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.
Pure Storage Highlights Challenge of Cloud Infrastructure for Enterprises
Justin Warren thinks that in tech, you need to “preserve optionality” – that is, keep your options open! Justin writes that the Pure Storage FlashArray helps you do exactly that. As a delegate at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020, Justin had the chance to see Pure Storage present and noticed how their FlashArray allows you to move your data around and be flexible in and around your clusters. Be sure to check out Justin’s post and the Pure Storage presentations on our website!
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Pure Storage Highlights Challenge of Cloud Infrastructure for Enterprises
I’m in Tech Field Day 22!
After a six-year hiatus from our events, we’re excited to welcome back delegate Rob Koper! Writing for his blog, Rob gives a brief preview of his participation in our event this week. Check out Rob and all of our delegates at our jam packed Tech Field Day this week as it streams live on our website.
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Commvault Will Present at TFD22
Writing for Tech Unplugged, Arjan Timmerman says that he is excited to see Tech Field Day presenter Commvault at the event this week. Arjan will be a delegate on the “early team” of delegates at the event where he will have the chance to see Commvault up close and personal. He writes that by pivoting to innovation with offerings like Metallic, Commvault has placed themselves at the top of the industry. Tune in this week to see Commvault and more at Tech Field Day!
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Commvault will present at TFD22
I Didn’t Think I’d Be Able to Say This So Soon… (He’s Baaack at Tech Field Day!)
Robert Novak is coming to Tech Field Day 22! In his blog, Robert notes how it has been years since he last participated as a delegate. Robert will now be among 24 other independent technical influencers at this event and will see presentations from companies such as MemVerge, Riverbed, and Illumio as a member of the “late” delegate panel. Welcome back, Robert!
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I didn’t think I’d be able to say this so soon… (He’s baaack at Tech Field Day!)
Tech Field Day 22 – The Biggest Field Day Event Yet
Tech Field Day is back and bigger than ever! We’ve been hard at work to bring you the biggest lineup we’ve ever had at one of our Tech Field Day events. There are nine presenting companies, two dozen delegates, and a whole bunch of tech industry knowledge heading your way this week! For all the event information, check out the post by Georgina Ford on GestaltIT.com and catch the event live on the Tech Field Day website!
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Tech Field Day 22 - The Biggest Field Day Event Yet
Tune Into the Very First AI Field Day Nov 18-20, 2020
AI Field Day in November consisted of an all-star delegate panel and an equally impressive selection of presenting companies. Georgina Ford of Gestalt IT introduces this event and explains how AI is revolutionizing IT. Check out TechFieldDay.com for videos from companies such as BrainChip, Aruba, and Cisco at this event!
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Tune Into the Very First AI Field Day Nov 18-20, 2020
Thoughts on AI Field Day 1
Gina Rosenthal of Digital Sunshine Solutions joined us at our very first AI Field Day last month! In this video, Gina analyzes some of the societal issues that arise around new AI products. She notes that although first to market is important, it is more important for companies to be clear with customers. Transparency is key. Thanks for joining us, Gina!
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NFD23 – Juniper
Delegate Gian Paolo Boarina joined us at Networking Field Day in September. In his blog, he took a look at Juniper Networks (including the acquisition of Mist) and their cloud management and automation. Gian Paolo summarizes his thoughts on their Networking Field Day presentation by saying, “Juniper has a clear view of the roadmap and, very important, execution follows the vision.” For more from Gian Paolo, check out his blog on ifconfig.it!
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Phillip Sellers
Welcoming in new delegates is one of our favorite things to do at Tech Field Day. At our event this week, we have two new delegates joining our community. The first is Phillip Sellers! From his enjoyment of plane watching to his hand-me-down Commodore 64, Phillip shares a little bit about himself and his experiences in the world of technology in our latest version of Meet the Delegate. To see Phillip in action as a delegate, tune in to Tech Field Day 22 this week!
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Phillip Sellers
Join Us at Tech Field Day!
We are very excited that Quantum will be joining us for their first ever Tech Field Day event! Writing for Quantum, Bob Fine shares that they will be at Tech Field Day to “share another significant step in our vision to lead in video and unstructured data solutions and represent a key shift in focus from ‘storing’ data to ‘managing’ data.” Be sure to check out the Tech Field Day website this week when Quantum shows off their ActiveScale product at Tech Field Day 22!
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Tech Field Day 22 Unwraps Latest Updates on Technology Advancements
Commvault is coming to Tech Field Day 22! Don Foster will be joined by his fellow Commvault subject matter experts to discuss disaster recovery with sub-minute recovery SLAs, Metallic BaaS for Kubernetes, Metallic SaaS expansion into EMEA, and Metallic cloud storage service. We’re looking forward to this presentation!
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Tech Field Day 22 Unwraps Latest Updates on Technology Advancements
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.