


The Fabric CXO Council: Reimagining Infrastructure
The Fabric recently hosted our CXO Council meeting. Our Council consists of CXOs of industry leading companies to discuss and gain private access to the latest breakthrough innovations in next-generation enterprise cloud infrastructure technologies. The theme for the meeting was "Reimagining infrastructure in a distributed era."

Welcome to Gary Messiana, the Mesh7 new CEO
I am very excited to welcome Gary Messiana, newly appointed CEO of The Fabric co-creation Mesh7 (previously Kavach), a cloud-native application security mesh company funded by Juniper, Splunk, and March Capital Partners. Gary brings an extensive track record of executive leadership, operational excellence and success with strong client-centric philosophy in application software, security and hosted infrastructure.

Reimagining Infrastructure for a Distributed Era [5/5]
In the previous parts of this article series, I had mentioned that we are the advent of a new era of glorious distributed computing of many kinds, and therefore infrastructure has to be reimagined to meet the evolving needs and challenges. To close out the series, let us summarize the ways that infrastructure itself and applications are being decentralized, thereby driving needs to evolve infrastructure to meet the resulting challenges.

Effective Cloud Security: Beyond Microsegmentation
According to Risk based security research, 2019 is on track to being the “worst year on record” for breach activity. Despite a whole host of security tools and control systems, breaches continue to occur, they are more frequent and the blast radius is wider. And more often than not they follow a pattern of either being insider threat, compromised user accounts or exploitation of zero day vulnerabilities.

Reimagining Infrastructure for a Distributed Era [ 4/5]
In the first post of this series, I mentioned that we are at the advent of a new era of glorious distributed computing of many kinds, and therefore infrastructure has to be reimagined to meet the evolving needs and challenges. In this article, we will explore how de-centralization via distributing trust across participants using blockchain technology in business transactions is driving some new infrastructure and business model innovations.

Splunk Ventures Fund's first investment in Kavach, The Fabric co-creation
We are thrilled about the announcement from Splunk. In the press release, Splunk announces their venture arm, namely Splunk Ventures, a $100 million Innovation Fund and a $50 million Social Impact Fund, to invest in promising and innovative start-ups that "can harness the power of data to change the world". Innovation Fund's first investment is in Kavach.

What do recent data breaches tell us about the state and need of application security ?
Picture this. A hacker uses a VPN to breach into a cloud server (virtual machine hosted within a tier-1 public cloud provider) of a large financial enterprise, through a misconfigured firewall, then executes a small set of commands (injection attack), which gets her the credentials.

Reimagining Infrastructure for a Distributed Era [3/5]
In this article, we will explore how computing infrastructure has become over-centralized with SaaS and IaaS cloud services, and a new need and opportunity is emerging to broadly distribute computing to solve some needs and cater to new opportunities. In the early days of computing, except for a few government institutions, no enterprise had its own data center.

Reimagining Infrastructure for a Distributed Era [2/5]
In this article, we will explore how de-centralization via micro-services and external services is impacting application development and deployment. Applications have, in the past, had a form of centralization in the form of being a monolithic, tightly bound development and deployment model. Also, there was an approach of slow and rigid waterfall development, which was holding back the speed of innovation, enterprise digital transformation.

Meet The Fabric Intern: Tanya Sonker
At The Fabric, we are lucky to have an impressive group of interns every summer. Through a series of posts, we'll introduce some of them to give you an overview of what it is like to be an intern at The Fabric, a pre-Series A fund and co-creation studio focused on cloud and IoT infrastructure. Tanya Sonker is a rising senior studying Computer Science and Mathematics at Santa Clara University (SCU).

Meet The Fabric Intern: Mehul Jain
At The Fabric, we are lucky to have an impressive group of interns every summer. Through a series of posts, we'll introduce some of them to give you an overview of what it is like to be an intern at The Fabric, a pre-Series A fund and co-creation studio focused on cloud and IoT infrastructure. Mehul Jain is a rising senior at Moreau Catholic High School, a private catholic school in Hayward, CA, and was born and raised in Fremont, CA.
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