Modernizing the Extranet With Alkira

Extranets, also known as B2B networks, are essential for organizations to connect and provide additional services to each other. While this market has been dominated by a few providers, the lack of competition often leads to delays in provisioning connections. Fortunately, Alkira has introduced Extranet-as-a-Service, leveraging zero trust network architecture and cloud networking advancements to offer a more secure, scalable, and cost-effective alternative. With a familiar dashboard and consumption-based pricing, Alkira’s solution simplifies extranet management and enables secure data exchange, even in complex acquisition scenarios. Read more in this LinkedIn article by Tom Hollingsworth!

Fixing Firewall Sizing Issues With Prosmio

Tom Hollingsworth sheds light on the challenges of deploying an appropriately sized firewall and highlights Prosimo’s solution, as seen at Cloud Field Day last year. Prosimo Adaptive Service Insertion helps in deploying firewall resources in appropriate locations with minimal fuss by creating spokeless environments. Additionally, Prosimo introduces the possibility of directing guaranteed, critical traffic to a Prosimo instance to be processed, thus enabling businesses to ensure that their operational rules are respected. Finally, Prosimo’s tool allows for variable flow discovery and resource consumption, allowing organizations to manage their financial payments better.

Google’s Cloud Hyperdisk to Bring SAN Features to GCP

Chris Mellor discusses Google Cloud’s introduction of a SAN-like Cloud Hyperdisk to its Cloud Platform. Hyperdisk was previewed in September by Google Cloud, and is a next generation persistent disk type for use with Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You can read his thoughts on the website, Blocks and Files, and be sure to check out the Tech Field Day website to watch Google Cloud’s presentation from the latest Cloud Field Day event.

Supercloud Is Neither Super Nor a Cloud, Discuss.

Is Supercloud a thing now? Ned Bellevance, Field Day delegate, tuned in online to watch the Delegate Roundtable Discussion about Supercloud at September’s Cloud Field Day. Take a look here, or visit Ned’s blog, Ned in the Cloud, for more on his thoughts!

Prosimo Solves Cloud Networking Problems

Gina Rosenthal attended the most recent Cloud Field Day and took an interest in Prosimo’s presentation! In her post, she talks about the problems Prosimo is solving and how they are trying to get people to think about cloud networking differently. Check out more from Gina here!

Everything New With Storage This Quarter on Google Cloud

Sulagna Saha, writing for Gestalt IT, dives into Google Cloud and their latest presentation at Cloud Field Day. Check out her thoughts on the Google Cloud Platform on the Gestalt IT website and be sure to check out all of the presentations from Cloud Field Day on the Tech Field Day website!