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.
Priming Your Application Performance With Intel Application Device Queues
Consistent delivery is hard to pull off, whether you’re a delivery company or a networking company. With the help of the Ethernet team at Intel, however, you can accomplish some great things and set yourself up for success. After hearing from Intel at Networking Field Day last year, Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at Intel’s Application Device Queue technology and how it can help ensure consistent, reliable packet delivery. Intel is giving developers the power to enhance their networking consistency when writing applications and taking the power to make things more reliable instead of waiting for the network team to do it for them.
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Priming Your Application Performance with Intel Application Device Queues
Captivating Wireless Connectivity With Cisco OpenRoaming
Authenticating to wireless networks should be fast and easy. But this often runs afoul of the traditional trade off between security and ease-of-use. In order to make that work, you need to build out the infrastructure to make it happen. Tom Hollingsworth takes a quick look at how Cisco is using their OpenRoaming technology to do just that, which the company presented at Mobility Field Day.
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Captivating Wireless Connectivity with Cisco OpenRoaming
Hadoop Is Truly Dead – LOTR Version
Chin-Fah Heoh didn’t initially set out to write a post declaring the death of Hadoop. But what he heard at Storage Field Day made it seem like he had to. While at the event, he participated in the On-Premise IT Roundtable podcast at Pure Storage, ostensibly to talk about storage metrics. However Hadoop quickly became the focus of the discussion. From there, other presentations further showed solutions that made it impossible to consider any other premise. Because this is the world of technology, Chin-Fah doesn’t think it’s impossible for Hadoop to live again in some other fashion, but right now the case is beyond terminal.
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Hadoop is truly dead - LOTR version
Network Field Day 22
It’s been a hot minute since Jeff Fry joined us at a full Field Day event, his last Networking Field Day appearance was in 2011! It’ll be great to have Jeff’s voice return to the delegate table for a three days full of interesting network presenters. We’ve got a full roster of ten presenting companies scheduled, so it’ll be a full drink from the IT firehose this time around. Be sure to mark your calendars for February 12-14 for the event. We’ll have a live stream of all presentations, so you can follow along with Jeff and the other delegates.
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Cloud and Network Automation at Networking Field Day 22
Rowell Dionicio has been a delegate at a number of Field Day events, previously coming to Mobility Field Day and our newest event, Security Field Day. But this time around will be his first time at Networking Field Day, and we’re excited to hear what he thinks of the experience. Rowell has really enjoyed not just the technical content offered by Field Day, but the ability to directly connect with the presenters and fellow delegates. These are the kind of connections that help make Field Day a unique industry experience. Check out the post for his preview of the presenters at the event.
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Cloud and Network Automation at Networking Field Day 22
Testing the Whole System With NetAlly EtherScope nXG
Does your troubleshooting toolkit have a lot of unitasking devices? What if you could replace them with something that does all the work you could want? And what if that device was green? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at NetAlly’s EtherScope nXG to see how it can help fix your wired and wireless network in one shiny new package. The company went into some detail on the device at Mobility Field Day, after you check out Tom’s post, be sure to watch their entire presentation video.
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Testing the Whole System with NetAlly EtherScope nXG
TECHunplugged at Storage Field Day 19
Our most recent Storage Field Day may have finished, but that doesn’t mean there still isn’t a lot of great content to explore from the event! Luckily we just so happen to have wall to wall video coverage of all the presentations, so you can digest all the storage goodness at your leisure. Of course, the Field Day experience isn’t just defined by great technical presentations. We couldn’t do our events without our amazing delegates around the table. They great productive dialogue and ask the hard questions about the tech to help bring even more value out of the presentations. In this post, Arjan Timmerman put together a full list of all the presenters and delegates. Be sure to check out their blogs to get to know the faces around the table a little better, and follow them on Twitter for a ton of storage thoughts in your feed.
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TECHunplugged at Storage Field Day 19
Preview for SFD19 – Day 1
Arjan Timmerman and the rest of the TECHunplugged crew have really been putting out some great video content recently. In this video, he gives us his initial thoughts on the first three companies that presented at our recent Storage Field Day event. With Tiger Technology, NetApp and Western Digital, we got to see a full spectrum of voices from across storage IT. Tiger Technology is a new voice to the Storage Field Day stage, so part of the session is just about getting familiar with their considerable solutions portfolio. NetApp is no stranger to the delegates, but continues to shift from a more traditional storage company into the cloud with advanced data management, so it’s always good to get up to date on their latest. Finally Western Digital is a company with a lot of consumer awareness, that’s recently pivoted some of their enterprise focused solutions. It’s great to be able such breadth in a single day at Storage Field Day.
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Top 5 Takeaways From #SFD19 Day 1
One of the great things about Field Day events is that they are live streamed on the internet, expanding our pool of delegates from the dozen individuals in the room to a much wider audience. We always love to hear people’s impression from the live stream, and Jason Benedicic has a great write up with his takeaways from our recent Storage Field Day event. For Jason, the event showed the breadth of quality engineering talent from across the world, showed NetApp’s exciting solutions with Active IQ and StorageGRID, and demonstrated that spinning disks aren’t dead yet. Be sure to check out all his thoughts in this post, and if you’ve watched the Storage Field Day presentations, why not share your big takeaways as well!
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Top 5 Takeaways from #SFD19 Day 1
On the Road Again: #SFD19 Bound
Becky Elliott recently attended her fourth Storage Field Day event. Despite that and a spate of Tech Field Day Extra events over the year, the thrill of attending Field Day hasn’t been lost on Becky. This event saw her get to attend with fellow NetApp A-Team’er Ruairi McBride. We always love to watch the delegate community grow, and to see one time new delegates spread the message about the event and help bring in new voices. Storage Field Day was a packed event with a lot of interesting presentations. We can’t wait to hear what Becky thought of them in future posts. Be sure to check out our video coverage to get up to speed on all the great new tech!
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On the Road Again: #SFD19 Bound
Really Late Company Christmas Shopping
As he packed for Cisco Live Barcelona, our own Tom Hollingsworth noticed something of a post-Christmas shopping spree among tech companies this year. VMware VeloCloud bought Nyansa, Arista is buying Big Switch Networks, and Tom thinks more is on the way. What’s behind this Q1 shopping spree? Tom isn’t sure!
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Really Late Company Christmas Shopping
Meet Field Day Delegate – David Samuel Penaloza Seijas
As part of our continuing series introducing new Field Day delegates to the Gestalt IT audience, Mel Zura got to know David Samuel Penaloza Seijas. He’s famous for his sociable personality at events like Cisco Live, so we’re thrilled to have him joining us in Barcelona this year for Tech Field Day Extra!
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Meet Field Day Delegate – David Samuel Penaloza Seijas
Cisco Champion 2020
Field Day delegate Al Rasheed is excited to be named Cisco Champion for 2020 and wrote this post to thank all those who helped him achieve this, including us here at Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day. He attributes Cisco’s notice to his participation in Networking Field Day 19 in 2018 and Cisco Live Europe last year. We couldn’t be happier to watch as people like Al achieve their dreams!
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Ruairi McBride
Ruairi McBride got a taste of Field Day at Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight 2018, but he’s getting his first full drink from the IT firehose at Storage Field day. He is a “storage aficionado”, a NetApp A-Team member and VMware vEXPERT. We are humbled that he would take the long journey from the UK to come to the event as a delegate. Get to know him better in this interview with Gestalt IT.
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Ruairi McBride
Meet Field Day Delegate – Vuong Pham
Vuong Pham is coming to Storage Field Day, his first full Field Day experience! Get to know this experienced Senior Solutions Architect with his recent interview with Gestalt IT. He’s an author, blogger, and speaker skilled in Storage Area Network (SAN), NAS, VMware Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hybrid Cloud, and Data Center. We can’t wait to hear what he thinks of the event and the presenters!
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Vuong Pham
Zoned Technologies With Western Digital
A lot has changed since Chin-Fah Heoh last heard from Western Digital at Storage Field Day. Though only a year has passed, the company sold IntelliFlash to Data Direct Networks and is seemingly trying to sell off their ActiveScale object storage platform. But that doesn’t mean Chin-Fah isn’t excited to hear from the company. Indeed, their advances in Zoned Storage points to a bright future. We can’t wait to hear more about this from Western Digital and Chin-Fah.
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Zoned Technologies with Western Digital
NGINX – Making Sense of Service Mesh
Ed Horely is no stranger to Networking Field Day for good reason. His keen insight and experience always help give context to whatever the presenters have planned. In this post, he casts his gaze at NGINX, who he saw at Networking Field Day late last year. In the increasingly crowded service mesh market, they made a convincing case that their already wide distribution as a web server makes using service mesh a natural integration and lends itself to further use on a given platform. It shows that NGINX knows how they are being used by customers currently and how to expand functionality naturally across their offerings.
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NGINX - Making Sense of Service Mesh
Attending Networking Field Day #22
New delegates are the life blood of Field Day events. They provide unique experiences, voices, and perspectives, that keep the conversations around the table fresh and help bring the best out of presenting companies. Kim Pedersen is heading out to Networking Field Day, his first full foray into the full Field Day experience. He got a taste of it last year at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019, so we can’t wait to hear his impressions from a full week of presentations.
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Attending Networking Field Day #22
Heavy Networking 491: Real-Life Segment Routing & PCE
Segment routing has been a familiar topic at Networking Field Day over the years. The Packet Pushers Heavy Networking podcast recently looked at the topic, digging into the latest evolution of carrier networks. Nick Buraglio was a guest on the podcast and definitely drew on his experience from the Segment Routing Field Day Roundtable during the discussion. While the technology has certainly matured over the past three years, these kinds of discussions are great for getting people up to speed, sparking a deeper interest in specialized topics, and getting to know the prominent voices in the space. Be sure to check out the episode.
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Heavy Networking 491: Real-Life Segment Routing & PCE
Storage Field Day 19 RoundUp
Storage Field Day is our first event of 2020, and we’ve got a packed roster of companies to present. It’s exciting to have a mix of familiar faces like NetApp and Dell EMC presenting with companies new to the event like Tiger Technology and Minio. Enrico Signoretti will be around the delegate table, asking questions and creating dialogue to help make Storage Field the unique event that it is. If that isn’t enough to get you excited, there is the always provocative “secret company” presenting at the event. Be sure to mark your calendar and unravel the mystery with us on the live stream.
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