Tech Field Day Coverage
Our delegate panel includes independent writers and thought leaders, and we collect their coverage of the event, Tech Field Day presentations, and sponsoring companies here.
Making Bandwidth Work With Riverbed
There’s no question that the work from home environment has made things more complicated in terms of ensuring the reliability of everyone’s connection. As a delegate at Tech Field Day in December, Justin Warren got to see Riverbed present on a variety of topics including how they can help with some of the issues that arise out of the work from home environment. Writing on his blog, Justin talks about these challenges around bandwidth inequality and how Riverbed is working to fix them. If you haven’t yet, check out Justin’s take as well as the Riverbed presentations on how they can help work through these problems.
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Making Bandwidth Work With Riverbed
Voices in Innovation – a Roundtable Discussion on Persistent Memory
Enrico Signoretti, Jason Collier, and Matt Leib join the Voices in Innovation podcast on Gigaom to talk about Tech Field Day Extra at Intel Memory and Storage 2020. On the podcast, they dig into Intel’s presentations and discuss Intel Persistent Memory. Head over to the Gigaom website to check out the podcast, and head to our website to look at Intel’s presentations from the event!
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Voices in Innovation – A Roundtable Discussion on Persistent Memory
Review Blog: Good Stuff From Tech Field Day 21
Pete Welcher attended Tech Field Day last March as a delegate and had some thoughts! In a recent post on his LinkedIn, Pete points to his several posts on the event. Thanks to Pete for being a delegate at our events, we look forward to hearing more “good stuff” from him!
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Review Blog: Good Stuff from Tech Field Day 21
Storage Field Day 21 – Hammerspace
Barry Coombs was a delegate at Storage Field Day in January and followed the event with a doodle covering Hammerspace’s presentation. In this edition of Tech Doodles, Barry highlights Hammerspace’s presentation through handwritten notes and images from the event. Barry takes note of Hammerspace’s presentation on Storageless Data, which has to be software and cannot be bound to specific hardware so it can run anywhere. To learn more about Hammerspace’s solution, check out its presentation on the Tech Field Day website!
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Storage Field Day 21 - Hammerspace
Storage Field Day 21 – The TECHunplugged Take on Nasuni
In this video from TECHunplugged, Arjan Timmerman and Max Mortillaro give their thoughts on Nasuni’s presentation from Storage Field Day in January. Max mentions that Nasuni was one of the companies that stood out to him and was amazed by Nasuni’s idea because “it’s so simple and so straightforward, it’s almost genius.” Nasuni looks at the traditional challenges of NAS and creates a solution for those challenges. To learn more about Nasuni’s solution, check out its presentation on the Tech Field Day website!
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Storage Field Day 21 - The TECHunplugged Take on Nasuni
Intel Bridges the Gap Between Memory and Storage
Over the past several years, flash storage has been rapidly taking over the storage world. After seeing Intel present at Storage Field Day last year, the team at GestaltIT.com writes that they “presented a unified vision of the future of flash storage and how they set world record performance with the DAOS software ecosystem combined with the Optane line of storage devices.” Be sure to check out all of Intel’s presentations from Storage Field Day and other events on the Tech Field Day website!
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Intel Bridges the Gap Between Memory and Storage
Nasuni – Cloud-Scale NAS Without Cloud Worries
Max Mortillaro had the opportunity to join us as a delegate at Storage Field Day in January where he saw Nasuni’s presentation. Max provides an analysis of Nasuni’s presentation and recognizes that managing file services at scale can be a challenge. In his analysis, Max writes, “By building on top of public clouds, Nasuni provides global data coverage with local acceleration, infinite scale and true cloud economics.” To find out what else Max had to say about Nasuni’s presentation from Storage Field Day, visit TECHunplugged!
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Nasuni – Cloud-Scale NAS Without Cloud Worries
Storage Field Day 21 – Intel
Intel presented at Storage Field Day in January, where Barry Coombs joined us as a delegate. Barry created a doodle covering Intel’s presentation, including notes on Intel Optane Technology and how Intel plans to continue investing, developing, and scaling the Intel Optane business. To see what else Barry included in his doodle covering Intel’s presentation, visit Tech Doodles!
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Troubleshooting in an Isolated World With PathSolutions
Tom Hollingsworth went through the troubleshooting gauntlet when he worked at an inbound tech help desk. Troubleshooting can be tough enough in person, and the work from home environment has been even more challenging for many employees. Writing for GestaltIT.com, Tom explores the PathSolutions RemoteView Client Testing product that can quickly give you a look into anyone’s network who might be having issues. They presented the functionality and usefulness of this offering at Networking Field Day 23 last year. Be sure to head over to GestaltIT.com to check out Tom’s thoughts and for more information on the PathSolutions RemoteView Client Testing product.
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Troubleshooting in an Isolated World with PathSolutions
TFD22 – TECHunplugged Take on VMware DRaaS
At Tech Field Day in December, VMware presented on Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). Their solution, focused on VMware and AWS, greatly simplifies disaster recovery for their users. Max and Arjan talk through the strengths and features as well as potential use cases of the new offering from VMware in a video on the TECHunplugged YouTube channel. Check it out!
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TFD22 - TECHunplugged Take on VMware DRaaS
FlashStack Brings Simplicity and Flexibility to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
Picking between simplicity, flexibility, and performance on the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a thing of the past. With their FlashStack Converged Infrastructure, Pure Storage is changing the game. They showcased how FlashStack (a joint offering between Pure Storage and Cisco) brings simplicity to an on-premises VCF deployment while at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020. Check out the Gestalt IT team’s thoughts on the offering on their website, and if you haven’t yet be sure to watch Pure Storage’s Vaughn Stewart tell the Tech Field Day delegates about the newest developments on our website!
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FlashStack Brings Simplicity and Flexibility to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
Storage Field Day 21 – Pliops
In this edition of Tech Doodles, Barry Coombs recaps Pliops’ presentation from Storage Field Day in January. Barry was a delegate at the event and in his doodle, writes, “Pliops allows you to unleash the full potential of your SSDs.” He also mentioned that Pliops’ storage processor accelerates almost any flash workload. To see what else Barry had to say about Pliops at Storage Field Day, head over to techdoodles.co.uk.
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Storage Field Day 21 – MinIO Session
As a delegate, Barry Coombs had the opportunity to see MinIO at Storage Field Day in January. In this edition of Tech Doodles, Barry mentions, “MinIO does one thing and one thing only. Object Storage.” He also notes MinIO’s guiding principles: Cloud Native, Performant, and Simple. Go to techdoodles.co.uk to see what else Barry had to say about MinIO at Storage Field Day.
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Storage Field Day 21 - MinIO Session
Keeping SLAs Honest With Broadcom
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are agreements between network providers and you about network reliability and performance and can help to keep those providers in check to ensure that you are getting what you were promised. There’s just one problem, how can you prove if you’re not getting the service that you agreed to? Broadcom has come to the rescue here with Broadview+, which is a solution that helps you monitor your SLAs and keep your provider accountable. Writing for GestaltIT.com, Tom Hollingsworth says that Broadview+ “gives you the capabilities of monitoring connections to meet SLAs and service level objectives (SLOs) and gives you the ability to see things that haven’t been visible before.” Broadcom presented all about their BroadView+ solution at Networking Field Day 23. Be sure to check out Tom’s thoughts on the Broadcom offering or head over to our website to check out their presentations!
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Keeping SLAs Honest with Broadcom
Storage Field Day 21 – Nasuni
At Storage Field Day in January, Barry Coombs joined us as a delegate and had the opportunity to see Nasuni’s presentation. In this edition of Tech Doodles, Barry recaps Nasuni’s presentation with notes on Nasuni Cloud File Storage, its different use cases, and more. Check out Barry’s doodle for more of his thoughts!
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Storage Field Day 21 – Tintri
Barry Coombs was a delegate at Storage Field Day in January and follows the event with his notes on Tintri’s presentation. In this Tech Doodle, Barry mentions that Tintri works with customers across a wide variety of verticals and specializations and is building intelligent systems. For more of Barry’s notes from Tintri’s appearance at Storage Field Day, check out Tech Doodles!
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Storage Field Day 21 – NetApp
NetApp presented at Storage Field Day in January where Barry Coombs joined us as a delegate. In his latest edition of Tech Doodles, Barry highlights NetApp’s presentations through handwritten notes and images from the event. Check out Tech Doodles to see his notes on NetApp Storage GRID, NetApp Data Science Toolkit, NetApp Keystone, and more!
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Taking a Network Mulligan With Apstra
Tom Hollingsworth knows how handy rolling back changes can be when troubleshooting. At Networking Field Day in October, Apstra’s presentation caught his attention. During its presentation, the company highlighted its Apstra Time Voyager, which allows network-wide rollbacks. This concept is exciting, as Tom says, “I was quite literally hopping up and down in my chair when I saw this section.” See what else Tom had to say about Apstra Time Voyager on GestaltIT.com!
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Taking a Network Mulligan with Apstra
CFD9: Cloud-Native State of Mind With PortWorx
Becky Elliott was a delegate at Cloud Field Day in November and follows the event with an analysis of Portworx by Pure Storage. Becky mentions that Portworx takes a cloud-native approach, where “Portworx’s software-defined storage control plane abstracts away a lot of the inherent complexity of managing storage in containers and also working with heterogeneous storage.” For more of Becky’s thoughts, visit her blog!
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CFD9: Cloud-Native State of Mind with PortWorx
Cisco’s HyperFlex Gets a Boost
Cisco highlighted its updated HyperFlex at Storage Field Day in August. Cisco’s HyperFlex 4.5 comes with new capabilities and validated workloads. This new HyperFlex also allows customers to turn different ‘knobs’, including HyperFlex Boost Mode. Find out more in Cisco’s presentation on its updated HyperFlex on the Tech Field Day website!
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