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.
Networking Field Day 23: Catchpoint Monitors Digital Experience
Catch Peter Welcher’s analysis of Catchpoint’s monitoring system, which was presented at Networking Field Day 23
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Catchpoint presented its monitoring system via synthetic probes at Networking Field Day 23. The company competes primarily with Cisco's ThousandEyes.
Catchpoint's system provides monitoring from internal or cloud-based agents to key applications or other endpoints, with centralized cloud control and many forms of reporting. It also provides RUM capabilities: real user monitoring, according to Peter Welcher, Architect and Tech Advisor to VP of Ops at NetCraftsmen.
Networking Field Day 23: Catchpoint Monitors Digital Experience
Pure Storage PortWorx – Kubernetes Storage Platform
Pure Storage’s acquisition of PortWorx and the resulting partnership, was presented at Cloud Field Day 9. Barry Coombs of Tech Doodles looks deeper at the companies’ solutions
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Pure Storage presented its software-defined storage management platform for Kubernetes PortWorx at Cloud Field Day 9. Barry Coombs of Tech Doodles states that their presentation was interesting and ticked many boxes for those looking at storage management solutions for Kubernetes.
PortWorx was acquired by Pure Storage in September 2020 and will continue to be agnostic of the underlying storage platform and offer Kubernetes-centric, backup, disaster recovery, migration, security, and automation tools alongside software-defined storage.
Pure Storage PortWorx - Kubernetes Storage Platform
Scality and Cloud Field Day: A Bond That Spans Years
Scality has forged a strong bond with Cloud Field Day. It looks back at what it presented at Cloud Field day, and how the event helped it shape its products and conversations
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Scality has been a regular face at Cloud Field Day. Its first presentation was of Zenko at Cloud Field Day 2 in 2017. This presentation allowed the company to get real feedback on its products from the real tech experts that actually use them.
Scality views cloud field day as the best way to get its products in front of the right people to get the feedback that it needs, and allows it to be part of the industry-wide conversation on topics such as Kubernetes and cloud.
Scality and Cloud Field Day: A Bond that Spans Years
Making Your Data Work Hard
Cloud Field Day presenter Qumulo has developed a system that can consolidate a company’s data into a single application. It’s scalable, and works across both on-premise and cloud.
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Qumulo's goal is to bring all of a company’s data off multiple environments, end-user machines, etc. into one scalable software application. Salability is one of Qumulo's buzz words, the application is able to scale into the cloud, and adjusts to a company’s different and ever-moving goalposts, scaling to performance, and to capacity.
The interesting part about Qumulo is that if a company has scripted and integrated applications with Qumulo in the datacenter and wants to move to the cloud, it can spin up a Qumulo instance in the cloud using the same Qumolo software, now running in the cloud. All of the integration will automatically work with cloud infrastructure because it’s using the same API and the same software—it’s not even a different software build.
StorPool Presents at Cloud Field Day 9
Boyan Krosnov, Chief Product Officer (CPO) at StorPool, revealed the company’s data storage platform, shwoing how it is designed to allow cloud builders to outperform Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, for example
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StorPool presented at Cloud Field Day 9, showcasing the impact of storage performance on cloud-based application performance. Boyan Krosnov, Chief Product Officer (CPO) at StorPool, showed the company's data storage platform and explained how it is designed to allow cloud builders to outperform Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, for example.
StorPool’s block storage software is a scale-out, shared-nothing solution designed to transform commodity hardware into a high-performance data storage platform for demanding workloads.
StorPool Presents at Cloud Field Day 9
Telemetry Troubles Solved With Intel Ingenuity
Hyperscalers have no way to track telemetry. Or should I say had? Tom Hollingsworth of Gestalt IT investigates Barefoot Networks’ answer to the problem
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The telemetry problem. It's pervasive, and at scale, it becomes massive. Just milliseconds of latency at the hyperscale level can cause heavy revenue loss to the company. According to Tom Hollingsworth, as hard as these problems are to solve in the enterprise, hyperscale networking is an entirely different animal to tame. One of the biggest problems is that there is no way to track telemetry at the hyperscale level. However, this is just one issue of many.
So, what is the solution? Barefoot Networks may just have figured it out.
Telemetry Troubles Solved with Intel Ingenuity
Democratizing Kubernetes on VMware With vSphere With Tanzu
Tanzu, VMware’s portfolio of products to build, run, and manage Kubernetes controlled container-based applications is becoming more cohesive and organized, according to Pietro Piutti of The vGeek Blog
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The first question is: What is Tanzu? According to Pietro Piutti of The vGeek Blog, Tanzu is the umbrella beneath which VMware has positioned solutions aimed to build and run modern applications on any public cloud as well as on-prem. Or, in VMware speak, it is the suite of products and solutions that allow customers to build, run, and manage Kubernetes-controlled container-based applications.
VMware is now putting some order into the previously somewhat haphazard Tanzu umbrella by packaging complete sets of solutions in the Tanzu Editions. These are targeted at organizations at different levels of maturity in their adoption of Modern Apps. There are currently Tanzu Basic and Tanzu Standard editions available, and the company will be launching Tanzu Advanced and Tanzu Enterprise soon.
Democratizing Kubernetes on VMware with vSphere with Tanzu
Celona Tees Up Bigtime on CBRS
Celona has tied up with Aruba for customers that need both Wi-Fi and private mobile networking, and has made private 5G networks a reality, finally
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Private 5D networks have been a hot topic, and engineers and installers have been training in deployment. However, it has been an 'almost there' kind of topic - until now. Celona has launched a build-it-yourself 5G networking solution for the CBRS-hungry enterprise crowd, according to Lee Badman, WLAN architect, and Wirednot author.
Celona has also formed a partnership with Aruba networks, which will sell Celona gear where the customer is looking Wi-Fi and private mobile networking.
Celona Tees Up Bigtime on CBRS
Nothing but the Truths With IP Fabric
Tom Holligsworth event lead for the Tech Field Day events series looks at how IP Fabric bridges the two truths of a network
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Many automation projects fail, or are far too complicated to succeed. So, what is the solution? The network’s actual truth is far removed from the ideal truth and at this point, users can’t figure out how to reconcile the two and understand how to bridge the gap between ideal and actual.
IP Fabric helps bridge this truth by providing the actual truth, according to Tom Hollingsworth, event lead for the Tech Field Day events series.
Nothing But The Truths With IP Fabric
Meet Field Day Delegate – Frederic Van Haren
Frederic Van Haren, CTO of his own tech company, HighFens Inc has joined as a Tech Field Day delegate. He shares his ideas on the future of tech, and a little more about him
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There is not enough time in the day for this Tech Field Day delegate. Frederic Van Haren is CTO of his own company, HighFens Inc, which provides consulting and services in the HPC & AI market. His customers include technology vendors, as well as end-users.
Frederic took time out of his busy days to discuss the future of tech, and tell us a little more about him and his work.
Meet Field Day Delegate - Frederic Van Haren
Security Field Day 4 – A Quick Virtual Hit of Security
It was great to have delegate Ed Horley back at Security Field Day earlier this year! On his blog, Ed previews his participation in Security Field Day including Cisco’s presentation. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out the Tech Field Day website for all the videos from Cisco’s presentations!
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Security Field Day 4 - A quick virtual hit of security
Airvine WaveTunnel 60Ghz Indoor Backhaul
Airvine came to life at Networking Field Day earlier this year – so says delegate Josh Warcop. On his blog, Josh writes that Networking Field Day was a bit out a coming out party for Airvine who is quickly rumbling towards the public stage with their WaveTunnel product. Josh is excited to see WaveTunnel come to fruition and writes all about it on his blog. For more information about everything Airvine is up to, check out their videos from Networking Field Day on our website!
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Airvine WaveTunnel 60Ghz Indoor Backhaul
Is Cloud Managed Networks the Way to Go?
Is it worth it to move to Cloud Managed Networks? Writing for his blog, Haydn Andrews describes some of the benefits of Cloud Managed Networks, including Juniper’s offerings like Mist Marvis which leverages Mist AI to manage a high numbers of devices. Juniper presented on their Mist AI-Driven Automation at Mobility Field Day 5 earlier this year. To learn more about Cloud Managed Networks and the Juniper Networks solutions, check out Haydn’s post and the videos from Mobility Field Day!
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Is Cloud Managed Networks the way to go?
The Truth Will Set You Free With NetBox
Truth is subjective – or at least it is when it comes to Networking, says Tom Hollingsworth. Writing for GestaltIT.com, Tom writes about NetBox and how Networking Field Day sponsor Network to Code is utilizing it. NetBox is a unique solution that helps take the subjectivity out of your network and help establish a single source of truth. Check out Tom’s article and the Network to Code presentations on NetBox on the GestaltIT website!
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The Truth Will Set You Free with NetBox
Juniper Acquires 128 Technology to Add User-Centric Data
Frequent Tech Field Day presenter Juniper Networks announced in October that they would be acquiring 128 Technology. Writing for eWeek, Zeus Kerravala says that “the acquisition of 128 Technology will bring application data into Mist that will add another layer of intelligence.” We’re excited to see Juniper’s growth and look forward to seeing them at more Tech Field Day events soon!
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Juniper Acquires 128 Technology to Add User-centric Data
Network Field Day 23
Delegate Tony Efantis talks about his experience at the last Networking Field day event earlier this year. He notes that although the in-person socializing can be missing with virtual events, they still provide excellent information and engagement from industry leaders. Also, Tony mentions some of his favorite presenters from Networking Field Day including mini awards for Air Vine, PathSolutions, and Broadcom. We miss the in-person camaraderie too, Tony! We’re grateful to Tony for taking the time to attend this event and we’re looking forward to seeing him and our presenters in-person in the future!
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Tech Field Day 22: Delivering On-Demand, Easy to Use Disaster Recovery as a Service Solution With Cloud Economics
Tech Field Day 22 is coming! At the upcoming event we have a plethora of great sponsors including VMware. In a post on their Cloud Community blog, the good folks over at VMware preview their session and provide their intended agenda. We look forward to hearing from VMware about their Cloud Disaster Recovery offering and more in their presentations at Tech Field Day 22!
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Pensando & VMware Talk Project Monterey @ Tech Field Day
What is Project Monterey? Why is it valuable? Pensando and VMware discussed this during their presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020! Christopher Ratcliffe of Pensando recaps the session and explains that Project Monterey is a “re-architecture of VMware Cloud Foundation to leverage offload capabilities included in the latest generation of network interface cards.” To learn more about Project Monterey, watch their presentation from Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020!
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Pensando & VMware Talk Project Monterey @ Tech Field Day
NFD23: PathSolutions TotalView Provides Multi-Faceted Network Management
As a delegate at Networking Field Day, Pete Welcher was able to see PathSolutions present on their offerings including TotalView. In a recent post, Pete recaps the PathSolutions presentations and writes that TotalView touches several different technical areas, even some past the expected network management like security or telephony. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out the PathSolutions presentations on our website and read Pete’s post breaking them down.
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NFD23: PathSolutions TotalView Provides Multi-Faceted Network Management
NetAlly AirCheck G2 Wall Mount Charging Caddy
Jonathan Davis, one of our twelve delegates who attended Mobility Field Day earlier this year, had the opportunity to see NetAlly present. Jonathan writes that every time he sees NetAlly present, he seems to find more and more value in his NetAlly AirCheck G2! In order to keep it nearby and well charged, Jonathan designed a Charging Caddy for his Aircheck G2! Check out the post on his blog for all the details, including the design to 3D print your own. Jonathan, we’ll be reaching out to you for all our designing needs from now on! We’re looking forward to NetAlly’s next presentation at a Tech Field Day event soon.
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Jonathan Davis, xxx was frustrated with the lack of shelf space at home for his increasingly useful AirCheck G2. Whever he needed it, it was invariably uncharged or not to hand. So, he took matters into his own hands and 3D printed a solution that will have network engineers rubbing their hands with glee.
David is quick to point out that he is no design expert, but his solution works!