GigaOm Live 4.23.21

On their April 23rd broadcast of GigaOm Live, the team from GigaOm discuss Tech Field Day! Specifically, delegates Enrico Signoretti and Jason Collier who attended the latest Tech Field Day discuss appearances from several companies and focus in on Vcinity and Scality. Head over to YouTube to check out their thoughts or to the Tech Field Day website to watch videos from the event!

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GigaOm Live 4.23.21

Join Us on April 27th for Making the Future of Data Possible: An Event by Scality and HPE!

What is the future of data? See how Scality in conjunction with Hewlett Packard Enterprise are revolutionizing the way we store data in this exclusive Tech Field Day event. Stay tuned for the launch of Scality’s newest product, ARTESCA, to see how it works.

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Join us on April 27th for Making the Future of Data Possible: An Event by Scality and HPE!

StorageOS: Enabling Anything-As-A-Service Through Cloud Native Storage

When StorageOS appeared at March’s Cloud Field Day, they made a statement to the industry that their storage solution can serve as the backbone for delivering nearly anything as a service from the cloud. This post dives into their presentation, detailing how StorageOS positions their product as an extensible, agile way to store objects for cloud applications. Learn more by reading the post or watching StorageOS’s original Cloud Field Day presentations.

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StorageOS: Enabling Anything-as-a-Service through Cloud Native Storage

Making the Most of Unstructured Data With Komprise

At March’s Cloud Field Day, Komprise showed off how their data management solution is capable of tackling the problem of mass amounts of unstructured data in an organization. This piece covers the major takeaways from their presentation, as well as some of the reasoning behind Komprise’s approach to data management. Read on to learn more, and be sure to watch all of the Komprise Cloud Field Day appearance for technical deep dives and demos.

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Making the Most of Unstructured Data with Komprise

Scality & HPE #ARTESCA Launch, Discussion and Demonstration – Part Two

Delegate Barry Coombs is back with another doodle from Scality and HPE’s ARTESCA launch event! In Part Two of this doodle series, Barry focuses on the Tech Field Day portion of the event. This consisted of a DevOps panel discussion, ARTESCA UI Fly-Through, and a delegate roundtable. Barry notes that he was particularly impressed with ARTESCA’s ability to “allow for visibility and reporting of the underlying infrastructure layers including Kubernetes and the HPE hardware status.” Check out Barry’s blog for more doodles from the event!

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Scality & HPE #ARTESCA Launch, Discussion and Demonstration - Part Two

Data://express 0004 – Intel Ice Lake, NVIDIA Grace, Composable Infrastructure, RDMA Over WAN

In this episode of the German data://disrupted podcast, Wolfgang and Kerstin Stief describes Wolfang’s experiences as a delegate at Intel’s special Tech Field Day event surrounding the release of their Ice Lake 3rd Gen Xeon scalable processors. The pair dive into the release, as well as the announcement of the AI-focused CPU from NVIDIA, called Grace. Tune in to hear more, including the other topics discussed, and check out Intel’s exclusive Tech Field Day event to get all of the details about Ice Lake.

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data://express 0004 – Intel Ice Lake, NVIDIA Grace, Composable Infrastructure, RDMA over WAN

How Forward Networks Fosters Empathy in Tech

This article covers Forward Networks’ recent appearance at Networking Field Day, discussing how since their first even Networking Field Day appearance up until now, Forward Networks has focused on making the lives of network admins easier. This emphasis on empathy has propelled Forward’s products into the limelight, both here at Networking Field Day as well as in the minds of their customers. To learn more about what empathy means in the tech industry, read this article and watch Forward Network’s presentation.

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How Forward Networks Fosters Empathy in Tech

Simplifying Network Automation With Itential

In their appearance at Networking Field Day in February, Itential showcased their network automation solution. This piece dives into what benefits the product offers networking teams and how Itential looks to make automation easier by reducing the amount of coding required by networking teams. Read on to learn more, or watch Itential’s Networking Field Day presentation to see for yourself how it works.

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Simplifying Network Automation with Itential

JNCIE-DC and Networking Field Day 25

In a post on his blog, first-time delegate Bryton Herdes talks about his work towards getting JNCIE-SP and JNCIE-DC certifications and previews his participation in Networking Field Day. We’re excited to welcome Bryton, and his many certifications, to the Tech Field Day community! Head over to his blog to learn more about him conquering the JNCIE-DC including his list of best resources.

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JNCIE-DC and Networking Field Day 25

Meet Field Day Delegate – Chris Cummings

Making his debut at this month’s Networking Field Day is the fabulous Chris Cummings! Chris took the time to answer some question as well as tell us about how he got into technology and about his passion for automation. Check out the piece on GestaltIT.com where we get an insight into the world of Chris Cummings, and see him in action at Networking Field Day!

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Meet Field Day Delegate - Chris Cummings

Howfunky.com: Network Field Day 25 May 12-14, 2021 – A Changing Networking Landscape

The lineup of presenters at Networking Field Day this month shows how the networking landscape is changing. That’s what delegate Ed Horley thinks! In a post on his “Howfunky” blog, Ed writes specifically about some of the presenters including Aruba, Juniper, and Nokia. Head over to Ed’s blog to get his thoughts on those specific presenters as well as the direction of networking as a whole.

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Howfunky.com: Network Field Day 25 May 12-14, 2021 - A Changing Networking Landscape

Meet Field Day Delegate – Bryton Herdes

Our delegate community is always growing and adding new folks that help us stay current with the ever changing world of technology. One of the newest delegates that we’re excited to welcome in is Bryton Herdes! We got to know Bryton a little more recently including some scandalous details about how he bypassed the IT Admin’s security policies at his elementary school. Head on over to GestaltIT.com and get to know Bryton as he debuts at Networking Field Day!

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Meet Field Day Delegate - Bryton Herdes

Even More Networking Field Day Headed Your Way May 12-14, 2021!

Ready or not, here comes Networking Field Day! We’re so excited to share so many updates with you! Writing for GestaltIT.com, event lead Tom Hollingsworth has this to say about the event. “This Networking Field Day event is packed with companies that are building the next generation of hardware and software to keep your networks operating at peak performance. They’re helping you solve the hard problems to keep your users happy and productive. Whether it’s a router, a switch, or a software platform, you’re going to find something here that you need to know about.” Check out all Tom’s thought and tune in live for Networking Field Day!

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Even More Networking Field Day Headed Your Way May 12-14, 2021!

Meet Field Day Delegate – Kerstin Stief

We hope everyone will give a big Tech Field Day welcome to our newest delegate, Kerstin Stief! Kerstin is attending her first event as a delegate at Networking Field Day. She took some time to share with us her unusual journey into technology as well as some of her favorite things. Head over to GestaltIT.com to learn more about Kerstin and, most importantly, to see a picture of her cat Casimir!

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Meet Field Day Delegate - Kerstin Stief

Networking Field Day 25 – Estaremos Lá!!!

We always love to see wide-ranging and diverse the Tech Field Day community can be and are happy to report that Networking Field Day delegate panel is no exception to this! Hailing from Brazil, we’re pleased to welcome back Rodrigo Rovere! Rodrigo previously attended Networking Field Day in 2019 and this will be his first virtual event with us. He wrote a post previewing his involvement in the event on his blog “Cisco Redes.” Be sure to check out what he has to say and, if necessary, use the translate feature on your favorite web browser.

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Networking Field Day 25 - Estaremos lá!!!

Join Us for Networking Field Day 25

We’re excited to have Aruba back at Networking Field Day! In a post on their website, Aruba Networks tells us about their plans to kick off the event that include talking about how they plan to accelerate the edge-to-cloud innovation, conducting a deep dive into Wi-Fi 6E, and showing how they ensure the secure deployment of network services. Check out their blog post on their appearance to learn all about their plans at Networking Field Day (and to see some cool superhero graphics!)

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Join Us for Networking Field Day 25

Scality Announces ARTESCA | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 28, 2021

This “bear” of a News Rundown features Tom Hollingsworth and Stephen Foskett, who discuss what’s new for the week of 4/28/21 in the IT industry. Tune in to hear about Scality’s announcement of ARTESCA, the University of Minnesota’s banning from Linux kernel development, and how one beaver was able to shut down the Internet access of an entire Canadian town. Also, Stephen talks about bears… like, a lot. Be sure to watch Scality’s exclusive launch of ARTESCA in partnership with HPE, only at Actual Tech Media and here at TechFieldDay.com.

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Scality Announces ARTESCA | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 28, 2021

DevOps’ing the Enterprise Sale

Ned Bellavance, proprietor of Ned in the Cloud and long-time Tech Field Day delegate, dives into Scality’s launch of the ARTESCA product that they announced at their special Tech Field Day event, which Bellavance attended as a delegate in April. In his podcast, hosted on his blog Ned in the Cloud, Bellavance pontificates on how Scality used the platform to sell a DevOps-focused product to an enterprise IT audience. Tune in to hear what sorts of thoughts that approach sparked in Bellavance, as well as what his takes on the release were. Also, be sure to watch Scality’s launch event in partnership with HPE to see what’s new with the ARTESCA product.

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DevOps’ing the Enterprise Sale

DevOps’ing the Enterprise Sale by Daily Check-In With Ned1313

Ned Bellavance, proprietor of Ned in the Cloud and long-time Tech Field Day delegate, dives into Scality’s launch of the ARTESCA product that they announced at their special Tech Field Day event, which Bellavance attended as a delegate in April. In his podcast, hosted on Anchor, Bellavance pontificates on how Scality used the platform to sell a DevOps-focused product to an enterprise IT audience. Tune in to hear what sorts of thoughts that approach sparked in Bellavance, as well as what his takes on the release were. Also, be sure to watch Scality’s launch event in partnership with HPE to see what’s new with the ARTESCA product.

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DevOps'ing the Enterprise Sale by Daily Check-In with Ned1313

In Search of the Network Edge

Dr. Avril Salter details her experience as a delegate at March’s Security Field Day event, specifically her takes from the presentation of VMware, in this article. Her overview hones in on VMware’s Point of Presence (PoPs) solution, and how organizations can use the product to extend powerful compute capabilities to the far-reaching edges of their network. Read on to hear her overall opinions towards VMware PoPs, and be sure to watch VMware’s Security Field Day presentation to learn more about their product.

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In Search of the Network Edge