VMware vRNI: Monitoring Networks Across Multiple Clouds

With software abstraction becoming all the rage in enterprise IT, VMware offers their vRNI solution as a way to gain top-down network visibility — even across multiple clouds. This post covers their presentation of vRNI, or vRealize Network Insight, at May’s Networking Field Day event. Learn about the three pillars the tool is designed to support by reading this post, or checking out their video presentation on the topic.

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VMware vRNI: Monitoring Networks Across Multiple Clouds

Streamlining Zero Trust Security With Hashicorp

This piece addresses Hashicorp and their Security Field Day appearance in March. At the event, Hashicorp detailed three tools, Vault, Consul, and Boundary, which, when used together with an identity solution like SSO, build a solid basis for a zero-trust approach to security for enterprises. Learn what each of the three tools can do here, and be sure to watch them all in action in Hashicorp’s Security Field Day presentation.

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Streamlining Zero Trust Security with Hashicorp

Bringing Network Automation Home With Anuta Networks ATOM

This piece covers the recent appearance by Anuta Networks at February’s Networking Field Day. There, they displayed the networking automation power of their ATOM solution, which includes the ATOM Cloud product to help cover nearly all aspects of a network — even if most of it is distributed through the cloud. Read on to learn the takeaways from their presentation, and check out the presentation itself for a technical deep dive of the solution.

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Bringing Network Automation Home with Anuta Networks ATOM

Meet Field Day Delegate – Demetrios Brinkmann

We always love inviting first time delegates to our Field Day events! One of the latest was Demetrios Brinkmann who attended AI Field Day in May. We took a few minutes to learn about Demetrios and posted about it on the Gestalt IT website. Head there to learn more about Demetrios, and be sure to check out all the great content from AI Field Day!

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Meet Field Day Delegate – Demetrios Brinkmann

The Fork in the Network to Code Road With Nautobot

On GestaltIT.com, Tom Hollingsworth writes about Network to Code’s Networking Field Day appearance, their Nautobot project, and the great path that they seem to be on. Tom also delves into the nature of open source projects, forks, and the role that developers play in the community. If you haven’t yet seen Network to Code’s Nautobot presentation from Networking Field Day, you can watch it on the Tech Field Day website!

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The Fork In the Network to Code Road with Nautobot

BlueCat Is DNS for People Who Hate DNS, Which Should Be You

Delegate Justin Warren saw BlueCat present at Tech Field Day in April and writes on his blog that he was impressed with their product functionality and ease of use. Specifically, Justin points to a whiteboard session and a demo from BlueCat’s Tech Field Day appearance while writing on his website. If you haven’t seen it, be sure to head over to eigenmagic.com to check out Justin’s thoughts on BlueCat!

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BlueCat Is DNS For People Who Hate DNS, Which Should Be You

The Future of Network Management

Terry Slattery pays close attention to network management products, and had the chance to see three companies present on them at Networking Field Day earlier this year. As a delegate, Terry got to see VMware, PathSolutions, and Kemp present their products and writes about them on his blog: No Jitter. Head over to his blog to see his thoughts which include some throwbacks to Networking Field Day 16 and Networking Field Day 20!

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The Future of Network Management

Whose Cloud Is It Anyway? Recap From Cloud Field Day 10

Adam Fisher recounts his experiences as a Cloud Field Day delegate in this wrap-up post from his blog, Virtual Bonzo. In it, he details his takeaways from the presentations of this spring’s Cloud Field Day. Read on to see what all Fisher has to say, and be sure to watch all of the Cloud Field Day presentations for more info.

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Whose cloud is it anyway? Recap from Cloud Field Day 10

New Era of Graphical AI Is Near

This post by one of the GreyBeards himself, Ray Luchessi, describes how Intel is changing the game when it comes to AI-driven graphs. Lucchesi experienced Intel’s presentation from May’s AI Field Day event firsthand as a delegate, and has some strong opinions regarding their Katana AI product. Read all about them here, and watch the associated AI Field Day presentation for more technical information from Intel.

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New era of graphical AI is near

NFD25 – Kemp – Visibilidade Com NPM

The Portuguese Rodrigo Rovere describes his time as a Networking Field Day delegate in May, specifically honing in on the presentation by Kemp in this post. Follow his observations and how they relate to each specific portion of Kemp’s appearance by reading the blog. Be sure to watch each associated video from Kemp’s Networking Field Day presentation for more context.

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NFD25 - Kemp - Visibilidade com NPM

Vcinity Calms the Turbulent Waters of WAN

Classic Tech Field Day delegate Justin Warren looks over the recent presentation by Vcinity at April’s Tech Field Day event in this post from his personal blog. In it, he claims that “the most technically intriguing” presentation of the event challenged him to really think about how Vicinity is reimagining the ways IT practitioners tackle WAN connections. Learn about the questions and challenges that spurred his intrigue by reading the post or watching Vcinity’s presentation.

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Vcinity Calms The Turbulent Waters of WAN

Cisco Wants Nexus Dashboard to Be Yet Another Single Pane of Glass

Justin Warren describes his time as a delegate during Cisco’s Tech Field Day presentation in December, and how their Nexus Dashboard seeks to consolidate operations tools in this piece on his personal blog. Specifically, he questions the audience of the dashboard, challenging Cisco to find a concrete answer to the question of who benefits from Nexus? Read on at his blog, and be sure to watch Cisco’s Tech Field Day presentation to follow along.

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Cisco Wants Nexus Dashboard To Be Yet Another Single Pane of Glass

CFD11 – Day 1 – Storage Is Still Hard

We kicked off Cloud Field Day on Wednesday of this week! Delegate Adam Post covers Day 1 of the event in this blog, which he titles “Storage is Still Hard.” In it, he takes a closer look at MinIO’s presentation and solution. Adam notes, “They take a focused, software-defined approach and rely on a distributed, containerized architecture to aggregate local units of storage into a centralized pool for shared consumption.” Be sure to check out Adam’s blog for more of his thoughts from Cloud Field Day!

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CFD11 – Day 1 – Storage is still hard

Cloud Field Day 11 – Day 1 Highlights

We were excited to have Lino Telera back at Cloud Field Day! Following the first day of the event, Lino took to his blog to give his thoughts on the presenters he saw so far. Specifically, Lino gives his take on Hazelcast, Morpheus Data, and MinIO. Head over to the Lino Project blog to hear what he has to say!

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Cloud Field Day 11 – Day 1 Highlights

Xilinx and the Adaptive, Composable Datacentre

Justin Warren had the opportunity to join us as a delegate at April’s Tech Field Day and see Xilinx’s presentation. In this post by Justin, he notes that “Xilinx makes programmable hardware, most famously Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), that combine the speed of hardware with the flexibility of software.” He also mentions that Xilinx views FPGAs as now being at a similar level to other kinds of compute, such as CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs. For more of Justin’s thoughts, be sure to check out this post on eigenmagic.com!

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Xilinx And The Adaptive, Composable Datacentre

Podcast: Netzmanagement on Steroids Und Andere Einsichten

As a delegate at Networking Field Day last month, Kerstin Stief had the chance to see VMware, Nokia, PathSolutions, Kemp, and Juniper up close and personal! In a post and podcast on her website data-disrupted.de, Kerstin talks through her thoughts on the event and conclusion that the monitoring market is on the move. Head over to her website to read and hear more about her thoughts on Networking Field Day.

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Podcast: Netzmanagement on Steroids und andere Einsichten

Meet Field Day Delegate – Peter Mackenzie

We’ve got an excellent lineup of delegates for the upcoming Mobility Field Day thanks in large part to a slate of new delegates including Peter Mackenzie! Peter took a few minutes to tell us a bit about himself on GestaltIT.com. Head over to the Meet the Delegate post to learn more about him!

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Meet Field Day Delegate – Peter Mackenzie

Presenters React to Networking Field Day

A lot of great content was presented during Networking Field Day last month! The delegates were very happy to hear about the state of the networking industry from leaders in the technology that is driving the way we will do work in the future. From network analytics and provisioning to new solutions like 5G, every presenter brought something unique to the table. Check out this video to find out what the presenters thought of the experience!

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Presenters React to Networking Field Day

Meet Field Day Delegate – Dan Jones

Let’s welcome Dan Jones to the Tech Field Day community! He is an Apple consultant who specializes in MDM and WiFi and is the technical director of a system integrator in the UK. Dan will be joining us next month at Mobility Field Day, so be sure to tune in and catch him on the delegate panel!

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Meet Field Day Delegate – Dan Jones

Cloud Field Day 11 Is Coming Up!

Cloud Field Day is back! Delegate Adam Fisher details what he’ll be seeing at this week’s event, as well as a reminder to follow along with #CFD11 for all the updates. Tune in this Wednesday through Friday to catch the great content from Cloud Field Day. Thanks for joining us, Adam!

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Cloud Field Day 11 is coming up!