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.
Vendor Briefing: Scale Computing Edge Solution
Alastair Cooke has been watching Scale Computing in the industry for a number of years now, and has seen an impressive evolution in the company. They have been gradually moving from solutions aimed at budget-conscious small businesses to a scalable solution for distributed enterprises. This change has been built on innovative multi-cluster management and scaling down the required minimums for deploying at a site. Their most recent announced was the HC150,, a HCI appliance built on an Intel NUC. Be sure to check out all their Tech Field Day presentation videos for a technical deep dive on all their innovations.
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Vendor Briefing: Scale Computing Edge Solution
Storage Field Day – I’ll Be at Storage Field Day 19
Dan Frith is no stranger to Storage Field Day, so we’re thrilled to have his familiar face returning to the event. It’ll be the first Field Day event of 2020, so be sure to mark your calendar. The event is packed with a lot of the storage industry giants, emerging companies, and intriguing startups, so be sure to watch the live stream to stay up to date.
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Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At Storage Field Day 19
Over the Ramparts, Metageek Watched
Your snapshots are just points in time. They need to tell a story to make sure you’re using them effectively. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at Metageek’s new Rampart cloud service and how it can help those pictures of your wireless network proudly gleam as you work with your team to troubleshoot issues. Check out their recent presentation videos from Mobility Field Day for more!
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Over the Ramparts, Metageek Watched
Liqid’s PCIe Fabric Is the Key to Composable Infrastructure
Liqid showed off their novel approach to Composable Infrastructure at Tech Field Day Extra at Dell Technologies World 2019. In this post, Chris Evans looks at how they use a PCIe Fabric to enable their disaggregated approach to pooling resources across a variety of servers.
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Liqid's PCIe Fabric is the Key to Composable Infrastructure
Scale Computing Makes Big Announcement About Small HE150
Scale Computing recently made some big news with some very small edge services. Their HE150 offers a full hyper-converged infrastructure appliance in an Intel NUC package. Dan Frith digs into how they are able to fit so much into a small package in this post. Be sure to check out their full archive of Field Day presentation videos for even more deep dives.
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Scale Computing Makes Big Announcement About Small HE150
NetApp Goes to the Cloud
NetApp highlighted many of their cloud offerings at Tech Field Day late last year. Gina Rosenthal was a delegate at the event, and thinks that they have the right team and attitude to make multi-cloud a reality for their customers. The key focus for NetApp was making it easy to get customers to the cloud, which fits with their approach of shepherding traditional operations teams into the new cloud native era.
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Tech Field Day From the Other Side
Gina Rosenthal has long enjoyed Tech Field Day events, but previously only from the vendor perspective. This past Tech Field Day event saw Gina join us as an independent delegate for the first time, something she found much more challenging! Read all about her experience in this post.
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Tech Field Day from the Other Side
Stopping vMotion Roulette With Virtana
Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at what Virtana presented at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019 and how they stop the roulette wheel of vMotion movement. He found they offered a solution to be smarter about making decisions to move your VMs.
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Stopping vMotion Roulette with Virtana
VMware Project Pacific at Tech Field Day Extra 2019
One of the major announcements to come out of VMworld US 2019 was Project Pacific. At Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019, the delegates got an architectural overview of VMware’s rearchitecting of vSphere to integrate Kubernetes. In this post, Brandon Graves digs into the presentation and the implications for the future.
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VMware Project Pacific at Tech Field Day Extra 2019
The New Commvault: New CEO, New Logo, SaaS, Primary Storage
We always love to hear what first time delegates think of Field Day events. In this video, Markus Leinonen talks about his experience at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019. He shares his thoughts on the major product announcements and deep dives, but also a lot of the other benefits of being at a Field Day event.
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The New Commvault: New CEO, new logo, SaaS, primary storage
Mock the Network With Tesuto
In this post, Brian Gleason looks at the cloud-based network emulation service from Tesuto. He got a technical deep dive on the company at Networking Field Day. In this post, he shows how the service can let organizations show customers the benefits of product integration, and also gain confidence in production changes.
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Renewing Juniper’s Enterprise Focus – Part 2
Jordan Martin discusses what he learned from Networking Field Day Exclusive at Juniper NXTWORK 2019 and he makes the case that it’s worth your time to check out the fantastic work that Juniper is doing.
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Renewing Juniper’s Enterprise Focus – Part 2
Rethinking Networking Architecture With Arrcus
Is your network stuck in an old way of thinking about architecture? Is it starting to affect your applications? Maybe you need to take a fresh look with something new. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look back at Arrcus at Networking Field Day and how their fresh perspective is changing the way we build networks.
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Rethinking Networking Architecture with Arrcus
What I Want in a Root Cause Analysis Tool
In this post from Ethan Banks, he outlines what he’s looking for in a root cause analysis tool. It’s something that despite hearing a lot about at events like Tech Field Day, he feels there isn’t a unified solution. Current tools are too specialized to serve broader infrastructure, which is after all designed to serve applications. Hopefully a solution will come to market soon to meet Ethan’s criteria.
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What I Want In A Root Cause Analysis Tool
Understanding Scale Computing HC3 Edge Fabric
Edge computing is an exciting area in IT, and at Tech Field Day Scale Computing did a deep dive on their HC3 Edge Fabric. This is designed for smaller edge environments where the need for resiliency also needs to fit into a budget. Ethan Banks digs into how Scale is able to offer a cluster of compute on a single switch.
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Understanding Scale Computing HC3 Edge Fabric
Veeam Availability Suite: Scale-Out Backup Repository, Enhanced NAS Backup and (Soon) CDP!
Veeam used the time at their recent Tech Field Day presentation to show off some new features for their Backup and Recovery suite. Jon Klaus was at the event and gives his thoughts on the new improvements in this post.
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Veeam Availability Suite: Scale-Out Backup Repository, Enhanced NAS backup and (soon) CDP!
Cloud Field Day 6: LucidLink
Lino Telera is no stranger to Cloud Field Day, so it was great to have him at our latest event. In this post, he reviews and tests what he heard from LucidLink at the event. They showed off their solution for high performance object storage across teams, and Lino’s initial testing backed that up.
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Security Can’t Keep Up, or Can It?
Evan Mintzer was a recent guest on Gestalt IT’s On-Premise IT Roundtable podcast. The premise discussed was whether with the seemingly endless number of threats out there, if security can actually catch up. It was a great conversation, and Evan further explains his thoughts on the premise in this blog post.
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Security Can’t Keep Up, or Can It?
DellEMC SmartFabric Director
With Dell EMC’s SmartFabric Director, Remington Loose sees the company tightening its focus on VMware and NSX-T fabrics. Based on what he saw at Networking Field Day, the new tool seems to meet all the major needs for a fabric. While relatively versatile, he thinks it makes the most sense putting NSX-T on top.
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NetApp Fabric Orchestrator, One More Step in the Right Direction
Enrico Signoretti has watched NetApp realize their Data Fabric strategy over the last few years, as the company shifted from traditional storage to hybrid cloud data management. He heard the company present on their Fabric Orchestrator at Tech Field Day, and this seems to be the next evolution of that vision, enabling seamless application and data mobility across on-premises and public cloud infrastructure.
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NetApp Fabric Orchestrator, One More Step in the Right Direction