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.
Leverage VMware Through Your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
This piece covers Oracle’s Cloud Field Day presentation from April, where they announced they would be partnering with VMware to combine Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with VMware’s software and architecture to deliver an entirely new solution. In essence, the partnership means that you can completely virtualize your VMware VMs in Oracle’s cloud, making them more scalable and cloud-forward. Learn more in this article, or by watching Oracle’s presentation from their Cloud Field Day appearance.
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Leverage VMware through your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Intel Customers Share Their Optane Experience Stories at Storage Field Day
May’s Storage Field Day event served as a platform for Intel to showcase their customers’ experiences with their Optane Persistent Memory product. This post hones in on those experiences, taking into account customer use cases as well as feedback to paint a picture of the Optane product in action. Read on, or watch Intel’s Storage Field Day appearance, to learn more.
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Intel Customers Share Their Optane Experience Stories at Storage Field Day
Comparing Ice Lake to Previous Generations of Xeon Scalable Processors
Intel announced their newest generation of Xeon scalable processors, codenamed “Ice Lake,” at an exclusive Tech Field Day event in March, marking the third installment of the platform. In their presentation, covered in this post, they detailed the capabilities of Ice Lake in comparison to past versions of Xeon. Read on to hear how they stack up to one another, and be sure to watch Intel’s exclusive Tech Field Day presentation to get the full scoop on the release.
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Comparing Ice Lake to Previous Generations of Xeon Scalable Processors
Scality ARTESCA Architecture
Barry Coombs follows the recent launch of Scality ARTESCA with Tech Field Day with a doodle of the ARTESCA architecture and his notes surrounding it. Barry mentions, “ARTESCA is a really interesting solution for object storage requirements, it is software-based, leverages Kubernetes, has multiple configuration options to meet edge and core use cases and unites developers and operations.” For more of his thoughts, be sure to check out this doodle on techdoodles.co.uk!
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How Veeam Supports Multi-Cloud Backup and Recovery Efforts
The modular data management architecture that Veeam detailed during April’s Tech Field Day event promises to centralize backup and snapshot management while also saving time and money. This piece covers Veeam’s presentation by their Cloud-native Global Technologist, David Hill, who describes the ways customers have and can use Veeam to accomplish their data management needs with ease. Learn more by checking out the piece and its associated Tech Field Day video.
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How Veeam Supports Multi-Cloud Backup and Recovery Efforts
Tackling Data Storage at Scale With Micron
At April’s Tech Field Day event, Micron discussed how they’ve positioned themselves and their portfolio to take on the massive amounts of data at play in today’s enterprises. This article details the composability and scalability capabilities Micron’s storage can provide, and how they will ultimately benefit the modern data center. Read on or watch the Tech Field Day presentation to see how Micron’s adjusted outlook on the market has led them to innovate and collaborate, establishing themselves as technological leaders in the space.
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Tackling Data Storage at Scale with Micron
Improving the Data Center Through Composability With Xilinx FPGAs
The battle between ASIC and FPGA has long divided the compute hardware manufacturer industry, and Xilinx believes the FPGAs they showcased at April’s Tech Field Day will set the story straight. Xilinx FPGAs alleviate loads from the CPU, taking on high-powered tasks and promoting a more composable data center. See how they work in this article, or by watching Xilinx’s Tech Field Day presentations.
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Improving the Data Center through Composability with Xilinx FPGAs
The Continued Cloud Collaboration of Dell and VMware
In spite of Dell’s recent announcement to spin off VMware, the two giants of tech still plan on working in tandem to deliver high quality cloud products as detailed in Dell’s March Cloud Field Day appearance. With VxRail and VMware Cloud Foundation, both Dell and VMware combine the capabilities of their high-performance servers and virtualization software, respectively, to streamline and secure operations. Check out the article and watch Dell’s Cloud Field Day presentation to learn more about the two products from the two companies.
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The Continued Cloud Collaboration of Dell and VMware
Protecting Data In-Use Through Confidential Computing With Intel SGX
This piece details Intel’s appearance at March’s Cloud Field Day, where they showcased their Software Guard Extensions (SGX) for protecting data in-use. As a founding member of the Confidential Computing Consortium, Intel has a vested interest in protecting customer data, and their SGX solution provides a way to create data alcoves which prevent chunks of critical data from being tampered with while in use in an application. Read on to learn more about how it works, and check out the rest of Intel’s Cloud Field Day presentation for more technical info, as well as a deep dive into their Telemetry solution.
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Protecting Data In-Use through Confidential Computing with Intel SGX
GigaOm Live – 4.16.21
In this first ever episode of the livestreamed GigaOm Live show, host Johnny Baltisberger is joined by analysts Jason Collier and Enrico Signoretti, who discuss their experiences at the recent Tech Field Day event in late April. Specifically, the crew dives into news surrounding NetApp as well as the Tech Field Day presentations by Micron and Xilinx. Tune in to hear all of their discussion, and check out April’s Tech Field Day for the technical context.
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Tech Field Day 23 Recap
First-time delegate alert! We were excited to have David Klee at his first event at Tech Field Day last month! On his blog, DavidKlee.net, he writes about his first event and focuses in on four presenters: Hazelcast, Vcinity, BlueCat Networks, and Pure Storage. Head over to his blog to hear his thoughts on his first event, and here’s to many more!
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Enabling Intent-Based With Airwall
In the latest post on his blog, Pieter-Jan Nefkens looks back at the first event he attended with us as a delegate: Security Field Day 3! At the event he saw Tempered present on their Airwall solution. On his post Pieter-Jan walks through how the Airwall solution can help demonstrate the capabilities of Intent-Based Networking. Head over to Nefkens.net to see his thoughts as well as a brief demo of Airwall itself.
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Enabling Intent-Based with Airwall
Data://express 0005 – Scality ARTESCA Launch, DELL Verschlankung, Darktrace an Der Börse
Wolfgang Stief attended the “Tech Field Day Presents Scality and HPE” as a delegate last month. On the latest version of the Data Disrupted podcast with Wolfgang and Kerstin Stief, they talk about the launch of ARTESCA at the event as well as a few other current topics. Head over to the Data Disrupted website to learn more about their thoughts or head to the Tech Field Day website to see Scality’s ARTESCA launch!
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data://express 0005 – Scality ARTESCA Launch, DELL Verschlankung, Darktrace an der Börse
How Intel’s 3rd Gen Xeon Architecture Supports AI at the Edge
Intel rocked the world earlier this year with the release of their 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable processors, codenamed “Ice Lake,” which are designed specifically for advancing compute capabilities of servers. In their exclusive Tech Field Day event surrounding the new release, Intel gave an overview of how the Xeon platform is changing the AI edge game. Read on to learn about what Ice Lake has to offer, and be sure to watch Intel’s exclusive Tech Field Day event for more information.
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How Intel's 3rd Gen Xeon Architecture Supports AI at the Edge
Continuous Cloud Optimization Through Spot by NetApp
Many of today’s organizations have adopted cloud-based resources and infrastructure as key parts of their operations. The next step is to optimize them, which is what NetApp aims to do through Spot Ocean, part of Spot by NetApp. At March’s Cloud Field Day, NetApp detailed how IT practitioners can evaluate their containers and microservices in Kubernetes to maximize output while minimizing costs. For more information, check out NetApp’s presentation at Cloud Field Day on our website!
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Continuous Cloud Optimization through Spot by NetApp
Presenters React to the Tech Field Day Experience
Tech Field Day last month was a success and presenters were thrilled with the experience. Check out this video and post to see what the presenters thought of the interactive format, delegate interaction, and more!
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Presenters React to the Tech Field Day Experience
Anticipating NFD25
Chris Cummings joined us for Networking Field Day earlier this month! In his post, Chris expresses how excited he is to attend and identifies the topics he was hoping to tackle at the event, from IPv6 to Automation and API Support. Head over to Twitter and follow Chris at @CrankyNetMan to see all his tweets from the event!
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Tintri VMstore Delivers Self-Optimizing and Intelligent Infrastructure for Virtual Workloads
Tintri, a presenter at Storage Field Day earlier this year, is working hard to balance peak performance and ease of management for on-premises workloads. While presenting, they highlighted their VMstore Intelligent Infrastructure which is “designed to self-optimize virtual workloads by leveraging analytics and machine learning.” The staff at GestaltIT.com write that that VMstore’s ability to self-optimize can help overworked infrastructure teams and improve performance. Head over to the Tech Field Day YouTube channel and check out Tintri’s Storage Field Day presentation to learn more!
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Tintri VMstore Delivers Self-Optimizing and Intelligent Infrastructure for Virtual Workloads
118: GreyBeards Talks Cloud-Native Object Storage With Greg DiFraia, Scality and Stephen Bacon, HPE
In one of the latest GreyBeards On Storage Podcasts, Ray Lucchesi and Keith Townsend talk with HPE’s Stephen Bacon and Scality’s Greg DiFraia to talk about their joint partnership to release ARTESCA: a new cloud native object storage solution. The Scality-HPE solution ARTESCA was announced at a Tech Field Day Exclusive event last month where Ray was a delegate. On the podcast they discuss the direction of the IT world, edge solutions, and of course ARTESCA! Head over to the GreyBeards On Storage page to listen to the full, enlightening conversation
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118: GreyBeards talks cloud-native object storage with Greg DiFraia, Scality and Stephen Bacon, HPE
Hammerspace Unlocks Scale and Performance With Hybrid Cloud Storageless Data
Is “Storageless Data” a thing? At Storage Field Day in January, Hammerspace made their pitch on how they could utilize it to “simplify and unify the management of disparate storage systems, whether on-premises or in a public cloud.” The staff at GestaltIT.com watched Hammerspace’s presentation and writes that “with Hammerspace, organizations can couple together disparate storage systems across multiple sites into a unified platform” and indicate implications for the management of that data. Check out the GestaltIT Staff take on Hammerspace’s unique offering and watch their Storage Field Day videos to learn more about it!
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Hammerspace Unlocks Scale and Performance with Hybrid Cloud Storageless Data