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Boulder New Tech - 5 minute business overview

Boulder New Tech - 5 minute business overview

These are the slides from the Boulder New Tech presentation in September 2014.

Alan Robertson

September 02, 2014
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  1. Why They Love What We're Doing • Agility – ability

    to act quickly • Visibility - finds things everyone missed – Information always up to date • Effectiveness - knowledge is power • Diagnose problems / minimal noise • No special network/security permissions • Works with real, virtual and cloud systems • Extremely scalable / Near-zero configuration Everyone sleeps better
  2. Competition • Integrate CMDB & monitoring • Self-maintaining • Continuous

    Discovery • Visualization • Doesn't trigger security alarms • Minimal network load • Extreme scale • Open Source We're Better Because
  3. Create Detailed Graph Models Monitor Services & Systems • Servers

    • Services • Switches • IP addresses • MAC addresses • Dependencies • Installed Software • Much more - anything
  4. Here's How It Works • Reliable “No News Is Good

    News” • Agents on systems • Central system delegates nearly all work to Agents • Agents monitor selves and two neighbors • Listen for Configuration Packets • Look at Network-Facing apps on systems • Send Only Changes to Central System
  5. Are you that guy or gal? • System Administrator •

    Network Administrator • IT Security wonk • IT Management Or maybe you know one... If so, we want to talk http://assimilationsystems.com/