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

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