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Virtualization Field Day 5

Justin Paul, Bob Plankers, Stephen Foskett, Ethan Banks, Sean Massey, Amy Manley, Tom Hollingsworth, Vladan Seget, Alastair Cooke, Mike Preston, Luc Dekens, Eric Shanks

Virtualization Field Day 5

June 24–June 26, 2015

#VFD5

Who: Virtualization

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Boston

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Delegate Panel

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.

Alastair Cooke

@DemitasseNZ

Alastair is a Tech Field Day event lead at the Futurum group, specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and Edge.

Amy Manley

@WyrdGirl

12 years in IT, vExpert and an automation junkie

Bob Plankers

@Plankers

A hardcore IT generalist, virtualization expert, blogger, and vocal end user of technology.

Chris Marget

@ChrisMarget

Chris is an independent network consultant, recovering UNIX sysadmin and protocol aficionado

Eric Shanks

@Eric_Shanks

Consultant and blogger for theITHollow.com focused on Automation

Ethan Banks

@ECBanks

Network architect, CCIE, podcaster & blogger.

Justin Paul

@recklessop

VMware vExpert and EMC Elect recipient who works for a VAR focused on Storage and Virtualization

Luc Dekens

@LucD22

Virtualization and automation fan

Mike Preston

@MWPreston

3 x vExpert, blogger @ mwpreston.net and a typical Canadian eh!

Sean Massey

@SeanPMassey

Blogger, consultant, VDI Geek, and Bears fan from Wisconsin

Vladan Seget

@Vladan

Working in the IT industry as an independent consultant and blogger, based at Reunion Island

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, Jun 24 10:00-12:00 VMTurbo Presents at Virtualization Field Day 5
Wednesday, Jun 24 13:00-15:00 OneCloud Software Presents at Virtualization Field Day 5
Wednesday, Jun 24 15:30-17:30 PernixData Presents at Virtualization Field Day 5
Thursday, Jun 25 8:00-10:00 NexGen Storage Presents at Virtualization Field Day 5
Thursday, Jun 25 10:30-12:30
Rubrik Presents at Virtualization Field Day 5
Presenters: Arvind Nithrakashyap, Bipul Sinha, Chris Wahl
Thursday, Jun 25 15:00-17:00 DataGravity Presents at Virtualization Field Day 5
Friday, Jun 26 8:00-10:00 Scale Computing Presents at Virtualization Field Day 5
Friday, Jun 26 10:30-12:30 Ravello Systems Presents at Virtualization Field Day 5
All dates and times listed are local time in Boston, US/Eastern.

Event Staff

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.


64 Links with Tag #VFD5

  1. Coverage: Time to write Chapter 2
    • Cloud Field Day 3, Tech Field Day 12
    • Mike Preston
    • Rubrik
  2. Coverage: Ravello expanding HVX platform to bare metal
    • Mike Preston
    • Oracle, Ravello Systems
  3. Coverage: Rubrik’s Doing All the Boring Enterprise Backup Stuff
    • Eric Shanks
    • Rubrik
  4. Coverage: Rubrik Firefly – Now with physical, edge, and moar cloud!
    • Tech Field Day 10
    • Mike Preston
    • Rubrik
  5. Coverage: Scale Computing Announces Support For Hybrid Storage and Other Good Things
    • Storage Field Day 5
    • Dan Frith
    • Scale Computing
  6. Coverage: Rubrik Announces r528 Cloud Appliance and Sexy New Features
    • Amy Manley
    • Rubrik
  7. Coverage: Rubrik Gets Serious about Security
    • Eric Shanks
    • Rubrik
  8. Coverage: Rubrik Is Like Apple Time Machine But For The Datacenter
    • Tech Field Day 10
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Rubrik
  9. Coverage: Ravello on my wrist – Pebble in the cloud
    • Mike Preston
    • Ravello Systems
  10. Coverage: Rubrik Data Management – Video and Future Roadmap
    • Vladan Seget
    • Rubrik
  11. Coverage: PernixData Architect – decoupled datacenter management
    • PernixData
  12. Coverage: Hyperconverge Your Network Too?
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Plexxi
  13. Coverage: Ravello PowerShell Module
    • Luc Dekens
    • Ravello Systems
  14. Coverage: Vendor Shortlist for VMworld 2015
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
    • Michael Stump
    • PernixData, SolarWinds
  15. Coverage: Rubrik’s Converged Data Management 2.0 with Riker Beard enhancements
    • Amy Manley
    • Rubrik
  16. Coverage: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It!
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Turbonomic
  17. Coverage: Hyperconverged like you just don’t care
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Scale Computing
  18. Coverage: Rubrik’s, Chris Wahl speaks about bacon and more
    • Amy Manley, Chris Wahl
    • Rubrik
  19. Coverage: Ravello Systems – Inception without the kick!
    • Mike Preston
    • Ravello Systems
  20. Coverage: VMTurbo – allowing smart people to do smart things
    • Mike Preston
    • Turbonomic
  21. Coverage: Rubrik brought Apple simplicity and Google scale together, you’ll never guess what happens next…
    • Mike Preston
    • Rubrik
  22. Coverage: Straight Forward Convergence with Scale
    • Eric Shanks
    • Scale Computing
  23. Coverage: Removing disaster recovery from your business with OneCloud
    • Mike Preston
    • OneCloud Software
  24. Coverage: Come full circle with NexGen Storage
    • Amy Manley
    • NexGen Storage
  25. Coverage: A Dream within a Dream
    • Eric Shanks
    • Ravello Systems
  26. Coverage: How to Protect VMs In Your Datacenter Without Having Remote Site and Without Ruining Yourself?
    • Vladan Seget
    • OneCloud Software
  27. Coverage: Not quite hyperconverged Backup
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Rubrik
  28. Coverage: OneCloud to Rule Them All…
    • Eric Shanks
    • OneCloud Software
  29. Coverage: PernixData – transforming to a new arc…
    • Mike Preston
    • PernixData
  30. Coverage: Why build two when you can have OneCloud
    • Justin Paul
    • OneCloud Software
  31. Coverage: PernixData’s World Domination Roadmap
    • Justin Paul
    • PernixData
  32. Coverage: Fragmentation Needed: Failing to the Cloud – and Back!
    • Chris Marget
    • OneCloud Software
  33. Coverage: NexGen Storage is NVMe Ready with QoS at the VM level and VVOLs compatible
    • Vladan Seget
    • NexGen Storage
  34. Coverage: How To Import OVA/OVF Into Ravello
    • Justin Warren
    • Ravello Systems
  35. Coverage: The Approaching Backup (Hyper)Convergence
    • Rubrik
  36. Coverage: VMTurbo Emphasizes Quality of Service
    • Eric Wright
    • Turbonomic
  37. Coverage: Rubrik unboxing and hardware details
    • Rubrik
  38. Coverage: A New Standard for Backups – Rubrik
    • Eric Shanks
    • Rubrik
  39. Coverage: Low Cost KVM Based Hyperconverged solution for SMB
    • Vladan Seget
    • Scale Computing
  40. Coverage: Pernixdata introduce new rays of light at VFD5
    • Amit Panchal
    • PernixData
  41. Coverage: Changes in the Wind, Startup Edition
    • Chris Wahl
    • Rubrik
  42. Coverage: Will You Put the Data in PernixData?
    • Eric Shanks
    • PernixData
  43. Coverage: “Freedom lies in being bold”
    • PernixData
  44. Coverage: VFD5 in Boston – PernixData
    • James Green
    • PernixData
  45. Coverage: VFD5 in Boston – OneCloud Software
    • James Green
    • OneCloud Software
  46. Coverage: VFD5 in Boston – VMTurbo
    • James Green
    • Turbonomic
  47. Coverage: PernixData announcements at VFD5
    • PernixData
  48. Coverage: VMTurbo’s Market Economy Got a Free Trade Agreement
    • Eric Shanks
    • Turbonomic
  49. Coverage: VMTurbo at Tech Field Day 5 – Streaming Live Wednesday June 24th
    • Turbonomic
  50. Coverage: A sneak peak of PernixData VFD5 presentation
    • PernixData
  51. Coverage: VFD5 Preview – VMTurbo
    • Mike Preston
    • Turbonomic
  52. Coverage: Countdown to Virtualization Field Day 5
    • Sean Massey
  53. Coverage: Virtualization Field Day Event Boston – United States
    • Vladan Seget
  54. Coverage: VFD5 Preview – Ravello Systems
    • Mike Preston
    • Ravello Systems
  55. Coverage: VFD5 Preview – Scale Computing
    • Mike Preston
    • Scale Computing
  56. Coverage: VFD5 Preview–PernixData
    • Mike Preston
    • PernixData
  57. Coverage: VFD5 Preview – NexGen
    • Mike Preston
    • NexGen Storage
  58. Coverage: VFD5 Preview – Rubrik
    • Mike Preston
    • Rubrik
  59. Coverage: VFD5 Preview – OneCloud
    • Mike Preston
    • OneCloud Software
  60. Coverage: VMTurbo Part 2 – Chargeback
    • Amy Manley
    • Turbonomic
  61. Coverage: Clouds, storage and lobster – Virtualization Field Day 5
    • Amy Manley
    • DataGravity, Infinio, NexGen Storage, OneCloud Software, PernixData, Rubrik, Scale Computing, Turbonomic
  62. Coverage: Preview – DataGravity
    • Mike Preston
    • DataGravity
  63. Coverage: Lobstah, Chowdah, and Virtualization Field Dah – Here I come
    • Mike Preston
  64. Coverage: An Exciting Field Day Filled with Virtualization in Boston
    • Chris Wahl

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, [email protected].


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