How to achieve network simplicity in Google Cloud (GCP) and the importance of customer-centric relationship.” Unscripted chat with Sr Manager of Application Development Asif Masood --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/netjoints/message

Disaster recovery , Disaster avoidance or in general Business Continuity are a critical design consideration for any business critical application.  In this short podcast, Dennis Hagens and John Smoker demonstrate how Aviatrix multi-cloud network backbone simplify your application disaster recovery b/w regions of single cloud or even to a second cloud with a flip of a button.  They also demonstrate how this standardize design allows for application reachability in cloud using the...

Experience your firewall working for you, not the other way around. Aviatrix integrate and works with Security vendor such as Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Fortinet, Cisco, F5 etc. Aviatrix business value is to simplify the way organizations enhance their public cloud security posture (Azure, GCP, AWS, OCI, etc.) while reducing the overall cost. In this candid podcata you'll find out how Aviatrix FireNet helps you to simply consume virtual firewall, with a proven recipe adopted by hundreds...

Podcast 33 - “ Evgeny Vaganov and Abdul Rahim has ~12 years of combined experience at #awscloud and have worked with thousands of customers moving to cloud. In episode 33, we asked them to share their cloud journey, lessons learned and advice for customers. Some key points: - Many cloud deployment start as non mission critical, in a single cloud and organically grew into a giant mess that is hard to untangle, with several design flaws, lack of visibility, security holes and...

Another exciting episode with DevOps/ IaC/ Terraform Gurus John Smoker Dennis Hagens where we talked about importance of Ops specifically visibility, troubleshooting and security when building your application delivery infrastructure. EP29 – Don’t forget the “Ops” in building your “DevOps” world Some key learnings: - Key goal of DevOps and IaC is to “push code to production faster and do it in a scalable, stable way", however the last thing that always gets automated is the network, so...

Do you know " More than half of dialysis machines used worldwide are made by Fresenius Medical Care" ? #fresenius is a global healthcare that provides products and services for dialysis, hospital management and do R&D to pioneer therapy and care of critically and chronically ill patients. I admire and have huge respect for their mission as well: "To deliver superior care that improves the quality of life of every patient, every day, setting the standard by which others in the healthcare...

Thoroughly enjoyed this podcast conversation with Steven Ward, Corporate Infra leader at Siemens MAS.  Steven shared lessons learned from his personal cloud journey and how Siemens have transformed over the years to start realizing full benefit of cloud. Some of the key points from the conversation: Utility industry is critical national infrastructure, where security, compliance and visibility is absolutely critical and is a large part of why Siemens is working with Aviatrix 2 key...

Fun episode and something different, where we asked Prateek Goyal and Faizan Mustafa on how the new cloud world demands cloud architects and IT directors to align their projects and mindset to CEO/CIO and board initiatives.  e.g. CEO's may be worried about smaller players in the market who are born in the cloud and have been able to rapidly capture portion of your business by being more agile and providing more flexible offerings. Existential thread is very real. They may also be looking to...

In Episode 30 , we got together with 2 of the finest Microsoft Azure Cloud specialists Bryan Woodworth and Toni Beck to talk about: - How customers journey to cloud is evolving post pandemic ? - Key reasons why movement to cloud is top of mind for CEO's/CIO's to achieve accelerated business growth ? - Importance of "Built-in Security" and why Aviatrix "Secure cloud networking" approach is the resonating well with top enterpises. - Critical role  "Born in the cloud  integrators and Top...

What does it mean to be a technology “CHAMPION” in a business transformation ? Whats in it for you challenging status quo ?      Learn from Jeff Duke on his thought process and lessons learned while in pursuing most optimal cloud networking and security solution for Republic Airways ? Gartner learnings on multi-cloud that helped him and how it has evolved over the last 2 years  ? Repetition gives you “confidence” and passion makes you the champion. What does CCIE’s bring to the table...

Gartner analyst friend once told me amount of due diligence and deep research hey have to put in to publish their reports based on understanding the market, researching vendor products and interviewing wide variety of customers. The work is even more difficult with new market as old data is no longer valid. This is a heavy impact, responsibility work as thousands of  business decision makers make important technology decisions based on those reports and data points. In episode 26 of our...

Fortunate to host Shaun on our cloud networking podcast to discuss lessons learned from his various cloud projects in last 10 years. Some key learnings : - When moving to cloud, security should be top of mind day1. You can continue improving in phases but figure out your policy structure understanding how the cloud works and applications ingress/egress flows - Why security postures in cloud are different and advise to customers to think of implementing security at different layers...

VMware is an on-prem company, actually they do data center compute/network virtualization better than anybody else. However, their Multi-cloud portfolio and strategy is confusing. This should not come as a surprise as like many other legacy on-prem vendors, they face the “incumbent dilemma”. This post does a good job explaining  https://rishidean.com/2014/12/08/incumbents-dilemma-why-disrupting-yourself-is-hard/ VMware do accept the fact that applications their infrastructure was servicing...

Takeda is a R&D driven, biopharmaceutical leader with a global presence. In this podcast, we got together with experienced cloud transformation leader Atta Meer to learn about his personal cloud journey and lessons learned from various cloud projects. Atta also provided great insights on how enterprises and Manage service providers (MSP’s) should be ramping up cloud networking skills of their staff. Some key points: -  Amazon Web Services (AWS) created something amazing years ago that...

EP22 - "Black swan event lurking in your cloud network - Are you prepared?" Karthik Balachandran is a cloud guru with 12+ years of priceless experience helping customers with their cloud journey. Over the years, Karthik has witnessed various customer approaches and strategy shifts to maximize ROI in cloud. In episode 22 of "Lets talk cloud networking" podcast, Karthik shared his learnings and how best to approach todays cloud deployments from cloud networking and security perspective. Some...

In EP21 we got together with Ides and Dennis to talk about EMEA cloud trends and some lessons learned from customers cloud journey in the region. Key points include: Why Azure is first choice CSP for majority large enterprises in the region  How EMEA landscape has rapidly evolved from single cloud mindset to embracing multi-cloud  Connectivity to mainland China is a key trend with some large EMEA customers Advise for cloud architects to "zoom out", take a step back and look at big...

Myself and John Gonsalves just recorded our 20th episode of "Lets talk cloud networking - unscripted" and who better person than Steffen Wagner from Lufthansa systems to join us and share his personal cloud journey and lessons learned from leveraging #azurecloud #gcpcloud #awscloud as DC's are getting rapidly evacuated. Key points: 1. Cloud needs are evolving rapidly and CEO/CIO/business leaders want you to "architect a future proof cloud" as all requirements are NOT known today". 2. Cloud...

Some key points: 1. Doing Cloud with on-prem approach and relying on legacy on-prem vendors is a proven recipe for failure. Listen to what Johbn witnessed does NOT work in cloud. 2. What every customer specifically FSI customers expects their cloud vendors to articulate very crisply: *** What business problem your technology is solving ? *** Describe the business value that can be derived as an outcome *** How much does it cost. 3. Business agility and security are 2 top goals for FSI...

#EasyMile is a pioneer in connected vehicles space with award winning driverless technology and with operations in 40+ countries. Cloud is critical for these technologies to work and having a reliable, low latency network is essential. For early adopters, cloud expect customers to fail fast as picking the right tool and platform is directly tied to agility and exponential business benefits. In this episode, we get together with Razvan Matei , an early adopters in cloud and currently working...

Cost was never top of mind for on-prem networking/security/cloud architects but its an important design pillar in cloud. In this episode, we discussed with James Devine and Saad Mirza from #aviatrix on how infrastructure teams and architects needs to change their mental model when looking at network/security cost and where compromises does not make sense. Some key points: 1. Be comfortable with not having a clear picture of your OPEX as you start you journey. In fact, your cost could very...

Exciting episode this... Jennifer Reed is a highly trusted and well respected cloud professional. She is also founding member of D3clarity [formerly ViqtorDavis] who have been helping enterprise customers with their cloud journey for # of years now.  In this episode, Jennifer shares her fascinating career journey starting from being in US Marin Corp to then working in very diverse technology roles and eventually becoming a trusted cloud networking and security  professional assisting many...

Barry Li is Principal Solutions architect with vast experience in helping diff type of SaaS vendors especially in designing and operationalizing their cloud networks. In this podcast, Barry shares his experience and lessons learned working with some of the prominent SaaS vendors who are leveraging Aviatrix as their foundational platform for variety of needs. Some of the point covered include: 6 Key requirements from SaaS vendors hosting their offering in cloud. How Aviatrix is making it...

Brad Hedlund is a networking legend when it comes to data centers and AWS cloud expert having spend several years at Cisco, VMWare, and AWS In this podcast, Brad shared his fascinating career journey and why he thinks Aviatrix is the next big thing in cloud networking Some key points we covered: 1. Why he left AWS and joined Aviatrix ? and his view of major inflection points in networking over the last 20 years. 2. Why he thinks the "center of gravity" in the cloud and need for consuming...

Leon N’Guetta leads the VDC.cloud’s growing UK and globally dispersed team as the Owner, Managing Director & Certified Aviatrix Multi-Cloud Expert. In this episode, we get together with Leon to learn about his interesting journey in transforming his business to cloud. We also discussed how cloud has made them realize "The Art of possible" with elastic, on-demand infrastructure and cloud services at finger tips.  Below are some key points he shared: 1. Importance of Cloud Network...