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.
Riverbed and the Search for Total Awareness
From his personal blog at eigenmagic.com, this piece by Justin Warren describes his experiences as a delegate during April’s Tech Field Day event, specifically the presentation by Riverbed. Their WAN acceleration product made them famous, but as they detailed during the event, Riverbed is expanding into the network visibility space. Read Warren’s blog to see what he thinks about Riverbed’s announcement and watch their presentations for all of the new announcements coming out of Riverbed.
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Riverbed And The Search For Total Awareness
Arriba Aruba! — Intelligent Secure Network Infrastructure
Addressing her time as a delegate at May’s Networking Field Day, this piece by Kerstin Stief, publisher and editor-in-chief of data://disrupted, gives a breakdown of the presentations by Aruba Networks. Specifically, the Medium-hosted post covers how Aruba is addressing network security in modern infrastructure, regardless of the size of enterprise. Read on for her takeaways, and be sure to watch Aruba’s presentation to hear what all was discussed.
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Arriba Aruba! — Intelligent secure network infrastructure
Vcinity Minimizes Latency to Bring Local Network Performance to Geo-Dispersed Applications and Data
Data management becomes more challenging as data and applications are dispersed across multiple environments, including on-premises and public clouds. At Tech Field Day in April, Vcinity introduced its Vcinity Data Access Platform (VDAP), which enables organizations to sustain Local Area Network-like throughput over Wide Area Network distances. Vcinity’s VDAP works to ease the challenges associated with data management, such as keeping multiple copies of the same data in sync or moving data around for many organizations. To learn more about Vcinity and its Vcinity Data Access Platform, be sure to check out the videos of their Tech Field Day presentation on our website!
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Vcinity Minimizes Latency to Bring Local Network Performance to Geo-Dispersed Applications and Data
Server Building Block + Storage + Networking = Pure Storage’s FlashBlade
During April’s Tech Field Day event, Pure Storage presented their solution to the problem of unstructured data in the enterprise: their new FlashBlade server blocks. FlashBlade combines storage and networking needs into a single package, reducing latency and compute times while maintaining a small form factor for server stack scalability. Read this piece to learn more about FlashBlade, and be sure to watch Pure’s presentation for a full technical breakdown.
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Server Building Block + Storage + Networking = Pure Storage's FlashBlade
Networking Field Day 25, Part 2
Bryton Herdes gives his breakdown of the presentations he watched as a delegate during May’s Networking Field Day event in this post on his personal blog, https://next-hopself.net/. This post in particular covers the appearances of Nokia, Aruba Networks, IP Infusion, and Juniper Networks. Check out the piece to hear Herdes’ opinions, and watch each companies presentation for more information.
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Networking Field Day 25, Part 2
Disclosure: Tech Field Day 23
Justin Warren gives a breakdown of his time as a delegate at April’s Tech Field Day event in this post. In the same tune as his past disclosure pieces, Warren discusses his approach to the event, as well as some of the swag he received from the sponsors. Read on for more information, and tune into all of the Tech Field Day presentations from this event to see Warren in action.
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Marc Staimer
Let’s welcome Marc Staimer to the Tech Field Day community! Marc is an industry expert and consultant in the Data Center and Cloud. He has joined us for Tech Field Day Presents Scality and HPE and AI Field Day so far. Head on over to GestaltIT.com and get to know Marc in this Meet the Delegate post!
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Marc Staimer
BlueCat Moves DDI to the Cloud
Bluecat is completely changing the DDI game by shifting it entirely to the cloud, as they presented during April’s Tech Field Day event. This piece dives into just what exactly that means for the industry as a whole, and how their cloud DDI solution solves four key issues the cloud presents in the realm of DDI. Learn more by reading the post, or watching BlueCat’s presentation for yourself.
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BlueCat Moves DDI to the Cloud
Riverbed Optimizes Your Network and Applications Through Performance and Visibility
April’s Tech Field Day event served as the spotlight for Riverbed to talk about how their new Unified NPM platform is painting a bigger picture of network and app telemetry. This post details their presentation, specifically how the platform works and the benefits it provides enterprises. Read on to learn more, and be sure to watch Riverbed’s Phil Gervasi present on the Unified NPM platform during their Tech Field Day appearance.
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Riverbed Optimizes Your Network and Applications through Performance and Visibility
Hybrid Cloud Data Management With Scality at Cloud Field Day
This piece by Gestalt IT’s staff writer dives into Scality’s presentation from the Cloud Field Day event in March. There, Scality presented the various ways their products can help organizations to better manage their data in the cloud. Read on for a full breakdown of the presentations, or watch the presentations themselves for more info.
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Hybrid Cloud Data Management with Scality at Cloud Field Day
BrainChip Highlights Its Akida Neural Processor at AI Field Day 2
This press release covers the exciting announcement of the Akida neural processor by BrainChip at May’s AI Field Day. Capable of advancing a number of smart edge use cases, the neural processor SoC features high performance in a small form factor. Read the press release for more, and be sure to watch BrainChip’s AI Field Day to see Akida in action.
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BrainChip Highlights Its Akida Neural Processor at AI Field Day 2
The Enterprise Is Not Ready for AI
This episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable podcast, released just before May’s AI Field Day events, features host Stephen Foskett who is joined by Chris Grundemann, Ayodele Odubela, and Frederic Van Haren. Their discussion surrounds the feasibility of using AI on an enterprise scale, including the infrastructure and skill set required to roll it out at scale, as well as the potential ethical dilemmas that it could spark. Listen to the full episode to hear why the enterprise simply isn’t ready for AI.
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The Enterprise is Not Ready for AI
DDI Scenarios That Can Hurt Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy
BlueCat’s Andrew Wertkin presented at Tech Field Day in April. During the presentation, Andrew whiteboarded three scenarios to show how DDI challenges affect your hybrid cloud strategy. These scenarios were setting up a VPC, the use of a single DNS zone across multiple namespaces, and hybrid cloud DNS routing setups. Head over to BlueCat.com to explore these instances and catch the full presentation video!
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DDI scenarios that can hurt your hybrid cloud strategy
NFD25 – Juniper + Apstra – IBN
This article from the Portuguese Rodrigo Rovere, blogger at Cisco Redes and Tech Field Day delegate, describes his experiences acting as a delegate at May’s Networking Field Day event. The piece focuses on the presentations by Juniper Networks and Apstra, specifically their demos and what their announcements mean for the networking industry. Read on for Rovere’s full opinions, and watch the presentations by Juniper and Apstra to see for yourself.
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NFD25 - Juniper + Apstra - IBN
Juniper Powered by MIST AI – This Stuff Is Hard
This post by Keith Townsend of the CTO Advisor blog is the first in a series called “This Stuff is Hard,” translating vendor messages taken from analyst briefings into a format that’s easily understandable by business decision makers. The post specifically hones in on Juniper Networks’ presentation from the first AI Field Day Event regarding their Mist AI solution. Read on to see how Townshend describes AIOps from Juniper, and be sure to watch the original AI Field Day presentation for context.
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Juniper powered by MIST AI - This Stuff is Hard
AI Field Day Returns May 27 and 28
AI Field Day is back for its second ever event! Read this post to learn about what companies presented during the event and what topics they covered. Watch the actual presentations to learn more!
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AI Field Day Returns May 27 and 28
Networking Field Day 25, Part 1
Bryton Herdes was invited be a delegate at May’s Networking Field Day event, and after attending was not disappointed. In his blog on the topic, he covers his first impressions of the event and the presentations by Kemp, VMware, Arrcus, Intel, and PathSolutions. Read on to learn more, and be sure to watch the presentations Bryton attended to get the full picture.
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Networking Field Day 25, Part 1
Impact of 6 GHz on the Future of Wi-Fi
Rowell Dionicio of the Packet6 blog shares his takeaways from his time as a delegate watching Aruba’s recent Networking Field Day presentation. In particular, Dionicio hones in on Aruba’s announcement of WiFi 6E and the effects of the 6 GHz on the networking space. Read on to learn the impact of 6 GHz on the future of WiFi, and be sure to watch Aruba’s Networking Field Day appearances to learn more.
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Impact of 6 GHz on the Future of Wi-Fi
Intel Silicon Photonics – The Way Forward
Ed Horley, curator of the Howfunky blog and self-titled “crazy IPv6 dude,” details his experiences at May’s Networking Field Day event. Specifically, Horley emphatically covers Intel’s presentation on Silicon Photonics, which he believes is the future of networking going forward. Dive into that potentially controversial statement by reading his piece and watching Intel’s presentation to learn more.
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Intel Silicon Photonics - the way forward
Data://express 0006 – YANG Ohne YIN, Lambda Vor Kappa Und Wenig IPv6 Auf Dem Network Field Day 25 – Pt. I
This episode of the German podcast, data://disrupted, contains the story of editor-in-chief and show host, Kerstin Stief, and her time as a delegate at May’s Networking Field Day. The show dives into what all she learned, including the two main themes that the presenting companies seemed to hone in on. Listen to the full show to hear what all was covered, and be sure to watch the presentations from the Networking Field Day event to hear for yourself!
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