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.
Mobility Field Day 6: 1st Enterprise Wi-Fi 6E Access Point Deep Dive
Aruba is joining us for Mobility Field Day this week! In their presentation, they will be covering the latest Wi-Fi 6E technologies, including the Aruba 630 series—the industry’s first enterprise-grade Wi-Fi 6E solution. Be sure to tune in Wednesday, July 14th, at 8:00 AM US/Pacific time to watch their presentation live!
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Mobility Field Day 6: 1st Enterprise Wi-Fi 6E Access Point Deep Dive
Meet Field Day Delegate – Mike Wade
We’re excited to welcome Mike Wade as a first-time delegate at this week’s Mobility Field Day event! Mike owns the wireless consultancy company Kahuna-Fi, which he started after 20+ years working as a WiFi consultant after leaving the U.S. Navy. Be sure to follow Mike on Twitter at @WirelessKahuna for all his thoughts from the event!
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Mike Wade
Experience at the Edge With Mobility Field Day!
It’s time to learn more during the 2021 edition of Mobility Field Day! We’re looking forward to getting updates from our lineup of great presenters and hearing the perspectives of our amazing delegates. July 14-16 is going to be packed with all the great information you need to plan your next wireless installation. Tune in this week to watch the event live!
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Experience at the Edge with Mobility Field Day!
Nokia Introduces SR-Linux as Its Modular, Open, and Extensible Network Operating System
This coverage post addresses Nokia’s appearance at May’s Networking Field Day event. Specifically, it hones in on their announced release of SR-Linux networking operating system, and how it affects the enterprise networking industry as a whole. Read on for more, and be sure to check out Nokia’s presentations for even more detailed information.
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Nokia Introduces SR-Linux as its Modular, Open, and Extensible Network Operating System
Improving Data Availability for AI Models With Scality’s ARTESCA
Scality, who recently announced their ARTESCA product, had the opportunity to present the product in more detail at the AI Field Day event in May. During that presentation, which is covered in this post, Scality detailed how ARTESCA brings robust data storage capabilities to AI/ML models, making small file operations like image recognition or even genome sequencing for viruses a snap. Learn more about the AI use cases of ARTESCA by reading the post, and see the product in image manipulation action by watching the presentation.
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Improving Data Availability for AI Models with Scality's ARTESCA
Automating Network Troubleshooting With PathSolutions’ TotalView
Troubleshooting network issues can take tons of time out of an IT professional’s day. That’s why PathSolutions — who appeared at May’s Networking Field Day event — built their TotalView product with a native heuristics engine to automate the collection and interpretation of network data points, saving networking engineers time and headache. Read this piece that covers their Networking Field Day presentation to learn more, and watch the presentation itself for even more technical information regarding TotalView by PathSolutions.
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Automating Network Troubleshooting with PathSolutions' TotalView
How Kemp Maximizes Network Flow Visibility With Flowmon
Without the right information, a security event can be more like an unsolvable mystery rather than a puzzle that can be simply answered. In their presentation during March’s Security Field Day, Kemp showed how their Flowmon product collects information across nearly all facets of network traffic and then intelligently presents it in a way that helps IT admins and security engineers to parse through it with ease. See the Flowmon product in action by watching Kemp’s presentation and read the entirety of the post for key takeaways.
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How Kemp Maximizes Network Flow Visibility with Flowmon
How VMware’s SASE Secures Work From Anywhere
This post notes upon the difficulty of securing employees that work from anywhere compared to traditional networking models and how VMware’s SASE product can help address the issue. The product, which VMware presented at March’s Security Field Day event, works by smartly routing traffic between cloud and on-premises resources as if it were all happening within the traditional data center. Read on for more information about how VMware describes the product, or watch their presentation to hear it in their own words.
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How VMware's SASE Secures Work from Anywhere
Intel Is Bringing Silicon Photonics to the Data Center
At May’s Networking Field Day event, Intel displayed the newest generation of their silicon photonics networking connectors. These connectors, detailed in this post, are feature built to take the fast pace and high performance at incredibly long distances that semiconductor lasers provide into the data center. Learn more by reading this piece, or by watching Intel’s Networking Field Day presentation.
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Intel is Bringing Silicon Photonics to the Data Center
How Arrcus Level Sets the Network Across 5G and Edge Use Cases
As 5G and edge use cases continue to expand in the enterprise IT space, IT practitioners need a way to control their network across all aspects of the network — regardless of where. This piece dives directly into that issue, and specifically how the Arccus ArcOS product displayed at May’s Networking Field Day event is purpose built to address those needs. Read on to learn what ArcOS does, and be sure to watch Arccus’ presentation to get a full understanding of the product.
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How Arrcus Level Sets the Network Across 5G and Edge Use Cases
How Juniper Networks Is Using AI to Streamline Risk Assessment
Juniper Network’s ATP Cloud, which they presented at March’s Security Field Day event, leverages Mist AI to compile security data and identify potential risks. This piece breaks down their presentation on the product, including an example of the product in action. Read on to learn more, and be sure to watch all of Juniper’s presentation for an even deeper technical dive into ATP Cloud.
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How Juniper Networks is Using AI to Streamline Risk Assessment
Tackling Distributed Data Center Security With Software-Driven Firewalls by VMware
VMware appeared at May’s Security Field Day event to present their NSX firewall product. This coverage post examines what NSX is, what it does, and what it means for the industry. Read on to learn more, and be sure to watch VMware’s NSX presentation for even more technical information.
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Tackling Distributed Data Center Security with Software-Driven Firewalls by VMware
Hazelcast Platform Delivers Cloud First In-Memory and Streaming Application Platform
This post covers Hazelcast’s appearance at April’s Tech Field Day event, where they displayed their Platform for data-intensive workloads. Working between both cloud and on-premises mainframe systems, Hazelcast Platform keeps data flowing across application code and stored in on-memory stores. Read on to learn more, and watch Hazelcast at the Tech Field Day event to learn more.
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Hazelcast Platform Delivers Cloud First In-MemorPlatform y and Streaming Application Platform
Solving the Mysteries of Security With Kemp
What’s the difference between a puzzle and a mystery, and how does that relate to security? Well, at March’s Security Field Day event, Kemp Technologies answered both of those questions, proffering their Flowmon product as a method for providing the necessary information to solve the mysteries of security in a single pane of glass. Read this post to learn more about their presentation, and be sure to watch the presentation itself for even more technical information.
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Solving the Mysteries of Security with Kemp
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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