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| Networking Field Day 4 | October 10-12, 2012 |
Gestalt IT’s fourth datacenter networking-focused Field Day event will be held on October 10 through 12 in Silicon Valley! This unique event brings together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders, allowing them to get to know one another. It is a forum for engagement, education, hands-on experience, and feedback. This is Gestalt IT’s third year of Tech Field Day events – learn more at the Tech Field Day site!
NFD4 Introduction
Stephen Foskett and Friends Introduce Networking Field Day 4 from San Jose, CA. This video was recorded prior to NFD4 on October 10, 2012. This video features Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT, Tom Hollingsworth, Greg Ferro, and Anthony Burke.
NFD4 Day One Wrap Up
The delegates and sponsors of Networking Field Day discuss the first two days of NFD4. Features Toby Smith of Opengear, Jeff Sejourne of Brocade, Doug Hanks from Juniper, delegates Michael McNamara and Colin McNamara and even a rap by Tom Hollingsworth!
Watch Recorded Video
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Sponsors
Delegates
Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.
| Anthony Burke | ||
| Bob Plankers | ||
| A hardcore IT generalist, virtualization expert, blogger, and vocal end user of technology. | ||
| Brent Salisbury | ||
| Brent Salisbury works as a Network Architect, CCIE #11972. | ||
| Chris Marget | ||
| Colin McNamara | ||
| Colin McNamara is a seasoned professional with over 15 years experience with network and systems technologies. | ||
| Greg Ferro | ||
| Over the last twenty odd years, Greg has worked Sales, Technical and IT Management but mostly he delivers Network Architecture and Design. Today he works as a Freelance Consultant for F100 companies in the UK & Europe focussing on Data Centres, Security and Operational Automation. | ||
| Jeremy L. Gaddis | ||
| John Harrington | ||
| John Herbert | ||
| John has worked in the networking industry for 14 years, and obtained his CCIE Routing & Switching in early 2001. | ||
| Michael McNamara | ||
| Paul Stewart | ||
| Paul Stewart is a Network and Security Engineer, Trainer and Blogger who enjoys understanding how things really work. | ||
| Tom Hollingsworth | ||
| Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is a Senior Solutions Architect for a small VAR focusing primarily on K-12 education. | ||
Presentation Calendar
Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and at some delegate and presenter web sites. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.
| Wednesday, Oct 10 | 13:30-15:30 | Statseeker Presents at Networking Field Day 4 |
| Wednesday, Oct 10 | 16:00-18:00 | Opengear Presents at Networking Field Day 4 |
| Thursday, Oct 11 | 08:00-10:00 | Spirent Presents at Networking Field Day 4 |
| Thursday, Oct 11 | 11:00-15:30 | Brocade Presents at Networking Field Day 4 |
| Friday, Oct 12 | 08:00-12:30 | Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day 4 |
| Friday, Oct 12 | 13:30-18:00 | Juniper Presents at Networking Field Day 4 |
Event Staff
| Claire Chaplais | ||
| Stephen Foskett |
Links with Tag NFD4
- Compiling Firmware for Opengear ACM5000
- Dealing with Corrupt Opegear Firmware
- Dancing on the strings of DevOps
- Pull My Strings, I’m Your Puppet: Juniper Bringing DevOps to Networking
- Test – Throughput alchemy using a snake topology
- What is Networking Field Day 5 Anyway?
- Gaining Visibility with Opengear VCMS
- Gestalt IT Networking Field Day — What is it?
- Juniper MX Series — A Book Packed Full of Details
- Opengear ACM5004 – Going Cellular!
- Building Custom Firmware for the Opengear ACM5004
- One Year of Tech Field Day Video: 90,000 Views!
- Spirent has a Warp Displacement Generator
- Juniper MX Series – Review
- Customizing Scripts on the Opengear ACM5004
- HIT that interface
- JNCIA JUNOS review
- Tar-Covered Clouds
- Software Defined Network (SDN) -Looking Toward 2013 – Part 1
- Mykonos–WAF With an Attitude
- Opengear ACM5004 – Auto-Response First Steps
- Opengear ACM5004-G Review
- Opengear – More Than A Dumb Terminal (Server)
- Statseeker
- Opengear overview by Michael McNamara
- Spirent
- Juniper – Land of Unicorns and Broccoli
- Spirent iTest Lab Optimizer
- Brocade Acquisition of Vyatta
- Cisco – Borderless Speed Dating
- 99 Problems But A Switch Ain’t One
- Brocade | Michael McNamara
- Brocade – Packet Spraying and SDN Integrating
- Enterprise testing – Tester not included
- Brocade on SDN, Openflow
- Juniper Networks
- Where are we going? What? Who?
- Opengear – A Box Full Of Awesome
- Statseeker – Information Is Ammunition
- Cisco Borderless Networks
- Get Fuzzy – Hunting for Zero Days with Spirent
- Statseeker – The Lone Sysadmin
- Brocade on SDN at Network Field Day
- Big Vendor Head Shuffles at the SDN Curling Rink
- Monitoring the “Un-monitorable” with Opengear
- Spirent Communications Looks Toward the Enterprise
- Get more juice from your network lab
- Juniper Mykonos – Mostly Serious Web Security
- When Demos Attack
- Statseeker – Keeping An Eye on the Little Things
- Juniper Mykonos – Mostly Serious Web Security
- Networking Field Day 4 – Thoughts and Impressions
- Network Field Day 4
- Networking Field Day 4
- Networking Field Day 4 – Thoughts and Impressions
- Network Management System NMS – Statseeker
- Come join me at Networking Field Day 4
- Network Field Day 4 – Live Blogging and Updates
- Networking Field Day 4, Final Thoughts
- Statseeker — Does it Fit Your Organization?
- Show 121 – Tweet My Meat – Network Field Day 4
- Network Field Day 4 – Live Blogging and Updates
- Network Field Day 4 – Live Blogging and Updates
- PQ – Show 14 – NFD4 Statseeker Wrap UP
- Networking Field Day 4 — Next Week’s Agenda
- Network Field Day 4
- Tech Field Day 4–Two Weeks and Counting…
- Prepping for Network Field Day Four
More Information
If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Stephen Foskett, Gestalt IT Community Organizer, at sfoskett@gestaltit.com or call +1(508)451-9532.
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