Topic: Data Center Technology

Seminar Topics

[1 CPE] A Pragmatic Approach to Implementing a Cloud Service Operating Model

  Presented by Tristan Todd, Solutions Architect • Pure Storage & Structured

For almost 10 years now, future-focused datacenter teams have been trying to evolve to a more cloud-like operating model. Some of us have succeeded, some of us have failed. During this fun-filled, example-heavy session, Solutions Architect Tristan Todd will share patterns of failure, patterns of success, some practical examples, and recipes for success on how organizations have succeeded in realizing success in adapting to a cloud ops model. This will be a fun, interactive, high-energy session that you won’t want to miss!

[1 CPE] Securing East/West Traffic in a Modern Data Center

  Presented by HPE Aruba Networking & Structured

While data center networking has evolved over the past decade to address the volume and velocity of emerging application architectures, security and services architectures have not kept up with the explosion of East/West traffic. These services have all been different appliances or VMs bolted onto the network, leading to many challenges for IT teams including complexity, different vendors to manage, and network chokepoints. With a new category of data center switches powered by embedded DPU technology, we can run stateful services such as firewall, telemetry, and encryption directly on the switches themselves. With these stateful services delivered at wire-rate on every port, we can solve some of the biggest challenges with East/West traffic such a scale, performance, micro-segmentation, visibility, and automation.

[1 CPE] How to Stop East/West Attacks in Your Data Center

  Presented by Aruba Networks

70% of all breaches are caused by endpoint security vulnerabilities, followed by lateral movement in the data center. Halt that hacker traffic. Attend this session to learn about a new category of data center switch that combines best-of-breed L2/3 switching with the industry’s first hardware-accelerated programmable processor. This new tool augments your malware and ransomware detection and response capabilities by delivering stateful firewall services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and orders of magnitude improvement over traditional data center L2/3 switches. You will learn how to gain visibility and enforce security policy for all East/West flows between workloads to protect the critical assets in your data center.

[1 CPE] Modern Segmentation Architectures

  Presented by Joe Lentz, Systems Engineer • Arista Networks

In this presentation, we will explore the different network segmentation models available, including VLANs, VRFs, and group-based segmentation models.

We will begin with an overview of the different segmentation models and discuss their benefits and drawbacks. VLANs provide a simple way to segment traffic but do not scale well in larger environments. VRFs offer more robust isolation but can be complex to manage. Group-based segmentation models offer a flexible and scalable way to segment traffic based on the endpoint itself rather than the network. We will discuss the implementation and configuration of each of these models and provide examples of how they can be used in different scenarios.

Next, we will discuss how EVPN with either VXLAN or MPLS transport can be used as an attachment point to allow for segmentation to cross the network device boundary and become a network-wide policy.

Finally, we will compare the different models to help you choose the best segmentation approach for your network, as well as how to layer these together to have a more complete design. By the end of this presentation, you will have a better understanding of modern segmentation architectures and be equipped to make informed decisions for your network.

[1 CPE] How to Stop East/West Attacks in Your Data Center

  Presented by Aruba Networks

70% of all breaches are caused by endpoint security vulnerabilities, followed by lateral movement in the data center. Halt that hacker traffic. Attend this session to learn about a new category of data center switch that combines best-of-breed L2/3 switching with the industry’s first hardware-accelerated programmable processor. This new tool augments your malware and ransomware detection and response capabilities by delivering stateful firewall services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and orders of magnitude improvement over traditional data center L2/3 switches. You will learn how to gain visibility and enforce security policy for all East/West flows between workloads to protect the critical assets in your data center.

[1 CPE] How to Stop East/West Attacks in Your Data Center

  Presented by Aruba Networks

70% of all breaches are caused by endpoint security vulnerabilities, followed by lateral movement in the data center. Halt that hacker traffic. Attend this session to learn about a new category of data center switch that combines best-of-breed L2/3 switching with the industry’s first hardware-accelerated programmable processor. This new tool augments your malware and ransomware detection and response capabilities by delivering stateful firewall services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and orders of magnitude improvement over traditional data center L2/3 switches. You will learn how to gain visibility and enforce security policy for all East/West flows between workloads to protect the critical assets in your data center.

[1 CPE] Uniting Networking and Security to Build for a World that Never Stops

  Presented by Anthony James, Vice President, Security Strategy • Infoblox

Technology professionals are challenged with ensuring significant digital risks do not impact their organizations or those who depend on them. However, new approaches to networking and security are required with an increasingly distributed workforce, ever-more sophisticated cyberattacks, adoption of cloud-based infrastructures, and the rollout of 5G and IoT. Tomorrow’s technology ecosystem must be built on new, highly resilient foundations. These foundations empower those responsible for network performance and protection with the visibility, context, and control to tame complexity, protect users and customers, and ensure their businesses will thrive in a world that never stops.

[1 CPE] How to Stop East/West Attacks in Your Data Center

  Presented by Aruba Networks

70% of all breaches are caused by endpoint security vulnerabilities, followed by lateral movement in the data center. Halt that hacker traffic. Attend this session to learn about a new category of data center switch that combines best-of-breed L2/3 switching with the industry’s first hardware-accelerated programmable processor. This new tool augments your malware and ransomware detection and response capabilities by delivering stateful firewall services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and orders of magnitude improvement over traditional data center L2/3 switches. You will learn how to gain visibility and enforce security policy for all East/West flows between workloads to protect the critical assets in your data center.

[1 CPE] How to Stop East/West Attacks in Your Data Center

  Presented by Aruba Networks

70% of all breaches are caused by endpoint security vulnerabilities, followed by lateral movement in the data center. Halt that hacker traffic. Attend this session to learn about a new category of data center switch that combines best-of-breed L2/3 switching with the industry’s first hardware-accelerated programmable processor. This new tool augments your malware and ransomware detection and response capabilities by delivering stateful firewall services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and orders of magnitude improvement over traditional data center L2/3 switches. You will learn how to gain visibility and enforce security policy for all East/West flows between workloads to protect the critical assets in your data center.

[1 CPE] Modern Segmentation Architectures

  Presented by Tyler Conrad and Jeremy Georges • Arista Networks

In this presentation, we will explore the different network segmentation models available, including VLANs, VRFs, and group-based segmentation models.

We will begin with an overview of the different segmentation models and discuss their benefits and drawbacks. VLANs provide a simple way to segment traffic but do not scale well in larger environments. VRFs offer more robust isolation but can be complex to manage. Group-based segmentation models offer a flexible and scalable way to segment traffic based on the endpoint itself rather than the network. We will discuss the implementation and configuration of each of these models and provide examples of how they can be used in different scenarios.

Next, we will discuss how EVPN with either VXLAN or MPLS transport can be used as an attachment point to allow for segmentation to cross the network device boundary and become a network-wide policy.

Finally, we will compare the different models to help you choose the best segmentation approach for your network, as well as how to layer these together to have a more complete design. By the end of this presentation, you will have a better understanding of modern segmentation architectures and be equipped to make informed decisions for your network.