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.
KubeCon 2020 Hammerspace Video Interview with VMblog (Software-Defined Hybrid Cloud File Storage)
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/
KubeCon 2020 Sauce Labs Video Interview with VMblog (Continuous Testing Solutions)
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/
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/
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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.
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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
Capsule8
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.
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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
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
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Infoblox
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.
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Resources:
https://www.infoblox.com/products/bloxone-ddi/
Hammerspace
As a software-defined data platform for Kubernetes, Hammerspace provides dynamic, efficient and fully automated hybrid cloud storage that lets users self-service their consumption of persistent data, making storage a disposable and invisible resource.
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRN5zjCV74dokQCyceXVLQ
Resources:
Get 10 TB free in the cloud
Uncomplicate Persistent Data Management for Kubernetes
Cut the tethers of data gravity
Dynatrace
Dynatrace provides software intelligence to simplify cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation. With automatic and intelligent observability at scale, our all-in-one platform provides answers, not just data, about the performance of applications, the underlying infrastructure, and the experience of all users. That’s why many of the world’s largest enterprises trust Dynatrace® to modernize and automate cloud operations, release better software faster, and deliver unrivaled digital experiences.
Visit their Website: https://www.dynatrace.com/
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Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform
VMworld 2020 SolarWinds Video Interview with VMblog (Virtualization Manager)
As part of our VMworld 2020 coverage, VMblog visits with Kathleen Walker, director of product marketing, and James Barnes, product manager of SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software.
In this video, we discuss trade shows like VMworld becoming digital events and what that means, how companies have moved to a work from home lifestyle, and how SolarWinds operates with VMware as a partner. Watch and learn as Walker and Barnes explain more about the company's technology, and offers a view into the product.
SolarWinds products give organizations worldwide - regardless of type, size, or complexity - the power to monitor and manage their IT services, infrastructures, and applications; whether on-premises, in the cloud, or via hybrid models. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is a powerful virtual machine (VM) monitoring tool built to consolidate a variety of useful observations in one interface. VMAN can provide you with comprehensive visibility into the health and performance of VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors, whether they’re on-premises, hyperconverged, hybrid, or in the cloud.
Learn more about SolarWinds by visiting: https://www.solarwinds.com
Learn more about SolarWinds VMAN: https://www.solarwinds.com/virtualization-manager
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