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!

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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Disclosure: Tech Field Day 23