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Hot Stage:Vendor Show Update
Stage is over after just a week and a half. In dog years, I feel like it was more like 6 months trapped in a submarine with a bunch of guys. A ton of fun. A ton of work. Truly one of the best work experiences I've ever had - and I can't wait for Interop because I know it's going to be even better.
The best parts of Hot Stage: too many to count. This is the A team. The 18 vendors who were selected to be part of InteropNet sent their best and brightest (so I'm not sure how I got selected for it!) to lovely Fremont, CA for a best practices-based fire drill to get an enterprise class network up and running in less than 2 weeks. Because of the condensed timeframe, it's very clear immediately what works and what doesn't work, and there's no time to get it wrong. Everyone pitches in to help everybody else. It's amazing to see the guy from Enterasys, who is THE guy they fly out around the world to set up major networks, drop what he's doing to come help haul fiber.
Or the CTO from Mazu Networks (now the Chief Technology Strategist for Riverbed) who at some point was also an MIT professor, sawing rails to make them fit the peds. Things just had to get done, and everyone pitched in to do it.
As the NMS, our EM7 product occupies a unique role tying the various vendors' gear together and acting as a second level of monitoring to provide an integrated single pane of glass view of the entire network. That's what the marketing slicks say, so even though I work with EM7 every day, it's so gratifying to actually see the product in action - and hear the best and brightest give EM7 compliments.
I probably won the prize for being the most annoying because I had to go around and ping every vendor for the info I needed to make sure EM7 provided the proactive monitoring InteropNet was looking for. Things like: what should be monitored, enabling SNMP on everything, what frequency for data collection, what kind of email notifications get sent out, fine-tuning traps sent from the vendors' gear to event only what was meaningful, and then creating healthy notices associated with critical events for auto-clearing - basically the monitoring cookbooks directly from the horse's mouth.
The best and most stressful game during Hot Stage: Network Hide and Seek - basically We (who by the way co-wrote the RFC for MPLS and is pictured here in the Bring Your Own Big Wheel event) going around unplugging random things and I had between 5 to 15 seconds to yell out what went down, where it went down and how much battery time was left on the device. Impressive? Yes. Expected? Also probably yes.
About the Author David Link is president and CEO of ScienceLogic. He and his partners built a thriving company from the ground up by focusing on delivering "products that just work" to the underserved IT infrastructure management marketplace. He has held senior management and corporate officer positions at large public companies.
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