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.

Nth Generation Symposium Keynote Live Blog

If you missed the Nth Generation Symposium Keynote, be sure to check out the Gestalt IT live blog to stay up to date on all the news and announcements.

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Nth Generation Symposium Keynote Live Blog

Celebrating 10 Years of Pure Storage and Tech Field Day

Pure Storage has grown from a scrappy upstart to an established player in enterprise storage, and Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day were there the whole time. From their first Field Day appearance in 2011 to today’s Tech Talks and Exclusive Field Day events, we have grown together over 10 years.

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Celebrating 10 Years of Pure Storage and Tech Field Day

It’s All About the Delegates: Tech Field Day at 10

Gestalt IT tapped into the power of a unique and growing community of independent IT influencers, and this remains our most valuable asset. We built Tech Field Day primarily to serve this community and have always kept their needs in mind. Our delegates make it all possible, and I will always be grateful for their friendship and support.

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It's All About the Delegates: Tech Field Day at 10

Commvault GO Women in Tech Panel

This video features content from Commvault’s Women in Tech panel dinner at Commvault GO 2019. We heard from Tamara Ells, Theresa Howe Forman, Sandra Hamilton, and Tech Field Day Exclusive delegate Kori Younger on empowering females in a tech environment.

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Commvault GO Women in Tech Panel

CommvaultGo 2019 Wrap Up: Metallic, Hedvig Added to Commvault Portfolio

It was great having Jeffrey Powers return as a delegate at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019. In this piece, he runs down some of the major announcements and sessions from the event, which saw the launch of a new SaaS data protection offering, Commvault Metallic, and looked at how the company will integrate assets it acquired with Hedvig.

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CommvaultGo 2019 Wrap Up: Metallic, Hedvig Added to Commvault Portfolio

Talent Is Heavier Than Data

In this piece, Keith Townsend considers the impact of human talent on data gravity. The holy grail is to have data available instantly when you need it. There are literal physical limits to how possible this is, and he recently completed a video at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO talking about some of the use cases and the capabilities of their Activate product in regards to metadata. At Cloud Field Day, he heard from Hammerspace, which looks at how to mitigate data gravity issues with a very unique solution.

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Talent is Heavier than Data

Meet Metallic: Commvault-As-A-Service

Bart Heungens was one of the new faces around the delegate table for Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019. We’re thrilled to see his impressions of one of the major announcements from the event, Commvault Metallic, their new SaaS offering for data protection. He looks at what types of data protection is available, pricing, and where it will fit into the competitive landscape.

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Meet Metallic: Commvault-as-a-Service

91: Keith and Ray Show at CommvaultGO 2019

In this podcast, Ray Lucchesi and Keith Townsend give their impressions of Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019. The event was their first chance to talk to Commvault’s new CEO Sanjay Mirchandani. They also got to hear about Commvault Metallic, get details about what the company will do with the Hedvig acquisition, and more.

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91: Keith and Ray show at CommvaultGO 2019

Commvault Announces Metallic SaaS Data Protection

Chris Evans attended Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019, where he got to go beyond the announcements from the event and get technical deep dive sessions. In this post, he breaks down what he saw from Commvault Metallic, their new SaaS-based solution for data protection.

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Commvault Announces Metallic SaaS Data Protection

Wrap Up From Commvault GO 2019

Tech pro Markus Leinonen, attended his first Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019 in Denver Oct. 14th-16th. He shares what he learned during the event and his take on Commvault’s exciting announcements.

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Wrap up from Commvault GO 2019

Commvault Activate – CommvaultGo 2019

Keith Townsend sits down with Commvault Field CTO Aaron Murphy and Director of Product Management Patrick McGrath during Tech Field Day Exclusive at CommvaultGo 2019. Commvault is known as a data protection company with its Complete product representing the bulk of its revenue. Activate is a product positioned at the data platform market.

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Commvault Activate - CommvaultGo 2019

Silicon Valley Goes Multi-Cloud

Kati Lehmuskoski joined us as a delegate at Cloud Field Day and saw two general focuses from the presenting companies: multi-cloud operations and data security. In this post, she breaks down what impressed her from each presentation, from solving data challenges with Hammerspace and LucidLink, to the DevOps automation solutions from Morpheus Data, and Solo.io’s impressive CEO.

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Silicon Valley goes multi-cloud

One of the Coolest Features of the netAlly EtherScope nXG Is Being Able to Charge It via PoE

Tim Dennehy heard from NetAlly at Mobility Field Day. In this post, he looks at their latest tool, the EtherScope nXG. He runs down all of the feature of this network troubleshooting tool, including that it can be powered over PoE.

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One of the coolest features of the netAlly EtherScope nXG is being able to charge it via PoE

Commvault Metallic and AWS RDS on vSphere – The Future of IT

Keith Townsend was a delegate at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019, and got to hear all the exciting announcements from the event. In this post, he breaks down the details and implications of Commvault Metallica, their new SaaS offering.

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Commvault Metallic and AWS RDS on vSphere - The Future of IT

A Quick Recap on This Week at Commvault GO

In this post from Kori Younger, she goes over her thoughts about what happened a Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO. This included details on their recent acquisition of Hedvig, the launch of the SaaS Commvault Metallic service, and expanded features of Commvault Activate.

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A quick recap on this week at Commvault GO

Pure Storage: How Do They Do This?

Matthew Leib was a delegate at Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019 in Austin, TX. In this post, he shares what he learned about Pure Storage and his thoughts following the big event.

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Pure Storage: How Do They Do This?

Smells Like Pure Spirit:  Accelerate Post-Attendance Thoughts

Writer and Technologist, Becky Elliott, reflects on her experience at Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019. Follow Becky’s post series on Gestalt IT and her blog for further installments.

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Smells Like Pure Spirit:  Accelerate Post-Attendance Thoughts

Bringing a Butter Knife to a Screwdriver Party: Three Network Automation Tools From NFD21…Just for Fun.

At our recently Networking Field Day, Micheline Murphy got to hear from three different companies with different approaches to network automation. In this post, she breaks down what she heard from Forward Networks, Aruba Networks, and NetworkToCode.

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Bringing a butter knife to a screwdriver party: Three Network Automation Tools from NFD21...Just for Fun.

NFD21 | NetworkToCode

Jeremy Schulman has a long history with network automation, so he was excited to hear from NetworkToCode at Networking Field Day. He was really intrigued by their distinction of network automation strategy, from those building a platform to those investing in power tools. This is an important decision for any organization and one that the company astutely identified.

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NFD21 | NetworkToCode

CFD6 – Hashicorp

Larry Smith was very excited to hear from HashiCorp at Cloud Field Day. As a stalwart in the open-source world, Larry had a lot of interest in what they would talk about. They spent their time doing a deep dive into Consul, a set of tools around service mesh. There was a lot to go over so be sure to read the whole piece, then check out the videos from the presentation.

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CFD6 - Hashicorp