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Tech Field Day 8

Tech Field Day 8

September 15–September 16, 2011

#TFD8

Who: Tech

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley



Presenting Sponsors

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.

Amy Arnold

@AmyEngineer

Amy Arnold is an engineer and blogger with a love for all things networking.

Bill Hill

@Virtual_Bill

Chris M Evans

@ChrisMEvans

Chris is a UK-based consultant with an interest in all technologies, focusing on storage, virtualisation and cloud.

Chris Wahl

@ChrisWahl

Social media adventurer, virtualization whisperer, and global event speaker. Author of Networking for VMware Administrators.

John Hickson

@StudioSystems

Jonathan Franconi

@s1xth

Kyle Brandt

@KyleMBrandt

Matt Simmons

@StandaloneSA

Small Infrastructure IT Administrator in Academia

Paul Miller

@PaulMiller

Cloud Computing/ Big Data/ Open Data Analyst & Consultant. Writer, Speaker & Moderator. Gigaom Research Analyst. Based in UK, clients world-wide.

Rick Schlander

@VMRick

Virtualization Architect & vExpert, Minneapolis & Rochester VMUG Leader, NetAppEMC Storage & Cisco UCS Engineer-Blogger.

Robin Harris

@StorageMojo

Tony Bourke

@TBourke

W. Curtis Preston

@WCPreston

O’Reilly Author, Backup Expert, Founder of Truth in IT

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.

Thursday, Sep 15 08:00 Nutanix Presents at Tech Field Day 8
Presenters: Ajeet Singh, Dheeraj Pandey, Mitch Crane, Mohit Aron
Thursday, Sep 15 10:30 Nasuni Presents at Tech Field Day 8
Presenters: Andres Rodriguez
Thursday, Sep 15 13:30 Symantec Presents at Tech Field Day 8
Presenters: Don Angspatt, Jerry Gallin, Oscar Wahlberg, Ranga Rajagopalan, Saveen Pakala
Thursday, Sep 15 16:00 DDN Presents at Tech Field Day 8
Presenters: Jean-Luc Chatelain, Jeff Denworth
Friday, Sep 16 08:00 Pure Storage Presents at Tech Field Day 8
Presenters: John Colgrove, John Hayes, Michael Cornwell, Scott Dietzen
Friday, Sep 16 10:30 Arista Presents at Tech Field Day 8
Presenters: Andre Pech, Jayshree Ullal
Friday, Sep 16 13:30 SolidFire Presents at Tech Field Day 8
Presenters: Dave Wright
Friday, Sep 16 15:30 Arkeia Presents at Tech Field Day 8
Presenters: Bill Evans
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Benjamin Freedman

@PrimeImageVideo

Scott Sexauer

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


8 Links with Tag #TFD8

  1. Coverage: Making Money in Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
    • Tech Field Day 20
    • Chris M Evans
    • Nutanix, Scale Computing
  2. Coverage: The Rationale Behind Nutanix Clusters
    • Chris M Evans
    • Nutanix
  3. News: Celebrating 10 Years of Pure Storage and Tech Field Day
    • Cloud Field Day 5, Networking Field Day Exclusive with Nokia, Storage Field Day 1, Storage Field Day 10, Storage Field Day 6, Storage Field Day 8, Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025, Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2025, Tech Field Day Extra at SHARE Kansas City 2024, Virtualization Field Day 3
    • Pure Storage
  4. Coverage: Pure Storage Raises a Further $225m for a $3B Valuation
    • Chris M Evans
    • Pure Storage
  5. Coverage: Storage IPO Season – Violin Memory and Pure Storage
    • Storage Field Day 1
    • Chris M Evans
    • Pure Storage
  6. Coverage: Nasuni Empowers Enterprise IT With Mobile Access
    • Chris Wahl
    • Nasuni
  7. Coverage: August Storage Announcements – Pure Storage
    • Storage Field Day 1
    • Chris M Evans
  8. Early Coverage, News: Tech Field Day 8: Video and Presentation Schedule
    • Arista Networks, Arkeia Software, DataDirect Networks, Nasuni, Nutanix, SolidFire

More Information

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


This is a Past Tech in Silicon Valley


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