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.
Unpicking the Commvault Acquisition of Hedvig
Commvault and Hedvig were both familiar companies to the Tech Field Day community. So when the former bought the latter, we knew there would be some interesting insights from our delegates. In this post, Chris Evans breaks down how he sees Commvault integrating and augmenting much of what Hedvig offered.
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Unpicking the Commvault Acquisition of Hedvig
Master’s Lesson in IT Management
If you’re interesting in understand the IT challenges for large shop, Keith Townsend recommends checking out a video from Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019. In it, the University of Leicester went into detail about migrating infrastructure with 20PB of data. There are a lot of challenges in this, regardless of the organization. We’re glad Keith found it interesting.
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Master’s Lesson in IT Management
HPE Storage at Nth Symposium 2019: What I Hope to See
Matt Leib has a long relationship with HPE, so he’s excited to be part of our special Tech Field Day Exclusive event with HPE Storage. Matt wants to learn more about Synergy, Cray, and the new Apollo computers for ML and AI. He also has questions about Multi-Cloud, Plexxi, Aruba, and much more besides. Being deeply into HPE, it will be interesting to see what he thinks of the new HPE Primera storage platform, cloud storage, and ML Ops. This special post at Gestalt IT is part of our Tech Talks series, which also features Becky Elliott.
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HPE Storage at Nth Symposium 2019: What I Hope to See
HPE: Let’s See! TFDx Pre-Attendance Thoughts
Becky Elliott is attending our special Tech Field Day Exclusive event with HPE Storage and is excited to learn more about the Primera storage platform and GreenLake Hybrid Cloud. She’s also wondering what HPE is doing with Cray, MapR, and BlueData. This special post at Gestalt IT is part of our Tech Talks series, which also features Matt Leib.
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HPE: Let’s See! TFDx Pre-Attendance Thoughts
Aruba SD-Branch – Evolution
Aruba is a familiar face at Networking Field Day, and at our most recent event thye did a deep dive into their latest with SD-Branch. In this post, Ed Horley breaks down how it offers a unified interface and flexible configuration to appeal to a lot of organizations.
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CommvaultGo 2019 Hot Take
Commvault announced a SaaS backup solution (Metallic) and went into a little detail about the acquisition of software-defined storage company Hedvig during Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019. Keith Townsend shares his impressions of the keynote in this video.
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Aruba’s SD-Branch Part #1: Solution Components
Remington Loose got to hear from Aruba as a delegate at Networking Field Day. They went into details about the latest for their SD-Branch offering, something that Remington wasn’t too familiar with it. From their basic summation that SD-Branch= SD-WAN + SD-LAN, Remington digs into the technical details about what makes it stand out.
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Aruba’s SD-Branch Part #1: Solution Components
Stephen Foskett Gets the Latest News From Commvault at Commvault GO 2019
Stephen Foskett is interviewing Commvault management to learn the latest news at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019 in Denver. Commvault recently acquired Hedvig, a software-defined storage company, and is enhancing its backup offerings with this highly-integrated, scalable storage solution. The company also announced Metallic, a new software-as-a-service offering.
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Stephen Foskett Gets the Latest News from Commvault at Commvault GO 2019
Why You Should Consider Software-Defined Storage in Your Data Center
Datacenter architectures must meet the changing needs of many applications, while also supporting demanding workloads today. Datera’s design focuses on data movement, to allow flexibility for growth as requirements change. It uses commodity hardware and machine learning to create an optimal and cost-effective storage platform for the modern datacenter. Stephen Foskett breaks down their approach based on Datera’s presentations at Storage Field Day and Tech Field Day.
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Why You Should Consider Software-Defined Storage in Your Data Center
Pure Accelerate: Cloud Block Service
Keith Townsend, The CTO Advisor, attended Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019 and in this post, he analyzes their latest solution, Cloud Block Service.
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Pure Accelerate: Cloud Block Service
Commvault Breaking the Storage Laws
For Keith Townsend, Commvault’s acquisition of Hedvig signals that they may be breaking one of the cardinal rules of storage. Commvault may be thought of traditionally as a backup company, but Keith makes the argument that the acquisition proves they want to move beyond the aspirations of secondary storage. Be sure to check out all of the video coverage from our Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019 and decide for yourself!
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Commvault Breaking the Storage Laws
NGINX: Deliver All the Things…
Adam Fisher is working on a blog series focused on modern application delivery, with NGINX offering a lot of solutions in that area. As a delegate at Cloud Field Day, he got to hear from the company directly, providing vital background for the series. Be sure to check out their video coverage to get up to speed for the rest of Adam’s blog posts on it.
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NGINX: Deliver all the things…
Pure//Accelerate 2019 – Cloud Block Store for AWS
One of the big announcements at Pure Accelerate this year was Cloud Block Store for AWS. Dan Frith was at the event as part of Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate, and got even more access, with technical deep dive presentations. He writes up his thoughts on Cloud Block Store in this post.
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Pure//Accelerate 2019 – Cloud Block Store for AWS
Cloud Field Day–Solo.io
Joey D’Antoni definitely got a lot out of Cloud Field Day, and we’ve loved seeing his write ups about the presentations. In this post, he turns his gaze to Solo.io. They provide a modern API gateway that securely bridges modern applications like Lamba or Azure functions to both monolithic applications as well as modern databases running in Kubernetes pods.
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My Thoughts on Networking Field Day 21
A.J. Murray got to experience the super sized event that was Networking Field Day. This saw an incredible array of companies presenting to our delegates over the course of four days. In this post, he shares his thoughts about each of the presentations. Remember, if you’ve ever wondered how you can become a delegate, we have a sign-up form right on the website. Join us at our next event!
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My Thoughts on Networking Field Day 21
Network Sausage Automation
Josh Warcop creates perhaps the most delicious metaphor to talk about networking in this post. Using sausage (yes, sausage) as his framing device, he looks at how both have a rather broad definition, why automation is like buying from the grocery store, and why there are so many variations. We’re glad Networking Field Day could inspire such a scrumptious piece of writing.
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Who Is Network to Code @ Networking Field Day 21
There’s probably no hotter topic in networking right now than automation. At Networking Field Day, we got to hear the debut presentation by Network to Code and see what solutions they offer in the area. This post helps to introduce the company’s overall mission, be sure to check it out before diving into the video coverage.
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Who is Network to Code @ Networking Field Day 21
All-In on AI With Mist and Juniper
How will AI impact the future of administration of networks? Following his presentation at Mobility Field Day, Tom Hollingsworth sits down with Bob Friday of Mist, A Juniper Company, to discuss how software is going to change the tasks we do in our daily work.
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All-In on AI With Mist and Juniper
NFD21 – NetBox Automation Integrations
Network to Code presented at their first Networking Field Day event this fall, and they packed a lot of interesting content into their time. In this post, they dig into their Netbox solution and its role as a robust source of truth within a network automation framework. If you didn’t catch their presentation live, be sure to watch the entire video from the event!
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NFD21 - NetBox Automation Integrations
Spicing Things Up With Tech Field Day 20!
Jon Klaus will be joining us for Tech Field Day 20. We couldn’t think of a better way to help celebrate the 10th birthday of the event! In this post, Jon talks about getting back in touch with the larger Field Day family, and previews what he expects to see at the event.
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