Brian Ducharme

Brian Ducharme

Brian is an event reporter for VMBlog.com and an expert in virtualization/cloud techonlogies.  In his 15+ years of experience in the virtualization/cloud field he has interviewed hundreds of companies, users and executives.  Brian has been an active member of the NEVMUG (NEVTUG) since 2006 and attends both vmworld and Citrix Synergy every year.  Brian works full time as a Senior Software Engineer for Liquidware Labs.

Brian also spent 5 years as the managing editor of Virtual Strategy Magazine, an online magazine focused on the virtualization industry and has been with vmblog since 2011. He has a background in Computer Graphics, Marketing, Programming, Web Design, Mobile App Development, Linux Administration and is an active member of the NHJS group. 

 

In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our KubeCon + CloudNativeCon US 2023 coverage, we speak with David DeSanto, Chief Product Officer at GitLab.

Watch as we learn more about GitLab and their technology offerings and what they have planned for KubeCon attendees. Hear about the problems they solve, how they are unique, and what big trends and themes they are interested in as we head into 2024. Stick around to the end and watch a demo!

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. Its open core software development platform enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.

You can visit their website: https://about.gitlab.com/

In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our KubeCon + CloudNativeCon US 2023 coverage, we speak with Saad Malik CTO & Co-Founder of Spectro Cloud.

Watch as we learn more about Spectro Cloud and their technology offerings and what they have planned for KubeCon attendees. Hear about the problems they solve, how they are unique, and what big trends and themes they are interested in as we head into 2024. Stick around to the end and watch a demo!

Spectro Cloud helps enterprises and government organizations get full potential from Kubernetes at scale. Their product is a management platform called Palette. It enables ops teams to build, deploy and manage the full lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters, helping support application delivery across clouds, data centers and the edge.

With Palette, ops teams have the power to enforce consistent enterprise controls, while unlocking freedom of choice for them and their application owners they serve. They automate the time consuming operations tasks that are so painful in complex multicluster Kubernetes environments.

You can visit their website: https://www.spectrocloud.com/

In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our KubeCon + CloudNativeCon US 2023 coverage, we speak with Tucker Callaway, Chief Executive Officer at Mezmo.

Watch as we learn more about Mezmo and their technology offerings and what they have planned for KubeCon attendees. Hear about the problems they solve, how they are unique, and what big trends and themes they are interested in as we head into 2024. Stick around to the end and watch a demo!

Mezmo helps enterprises understand and optimize their telemetry data and enables them to respond intelligently. Mezmo's Telemetry Pipeline makes it easy for SREs, developers, platform, and cloud engineers to understand the Kubernetes data using data profiling and then ingest, transform, and route telemetry data from Kubernetes, and other sources, to any observability platform for analytics or visualization. Mezmo helps manage data costs, uncover business insights, and ensure data compliance.

You can visit their website: https://www.mezmo.com/

In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our KubeCon + CloudNativeCon US 2023 coverage, we speak with Bret Settle, Chief Product Officer at ThreatX.

Watch as we learn more about ThreatX and their technology offerings and what they have planned for KubeCon attendees. Hear about the problems they solve, how they are unique, and what big trends and themes they are interested in as we head into 2024. Stick around to the end and watch a demo!

ThreatX is managed API and application protection that lets you secure them with confidence, not complexity. It blocks botnets and advanced attacks in real time, letting enterprises keep attackers at bay without lifting a finger. Trusted by companies in every industry across the globe, ThreatX profiles attackers and blocks advanced risks to protect APIs and applications 24/7.

You can visit their website: https://www.threatx.com/

In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our KubeCon + CloudNativeCon US 2023 coverage, we speak with Alan Shreve, Chief Executive Officer at ngrok.

Watch as we learn more about ngrok and their technology offerings and what they have planned for KubeCon attendees. Hear about the problems they solve, how they are unique, and what big trends and themes they are interested in as we head into 2024. Stick around to the end and watch a demo!

ngrok is a secure unified ingress platform that combines global server load balancing, reverse proxy, firewall, API gateway, and Kubernetes Ingress Controller to deliver applications and APIs across every stage of the development lifecycle from any cloud, datacenter, or home network. ngrok brings secure ingress to your test/dev environments, external networks you don't control as well as apps and APIs in production. Over 5 million developers use ngrok for testing webhooks and previewing apps and the world's top technology brands - including Microsoft, GitHub, Okta, Shopify, Zoom, and Twilio - advocate ngrok as a key integration partner. ngrok is venture backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Coatue.

You can visit their website: http://ngrok.com/

In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our KubeCon + CloudNativeCon US 2023 coverage, we speak with Shaun O'Meara, Field CTO at Mirantis.

Watch as we learn more about Mirantis and their technology offerings and what they have planned for KubeCon attendees. Hear about the problems they solve, how they are unique, and what big trends and themes they are interested in as we head into 2024. Stick around to the end and watch a demo!

Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds, increasing developer productivity by removing the stress of managing infrastructure. The company combines automated platforms and cloud native expertise to provide a ZeroOps approach to managing and operating Kubernetes and cloud environments. Mirantis delivers a public cloud experience on any infrastructure, from the data center to the edge, with one cohesive cloud experience for complete app and DevOps portability, a single pane of glass, and automated full-stack lifecycle management, all based on open source.

You can visit their website: https://www.mirantis.com/

 

In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our KubeCon + CloudNativeCon US 2023 coverage, we speak with Divanny Lamas, CEO at Transposit.

Watch as we learn more about Transposit and their technology offerings and what they have planned for KubeCon attendees. Hear about the problems they solve, how they are unique, and what big trends and themes they are interested in as we head into 2024. Stick around to the end and watch a demo!

Transposit is the world's first AI-powered incident management platform that helps ITOps and SRE teams boost operational efficiency and resolve incidents faster with end-to-end automation, AI-powered guidance, and dynamic on-call. At the center of Transposit is a 24/7 AI operator, a tireless team member customized to understand every customer's unique environment to offer suggestions and surface automations. Transposit's end-to-end automation guides teams with instant contextual awareness and improves efficiency by 100x. Transposit's industry-first usage-based on-call pricing ensures customers only pay for what they use. Transposit uniquely guides teams through the entire incident lifecycle with on-call management, automated runbooks, and thousands of integrations and automations. Its human-in-the-loop approach to AI enhances the unique expertise of humans, empowering teams to accelerate response and resolution.

You can visit their website: https://www.transposit.com/

October 26, 2023

Mirantis

Mirantis provides a complete suite of infrastructure and application delivery solutions to fulfill the promise of cloud native development: flexible, scalable applications deployed your way. 

From open source projects like k0s to essential tools like Lens Desktop and Lens AppIQ, Mirantis simplifies day-to-day work with Kubernetes. Infrastructure platforms like Mirantis Kubernetes Engine and Mirantis Container Runtime provide a secure, enterprise-grade foundation for modern application development and deployment. Professional services for managed Kubernetes, platform engineering, application migration, and more help teams focus on innovation.

Powered by open source technology and decades of experience, Mirantis helps simplify and accelerate the cloud native software cycle, tailoring solutions to suit your precise needs—and help you achieve your goals faster.

Lens Desktop
Visualize and manage clusters with the world’s most popular graphical user interface for Kubernetes.

Lens AppIQ
App-centric intelligence for modern application management.

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine + OpsCare Plus
Fully managed remote operations with up to 99.99% SLA, tailored to your organization.

Join us for a special VMblog spotlight video ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023, with Ambassador Labs, Aserto, BellSoft, CloudCasa, JFrog, and SentinelOne, six innovative companies that are leading the way in Kubernetes and cloud native computing.

These companies are at the forefront of developing new technologies and solutions that are helping organizations to build, deploy, and manage their cloud native applications more effectively and efficiently.

In this video, you will learn about:

  • Ambassador Labs: Ambassador Labs is revolutionizing the way development teams code, test, ship and run Kubernetes applications. Their flagship products, Edge Stack and Telepresence, are used by global enterprises to accelerate deployment and facilitate collaboration across the full lifecycle of cloud native software delivery. Ambassador Labs was an early Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) open source project contributor, and their Emissary-ingress and Telepresence projects are used by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide.

  • Aserto: Aserto is a cloud-native authorization platform that enables organizations to implement fine-grained access control for their applications and data. Aserto's fine-grained approach to authorization makes it easy to define and manage complex access policies, and to ensure that users only have access to the resources they need. 

  • BellSoft: BellSoft is a major contributor to the OpenJDK project, and Liberica JDK, our branded OpenJDK runtime, is the Java runtime of choice for VMware, Spring Framework, JetBrains, and millions of users around the world. We are the only OpenJDK vendor that supports all LTS Java versions, legacy JDK 6 & 7 and Liberica NIK, the GraalVM-based native-image compiler. Our Java platform, Liberica JDK, provides a unified Java experience across the organization, delivering a more secure, reliable, and cost-effective approach to application development on any platform and in any environment. Liberica JDK Performance Edition, currently available for JDK 11 and expected for JDK 8, allows you to boost your app’s performance with JVM 17 features without migration. Performance Edition is available in Alpaquita containers, which is critical for enterprise cloud-based Java development.

  • CloudCasa: CloudCasa by Catalogic provides innovative multi-cloud data protection, migration, and disaster recovery for Kubernetes applications and cloud data services. CloudCasa is fully compatible and complementary to Velero, the open-source Kubernetes backup tool that has been downloaded over 100 million times.

  • JFrog: Driven by a “Liquid Software” vision, the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform is a single system of record that powers organizations to build, manage, and distribute software quickly and securely, ensuring it is available, traceable, and tamper-proof. The integrated security features also help identify, protect, and remediate against threats and vulnerabilities. JFrog’s hybrid, universal, multi-cloud platform is available as both self-hosted and SaaS services across major cloud service providers. Millions of users and 7K+ customers worldwide, including a majority of the Fortune 100, depend on JFrog solutions to securely embrace digital transformation.

  • SentinelOne: SentinelOne is a cybersecurity company that provides the world's first Singularity XDR platform. SentinelOne’s Singularity Platform detects, prevents, and responds to cyber attacks at machine speed, empowering organizations to secure endpoints, cloud workloads, containers, identities, and mobile and network-connected devices with speed, accuracy and simplicity.

This video is a must-watch for anyone who is interested in learning more about the latest innovations in Kubernetes and cloud native computing. It is also a great resource for organizations that are looking for new solutions to help them build, deploy, and manage their cloud native applications more effectively and efficiently.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is the premier event for Kubernetes and cloud native computing. It is taking place in November 2023, and these six companies will be showcasing their latest products and solutions at the event. If you are attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, be sure to visit their booths to learn more about how their solutions can help you to succeed in your cloud native journey.

October 19, 2023

ThreatX

ThreatX is API and application protection that lets you secure them with confidence, not complexity – from the edge to runtime. It blocks botnets and advanced attacks in real time, letting enterprises keep attackers at bay without lifting a finger. Trusted by companies in every industry across the globe, ThreatX profiles attackers and blocks advanced risks to protect APIs and applications 24/7. Learn more at https://www.threatx.com.  

Resources:

ThreatX Runtime API and Application Protection

Protecting Against Runtime Threats to APIs and Applications

Managed API and Application Protection

 

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