CTO Dose

Conversation with Ed Warnicke about the intersection of cloud-native (Kubernetes) and networking during Open Networking Summit.

We had time to talk to one of the sponsors of Open Networking Summit (ONS), Inocybe. One of the challenges with open source in enterprise IT is complexity. Enterprise IT want standard repeatable and supported solutions. Conferences such as ONS generally focus on builders and service providers. 

There are a sprinkling of traditional enterprise vendors such as Dell and Juniper. Then there are companies such as Inocybe that focus narrowly on making open source easier to consume in networking. There's a lot to learn from the conversation about adopting and supporting open source in enterprise IT.

Day One of the Open Networking Summit (ONS) highlighted plenty discussion around cloud-native. One topic in specific is moving NFV to Cloud-Native platforms. The community is taking a very traditional approach of moving a monolithic application to containers and then breaking it down into micro-services. Intel and Cisco are working to solve many of the challenges associated with Kubernetes and networking.

Rubrik Inc's Marketing Engineer Ken Hui joins the program to discuss cloud encryption options. Ken wrote a great four-part blog post series on understanding cloud encryption and the different options between the providers.

Data is the new oil. No other platform in the enterprise holds more data than the data protection stack. Identifying where in the world data exists, how to move that data around, and make it available for analytics is a challenge all three data protection companies presenting at CFD3 face. Here some thoughts around Druva, Rubrik, and Veritas.

Cloud Field Day 3 is quickly approaching and NetApp will be presenting. NetApp has made a push toward branding themselves a Data company vs. a storage company. What does that mean and what should we expect to hear?

We aren't a fan of cloud lift and shift. However, if you must lift and shift to the public cloud then VMware Cloud on AWS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure help mitigate some of our concerns.

In sponsored interview 3 of 3 at Datrium, Keith discussing the what of Cloud DVX with Datrium CTO Hugo Patterson and Director of Product Management Tushar Agrawal. What problem does Datrium Cloud DVX solve?

Keith was awarded the vExpert award again this year. But hasn't AWS and Cloud made VMware and therefore vExperts obsolete?