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. 

 

As part of our KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 coverage, VMblog visits with Rob Harrison, Chief Product Officer and Ryan Petrich, Vice President of Architecture at Capsule8.

In this video, we discuss a number of items, including where Kubernetes and Cloud technologies are headed into 2021, how 2020 affected the way the company and its clients operate, and we find out more about the company, its technologies, how they differentiate in the market, and also what's new with their latest solution. Watch and learn more as they walk us through a demo of their product.

Capsule8 is a pioneer behind production-ready infrastructure security for Linux systems. Designed to avoid costly downtime, overloaded hosts, or stability snafus caused by traditional security tools, organizations depend on Capsule8 to efficiently protect their cloud workloads with monitoring, detection, and protection in any environment.

Learn more about Capsule8 by visiting: https://capsule8.com/

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 is digital.  Are you in attendance?  We reached out to Gremlin digitally to learn more.

Read this exclusive interview between VMblog and Gremlin, the Chaos Engineering company.  Gremlin is the world’s first hosted Chaos Engineering service with a mission to help build a more reliable internet. It turns failure into resilience by offering engineers tooling to safely experiment on complex systems, in order to identify weaknesses before they impact customers and cause revenue loss.

As part of our KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 coverage, VMblog visits with Tenry Fu CEO & Co-Founder of Spectro Cloud, an enterprise cloud-native infrastructure company.

In this video, we discuss a number of items, including where Kubernetes and Cloud technologies are headed into 2021, how 2020 affected the way the company and its clients operate, and we find out more about the company, its technologies, how they differentiate in the market, and also what's new with their latest solution. Watch and learn more as Tenry Fu walks us through a demo of their product.

Spectro Cloud is an enterprise cloud-native infrastructure company that makes Kubernetes manageable at scale for enterprises that need superior control and flexibility. They provide solutions that help enterprises run Kubernetes their way, anywhere.

Learn more about Spectro Cloud by visiting: https://www.spectrocloud.com

As part of our KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 coverage, VMblog visits with Douglas Fallstrom, co-founder and SVP of Products & Operations at Hammerspace, a software-defined hybrid cloud file storage company.

In this video, we discuss a number of items, including where Kubernetes and Cloud technologies are headed into 2021, how 2020 affected the way the company and its clients operate, and we find out more about the company, its technologies, how they differentiate in the market, and also what's new with their latest solution.  Watch and learn more as Douglas Fallstrom walks us through a demo of their product.

Hammerspace is storageless data for hybrid cloud Kubernetes environments. By untethering data from the infrastructure, Hammerspace overcomes data gravity to provide dynamic and efficient hybrid cloud storage as a fully automated, consumption-based resource. Users self-service their persistent data orchestration to enable workload portability from the cloud to the edge.

Learn more about Hammerspace by visiting: https://hammerspace.com.  And get a FREE license: https://hammerspace.com/10-tb/

As part of our KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 coverage, VMblog visits with Alissa Lydon, Director of Product Marketing and Kunal Jain, Director of Product Development, at Sauce Labs, a leading provider of continuous testing solutions.

In this video, we discuss a number of items with Alissa Lydon, including where Kubernetes and Cloud technologies are headed into 2021, how 2020 affected the way the company and its clients operate, and we find out more about the company, its technologies, how they differentiate in the market, and also what's new with their latest solution. Watch and learn more as Kunal Jain walks us through a demo of their product.

Sauce Labs is a leading provider of continuous testing solutions that deliver digital confidence. The Sauce Labs Continuous Testing Cloud delivers a 360-degree view of a customer's application experience, ensuring that web and mobile applications look, function, and perform exactly as they should on every browser, OS, and device, every single time.

Learn more about Sauce Labs by visiting: https://saucelabs.com/

November 05, 2020

Gremlin

Gremlin is the enterprise Chaos Engineering platform on a mission to help build a more reliable internet. Their solutions turn failure into resilience by offering engineers a fully hosted SaaS platform to safely experiment on complex systems, in order to identify weaknesses before they impact customers and cause revenue loss.  Visit us: https://www.gremlin.com/

Follow on Social Media:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GremlinInc

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gremlininc/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gremlin-inc./

Resources:

Running Your First 5 Chaos Experiments on Kubernetes

Get Started with Gremlin

Hardening Kubernetes using Gremlin

November 02, 2020

Sauce Labs

Sauce Labs is the leading provider of continuous testing solutions that deliver digital confidence. More than 3 billion tests have been run on the Sauce Labs Continuous Testing Cloud, the most comprehensive and trusted testing platform in the world. Sauce Labs delivers a 360-degree view of a customer’s application experience, helping businesses improve the quality of their user experience by ensuring that web and mobile applications look, function, and perform exactly as they should on every browser, OS, and device, every single time. Sauce Labs enables organizations to increase revenue and grow their digital business by creating new routes to market, protecting their brand from the risks of a poor user experience, and delivering better products to market, faster. Co-founded by the original creator of Selenium, Sauce Labs remains deeply rooted in the open source community and provides a combination of expertise, data insight, and customer care that no other automated testing provider can match. For more information, please visit https://saucelabs.com.

Follow on social:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/saucelabs

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saucelabs

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/891955

Resources:

Home Page: https://saucelabs.com/

Product Page: https://saucelabs.com/platform

Continuous Testing Benchmark Report: https://saucelabs.com/resources/white-papers/sauce-labs-continuous-testing-benchmark-report-2020

October 26, 2020

Capsule8

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Production systems start with Linux – and so do we. Capsule8 is the pioneer behind production-ready infrastructure security for Linux systems. Designed to avoid costly downtime, overloaded hosts, or stability snafus caused by traditional security tools, organizations depend on Capsule8 to efficiently protect their cloud workloads with monitoring,detection, and protection in any environment. Founded in 2016 by experienced hackers and security entrepreneurs, and funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, ClearSky and Intel Capital, making it possible for organizations to modernize without compromise. 

Follow us:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/capsule8

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/capsule8

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capsule8

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7p0_a-A4JFCDCIJBxOyR_A

Resources:

The Journey Toward Smoother and More Secure Workload Modernization Efforts

Gartner’s Market Guide for Cloud Workload Protection Platforms

Security Considerations for Cloud Migration During a Crisis

October 22, 2020

Spectro Cloud

Spectro Cloud uniquely enables organizations to manage Kubernetes in production, at scale. Our Palette management platform gives IT and platform operations teams effortless control of the full Kubernetes lifecycle, across clouds, data centers, bare metal and edge environments. 

Spectro Cloud is a 2022 Gartner Cool Vendor in Edge Computing and a finalist in the 2022 Edge Computing World Rising Star Awards, as well as a CNCF-certified Kubernetes service provider. 

Co-founded in 2019 by CEO Tenry Fu, Vice President of Engineering Gautam Joshi and Chief Technology Officer Saad Malik, Spectro Cloud employs more than 120 employees. Spectro Cloud is backed by Stripes, Sierra Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, Westwave Capital, Alter Venture Partners, Firebolt Ventures, T-Mobile Ventures and TSG.

Learn more and get started for free at spectrocloud.com

Follow Us:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spectro-cloud/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/spectrocloudinc

Resources:

Spectro Cloud Blog

White paper “Zen and the Art of ML on Kubernetes”

Spectro Cloud Demo

October 21, 2020

Infoblox

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Infoblox delivers the next level network experience with its Secure Cloud-Managed Network Services. It pioneered the world’s most reliable, secure and automated networks for hybrid, multi-cloud environments. More than 8,000 customers, including 350 of the Fortune 500, use Infoblox to simplify core network connectivity and foundational security.

Follow us:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/infoblox/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Infobloxinc

Twitter: https://twitter.com/infoblox

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InfobloxInc

Resources:

https://www.infoblox.com/products/bloxone-ddi/

https://www.infoblox.com/products/ddi/

https://www.infoblox.com/products/bloxone-threat-defense/

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