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Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day events series. He also writes about networking and related technolgies on his blog at http://networkingnerd.net. With over 18 years of experience in the IT field, Tom has covered the breadth of technology from desktop deployment to data center installation. He brings his unique perspective to his writing both on his blog and at Network Computing. Tom can also be found prognosticating and commenting about technology from his Twitter account @networkingnerd.



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  1. Wi-Fi 7 Isn’t Enough For Future Wireless Needs
  2. Mobility Field Day 11 Is Your Lucky Day!
  3. Security Audits Cause More Harm Than Good
  4. AI is Smarter Than Your Average Network Engineer
  5. Cyber Resiliency is Just Data Protection
  6. Taking Security Seriously at Security Field Day 11
  7. Using AI to Enhance Forward Networks NQE
  8. New Networking Ideas at Networking Field Day 34
  9. Excitement Abounds at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2024
  10. Asking the Right Question About the Wireless Future
  11. Wrapping Up a Year of Wireless With Mobility Field Day 10
  12. Setting a Foundation for Security With Security Field Day 10
  13. Does Automation Require Reengineering?
  14. Navigating Data Security at the Edge
  15. Finishing Strong With Networking Field Day 33
  16. Life on the Edge – a Roundtable Discussion
  17. Modernizing the Extranet With Alkira
  18. Ways to Amplify Unvalued Security Teams in Organizations
  19. Meet Field Day Delegate – Roy Chua, Founder and Principal at AvidThink
  20. Summer Field Day Fun at Networking Field Day 32
  21. Cross Training for Career Completeness
  22. Safe and Sound at Security Field Day 9
  23. Excitement in the Air With Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2023
  24. The Power of Expertise at Ventev
  25. Meet Field Day Delegate – Raymond Hendrix, Owner of Wi-Fi Wise International
  26. Meet Field Day Delegate – Kerry Kulp, Founding Partner at Velaspan
  27. Aruba Isn’t a Wireless Company (Any More)
  28. Making Mobility Magic at Mobility Field Day 9
  29. Fixing Firewall Sizing Issues With Prosmio
  30. The Amazing Way Observability Shapes Automation
  31. Excitement in the Air at Aruba Atmosphere 2023!
  32. Rethinking Search With Cribl
  33. Networking Field Day Returns This April!
  34. Tech Field Day Is Extra at Cisco Live EMEA!
  35. Friday Networking Field Day Thoughts
  36. Networking Into the Future With Networking Field Day 30
  37. The Imposter Syndrome Network Podcast: Tom Hollingsworth
  38. Safe, Sound, and Secure With Security Field Day 8!
  39. Why Do We Accept Bad Wireless Clients?
  40. Monday Mobility Quick Thoughts
  41. Moving Faster With Mobility Field Day 8
  42. Redundancy Is Not Resiliency
  43. Even More to Explore With Networking Field Day 29!
  44. The Puzzle of Peering With Kentik
  45. Networking Field Day: Service Provider 2 Is Here!
  46. Friday Mobility Field Day Thoughts
  47. On the Go With Mobility Field Day 7!
  48. Creating a Consistent User Experience Across the Network
  49. The Silver Lining of Cisco Live
  50. Friday Thoughts Pre-Cisco Live
  51. Tech Field Day Extra Is Live With Cisco!
  52. Consistency Across the Board With Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN
  53. Quality to Be Named Later
  54. Friday Thoughts on the Full Stack
  55. Networking Field Day 28 Is Here!
  56. A Modest Proposal for Cisco Interface Naming
  57. Securing 2022 With Security Field Day 7!
  58. Join Tech Field Day and Cisco for an Exclusive!
  59. The Network Does Too Much
  60. A New Year of Networking at Networking Field Day 27!
  61. Threat Hunting for Exploits With Cisco
  62. A Service Provider Network Is Not Your Enterprise Network
  63. Get Ready for Networking Field Day: Service Provider!
  64. Securing 5G and IoT With Betacom
  65. Solving the Multi-Cloud Puzzle With Prosimo
  66. Tending Your Security Garden With Swimlane
  67. Is the M1 MacBook Pro Wi-Fi Really Slower?
  68. Fast Friday Thoughts From Security Field Day
  69. Focusing on a Secure Future at Security Field Day 6
  70. ZPE Systems Unifies the Remote Office
  71. Arrcus and the Vision for Application Acceleration
  72. All the Networking You Crave at Networking Field Day 26!
  73. Sharpening the Edge With Aruba
  74. Racing to the Future With NGINX Sprint
  75. The Future of Cloud Is Now With Cisco and Tech Field Day
  76. Start Your Engines for Networking Field Day – Service Provider
  77. Experience at the Edge With Mobility Field Day!
  78. Bringing Network Automation Home With Anuta Networks ATOM
  79. The Fork in the Network to Code Road With Nautobot
  80. Presenters React to Networking Field Day
  81. Networking Isn’t Just a Tool
  82. Even More Networking Field Day Headed Your Way May 12-14, 2021!
  83. Scality Announces ARTESCA | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 28, 2021
  84. Nailing Down Home Networking Issues With NetBeez
  85. Presenters React to Security Field Day
  86. Tune in for Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021
  87. Session-Aware AI-Driven Networking With Juniper Networks
  88. Cisco Live Global 2021 Keynote Liveblog
  89. Presenters React to the Cloud Field Day Experience
  90. What Do the Delegates Think About Networking Field Day?
  91. Security Field Day Is Back March 23-25, 2021
  92. Tom’s Virtual Corner at Cisco Live Global 2021 – Anniversary
  93. Unifying SD-WAN and Edge With Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series
  94. Translating Your Network With Cisco Crosswork Network Controller
  95. Riverbed Wants You to Stop Being the Network Superhero
  96. Operationalizing Zero Trust Security With Illumio
  97. Cisco Tetration Helps Keep Security From Getting Left Behind
  98. Troubleshooting in an Isolated World With PathSolutions
  99. Keeping SLAs Honest With Broadcom
  100. Taking a Network Mulligan With Apstra
  101. Educating Teachers About Wireless With Metageek Rampart
  102. Top-Notch Troubleshooting With Arista and Cloudvision-As-A-Service
  103. Wide Area AI Networking With Juniper
  104. Gestalt IT Rundown: December 16, 2020
  105. Tomversations: Episode 11 – Data Processing Units (DPUs)
  106. Ending Wireless Eavesdropping With Wi-Fi Enhanced Open and Cisco
  107. The Value of Synthetic Testing With Catchpoint
  108. Challenging the Status Quo With CBRS and Celona
  109. Telemetry Troubles Solved With Intel Ingenuity
  110. Nothing but the Truths With IP Fabric
  111. The Truth Will Set You Free With NetBox
  112. Ring Around the Datacenter With Airvine
  113. SD-IoT With VMware Nyansa
  114. Mist Is the New Edge
  115. Modernizing AirMagnet With NetAlly
  116. Thoughts From Networking Field Day 23
  117. Unified Security Theory With Fortinet
  118. Host Separation With Tempered
  119. Opening Up Remote Access With Opengear
  120. Powering Your People With Ventev
  121. Redefining Service Protection With VMware Service-Defined Firewall
  122. Bad Behavior Analysis With Juniper Networks
  123. Fast Friday – Mobility Field Day 5 Edition
  124. What Will HPE Do With Silver Peak? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 15, 2020
  125. Why Did VMware Buy Datrium? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 8, 2020
  126. Cisco SecureX Roundtable
  127. Cisco Intent-Based Networking Roundtable
  128. The New Branch With Riverbed SD-WAN
  129. A Tale of Scale in Three Parts With Broadcom
  130. Go Time With PathSolutions
  131. Insightful Fabric Management With Cisco Network Insights
  132. Defeating Configuration Drift With Gluware
  133. Rogue Device Detection Thanks to PathSolutions
  134. A Week of Unexpected Expectedness With Forward Networks
  135. Tom’s Virtual Corner at Cisco Live US 2020
  136. Leaving Legacy Behind to Build Better Networks With DriveNets
  137. Pensando Places Programmability First
  138. Ensuring Code Quality With Arista
  139. Monitoring Application Performance From the Inside Out With Solarwinds AppOptics
  140. The Programmability Voyage With Barefoot Networks
  141. NGINX Meshes Well With Others
  142. Exorcising Network Ghosts With VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
  143. A Measure of Automation With Juniper Networks
  144. Cloud Rich Updates in Zerto 8.0
  145. Dell EMC SmartFabric Director- Weaving a Tapestry of Green
  146. SD-WAN and Technical Debt
  147. Itential – The Network Glue You Need
  148. Moving Past the Edge With Aruba SD-Branch
  149. What Is Closed-Loop Automation?
  150. The Power of Communities – An Interview With David Penaloza Seijas
  151. Fast Friday – Networking Field Day 22 Thoughts
  152. Does SPB Mean “Secure Path Bridging”?
  153. Answers at Your Fingertips With Forward Networks
  154. Meraki Is Almost an Enterprise Solution
  155. Cisco Live Europe Reactions | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 29, 2020
  156. Priming Your Application Performance With Intel Application Device Queues
  157. Captivating Wireless Connectivity With Cisco OpenRoaming
  158. Testing the Whole System With NetAlly EtherScope nXG
  159. Really Late Company Christmas Shopping
  160. Assuring Your Service Level With Ixia IxProbe
  161. Over the Ramparts, Metageek Watched
  162. Stopping vMotion Roulette With Virtana
  163. Rethinking Networking Architecture With Arrcus
  164. Tackling Troublesome IoT With Fortinet
  165. The Value of Virtual Networks From Tesuto
  166. AI and Trivia
  167. The Name’s the Thing With Guardicore
  168. Monitoring Cloud Network Traffic With ExtraHop
  169. Meet the First #TFD Delegates: Tom Hollingsworth
  170. Building Better Policies With Machine Learning and Edgewise Networks
  171. Fragmentation Free With Aruba’s Newest Switches
  172. Malware Microsegmentation With Illumio
  173. All-In on AI With Mist and Juniper
  174. Fast Friday Thoughts – Networking Field Day 21
  175. Stopping Security Silos With Palo Alto Networks Cortex
  176. Bleeding the Dragon With WPA3 and Aruba – Gestalt IT
  177. 128 Technology – The Best Voice Routing Platform You’ve Never Heard Of
  178. Securing Your Enterprise With VIAVI Observer Apex
  179. Fast Friday – Mobility Field Day 4
  180. Stopping Network Blame With Kemp
  181. Rooted in Security With Banyan
  182. The Contention Window: S1E12 : TechFieldDay – Mobility Field Day 4 Preview
  183. Cross Pollinating Catalyst Platforms With NetBeez
  184. Remote Access Amazement With Opengear
  185. The Briar Patch of Software Patches
  186. The Development of DevNet’s Future
  187. Tackling Troublesome Tunnels With 128 Technology
  188. Meraki’s Eye in the Sky
  189. Intelligence in the Mist
  190. The Good, the Bad, and the Questionable: Acquisition Activities
  191. Avoiding Automation Archipelagos With Extreme Networks
  192. Yellow Capes and Safe Escapes – The Journey of Zoë Rose
  193. All-In With SD-WAN and Fortinet
  194. Security Field Day – The Non-Conference
  195. Layered Security Isn’t About Devices
  196. Defeating DDoS in the Network With Nokia
  197. Keeping the Network OS Contained With SnapRoute
  198. NSX-T Is Transformative for the Future of VMware
  199. Who Do You Trust in Your Community?
  200. OpenConfig and Wi-Fi – the Winning Combo
  201. Gestalt IT Live Blog – Aruba HER Keynote Address
  202. The Foundation of the Future With Barefoot Networks
  203. Fast Friday – Aruba Atmosphere 2019
  204. Device Validation Security in Service Provider Networks
  205. Drive Your Own Demo With Riverbed
  206. Making Way for the New With Cisco
  207. Kentik and the Negative Roadmap
  208. The Future of Sports Wi-Fi Is Intelligent With Extreme Networks
  209. Using Identity To Secure Workloads with Aporeto
  210. Aruba and the Need for WPA3 with OWE
  211. Visual Networking At It’s Finest with Apstra
  212. The Power of a Great Demo with Illumio
  213. Building More Factors For Security with Cisco Duo
  214. Some Random Thoughts From Security Field Day
  215. Automating the Mundane with Silver Peak
  216. When Is It Not Always DNS?
  217. The Need for Security Field Day
  218. Presenting To The D-Suite
  219. Jack Daniel and Tom Hollingsworth Discuss Community and Security
  220. Ookla Acquires Ekahau – The Future of Wi-Fi Design is Speedy!
  221. ARM Servers and End Times | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 19, 2018
  222. A Matter of Perspective
  223. The Cargo Cult of Google Tools
  224. Arista Is Finding Their Mojo In Wireless
  225. Becoming a Wi-Fi Superhero with Cape Networks
  226. Arista Is Finding Their Mojo In Wireless
  227. Friday Musings on Network Analytics
  228. Independence, Impartiality, and Perspective
  229. Cisco’s Container Journey to the Cloud
  230. Accessing Security Insights with SolarWinds Network Insight For Cisco ASA
  231. Unlocking VXLAN with Mellanox
  232. Extreme Networks SLX Platform – Extremely Easy Analytics
  233. Wireless Thoughts From Aruba Atmosphere
  234. Orchestration From the Top Versus Automation From the Bottom
  235. Is ACI Coming For The CLI?
  236. Legacy IT Is Not A Monument
  237. Going Faster with 400Gbps Ethernet and Andy Bechtolsheim
  238. Architecting Container Direction with Nirmata
  239. Keeping An Eye On Containers with Ixia CloudLens
  240. Network Visibility with Barefoot Deep Insight
  241. Unmasking Bad Actors with Gigamon
  242. Dedicated Wireless Troubleshooting Doesn’t Have To Break The Bank
  243. Pluribus Networks Is the Definition of “Software Defined”
  244. Back In The Saddle Of A Horse Of A Different Color
  245. It’s Probably Not The Wi-Fi
  246. The History of The Wireless Field Day AirCheck
  247. Off The Cuff – Conferences And Social Media For Engineers
  248. Not The Cisco of John Chambers Anymore
  249. Don’t Build Big Data With Bad Data
  250. Short Take – The Present Future of the Net
  251. Extreme-ly Interesting Times In Networking
  252. Datanauts 077: Transitioning To A Less Technical Role
  253. Building Reliability
  254. Sorting Through SD-WAN
  255. Two Takes On ASIC Design
  256. Bringing 2017 To Everyone
  257. The Power of ONUG And What It Means To You
  258. OpenFlow Is Dead. Long Live OpenFlow.
  259. Nutanix and Plexxi – An Affinity to Converge
  260. Designer or Architect? It’s A Matter Of Choice
  261. Facebook Wedge 100 – The Future of the Data Center?
  262. DevOps and the Infrastructure Dumpster Fire
  263. Ten Years of Cisco Live – Community Matters Most of All
  264. DockerCon Thoughts – Secure, Sufficient Applications
  265. Flash Needs a Highway
  266. Tech Field Day Extra at ONUG Spring 2016 Live Blog – Day 2
  267. How Networking Is Driving Systems Development
  268. Tech Field Day Extra at ONUG Spring 2016 Live Blog – Day 1
  269. Intel and the Network Arms Race
  270. Wireless As We Know It Is Dead
  271. Don’t Touch My Mustache, Aruba!
  272. Drowning in the Data of Things
  273. Will Cisco Shine On?
  274. The Tortoise and the Austin Hare
  275. Critical Applications And the WAN
  276. A Voyage of Discover-E
  277. A Stack Full Of It
  278. ONUG Spotlights Shift To Software And Services – Network Computing
  279. Join Tech Field Day at ONUG Fall 2015 in New York City
  280. Open Networking Needs to Be Interchangeable
  281. Tips For Presenting On Video
  282. This WAN Is Your WAN, This WAN Is My WAN
  283. Open Choices In Networking
  284. Hypermyopia In The World Of Networking
  285. NBase-ing Your Wireless Decisions
  286. VFD4 – The email
  287. Time For A Data Diet?
  288. A Bright And Happy 2015 Ahead
  289. Cisco Just Killed The CLI
  290. Riding the SD-WAN Wave
  291. HP Networking – Hitting The Right Notes
  292. Wires Are The Exception
  293. The Atomic Weight of Policy
  294. SDN Use Case: Content Filtering
  295. Why is Lync The Killer SDN Application?
  296. Do We Need To Redefine Open?
  297. Maybe MU-MIMO Matters
  298. 08 – Wireless Field Day 7 Kickoff « On The Fly Wi-Fi
  299. Cisco Live 2014 – Recap
  300. The SDNicorn
  301. Tom Hollingsworth Offers Snazzy Insight on the 2014 SDDC Symposium
  302. Throw More Storage At It
  303. Tech Field Day is a community event for the community
  304. Dear Syslog, regarding NAT & #VFD3 Day 0
  305. The Slippery Slope of Social Sign-In
  306. 2014 – Introductions Are In Order
  307. Write Like The Wind
  308. SDN and Appeal of Abstraction
  309. Should Microsoft Buy Big Switch?
  310. Avaya and the Magic of SPB
  311. HP Networking and the Software Defined Store
  312. SDN 101 at ONUG Academy
  313. Cisco CMX – Marketing Magic? Or Big Brother?
  314. Your Data Center Isn’t Facebook And That’s Just Fine
  315. Know the Process, Not the Tool
  316. The Vision Of A ThousandEyes
  317. A Complicated World Without Wires
  318. SDDC Interview: Tech Field Day’s Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth
  319. Software Defined Data Center: Marketing or Meaty?
  320. Show 153 – Cisco Live 2013 Roundtable Discussion with Tech Field Day
  321. Cisco Live 2013 Wrap Up
  322. Tech Field Day 9
  323. Cisco Live 2013 Tweetup
  324. WhoIS Episode 004: Tom Hollingsworth
  325. Brocade’s Pragmatically Defined Network
  326. Juniper and the Removal of the Human Element
  327. Plexxi and the Case for Affinity
  328. Brocade Defined Networking
  329. Causing A Network Ruckus
  330. Solarwinds – The Right Tool For A New Job
  331. Cisco Borderless Idol
  332. Cisco Data Center Duel
  333. Show 139 – Making Your Way Down The Path To Nirvana
  334. Aerohive Is Switching Things Up
  335. Network Field Day 5
  336. Enterprise Networking’s 10 Ten to Watch List
  337. Juniper MX Series – Review
  338. BYOD vs MDM – Who Pays The Bill?
  339. Cisco To Buy Meraki?
  340. Juniper – Land of Unicorns and Broccoli
  341. Cisco – Borderless Speed Dating
  342. 99 Problems But A Switch Ain’t One
  343. Brocade – Packet Spraying and SDN Integrating
  344. Spirent – Bringing The Tests To You
  345. Opengear – A Box Full Of Awesome
  346. Statseeker – Information Is Ammunition
  347. When Demos Attack
  348. Network Field Day 4
  349. Reality As A Service

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