IT systems, and remote access points. Critical goals include protecting intellectual property in manufacturing execution systems (MES) while ensuring zero operational downtime.

Pharmaceutical companies face the additional complexity of FDA-regulated environments where Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) systems require both rigorous access controls and detailed audit trails. These organizations need microsegmentation solutions that can isolate quality control systems, laboratory information management systems (LIMS), and research data while maintaining strict regulatory compliance. Healthcare institutions struggle with an explosion of IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) devices that can’t support traditional security agents.

Meeting 405(d) HICP guidelines requires organizations to implement microsegmentation without disrupting critical care devices or patient monitoring systems. The challenge intensifies with the need to segment clinical networks from billing systems while maintaining HIPAA compliance.

Learn how modern microsegmentation architectures and platforms like Elisity address these challenges. You’ll see how Elisity’s Identity-based microsegmentation platform enables policy enforcement at the network edge, leveraging existing switch infrastructure for policy enforcement.

Learn why success requires continuous asset discovery, automated policy recommendations based on learned traffic patterns, and the ability to enforce segmentation policies without requiring hardware refresh or network redesign.


Elisity Microsegmentation Platform Origin Story

Event: Networking Field Day 36

Appearance: Elisity Presents at Networking Field Day 36

Company: Elisity

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Personnel: Dana Yanch, Piotr Kupisiewicz

This Elisity presentation at Network Field Day 36 includes an overview of the Elisity origin story. Elisity was founded in 2019 and has was built to be a leap forward in network segmentation architecture and today Elisity is leading the enterprise effort to achieve Zero Trust maturity, proactively prevent security risks, and reduce network complexity. Designed to be implemented rapidly, without downtime, upon implementation, the platform instantly discovers every device on an enterprise network and correlates comprehensive device insights into the Elisity IdentityGraph .

This empowers teams with the context needed to automate classification and apply dynamic security policies to any device wherever and whenever it appears on the network. These granular, identity-based microsegmentation security policies are managed in the cloud and enforced using your existing network switching infrastructure in real-time, even on ephemeral IT/IoT/OT devices. Founded in 2019, Elisity has a global employee footprint and a growing number of customers in the Fortune 500.

In 2024 The Forrester Wave : Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2024 was published. In this evaluation, Elisity was cited as a Strong Performer in Microsegmentation Solutions. Elisity was one of 11 vendors evaluated for the Forrester Wave based on 23 criteria that examined a vendor’s current offering, strategy, and market presence. In its first appearance in a Forrester Wave, Elisity received the highest score possible in the vision, roadmap, network-based enforcement, and OT, healthcare, and IoT criteria.


Accelerate Zero Trust Maturity Through Enterprise-Wide Microsegmentation with Elisity

Event: Networking Field Day 36

Appearance: Elisity Presents at Networking Field Day 36

Company: Elisity

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Personnel: Dana Yanch, Piotr Kupisiewicz

Elisity empowers enterprises to rapidly improve their security posture and accelerate Zero Trust maturity across their entire digital ecosystem. Our revolutionary approach to microsegmentation delivers comprehensive protection for all users and devices—across IT and IoT/OT—without disruption or complexity.

The Elisity IdentityGraph automatically discovers and correlates your complete network landscape, providing the contextual intelligence needed to automate security policy creation and enforcement. We’ll show how leading enterprises implement Elisity in weeks, not years, achieving immediate risk reduction while advancing their Zero Trust journey.

Elisity is a leap forward in network segmentation architecture and is leading the enterprise effort to achieve Zero Trust maturity, proactively prevent security risks, and reduce network complexity. Designed to be implemented in days, without downtime, upon implementation, the platform rapidly discovers every device on an enterprise network and correlates comprehensive device insights into the Elisity IdentityGraph . This empowers teams with the context needed to automate classification and apply dynamic security policies to any device wherever and whenever it appears on the network. These granular, identity-based microsegmentation security policies are managed in the cloud and enforced using your existing network switching infrastructure in real-time, even on ephemeral IT/IoT/OT devices. Founded in 2019, Elisity has a global employee footprint and a growing number of customers in the Fortune 500.


Arista Multi-Domain Segmentation (MSS)

Event: Networking Field Day 36

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Company: Arista

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Personnel: Alessandro Barbieri

Enterprise-wide zero trust networking across multiple network domains requires a flexible identity-based microsegmentation service enforced in the distributed network. CloudVision delivers multi-domain orchestration and monitoring services of zero trust policies based on microperimeters, with dedicated, easy to use security dashboards to manage the end-to-end microsegmentation lifecycle across the enterprise.


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