vVols 2022 Adoption Update: Current Barriers and Will It Ever Go Mainstream?

Eric Siebert gives his thoughts on VMware Virtual Volumes from this past Tech Field Day Extra at VMware Explore US showcase. Check out all of the videos from this past event on the Tech Field Day website!


HPE Acquires Zerto for $374 Million

This article by perennial Field Day delegate, Justin Warren, is from Forbes, detailing the recent acquisition of Zerto by HPE. Having just recently presented their offering at June’s Cloud Field Day event, the acquisition marks a bold future for Zerto and HPE. Read the whole article for details.


Tech Field Day Delegates Thoughts Regarding Scality ARTESCA

Barry Coombs, the masterful creator of Tech Doodles, shares another one of his colorful graphics regarding his time on the delegate panel at Scality’s exclusive Tech Field Day event with HPE. This doodle in particular covers the reactions of each member of the panel in regards to ARTESCA, Scality’s newest product which the launched at the event. Check out the doodle for summaries of each delegate’s thoughts, and be sure to watch the Scality launch event to learn more about ARTESCA.


Scality ARTESCA Architecture

Barry Coombs follows the recent launch of Scality ARTESCA with Tech Field Day with a doodle of the ARTESCA architecture and his notes surrounding it. Barry mentions, “ARTESCA is a really interesting solution for object storage requirements, it is software-based, leverages Kubernetes, has multiple configuration options to meet edge and core use cases and unites developers and operations.” For more of his thoughts, be sure to check out this doodle on techdoodles.co.uk!


Data://express 0005 – Scality ARTESCA Launch, DELL Verschlankung, Darktrace an Der Börse

Wolfgang Stief attended the “Tech Field Day Presents Scality and HPE” as a delegate last month. On the latest version of the Data Disrupted podcast with Wolfgang and Kerstin Stief, they talk about the launch of ARTESCA at the event as well as a few other current topics. Head over to the Data Disrupted website to learn more about their thoughts or head to the Tech Field Day website to see Scality’s ARTESCA launch!


118: GreyBeards Talks Cloud-Native Object Storage With Greg DiFraia, Scality and Stephen Bacon, HPE

In one of the latest GreyBeards On Storage Podcasts, Ray Lucchesi and Keith Townsend talk with HPE’s Stephen Bacon and Scality’s Greg DiFraia to talk about their joint partnership to release ARTESCA: a new cloud native object storage solution. The Scality-HPE solution ARTESCA was announced at a Tech Field Day Exclusive event last month where Ray was a delegate. On the podcast they discuss the direction of the IT world, edge solutions, and of course ARTESCA! Head over to the GreyBeards On Storage page to listen to the full, enlightening conversation


Join Us on April 27th for Making the Future of Data Possible: An Event by Scality and HPE!

What is the future of data? See how Scality in conjunction with Hewlett Packard Enterprise are revolutionizing the way we store data in this exclusive Tech Field Day event. Stay tuned for the launch of Scality’s newest product, ARTESCA, to see how it works.


Scality & HPE #ARTESCA Launch, Discussion and Demonstration – Part Two

Delegate Barry Coombs is back with another doodle from Scality and HPE’s ARTESCA launch event! In Part Two of this doodle series, Barry focuses on the Tech Field Day portion of the event. This consisted of a DevOps panel discussion, ARTESCA UI Fly-Through, and a delegate roundtable. Barry notes that he was particularly impressed with ARTESCA’s ability to “allow for visibility and reporting of the underlying infrastructure layers including Kubernetes and the HPE hardware status.” Check out Barry’s blog for more doodles from the event!


Scality Announces ARTESCA | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 28, 2021

This “bear” of a News Rundown features Tom Hollingsworth and Stephen Foskett, who discuss what’s new for the week of 4/28/21 in the IT industry. Tune in to hear about Scality’s announcement of ARTESCA, the University of Minnesota’s banning from Linux kernel development, and how one beaver was able to shut down the Internet access of an entire Canadian town. Also, Stephen talks about bears… like, a lot. Be sure to watch Scality’s exclusive launch of ARTESCA in partnership with HPE, only at Actual Tech Media and here at TechFieldDay.com.


DevOps’ing the Enterprise Sale

Ned Bellavance, proprietor of Ned in the Cloud and long-time Tech Field Day delegate, dives into Scality’s launch of the ARTESCA product that they announced at their special Tech Field Day event, which Bellavance attended as a delegate in April. In his podcast, hosted on his blog Ned in the Cloud, Bellavance pontificates on how Scality used the platform to sell a DevOps-focused product to an enterprise IT audience. Tune in to hear what sorts of thoughts that approach sparked in Bellavance, as well as what his takes on the release were. Also, be sure to watch Scality’s launch event in partnership with HPE to see what’s new with the ARTESCA product.


DevOps’ing the Enterprise Sale by Daily Check-In With Ned1313

Ned Bellavance, proprietor of Ned in the Cloud and long-time Tech Field Day delegate, dives into Scality’s launch of the ARTESCA product that they announced at their special Tech Field Day event, which Bellavance attended as a delegate in April. In his podcast, hosted on Anchor, Bellavance pontificates on how Scality used the platform to sell a DevOps-focused product to an enterprise IT audience. Tune in to hear what sorts of thoughts that approach sparked in Bellavance, as well as what his takes on the release were. Also, be sure to watch Scality’s launch event in partnership with HPE to see what’s new with the ARTESCA product.


Scality & HPE #ARTESCA Launch – Part One

We had a blast working with Scality as they collaborated with HPE to announce the launch of ARTESCA! One of the delegates in attendance for the launch was Barry Coombs who marked the occasion with one of his “Tech Doodles.” On his doodle, Barry recaps the Scality presentation including the details of the ARTESCA software from the origin story to the technical break-down. Head on over to Barry’s website to check it out and, if you haven’t yet, check out the great content from “Tech Field Day Presents Scality and HPE: Making the Future of Data Possible” on the Tech Field Day website!


HPE vs Dell Cloud Stories – Who’s Winning?

Keith Townsend knows everyone love a hot take. So in this video, looking at HPE vs Dell Cloud Stories. Keith got to hear from Dell recently at Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio and found the breadth of the portfolio was definitely impressive. Keith sees them having a lot of interesting possibilities in the cloud as they continue to refine their messaging and roadmap.


HPE Nimble dHCI Bridges the Gap Between Converged and Hyperconverged

Hyperconverged solutions have done a great deal to simplify the way datacenter infrastructure is approached. However, these types of solutions do have their flaws, and they aren’t a good fit in every situation. HPE has recognized this and brought the best attributes of converged stacks and hyperconverged solutions to market in the form of HPE Nimble dHCI.


Reviewed HPE InfoSight Is a Force-Multiplier for IT Operations

Infrastructure complexity is becoming an issue that impedes ongoing operations, and solution vendors have a role to play in addressing this problem. In addition, it’s no longer good enough to just produce infrastructure solutions that do not have awareness of the rest of the stack. This piece looks at Tech Field Exclusive with HPE Storage how HPE is meeting these challenges with InfoSight, which they acquired with Nimble Storage a few years ago.


HPE Primera – More Than Just a Rock-Solid Storage Platform

At Tech Field Day Exclusive with HPE Storage 2019, Matt Leib got a deep dive into HPE Primera. This new storage platform offers something truly unique in storage. Rather than offering 5 or 6 9s of up time, HPE claims 100%. Matt digs into the detail of how HPE makes this possible.


HPE’s Technology Event & Symposium: What I Heard

Matt Leib, Engineer and Presales Architect, shares his post-event thoughts about Tech Field Day Exclusive with HPE Storage 2019.


Diving Deep Into HPE Primera

HPE had a number of presentations at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Nth Symposium. In this post, Calvin Zito goes into detail about HPE Primera. At the event, the Field Day delegates got to hear from the System Architects and get deep technical insights to the platform. Be sure to watch the presentation videos for all the details.


HPE: What Did We See? TFDx Post-Attendance Thoughts

Becky L. Elliott attended Tech Field Day Exclusive with HPE Storage 2019. She takes a few moments to reflect on the experience and share what she learned during the event.


Unleash Your Data With Intelligent Storage

Roger Lund attended our special Tech Field Day Exclusive presentation by HPE Storage at the Nth Symposium in Anaheim this year. This post contains Roger’s live notes about Beth Joseph’s presentation of the HPE storage strategy overall.