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.
Can We Back Up a PB?
In this post, Ray Lucchesi considers the conundrum of backing up a petabyte, something that conventional IT would say isn’t feasible. This would require scanning the numerous file systems within that PB, daily scanning the hundred of TB changes, then transferring all of that to the backup storage. Instead, organizations rely on costly replication to protect against outages. At Cloud Field Day, Ray heard how Igenous is doing this scale of backup today, using a unique engine to scan and index PB scale data repositories, while still providing admins visibility into what is backed up. Be sure to check out Ray’s post and Igneous’ entire presentation on our YouTube channel.
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Episode 0015-Welcome Back, Foster
On this episode of The Spatial Streams Podcast, John Deegan discusses what he’s excited to see at Mobility Field Day. It was a packed event with some of the biggest names in mobility, including Celona, Cisco, Fortinet, Mist Systems, NetAlly, VMware, and Ventev. If you missed the live virtual event, be sure to check out the full video of each presentation on our YouTube channel.
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Episode 0015-Welcome Back, Foster
The “Not to Be a Jerk, But…” Mist #MDF5 Blog
Lee Badman wrote up his thoughts on Mist Systems, now an integral part of Juniper Networks. In Lee’s words in was a “marathon session”, and it took a hot minute to wrap his head around all the implications. The biggest thing that stood out was that Mist is no longer in a bubble of unique wireless solutions, having its AI methodology integrated into Juniper’s LAN solutions. He also was impressed to see Mist now offering a fully rounded out AP portfolio, something that was sorely lacking in previous sessions. Overall, Lee found it a really interesting presentation. Be sure to check it out on our YouTube channel to get all the details.
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The “Not to Be a Jerk, But…” Mist #MDF5 Blog
#MFD5 Day 1-Quick Recap
John Deegan knows how to enjoy a vacation, a full day of IT goodness at Mobility Field Day. In this post, he looks back at the presenters feature in day one of the event. From the day, he was saw Mist having an early leg up as it further expands its AI-based analytics in enterprise networks, even while introducing tools to make the traditional dashboard obsolete. Celona showed off how their CBRS tech stack has matured since the last time they presented, and John was excited to see endpoint hardware supporting the spectrum needed for it. The day was definitely full of quality presentations, and he was definitely hungry for the rest of the event.
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Storage Field Day 20.. Oh Yeah!!
Vuong Pham returns for his second Storage Field Day event, and we can’t wait! He’ll be among our virtual delegates, getting to hear from the biggest names and prominent innovators in the fast moving world of enterprise storage. He’s set to have a busy few days of presentations with Cisco, Intel, Nebulon, Pensando, Pure Storage, Qumulo, and VAST Data all scheduled to present. Of course, you can watch along on our live stream during the event, or catch it on demand at your leisure on our YouTube channel. If you’re not familiar with some of the presenters, be sure to check out our huge library of videos on our YouTube channel. Odds are we have the material to get you up to speed in time for the event.
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Storage Field Day 20.. oh yeah!!
Mobility Field Day 5: The “Morning Of”
In the lead up to Mobility Field Day, Lee Badman considered what he wanted to hear from the presenting companies overall during the course of the event. He was hoping the presenters kept their content focused on the delegates and the technology at hand. He also wanted them to keep their focus on concrete solutions they can provide customers, rather than promising features that will be included in the next big protocol around the bend. Finally, he wants to make sure the the presenters are showing the delegates useful implementation of APIs for their mobility platforms, rather than using it to obscure features and upsell. We’ll can’t wait to hear what Lee though of each presentation!
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Mobility Field Day 5: The “Morning of”
It’s #MFD5 Eve!
John Deegan was excited to be joining Mobility Field Day as a delegate, looking forward to the incredible technical presentations from the top companies in the industry, and discussing them with his fellow delegates. He was also interested to see how the event would feel in our virtual format. In his past Field Day experiences, he’s seen a number of exciting announcements exclusive to the event. He couldn’t wait to hear what was in store this time around. We can’t wait to hear what John thought of the presentations after the event!
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Coffee Hour – Mobility Field Day 5
Rowell Dionicio and François Vergès over at the Clear to Send podcast recently previewed what to expect at Mobility Field Day. They were particularly interested to see VMware as a presenting company and can’t wait to hear what they’ll be discussing. They also look at some of the delegates attending to the event, note the increased importance of wireless security within the voices around the table, and how the virtual event is changing who can be a delegate.
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Coffee Hour - Mobility Field Day 5
VMware’s vSphere Unites Containers and Virtual Machines Under One Platform
At Tech Field Day 21, VMware highlighted the addition of Kubernetes support to vSphere 7 via VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 4.0, VMware’s Software-Defined Data Center solution for the Hybrid Cloud. This greatly anticipated announcement from VMware lets enterprises unify virtualized and containerized workloads into a single platform that can be centrally managed.
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VMware’s vSphere Unites Containers and Virtual Machines Under One Platform
What Is the Future for Storage Admins?
Storage has changed rapidly over the past decade, and the role of the storage admin has changed along with it. Gina Rosenthal considers what the future of the storage admin looks like in this piece, based on what she saw at Storage Field Day. It says a lot about the state of storage that many companies traditionally thought of as storage providers are now presenting at the event. She looks at NetApp’s approach with the Cloud Volumes Service, on-premises scale-out systems from Dell Technologies’ PowerScale solution, Igneous’ data management platform built on a scale-out file system, and Qumulo’s file data platform. Even as storage changes and goes to the cloud, Gina thinks the skills that storage admins have built up are more needed than ever.
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What is the Future for Storage Admins?
CFD8 – Igneous Followup
Nate Avery previously previewed what to expect from Igneous’ Cloud Field Day presentation, looking back at a 2016 Tech Field Day presentation to see how their messaging has changed since coming out of stealth. After hearing the company present at the event, he looks at their DataProtect solution, which enables enterprises to backup on-premises file data to a given cloud service provider. This hits all the major notes a solution like this requires, with a novel indexing scheme, full and incremental backups, tiering, and compression. He found everything they showed to be fast and fluid, but he thinks they are better positioned as a hybrid cloud backup provider, focused on one-way movement of data from on-prem to the cloud.
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Cloud Field Day 8 Day 3 Highlights
Lino Telera has done a great job writing up all the presentations he saw during Cloud Field Day. In this post, he focuses on Infrascale and Zerto. Both companies presented on the third day of the busy event. He looks at Infrascale’s novel approach to backup and recovery, which actively monitors backup data against radical modifications like a sudden change of content in order to detect and prevent ransomware. Zerto also impressed Lino, with their continual refinement of their platform, now supporting stateful Kubernetes applications.
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Cloud Field Day 8 day 3 Highlights
Meet the #CFD8 Delegates: Andy Thurai
We always appreciate Aruba talking to our delegates for Field Day events, like they did for Andy Thurai. Andy’s attended Cloud Field Day, and heard all about Aruba’s latest with its Edge Services Platform. In this post, they talk about how the edge is changing applications, the value of AI in networking, and the changing challenges of the hybrid cloud. It’s a really great discussion, and a great setup to a lot of what Aruba presented at the event.
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Meet the #CFD8 Delegates: Andy Thurai
The Aruba User Experience Insight Journey
Keith Parsons recently wrote a piece for Aruba’s blog looking at Aruba Networks User Experience Insight sensors. Keith first heard about these at Mobility Field Day all the way back in 2017, originally a part of Cape Networks. These have now become Aruba UXI F-Series sensor, which can be used not only to assure the experience for wireless users, but also wired devices. Aruba has added key features for enterprise usage, including proxies, custom certificates, and DNS support.
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The Aruba User Experience Insight Journey
AI Field Day Is Coming
We recently announced the launch of a brand new Field Day event, AI Field Day! Haydn Andrews is definitely excited to see what the event has in store. AI has been gaining importance in IT for years now, but we’ve recently seen it reach a critical point, that requires a dedicated space to talk about advances in this emerging field. We hope the event will keep everyone in IT up to date on the latest and greatest.
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Cloud Field Day 8 Day 2 Highlights
Lino Telera wrote up his impressions on the second day of presentations at Cloud Field Day, which focused on Diamanti and Morpheus Data. Diamanti focused on version 3.0 of Spektra. This release introduced support for Hybrid-Cloud deployments, Multi-Tenancy, and Resiliency across multiple sites. Morpheus meanwhile showed off the latest update to their SaaS multi-cloud management platform, which Lino sees as well suited for MSPs thanks to the emphasis on automation.
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Cloud Field Day 8 day 2 Highlights
Cloud Field Day Recap and Session Breakdown
Anthony Spiteri has presented with Veeam at Field Day events before, and was in front of the delegates again during Cloud Field Day. In this post, he’s summerizing what their team presented at the event, from Veeam Backup for AWS and Azure, to their hot new solution Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, as well as their Veeam Cloud and Service Provider Program. It was a really focused and info-packed session, so be sure to check out their videos for all the details.
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Cloud Field Day Recap and Session Breakdown
What Will HPE Do With Silver Peak? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 15, 2020
In this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown, Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth breakdown the recent acquisition of Silver Peak by HPE. The SD-WAN company will be integrated into HPE’s Aruba business unit. Tom and Rich have seen Silver Peak at Networking and Cloud Field Day events in the past, and are well versed in their portfolio. They see the acquisition as a further bolstering of HPE’s ambitions with Aruba. We can’t wait to see the first fruits of this exciting acquisition.
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What Will HPE Do With Silver Peak? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 15, 2020
Meet Field Day Delegate – Dr. Avril Salter
We’re thrilled to have Dr. Avril Salter joining us as a delegate for Mobility Field Day. Gestalt IT recently wrote up a profile about her, going into her background and what she’s excited to see at the event. She’s an independent consultant specializing in wireless and network security content development and delivery, as well as a educator on mobility topics. We can’t wait to hear what she thinks about the event!
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Dr. Avril Salter
Morpheus Data & NetApp – Cloud Field Day 8 | Watch Party
Cloud Field Day has always offered a live stream of presentations for anyone to watch and enjoy, but its not often we see watch parties organized around the presentations. That’s what Nick Howell did for the presentations from Morpheus Data and NetApp. It’s a really unique way to watch the presentation, with live commentary from Nick, as well as an integrated chat for replay.
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